{"id":24324,"date":"2016-07-18T23:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tashorg.wpengine.com\/?p=24324"},"modified":"2016-07-18T23:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:31:58","slug":"ada-attack-important-members-congress-hear-people-disabilities-weakening-ada-unacceptable%e2%80%8b-%e2%80%8bh-r-3765-ada-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tash.org\/ada-attack-important-members-congress-hear-people-disabilities-weakening-ada-unacceptable%e2%80%8b-%e2%80%8bh-r-3765-ada-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action! Oppose the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ADA is once again under attack and it is important for all members of Congress to hear from people with disabilities that weakening the ADA is unacceptable!\u200b \u200bH.R. 3765, the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2015, would eliminate the responsibility of businesses to know their obligations under the ADA and place the burden of ensuring compliance on people with disabilities themselves. This bill would treat people with disabilities as second-class citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><br \/>\nOn July 7, 2016 the House Judiciary Committee held a Mark-up on H.R. 3765, the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2015. The bill passed out of committee by a 15-6 vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HR-3765.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View a summary of the bill<\/a>. *Note: This version was updated July 7, 2016\u200b.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional information<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/markup\/h-r-320-h-r-5578-h-r-3765-h-r-68\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u200bSee the vote at this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please contact your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives by calling the\u00a0Switchboard at 202-224-3121\u200b.<\/li>\n<li>Please also send letters of opposition to each member of the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ADA is once again under attack and it is important for all members of Congress to hear from people with disabilities that weakening the ADA is unacceptable!\u200b \u200bH.R. 3765, the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2015, would eliminate the responsibility of businesses to know their obligations under the ADA and place the burden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,1],"tags":[293,150,294,271,295,296],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}