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1999 SESSION
HB 2597 Public assistance; vocational training.
Introduced by: Dwight Clinton Jones | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Public assistance. Provides that local departments of social services may place a VIEW participant, subject to his consent, in a vocational educational program targeted to skills required for local employment if the participant is in need of job skills and would benefit from immediate job skills training. The participant would be exempt from the job search requirement if he has two of the following criteria: (i) less than a high school education, (ii) reading or math skills at or below the eighth grade level, (iii) not retained a job for six months in the prior two-year period, or (iv) is undergoing treatment for substance abuse or family violence. The program shall be for a minimum of 30 hours per week and the participant shall be required to work an average of eight hours per week during the program. Prior to placing the VIEW participant in the vocational educational program, the local department shall have a memorandum of understanding with an employer that the participant may be placed, if qualified and the employer has an opening, in a job with the employer.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 993221310 pdf
- 02/08/99 House: Committee substitute printed 993249310-H1 pdf
HISTORY
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 993221310
- 01/21/99 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/26/99 House: Assigned to H. W. I. sub-committee: 3
- 02/06/99 House: Reported from H. W. I. w/substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/99 House: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/99 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/08/99 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/08/99 House: Committee substitute printed 993249310-H1
- 02/09/99 House: Read second time
- 02/09/99 House: Committee substitute agreed to 993249310-H1
- 02/09/99 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 993249310-H1
- 02/09/99 House: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/99 House: Passed House (96-Y 1-N)
- 02/09/99 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (96-Y 1-N)
- 02/09/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/11/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/19/99 Senate: No action taken by Rehabilitation and Social Services by voice vote