Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-244-R1

Redraft GOV 244

Employment of Individuals with Disabilities

Ms. Lovely, Messrs. Cyr, deMacedo, Brady and O'Connor, Ms. Forry, Messrs. Moore, Rush, Timilty and Montigny moved that the proposed new text be amended by adding the following section:-

“SECTION 100A. (a) The supplier diversity office, in consultation with the Massachusetts office on disability, shall set a utilization goal for a contractor's workforce in appropriate state procurements of 6 per cent employment of qualified individuals with disabilities.

(b) Contracts subject to subsection (a) may include, but shall 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 services and snow removal.

(c) For the purposes of this section, “qualified individual with a disability” shall mean a person who: (i) has a severe physical or mental impairment which seriously limits 1 or more functional capacities for an employment outcome including, but not limited to, mobility, communication, self-care, self-direction, interpersonal skills, work tolerance or work skills; (ii) may require vocational rehabilitation that can be expected to require multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of time; and (iii) has 1 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, developmental disability, 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 supplier diversity office shall, in consultation with the Massachusetts office on disability, oversee and monitor progress toward meeting the goal established in subsection (a).”.