Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill creates states the purposes of the Act: to assist employers with 14(c) certificates in transforming to competitive integrated employment, ensure stakeholder involvement, transition workers to competitive employment, authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to States and eligible entities to help employers transform from using special certificates (subminimum wage) to competitive integrated employment models, and establishes a 5-year state grant program ($3-15M per state) requiring comprehensive transformation plans, advisory councils, data collection, and coordination with disability services agencies to transition all. It relies on grants, compliance mandates, reporting requirements, and appropriations. The main policy areas are Social Welfare, Labor, Workforce Development, and Government Accountability.
Who Benefits and How
Workers with disabilities earning subminimum wages could gain revenue opportunities, Workers with disabilities could gain revenue opportunities, and States that complete transformation grants could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Sheltered workshops could face higher costs, Federal budget could face higher costs, and Employers with existing 14(c) certificates would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Creates states the purposes of the Act: to assist employers with 14(c) certificates in transforming to competitive integrated employment, ensure stakeholder involvement, transition workers to competitive employment...
- Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to States and eligible entities to help employers transform from using special certificates (subminimum wage) to competitive integrated employment models...
- Establishes a 5-year state grant program ($3-15M per state) requiring comprehensive transformation plans, advisory councils, data collection, and coordination with disability services agencies to transition all...
- Creates additional funding (25% bonus grants for FY2031-2035) for States that successfully complete the Section 102 transformation grants, establishing a Competitive Integrated Employment Fund in the Treasury...
- Creates a 3-year grant program ($200K-$750K) for individual employers holding special certificates to transform their business models to competitive integrated employment, with detailed transformation plans, stakeholder...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill creates states the purposes of the Act: to assist employers with 14(c) certificates in transforming to competitive integrated employment, ensure stakeholder involvement, transition workers to competitive employment, authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to States and eligible entities to help employers transform from using special certificates (subminimum wage) to competitive integrated employment models, and establishes a 5-year state grant program ($3-15M per state) requiring comprehensive transformation plans, advisory councils, data collection, and coordination with disability services agencies to transition all.
Key Policy Areas
Social Welfare, Labor, Workforce Development, Government Accountability
Primary Purpose
The bill creates states the purposes of the Act: to assist employers with 14(c) certificates in transforming to competitive integrated employment, ensure stakeholder involvement, transition workers to competitive employment, authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to States and eligible entities to help employers transform from using special certificates (subminimum wage) to competitive integrated employment models, and establishes a 5-year state grant program ($3-15M per state) requiring comprehensive transformation plans, advisory councils, data collection, and coordination with disability services agencies to transition all.
Policy Domains
Title I - Transformation Grants
Identified Gains
- Workers with disabilities earning subminimum wages
- Workers with disabilities
- States that complete transformation grants
- States applying for transformation grants
- State governments applying for transformation grants
Identified Costs
- Sheltered workshops
- Federal budget
- Employers with existing 14(c) certificates
- Employers seeking new 14(c) certificates
- Employers holding 14(c) special certificates
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Van Hollen (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mrs. Gillibrand, and …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Disability service providers transforming to competitive employment, Employers holding 14(c) special certificates, Employers providing employment under special certificates
Positive-direction: Disability service providers transforming to competitive employment, Employers transitioning from special certificates, Nonprofit entities providing technical assistance, Sheltered workshops and disability service providers with 14(c) certificates, Technical assistance providers
Negative-direction: Employers holding 14(c) special certificates, Employers providing employment under special certificates, Employers seeking new 14(c) certificates, Employers using 14(c) special certificates, Employers with 14(c) certificates (subject to audit), Employers with existing 14(c) certificates, Sheltered workshops
Civil Rights Division of Department of Justice, Congress, Department of Labor
Positive-direction: Congress, Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division
Negative-direction: Civil Rights Division of Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Federal budget, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Wage and Hour Division of Department of Labor
People with disabilities employed at subminimum wages, People with disabilities employed in sheltered workshops, People with disabilities employed under special certificates
State developmental disability agencies, State governments applying for transformation grants, State vocational rehabilitation agencies
Positive-direction: State governments applying for transformation grants, States applying for transformation grants, States that complete transformation grants
Negative-direction: State vocational rehabilitation agencies
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor (through Office of Disability Employment Policy)
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Has the meaning given such term in section 529A(e)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
Has the meaning given the term in section 7(5) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 705(5))
Includes any intellectual, developmental, mental health, or other disability
Services for people with disabilities designed to assist in developing skills for home and community-based settings, provided in person-centered manner using evidence-based practices
A certificate issued under section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 permitting payment below minimum wage
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