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          AN ACT
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        relating to the review of certain skills development fund workforce  | 
      
      
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        training programs. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 303.004, Labor Code, is amended to read  | 
      
      
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        as follows: | 
      
      
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               Sec. 303.004.  FUND REVIEW. (a) The Texas Higher Education  | 
      
      
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        Coordinating Board shall review all customized training programs  | 
      
      
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        biennially to verify that state funds are being used appropriately  | 
      
      
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        by public community and technical colleges and the Texas A&M  | 
      
      
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        Engineering Extension Service under this chapter. | 
      
      
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               (b)  Not later than October 1 of each even-numbered year, the  | 
      
      
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        Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service and each public community  | 
      
      
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        or technical college that provides workforce training under this  | 
      
      
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        chapter shall: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  conduct a review of the service's or college's  | 
      
      
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        training programs to: | 
      
      
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                           (A)  determine the effectiveness of the programs  | 
      
      
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        in improving the wages of participants who complete the programs;  | 
      
      
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        and | 
      
      
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                           (B)  identify strategies for improving the  | 
      
      
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        delivery of workforce training in order to more effectively impact  | 
      
      
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        economic development in this state; and | 
      
      
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                     (2)  submit to the commission a detailed written report  | 
      
      
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        summarizing the results of the review for inclusion by the  | 
      
      
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        executive director in the report to the governor and the  | 
      
      
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        legislature required by Section 303.006(c). | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 1297 was passed by the House on April  | 
      
      
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        11, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.  | 
      
      
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        No. 1297 on May 21, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0,  | 
      
      
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        2 present, not voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 1297 was passed by the Senate, with  | 
      
      
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        amendments, on May 17, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays  | 
      
      
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        0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate    | 
      
      
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        APPROVED: __________________ | 
      
      
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                      Governor        |