{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-302.0025","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Labor Code § 302.0025","heading":"EMPLOYMENT PLAN AND POSTEMPLOYMENT STRATEGIES.","body":"(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.\n(b) The individual employment plan must:\n(1) consider the person's individual circumstances and needs in determining the person's initial job placement;\n(2) identify a target wage that enables the person and the person's family to maintain self-sufficiency;\n(3) provide specific postemployment goals and include methods and time frames by which the person is to achieve those goals; and\n(4) refer the person to additional educational and training opportunities.\nAdded by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 2.93(a), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.\nAmended by:\nActs 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1300 (S.B. 589), Sec. 10, eff. June 15, 2007.","path":["LABOR CODE","TITLE 4. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT","SUBTITLE B. TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT SERVICES","CHAPTER 302. DIVISION OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.302.htm#302.0025","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:24Z","sha256":"2a44c3de47de0f4001ca38bbc5dd73bc8b301482656f21fdbe3830b76ef59b8d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-302.002","next":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-302.0026"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}