Bill Text: TX SB2021 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to wage requirements for community rehabilitation programs participating in the purchasing from people with disabilities program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2021 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2021-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 2021 | |
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| relating to wage requirements for community rehabilitation | ||
| programs participating in the purchasing from people with | ||
| disabilities program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 122, Human Resources Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Sections 122.0075 and 122.0076 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 122.0075. INCREASE IN WAGES; PLAN. (a) This section | ||
| applies to a community rehabilitation program that: | ||
| (1) is participating in the program administered under | ||
| this chapter; and | ||
| (2) pays workers with disabilities employed by the | ||
| program wages that are less than the federal minimum wage under | ||
| Section 6, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 206). | ||
| (b) The workforce commission shall assist a community | ||
| rehabilitation program in developing a plan to increase the wages | ||
| paid to its workers with disabilities to the federal minimum wage | ||
| not later than September 1, 2019. | ||
| (c) Each community rehabilitation program shall, to the | ||
| maximum extent possible, ensure that each worker with a disability | ||
| remains employed by the program after the program increases the | ||
| wages paid to those employees in accordance with the plan developed | ||
| under Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) If a community rehabilitation program is unable to | ||
| employ all workers with a disability after the program increases | ||
| the wages paid to those employees to the federal minimum wage, the | ||
| community rehabilitation program shall work with the workforce | ||
| commission and any other governmental entity to seek for and obtain | ||
| any job training that may be suitable for those former employees to | ||
| find other employment that pays at least the federal minimum wage. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2019. | ||
| Sec. 122.0076. WAGE REQUIREMENTS. (a) A community | ||
| rehabilitation program may not participate in the program | ||
| administered under this chapter unless each worker with a | ||
| disability employed by the program is paid at least the federal | ||
| minimum wage under Section 6, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 | ||
| U.S.C. Section 206). | ||
| (b) To the extent of a conflict between this section and | ||
| Chapter 62, Labor Code, this section controls. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this | ||
| section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| (b) Section 122.0076, Human Resources Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
