HB225 Julie Taylor Proponent Testimony — House Commerce and Labor Committee
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Proponent testimony on HB225 from Julie Taylor to the House Commerce and Labor Committee, dated May 19th, 2025, and addressed to Chair Johnson, Vice Chair Lear, Ranking Member McNally and the other members of the committee. The testimony states that the witness works as a senior consultant with Griffin Hammis Associates and works with several states including Georgia and New York in the Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment Model Demonstration projects. It states that Ohio already has a strong foundation and good funding to do real community employment. It quotes a passage from a book by Doug Crandell about paying people below the minimum wage.
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HB225
Julie Taylor
Proponent Testimony
House Commerce and Labor Committee
May 19th, 2025
Chair Johnson, Vice Chair Lear, Ranking Member McNally, and all other members of the
House Commerce and Labor Committee:
Hello! My name is Julie Taylor and I am testifying in support of HB225 and Fair Pay for
People with Disabilities.
I work as a senior consultant with Griffin Hammis Associates, an organization that provides
training, mentoring, systems transformation and policy development to states, local
programs, employment support providers, and the federal government related to
community-based employment.
I currently work with several states including Georgia and New York as they participate in
The Disability Innovation Fund Program's Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated
Employment Model Demonstration projects (SWCTIE). This project is supporting fourteen
state grantees to improve options for transitioning people with disabilities from
subminimum wage employment to competitive integrated employment. I provide training,
technical assistance, policy consultation, and mentoring for individual employment
seekers and their teams.
I also have had the privilege of working with Micah on his employment journey! Using
innovative employment support strategies, Micah was able to explore work in the
community, identify his skills by trying out tasks in businesses, and find a job match that is
meaningful to him as well as meeting the employers business needs, while also being paid
a commensurate wage.
Ohio already has a strong foundation, good funding to do real community employment, and
to creative community inclusive opportunities for people to contribute their skills and gifts
via work. There are a variety of evidence-based practices such as supported employment
strategies and customized employment strategies that can enable people to reach these
goals.
In his book, Twenty-two cents an hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum
Wages, my colleague Doug Crandell, writes, “It is terrible public policy to say to one group
of people that because of the way you are, because of the label, or what kind of schooling
you got, or whatever disability you have, we are going to pay you ( below the minimum
wage)”. Let’s be on the leading side of public policy as well as being FOR everyone’s right to
have their contributions be valued and paid fairly.
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