Bill Text: TX SB563 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the efficiency of the operations of, and certain information regarding services provided by, the Texas Workforce Commission; providing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB563 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB563-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 563 |
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relating to the efficiency of the operations of, and certain | ||
information regarding services provided by, the Texas Workforce | ||
Commission; providing a criminal penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 301, Labor Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 301.068 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 301.068. EFFICIENCY PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
commission shall establish a pilot program to: | ||
(1) improve the efficiency and quality of commission | ||
operations while reducing costs; and | ||
(2) adopt a structured approach for identifying the | ||
wasteful use of state resources and improving commission processes. | ||
(b) In implementing the pilot program, the commission shall | ||
use: | ||
(1) a methodology that includes a define, measure, | ||
analyze, improve, and control structure for reviewing project | ||
management; | ||
(2) a continuous improvement technique that: | ||
(A) identifies value and a value stream; | ||
(B) creates a flow for activities; | ||
(C) allows consumers to pull products or services | ||
through the process; and | ||
(D) allows for the process to be perfected over | ||
time; and | ||
(3) a measurement system analysis to evaluate data. | ||
(c) Not later than August 1, 2012, the commission shall | ||
submit a written report on the effectiveness of the pilot program to | ||
the: | ||
(1) governor; | ||
(2) lieutenant governor; | ||
(3) speaker of the house of representatives; | ||
(4) Senate Committee on Government Organization; | ||
(5) House Government Efficiency and Reform Committee; | ||
and | ||
(6) house and senate committees with primary | ||
jurisdiction over state affairs. | ||
(d) The commission shall implement the pilot program from | ||
available funds that may be used for that purpose. | ||
(e) A state agency, other than the commission, may implement | ||
the pilot program established under this section with respect to | ||
the agency. An agency that implements the pilot program shall: | ||
(1) submit the written report in the time and manner | ||
described by Subsection (c); and | ||
(2) use available resources to fund the pilot program. | ||
(f) A report required by this section may be submitted | ||
electronically. | ||
(g) This section expires September 1, 2013. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 301.085, Labor Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 301.085. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION AND JOB MATCHING | ||
SERVICES INFORMATION; OFFENSE; PENALTY. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 301.085, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (c), and (d) and adding Subsection (b-1) | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Job matching services information" means | ||
information in the records of the commission that pertains to the | ||
commission's job matching services provided to employers and job | ||
seekers through the Internet, workforce centers, or other means. | ||
(2) "Unemployment[ |
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information" means information in the records of the commission | ||
that pertains to the administration of Subtitle A, including any | ||
information collected, received, developed, or maintained in the | ||
administration of unemployment compensation benefits or the | ||
unemployment compensation tax system. | ||
(b-1) The commission shall adopt and enforce reasonable | ||
rules governing the confidentiality, custody, use, preservation, | ||
and disclosure of job matching services information. The rules | ||
must include safeguards to protect the confidentiality of | ||
identifying information regarding any individual or any past or | ||
present employer or employing unit contained in job matching | ||
services information, including any information that foreseeably | ||
could be combined with other publicly available information to | ||
reveal identifying information regarding the individual, employer, | ||
or employing unit, as applicable. | ||
(c) Unemployment compensation information and job matching | ||
services information are [ |
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of Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
(d) Unless permitted by this subchapter or commission rule, | ||
a person commits an offense if the person solicits, discloses, | ||
receives, or uses, or authorizes, permits, participates in, or | ||
acquiesces in another person's use of, unemployment compensation | ||
information or job matching services information that reveals: | ||
(1) identifying information regarding any individual | ||
or past or present employer or employing unit; or | ||
(2) information that foreseeably could be combined | ||
with other publicly available information to reveal identifying | ||
information regarding any individual or past or present employer or | ||
employing unit. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 563 passed the Senate on | ||
March 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; | ||
May 25, 2011, Senate refused to concur in House amendment and | ||
requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 26, 2011, House | ||
granted request of the Senate; May 28, 2011, Senate adopted | ||
Conference Committee Report by the following vote: Yeas 31, | ||
Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 563 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, | ||
Nays 0, one present not voting; May 26, 2011, House granted request | ||
of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee; | ||
May 28, 2011, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, two present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |