Bill Text: TX HB3003 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through Education (TRUE) Program to support workforce education at two-year public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-28 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3003 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3003-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through Education (TRUE) Program to support workforce education at two-year public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-28 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3003 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3003-Introduced.html
87R6478 CXP-F | ||
By: Parker | H.B. No. 3003 |
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relating to the establishment of the Texas Reskilling and | ||
Upskilling through Education (TRUE) Initiative to support | ||
workforce education at public junior colleges. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subchapter T-2 to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER T-2. TEXAS RESKILLING AND UPSKILLING THROUGH EDUCATION | ||
(TRUE) INITIATIVE | ||
Sec. 61.881. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "initiative" | ||
means the Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through Education (TRUE) | ||
Initiative established under this subchapter. | ||
Sec. 61.882. INITIATIVE: ESTABLISHMENT; ADMINISTRATION; | ||
PURPOSE. (a) The Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through | ||
Education (TRUE) Initiative is established. | ||
(b) The board shall administer the initiative in accordance | ||
with this subchapter and rules adopted under this subchapter. | ||
(c) Under the initiative, using funds appropriated or | ||
otherwise available for the purpose, the board shall award grants | ||
to public junior colleges for creating, redesigning, or expanding | ||
workforce training programs that lead to postsecondary industry | ||
certifications or other workforce credentials required for | ||
high-demand occupations. | ||
Sec. 61.883. USE OF GRANT. (a) A grant awarded to a public | ||
junior college under this subchapter may be used only for the | ||
support and maintenance of educational and general activities that | ||
promote workforce learning at the college, including: | ||
(1) providing training in new or redesigned | ||
accelerated programs that teach high-demand skills and lead to | ||
postsecondary industry certifications or other workforce | ||
credentials valued in growing occupations that pay a living wage; | ||
(2) developing new industry-aligned, high-demand | ||
postsecondary industry certifications or other workforce | ||
credentials and certificate programs or other courses of | ||
instruction leading to those certifications or credentials; and | ||
(3) expanding institutional capacity to provide | ||
high-demand postsecondary industry certifications or other | ||
workforce credentials for target occupations included on regional | ||
or statewide target occupations lists established by appropriate | ||
workforce agencies. | ||
(b) Money received by a public junior college under the | ||
grant program in a fiscal year that is not used by the college in | ||
that fiscal year may be held and used by the college in subsequent | ||
fiscal years for the purposes prescribed in this section. | ||
Sec. 61.884. RECOGNIZED CERTIFICATIONS OR CREDENTIALS. (a) | ||
The board, in collaboration with public junior colleges, the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission, and private employers, shall identify new | ||
high-demand skills needed to earn postsecondary industry | ||
certifications or other workforce credentials valued in | ||
high-demand occupations. | ||
(b) The board, in consultation with public junior colleges, | ||
shall: | ||
(1) identify new postsecondary industry | ||
certifications or other workforce credentials developed using | ||
grant funds under the initiative; and | ||
(2) establish methods for collecting and reporting | ||
data related to the certifications or credentials identified under | ||
Subdivision (1). | ||
(c) A public junior college awarded a grant under this | ||
subchapter may recommend outcomes related to the achievement or | ||
development of postsecondary industry certifications or other | ||
workforce credentials identified under this section to be | ||
considered by the board for inclusion in the state's long-range | ||
master plan for higher education developed under Section 61.051. | ||
(d) In devising its funding formulas and making its | ||
recommendations to the legislature relating to institutional | ||
appropriations of funds for public junior colleges under Section | ||
61.059, the board shall incorporate the consideration of the | ||
achievement or development of postsecondary industry | ||
certifications and other workforce credentials identified under | ||
this section. | ||
Sec. 61.885. GRANTS, GIFTS, AND DONATIONS. The board may | ||
solicit, accept, and spend grants, gifts, and donations from any | ||
public or private source for the purposes of this subchapter. | ||
Sec. 61.886. RULES. The board shall adopt rules for the | ||
administration of this subchapter, including rules requiring | ||
public junior colleges awarded a grant under this subchapter to | ||
report necessary information to the board. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board shall adopt rules to administer Subchapter T-2, Chapter 61, | ||
Education Code, as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after | ||
the effective date of this Act. | ||
(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall | ||
award grants to public junior colleges under Subchapter T-2, | ||
Chapter 61, Education Code, as added by this Act, beginning with the | ||
2022 fall semester. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2021. |