Bill Text: TX SB1390 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1390 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to improving the accountability of local workforce development boards and consumer information regarding job training programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-18 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1390 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1390-Introduced.html

	84R4872 KSD-D

	By: Lucio	S.B. No. 1390



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to improving the accountability of local workforce
	development boards and consumer information regarding job training
	programs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 302.048, Labor Code, is amended by
	amending Subsections (c) and (d) and adding Subsections (d-1) and
	(g) to read as follows:
	(c) Based on the criteria prescribed under this section, the
	commission shall develop annual performance measures to be used by
	the commission to evaluate each local workforce development board.
	(d) The commission shall post on its Internet website an
	annual report of the results of the commission's most recent
	evaluation of each local workforce development board. The report
	must be posted:
	(1) not later than the end of the second quarter
	following the 12-month period covered by the report, as determined
	by the commission for purposes of this subdivision; and
	(2) [~~on the commission's Internet website~~] in a format
	that:
	(A) is readily accessible to and understandable
	by a member of the public; and
	(B) includes any necessary explanatory
	information.
	(d-1) The annual report posted by the commission on its
	Internet website under Subsection (d) must include the following
	information regarding each local workforce development board:
	(1) a comparison of the board's result on each annual
	performance measure established by the commission with the
	applicable commission-established target for that measure; and
	(2) a summary of material findings from the most
	recent financial monitoring review conducted by the commission.
	(g) Each local workforce development board shall include in
	a prominent location on its Internet website a link to the annual
	report required to be posted on the commission's website under
	Subsection (d).
	SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is
	amended by adding Section 302.049 to read as follows:
	Sec. 302.049. JOB TRAINING PROGRAM DATABASE. (a) To
	facilitate a consumer's informed selection among job training
	programs, the commission shall:
	(1) include in its searchable database of job training
	programs that are currently approved by one or more local workforce
	development boards and certified by the commission, annual
	performance outcomes for each program, including the program's
	completion rate, post-program completion entered employment rate,
	and average starting hourly wages at placement, or, if hourly wages
	are not appropriate, post-program completion average quarterly
	wages; and
	(2) update the database to reflect the most recent
	annual performance outcomes of programs not later than the end of
	the second quarter following the 12-month period for which outcomes
	were computed, as determined by the commission for purposes of this
	subdivision.
	(b) Each local workforce development board and certified
	provider of a job training program included in the database
	described by Subsection (a) shall submit to the commission any data
	requested by the commission regarding job training programs as
	necessary for the commission to carry out its duties under that
	subsection.
	(c) The commission may adopt rules as necessary to
	administer this section.
	SECTION 3. The Texas Workforce Commission shall post on its
	Internet website the first annual report required by Section
	302.048(d), Labor Code, as amended by this Act, not later than May
	1, 2016.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.