Bill Text: TX HB2423 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-13 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2423 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2423-Introduced.html
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By: Anderson of Dallas | H.B. No. 2423 |
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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. |