Texas Labor Code
§ 302.0032 — TEXAS FAST START PROGRAM
LA § 302.0032Title 4. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT · Part B. TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT SERVICES · Ch. 302. DIVISION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section:
(1)"Fast start program" means a career and technical education program designed to help students earn postsecondary certificates and degrees and enter into the workforce quickly.
(2)"Public junior college," "public state college," and "public technical institute" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.
(b)The commission, in partnership with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, shall establish and administer the Texas Fast Start Program to identify and develop methods to support, and shall provide support for, competency-based, rapid-deployment education delivery models for use by public junior colleges, public state colleges, and public technical institutes. The models must be designed to assist students in maximizing academic or workforce education program credit from public junior colleges, public state colleges, and public technical institutes to expedite the entry of those students into the workforce.
(c)The commission shall work collaboratively with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, public junior colleges, public state colleges, and public technical institutes to accomplish the purposes of this section.
(d)A public junior college, public state college, or public technical institute may use the competency-based, rapid-deployment education delivery models described by Subsection (b) in developing or expanding a fast start program at the college or institute.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 216 (S.B. 441), Sec. 1, eff. June 10, 2013.