Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 281 amends the Government Code to continue the Texas Council on Workforce and Economic Competitiveness until September 1, 2015, and rename it as the Texas Workforce Investment Council. The bill removes a representative of community-based organizations from the council and designates the commissioner or the executive director, rather than the board chair or presiding officer, of each of the five member state agencies to serve as ex officio representatives on the council. The bill requires the council to evaluate duplication and gaps in delivery of integrated workforce services and to include the development of long-range strategies and the council's efforts to address identified problems in the council's annual report to the governor and legislature. The bill also transfers responsibility for maintaining the workforce development automated follow-up and evaluation system from the council to the Texas Workforce Commission.