Conn. Gen. Stat. § 32-7v: Workforce development program re grants to nonprofit organizations that employ individuals with intellectual disability. Application.

(a)(1) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall, within available resources, establish a workforce incentive program to provide grants to employers that employ individuals with intellectual disability, as defined in section 1-1g. Such grants shall be awarded for infrastructure expenditures, programmatic costs or expansion costs.

(2) Any employer that (A) employs, at the time of application, a workforce of which not less than five per cent consists of individuals with intellectual disability, as defined in section 1-1g, who have been employed for a period of not less than six months in the previous calendar year and are paid not less than the minimum fair wage established pursuant to section 31-58, and (B) provides such individuals with competitive integrated employment, as that term is defined in 34 CFR 361.5(c)(9), as amended from time to time, may apply for a grant under the program.

(3) Grants awarded pursuant to this section shall not exceed:

(A) Twenty-five thousand dollars per employer employing a workforce of which between five and twenty per cent, inclusive, consists of such individuals with intellectual disability; and

(B) Seventy-five thousand dollars per employer employing a workforce of which more than twenty-one per cent, but not more than thirty per cent, consists of such individuals with intellectual disability.

(b) The Department of Economic and Community Development may enter into an agreement, pursuant to chapter 55a, with a person, firm, corporation or other entity to operate the program established pursuant to this section.

(c) The commissioner shall prescribe the form and manner of the application and such application procedure shall include a competitive award process.