Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1712 amends the Labor Code to authorize the Texas Engineering Extension Service to participate in the Texas Workforce Commission's Skills Development Fund, to recover customized assessment and training costs from the fund, and to use the fund to provide start-up or emergency funds for certain job-training purposes. The act requires the Texas Engineering Extension Service to focus its training activities on programs that are statewide in nature or that are not otherwise available from a local junior college district, a technical college, or a consortium of junior college districts, but it does not prohibit the Texas Engineering Extension Service from participating in such a consortium or with a technical college that provides workforce training.