By: Chavez H.B. No. 2975
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of a Texas-Mexico border region
technology training pilot program by the Texas Workforce
Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 301, Labor Code, is
amended by adding Section 301.0675 to read as follows:
Sec. 301.0675. TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER REGION TECHNOLOGY
TRAINING PILOT. (a) The commission may by rule establish and
implement a pilot program under which the commission may
competitively procure adult technology training for residents of
the state who are displaced workers as a result of trade
dislocations or other changes in the state economy.
(b) The pilot program under this section may be established
to provide training in the Texas-Mexico border region as defined in
Sec. 2056.002(e)(3), Government Code.
(c) The pilot program under this section may utilize
existing state funded technology infrastructures to the extent
possible.
(d) The pilot program under this section may utilize
curriculum and instruction models developed by the commission to
implement Sec. 301.0674.
(e) The pilot program under this section may serve the
greatest number of individuals to the extent possible with
available funds.
(f) The commission may obtain funds for the pilot program
under this section, to the extent possible, from state, federal, or
private funding sources.
(g) The commission may collaborate with appropriate federal
and state agencies, and local workforce development boards to
implement the pilot.
(h) Not later than December 1 of even numbered years, the
commission may submit a report regarding the status and results of
the pilot program to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the
speaker of the house.
(i) This section expires September 1, 2007.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.