Dignity for People with Disabilities in the Foreign Service Act
Summary
Dignity for People with Disabilities in the Foreign Service Act This bill replaces several references to handicapping condition with disability in the Foreign Service Act of 1980. For example, an existing provision requiring the Department of State to prescribe regulations to ensure that Foreign Service members and applicants are free from discrimination on the basis of a handicapping condition is amended to require regulations to ensure that Foreign Service members and individuals are free from discrimination on the basis of a disability.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 9, 2022
Last action Jun 9, 2022
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2
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Committee
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Jun 9, 2022
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
lower
Jun 9, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
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