By: Ellis, West, Zaffirini S.B. No. 1262
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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. Section 31.010, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-11 by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 (c) Support services include:
1-14 (1) education, using public or private schools as
1-15 necessary;
1-16 (2) child care;
1-17 (3) transportation assistance;
1-18 (4) work skills and job readiness training;
1-19 (5) instruction in job search techniques; [and]
1-20 (6) job placement; and
1-21 (7) job retention assistance.
1-22 (f) In providing work skills and job readiness training, the
1-23 department shall:
2-1 (1) emphasize training for sustainable wage jobs;
2-2 (2) promote understanding of nontraditional work
2-3 opportunities for recipients; and
2-4 (3) offer micro-enterprise development and
2-5 self-employment assistance in rural areas and other areas in which
2-6 jobs are scarce.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-13 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-14 Amend S.B. 1262 by inserting Section 2 and renumbering the
2-15 subsequent sections appropriately.
2-16 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended
2-17 by adding Section 302.004 to read as follows:
2-18 Sec. 302.004. In providing job training and employment
2-19 services and child care to eligible persons, the Commission,
2-20 notwithstanding the provisions in this chapter or other law, may
2-21 establish a need-based formula to allocate funds available under
2-22 the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
2-23 for job training and employment services and child care to local
2-24 workforce development areas so as to ensure compliance with federal
2-25 participation rates and requirements, and full utilization of the
3-1 funding.
3-2 Van de Putte