1-1     By:  Ellis, West, Zaffirini                           S.B. No. 1262

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 17, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;

 1-4     April 11, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 11, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1262                By:  Moncrief

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the provision of employment and training for certain

1-11     persons on public assistance.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is amended

1-14     by adding Section 302.003 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 302.003.  JOB RETENTION AND REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.

1-16     The division may provide ongoing job retention and reemployment

1-17     assistance for a recipient of public assistance who has

1-18     participated in a job training program.

1-19           SECTION 2.  Section 31.010, Human Resources Code, is amended

1-20     by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to read as

1-21     follows:

1-22           (c)  Support services include:

1-23                 (1)  education, using public or private schools as

1-24     necessary;

1-25                 (2)  child care;

1-26                 (3)  transportation assistance;

1-27                 (4)  work skills and job readiness training;

1-28                 (5)  instruction in job search techniques; [and]

1-29                 (6)  job placement; and

1-30                 (7)  job retention assistance.

1-31           (f)  In providing work skills and job readiness training, the

1-32     department shall:

1-33                 (1)  emphasize training for sustainable wage jobs;

1-34                 (2)  promote understanding of nontraditional work

1-35     opportunities for recipients; and

1-36                 (3)  offer micro-enterprise development and

1-37     self-employment assistance in rural areas and other areas in which

1-38     jobs are scarce.

1-39           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-40           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-41     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-42     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-43     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-44     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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