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Status/Date |
Level |
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MD | Signed into law 04/2012 | Community College
Postsec. | Community Colleges - Tuition Waiver for Disabled Individuals
H.B. 53
Adds a reason that any resident of the state who is out of the workforce by reason of total and permanent disability who enrolls at a commun...
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FL | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Higher Education Coordinating Council/Articulation Coordinating Committee/Various Postsecondary Provisions
H.B. 7151
Establishes the Higher Education Coordinating Council and directs the council to make recommendations on: (1) The primary core mission of pu...
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TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Dyslexia
S.B. 866
Requires that minimum academic qualifications for an educator certificate that requires a bachelor degree to require instruction in detectio...
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NH | Signed into law 05/2011 | Postsec. | Postsecondary Training for Individuals with Disabilities
H.B. 401
Authorizes the labor commissioner to establish a practical experience/training program for individuals with disabilities upon application by...
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NY | Signed into law 07/2010 | Postsec. | Instructional Materials for College Students with Disabilities
A.B. 10118
From bill analysis: Extends the expiration date of a provision that requires publishers or manufacturers to provide additional instructional...
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IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | Postsec. | Information Technology Access Act
S.B. 511
Creates the Information Technology Access Act. Requires the department of human Services to convene an advisory working group to develop acc...
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NY | Signed into law 07/2007 | Postsec. | Instructional Materials for College Students with Disabilities
S.B. 5476
Establishes a statewide advisory council regarding instructional materials for college students with disabilities. Provides that the advisor...
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GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Joint Study Committee on Continuing Education and Collegiate Sports Programs for Students with Disabilities
H.R. 322
Creates a Joint Study Committee on Continuing Education and Collegiate Sports Programs for Students with Disabilities. Directs the committee...
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NM | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Student with Disabilities Scholarship Act
H.B. 518/S.B. 537
Creates the students with disabilities scholarship act; defines a student with disabilities as a student who has a record of a physical or m...
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NM | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Full-Time Status for Students With Disabilities
S.B. 689
Extends time that students with disabilities can be defined as full time for purposes of eligibility for state lottery scholarship program.
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VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12
Postsec. | Disabled Adult Children and College Students on Medical Leave
S.B. 285
Relates to coverage of disabled adult children and college students on medical leave; requires a health insurance plan that covers dependent...
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VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Transitional Youths
H.B. 618
Relates to services for transitional youth; increases the age at which a child may be adjudicated in need of care and supervision; provides ...
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MD | Signed into law 04/2006 | Community College
Postsec. | Grant Program for Students with Disabilities
H.B. 1681
Requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish and administer a grant program for supplemental services and supports for stu...
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MD | (S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (44-2) 04/2005 | Community College
Postsec. | Community College Students with Disabilities Task Force
H.B. 1236
Establishing the Community College Students with Disabilities Task Force; providing for the membership and staffing of the Task Force; requi...
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MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | Community College
Postsec. | 2005 Community Colleges Budget
S.B. 1062
Provides community and junior colleges appropriations for fiscal year 2005; provides for community college-level learning disabled students ...
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MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Community College Tuition Waiver
H.B. 322
Alters the requirements for exemption from payment of tuition at community colleges for specified individuals; relates to disabled persons o...
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WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | Postsec. | Instructional Materials
S.B. 6501
Regards instructional materials for students with disabilities at public and private institutions of higher education; requires publishers a...
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CA | Signed into law 10/2003 | Postsec. | Disabled Students: Technology Access
S.B. 302
Declares the Legislature intended to apply existing provisions requiring compliance with the accessibility requirements of the federal Rehab...
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NY | Signed into law 07/2003 | Postsec. | Students Instructional Materials
S.B. 3306
Requires publishers and manufacturers of instructional materials for students to provide electronic copies of such material for use by disab...
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NV | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Legislative Committee on Persons with Disabilities
S.B. 137
Establishes the Legislative Committee on Persons with Disabilities; requiring the Department of Human Resources to submit certain reports to...
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NV | Signed into law 05/2003 | Postsec. | Electronic Instructional Materials
S.B. 62
Requires publisher or manufacturer of instructional materials to provide electronic version of such materials for use by university or colle...
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NM | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Accessible Electronic Formats
H.B. 708
Relates to education; provides for accessible electronic formats for individuals with disabilities enrolled in distance learning courses of ...
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NJ | Signed into law 12/2002 | Postsec. | Reasonable substitution of graduation requirements
S.B. 106
Allows students at institutions of higher education who are hearing and visually impaired of learning disabled to be eligible for reasonable...
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GA | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12
Postsec. | Electronic Textbooks at Postsecondary Level
H.B. 1342
States that colleges and universities in this state have made diligent efforts to accommodate the needs of students with disabilities requir...
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IN | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12
Postsec. | Interagency Task Force
S.B. 290
Requires the Director of the Division of Special Education to coordinate an interagency task force to review services and funding sources av...
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KY | Signed into law 03/2002 | Postsec. | Developmental Disabilities Council Membership
S.B. 131
Replaces the membership of the Council on Postsecondary Education on the Developmental Disabilities Council with a single member of a nongov...
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SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | Postsec. | Rehabilitation Services to Include Student Tuition/Fees
H.B. 1030
Revises the rehabilitation services provided at public cost to disabled and visually impaired persons based on economic need to include post...
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CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Braille Reading Material
A.B. 609
Requires instruction in braille to be provided to each pupil who is functionally blind unless the individualized education program team dete...
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RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | Postsec. | transition of students with disabilities
H.B. 7466
Amends the composition of the Transition Council by adding a representative from one of the regional education collaboratives.Transition fro...
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OK | Signed into law 04/2000 | Postsec. | Materials for Students With Disabilities in Higher Education
H.B. 2586
Ensures that all students with disabilities enrolled in institutions in The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education be afforded the opport...
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KY | Signed into law 03/2000 | Postsec. | Safe Facilities for Students with Disabilities
H.B. 321
Requires that each postsecondary education institution with residence facilities have housing and security policies that assure disabled stu...
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