Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 31.0128 · Subchapter A. ELIGIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND SERVICES
COORDINATED INTERAGENCY PLAN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission and the Texas Workforce Commission shall jointly develop a memorandum of understanding establishing guidelines for a coordinated interagency case management plan to:
(1) identify each recipient of financial assistance who has, in comparison to other recipients, higher levels of barriers to employment; and
(2) provide coordinated services that address those barriers to assist the recipient in finding and retaining employment.
(b) The commission and the Texas Workforce Commission shall:
(1) jointly develop a memorandum of understanding that establishes a coordinated interagency case management plan consistent with the guidelines established under Subsection (a); and
(2) using existing resources, implement in accordance with agency rules the plan to the maximum extent possible through local offices of the agency in local workforce development areas in which a local workforce development board is not established.
(c) The executive commissioner and the Texas Workforce Commission by rule shall adopt the memoranda of understanding required by this section and all revisions to the memoranda.
(d) In a local workforce development area in which a local workforce development board is established, the Texas Workforce Commission shall require in the contract between the Texas Workforce Commission and the board that the board, in cooperation with local Health and Human Services Commission offices, develop and implement a coordinated interagency case management plan consistent with the guidelines established under Subsection (a).
(e) On the formulation of recommendations and strategies by the Health and Human Services Commission under Section 31.0129(b), the commission and the Texas Workforce Commission shall, as necessary, revise and update a memorandum of understanding and coordinated interagency case management plan under this section to include the recommendations and strategies.
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History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 84, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1169, Sec. 12, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.060, eff. April 2, 2015.
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