§795n Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities

Summary

The Secretary of Labor must create an Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities within 60 days after July 22, 2014. The committee includes several Labor Department leaders (the Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy, the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, and the Wage and Hour Division Administrator), plus leaders or designees from the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Social Security, and the Rehabilitation Services Administration. It also includes appointed members who represent self-advocates, employment service providers, national disability advocacy groups, academic or research experts on employment and wage policy, employer representatives, and others with relevant expertise. The committee must elect a chair, meet when the chair calls it and at least 8 times, and fill any vacancies the same way the original members were chosen. The committee must study and give findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Labor on ways to increase competitive integrated employment for people with intellectual, developmental, or other significant disabilities; on the use of the certificate program under section 214(c); and on improving oversight of those certificates. Members are not paid but may get travel and per diem. The Secretary may provide staff, equipment, and let federal employees be detailed to help. The committee must send an interim report to the Secretary and to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the House Education and the Workforce Committee within 1 year after it starts, and a final report within 2 years. The committee ends the day after it sends the final report.