The Florida Senate

393.32  Eligibility and standards of service.--

(1)  Persons eligible for support as extended employees are those persons having a developmental disability who are over 16 years of age and are, as a result of their disability, unable to enter the competitive labor market.

(2)  The determination of developmental disability shall be made by the Department of Children and Family Services upon the basis of psychological or medical records on file in the rehabilitation workshop facility that provide suitable and adequate evidence of the developmental disability. The psychological or medical records which determine the condition of developmental disability shall not be more than 2 years old at the time of application by the facility for the support of such person. The department may require reexamination of a person by the facility in order to revalidate developmental disability.

(3)  Those persons for whom subsidies are requested by a facility shall receive appropriate rehabilitation or habilitation services such as evaluation, personal and work adjustment training, or other services in order to assist the department in making a determination of the suitability of placement of such persons in extended employment within the facility. The facility shall be responsible for providing adequate information relating to the decision that an appropriate evaluation has been made of the validity of the "extended employee" designation.

(4)  Periodic evaluations on at least a semiannual basis shall be conducted by the facility to determine if an extended employee's potential has been increased to the point where outside employment is possible. Professional evaluation services shall be regularly available either from the staff of the facility or on regular schedule from a rehabilitation facility which provides these professional services.

(5)  Adequate job placement services shall be made available by the facility for those extended employees deemed to have attained the potential for competitive employment.

(6)  Any person in the facility whose productivity is at or above the level of the statutory minimum wage shall be excluded from support in this program unless there are modifying factors making competitive employment difficult.

(7)  The maximum number of developmentally disabled persons in extended employment in any one rehabilitation workshop facility for whom the facility may receive support shall not exceed the maximum number of work stations available at any one full-time shift in the facility. For purposes of this subsection, "full-time" means a minimum of 5 hours of work daily. However, exceptions may be made on an individual basis, and consideration shall be given to medical reports rendered.

History.--s. 4, ch. 74-341; s. 325, ch. 77-147; s. 27, ch. 89-308; s. 93, ch. 99-8.

Note.--Former s. 413.503.