Bill Text: TX SB2042 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas Education Agency of career and technology education programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2042 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2042-Comm_Sub.html
By: Fallon | S.B. No. 2042 | |
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relating to a study by the Texas Education Agency of career and | ||
technology education programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.193 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.193. STUDY AND REPORT ON CREDENTIALS AND | ||
CERTIFICATES. (a) The agency shall conduct a study to: | ||
(1) evaluate the industry-recognized credentials and | ||
certificates that are currently being offered to public high school | ||
students through career and technology education programs in each | ||
region of the state; and | ||
(2) identify any unmet needs in career and technology | ||
education programs currently being offered to public high school | ||
students in each region of the state. | ||
(b) The study must: | ||
(1) for each region of the state: | ||
(A) evaluate: | ||
(i) the industry-recognized credentials or | ||
certificates currently being offered to public high school students | ||
through career and technology education programs in the region; and | ||
(ii) the knowledge and skills necessary to | ||
meet workforce needs in the region; and | ||
(B) identify: | ||
(i) any gaps between the | ||
industry-recognized credentials or certificates identified under | ||
Paragraph (A)(i) and the knowledge and skills identified under | ||
Paragraph (A)(ii); and | ||
(ii) any knowledge or skills that could be | ||
incorporated into career and technology education programs in the | ||
region to increase students' marketability in that region after | ||
graduation from high school; and | ||
(2) for each currently offered industry-recognized | ||
credential or certificate, assess the economic impact of earning | ||
the credential or certificate in each region of the state, | ||
including: | ||
(A) the average industry wage for a student who | ||
has earned the credential or certificate in each region; and | ||
(B) the demand to employ a student in each region | ||
for the credential or certificate. | ||
(c) Not later than September 1, 2021, the agency shall | ||
submit to the commissioner a report that: | ||
(1) identifies any currently offered | ||
industry-recognized credential or certificate that does not | ||
provide a sufficient positive economic impact in any region of the | ||
state based on the assessment conducted under Subsection (b)(2); | ||
(2) recommends the creation of industry-recognized | ||
credentials or certificates for each region of the state to be | ||
offered in a career and technology education program in that region | ||
that will address unmet workforce needs and enhance student | ||
competitiveness in the labor market; and | ||
(3) provides recommendations for issuing guidance to | ||
public schools on how to use labor market information generated by | ||
state agencies in designing career and technology education | ||
programs and courses. | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Education Agency is required to | ||
implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature | ||
appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the | ||
legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the Texas Education Agency may, but is not required to, | ||
implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations | ||
available for that purpose. | ||
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, 2019. |