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.