Texas Labor Code Title 4, Chapter 302 - Division Of Workforce Development

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 302.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Director" means the director of the division. (2) "Division" means the division of workforce development of the commission. (3) "Nonrecipient parent"...
• Texas Section 302.002 - General Workforce Development Powers And Duties Of Commission And Executive Director
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.0025 - Employment Plan And Postemployment Strategies
  (a) The commission shall ensure that an individual employment plan developed for a recipient of financial assistance or a nonrecipient parent participating in an employment...
• Texas Section 302.0026 - Employment Services Referral Program
  (a) The commission and local workforce development boards shall develop an employment services referral program for recipients of financial assistance and nonrecipient parents who participate...
• Texas Section 302.0027 - Financial Literacy Training
  (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)...
• Texas Section 302.003 - Job Retention And Reemployment Assistance
  The division may provide ongoing job retention and reemployment assistance for a recipient of public assistance or nonrecipient parent who has participated in a job...
• Texas Section 302.0031 - College Credit For Heroes Program
  (a) In this section, "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code. (b) The commission shall establish and administer the...
• Texas Section 302.0032 - Texas Fast Start Program
  (a) In this section: (1) "Fast start program" means a career and technical education program designed to help students earn postsecondary certificates and degrees and...
• Texas Section 302.0034 - Employment Assistance Program For Certain Families Of Military Personnel
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.0035 - Employment Assistance Program For Certain Parents
  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...
• Texas Section 302.0036 - Transportation Assistance
  (a) To the extent funds are available, the commission and local workforce development boards shall provide transportation assistance to recipients of financial assistance and nonrecipient...
• Texas Section 302.0037 - Maximizing Federal Funds For Transportation Assistance
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.0038 - Housing Resources For Certain Recipients Of Financial Assistance And Certain Nonrecipient Parents
  (a) The commission, in cooperation with local workforce development boards, shall, for a recipient of financial assistance or nonrecipient parent participating in an employment program...
• Texas Section 302.004 - Funds For Job Training, Employment Services, Adult Education And Literacy Activities, And Child Care
  In providing job training, employment services, adult education and literacy services, and child care to eligible persons, the commission, notwithstanding the provisions in this chapter...
• Texas Section 302.0041 - Child-care Demonstration Project Grants
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.0042 - Evaluation Of Allocation Formulas For Child Care Development Funds
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.0043 - Evaluation Of Effectiveness Of Subsidized Child Care Program
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.00435 - Subsidized Child Care Program; Input Policy
  The commission shall develop a policy for obtaining, through appropriate methods, input from interested parties regarding its subsidized child care program and for using that...
• Texas Section 302.0044 - Wage Tracking Of Tanf Choices Program Recipients
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.0045 - Quality Initiatives By Commission
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.0046 - Notice Regarding Termination Of Certain Child-care Services
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.0047 - Electronic Validation Of Child-care Services And Attendance
  If feasible, the commission shall use an electronic validation system to ensure that parents verify that a provider of relative child care is providing care...
• Texas Section 302.005 - Child-care Training Center Pilot Programs
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.006 - Professional Child-care Training Scholarships, Bonuses, And Wage Supplementation
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.007 - Report On Trade Adjustment Programs
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.008 - Statewide Technology Workforce Campaign
  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...
• Texas Section 302.009 - Job Placement Incentive Program
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.010 - Postemployment Services Guidelines
  (a) The commission by rule shall develop guidelines under which local workforce development boards provide postemployment services to a recipient of financial assistance or nonrecipient...
• Texas Section 302.011 - Postemployment Case Management And Mentoring
  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...
• Texas Section 302.012 - Monitoring Of Employment History Of Certain Former Recipients Of Public 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...
• Texas Section 302.013 - Local Workforce Development Board Advisory Committee
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.014 - Employment Information For Secondary School Students
  (a) The commission shall provide the Texas Education Agency with information at least each quarter regarding current and projected employment opportunities in this state, disaggregated...
• Texas Section 302.015 - Provision Of Employment Services To Certain Nonrecipient Parents
  The commission shall provide employment services, including needs assessment, job training, postemployment, and related support services, to nonrecipient parents to the same extent the services...
• Texas Section 302.016 - Rules Regarding Private Sector Prison Industries Programs
  The commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement Section 497.0596(a)(4), Government Code. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1282 (H.B. 1914), Sec. 19,...
• Texas Section 302.017 - Peace Officer Employment Opportunity Internet Website
  (a) In this section, "peace officer" has the meaning assigned by Section 1701.001, Occupations Code. (b) The commission shall develop, maintain, and promote a statewide...

SUBCHAPTER B JURISDICTION OF DIVISION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

• Texas Section 302.019 - Occupational Shortage Study; Report
  (a) The commission shall gather and study information relating to existing and projected shortages in high-wage, high-demand occupations in this state. The study conducted by...
• Texas Section 302.021 - Consolidation Of Workforce Development Programs
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.022 - Client Accessibility
  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...

SUBCHAPTER C STATE-LOCAL PLANNING; LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS

• Texas Section 302.023 - Delegation Of Functions
  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...
• Texas Section 302.041 - State-local Planning Process
  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....
• Texas Section 302.042 - Review Of Local Plans; Recommendations
  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...
• Texas Section 302.043 - Training For Local Workforce Development Board Members
  (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,...
• Texas Section 302.044 - Outreach Activities
  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...
• Texas Section 302.045 - Sanctions Plan
  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...
• Texas Section 302.046 - Plan Regarding Lack Of Service Providers
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.047 - Flexibility Rating System For Commission Directives
  (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...

SUBCHAPTER D ALLOCATION OF FUNDS; BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM

• Texas Section 302.048 - Assessment Of Local Workforce Development Board's Capacity To Oversee And Manage Local Funds And Delivery Of Services
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.061 - Administration Funding
  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...
• Texas Section 302.062 - Block Grants To Local Workforce Development Areas
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.063 - Waivers
  The commission shall develop objective criteria for the granting of waivers allowed under this chapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 655, Sec. 11.03,...
• Texas Section 302.064 - Collaboration With Local Boards
  (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...

SUBCHAPTER E WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION SYSTEM

• Texas Section 302.065 - Integration Of Block Grant Programs And Workforce Services
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.081 - Maintenance And Operation Of Workforce Development Evaluation System
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.082 - Information And Data For Evaluation System
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.083 - Analysis
  (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...
• Texas Section 302.084 - Use By Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  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...
• Texas Section 302.085 - Use By Council And Workforce Development Board
  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...

SUBCHAPTER F EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING INVESTMENT ASSESSMENT

• Texas Section 302.086 - Use Of Evaluation System
  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...

SUBCHAPTER G PRIORITY OF SERVICE IN JOB TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

• Texas Section 302.101 - Training Stabilization Fund
  (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 Section 302.151 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Active military, naval, or air service" has the meaning assigned by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(24). (2) "Covered person" has the meaning...
• Texas Section 302.152 - Priority Of Service Required
  (a) A covered person is entitled to priority in obtaining services or resources under this subchapter. In the implementation of this section, a covered person...
• Texas Section 302.153 - Participation In State-funded Programs
  In selecting applicants to receive training or assistance under a job training or employment assistance program or service that is funded wholly or partly with...
• Texas Section 302.154 - Participation In Texas Veterans Commission Programs
  (a) The Texas Veterans Commission shall operate programs funded under 38 U.S.C. Chapters 41 and 42. The commission may provide services to enhance the employment...

Last modified: September 28, 2016