By: Hughes S.C.R. No. 26
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources &
Economic Development; April 25, 2023, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; April 25, 2023, sent to printer.)
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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.
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