By: Branch, Howard of Travis, Button H.B. No. 3519

(Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa)

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2009; April 16, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development; May 5, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 5, 2009, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the coordination and administration of the Texas Career Opportunity Grant Program.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 305, Labor Code, is amended by adding Section 305.003 to read as follows:

Sec. 305.003. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. The commission and the coordinating board shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for the coordination and administration of the grant program established under Subchapter B. Functions assigned to the commission under this chapter may be assigned to the coordinating board pursuant to the memorandum of understanding.

SECTION 2. The transfer to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board of any functions relating to the administration of the Texas Career Opportunity Grant Program pursuant to a memorandum of understanding entered into under Section 305.003, Labor Code, as added by this Act, applies beginning with grants awarded for the 2010 fall semester. Grants awarded for an academic period before that semester are covered by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2009.

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