By: Powell, Eckhardt S.B. No. 337
Hinojosa
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.