Sec. 29.255. FUNDING

(a) Funds shall be appropriated to implement statewide adult basic education, adult bilingual education, high school equivalency, and high school credit programs to eliminate illiteracy in this state and to implement and support a statewide program to meet the total range of adult needs for adult education, related skill training, and pilot programs to demonstrate the effectiveness of the community education concept. The agency shall ensure that public local education agencies, public nonprofit agencies, and community-based organizations have direct and equitable access to those funds. An additional sum of money may be appropriated to the Texas Department of Commerce for the purpose of skill training in direct support of industrial expansion and start-up, and those locations, industries, and occupations designated by the Texas Department of Commerce, when such training is also in support of the basic purposes of this subchapter. To fulfill the basic purposes of this subchapter, an additional sum of money may be appropriated for skill training that is conducted to support the expansion of civilian employment opportunities on United States military reservations.

(b) The agency, in conjunction with the Texas Department of Commerce, may adopt rules to administer skill training programs for which the agency is responsible, and the Texas Department of Commerce may adopt rules to administer skill training programs for which it is responsible.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.