Bill Text: TX HB426 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of employment applications through the online system for listing state agency employment openings maintained by the Texas Workforce Commission.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB426 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB426-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of employment applications through the online system for listing state agency employment openings maintained by the Texas Workforce Commission.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB426 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB426-Comm_Sub.html
By: Howard, Geren (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) | H.B. No. 426 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2015; | ||
May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural | ||
Resources and Economic Development; May 13, 2015, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 13, 2015, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the acceptance of employment applications through the | ||
online system for listing state agency employment openings | ||
maintained by the Texas Workforce Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 656, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 656.002 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 656.002. ONLINE STATE AGENCY EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS. | ||
(a) In this section, "state agency" does not include an institution | ||
of higher education or university system as defined by Section | ||
61.003, Education Code. | ||
(b) The online system for listing state agency employment | ||
openings maintained by the Texas Workforce Commission must allow an | ||
applicant for employment to complete a single state application | ||
online and enter the application into an online database from which | ||
the applicant may electronically send the application to multiple | ||
state agencies. | ||
(c) The Texas Workforce Commission shall: | ||
(1) prescribe a standard electronic format for the | ||
online application described by Subsection (b); and | ||
(2) ensure that the commission's online system allows | ||
an applicant to submit and a state agency to receive an online | ||
application for state agency employment. | ||
(d) A state agency shall accept an application for an | ||
employment opening from the online system maintained by the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission. | ||
(e) This section does not prohibit a state agency from | ||
accepting an application for an employment opening in a manner | ||
other than the manner described by this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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