Bill Text: TX HB1608 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to creating a pilot program to provide summer internships for foster youth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB1608 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1608-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to creating a pilot program to provide summer internships for foster youth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB1608 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1608-Introduced.html
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By: Minjarez | H.B. No. 1608 |
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relating to creating a pilot program to provide summer internships | ||
for foster children. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 264, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 264.1251 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 264.1251. SUMMER INTERNSHIP PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
department shall establish a summer internship pilot program that | ||
provides foster children with the opportunity to develop marketable | ||
job skills and obtain professional work experience through a summer | ||
internship with a participating business, nonprofit organization, | ||
or governmental entity. | ||
(b) The department may collaborate with other state | ||
agencies, as appropriate, to establish the pilot program. The | ||
pilot program may be implemented in more than one department | ||
region. | ||
(c) The department may enter into an agreement with one or | ||
more entities described by Subsection (a) to allow the entity to | ||
award internships to children who participate in the pilot program. | ||
Internships provided under the pilot program may be paid or unpaid. | ||
(d) Not later than April 1 of each year, the department | ||
shall select foster children or former foster children who are 15 | ||
years of age or older to participate in the pilot program. Each | ||
child participating in the pilot program shall enter into an | ||
agreement with the organization awarding the internship and the | ||
department relating to the terms of the child's internship. | ||
(e) The department shall complete an evaluation of the pilot | ||
program not later than the second anniversary of the date the | ||
program begins. | ||
(f) The department shall submit a report on the evaluation | ||
of the pilot program to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and | ||
the speaker of the house of representatives. The report must | ||
include: | ||
(1) the number of children who participated in the | ||
pilot program; | ||
(2) the location and type of internships provided | ||
under the pilot program; and | ||
(3) details of the department's efforts to recruit | ||
eligible children to participate in the pilot program. | ||
(g) The executive commissioner may adopt rules necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
(h) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2018, the Department of | ||
Family and Protective Services shall establish the pilot program | ||
required by Section 264.1251, Family Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |