85R9215 MCK-F
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2021
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.