79R9778 MXM-F

By:  Allen of Harris                                              H.B. No. 3014



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the use of local public junior colleges to provide 
training to state agency employees.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 656.049, Government Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
	Sec. 656.049.  AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT.  (a)  A state agency 
may contract with another state, local, or federal department, 
agency, or institution, including a state-supported college or 
university, to train or educate its administrators and employees or 
may join in presenting a training or educational program.
	(b)  A state agency may not contract with a private person to 
train or educate a state agency administrator or employee unless a 
public junior college is unable to provide the training in the 
geographic area in which the state agency administrator or employee 
is located.
	SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 656, Government Code, is 
amended by adding Section 656.050 to read as follows:
	Sec. 656.050.  TRAINING PROVIDED BY PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES.  
(a)  A state agency must use a public junior college to provide any 
training or education to its administrators and employees if the 
training or education can be provided at a comparable level of 
quality but at a lower cost to the agency.
	(b)  A state agency may use a public junior college to 
supplement or enhance the training or education provided by 
full-time state agency employees to the agency's other employees.
	SECTION 3.  Section 656.049, Government Code, as amended by 
this Act, applies only to a contract entered into on or after the 
effective date of this Act.  A contract entered into before the 
effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 
contract was entered into, and the former law is continued in effect 
for that purpose.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.