Protecting Choices for Disabled Workers Act

Bill: 116-hr-3704
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2019-07-11
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Disability and paralysis

Elementary and secondary education

Missouri

Public contracts and procurement

Special education

Wages and earnings

Youth employment and child labor
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Protecting Choices for Disabled Workers Act<i></i></i /></i /></i /></i /></i /></i /></i /></strong></p> <p>This bill allows educational agencies in Missouri to contract with an entity to operate a program for disabled individuals who are 24 years of age or younger under which work is compensated at a subminimum wage if such an individual has received and produces documentation that indicates completion of certain transition services before beginning work. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3704 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 11, 2019 Mrs. Hartzler (for herself, Mr. Cleaver , Mr. Clay , Mr. Graves of Missouri , Mr. Smith of Missouri , Mr. Long , and Mr. Luetkemeyer ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify the use of subminimum wage with respect to certain contracts.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Choices for Disabled Workers Act . 2. Clarification of use of subminimum wage with respect to certain contracts (a) Exception to prohibition Section 511(b)(2) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ( 29 U.S.C. 794g(b)(2) ) is amended— (1) by striking A local and inserting the following: (A) In general Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a local ; and (2) by adding at the end following: (B) State of Missouri Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), a local educational agency or State educational agency described in subparagraph (A) that is in the State of Missouri may enter into a contract or other arrangement with an entity described in subsection (a) for the purpose of operating a program for an individual who is age 24 or younger under which work is compensated at a subminimum wage if the individual has received, and produces appropriate documentation indicating completion of, the services described in subsection (a)(2)(A) before beginning work. . (b) Conforming amendment Section 511(a) of such Act ( 29 U.S.C. 794g(a) ) is amended by striking No entity and inserting Except as provided in subsection (b)(2), no entity . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to work beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.