H.B. No. 3005

AN ACT

relating to the authority of the Texas Workforce Commission to use certain unemployment compensation funds for reemployment activities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 203.025, Labor Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

(c) Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (b) or any other provision of this subtitle or other law, the commission, under an agreement with or waiver by the United States secretary of labor, may use money requisitioned from this state's account in the federal trust fund to conduct demonstration projects for the reemployment of unemployed individuals in the manner prescribed by that agreement or waiver and consistent with any applicable requirements under federal law. The commission shall provide to the legislative standing committees with primary jurisdiction over the commission any evaluation reports required by the United States Department of Labor for a reemployment demonstration project.

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, 2013.

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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3005 was passed by the House on May 10, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 13, 9 present, not voting.

______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3005 was passed by the Senate on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________

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Governor