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Texas Government Code - Section 497.094. Job Training Programs

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§ 497.094. JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS.  (a) The department 
shall implement a job training program for each job performed by an 
inmate confined in a facility operated by or under contract with the 
department or a defendant or releasee housed in a facility operated 
by or under contract with the department and monitor the success of 
those programs.  The department shall also establish a permanent 
record for each inmate, defendant, or releasee.  The record must 
describe the types of job training provided to the inmate, 
defendant, or releasee by the department.  On release from 
imprisonment or supervision, the department shall provide the 
inmate, defendant, or releasee with a copy of the record.  The 
department shall collect information relating to the employment 
histories of inmates released from the institutional division on 
parole and mandatory supervision.
	(b)  The department and the Texas Workforce Investment 
Council by rule shall adopt a memorandum of understanding that 
establishes the respective responsibility of those entities to 
provide through local workforce development boards job training and 
employment assistance to persons formerly sentenced to the 
institutional division or the state jail division and information 
on services available to employers or potential employers of those 
persons.  The department shall coordinate the development of the 
memorandum of understanding.

Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, § 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 
1989.  Renumbered from V.T.C.A., Government Code § 496.094 and 
amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, § 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 
26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, § 1.043, 
eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 611, § 4, eff. Aug. 
28, 1995;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, § 1.34, eff. Sept. 1, 
1999;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 818, § 6.07, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

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