Bill Text: TX HB2402 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study and report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on the feasibility of providing off-campus employment positions through the Texas college work-study program.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-08 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2402-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Howard, Murphy, Anderson of Dallas | H.B. No. 2402 | |
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| relating to a study and report by the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board on the feasibility of providing off-campus | ||
| employment positions through the Texas college work-study program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 56, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 56.081 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 56.081. STUDY ON FEASIBILITY OF PROVIDING OFF-CAMPUS | ||
| WORK-STUDY EMPLOYMENT. (a) In this section, "public junior | ||
| college" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall | ||
| conduct a study to examine the feasibility of providing employment | ||
| positions located off-campus through the Texas college work-study | ||
| program. | ||
| (c) The study must identify: | ||
| (1) best practices for developing partnerships with | ||
| employers to provide off-campus employment positions through the | ||
| work-study program, including best practices learned from other | ||
| apprenticeship, internship, or mentorship programs in this state or | ||
| from similar programs in other states; | ||
| (2) any careers or industries that are well-suited for | ||
| providing off-campus employment positions through the work-study | ||
| program; | ||
| (3) current barriers that public junior colleges face | ||
| in developing partnerships with employers to provide off-campus | ||
| employment positions through the work-study program, including any | ||
| staffing needs or limitations on the outreach capabilities of those | ||
| colleges; and | ||
| (4) any public junior colleges that demonstrate strong | ||
| potential for successful participation in a pilot program to | ||
| develop partnerships with employers to provide off-campus | ||
| employment positions through the work-study program. | ||
| (d) Not later than December 1, 2016, the coordinating board | ||
| shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker | ||
| of the house of representatives, and the standing legislative | ||
| committees with primary jurisdiction over higher education a report | ||
| on the results of the study and any recommendations for legislative | ||
| or other action. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2015. | ||
