By Wise                                                H.B. No. 218
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the membership of a local workforce development board.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1. Section 2308.256(a), Government Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  A board is composed as follows:
 1-7                 (1)  representatives of the private sector, who:
 1-8                       (A)  constitute a majority of the membership of
 1-9     the board; and
1-10                       (B)  are owners of business concerns, chief
1-11     executives or chief operating officers of nongovernmental
1-12     employers, or other private sector executives who have substantial
1-13     management or policy responsibilities;
1-14                 (2)  representatives of organized labor and
1-15     community-based organizations,  who constitute not less than 15
1-16     percent of the membership of the board;  [and]
1-17                 (3)  representatives of veterans of the armed forces of
1-18     the United States; and
1-19                 (4)  representatives of each of the following:
1-20                       (A)  educational agencies, including community
1-21     colleges and secondary and postsecondary practitioners representing
1-22     vocational education, that are representative of all educational
1-23     agencies in the service delivery area;
1-24                       (B)  vocational rehabilitation agencies;
 2-1                       (C)  public assistance agencies;
 2-2                       (D)  economic development agencies;
 2-3                       (E)  the public employment service;
 2-4                       (F)  local literacy councils; and
 2-5                       (G)  adult basic and continuing education
 2-6     organizations.
 2-7           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
 2-8     applies to a local workforce development board created on or after
 2-9     that date.  The officials who appoint  the members of a local
2-10     workforce development board created before the effective date of
2-11     this Act shall appoint new members to the board that reflect the
2-12     membership requirements of this Act as    vacancies occur on the
2-13     board or as the terms of members serving on the board before the
2-14     effective  date expire.