January 16, 2013 - Texas Workforce Commission

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1 does our tracking? And do we -- does -- TWC obviously
2 tracks bills that are specifically related to TWC.
3 Do -- does somebody separately track bills that apply
4 to CRD, or is that part of the tracking that is done
5 at TWC?
6 MR. BABIAK: In the TWC External
7 Relations Division, one department is Governmental
8 Relations. Staff and Governmental Relations actively
9 track all bills that would impact TWC, including the
10 Civil Rights Division. The Texas Legislature Online
11 Website has a -- a function that allows any individual
12 to create an account, create customized searches.
13 I've created two different searches in an attempt to
14 make sure that we're seeing every bill that might
15 impact our operations, and I run those searches
16 several times a week.
17 CHAIRMAN ANDERSON: And a number of --
18 obviously a number of bills have been prefiled. I
19 guess some of them have been filed now, because we're
20 in session -- they're in session.
21 MR. BABIAK: I think the filing began in
22 November, and we've been tracking them from the very
23 beginning. I will say that the -- the amendment in
24 the last session to the Civil Practice and Remedies
25 Code, with respect to the unsworn declaration, was not