Bill Text: TX HB3723 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the Rural Workforce Training Grant Program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-05 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [HB3723 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3723-Engrossed.html
| 88R13288 KSD-F | ||
| By: Gerdes, Troxclair, et al. | H.B. No. 3723 | |
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| relating to the establishment of the Rural Workforce Training Grant | ||
| Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 302.0039 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 302.0039. RURAL WORKFORCE TRAINING GRANT PROGRAM. (a) | ||
| In this section, "program" means the Rural Workforce Training Grant | ||
| Program established under this section. | ||
| (b) The commission shall establish and administer the Rural | ||
| Workforce Training Grant Program for the purpose of providing | ||
| targeted funding for job-specific workforce training and related | ||
| services to strengthen the skills, resources, and career | ||
| opportunities of the rural workforce in this state. | ||
| (c) Under the program, the commission shall award grants to | ||
| public, private, or nonprofit entities, including business | ||
| associations, political subdivisions, local workforce development | ||
| boards, and educational institutions, that: | ||
| (1) provide on-the-job training, apprenticeships, | ||
| workforce education courses, and other job-specific workforce | ||
| development activities in a county with a population of less than | ||
| 200,000; and | ||
| (2) apply to the commission in the manner provided by | ||
| commission rule. | ||
| (d) Grant money awarded to an entity under the program may | ||
| be used only to cover costs associated with training materials, | ||
| instructors' fees, participant wraparound expenses, facility fees, | ||
| administrative costs, and outreach, mentoring, and recruiting | ||
| costs for the training, apprenticeship, course, or other activity | ||
| for which the money is awarded. | ||
| (e) The commission shall require a grant recipient to | ||
| provide periodic reports regarding the recipient's use of grant | ||
| money received under the program and related training participant | ||
| outcomes. | ||
| (f) The commission may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and | ||
| donations from any public or private source for purposes of the | ||
| program. | ||
| (g) The commission shall adopt rules for the administration | ||
| of the program. | ||
| (h) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission | ||
| shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker | ||
| of the house of representatives, and the standing committee of each | ||
| house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over workforce | ||
| development matters a report regarding: | ||
| (1) the grants awarded under the program during the | ||
| most recent state fiscal year; and | ||
| (2) the program's effectiveness. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Workforce Commission shall adopt the | ||
| rules required under Section 302.0039(g), Labor Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, as soon as practicable after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
