File Code: Economic and Community Development
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Finifter and Hixson
- Entitled:
-
Schools - Individuals with Disabilities - Accessibility
Requiring regulations of the Department of Housing and Community
Development to require that schools in the State be accessible to
individuals with disabilities by January 1, 2004; requiring a county
board of education, a private school, a governing board of an
institution of higher education, and the State Board of Education to
make an accessibility determination and develop an accessibility plan
regarding accessibility for individuals with disabilities; and
establishing penalties for a violation of the Act.
House Action
- 2/22
- First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- 3/5
- Re-referred Ways and Means
- 3/7
- Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/23
- Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Michael J. Finifter, District 11
- Delegate Sheila E. Hixson, District 20
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DISABILITIES -see also- BLIND; DEAF; DEVELOPMENTAL
- EDUCATION, BOARDS OF
- EDUCATION, STATE BOARD OF
- HIGHER EDUCATION -see also- COMM COLLEGES; MED SCHOOLS; etc.
- HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF
- PENALTIES
- PRIVATE SCHOOLS
- PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 83B Department of Housing and Community Development
- (
6-102 ,
6-102.1
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
