SB 442-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
SENATE BILL 442-FN
AN ACT establishing an equipment depository and disabled person's employment fund in the department of administrative services.
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill establishes an equipment depository and disabled person's employment fund in the department of administrative services, for purposes of purchasing adaptive equipment for disabled persons.
This bill is a request of the study committee on the improvement of employment opportunities for persons with disabilities established in 1999, 83.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2726
10/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT establishing an equipment depository and disabled person's employment fund in the department of administrative services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subdivision; Equipment Depository; Disabled Person's Employment Fund. Amend RSA 21-I by inserting after section 44-d the following new subdivision:
21-I:44-e Equipment Depository. There is hereby established an equipment depository within the division of personnel. Moneys contained in the disabled persons' employment fund, established by RSA 21-I:44-f, shall be used to purchase adaptive equipment and accommodations to enable disabled persons to become gainfully employed by the state and any political subdivision of the state. The division shall determine the equipment to be purchased, subject to the approval of governor and council. The purchases shall be limited to equipment which provides reasonable, and not extraordinary, accommodations to the needs of the disabled, such as telephone adapters, adjustable desks, and other like equipment. Accommodations may also include interpreters. The division shall have authority to reissue equipment returned to the depository and to dispose of any equipment that is no longer useful and to deposit any sale proceeds in the fund established by RSA 21-I:44-f.
21-I:44-f Disabled Persons' Employment Fund. There is hereby established a nonlapsing fund to be known as the disabled persons' employment fund to be used solely for the purposes of RSA 21-I:44-e and which shall be continually appropriated to the division of personnel for that purpose. The division, with the approval of governor and council, may accept private donations for deposit in the fund established by this section.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
00-2726
12/16/99
SB 442--FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT establishing an equipment depository and disabled person's employment fund in the department of administrative services.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Administrative Services has stated this bill will increase state restricted revenue and expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2000 and each year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on county and local revenue or expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department indicated this bill establishes a non-lapsing, continually appropriated "disabled persons' employment fund" within the Department of Administrative Services, Division of Personnel. The Division is authorized, with approval of governor and council, to accept private donations for deposit into the fund. The funds may be expended to purchase adaptive equipment and accommodations to enable disabled persons to become gainfully employed by the state and any political subdivision of the state. The Department stated there is no data available to base an estimate of the fiscal impact of providing a non-lapsing fund for this purpose.