Texas Statutes
Chapter 306 - Project Rio (Reintegration of Offenders)
Section 306.005. Memorandum of Understanding--Contents

Sec. 306.005. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING--CONTENTS. (a) The memorandum of understanding between the department and the commission must establish the role of:
(1) the correctional institutions division in ascertaining and encouraging an inmate's chances for employment by:
(A) providing vocational and educational assessment for the person while incarcerated;
(B) developing a skills enhancement program for the person while incarcerated, in cooperation with other governmental, educational, and private entities, using available public or private financial resources authorized by statute; and
(C) referring the person on release to the project through the person's parole officer or supervision officer;
(2) the community justice assistance division and the parole division of the department in:
(A) encouraging and referring persons to the project; and
(B) ensuring that those persons participate in the project and avail themselves of its services; and
(3) the commission in developing and maintaining a statewide network for finding positions of employment that require the skills possessed by project participants and in helping those participants to secure employment.
(b) The memorandum of understanding between the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and the commission must establish the roles of the institutional and community services division in the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and the role of the commission in the same manner the roles of the department and commission are established under Subsection (a).
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 262, Sec. 92, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 3.018, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Renumbered from Labor Code Sec. 217.005 and amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 655, Sec. 11.06, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 22.03, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1142 (H.B. 2837), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2005.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 734 (H.B. 1549), Sec. 135, eff. September 1, 2015.