By McClendon, Oliveira, Luna, Keffer,                 H.B. No. 3596
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to workforce development services provided by the Texas
 1-3     Workforce Commission or a private vendor under a contract with a
 1-4     local workforce development board.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 2308.303, Government Code, is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-8           (e)  Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, a local
 1-9     workforce development board shall enter into contracts with private
1-10     vendors for the provision of workforce development services,
1-11     including any service the provision of which is delegated to the
1-12     board under Section 302.023, Labor Code.  However, if a private
1-13     vendor is unavailable, or if the contracts submitted by private
1-14     vendors to provide services are not acceptable to the board, the
1-15     board may contract with the Texas Workforce Commission for the
1-16     provision of a workforce development service or to administer the
1-17     competitive procurement process.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 302.002, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-19     Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-20           (f)  The executive director may contract with local workforce
1-21     development boards as necessary to implement Section 2308.303,
1-22     Government Code.
1-23           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.