SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 588
89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CASKEY.
Pre-filed December 8, 1997, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 12, 1998, and referred to the Committee on Education.
Reported from the Committee February 2, 1998, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 18, 1998. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2544.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 178.930, RSMo Supp. 1997, relating to funding for sheltered workshops, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 178.930, RSMo Supp. 1997, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 178.930, to read as follows:
178.930. 1. Until June 30, 1998, the department of elementary and secondary education shall pay monthly, out of the funds appropriated to it for that purpose, to each sheltered workshop a sum equal to eleven dollars multiplied by the number of six-hour or longer days worked by handicapped workers during the preceding calendar month. For each handicapped worker employed by a sheltered workshop for less than a six-hour day, the workshop shall receive a percentage of the eleven dollars based on the percentage of the six-hour day worked by the handicapped employee.
2. Beginning July 1, 1998, until June 30, 1999, the department of elementary and secondary education shall pay monthly, out of the funds appropriated to it for that purpose, to each sheltered workshop a sum equal to twelve dollars multiplied by the number of six-hour or longer days worked by handicapped workers during the preceding calendar month. For each handicapped worker employed by a sheltered workshop for less than a six-hour day, the workshop shall receive a percentage of the twelve dollars based on the percentage of the six-hour day worked by the handicapped employee.
3. Beginning July 1, [2000] 1999, and thereafter, the department of elementary and secondary education shall pay monthly, out of the funds appropriated to it for that purpose, to each sheltered workshop a sum equal to thirteen dollars multiplied by the number of six-hour or longer days worked by handicapped workers during the preceding calendar month. For each handicapped worker employed by a sheltered workshop for less than a six-hour day, the workshop shall receive a percentage of the thirteen dollars based on the percentage of the six-hour day worked by the handicapped employee.
4. The department shall accept, as prima facie proof of payment due to a sheltered workshop, a statement signed by the president and secretary of the sheltered workshop, setting forth the dates worked and the number of hours worked each day by each handicapped person employed by that sheltered workshop during the preceding calendar month, together with any other information required by the rules or regulations of the department.