The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (1) Community-based organization (CBO)--A private nonprofit organization that is representative of a community or a significant segment of a community and that provides education, vocational education or rehabilitation, job training, or internship services or programs. The term includes a neighborhood group or corporation, union-related organization, employer-related organization, faith-based organization, tribal government, or organization serving Native Americans. The CBO must be certified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization under the IRS Code of 1986, as amended. A CBO providing services, which are regulated by the state, must provide evidence of required certification, license or registration.
2. (2) Customized job training project--A project designed for a business, business consortium, or trade union in partnership with a public community or technical college, state extension service, TEEX or community-based organization for the purpose of providing specialized workforce training to prospective employees of the business or business consortium, or members of the trade union with the intent of expanding the workforce.
3. (3) Director--The Executive Director of the Texas Workforce Commission.
4. (4) Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX)--A higher education agency and service established by the Board of Regents of the Texas A&M University System.
5. (5) Grant recipient--A public community or technical college, community-based organization, state extension service, or TEEX awarded a grant from the Self-Sufficiency Fund.
6. (6) Individual at risk of becoming dependent on public assistance--An individual who is a member of a food stamp household with dependent children or who has been referred to a Board contractor by the Texas Department of Human Services (DHS) to attend a Workforce Orientation for Applicants session in accordance with DHS rule 40 TAC §3.7301.
7. (7) Private partner--A person, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, consortium, or private organization that enters into a partnership for a customized job training project with a public community or technical college, a community-based organization, state extension service, or TEEX.
8. (8) Public community college--A state funded two-year educational institution primarily serving its local taxing district and service area in Texas and offering vocational, technical and academic courses for certification or associate degrees.
9. (9) Public technical college--A state funded coeducational institution of higher education offering courses of study in vocational and technical education, for certification or associate degrees.
10. (10) Self-Sufficiency--Employment with wages reasonably calculated to make the employee independent of financial assistance under Texas Human Resources Code, Chapters 31, 33 and 34.
11. (11) State extension service--An education service that provides technical and vocational training and is sponsored by a higher education agency regulated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
12. (12) TANF recipient--A person who receives financial assistance under Texas Human Resources Code, Chapters 31, 33 and 34.
13. (13) Trade union--An organization, agency or employee committee, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or conditions of work.
14. (14) Training provider--Any public community or technical college, community-based organization, state extension service, or TEEX that provides training; or any person, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, consortium, governmental subdivision or public or private organization with whom a public community or technical college, community-based organization, state extension service, or TEEX has subcontracted to provide training.

Source Note:The provisions of this §835.2 adopted to be effective January 7, 2003, 28 TexReg 357.