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Journal Article
THE ADA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008
2008
Overview
In 1988, Senators Lowell Weicker, Tom Harkin and twelve other cosponsors in the Senate, and Congressman Tony Coelho and 45 cosponsors in the House of Representatives, introduced the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), S. 2345 and H.R. 4498, respectively.4 This version of the ADA was based on a bill drafted by Robert Burgdorf, then a staff attorney with the National Council on Disability (NCD), an independent federal agency charged with making recommendations to the President and Congress.5 Burgdorf's draft was modeled generally on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, albeit with some important differences. [...] the bill represented a critical first step in the enactment of the ADA since its introduction prompted subsequent activity on the part of both the business and disability communities.8 The effort to pass the subsequent version of the ADA in the 101st Congress was guided by a sophisticated, organized, and coherent strategic effort.9 Between 1989 and 1990, thirty to forty members of the disability community, under the umbrella of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Rights Task Force, worked tirelessly to pass the ADA.10 Various individuals took on different roles: a lead sttategist, a lobby manager working with many dedicated lobbyists, a legislative lawyer team, grassroots activists, and communications and media people.11 In 1989, during the first five months of the 101st Congress, staff members for Senators Tom Harkin and Edward Kennedy drafted a new version of the ADA, in consultation with members of the disability rights community.12 With respect to the definition of disability under the new bill, Senators Harkin and Kennedy chose to use the definition of handicap that governed Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act at the time because a new definition seemed both politically infeasible and legally unnecessary.13 On May 9, 1989, Senators Harkin and Kennedy and thirty-two cosponsors introduced a new version of the ADA, S. 933, in the Senate, and Congressman Steny Hoyer and forty-five cosponsors in the House of Representatives introduced an identical bill in the House, H.R. 2273.
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University of Texas, Austin, School of Law Publications, Inc
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