Full Text of HB3780 97th General Assembly
HB3780ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. La Shawn K. Ford Filed: 3/5/2012
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3780
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3780 on page 5 by | 3 | | replacing lines 6 through 25 with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 25. People with Disabilities State Employment | 5 | | Council.
| 6 | | (a) The People with Disabilities State Employment Council | 7 | | is created and is made up of the members of the Interagency | 8 | | Committee on Employees with Disabilities (the Directors of the | 9 | | Departments of Human Rights, Central Management Services, and | 10 | | Veterans' Affairs, the Secretary of the Department of Human | 11 | | Services, the Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission, and | 12 | | 4 employees appointed by the Governor), the Co-Chairs of the | 13 | | Employment and Economic Opportunity for People with | 14 | | Disabilities Task Force, the State Superintendent of | 15 | | Education, the Director of the Department of Employment | 16 | | Security, the members of the Disability Hiring Initiative | 17 | | Committee (including the agency heads mentioned in this |
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| 1 | | subsection (a) and the Directors of the Departments of Commerce | 2 | | and Economic Opportunity and Healthcare and Family Services), | 3 | | and the Governor's Deputy Chief of Staff for personnel issues. | 4 | | The Director of the Department of Human Rights and the | 5 | | Secretary of the Department of Human Services shall serve as | 6 | | co-chairpersons of this Council. | 7 | | (b) The members of the People with Disabilities State | 8 | | Employment Council shall serve without compensation. | 9 | | (c) The People with Disabilities State Employment Council | 10 | | shall examine: (1) the prevalence and impact of people with | 11 | | disabilities employed by State government; (2)
the barriers | 12 | | faced by people with disabilities who seek employment or | 13 | | promotional opportunities in State government; and (3) | 14 | | possible incentives that could be offered to foster the | 15 | | employment of and the promotion of people with disabilities in | 16 | | State government. | 17 | | (d) The Council shall meet on a quarterly basis to | 18 | | coordinate efforts to facilitate the implementation of the Act. | 19 | | (e) The People with Disabilities State Employment Council | 20 | | shall receive administrative support from the Department of | 21 | | Central Management Services and shall issue an annual report of | 22 | | its activities each year on or before December 1, beginning | 23 | | with December 1, 2012. | 24 | | Section 30. Successful disability opportunities. The | 25 | | Department of Central Management Services shall deliver or make |
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| 1 | | available a Successful Disability Opportunities list of | 2 | | candidates each time an Open Competitive List of candidates is | 3 | | sent out, when a Successful Disability Opportunities list | 4 | | exists for the title in question. | 5 | | Section 35. Disability promotion and mentoring program. | 6 | | There is created a Disability Promotion and Mentoring Program | 7 | | in State government for employees who have been hired through | 8 | | the Successful Disability Opportunities program, under which | 9 | | employment counseling on career development is provided by the | 10 | | Department of Central Management Services and the Equal | 11 | | Employment Opportunity Affirmative Action officer in each | 12 | | State executive agency shall designate a mentor for the | 13 | | employee with disabilities in his or her agency who has been | 14 | | hired through the Successful Disability Opportunities program. | 15 | | Section 40. Disability exempted hiring program. There is | 16 | | created a Disability Exempted Hiring Program in State | 17 | | government for people with severe physical, psychiatric, and | 18 | | intellectual disabilities (including total deafness in both | 19 | | ears, blindness, missing extremities, partial and complete | 20 | | paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, | 21 | | psychiatric disability, and dwarfism) under which eligibility | 22 | | for employment is determined by certification of the Department | 23 | | of Human Services' Division of Rehabilitation Services in | 24 | | collaboration with Department of Central Management Services |
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| 1 | | based a review of the candidate's qualifications and abilities | 2 | | and the demands of the job in question. The Disability Exempted | 3 | | Hiring Program is exempted from standard examination and formal | 4 | | interview procedures to facilitate employment opportunities | 5 | | for people with the targeted disabilities named in this | 6 | | Section. When an agency elects to participate in the Disability | 7 | | Exempted Hiring Program, it shall inform the Department of | 8 | | Central Management Services, which agency shall determine in | 9 | | collaboration with the Division of Rehabilitation Services | 10 | | whether a qualified candidate with a targeted disability | 11 | | exists. Following a year of service in the title in question | 12 | | and with the recommendation of the employing agency, the | 13 | | employee shall gain certification."; and | 14 | | on page 6, be deleting lines 1 through 6.
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