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Senate Bill 563 |
Senate Author: Jackson |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
House Sponsor: Torres |
Senate Bill 563 amends the Labor Code to require the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to establish a pilot program from available funds to improve the efficiency and quality of TWC operations while reducing costs and to adopt a structured approach for identifying the wasteful use of state resources and improving TWC processes. The bill establishes requirements relating to the implementation of the pilot program, requires the TWC to report on the program's effectiveness to specified public officials and entities not later than August 1, 2012, and authorizes a state agency other than the TWC to implement the pilot program. Provisions relating to the pilot program expire September 1, 2013.
Senate Bill 563 requires the TWC to adopt and enforce reasonable rules governing the confidentiality, custody, use, preservation, and disclosure of job matching services information maintained in the TWC's records, provides for the confidentiality of such information, and makes it a Class A misdemeanor to solicit, disclose, receive, or use, or to authorize, permit, participate in, or acquiesce in another person's use of, job matching services information that reveals certain identifying information or potentially identifying information.