---
title: Labor--Workforce Development - Texas Legislation
subject: Labor--Workforce Development
total_bills: 23
unique_authors: 17
critical_bills: 1
high_cost_bills: 1
canonical_url: "https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/labor-workforce-development"
source: JD Key Consulting - Texas Legislative Intelligence
---

# Labor--Workforce Development

Legislative subject area in the Texas 89th Legislature

## Overview

- **Total Bills:** 23
- **Unique Authors:** 17
- **Critical Compliance:** 1 bills
- **High Cost Impact:** 1 bills
- **Bipartisan Bills:** 19

## Chamber Breakdown

- **Senate:** 13 bills
- **Senate:** 10 bills

## Compliance Urgency Distribution

- **Critical:** 1 bills
- **Moderate:** 10 bills
- **Low:** 9 bills
- **Unanalyzed:** 3 bills

## Top Authors in This Subject

- **Keith Bell** (R, House) - 3 bills
- **Caroline Harris Davila** (R, House) - 2 bills
- **Judith Zaffirini** (D, Senate) - 2 bills
- **Kevin Sparks** (R, Senate) - 2 bills
- **Cesar Blanco** (D, Senate) - 2 bills
- **Giovanni Capriglione** (R, House) - 1 bills
- **Cole Hefner** (R, House) - 1 bills
- **Cody Harris** (R, House) - 1 bills

## Related Subjects

- [Labor](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/labor) (23 shared bills)
- [HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/higher-education-coordinating-board-texas) (13 shared bills)
- [Education](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education) (12 shared bills)
- [State Finances--Management & Control](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/state-finances-management-control) (10 shared bills)
- [State Finances](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/state-finances) (10 shared bills)
- [Education--Higher](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education-higher) (10 shared bills)
- [WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/workforce-commission-texas) (9 shared bills)
- [State Agencies, Boards & Commissions](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/state-agencies-boards-commissions) (6 shared bills)

## Enforcing Agencies

- [Texas Workforce Commission](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-workforce-commission) - 9 bills
- [Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-higher-education-coordinating-board) - 7 bills
- [Local Workforce Development Boards](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/local-workforce-development-boards) - 2 bills
- [Texas Education Agency](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-education-agency) - 1 bills
- [Department of State Health Services](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/department-of-state-health-services) - 1 bills
- [Public Utility Commission of Texas](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/public-utility-commission) - 1 bills

## High Impact Bills

| Bill | Title | Urgency | Cost |
|------|-------|---------|------|
| [HB120](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb120-89th-regular) | Relating to college, career, and military ... | Critical | Medium |
| [HB4848](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb4848-89th-regular) | Relating to requiring that competency-base... | Unanalyzed | High |

## All Bills

| Bill | Title | Author | Compliance |
|------|-------|--------|------------|
| [HB120](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb120-89th-regular) | Relating to college, career, and mili... | Keith Bell (R) | Critical |
| [HB14](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb14-89th-regular) | Relating to support for the developme... | Cody Harris (R) | Moderate |
| [HB1868](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb1868-89th-regular) | Relating to a study on changes to per... | Terri Leo-Wilson (R) | Low |
| [HB2081](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb2081-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | John Bucy (D) | Moderate |
| [HB2768](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb2768-89th-regular) | Relating to the development of a stat... | Giovanni Capriglione (R) | Low |
| [HB3204](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3204-89th-regular) | Relating to the Polytechnic College a... | William Metcalf (R) | Low |
| [HB322](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb322-89th-regular) | Relating to the use of funds awarded ... | Ryan Guillen (R) | Low |
| [HB3260](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3260-89th-regular) | Relating to the Texas Industry-Recogn... | Keith Bell (R) | Moderate |
| [HB346](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb346-89th-regular) | Relating to the fee amounts prescribe... | Caroline Harris Davila (R) | Moderate |
| [HB3801](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3801-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | Angelia Orr (R) | Moderate |
| [HB3923](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3923-89th-regular) | Relating to state employment opportun... | Keith Bell (R) | Low |
| [HB4264](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb4264-89th-regular) | Relating to creation of a grant progr... | Cole Hefner (R) | Moderate |
| [HB4848](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb4848-89th-regular) | Relating to requiring that competency... | Caroline Harris Davila (R) | - |
| [SB1143](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1143-89th-regular) | Relating to certain planning and eval... | Cesar Blanco (D) | Low |
| [SB1534](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1534-89th-regular) | Relating to a study and report by the... | Judith Zaffirini (D) | Low |
| [SB1535](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1535-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment by the ... | Judith Zaffirini (D) | Moderate |
| [SB1620](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1620-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | Joan Huffman (R) | Low |
| [SB1728](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1728-89th-regular) | Relating to the participation of cert... | Charles Perry (R) | Moderate |
| [SB2448](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2448-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | Kevin Sparks (R) | Moderate |
| [SB2925](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2925-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | Cesar Blanco (D) | Low |
| [SB462](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb462-89th-regular) | Relating to establishing a child-care... | Lois Kolkhorst (R) | Moderate |
| [SB513](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb513-89th-regular) | Relating to a rural community-based c... | Kevin Sparks (R) | - |
| [SB856](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb856-89th-regular) | Relating to the use of the skills dev... | Peter Flores (R) | - |

## Source Links

- [Full Interactive Analysis](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/labor-workforce-development)
- [All Texas Subjects](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subjects)

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