1-1     By:  Ellis                                             S.B. No. 231
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
 1-4     March 22, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a statewide campaign to encourage persons to enter the
 1-9     technology workforce.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Section 302.008 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 302.008.  STATEWIDE TECHNOLOGY WORKFORCE CAMPAIGN.  The
1-14     commission shall develop an information and marketing campaign
1-15     designed to encourage residents of the state to enter the
1-16     technology workforce.  The campaign shall target populations that
1-17     are traditionally economically disadvantaged and underrepresented
1-18     in the technology workforce.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-25     passage, and it is so enacted.
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