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.
Spectrum: 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. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |