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.