AN ACT
 1-1     relating to a statewide campaign to encourage persons to enter the
 1-2     technology workforce.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended
 1-5     by adding Section 302.008 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 302.008.  STATEWIDE TECHNOLOGY WORKFORCE CAMPAIGN.  The
 1-7     commission shall develop an information and marketing campaign
 1-8     designed to encourage residents of the state to enter the
 1-9     technology workforce.  The campaign shall target populations that
1-10     are traditionally economically disadvantaged and underrepresented
1-11     in the technology workforce.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 231 passed the Senate on
         April 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 231 passed the House on
         May 22, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor