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House Bill 1703 |
House Author: Ordaz |
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Effective: 9-1-23 |
Senate Sponsor: Blanco |
House Bill 1703 amends the Labor Code to require the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to establish and administer a pilot program in the Borderplex workforce development area under which the local workforce development board serving that area must collect and evaluate cross-sectional data and longitudinal supplemental data regarding career education and training programs administered in that area for the purposes of identifying successful program components and any gaps in data used to follow up on career education and training participants following program completion maintained by the applicable agencies under the Tri-Agency Workforce Initiative. The bill also includes revisions to the laws governing the workforce development evaluation system administered by TWC that, as follows:
· require evaluation data in the system to be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, sex, income, and location;
· specify that the wage record information collected by TWC for which TWC may develop a method for collecting occupational information to supplement such information is to be collected by TWC as authorized under the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act;
· require TWC to ensure that the system includes with the evaluation data a hyperlink to a website where self-sufficient wage data, as determined by the Tri-Agency Workforce Initiative, is posted and to also ensure that, following any modernization of the system by TWC on or after September 1, 2023, that the evaluation data in the system includes a comparison of self-sufficient wage data with program earnings outcomes at the first, third, and fifth anniversary of the date of program completion; and
· require the analysis of each workforce development program that TWC is required to issue at least annually to certain entities to include, following any modernization of the system by TWC on or after September 1, 2023, detailed information on the services provided with each offered program and an analysis regarding the attainment of employment paying a self-sufficient wage following completion of a career education and training program.