1-1 By: Truan S.B. No. 1507 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Human Services; 1-4 April 23, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 23, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1507 By: Gallegos 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the evaluation by the Texas Workforce Commission of 1-11 federal trade adjustment programs designed to assist certain 1-12 persons in obtaining employment. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is 1-15 amended by adding Section 302.006 to read as follows: 1-16 Sec. 302.006. REPORT ON TRADE ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS. (a) The 1-17 commission shall submit an annual report to the legislature on the 1-18 effectiveness of federal programs designed to provide trade 1-19 adjustment assistance to persons in this state. 1-20 (b) The report shall include the following information 1-21 regarding persons who have participated in a program described by 1-22 Subsection (a): 1-23 (1) the number of persons who enter employment; 1-24 (2) the occupations in which the persons are placed; 1-25 (3) the wages earned by persons before and after 1-26 participation in the program; 1-27 (4) whether a person who enters employment after 1-28 completion of a program retains that employment for at least six 1-29 months; 1-30 (5) the number of persons participating in integrated 1-31 vocational and language training programs; and 1-32 (6) whether a participant has acquired basic skills to 1-33 enhance employability in the participant's local labor market. 1-34 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-35 (b) The Texas Workforce Commission shall submit the first 1-36 report required under this Act not later than January 1, 2000. 1-37 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-42 * * * * *