Bill Text: TX HB426 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of employment applications through the online system for listing state agency employment openings maintained by the Texas Workforce Commission.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB426 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB426-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 426 | ||
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| relating to the acceptance of employment applications through the | ||
| online system for listing state agency employment openings | ||
| maintained by the Texas Workforce Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 656, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 656.002 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 656.002. ONLINE STATE AGENCY EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS. | ||
| (a) In this section, "state agency" does not include an institution | ||
| of higher education or university system as defined by Section | ||
| 61.003, Education Code. | ||
| (b) The online system for listing state agency employment | ||
| openings maintained by the Texas Workforce Commission must allow an | ||
| applicant for employment to complete a single state application | ||
| online and enter the application into an online database from which | ||
| the applicant may electronically send the application to multiple | ||
| state agencies. | ||
| (c) The Texas Workforce Commission shall: | ||
| (1) prescribe a standard electronic format for the | ||
| online application described by Subsection (b); and | ||
| (2) ensure that the commission's online system allows | ||
| an applicant to submit and a state agency to receive an online | ||
| application for state agency employment. | ||
| (d) A state agency shall accept an application for an | ||
| employment opening from the online system maintained by the Texas | ||
| Workforce Commission. | ||
| (e) This section does not prohibit a state agency from | ||
| accepting an application for an employment opening in a manner | ||
| other than the manner described by this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 426 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 426 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
