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      By: Blanco  S.B. No. 2603          (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2025; April 3, 2025, read   first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;   May 14, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,   Nays 0; May 14, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to cooperation by economic development program   participants with local workforce development boards.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subtitle C, Title 12, Local Government Code, is   amended by adding Chapter 399A to read as follows:   CHAPTER 399A.   MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PLANNING AND   DEVELOPMENT OF MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT           Sec.   399A.001.     COOPERATION WITH LOCAL WORKFORCE   DEVELOPMENT BOARDS. (a)   An employer who is participating in an   economic development program administered by a county or   municipality and is hiring one or more employees to fill vacancies   in the employer's open positions shall contact the local workforce   development board established under Chapter 2308, Government Code,   for the employer's workforce development area to determine whether   any participants in a career development center established by the   board under Section 2308.312, Government Code, are qualified to   fill the vacancies and consider those qualified participants when   filling the vacancies.           (b)     An employer shall give additional consideration when   filling vacancies under this section to an applicant for employment   who receives state or federal public assistance, including:                 (1)  unemployment insurance benefit payments; and                 (2)  assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *