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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6121
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 5096
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE
Introduced by:
(CE)
AN ACT CONCERNING A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMEN T PIPELINE
FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) The Department of Economic and 1
Community Development shall develop a plan to establish a workforce 2
development pipeline program for persons with disabilities, which shall 3
incentivize businesses to provide training programs, offer modified 4
interviews and reserve market-rate, full-time jobs for persons with 5
disabilities. Such plan shall be developed not later than September 1, 6
2021, and provide for implementation of such plan not later than July 1, 7
2022. Not later than December 1, 2021, the Commissioner of Economic 8
and Community Development shall submit recommendations for any 9
requisite legislative proposals for the implementation of such plan to the 10
joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of 11
matters relating to commerce. 12
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
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Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Economic and Community Development
to develop a plan to establish a workforce development pipeline for
persons with disabilities.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. EXUM, 19th Dist.; REP. KAVROS DEGRAW, 17th Dist.
REP. MORRIN BELLO, 28th Dist.; REP. FELIPE, 130th Dist.
REP. TURCO, 27th Dist.; REP. ROCHELLE, 104th Dist.
REP. HAMPTON, 16th Dist.; REP. MILLER P., 145th Dist.
REP. LEEPER, 132nd Dist.; SEN. FORMICA, 20th Dist.
REP. PORTER, 94th Dist.; SEN. SLAP, 5th Dist.
REP. MICHEL, 146th Dist.; REP. GIBSON, 15th Dist.
REP. PHIPPS, 100th Dist.; SEN. OSTEN, 19th Dist.
REP. HALL, 7th Dist.; REP. SIMMS, 140th Dist.
H.B. 6121