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Texas Labor Code - Chapter 302 Division Of Workforce DevelopmentLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Labor Code > Texas Labor Code - Chapter 302 Division Of Workforce Development In this chapter: (1) "Director" means the director of the division. (2) "Division" means the division of workforce development of the commission. Added by Acts ... (a) The executive director shall: (1) to the extent feasible under federal law, consolidate the administrative and programmatic functions of the programs under the authority ... (a) The commission shall ensure that an individual employment plan developed for a recipient of financial assistance participating in an employment program under Chapter 31, ... (a) The commission and local workforce development boards shall develop an employment services referral program for recipients of financial assistance who participate in employment programs ... (a) The commission and local workforce development boards shall ensure that each workforce development program offered in this state includes training in financial literacy. (b) ... The division may provide ongoing job retention and reemployment assistance for a recipient of public assistance who has participated in a job training program. Added ... (a) The commission shall provide employment assistance services, including job placement and other employment-related services, to the spouses and dependents of military personnel who are ... The commission shall provide employment assistance services, including skills training, job placement, and employment-related services, to a person referred to the commission by: (1) the ... (a) To the extent funds are available, the commission and local workforce development boards shall provide transportation assistance to recipients of financial assistance participating in ... (a) The commission and local workforce development boards shall maximize the state's receipt of federal funds available to provide transportation assistance to recipients of financial ... (a) The commission, in cooperation with local workforce development boards, shall, for a recipient of financial assistance participating in an employment program under Chapter 31, ... In providing job training and employment services and child care to eligible persons, the commission, notwithstanding the provisions in this chapter or other law, may ... (a) The commission may make grants available on a one-time basis to local workforce development boards to enable the boards to design and implement child-care ... (a) The commission shall annually evaluate the formulas used by the commission to distribute federal child care development funds to local workforce development boards in ... (a) To evaluate the effectiveness of the commission's child care program in helping parents who receive subsidized child care to maintain employment, the commission shall ... (a) The commission, in consultation with local workforce development boards, shall compile the following information with regard to each recipient of employment services under the ... (a) The commission shall collect state and local information relating to the effectiveness of the use of four percent quality dollars by local workforce development ... (a) The commission shall direct each local workforce development board to notify a working poor subsidy recipient who resides in that board's local workforce development ... (a) The commission shall establish four pilot programs in which the division shall certify day-care facilities licensed under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, as training ... (a) The commission shall establish a pilot program to assist teachers in retaining employment in the field of child care. In establishing and administering the ... (a) The commission may develop and administer a program under which the commission awards scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each for professional child-care training ... (a) The commission shall submit an annual report to the legislature on the effectiveness of federal programs designed to provide trade adjustment assistance to persons ... The commission shall develop an information and marketing campaign designed to encourage residents of the state to enter the technology workforce. The campaign shall target ... (a) The commission by rule shall develop a job placement incentive program under which persons with whom local workforce development boards contract for employment services ... (a) The commission by rule shall develop guidelines under which local workforce development boards provide postemployment services to a recipient of financial assistance participating in ... The commission shall encourage local workforce development boards to provide postemployment case management services for and use mentoring techniques to assist recipients of financial assistance ... (a) The division shall develop and implement a system to monitor the long-term employment history of persons who are former recipients of assistance under employment ... (a) In this section, "advisory committee" means the local workforce development board advisory committee created under this section. (b) The organization composed of a member ... (a) In this section, "veteran" has the meaning assigned by Section 657.002(c), Government Code. (b) A veteran qualifies for a preference under this section if ... (a) The following job-training, employment, and employment-related educational programs and functions are consolidated under the authority of the commission: (1) career school and college programs ... The director shall develop a uniform, statewide client application and enrollment process to determine an applicant's eligibility for workforce training and services funded through the ... The executive director shall delegate all or part of the administration of a program listed under Section 302.021 that is eligible for block grant funding ... The director shall design and implement a state-local planning process for workforce training and services provided through the programs under the jurisdiction of the division. ... The commission shall review the local plans developed under Section 2308.304, Government Code, and shall make recommendations to the council regarding the implementation of those ... (a) The division shall provide management and board development training for all members of local workforce development boards that includes information regarding client eligibility determination, ... The commission shall require that local workforce development boards participate in outreach activities provided by the commission that are designed by the commission to allow ... The commission shall adopt a detailed and understandable plan to be used by local workforce development boards in the implementation of the sanction process. The ... (a) The commission shall adopt a plan to address the lack of service providers in specific local workforce development areas. (b) The plan adopted under ... (a) The commission shall develop and implement a flexibility rating system for directives sent by the commission to local workforce development boards. A rating assigned ... (a) In consultation with local workforce development boards, the commission by rule shall establish criteria to be used by the commission to evaluate each local ... Unless superseded by federal law, the commission may use an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the amount of funds available to the commission ... (a) Effective July 1, 1996, the commission shall provide to the local workforce development areas in which local workforce development boards have been certified and ... The commission shall develop objective criteria for the granting of waivers allowed under this chapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 655, § 11.03, ... (a) The commission shall collaborate with local workforce development boards when determining the use of funds at the local level. (b) The commission shall develop ... (a) To streamline the delivery of services provided in local career development centers, the commission and local workforce boards shall integrate the administration of the ... (a) The commission shall maintain and operate an automated follow-up and evaluation system derived from appropriate available information, including: (1) unemployment insurance wage records maintained ... (a) Each state agency represented on the council shall provide information to support the commission's follow-up and evaluation system as requested. (b) Evaluation data in ... (a) At least annually, the commission shall issue an analysis, by occupation and by the provider of the job placement performance, of each workforce development ... The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall use the job placement information received under this subchapter and other information to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of ... The council and each local workforce development board shall use the information developed under this subchapter and other information to determine whether a specific workforce ... The follow-up and evaluation system shall be used to assist the commission, the council, local workforce development boards, institution boards, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating ... (a) The training stabilization fund is established as a special trust fund outside of the state treasury in the custody of the comptroller separate and ... Texas Lawyers
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