Section 178.930

Title XI EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES

Chapter 178

Effective - 28 Aug 2007, 4 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  178.930.  State aid, computation of — records, kept on premises — sheltered workshop per diem revolving fund created. — 1. (1) Beginning July 1, 2007, and until June 30, 2008, the department of elementary and secondary education shall pay monthly, out of the funds appropriated to it for that purpose, to each sheltered workshop a sum equal to seventy-five dollars for each standard workweek (Monday through Friday) of up to and including thirty hours worked during the preceding calendar month. Fifteen dollars shall be paid for each six-hour or longer day worked by a handicapped employee on Saturdays or Sundays. For each handicapped worker employed by a sheltered workshop for less than a thirty-hour week or a six-hour day on Saturdays or Sundays, the workshop shall receive a percentage of the corresponding amount normally paid based on the percentage of time worked by the handicapped employee.

  (2) Beginning July 1, 2008, and until June 30, 2009, the department of elementary and secondary education shall pay monthly, out of the funds appropriated to it for that purpose, to each sheltered workshop a sum equal to eighty-five dollars for each standard workweek (Monday through Friday) of up to and including thirty hours worked during the preceding calendar month. Seventeen dollars shall be paid for each six-hour or longer day worked by a handicapped employee on Saturdays or Sundays. For each handicapped worker employed by a sheltered workshop for less than a thirty-hour week or a six-hour day on Saturdays or Sundays, the workshop shall receive a percentage of the corresponding amount normally paid based on the percentage of time worked by the handicapped employee.

  (3) Beginning July 1, 2009, and until June 30, 2010, the department of elementary and secondary education shall pay monthly, out of the funds appropriated to it for that purpose, to each sheltered workshop a sum equal to ninety dollars for each standard workweek (Monday through Friday) of up to and including thirty hours worked during the preceding calendar month. Eighteen dollars shall be paid for each six-hour or longer day worked by a handicapped employee on Saturdays or Sundays. For each handicapped worker employed by a sheltered workshop for less than a thirty-hour week or a six-hour day on Saturdays or Sundays, the workshop shall receive a percentage of the corresponding amount normally paid based on the percentage of time worked by the handicapped employee.

  (4) Beginning July 1, 2010, and thereafter, the department of elementary and secondary education shall pay monthly, out of the funds appropriated to it for that purpose, to each sheltered workshop a sum equal to ninety-five dollars for each standard workweek (Monday through Friday) of up to and including thirty hours worked during the preceding calendar month. Nineteen dollars shall be paid for each six-hour or longer day worked by a handicapped employee on Saturdays or Sundays. For each handicapped worker employed by a sheltered workshop for less than a thirty-hour week or a six-hour day on Saturdays or Sundays, the workshop shall receive a percentage of the corresponding amount normally paid based on the percentage of time worked by the handicapped employee.

  2. The department shall accept, as prima facie proof of payment due to a sheltered workshop, information as designated by the department, either in paper or electronic format. A statement signed by the president, secretary, and manager of the sheltered workshop, setting forth the dates worked and the number of hours worked each day by each handicapped person employed by that sheltered workshop during the preceding calendar month, together with any other information required by the rules or regulations of the department, shall be maintained at the workshop location.

  3. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Sheltered Workshop Per Diem Revolving Fund" which shall be administered by the commissioner of the department of elementary and secondary education. All moneys appropriated pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall be deposited in the fund and expended as described in subsection 1 of this section.

  4. The balance of the sheltered workshop per diem revolving fund shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars at the end of each fiscal year and shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the general revenue fund. Any unexpended balance in the sheltered workshop per diem revolving fund at the end of each fiscal year exceeding five hundred thousand dollars shall be deposited in the general revenue fund.

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(L. 1965 p. 309 § 4, A.L. 1972 S.B. 463, A.L. 1973 H.B. 796, A.L. 1975 S.B. 269, A.L. 1979 S.B. 4, A.L. 1987 H.B. 25 & 120 merged with S.B. 145, A.L. 1993 H.B. 639, A.L. 1994 S.B. 601, A.L. 1997 S.B. 264, A.L. 1998 S.B. 781, A.L. 2001 S.B. 321, A.L. 2007 H.B. 352)