Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 429 amends the Government Code to require the Council on Workforce and Economic Competitiveness, with the governor's approval, to establish a funding formula to determine the level of financial support for the council that each of its five member agencies must provide. The bill similarly requires the council to establish a funding formula to determine the level of support that each agency administering a workforce program must provide to operate the council's automated follow-up and evaluation system. The bill also requires the council to provide to the Texas Workforce Commission certain information that it is required to provide to the governor and the legislature. The commission in turn is required to include this information as it relates to the administration and operation of the state's workforce development system along with other workforce development information it provides to the public on the Internet. Finally, the bill requires the council to select or develop performance measures for workforce programs, establishes guidelines for the selection of existing agency-developed measures or the development of new measures, and specifies the intent of the two types of measures it must select or develop.