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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 ...
Returning to Texas, Eckhardt worked with Ann Richards' 1990 gubernatorial campaign.She was a delegate to the 1992 Democratic National Convention.She became a paralegal in 1993, and enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, earning a Master of Public Affairs and Juris Doctor.
The law defined the relatively new term "developmental disability" to include specific conditions that originate prior to age 18, are expected to continue indefinitely, and that constitute a substantial handicap. [2] These conditions included intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, and dyslexia. [2]
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 ...
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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In the area of employment law, Syracuse University's Peter Blanck, Executive of the Burton Blatt Institute since it was founded in 2005, has offered detailed advice on the implementation of central concepts of the employment-rehabilitation laws. While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is the current base law, the Rehabilitation ...
On Monday, the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners unanimously voted to change a section of its code of conduct and professional standards of practice that provides guidelines about refusal ...