Bill Text: TX SCR26 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Urging Congress to amend federal law to allow states to provide for the consolidation of federally funded workforce development services with federally funded social safety net services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Signed by the Governor [SCR26 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SCR26-Enrolled.html
| S.C.R. No. 26 | ||
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| WHEREAS, The State of Texas desires to provide the most | ||
| streamlined and consolidated customer service for those seeking | ||
| work, unemployment benefits, or social safety net services; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The United States Department of Labor and the | ||
| Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) currently restrict | ||
| the consolidation of federally funded employment and job training | ||
| services with other federally funded services such as safety net | ||
| services; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In Texas, federally funded employment services and | ||
| workforce development services are provided by local workforce | ||
| development boards and the Texas Workforce Commission, and | ||
| federally funded social services are provided by the Texas Health | ||
| and Human Services Commission; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Texans seeking assistance with employment and job | ||
| training services, as well as social safety net services, are | ||
| forced to seek such services at more than one location of state and | ||
| local government agencies, with little to no consolidation or | ||
| coordination of such services; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The State of Texas desires to develop a | ||
| consolidation plan for the delivery of workforce development and | ||
| social services to its citizens in order to provide a broader and | ||
| more streamlined delivery of services to those seeking such | ||
| services; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to amend | ||
| federal law to allow states to provide for the consolidation of | ||
| federally funded workforce development services with federally | ||
| funded social safety net services; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record | ||
| as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.C.R. No. 26 was adopted by the Senate | ||
| on May 1, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.C.R. No. 26 was adopted by the House | ||
| on May 23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 98, Nays 38, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
