CHAPTER 212
SB 176-FN-A - FINAL VERSION
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2001 SESSION
05/09
SENATE BILL 176-FN-A
AN ACT establishing an equipment depository and disabled persons' employment fund in the department of administrative services.
SPONSORS: Sen. Larsen, Dist 15; Sen. McCarley, Dist 6; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20
COMMITTEE: Public Institutions, Health and Human Services
This bill establishes an equipment depository and disabled persons' employment fund in the department of administrative services, for purposes of purchasing adaptive equipment or services, or both, for disabled persons. Both the equipment depository and the fund are repealed on June 30, 2006.
The bill is a request of the developmental disabilities council, health and human services.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT establishing an equipment depository and disabled persons' employment fund in the department of administrative services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
212:1 New Subdivision; Equipment Depository; Disabled Persons' mployment Fund. Amend RSA 21-I by inserting after section 44-d the following new subdivision:
Equipment Depository
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. The division shall determine the equipment or services, or both to be purchased. The purchases shall be limited to equipment and services which provide reasonable, and not extraordinary, accommodations to the needs of employees with disabilities, such as telephone adapters, adjustable desks, and other like equipment, or such other accommodations which permit employees with disabilities to perform their job tasks efficiently and effectively. 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.
212:2 Disabled Persons' Employment Fund; Lapse to General Fund. Upon the effective date of section 3 of this act, any moneys remaining in the disabled persons' employment fund shall lapse to the general fund.
212:3 Repeal. The following are repealed:
I. RSA 21-I:44-e, relative to the equipment depository.
II. RSA 21-I:44-f, relative to the disabled persons' employment fund.
212:4 Effective Date.
I. Section 3 of this act shall take effect June 30, 2006.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
(Approved: July 11, 2001)
(Effective Date: I. Section 3 shall take effect June 30, 2006.
II. Remainder shall take effect July 1, 2001)