By Ellis                                               S.B. No. 228
         76R2783 PB-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a requirement that the Texas Workforce Commission
 1-3     prepare a quarterly budget report.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 301, Labor Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Section 301.0655 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 301.0655.  BUDGET REPORT.  (a)  The commission shall
 1-8     prepare for each quarter of the fiscal year a budget report that
 1-9     contains budget information for:
1-10                 (1)  each program administered by the commission;
1-11                 (2)  strategies developed by the commission for
1-12     implementation of the commission's duties under this code and other
1-13     law; and
1-14                 (3)  any riders to the General Appropriations Act
1-15     proposed by the commission during that quarter for consideration
1-16     during the next legislative session.
1-17           (b)  The budget report must include:
1-18                 (1)  by key and non-key output and outcome measures and
1-19     by program, the number of persons served by the commission and the
1-20     number of persons employed to provide each service;
1-21                 (2)  detailed information on the amount of the
1-22     commission's operating budget and actual expenditures; and
1-23                 (3)  for each local workforce development board,
1-24     detailed information on the board's budget allocations and
 2-1     spending.
 2-2           (c)  Information included in the budget report shall be
 2-3     presented in the format established in accounting policy standards
 2-4     set by the comptroller.
 2-5           (d)  Not later than the last day of the first month after
 2-6     each fiscal quarter, the commission shall submit the report to:
 2-7                 (1)  the governor's office of budget and planning;
 2-8                 (2)  the lieutenant governor;
 2-9                 (3)  the speaker of the house of representatives;
2-10                 (4)  the chair of the senate finance committee;
2-11                 (5)  the chair of the house appropriations committee;
2-12     and
2-13                 (6)  the Legislative Budget Board.
2-14           SECTION 2.  The Texas Workforce Commission shall submit the
2-15     initial budget report required under Section 301.0655, Labor Code,
2-16     as added by this Act, for the quarter beginning December 1, 1999.
2-17           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-18           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.