Bill Text: TX HB1339 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to repealing the authority for the payment of a subminimum wage to certain persons with disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to International Relations & Economic Development [HB1339 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1339-Introduced.html
86R6313 KSD-D | ||
By: Pacheco | H.B. No. 1339 |
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relating to repealing the authority for the payment of a subminimum | ||
wage to certain persons with disabilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 62.057, Labor Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 62.051, Labor Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 62.051. MINIMUM WAGE. An [ |
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minimum wage under Section 6, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 | ||
U.S.C. Section 206). | ||
SECTION 3. Section 201.067(b), Labor Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(1), in this subtitle | ||
"employment" includes service performed by an individual whose | ||
earning capacity is impaired by age, physical impairment, | ||
developmental disability, mental illness, or intellectual | ||
disability or injury[ |
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for a sheltered workshop or other facility operated by a charitable | ||
organization: | ||
(1) temporarily while awaiting placement in a position | ||
of employment in the competitive labor market; or | ||
(2) permanently because the individual is unable to | ||
compete in the competitive labor market. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 122.0057(i), Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(i) In developing the performance measures under Subsection | ||
(h), the advisory committee must consider the following factors as | ||
applicable to the program administered under this chapter: | ||
(1) the percentage of total sales revenue attributable | ||
to the program: | ||
(A) paid in wages to persons with disabilities; | ||
and | ||
(B) spent on direct training and professional | ||
development services for persons with disabilities; | ||
(2) the average hourly wage earned by a person | ||
participating in the program; | ||
(3) the average annual salary earned by a person | ||
participating in the program; | ||
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person with a disability who participates in the program; | ||
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who participate in the program and who are placed into competitive | ||
positions, including competitive management or administrative | ||
positions within community rehabilitation programs; and | ||
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with disabilities who participate in the program that is purely | ||
repackaging labor. | ||
SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to the payment of wages for a pay period that begins on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. The payment of wages for a pay period | ||
that begins before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, | ||
and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |