AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the evaluation by the Texas Workforce Commission of
 1-2     federal trade adjustment programs designed to assist certain
 1-3     persons in obtaining employment.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 302,  Labor Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 302.006 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 302.006.  REPORT ON TRADE ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS.  (a)  The
 1-8     commission shall submit an annual report to the legislature on the
 1-9     effectiveness of federal programs designed to provide trade
1-10     adjustment assistance to persons in this state.
1-11           (b)  The report shall include the following information
1-12     regarding persons who have participated in a program described by
1-13     Subsection (a):
1-14                 (1)  the number of persons who enter employment;
1-15                 (2)  the occupations in which the persons are placed;
1-16                 (3)  the wages earned by persons before and after
1-17     participation in the program;
1-18                 (4)  whether a person who enters employment after
1-19     completion of a program retains that employment for at least six
1-20     months;
1-21                 (5)  the number of persons participating in integrated
1-22     vocational and language training programs; and
1-23                 (6)  whether a participant has acquired basic skills to
1-24     enhance employability in the participant's local labor market.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-2           (b)  The Texas Workforce Commission shall submit the first
 2-3     report required under this Act not later than January 1, 2000.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1507 passed the Senate on
         April 28, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1507 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, 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