Bill Text: TX SCR26 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Urging Congress to amend federal law to allow states to provide for the consolidation of federally funded workforce development services with federally funded social safety net services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Signed by the Governor [SCR26 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SCR26-Enrolled.html
 
 
  S.C.R. No. 26
 
 
 
 
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
  WHEREAS, The State of Texas desires to provide the most
  streamlined and consolidated customer service for those seeking
  work, unemployment benefits, or social safety net services; and
         WHEREAS, The United States Department of Labor and the
  Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) currently restrict
  the consolidation of federally funded employment and job training
  services with other federally funded services such as safety net
  services; and
         WHEREAS, In Texas, federally funded employment services and
  workforce development services are provided by local workforce
  development boards and the Texas Workforce Commission, and
  federally funded social services are provided by the Texas Health
  and Human Services Commission; and
         WHEREAS, Texans seeking assistance with employment and job
  training services, as well as social safety net services, are
  forced to seek such services at more than one location of state and
  local government agencies, with little to no consolidation or
  coordination of such services; and
         WHEREAS, The State of Texas desires to develop a
  consolidation plan for the delivery of workforce development and
  social services to its citizens in order to provide a broader and
  more streamlined delivery of services to those seeking such
  services; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas
  hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to amend
  federal law to allow states to provide for the consolidation of
  federally funded workforce development services with federally
  funded social safety net services; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
  copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
  the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
  Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the
  members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that
  this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record
  as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.C.R. No. 26 was adopted by the Senate
  on May 1, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 26, Nays 5.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.C.R. No. 26 was adopted by the House
  on May 23, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 98, Nays 38, two
  present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor
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