TX Lab Code § 303.006 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Labor Code|Title 4 - Employment Services and Unemployment|Subtitle B - Texas Workforce Commission; Workforce Development; Employment Services|Chapter 303 - Skills Development Fund|Section 303.006. Reporting Requirements

Sec. 303.006.  REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.  (a)  In this section:(1)  "Employee" means an individual who performs services for another under a contract of hire, whether express or implied, or oral or written.(2)  "Employer" means a person that employs one or more employees.(3)  "Existing employer" means an employer that:(A)  has been liable to pay contributions under Subtitle A, Title 4, for more than one year;(B)  has employees;  and(C)  is in compliance with the reporting and payment requirements of Subtitle A, Title 4, as determined by the Texas Workforce Commission.(4)  "In-kind contribution" means a noncash contribution of goods and services provided by an employer as all or part of the employer's matching share of a grant or project.(5)  "Job" means employment on a basis customarily considered full-time for the applicable occupation and industry.(6)  "Large employer" means a business entity that employs at least 500 employees.(7)  "Medium employer" means a business entity that employs more than 99 but fewer than 500 employees.(8)  "Micro-employer" means a business entity that employs not more than 20 employees.(9)  "Program" means the skills development fund program created under this chapter.(10)  "Small employer" means a business entity that employs more than 20 but fewer than 100 employees.(11)  "Trainee" means a participant in a project funded under this chapter.(12)  "Wages" means all forms of compensation or remuneration, excluding benefits, payable for a specific period to an employee for personal services rendered by that employee.(b)  In implementing provisions under this section regarding the classification of this state into regions, the executive director shall use the uniform service regions established by the comptroller under Section 120, Article V, Chapter 19, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991 (the General Appropriations Act).(c)  The commission shall include in the commission's supplemental annual report to the governor and the legislature under Section 301.065(c) a report on the status of the program established under this chapter.(d)  The annual report must include for that fiscal year:(1)  the total number of applications submitted, the total number of applications approved, and the total number of applications rejected by region of the state;(2)  the average and median weekly wage levels of trainees under this chapter entering or returning to the workforce, broken down by:(A)  current employees undergoing retraining;(B)  new hires;  and(C)  region of the state;(3)  the average and median weekly wage levels of trainees under this chapter entering or returning to the workforce, broken down by region of the state;(4)  the number and percentage of trainees covered by health care insurance coverage, workers' compensation insurance coverage, and other analogous benefit programs;(5)  the total amount of money awarded in each region of the state and the percentage that amount represents of the total amount of money awarded on a statewide basis;(6)  a comparison of the percentage of total dollars awarded to each region versus each region's percentage of:(A)  the state's population;(B)  the civilian labor force;(C)  the number of unemployed persons;  and(D)  the number of qualified grant applications submitted to the commission by public community and technical colleges;(7)  the total amount of money awarded to micro-employers, small employers, medium employers, and large employers, reported by region of the state;  and(8)  the total number of jobs created or persons retrained under the program:(A)  by region of the state;(B)  by occupation classified by the two-digit standard industrial classification;(C)  by wage level;  and(D)  whether attributable to:(i)  relocation of businesses to this state;  or(ii)  training or retraining of employees of existing employers.|Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1485, Sec. 2.02, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.Amended by: Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 266 (S.B. 1413), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2019.|