Bill Text: TX HB2790 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to funding for certain apprenticeship training programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2790 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2790-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to funding for certain apprenticeship training programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2790 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2790-Comm_Sub.html
By: White (Senate Sponsor - Miles) | H.B. No. 2790 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2017; | ||
May 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; | ||
May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12, | ||
Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to funding for certain apprenticeship training programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 133.002(b), (f), and (g), Education | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) A program may be conducted by an independent | ||
apprenticeship committee or may [ |
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school district or a state postsecondary institution pursuant to a | ||
contract between the district or institution and an apprenticeship | ||
committee. | ||
(f) Funding for a program sponsored by a public school | ||
district or state postsecondary institution, in addition to any | ||
other money available, shall be provided by the apprenticeship | ||
committee pursuant to the terms of the contract referred to in | ||
Subsection (b). | ||
(g) An apprenticeship training program must provide | ||
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administer the [ |
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consistent with the public's need for skilled craftsmen and the | ||
apprentices' need for marketable skills in apprenticible | ||
occupations [ |
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SECTION 2. Sections 133.005(a) and (b), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission shall maintain a clear audit trail of all | ||
funds appropriated for the apprenticeship system of adult career | ||
and technology education. For each course that is funded, the audit | ||
trail shall include the following records: | ||
(1) the name of the sponsoring public school district | ||
or state postsecondary institution or of the apprenticeship | ||
committee offering the course if the apprenticeship training | ||
program is not sponsored by a public school district or state | ||
postsecondary institution; | ||
(2) the name of the instructor; | ||
(3) the number of students enrolled; | ||
(4) the place and schedule of class meetings; and | ||
(5) certification by the bureau for preparatory and | ||
related instruction courses that the students enrolled were | ||
registered apprentices. | ||
(b) A public school district, [ |
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state postsecondary institution, or apprenticeship committee | ||
operating an apprenticeship training program not sponsored by a | ||
public school district or state postsecondary institution that | ||
receives [ |
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audit trail which shall include records of receipts for all | ||
expenditures relating solely to each particular course. Where an | ||
expense is shared by two or more courses, the allocation to that | ||
expense from the funds for a particular course shall be supported by | ||
a formula based on the comparative benefit derived by each course | ||
from the expense. No charges for the depreciation of facilities or | ||
the retirement of indebtedness shall be allocated to an | ||
apprenticeship course. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 133.006(e), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(e) No funds shall be distributed to a public school | ||
district, [ |
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committee until the district, [ |
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filed all reports required by this chapter and by the commission. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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