1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 748
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1999; March 2, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to home ownership counseling for displaced workers.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. The chapter heading to Chapter 304, Labor Code,
1-11 is amended to read as follows:
1-12 CHAPTER 304. [EMPLOYMENT] COUNSELING
1-13 FOR DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS OR WORKERS
1-14 SECTION 2. Chapter 304, Labor Code, is amended by adding
1-15 Section 304.005 to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 304.005. HOME OWNERSHIP COUNSELING FOR DISPLACED
1-17 WORKERS. (a) The commission shall provide written notice in
1-18 English and in Spanish of eligibility for home ownership counseling
1-19 under federal law to each worker residing in this state who is
1-20 eligible for home ownership counseling under 12 U.S.C. Section
1-21 1701x, as amended, and who:
1-22 (1) is covered by a certification of eligibility for
1-23 adjustment assistance under 19 U.S.C. Section 2331, as amended; or
1-24 (2) is threatened to become totally or partially
1-25 separated, or has become totally or partially separated, from a
1-26 firm that is certified eligible for adjustment assistance under 19
1-27 U.S.C. Section 2341, as amended.
1-28 (b) The notice must contain:
1-29 (1) a list of home ownership counseling organizations
1-30 that:
1-31 (A) receive assistance under 12 U.S.C. Section
1-32 1701x, as amended; and
1-33 (B) serve the area in which the worker's home is
1-34 located; or
1-35 (2) any toll-free telephone number through which the
1-36 worker can obtain the list prescribed by Subdivision (1).
1-37 (c) A firm located in this state that has requested a
1-38 certification of eligibility for adjustment assistance under 19
1-39 U.S.C. Section 2341, as amended, shall notify the commission of
1-40 that request.
1-41 (d) In this section, "firm" has the meaning assigned by 19
1-42 U.S.C. Section 2351, as amended.
1-43 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-44 to:
1-45 (1) a worker who is covered by a certification of
1-46 eligibility issued on or after the effective date of this Act;
1-47 (2) a worker who is employed by a person who is
1-48 covered by a certification of eligibility issued on or after the
1-49 effective date of this Act; or
1-50 (3) a firm that has requested a certification of
1-51 eligibility on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-52 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-53 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-54 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-55 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-56 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-57 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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