Bill Text: TX HB1469 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain public school workforce training programs funded by the skills development fund and to authorizing school districts to reimburse under the Foundation School Program private employers for paid internships provided to certain students in career and technology education programs in the district.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [HB1469 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1469-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain public school workforce training programs funded by the skills development fund and to authorizing school districts to reimburse under the Foundation School Program private employers for paid internships provided to certain students in career and technology education programs in the district.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [HB1469 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1469-Comm_Sub.html
86R12435 SOS-D | |||
By: Thierry, Blanco, Cain | H.B. No. 1469 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1469: | |||
By: Blanco | C.S.H.B. No. 1469 |
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relating to certain public school workforce training programs | ||
funded by the skills development fund. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 303.001(a), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The purpose of this chapter is to remove administrative | ||
barriers that impede the response of school districts and | ||
open-enrollment charter schools described by Section 303.003(b-3), | ||
public community and technical colleges, community-based | ||
organizations, and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service to | ||
industry and workforce training needs and to develop incentives for | ||
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and efficient manner. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 303.001(b), Labor Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subdivision (3) to read as follows: | ||
(3) "Open-enrollment charter school" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 5.001, Education Code. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 303.002, Labor Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
Sec. 303.002. WAIVER; RECOVERY OF CERTAIN COSTS. (a) The | ||
commission may review and recommend to the legislature the waiver | ||
of any requirements set forth in the [ |
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they may apply to a school district or open-enrollment charter | ||
school described by Section 303.003(b-3) or public community and | ||
technical college [ |
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customized training for demand occupations in particular | ||
industries, including statutes or regulations limiting costs that | ||
may be recovered from state funds by the district, school, or [ |
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(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
described by Section 303.003(b-3), a public community or technical | ||
college, or the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service may recover | ||
customized assessment and training costs incurred by the district, | ||
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(1) there is an actual or projected labor shortage in | ||
the occupation in which training is provided that is not being met | ||
by an existing institution or program in the area; and | ||
(2) the wages at the time of job placement for | ||
individuals who successfully complete customized training at the | ||
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prevailing wage for that occupation in the local labor market area. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 303.003, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b), (b-1), (f), and (g) and adding Subsection | ||
(b-3) to read as follows: | ||
(b) The skills development fund may be used by school | ||
districts and open-enrollment charter schools described by | ||
Subsection (b-3), public community and technical colleges, | ||
community-based organizations, and the Texas A&M Engineering | ||
Extension Service as start-up or emergency funds for the following | ||
job-training purposes: | ||
(1) developing customized training programs for | ||
businesses and trade unions; and | ||
(2) sponsoring small and medium-sized business | ||
networks and consortiums. | ||
(b-1) The commission by rule may establish and develop | ||
additional job incentive programs that use the skills development | ||
fund to create incentives for school districts and open-enrollment | ||
charter schools described by Subsection (b-3) or public community | ||
and technical colleges in partnership with one or more employers, | ||
including prospective employers who commit to establishing a place | ||
of business in this state, to provide workforce training in an | ||
effort to create and retain employment opportunities in this state. | ||
Under a program established under this subsection, the commission | ||
may commit money to a prospective employer described by this | ||
subsection contingent on the employer's establishment of a place of | ||
business in this state. | ||
(b-3) In addition to the programs established under | ||
Subsections (b), (b-1), and (b-2), the commission by rule shall | ||
establish and develop additional programs using the skills | ||
development fund under which a school district or open-enrollment | ||
charter school that includes a high school that provides a career | ||
and technology education program in which at least 35 percent of the | ||
students at the high school are enrolled may provide through that | ||
high school customized workforce training opportunities designed | ||
specifically to meet regional emerging future industry and | ||
