FEDERAL LAWS GOVERNING THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

• The Americans with Disabilities Act (the "ADA")

    http://www.ada.gov/statute.html

• The Rehabilitation Act of 1973

    http://www.blind.net/text/rehabada/ra1973t5.txt

REGULATIONS

RECENTLY ENACTED LEGISLATION

PENDING LEGISLATION

• S.3212 BEVRA - "Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act of 2008"  is a Bill to establish a time line to develop, manufacture and deploy voting machines with assistive technology that will allow tens of millions of Americans with disabilities to vote privately and independently. 

http://rules.senate.gov/hearings/2008/07302008dickson.pdf