S. 260 · 116th Congress
Transformation to Competitive Employment Act
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This bill addresses employment standards for individuals with disabilities.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Jan 29, 2019
Transformation to Competitive Employment Act
This bill addresses employment standards for individuals with disabilities.
The bill directs the Department of Labor to award grants to states and certain eligible entities to assist them in transforming their business and program models to support individuals with disabilities by
- operating competitive integrated employment businesses,
- assisting disabled individuals in finding and retaining work in such employment, and
- providing integrated employment and integrated community participation and wraparound services for such individuals.
The bill prohibits the issuance of new special certificates that allow payment of subminimum wages to disabled individuals and phases out existing certificates over a six year period.
The bill directs the Office of Disability Employment of Labor to award grants to provide technical assistance to employers transitioning from special certificates to competitive integrated employment for disabled individuals.
Labor must contract with a nonprofit entity to conduct an evaluation of the impact of the transitioning requirements of this bill.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Transformation to Competitive Employment Act
Latest action (Jan 29, 2019): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Policy area: Labor and Employment · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jan 29, 2019
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.