| 1 | 1 | | By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 1967 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic |
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| 4 | 4 | | Development; May 16, 2013, reported favorably by the following |
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| 5 | 5 | | vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 16, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to use of sales and use tax proceeds by certain economic |
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| 11 | 11 | | development corporations for certain job-related skills training. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 501, Local Government |
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| 14 | 14 | | Code, is amended by adding Section 501.163 to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | Sec. 501.163. USE OF TAX REVENUE FOR JOB-RELATED SKILLS |
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| 16 | 16 | | TRAINING BY CERTAIN CORPORATIONS. (a) This section applies only to |
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| 17 | 17 | | a corporation the creation of which was authorized by a |
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| 18 | 18 | | municipality that: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (1) has a population of 10,000 or more; |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2) is located in a county bordering the Gulf of Mexico |
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| 21 | 21 | | or the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; and |
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| 22 | 22 | | (3) has, or is included in a metropolitan statistical |
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| 23 | 23 | | area of this state that has, an unemployment rate that averaged at |
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| 24 | 24 | | least two percent above the state average for the most recent two |
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| 25 | 25 | | consecutive years for which statistics are available. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (b) A corporation may spend tax revenue received under this |
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| 27 | 27 | | subtitle for job training that consists of: |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) providing job-related life skills sufficient to |
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| 29 | 29 | | enable an unemployed individual to obtain employment; and |
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| 30 | 30 | | (2) providing job training skills sufficient to enable |
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| 31 | 31 | | an unemployed individual to obtain employment. |
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| 32 | 32 | | (c) A corporation to which this section applies may contract |
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| 33 | 33 | | with any person to provide the job training authorized under this |
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| 34 | 34 | | section. |
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| 35 | 35 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 36 | 36 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 37 | 37 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 38 | 38 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 39 | 39 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 40 | 40 | | * * * * * |
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