Bill Text: TX SB2202 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the administration of the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2202 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2202-Comm_Sub.html
86R33253 KSD-D | ||
By: Fallon | S.B. No. 2202 | |
(Stucky) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2202: No. |
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relating to the administration of the Jobs and Education for Texans | ||
(JET) Grant Program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 134.007, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 134.007. GRANTS AWARDED TO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL | ||
DISTRICT. (a) The commission may award a grant to an independent | ||
school district under this chapter if the district has entered into | ||
a partnership with a public junior college, public technical | ||
institute, or public state college for the purpose of: | ||
(1) promoting career and technical education to the | ||
district's students; or | ||
(2) offering dual credit courses to the district's | ||
students. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), an independent school | ||
district located in a rural area of this state in which no public | ||
junior college, public technical institute, or public state college | ||
is located in close geographic proximity to the district may be | ||
awarded a grant under this chapter to provide career and technical | ||
education courses or programs to students in the district in | ||
partnership with a local manufacturing facility in the area. The | ||
commission shall adopt rules for the administration of this | ||
subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 134, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 134.009 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 134.009. BIENNIAL REPORT. (a) Not later than November | ||
1 of each even-numbered year, the commission shall prepare and | ||
submit to each standing legislative committee with primary | ||
jurisdiction over workforce development or higher education a | ||
report regarding the grant activities and grant recipients under | ||
this chapter, including the results and outcomes of grants awarded | ||
under this chapter. | ||
(b) The report must: | ||
(1) identify high-demand occupations in this state and | ||
evaluate how grants awarded under this chapter have been used to | ||
support courses or programs that prepare students for employment in | ||
those occupations; and | ||
(2) include the following data for the most recent | ||
two-year period for which the information is available, | ||
disaggregated by appropriate region as determined by the | ||
commission: | ||
(A) the number of students receiving career and | ||
technical education funded by grants awarded under this chapter; | ||
(B) the number of students attaining a | ||
certificate, a degree, or an industry certification or other | ||
workforce credential as a result of receiving career and technical | ||
education funded by grants awarded under this chapter; | ||
(C) the number of students entering the workforce | ||
who received career and technical education funded by grants | ||
awarded under this chapter; and | ||
(D) any losses or gains in manufacturing jobs and | ||
the effect of those losses or gains on workforce education needs. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |