Minnesota Session Laws - 1986, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1986 

                        CHAPTER 369-S.F.No. 1441 
           An act relating to human services; providing for 
          computer services to comply with long-term sheltered 
          employment program evaluation criteria and for 
          training and employment of persons with disabilities; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 129A.08, by 
          adding a subdivision.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 129A.08, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 7.  [GRANTS.] The commissioner may use money 
allocated to the division of vocational rehabilitation for 
management information systems to provide grants to long-term 
sheltered workshops to finance and purchase equipment necessary 
to:  (1) provide the information required to comply with the 
evaluation criteria developed under subdivision 5; (2) increase 
sheltered worker productivity; and (3) train severely disabled 
people in computer and other high-technology applications.  As a 
condition of receiving a grant for the purposes of (2) or (3) 
above, the commissioner shall require workshops to provide 
matching money. 
    Approved March 19, 1986