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Page title graphic: Legislative News

Members of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities address a broad range of federal legislative and legal issues. Click individual task force names to jump to their page to get detailed information including their mission, how to contact them, and a complete listing of announcements, articles, and reports. 

The CCD Members page also contains links and contact information for each individual member organization.

Yellow ballChild Abuse

Yellow ballDevelopmental Disabilities

  • Developmental Disabilities (Planning) Councils
  • Protection and Advocacy
  • University Affiliated Programs
  • Reauthorization of the Developmental Disabilities Act
  • Quality Assurance
  • Family Support

Yellow ballEducation

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
  • IDEA regulations
  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  • Education funding
  • Family Support

Yellow ballEmployment and Training

  • Vocational Rehabilitation
  • Supported Employment
  • Work Incentives
  • ADA Employment Issues
  • Business Partnerships
  • Workforce Investment

Yellow ballFiscal Policy

  • Federal Budget and Appropriations
  • Tax Issues

Yellow ballFutures

  • Social Events Planning
  • Media Relations

Yellow ballHealth

  • Managed Care Consumer Protections (private insurance, Medicaid and Medicare) /Patient's Bill of Rights
  • Medicare and Disability
  • Medicaid and Disability
  • Privacy and Confidentiality
  • Non-discrimination and Health Care
  • State Children's Health Insurance program (CHIP)
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Yellow ballHousing

  • Critical shortage of affordable housing
  • Public housing federal regulations
  • Section 8/Public housing funding
  • Section 811 Supportive Housing
  • Local and municipal planning
  • Fair Housing

Yellow ballInternational

  • Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Yellow ballLong Term Services & Supports

  • Medicaid-funded long term services
  • Home and community based care
  • Quality assurance
  • Intermediate Care Facilities/Mental Retardation (ICF/MR)
  • Personal assistance services and supports
  • Community Attendant Services and Supports Act (MiCASSA)

Yellow ballPrevention

  • Early Intervention
  • Prenatal, Perinatal and Postnatal Care
  • Disability Prevention Research
  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention
  • Prevention Education

Yellow ballRights

  • Protection and Advocacy
  • Abuse and Neglect Prevention
  • Civil Rights
  • Immigration and Naturalization
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Air Carrier Access Act
  • Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA)
  • Fair Housing Act
  • Rehabilitation Act (Sections 504, 503 and 508)
  • National Voter Registration Act

Yellow ballSocial Security

  • Social Security Act
  • Income Supports/Supplementary Security Income
  • Social Security Work Incentives
  • Welfare Reform

Yellow ballWork Incentives

  • Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and Disability
  • Welfare-to-Work and Disability
  • Ticket to Work and Workforce Investment Act

Yellow ballTechnology/Telecommunications

  • Access to Telecommunications Products and Services
  • Telecommunications Act
  • Closed Captioning
  • Gore Commission
  • Access to Emergency Services
  • Assistive Technology Act (ATA)
  • Rehabilitation Act (Section 508)
  • Americans with Disabilities Act

Yellow ballTransportation

  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Access to Public Transportation
  • Paratransit
  • Welfare-to-Work
  • Air Carrier Access

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