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On Sept. 1, 1999, Texas was the first state to require all new voting systems to be accessible to those with physical disabilities. The Lone Star State continues its commitment to provide ...
Democratic state Rep. Diego Bernal told the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in 2021: “In the last 17 years, 154 cases of electoral fraud have been prosecuted in Texas ...
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Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) House Bill 5, 85th Regular Legislative Session, 2017, established DFPS as an agency independent of Texas Health and Human Services effective Sept. 1, 2017. [4] To comply with previous legislation, on Sept. 1, 2017, HHSC assumed responsibility for the child care licensing function ...
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (sometimes referred to using the acronyms EAHCA or EHA, or Public Law (PL) 94-142) was enacted by the United States Congress in 1975. This act required all public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education and one free meal a day for children with physical and mental ...
People with disabilities in the United States are a significant minority group, making up a fifth of the overall population and over half of Americans older than eighty. [1] [2] There is a complex history underlying the U.S. and its relationship with its disabled population, with great progress being made in the last century to improve the livelihood of disabled citizens through legislation ...
The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–325, ADAAA) is an Act of Congress, effective January 1, 2009, that amended the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and other disability nondiscrimination laws at the Federal level of the United States. [1]
The Texas Tribune reported that the code of conduct will no longer prohibit social workers from turning away “clients on the basis of disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.”