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.
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