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|A guide to legislation affecting the Disability Community

 

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Legislation

Federal

• HR 716 (Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act)
  
  
• HR 995 (Mammogram and MRI Availability Act of 2009)
  
  
• HR 1085/ S 442 (Health Insurance Coverage Protection Act)
  
  
• HR 1691 (Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009)
  
  
• HR 1740 (EARLY Act of 2009)
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• HR 1844 (Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act of 2009)
  
  
• HR 2132 (Family and Medical Leave Act ‘FMLA’ Inclusion Act)
  
  
• HR 2952 (Medicaid Prostate Cancer Coverage Act of 2009)
  
  
• S 623/ HR 1558 (Pre-existing Condition Patient Protection Act of 2009)
  
  
• S 700 (Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act of 2009)
  
  
• S 717 (21st Century Cancer ALERT Act)
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California

• SB 399 (The Fair Sentencing for Youth Act)
  
  
• SB 161 (Oral Chemotherapy)
  
  
• SB 148 (Mammography: Notices of Violation)
  
  
• AB 1000 (Health Workplaces, Healthy Families – Paid Sick Days in CA)
  
  
• AB 108 (Individual Health Care Coverage)
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• AB 119 (Health Care Coverage: Pricing)
  
  
• AB 287 (Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities)
  
  
• AB 590 (Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act)