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2025 · Regular session · Senate bill

SB1143

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Official caption: Relating to certain planning and evaluation requirements with respect to certain workforce development programs in this state.

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Bill highlights

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SB1143 requires local workforce plans to set specific goals, objectives and performance measures for people ages 14–24, and requires the Texas Workforce Commission to evaluate its federally funded youth programs annually.
The annual evaluation must examine program effectiveness and best practices for meeting employers’ current and projected needs and serving young people.
The commission must make the evaluation, collected information and findings readily available to the listed education and workforce organizations, employers and the public.
Signed May 27, 2025, the law took effect September 1, 2025.

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What does it do?

SB1143 requires local workforce plans to set specific goals, objectives and performance measures for people ages 14–24, and requires the Texas Workforce Commission to evaluate its federally funded youth programs annually. Local boards already had planning duties; the act adds an explicit focus on this age group. The covered federal programs are youth workforce-development programs funded under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. This is a planning and accountability law, not a new guarantee that every person in that age group qualifies for a service or receives a job. Final law, sections 1–2; Prior local-plan statute.

The annual evaluation must examine program effectiveness and best practices for meeting employers’ current and projected needs and serving young people. It must include the total percentage of covered program funds spent on employment, school reenrollment and participation in postsecondary or technical education or the military; counts of young people assisted; local counts of eligible people, people served and active covered providers; and assessments of boards’ use of workforce funds. It also requires examples of coordination with education agencies and institutions, child-protection officials, employers and service providers. Final law, new Labor Code 302.087(b)–(c).

The commission must make the evaluation, collected information and findings readily available to the listed education and workforce organizations, employers and the public. A separate report to the legislature is due by January 15 of each odd-numbered year. It must include the required evaluation information, employment outcomes by workforce area, identifiable multiyear trends and recommendations for legislative or regulatory action. Annual evaluation does not mean an annual legislative-report deadline. Final law, section 302.087(d)–(e).

Signed May 27, 2025, the law took effect September 1, 2025. Official history; Final law, section 3.

What changed along the way?

The introduced bill focused on ages 16–24 and the commission’s workforce-development program more broadly. The Senate substitute lowered the age floor to 14 and defined and focused the effectiveness evaluation on federally funded youth programs. It also changed the spending measure from separate percentages to a total percentage and removed the express reference to best practices for allocating funds to and by boards. Those changes survived passage. The substitute, engrossed and House committee operative text match. Introduced text; Senate substitute; All versions; Final law.

The sole indexed floor amendment, Talarico’s House amendment adopted May 5, removed proposed section 2. That section would have required a governmental entity approving a financial incentive estimated to create at least 100 jobs to notify the commission and affected local boards within 30 days, including job numbers, start dates and needed skills. That notice rule did not become law in SB1143. The Senate concurred May 12; the final text retains the youth planning and evaluation provisions. House committee text; Adopted amendment; Amendment index; History; Final law.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Young people, employers and lawmakers may benefit from clearer local goals and information about whom programs reach and what employment results they produce. Boards and the commission must supply or assemble the required information and analysis. These are accountability tools: the act does not itself appropriate a new youth benefit, set a funding quota, guarantee better employment outcomes or enact the deleted incentive-notice requirement. Final law.

All four indexed fiscal notes anticipate no significant state or local fiscal implication and assume implementation costs can be absorbed with existing resources. The May 6 as-passed note therefore should not be read as a promise of zero administrative work, or as a measured estimate of future earnings or savings. Introduced fiscal note; Substitute fiscal note; As-passed fiscal note; Final indexed fiscal note.

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