Bill Text: TX HB1297 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the review of certain skills development fund workforce training programs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1297 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1297-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1297 | ||
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| relating to the review of certain skills development fund workforce | ||
| training programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 303.004, Labor Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| Sec. 303.004. FUND REVIEW. (a) The Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board shall review all customized training programs | ||
| biennially to verify that state funds are being used appropriately | ||
| by public community and technical colleges and the Texas A&M | ||
| Engineering Extension Service under this chapter. | ||
| (b) Not later than October 1 of each even-numbered year, the | ||
| Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service and each public community | ||
| or technical college that provides workforce training under this | ||
| chapter shall: | ||
| (1) conduct a review of the service's or college's | ||
| training programs to: | ||
| (A) determine the effectiveness of the programs | ||
| in improving the wages of participants who complete the programs; | ||
| and | ||
| (B) identify strategies for improving the | ||
| delivery of workforce training in order to more effectively impact | ||
| economic development in this state; and | ||
| (2) submit to the commission a detailed written report | ||
| summarizing the results of the review for inclusion by the | ||
| executive director in the report to the governor and the | ||
| legislature required by Section 303.006(c). | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1297 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 11, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1297 on May 21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1297 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
