BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

            H.B. 3074

By: Creighton

Economic Development

Committee Report (Unamended)

 

 

 

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

 

The Texas Legislature passed S.B. 998 during the 79^th Regular Session, which allowed entities that contract with a Local Workforce Development Board to use, display, and advertise their business names when providing one-stop workforce services for the 28 workforce boards across the state.

 

Advertising under different names within a common board area leads to confusion and limits the effectiveness of the services that can be accessed due to consumers' inability to identify the various entities providing services in that area.  The Texas Workforce Commission believes that the determination on whether or not a board’s contractor may advertise its business name should reside with the board, not with the contractor. This will provide the board, as the decision- making authority for a given area, the option of providing services under a common brand.

 

H.B. 3074 prohibits a board's contractor from using, displaying, or advertising the contractor's name when providing workforce services for the board.

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

It is the opinion of the committee that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. 

 

ANALYSIS

 

SECTION 1.  Amends Subsection (e), Section 2308.264, Government Code, by deleting the provision which allows a board's contractor to use, display, and advertise the contractor's name when providing workforce services for the board. 

 

SECTION 2.  States the effective date for this Act.

 

EFFECTIVE DATE

 

Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2007.