SUBCHAPTER A ORGANIZATION OF COMMISSION
- Texas Section 301.001 - Purpose; Agency Goals; Definitions
(a) The Texas Workforce Commission is a state agency established to operate an integrated workforce development system in this state, in particular through the consolidation...
- Texas Section 301.0015 - Guidelines Regarding Functions Of Commission And Staff
(a) In administering its functions under this title or another law, the commission shall limit its activities to: (1) setting commission policies, including policies that...
- Texas Section 301.002 - Membership Requirements
(a) The commission is composed of three members: (1) one member who is a representative of labor; (2) one member who is a representative of...
- Texas Section 301.003 - Member Restrictions
(a) In this section: (1) "Business" does not mean personal investment in real property, financial instruments or tangible assets, or the provision of personal services,...
- Texas Section 301.004 - Effect Of Lobbying Activity
A person may not be a member of the commission or act as the general counsel to the commission if the person is required to...
- Texas Section 301.005 - Terms; Vacancy
(a) Members of the commission are appointed for staggered six-year terms, with one member's term expiring on February 1 of each odd-numbered year. (b) A...
- Texas Section 301.006 - Chair
(a) The governor shall designate the chair of the commission from among the members of the commission. The chair shall serve in that capacity at...
- Texas Section 301.007 - Removal Of Commission Members
(a) It is a ground for removal from the commission that a member: (1) during any 60-day period, is absent from each commission meeting for...
- Texas Section 301.0075 - Member Training
(a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the commission may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as...
- Texas Section 301.008 - Application Of Sunset Act
The Texas Workforce Commission is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the commission...
SUBCHAPTER B COMMISSION ADMINISTRATION
- Texas Section 301.009 - Commission Divisions
(a) The commission shall have: (1) a division of workforce development; (2) a division of unemployment compensation; and (3) a civil rights division. (b) In...
- Texas Section 301.021 - Donations
(a) The commission may accept a donation of services, money, or property that the commission determines furthers the lawful objectives of the commission. The donation...
- Texas Section 301.022 - Audit
The financial transactions of the commission are subject to audit by the state auditor in accordance with Chapter 321, Government Code. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg.,...
- Texas Section 301.023 - Complaints Against Commission
(a) The commission shall maintain a file on each written complaint filed with the commission. The file must include: (1) the name of the person...
SUBCHAPTER C EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; AGENCY PERSONNEL
- Texas Section 301.024 - Official Seal; Use Of Facsimiles
(a) The commission has an official seal. A court shall take judicial notice of the seal. (b) The commission may execute, certify, authenticate, or sign,...
- Texas Section 301.041 - Executive Director; Agency Personnel
(a) The commission shall appoint an executive director to administer the daily operations of the commission in compliance with federal law. (b) A reference in...
- Texas Section 301.042 - Access To Certain Criminal History Record Information
(a) The commission may request an applicant for a security sensitive position to provide either a complete set of fingerprints or the applicant's complete name,...
- Texas Section 301.043 - Standards Of Conduct Information
The executive director or the executive director's designee shall provide to the members of the commission and employees of the commission, as often as necessary,...
- Texas Section 301.044 - Career Ladder
The executive director shall develop an intra-agency career ladder program for employees of the commission. The program shall require the intra-agency posting of all nonentry-level...
- Texas Section 301.045 - Equal Employment Opportunity Policies
(a) The executive director or the executive director's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement that implements a program of equal employment opportunity...
SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSION AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Texas Section 301.047 - Commission Employees Accountable To Executive Director
In performing functions required or authorized by law, employees of the commission are directly accountable to the executive director. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg.,...
- Texas Section 301.061 - General Powers And Duties Of Commission And Executive Director
(a) The commission shall provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the commission and speak on any issue under the jurisdiction of...
- Texas Section 301.0611 - Coordination Of Certain Awards And Incentives
The commission, in cooperation with the Texas Education Agency, the comptroller, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, shall prepare and make available to the...
- Texas Section 301.0615 - Application Of Administrative Procedure Act
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this title, a hearing conducted under this title is not subject to: (1) Section 2001.038, Government Code; or (2)...
- Texas Section 301.062 - Findings
Both the commission and the executive director may make findings and determine issues under this title as necessary to administer this title. Acts 1993, 73rd...
- Texas Section 301.063 - State And Federal Cooperation
(a) The commission is designated as the agency of this state for implementation in this state of: (1) the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. Section 49...
- Texas Section 301.064 - Interpreter Services; Bilingual Forms
(a) The executive director shall provide language interpreters for agency programs through a comprehensive language services program for persons whose primary language is Spanish and...
- Texas Section 301.065 - Annual Report
(a) As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the commission shall submit to the governor and the legislature a report on...
- Texas Section 301.066 - Publications
(a) The executive director shall print: (1) the text of Subtitle A; (2) the commission's rules; and (3) the commission's annual report to the governor...
- Texas Section 301.067 - Tax Assistance; Information On Earned Income Tax Credit
(a) The commission may work in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Service to make certain offices of the commission volunteer income tax assistance sites during...
- Texas Section 301.0671 - Federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit And State Tax Refund For Certain Employers
(a) The commission is the lead agency in promoting awareness of the federal work opportunity tax credit program and the state tax refund for employers...
- Texas Section 301.0675 - Vocational Rehabilitation And Certain Other Services For Persons With Disabilities
Subject to federal approval, if required, to administer vocational rehabilitation services and other services and programs to persons with disabilities under Subtitle C, Title 4,...
- Texas Section 301.0681 - Policy On Technological Solutions
The commission shall develop and implement a policy requiring the executive director and commission employees to research and propose appropriate technological solutions to improve the...
