Bill Text: TX SB337 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the award of grants by the Texas Workforce Commission to facilitate the participation of certain veterans and military personnel in apprenticeship training programs.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-30 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB337 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB337-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 337 | ||
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| relating to the award of grants by the Texas Workforce Commission to | ||
| facilitate the participation of certain veterans and military | ||
| personnel in apprenticeship training programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 302, Labor Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 302.00341 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 302.00341. GRANTS TO FACILITATE PARTICIPATION IN | ||
| APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING PROGRAMS BY CERTAIN VETERANS AND MILITARY | ||
| PERSONNEL. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Apprenticeship training program" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 133.001, Education Code. | ||
| (2) "Nonprofit organization" means an organization | ||
| exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(a), Internal | ||
| Revenue Code of 1986, as an organization described by Section | ||
| 501(c)(3) of that code. | ||
| (b) The commission shall develop and administer a program | ||
| under which the commission may award grants to one or more nonprofit | ||
| organizations that facilitate the participation in apprenticeship | ||
| training programs of veterans and active duty military service | ||
| members who are transitioning into civilian employment. | ||
| (c) A grant awarded under this section may be used only to | ||
| recruit or assist veterans or active duty military service members | ||
| who are transitioning into civilian employment to participate in an | ||
| apprenticeship training program in this state. | ||
| (d) The commission shall adopt rules for the administration | ||
| of this section, including rules for verifying that state funds | ||
| awarded to a nonprofit organization under this section are being | ||
| used appropriately. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Workforce Commission shall adopt rules under | ||
| Section 302.00341, Labor Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. The Texas Workforce Commission is required to | ||
| implement this Act only if the legislature appropriates money | ||
| specifically for that purpose. If the legislature does not | ||
| appropriate money specifically for that purpose, the commission | ||
| may, but is not required to, implement this Act using other | ||
| appropriations available for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 337 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 337 passed the House on | ||
| May 13, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 114, Nays 29, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
