HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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guarantee should permit higher wages, or at least the
establishment of a minimum, for participants in the affected
workshops.

An unintended effect of House Bill 844 would be to extend
the sub-minimum wage limitation to those workshops not
benefitting from the State program, including work activity
centers where therapeutic goals often displace product
marketability in relative importance. Coverage of these
additional workshops under the provisions of the bill would
perhaps force the closing, or a reduction in the number of
participants, of some workshops affected by the sub-minimum wage
limitation.

Upon learning of the unintended consequences that would
result from implementation of this measure, the Maryland
Association of Workshops, Inc., the primary proponent of this
legislation, requested that I veto House Bill 844. It is my
understanding that the sponsor concurs with this decision and
that appropriate legislation on this subject will be introduced
at the 1986 Session of the General Assembly.

Therefore, for the above reasons, I have decided to veto
House Bill 844.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

House Bill No. 844

AN ACT concerning

Procurement - Sheltered Workshops

FOR the purpose of amending the definition of "sheltered
workshop" to require that any sheltered workshop must be
accredited as a regular work program by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation to be eligible for a certain
contracting preference under the State procurement law; and
requiring a sheltered workshop to pay participants at least
a certain amount; and providing for a certain contingency.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 21 - Procurement

Section 8-201

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)