| (a) An eligible applicant shall present to the executive
director or his or her designee, an application for funding, in order
to acquire grant funds for the provision of customized training as
may be identified by the eligible applicant. Except as provided in
subsection (b) of this section, the eligible applicant will request
the review and comments of the Board in the applicable workforce area(s),
where there is a significant impact on job creation or incumbent worker
training, and submit these comments to the executive director or his
or her designee with the application for funding.
(b) An eligible applicant is not required to obtain
or provide the comments if the Board informs the applicant that the
Board is preparing an application or has submitted an application
that has not been approved or rejected. A Board is not required to
comment on its own applications.
(c) An eligible applicant shall submit any updates
to the original application for funding in accordance with subsections
(a) and (b) of this section.
(d) TEEX, or the public community or technical college
that is a partner to a training proposal for a grant from the Skills
Development Fund, may be non-local.
(e) The training proposal shall not duplicate a training
project available in the workforce area in which the private partner
or trade union is located.
(f) Proposals shall disclose other grant funds sought
or awarded from the Agency or other state and federal entities for
the proposed job training project.
(g) Applicants shall indicate whether they are submitting
concurrent proposals for the Skills Development Fund and the Texas
Enterprise Fund. For the purposes of this subsection, "concurrent
proposal" shall mean:
(1) a proposal for the Skills Development Fund that
has been submitted and is pending at the time an applicant submits
a proposal for the Texas Enterprise Fund; or
(2) a proposal for the Texas Enterprise Fund that has
been submitted and is pending at the time an applicant submits a proposal
for the Skills Development Fund.
(h) Proposals shall be written and contain the following
information:
(1) The number of proposed jobs created and/or retained;
(2) A brief outline of the proposed training project,
including the skills acquired through training and the employer's
involvement in the planning and design;
(3) A brief description of the measurable training
objectives and outcomes;
(4) The occupation and wages for participants who complete
the customized training project;
(5) A budget summary, disclosing anticipated project
costs and resource contributions, including the dollar amount the
private partner is willing to commit to the project;
(6) A signed agreement between the private partner
or trade union and the Board, public community or technical college,
or TEEX outlining each entity's roles and responsibilities if a grant
is awarded;
(7) A statement explaining the basis for the determination
that there is an actual or projected labor shortage in the occupation
in which the proposed training project will be provided that is not
being met by an existing institution or program in the workforce area;
(8) A comparison of costs per trainee for the customized
training project and costs for similar instruction at the public community
or technical college, TEEX, and the Board;
(9) A statement describing the private partner's or
trade union's equal opportunity employment policy;
(10) A list of the proposed employment benefits;
(11) An indication of a concurrent proposal as required
by subsection (g) of this section; and
(12) Any additional information deemed necessary by
the Agency to complete evaluation of a proposal.
(i) An applicant may, with the approval of the executive
director or his or her designee, submit a proposal for funding that
does not contain or identify all of the required elements under subsection
(h) of this section. The release of any funding is contingent upon
the applicant's submission, and the Agency's approval, of all the
required elements in subsection (h) of this section.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §803.14 adopted to be effective January 29, 2003, 28 TexReg 751; amended to be effective January 9, 2006, 31 TexReg 174; amended to be effective January 25, 2021, 46 TexReg 580; amended to be effective November 28, 2022, 47 TexReg 7913 |
