2025 Texas Statutes
Labor Code
Title 4 - Employment Services and Unemployment
Subtitle B - Texas Workforce Commission; Workforce Development; Employment Services
Chapter 302 - Division of Workforce Development
Subchapter E. Workforce Development Evaluation System
Section 302.082. Information and Data for Evaluation System
Sec. 302.082. INFORMATION AND DATA FOR EVALUATION SYSTEM. (a) Each state agency represented on the council shall provide information to support the commission's follow-up and evaluation system as requested.
(b) Evaluation data in the system must include the following information disaggregated by race, ethnicity, sex, income, and location:
(1) placement rates;
(2) wages paid;
(3) retention in employment statistics;
(4) the number of education and training-related placements; and
(5) other appropriate factors, including public welfare dependency and the pursuit of additional education.
(c) The commission may develop a method for collecting occupational information to supplement wage record information collected by the commission under Section 204.0025. The commission may request employers, providers, and other appropriate sources to provide placement, employment, and earnings information to the commission.
(d) The commission shall ensure that:
(1) the system includes with the evaluation data a hyperlink to an Internet website where self-sufficient wage data as determined under Section 2308A.012, Government Code, is posted; and
(2) following any modernization of the evaluation system by the commission on or after September 1, 2023, the evaluation data in the system includes a comparison of self-sufficient wage data with program earnings outcomes at the first, third, and fifth anniversary of the date of program completion.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 818, Sec. 4.03, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 494 (H.B. 1703), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2023.
