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House Bill 1967 |
House Author: Deshotel |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
Senate Sponsor: Williams |
House Bill 1967 amends the Local Government Code to authorize a development corporation to spend tax revenue received under the Development Corporation Act for certain job-related skills training and to contract with any person to provide the job training. The bill limits this authority to a development corporation the creation of which was authorized by a municipality that has a population of 10,000 or more, is located in a county bordering the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and has, or is included in a metropolitan statistical area of Texas that has, an unemployment rate that averaged at least two percent above the state average for the most recent two consecutive years for which statistics are available.