Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                         CHAPTER 35-S.F.No. 112 
           An act relating to vocational rehabilitation; changing 
          term "extended employment plan participants" to 
          "workers"; amending Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 
          129A.08, subdivision 4. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 129A.08, 
subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 4.  [EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS.] The program evaluation 
must include, but not be limited to, the following 
considerations:  
    (a) Wages and benefits paid to extended employment program 
participants workers and number of hours worked; 
    (b) Rate of placement in competitive employment; 
    (c) Opportunities for extended employment program 
participants workers to participate in decisions affecting their 
employment; 
    (d) Rehabilitation facility responsiveness to extended 
employment program participants' workers' grievances; 
    (e) Increases in individual extended employment program 
participants' workers' productivity; 
    (f) Efficiency of the rehabilitation facilities; and 
    (g) Types and levels of disability of the extended 
employment program participants workers and willingness of the 
rehabilitation facility to accept and assist persons with 
serious behavioral, mental, sensory, or physical disabilities.  
    The evaluation must take into account the disability levels 
of the extended employment program participants workers, the 
geographic location and size of the rehabilitation facility, and 
the economic conditions of the surrounding community.  
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor April 14, 1989 
    Signed by the governor April 17, 1989, 5:00 p.m.