Bill Text: TX HB3256 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a database for prospective employers to qualify veterans' military service experience and employment qualifications.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3256 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3256-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a database for prospective employers to qualify veterans' military service experience and employment qualifications.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3256 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3256-Introduced.html
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| By: Farias | H.B. No. 3256 | |
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| relating to a database for prospective employers to verify | ||
| veterans' military service experience and employment | ||
| qualifications. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter H to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER H. VETERAN EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE DATABASE | ||
| Sec. 302.201. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "veteran" | ||
| has the meaning assigned by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(2). | ||
| Sec. 302.202. DATABASE. (a) The commission shall develop | ||
| and maintain a web-based searchable database through which | ||
| prospective employers may verify a veteran's: | ||
| (1) military service experience; and | ||
| (2) employment qualifications related to specific | ||
| skills. | ||
| (b) The database must allow the conversion of a veteran's | ||
| military service experience into the approximate equivalent | ||
| civilian employment experience and skills that the veteran | ||
| possesses by virtue of that service. | ||
| Sec. 302.203. RULES. The commission may adopt rules to | ||
| implement this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Workforce Commission shall develop and | ||
| implement the veteran employment experience database as required by | ||
| Subchapter H, Chapter 302, Labor Code, as added by this Act, as soon | ||
| as practicable after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
