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Senator Tom Harkin introduced the act to the Senate
This law prohibits any form of discrimination against disabled persons in their public life; employment, education, private or public places that is allowed by the general-public. Basically, it is a civil-rights law to make certain disabled people have equal rights that is allotted to the rest to everyone in the United States. The rights given to disabled people are equal to those who are of a different race, religion, age, national-origin or color. -
Passed By the Senate
The US Senate passed the bill that gives disabled people equal rights as the rest of the country. This bill helped children with disabilities to have access to free public education and that places of education must be accessible; classrooms, drinking fountains, bathrooms, supplies, and everywhere else in the facility. -
Passed by the House of Representatives
The house unanimously passed the bill and help put into place a new civil law act of social inclusion for persons with disabilities. -
President George H. W. Bush
Americans With Disabilities Act becomes law! -
Amended: Disability
First, The Supreme Court redefines the term “disability”. The Supreme Court recognized that approximately 43-million US citizens has been diagnosed with one or multiple mental or physical disabilities and that these individuals are an insular and discrete sector of our country. Because of these finding the court has considered these to be limited as to how the provisions should be fabricated within the ADA. -
What it Covers and Why?
