By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 748
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to home ownership counseling for displaced workers.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. The chapter heading to Chapter 304, Labor Code,
1-4 is amended to read as follows:
1-5 CHAPTER 304. [EMPLOYMENT] COUNSELING
1-6 FOR DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS OR WORKERS
1-7 SECTION 2. Chapter 304, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-8 Section 304.005 to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 304.005. HOME OWNERSHIP COUNSELING FOR DISPLACED
1-10 WORKERS. (a) The commission shall provide written notice in
1-11 English and in Spanish of eligibility for home ownership counseling
1-12 under federal law to each worker residing in this state who is
1-13 eligible for home ownership counseling under 12 U.S.C. Section
1-14 1701x, as amended, and who:
1-15 (1) is covered by a certification of eligibility for
1-16 adjustment assistance under 19 U.S.C. Section 2331, as amended; or
1-17 (2) is threatened to become totally or partially
1-18 separated, or has become totally or partially separated, from a
1-19 firm that is certified eligible for adjustment assistance under 19
1-20 U.S.C. Section 2341, as amended.
1-21 (b) The notice must contain:
1-22 (1) a list of home ownership counseling organizations
1-23 that:
1-24 (A) receive assistance under 12 U.S.C. Section
2-1 1701x, as amended; and
2-2 (B) serve the area in which the worker's home is
2-3 located; or
2-4 (2) any toll-free telephone number through which the
2-5 worker can obtain the list prescribed by Subdivision (1).
2-6 (c) A firm located in this state that has requested a
2-7 certification of eligibility for adjustment assistance under 19
2-8 U.S.C. Section 2341, as amended, shall notify the commission of
2-9 that request.
2-10 (d) In this section, "firm" has the meaning assigned by 19
2-11 U.S.C. Section 2351, as amended.
2-12 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
2-13 to:
2-14 (1) a worker who is covered by a certification of
2-15 eligibility issued on or after the effective date of this Act;
2-16 (2) a worker who is employed by a person who is
2-17 covered by a certification of eligibility issued on or after the
2-18 effective date of this Act; or
2-19 (3) a firm that has requested a certification of
2-20 eligibility on or after the effective date of this Act.
2-21 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-22 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.