FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 173
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCOTT.
Read 1st time January 12, 2005, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0851S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 178.930, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to sheltered workshop payments.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 178.930, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 178.930, to read as follows:
178.930. 1. (1) Beginning July 1, 1999, [and thereafter,] and until June 30, 2006, 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.
(2) Beginning July 1, 2006, and until June 30, 2007, 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 fifteen 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 fifteen dollars based on the percentage of the six-hour day worked by the handicapped employee.
(3) Beginning July 1, 2007, and until June 30, 2008, 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 seventeen 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 seventeen dollars based on the percentage of the six-hour day worked by the handicapped employee.
(4) Beginning July 1, 2008, 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 eighteen 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 eighteen dollars based on the percentage of the six-hour day worked by the handicapped employee.
2. The department shall accept, as prima facie proof of payment due to a sheltered workshop, information as designated by the department, either in paper or electronic format. A statement signed by the president, secretary, and manager 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, shall be maintained at the workshop location.
3. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Sheltered Workshop Per Diem Revolving Fund" which shall be administered by the commissioner of the department of elementary and secondary education. All moneys appropriated pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall be deposited in the fund and expended as described in subsection 1 of this section.
4. The balance of the sheltered workshop per diem revolving fund shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars at the end of each fiscal year and shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the general revenue fund. Any unexpended balance in the sheltered workshop per diem revolving fund at the end of each fiscal year exceeding five hundred thousand dollars shall be deposited in the general revenue fund.