Tex. Labor Code § 302.0025: EMPLOYMENT PLAN AND POSTEMPLOYMENT STRATEGIES.

(a) The commission shall ensure that an individual employment plan developed for a recipient of financial assistance or a nonrecipient parent participating in an employment program under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, includes specific postemployment strategies to assist the recipient or the nonrecipient parent in making a transition to stable employment at a wage that enables the person and the person's family to maintain self-sufficiency.

(b) The individual employment plan must:

(1) consider the person's individual circumstances and needs in determining the person's initial job placement;

(2) identify a target wage that enables the person and the person's family to maintain self-sufficiency;

(3) provide specific postemployment goals and include methods and time frames by which the person is to achieve those goals; and

(4) refer the person to additional educational and training opportunities.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 2.93(a), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Amended by:

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1300 (S.B. 589), Sec. 10, eff. June 15, 2007.