Bill Text: TX SB1219 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a combined online application for persons applying for certain state and local economic development incentives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1219 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1219-Introduced.html

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84R8866 CLG-D
By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1219

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a combined online application for persons applying for
certain state and local economic development incentives.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 481, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 481.0785 to read as follows:
Sec. 481.0785. COMBINED ONLINE APPLICATION FOR CERTAIN
STATE AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES. (a) The office,
in coordination with the Texas Workforce Commission and the
comptroller, shall establish a single online application that
persons, including employers and public community and technical
colleges, may use to apply for monetary incentives from the Texas
Enterprise Fund under this subchapter and the skills development
fund under Chapter 303, Labor Code, and tax incentives under
Chapter 313, Tax Code.
(b) The single application shall be made available on the
office of the governor's Internet website, and the Texas Workforce
Commission's and the comptroller's Internet websites shall provide
a link to the application. If a school district maintains a
generally accessible Internet website, the district shall provide
on its website a link to the application.
SECTION 2. Section 303.005(a), Labor Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) An employer may not apply both to a public community or
technical college for customized training and assessment from the
college through a grant issued to the college under the skills
development fund program established under this chapter and for a
grant under the Texas Enterprise Fund program established under
Subchapter E, Chapter 481, Government Code, unless the employer and
the college file an application for concurrent participation in
both programs using a single application under Section 481.0785,
Government Code [that complies with any rules adopted by the Texas
Workforce Commission on concurrent participation].
SECTION 3. Section 313.031, Tax Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) For purposes of this chapter, including Section
313.025(a), an application made using a single application under
Section 481.0785, Government Code, is considered to be an
application on a form prescribed by the comptroller.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.