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Committee:	House Economic Development
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Economic Development, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2000 : a report to the House of Representatives, 77th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Aerospace Commission, Texas | Economic Development, Texas Department of | Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Skills Development/Smart Jobs Fund | Spaceports | State government contracts | Unemployment benefits | Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund | Unemployment taxes | Welfare | Welfare-to-work | Workforce |
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 ec74h
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [96 pages  File size: 4,086 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Assess the strengths and weaknesses of local workforce development boards and their capacity to provide effective training and job services. Include a review of the boards' monitoring and verification of contractor performance and reports. Assess the workforce development system's effectiveness in the areas of (a) the TANF population, (b) dislocated workers, (c) persons with disabilities and (d) the high-technology workforce.
2.	Actively monitor the status of the unemployment insurance compensation trust fund. Study the mechanisms in current law designed to keep the fund in the desired range.
3.	Review current programs and examine other options for preparing students who do not seek advanced degrees for jobs in today's economy.
4.	Conduct active oversight of the agencies under the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:	House Appropriations
Title:	Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services Subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform joint report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committees on Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services : subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform, Texas House of Representatives joint interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 w457
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [84 pages  File size: 5,093 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Actively monitor the implementation of state and federal welfare reforms. Conduct a comprehensive review of the Texas Workforce Commission, including its organization, rules, plans, and spending. Establish specific goals for welfare reform and assess problems and opportunities for the attainment of these goals. (Joint with the House Committees on Economic Development and Human Services; coordinate with the Workforce Development Legislative Oversight Committee)
Committee:	House Economic Development
Title:	Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services Subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform joint interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committees on Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services : subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform, Texas House of Representatives joint interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 w457
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [84 pages  File size: 5,093 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Actively monitor the implementation of state and federal welfare reforms. Conduct a comprehensive review of the Texas Workforce Commission, including its organization, rules, plans, and spending. Establish specific goals for welfare reform and assess problems and opportunities for the attainment of those goals. (Joint with House Committees on Appropriations and Human Services; coordinate with the Workforce Development Legislative Oversight Committee)
Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services Subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform joint interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committees on Appropriations, Economic Development, and Human Services : subcommittees on Welfare and Workforce Reform, Texas House of Representatives joint interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 w457
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [84 pages  File size: 5,093 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Actively monitor the implementation of state and federal welfare reforms. Conduct a comprehensive review of the Texas Workforce Commission, including its organization, rules, plans, and spending. Establish specific goals for welfare reform and assess problems and opportunities for the attainment of those goals. (Joint with House Committees on Economic Development and Appropriations; coordinate with the Workforce Development Legislative Oversight Committee)
Committee:	Senate North American Free Trade Agreement, Interim
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	A report to the 76th Legislature.
Subjects:	Affordable housing | Border counties | Border economy | Border health | Border issues | Border transit corridors | Border transportation | Colonias | Employment | Environment | Environmental protection | Interstate Highway 35 | Job training programs | Literacy | Local Workforce Development Boards | North American Free Trade Agreement | Railroads | Traffic | Transportation | Transportation infrastructure | Unemployment | Water quality management | Water supplies | Workforce | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 n811
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [163 pages  File size: 12,556 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Evaluate the impact of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the Texas economy and determine how different segments of the economy are affected.
2.	Determine how NAFTA has affected employment and identify any employment losses or gains. Assess how the state's workforce programs have responded to any employment changes and make any necessary recommendations to improve that response.
3.	Assess the impact NAFTA is having on the state's infrastructure, including but not limited to transportation, education, housing, the environment and health and human services.
4.	Develop a statewide strategic response plan to the effects of NAFTA in Texas which identifies available and needed resources at the local, state and federal level and provides for a coordinated response.
Committee:	Joint Workforce Development, Legislative Oversight
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Workforce Development Legislative Oversight Committee report to the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the state of Texas.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Texas Workforce Development Act | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Workforce | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 w892
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [87 pages  File size: 7,570 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Monitor workforce development and cooperate with the Texas Workforce Commission in implementing the workforce system in the state. *
Committee:	House Economic Development
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on Economic Development, Texas House of Representatives interim report 1996: a report to the 75th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Economic development | Economic development corporations | Enterprise zone programs | Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Skills Development/Smart Jobs Fund | Tax incentives | Welfare-to-work | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 ec74h
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [86 pages  File size: 3,811 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the effectiveness of Reinvestment Zones, Enterprise Zones and Enterprise Projects, including the number of businesses in each, the relationship between investment required and benefit received and the impact of previous legislation.
2.	Study the differences between 4A and 4B economic development corporations, particularly whether each type should be allowed to invest in projects currently exclusive to the other.
3.	Conduct active oversight of agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction, including the consolidation of job training programs in the Texas Workforce Commission; problems associated with any reduction in federal job training funds; and on-going implementation of the Smart Jobs program.
Committee:	Joint Workforce Development, Legislative Oversight
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Work in progress : a report.
Subjects:	Job training programs | Local Workforce Development Boards | Welfare-to-work | Workforce | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 w892
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [92 pages  File size: 3,793 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	The report must include identification of significant problems in the workforce development system, with recommendations for action by the chair, the executive director, and the commission.
2.	the status of the effectiveness of the workforce development system to provide necessary services to workers and employers of this state, with recommendations for any necessary research; and
3.	recommendations for legislative action.

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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