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The Task Force shall terminate 30 days after submitting its final report. Specific activities by Task Force members and other agencies. This review shall include personnel practices and actions such as: hiring, promotion, benefits, retirement, workers' compensation, retention, accessible facilities, job accommodations, layoffs, and reductions in force. Data derived from this methodology shall be published on as frequent a basis as possible. Each agency shall file a report with the Task Force on the results of its review on November 15, All efforts taken by executive departments and agencies under sections 1 and 2 of this order shall, as appropriate, further partnerships and cooperation with public and private sector employers, organizations that represent people with disabilities, organized labor, veteran service organizations, and State and local governments whenever such partnerships and cooperation are possible and would promote the employment and gainful economic activities of individuals with disabilities.

Judicial Review. This order does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the United States, its agencies, its officers, or any person. Establishment and Composition of the Board. The membership shall include individuals who are representatives of business including small business , labor organizations, State or local government, disabled veterans, people with disabilities, organizations serving people with disabilities, and researchers or academicians focusing on issues relating to the employment of people with disabilities, and may include other individuals representing entities involved in issues relating to the employment of people with disabilities as the President finds appropriate.

Public resources include those of the Department of Labor, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Communications Commission, and of executive departments and agency offices responsible for small, disadvantaged businesses utilization.

The Chairperson shall call at least two meetings per calendar year. The Chairperson may form subcommittees or working groups within the Board to address particular matters. The term "drug" means a controlled substance, as defined in schedules I through V of section of the Controlled Substances Act 21 U.

B The term "illegal use of drugs" means the use of drugs, the possession or distribution of which is unlawful under the Controlled Substances Act [21 U. Such term does not include the use of a drug taken under supervision by a licensed health care professional, or other uses authorized by the Controlled Substances Act [21 U.

For purposes of subchapter V of this chapter [29 U. Nothing in clause i shall be construed to exclude as an individual with a disability an individual who I has successfully completed a supervised drug rehabilitation program and is no longer engaging in the illegal use of drugs, or has otherwise been rehabilitated successfully and is no longer engaging in such use;.

II is participating in a supervised rehabilitation program and is no longer engaging in such use; or. E Rights provisions; exclusion of individuals on basis of homosexuality or bisexuality For the purposes of sections , , and of this title For the purposes of sections , , and of this title, the term "individual with a disability" does not include an individual on the basis of There is established within the Federal Government an Interagency Committee on Employees who are Individuals with Disabilities hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Committee" , comprised of such members as the President may select, including the following or their designees whose positions are Executive Level IV or higher : the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hereafter in this section referred to as the "Commission" , the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Either the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Chairman of the Commission shall serve as co-chairpersons of the Committee or the Director or Chairman shall serve as the sole chairperson of the Committee, as the Director and Chairman jointly determine, from time to time, to be appropriate. It shall be the purpose and function of the Committee 1 to provide a focus for Federal and other employment of individuals with disabilities, and to review, on a periodic basis, in cooperation with the Commission, the adequacy of hiring, placement, and advancement practices with respect to individuals with disabilities, by each department, agency, and instrumentality in the executive branch of Government and the Smithsonian Institution, and to insure that the special needs of such individuals are being met; and 2 to consult with the Commission to assist the Commission to carry out its responsibilities under subsections b , c , and d of this section.

The U. When complaints arise, members of the public, students, and employees with disabilities may:. The Attorney General is required to evaluate how well the government is conforming to Section They are also required to provide updated reports to the President and Congress on both the accessibility of federal electronic and information technology to people with disabilities and the resolution of Section complaints filed against federal agencies.

The first such report was given in Aug. An example of the report to Congress is provided. Introduction The Rehabilitation Act of was the first major legislative effort to secure an equal playing field for individuals with disabilities. Section Section of the Rehabilitation Act is a civil rights law. The primary message of this section is concise: No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States Influence of Section So, why is Section such a big deal? Section provided the first-ever US federal accessibility standard for the Internet in The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 1.

This section provides compliance language that could be monitored at a distance.



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