Bill Text: TX HB1949 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the criteria for awarding adult education and literacy program performance incentive funds.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1949 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1949-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1949 | ||
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| relating to the criteria for awarding adult education and literacy | ||
| program performance incentive funds. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 315.007, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The criteria prescribed under Subsection (b)(1) for the | ||
| award of funds to entities described by Subsection (a) based on | ||
| performance during a program year must include the achievement by | ||
| an entity of the following enrollment target and performance | ||
| benchmarks: | ||
| (1) the enrollment in a high school equivalency | ||
| program or a postsecondary ability to benefit program of at least 25 | ||
| percent of all students receiving adult education and literacy | ||
| services from the entity during that program year; and | ||
| (2) the achievement by the end of that program year of | ||
| a high school equivalency certificate or a postsecondary | ||
| certificate by at least 70 percent of those students who exit the | ||
| entity's adult education program during that program year and who | ||
| are enrolled in a high school equivalency program or a | ||
| postsecondary ability to benefit program. | ||
| (d) The process developed under this section must require | ||
| the members of the commission to approve the award of any funds | ||
| under this chapter. | ||
| (e) | ||
| In this section, "postsecondary ability to benefit | ||
| program" means a postsecondary certificate program in which a | ||
| person who does not have a high school diploma or equivalency | ||
| certificate and who both qualifies for federal student financial | ||
| aid and demonstrates on an assessment instrument that the person | ||
| can pass college-level courses with some support may enroll. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1949 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1949 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, | ||
| 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1949 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 19, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
