LLEHCPA: Hate Crimes Bill
Last week, Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Gordon Smith (R-
OR) filed S. 1105, the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate
Crime Prevention Act of 2007 (LLEHCPA) as an amendment to the
Department of Defense (DOD) reauthorization bill currently being
considered on the Senate floor.
ADA Restoration Act: "
AAPD has been working with a broad coalition of disability organizations who have helped Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) draft the ADA Restoration Act of 2007, which would enable Americans with disabilities utilizing the ADA to focus on the discrimination that they have experienced rather than having to first prove that they fall within the scope of the ADA's protection.
With this bill, the ADA's clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination on the basis of disability will be properly restored. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who played a leading role in passage of the ADA in 1990, will be an original co-sponsor, but we need more Representatives to sign onto the bill when it is introduced to show the bipartisan support and importance of this measure." Via the American Assocation of People with Disabilities
Call your Representative at 202-224-3121 (http://www.congress.gov) and urge him/her to co-sponsor the ADA Restoration Act when it is introduced on Thursday, July 26 and to support both bills.
Via SDS list serv
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