SB 264 - This act increases the payments made by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to sheltered workshops. Currently, the Department pays each sheltered workshop nine dollars per six-hour or longer day worked by a handicapped worker. The act increases the payment per day worked as follows: eleven dollars per day worked until June 30, 1998; twelve dollars per day worked beginning on July 1, 1998 and thirteen dollars per day worked on July 1, 2000 and thereafter.

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