Bill Text: TX SB1723 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the award of grants from the skills development fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-14 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1723 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1723-Introduced.html
  86R10343 SMT-D
 
  By: Campbell S.B. No. 1723
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the award of grants from the skills development fund.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 303.003, Labor Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (b-3) to read as follows:
         (b-3)  Funds awarded under this section, other than funds
  awarded under Subsection (b-2), may be awarded only to support
  job-training purposes that address the needs of high-demand
  occupations, as identified by:
               (1)  the applicable local workforce development board's
  regional targeted or high-demand occupations list; or 
               (2)  the commission's most recent growth occupations
  report under Section 302.019.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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