By Duncan S.B. No. 798
77R6060 MTB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the listing of state agency employment openings.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 656, Government Code, is
1-5 amended by adding Sections 656.002 and 656.003 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 656.002. ONLINE EMPLOYMENT OPENINGS SYSTEM. (a) In this
1-7 section, "state agency" does not include a university system or an
1-8 institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003,
1-9 Education Code.
1-10 (b) The Department of Information Resources shall work with
1-11 the Texas Workforce Commission and other state agencies to create
1-12 an online system for listing state agency employment openings.
1-13 (c) Characteristics of the system shall include to the
1-14 extent feasible:
1-15 (1) the use of existing technical infrastructure and
1-16 specialty job bulletin boards when the cost is equal to or less
1-17 than the cost of building a separate infrastructure;
1-18 (2) real-time communication between an applicant for
1-19 state employment and a state agency;
1-20 (3) immediate matching of an applicant to a listing
1-21 based on the applicant's qualifications;
1-22 (4) the ability to allow an applicant to complete one
1-23 state application online and enter the application in a single
1-24 database from which the applicant may electronically send the
2-1 application to multiple state agencies;
2-2 (5) the ability to allow an applicant to enter a
2-3 resume into an online database from which the applicant may
2-4 electronically send the resume to a state agency;
2-5 (6) the ability of a state agency to list employment
2-6 openings electronically with limited keystrokes from one web
2-7 location; and
2-8 (7) the ability to generate management information
2-9 such as the number of visits to a state agency employment listing,
2-10 the number of applicants for each opening, the number of applicants
2-11 hired for each listing, the time from listing to filling an
2-12 opening, and the frequency and volume of listings by type.
2-13 Sec. 656.003. ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT OPENINGS INFORMATION. The
2-14 Texas Workforce Commission shall make computers available to the
2-15 public at its field offices to ensure access to information about
2-16 employment openings.
2-17 SECTION 2. Section 656.024, Government Code, is amended to
2-18 read as follows:
2-19 Sec. 656.024. PUBLIC NOTICE OF JOB VACANCIES. The commission
2-20 shall publicly list, in accordance with the commission's
2-21 procedures, [for at least 10 working days,] each notice of a job
2-22 vacancy delivered under Section 656.022 [unless the commission is
2-23 sooner notified by the state agency having the vacancy that the
2-24 vacancy has been filled].
2-25 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.