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This bill establishes a $4,000,000 disability inclusion pilot project administered by Lifeworks Services, Inc., with funding from the Minnesota state general fund for fiscal year 2025. The pilot project aims to promote employment and community inclusion for people with disabilities through multiple strategies: encouraging employers to hire individuals with disabilities, providing businesses with education about the economic advantages of inclusive employment and affordable workplace accommodations, helping people with disabilities and their families navigate services and community engagement, supporting culturally specific services from rural and minority entrepreneurs, piloting community-requested support services, investing in community spaces for trainings and support, and developing a statewide disability inclusion assessment for businesses and community spaces. The project is designed to ensure equal access across all six Minnesota planning areas, including rural and Tribal regions, and is designated as a one-time appropriation. The comprehensive approach seeks to address employment barriers, increase workplace diversity, and improve overall accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities.

Labor and Employment

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF1092&ssn=0&y=2025