(a) Boards shall ensure that federal qualified veterans and qualified spouses, state qualified veterans, and eligible foster youth who are entitled to receive priority over all other equally qualified individuals in the receipt of workforce services are:
- (1) determined eligible for priority at the initial point of contact; and
- (2) notified of their entitlement to a priority.
- (b) Boards shall ensure that state qualified veterans receive priority over all other equally qualified individuals in the receipt of training or assistance under employment assistance or job training services funded in whole or in part by state funds in accordance with Texas Government Code §657.002(a).
- (c) Boards shall ensure that federal qualified veterans and qualified spouses, as defined in §801.23(4), continue to receive priority over all other equally qualified individuals in the receipt of services funded in whole or in part by the U.S. Department of Labor, in accordance with 38 U.S.C. §4215.
- (d) Boards shall ensure that eligible foster youth receive priority over all other equally qualified individuals-except federal qualified veterans, qualified spouses, and state qualified veterans as defined in this chapter-in the receipt of federal and state funded services.
Source Note:The provisions of this §801.31 adopted to be effective October 18, 2006, 31 TexReg 8563.