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Texas Labor Code - Section 303.006. Reporting Requirements

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§ 303.006. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.  (a) In this section:                    
		(1)  "Employee" means an individual who performs 
services for another under a contract of hire, whether express or 
implied, or oral or written.
		(2)  "Employer" means a person that employs one or more 
employees.          
		(3)  "Existing employer" means an employer that:                              
			(A)  has been liable to pay contributions under 
Subtitle A, Title 4, for more than one year;
			(B)  has employees;  and                                                     
			(C)  is in compliance with the reporting and 
payment requirements of Subtitle A, Title 4, as determined by the 
Texas Workforce Commission.
		(4)  "In-kind contribution" means a noncash 
contribution of goods and services provided by an employer as all or 
part of the employer's matching share of a grant or project.
		(5)  "Job" means employment on a basis customarily 
considered full-time for the applicable occupation and industry.
		(6)  "Large employer" means a business entity that 
employs at least 500 employees.
		(7)  "Medium employer" means a business entity that 
employs more than 99 but fewer than 500 employees.
		(8)  "Micro-employer" means a business entity that 
employs not more than 20 employees.
		(9)  "Program" means the skills development fund 
program created under this chapter.
		(10)  "Small employer" means a business entity that 
employs more than 20 but fewer than 100 employees.
		(11)  "Trainee" means a participant in a project funded 
under this chapter. 
		(12)  "Wages" means all forms of compensation or 
remuneration, excluding benefits, payable for a specific period to 
an employee for personal services rendered by that employee.
	(b)  In implementing provisions under this section regarding 
the classification of this state into regions, the executive 
director shall use the uniform service regions established by the 
comptroller under Section 120, Article V, Chapter 19, Acts of the 
72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991 (the General 
Appropriations Act).
	(c)  The executive director shall report to the governor and 
the legislature at the end of each fiscal year the status of the 
program established under this chapter.
	(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 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.          

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1485, § 2.02, eff. Sept. 1, 
1999.     

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