HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3099

CHAPTER 807

(House Bill 1610)

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 by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to
be eligible for a certain contracting preference under the
State procurement law; altering the membership of the
pricing and selection committee for sheltered workshops; and
generally relating to sheltered workshops.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - State Finance and Procurement

Section 18-201                                                                          „

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - State Finance and Procurement

18-201.                                                                                                           

(a)  Notwithstanding other provisions of this article,
supplies and services of the handicapped shall be purchased by
the State in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(b)  (1) The term "handicapped" refers to an individual or
class of individuals under a physical disability" (including
blindness) or mental disability, which constitutes a substantial
handicap to employment and is of such a nature as to prevent the
individual under such disability from currently engaging in
normal competitive employment.

(2)  The term "sheltered workshop" means an agency
organized under the laws of the United States and the State of
Maryland, ACCREDITED BY THE DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, operated in the interest of
handicapped individuals, [and] the net income of which does not
inure in part, or in whole, to the benefit of any shareholder or
other individual and is certified as a sheltered workshop by the
Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor.

(3)  "Pricing and selection committee" means the
committee established under this subtitle responsible for
procedures governing the procurement of supplies and services
from certified sheltered workshops.