DHD 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Judith Heumann, United States Postal Service, Rehabilitation Act Of 1973
7 Mar 2016
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President nixon vetoed earlier versions of what became the rehabilitation act twice. The rehabilitation act was finally passed in 1973. Nixon ensured that no funding was appropriated to support the provisions in the legislation: this made it impossible to enforce. By april of 1977 two presidents later the government still had not released regulations for the. Officials in the department of health, education, and welfare (hew) had drafted a set of regulations in 1975 and 1976. A lawsuit demanding the release of the regulations as well as meetings between representatives of disability community and hew officials did not facilitate the release of these regulations. Corbett o"toole (2015): in 1973, one sentence was added to a rehabilitation bill, in section 504. That one sentence gave disabled people in the united states their first civil rights law, but the law could not be enforced until the federal government wrote down what that one sentence did and did not cover (p. 54).