workforce training needs identified by the commission for purposes | ||
of this subsection. To participate in a program established under | ||
this subsection, a school district or open-enrollment charter | ||
school is not required to partner with one or more specific | ||
institutions of higher education. | ||
(f) The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service shall focus | ||
the service's training activities under this chapter on programs | ||
that: | ||
(1) are statewide in nature; or | ||
(2) are not available from a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school described by Subsection (b-3), a | ||
local junior college district, a local technical college, or a | ||
consortium of junior college districts. | ||
(g) This section does not prohibit the Texas A&M Engineering | ||
Extension Service from participating in a consortium of junior | ||
college districts or with a school district or open-enrollment | ||
charter school described by Subsection (b-3) or a technical college | ||
that provides training under this chapter. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 303.004, Labor Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
Sec. 303.004. FUND REVIEW; REPORT BY CERTAIN WORKFORCE | ||
TRAINING PROVIDERS REQUIRED. (a) The Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board shall review all customized training programs | ||
biennially to verify that state funds are being used appropriately | ||
by school districts and open-enrollment charter schools described | ||
by Section 303.003(b-3), public community and technical colleges, | ||
and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service under this chapter. | ||
The Texas Education Agency shall assist the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board as necessary in the board's review of a | ||
customized training program provided by a high school of a school | ||
district or open-enrollment charter school described by Section | ||
303.003(b-3). | ||
(b) Not later than October 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
each school district and each open-enrollment charter school | ||
described by Section 303.003(b-3), the Texas A&M Engineering | ||
Extension Service, and each public community or technical college | ||
that provides workforce training under this chapter shall: | ||
(1) conduct a review of the district's, school's, | ||
service's, or college's training programs to: | ||
(A) determine the effectiveness of the programs | ||
in improving the wages of participants who complete the programs; | ||
and | ||
(B) identify strategies for improving the | ||
delivery of workforce training in order to more effectively impact | ||
economic development in this state; and | ||
(2) submit to the commission a detailed written report | ||
summarizing the results of the review for inclusion by the | ||
executive director in the report to the governor and the | ||
legislature required by Section 303.006(c). | ||
(c) If a school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
described by Section 303.003(b-3), the Texas A&M Engineering | ||
Extension Service, or a public community or technical college fails | ||
to submit a report required by Subsection (b)(2): | ||
(1) the district, school, service, or college must | ||
refund to the comptroller any unexpended state funds received by | ||
the district, school, service, or college under this chapter for | ||
the state fiscal biennium in which the report was due; and | ||
(2) the commission may not award any additional grant | ||
to the district, school, service, or college under this chapter | ||
until the district, school, service, or college has complied with | ||
that reporting requirement. | ||
SECTION 6. Section 303.006(d), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) The annual report must include for that fiscal year: | ||
(1) the total number of applications submitted, the | ||
total number of applications approved, and the total number of | ||
applications rejected by region of the state; | ||
(2) the average and median weekly wage levels of | ||
trainees under this chapter entering or returning to the workforce, | ||
broken down by: | ||
(A) current employees undergoing retraining; | ||
(B) new hires; and | ||
(C) region of the state; | ||
(3) the average and median weekly wage levels of | ||
trainees under this chapter entering or returning to the workforce, | ||
broken down by region of the state; | ||
(4) the number and percentage of trainees covered by | ||
health care insurance coverage, workers' compensation insurance | ||
coverage, and other analogous benefit programs; | ||
(5) the total amount of money awarded in each region of | ||
the state and the percentage that amount represents of the total | ||
amount of money awarded on a statewide basis; | ||
(6) a comparison of the percentage of total dollars | ||
awarded to each region versus each region's percentage of: | ||
(A) the state's population; | ||
(B) the civilian labor force; | ||
(C) the number of unemployed persons; and | ||
(D) the number of qualified grant applications | ||
submitted to the commission by school districts and open-enrollment | ||
charter schools described by Section 303.003(b-3) and public | ||
community and technical colleges; | ||
(7) the total amount of money awarded to | ||
micro-employers, small employers, medium employers, and large | ||
employers, reported by region of the state; and | ||
(8) the total number of jobs created or persons | ||
retrained under the program: | ||
(A) by region of the state; | ||
(B) by occupation classified by the two-digit | ||
standard industrial classification; | ||
(C) by wage level; and | ||
(D) whether attributable to: | ||
(i) relocation of businesses to this state; | ||
or | ||
(ii) training or retraining of employees of | ||
existing employers. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |