Bill Text: TX HB441 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Workforce Commission to pay the cost of taking a high school equivalency examination for certain individuals.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [HB441 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB441-Comm_Sub.html

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86R20012 LED-F
By: Bernal, Anchia H.B. No. 441
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 441:
By: Blanco C.S.H.B. No. 441

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring the Texas Workforce Commission to pay the
cost of taking a high school equivalency examination for certain
individuals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 315.002, Labor Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) For an individual who is 21 years of age or older, the
commission shall pay the cost of taking one complete high school
equivalency examination administered under Section 7.111,
Education Code, and made available by a test vendor approved and
contracted by the State Board of Education, including an
examination that is administered in multiple parts.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.