- Texas Section 301.0682 - Negotiated Rulemaking And Alternative Dispute Resolution Policy
(a) The commission shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of: (1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008, Government Code, for the...
SUBCHAPTER E INVESTIGATIVE AND SUBPOENA POWERS
- Texas Section 301.069 - Partnership With Business Community
To meet the needs of businesses in this state and to equip workers and job seekers with the skills required to compete for jobs in...
- Texas Section 301.071 - Investigative And Subpoena Powers
(a) In discharging duties imposed under this title, an appeal tribunal established under this title, an examiner or other hearings officer employed or appointed by...
- Texas Section 301.072 - Enforcement Of Subpoena; Offense; Penalties
(a) If a person is guilty of contumacy or refuses to obey a subpoena issued by a member of the commission or an authorized representative...
- Texas Section 301.073 - Self-incrimination
(a) In any cause or proceeding before the commission, a person is not excused from attending and testifying, from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and...
SUBCHAPTER F RECORDS
- Texas Section 301.074 - Defamation
An oral or written statement made to the commission or to an employee of the commission in connection with the discharge of the commission's or...
- Texas Section 301.081 - Employee Records Of Employing Unit; Offense; Penalty
(a) Each employing unit shall keep employment records containing information as prescribed by the commission and as necessary for the proper administration of this title....
- Texas Section 301.082 - Copies Of Records
(a) The executive director may furnish a photostatic or certified copy of a record in the commission's possession to a person entitled to receive a...
- Texas Section 301.083 - Access To Records By Railroad Retirement Board
(a) The executive director may make state records relating to the administration of Subtitle A available to the Railroad Retirement Board. (b) The executive director...
- Texas Section 301.084 - Destruction Of Records
The executive director may destroy any of the records of the agency under safeguards that protect the confidential nature of the records if the executive...
- Texas Section 301.085 - Unemployment Compensation And Job Matching Services Information; Offense; Penalty
(a) In this section: (1) "Job matching services information" means information in the records of the commission that pertains to the commission's job matching services...
SUBCHAPTER H TAX REFUND FOR WAGES PAID TO EMPLOYEE RECEIVING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
- Texas Section 301.086 - Provision Of Certain Information To Comptroller
(a) Not later than June 1 of every fifth year, the commission shall provide to the comptroller, for the purpose of assisting the comptroller in...
- Texas Section 301.101 - Definition
In this subchapter, "wages" has the meaning assigned by Sections 51(c)(1), (2), and (3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 51). Added by...
- Texas Section 301.102 - Tax Refund Voucher
(a) The commission shall issue a tax refund voucher in the amount allowed by this subchapter and subject to the restrictions imposed by this subchapter...
- Texas Section 301.103 - Amount Of Refund; Limitation
(a) The amount of the refund allowed under this subchapter is equal to 20 percent of the total wages, up to a maximum of $10,000...
- Texas Section 301.104 - Eligibility
A person is eligible for the refund for wages paid or incurred by the person, during each calendar year for which the refund is claimed,...
- Texas Section 301.105 - Certification
A person is not eligible for the refund for wages paid or incurred by the person unless the person has received a written certification from...
- Texas Section 301.106 - Application For Refund; Issuance
(a) A person may apply for a tax refund voucher for wages paid an employee in a calendar year only on or after January 1...
- Texas Section 301.107 - Rules
(a) The commission shall adopt rules as necessary to carry out its powers and duties under this subchapter. (b) The Texas Department of Human Services...
SUBCHAPTER I CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION
- Texas Section 301.108 - Limitation On Conveyance, Assignment, Or Transfer Of Refund
A person may convey, assign, or transfer a refund under this subchapter to another person only if: (1) the employing unit is sold, conveyed, assigned,...
- Texas Section 301.151 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Director" means the director of the division. (2) "Division" means the civil rights division of the commission. (3) Repealed by Acts...
- Texas Section 301.153 - Governance; Authority
(a) The commission shall establish policies for the division and the executive director shall supervise the director in administering the activities of the division. (b)...
- Texas Section 301.154 - Director
(a) The director shall be appointed by the executive director to administer the powers and duties of the division. (b) To be eligible for appointment,...
- Texas Section 301.155 - Investigator Training Program; Procedures Manual
(a) A person who is employed under this chapter by the division as an investigator may not conduct an investigation until the person completes a...
- Texas Section 301.156 - Analysis Of Discrimination Complaints; Report
(a) The division shall collect and report statewide information relating to employment and housing discrimination complaints as required by this section. (b) Each state fiscal...
SUBCHAPTER J ADULT EDUCATION AND LITERACY
- Texas Section 301.157 - Analysis Of State Agency Discrimination Complaints; Report
(a) Each state fiscal year, the division shall collect and analyze information regarding employment discrimination complaints, other than complaints determined to be without merit, filed...
SUBCHAPTER K DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF CHILD-CARE FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE
- Texas Section 301.171 - Cooperation With Texas Education Agency To Improve Adult Education And Literacy Services
The commission shall collaborate with the Texas Education Agency to improve the coordination and implementation of adult education and literacy services in this state. Acts...
- Texas Section 301.191 - Prevention And Detection Of Child-care Fraud, Waste, And Abuse
(a) The commission shall develop risk assessment protocols to identify and assess possible instances of fraud, waste, and abuse in child-care programs, including: (1) the...
- Texas Section 301.192 - Correction Of Child-care Fraud, Waste, And Abuse
(a) The commission shall ensure that corrective action is initiated against a child-care provider who commits fraud, including: (1) temporarily or permanently withholding payments to...