HB 352 -- State Purchasing and Printing

Sponsor:  Hobbs

This bill increases the current five-point bonus bidding
preference given by the Commissioner of the Office of
Administration to a 10-point bonus for products and services
manufactured, purchased, or assembled in qualified nonprofit
organizations for the blind and in sheltered workshops if the
nonprofit organization provides the greater of 2% or $5,000 of
the total contract for purchases not exceeding $10 million.

For Fiscal Year 2008, the Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education will pay each sheltered workshop $65 per standard work
week worked by a handicapped employee and $13 per standard work
day for work performed by handicapped employees in excess of the
standard work week.  For Fiscal Year 2009, the weekly per-worker
amount is increased to $75 and the daily per-worker amount to
$15; for Fiscal Year 2010, $85 per week and $17 per day; and for
Fiscal Year 2011 and thereafter, $90 per week and $18 per day.

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated July 25, 2007 at 11:18 am