To promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique language and learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique language and learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting schools, students, and education providers. The main policy domain is Education, Transportation, Technology.
Who Benefits and How
schools, students, and education providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, schools, students, and education providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HD42F17BE37954A9DBEBB043E9AF469A1: 1. Short title; references; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act. Except as otherwise expressly provided,...
- Section HA7C74B6436BE4550AC91C6E09F59A0EC: 2. Purposes The purposes of this Act are as follows: To better ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who...
- Section H44248BC8759340959A88B9F3C7E12CD0: 3. Findings Congress finds the following: When American author, Mark Twain, immortalized Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, with the moniker the...
- Section HF122851F78954D9BB04C920E2E827FFB: 4. Definitions For purposes of this Act: The term deafblind, when applied to an individual, means the individual has concomitant hearing and visual...
- Section HA140CDE2C0B047DCAE9B881D8D3720BF: 101. Identifying children and youth who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafdisabled Section 612(a)(3) (20 U.S.C. 1412(a)(3)) is amended at the end by adding the...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique language and learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting schools, students, and education providers.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Transportation, Technology
Primary Purpose
This bill, To promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique language and learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting schools, students, and education providers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- schools, students, and education providers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- schools, students, and education providers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Bowman, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. Raskin, …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → The Secretary identified in the operative section
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
the individual has concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which— prevents access to information
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