Amend SB 2315 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 303.003, Labor Code, is amended by amending Subsection (h) and adding Subsection (h-1) to read as follows:

(h)  A community-based organization may apply for money to participate in a training program if:

(1)  the organization applies [only] in partnership with a community and technical college or the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service; or

(2)  at least 90 days before the date the organization applies, the organization submitted to a community and technical college or the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service a written request for a partnership with the college or service and has been unable to obtain the partnership.

(h-1)  If a [A] community-based organization that applies for funding under Subsection (h) provides [providing] services regulated by the state, the organization shall provide to the commission evidence of any certification, license, or registration required by law.

SECTION ____.  Section 303.003, Labor Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to an application for money from the skills development fund submitted to the Texas Workforce Commission on or after the effective date of this Act. An application submitted before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was submitted, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.