AN ACT
1-1 relating to the provision of employment and training for certain
1-2 persons on public assistance.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended
1-5 by adding Section 302.003 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 302.003. JOB RETENTION AND REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.
1-7 The division may provide ongoing job retention and reemployment
1-8 assistance for a recipient of public assistance who has
1-9 participated in a job training program.
1-10 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended
1-11 by adding Section 302.004 to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 302.004. FUNDS FOR JOB TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT SERVICES,
1-13 AND CHILD CARE. In providing job training and employment services
1-14 and child care to eligible persons, the commission, notwithstanding
1-15 the provisions in this chapter or other law, may establish a
1-16 need-based formula to allocate funds available under the Personal
1-17 Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
1-18 (Pub. L. No. 104-193) for job training and employment services and
1-19 child care to local workforce development areas so as to ensure
1-20 compliance with federal participation rates and requirements and
1-21 full utilization of the funding.
1-22 SECTION 3. Section 31.010, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-23 by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
2-1 follows:
2-2 (c) Support services include:
2-3 (1) education, using public or private schools as
2-4 necessary;
2-5 (2) child care;
2-6 (3) transportation assistance;
2-7 (4) work skills and job readiness training;
2-8 (5) instruction in job search techniques; [and]
2-9 (6) job placement; and
2-10 (7) job retention assistance.
2-11 (f) In providing work skills and job readiness training, the
2-12 department shall:
2-13 (1) emphasize training for sustainable wage jobs;
2-14 (2) promote understanding of nontraditional work
2-15 opportunities for recipients; and
2-16 (3) offer micro-enterprise development and
2-17 self-employment assistance in rural areas and other areas in which
2-18 jobs are scarce.
2-19 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-20 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1262 passed the Senate on
April 24, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 23, 1997, by a
viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1262 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 21, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor