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Senate Bill 208 |
Senate Author: Campbell et al. |
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Effective: See below |
House Sponsor: Burkett |
Senate Bill 208 amends the Education Code, Government Code, Human Resources Code, Labor Code, and Property Code to continue the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) until September 1, 2027; transfer administration of vocational rehabilitation services and related programs for persons with disabilities from the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services to the TWC; and abolish the human rights commission that governs the TWC civil rights division. The bill also authorizes the TWC to collect certain covered unemployment compensation debt through the federal Treasury Offset Program, requires information about enforcement action taken by the TWC against a career school or college to be posted online, and provides for input from interested parties regarding the TWC's subsidized child care program. Except for provisions relating to the administration of vocational rehabilitation services, which take effect September 1, 2016, the bill takes effect September 1, 2015.