HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3680        FILED ON: 1/18/2019

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2671

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

David Biele and Daniel J. Hunt

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to the employment of persons with disabilities on state contracts.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

David Biele

4th Suffolk

1/16/2019

Daniel J. Hunt

13th Suffolk

1/18/2019

Claire D. Cronin

11th Plymouth

1/23/2019

Danielle W. Gregoire

4th Middlesex

1/25/2019

Michael J. Moran

18th Suffolk

1/25/2019

Denise C. Garlick

13th Norfolk

1/30/2019

Antonio F. D. Cabral

13th Bristol

1/25/2019

Louis L. Kafka

8th Norfolk

1/27/2019

Edward F. Coppinger

10th Suffolk

1/28/2019

Paul J. Donato

35th Middlesex

1/31/2019

Kevin G. Honan

17th Suffolk

1/29/2019

Aaron Michlewitz

3rd Suffolk

1/30/2019

Tackey Chan

2nd Norfolk

1/30/2019

James J. O'Day

14th Worcester

1/28/2019

Jennifer E. Benson

37th Middlesex

1/31/2019

Thomas A. Golden, Jr.

16th Middlesex

1/30/2019

John J. Lawn, Jr.

10th Middlesex

1/30/2019

Theodore C. Speliotis

13th Essex

1/30/2019

Joseph F. Wagner

8th Hampden

1/31/2019

Mary S. Keefe

15th Worcester

1/28/2019

Daniel J. Ryan

2nd Suffolk

1/28/2019

David Allen Robertson

19th Middlesex

1/28/2019

Kimberly N. Ferguson

1st Worcester

1/27/2019

Stephan Hay

3rd Worcester

1/28/2019

Thomas M. Stanley

9th Middlesex

1/28/2019

Christopher Hendricks

11th Bristol

1/29/2019

Jay D. Livingstone

8th Suffolk

1/30/2019

Rady Mom

18th Middlesex

1/29/2019

Brian W. Murray

10th Worcester

1/29/2019

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

1/29/2019

Daniel M. Donahue

16th Worcester

1/29/2019

Tommy Vitolo

15th Norfolk

1/29/2019

Richard M. Haggerty

30th Middlesex

1/30/2019

Timothy R. Whelan

1st Barnstable

1/30/2019

David M. Nangle

17th Middlesex

1/30/2019

Thomas P. Walsh

12th Essex

1/30/2019

Michael O. Moore

Second Worcester

1/30/2019

Aaron Vega

5th Hampden

1/30/2019

David M. Rogers

24th Middlesex

1/30/2019

Ann-Margaret Ferrante

5th Essex

1/31/2019

Angelo M. Scaccia

14th Suffolk

1/25/2019

Russell E. Holmes

6th Suffolk

1/30/2019

John H. Rogers

12th Norfolk

1/30/2019

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

1/31/2019

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

1/31/2019

Adrian C. Madaro

1st Suffolk

1/31/2019

Hannah Kane

11th Worcester

1/31/2019

William J. Driscoll, Jr.

7th Norfolk

1/31/2019

James Arciero

2nd Middlesex

1/31/2019

Elizabeth A. Poirier

14th Bristol

1/31/2019

Bruce J. Ayers

1st Norfolk

1/31/2019

John J. Mahoney

13th Worcester

1/31/2019

Patrick Joseph Kearney

4th Plymouth

1/31/2019

Jonathan Hecht

29th Middlesex

1/31/2019

Paul Brodeur

32nd Middlesex

1/31/2019

Daniel R. Cullinane

12th Suffolk

2/1/2019

Carole A. Fiola

6th Bristol

2/1/2019

Mindy Domb

3rd Hampshire

2/1/2019

Gerard J. Cassidy

9th Plymouth

2/1/2019

Donald H. Wong

9th Essex

2/1/2019

Natalie M. Higgins

4th Worcester

2/1/2019

Paul A. Schmid, III

8th Bristol

2/1/2019

Jon Santiago

9th Suffolk

2/1/2019

Jerald A. Parisella

6th Essex

2/1/2019

Harriette L. Chandler

First Worcester

2/1/2019


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3680        FILED ON: 1/18/2019

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2671

By Messrs. Biele of Boston and Hunt of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2671) of David Biele, Daniel J. Hunt and others relative to the employment of persons with disabilities on state contracts.  State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)

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An Act relative to the employment of persons with disabilities on state contracts.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Chapter 7 of the Massachusetts General Laws is hereby amended by placing after Section 38P the following: -

SECTION 38Q. (a) Any contract issued for services in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any political subdivision there-in that receives appropriated funds from the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall employ up to 10% of individuals hired within that contract be individuals with disabilities.  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contract, the Supplier Diversity Office in consultation with the Massachusetts Office on Disability, the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind and the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission shall implement and regulate said law.

(b) Such services shall include but not be limited to janitorial and custodial services, landscaping services, mailroom services, food services, fleet management, manufacturing, trash removal, document destruction, electronic scanning of documents, and facility management services including but not limited to HVAC Services, Painting, Emergency Repair Series, and Snow Removal.

(c) For the purpose of this act, an individual with a disability will be defined as; someone (i) who has a severe physical or mental impairment which seriously limits one or more functional capacities (such as mobility, communication, self-care, self-direction, interpersonal skills, work tolerance, or work skills) in terms of an employment outcome; (ii) someone whose vocational rehabilitation can be expected to require multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of time; (iii) someone  who has one or more physical or mental disabilities resulting from amputation, arthritis, autism, blindness, burn injury, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, head injury, heart disease, hemiplegia, hemophilia, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, musculo-skeletal disorders, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), paraplegia, quadriplegia, and other spinal cord conditions, sickle cell anemia, specific learning disability, end-stage renal disease, or another disability or combination of disabilities determined on the basis of an assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation to cause comparable substantial functional limitation.

(d) The percentage requirements shall be met within one year of award of such contract, and steps shall be taken to minimize the displacement of any workers already providing the services covered by such contract.

(e) The percentage requirement laid out in this section shall be phased into effect as follows:

            January 1, 2021, at least 2%

            January 1, 2022, at least 4%

            January 1, 2023, at least 6%

            January 1, 2024, at least 8%

            January 1, 2025, at least 10%