Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1819 amends the Education Code to require the Texas State Technical College System board of regents to develop and administer a program to forecast the types of technical education programs needed to maintain the state's economic and technological competitiveness. The act requires the program to review the state's workforce needs and to suggest specific technical education programs in specific areas of need, and it allows the board to recommend new programs or new methods of delivering technical education programs. It also requires the board to provide information and recommendations to any institution of higher education that provides technical education programs or that the board determines should provide such programs.