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Topic	Congress is looking to, uh, weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act
legendary_zell 02/15/18 6:11:18 PM #47:	Questionmarktarius posted... Actual text of bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/620/text Antifar posted... The bill creates a new notice and cure requirement in the Americans with Disabilities Act, which would force people with disabilities to provide businesses with written notice of access barriers that need to be fixed, then wait for months to see if substantial progress has been made in removing them. This effectively exempts businesses from complying with their obligations under the ADA and proactively ensuring that people with disabilities have access to places of public accommodation. What's so "bad" about that, instead of just having a process server suddenly show up with a multimillion dollar lawsuit? Because that completely neuters the original intent of the ADA. It's not just a revision, it changes the whole framework and intent of the law. Instead of businesses having the proactive duty to make sure their businesses are accessible, people would have to be denied access and then wait months while not having access to see if the business decided to fix something that they've had since 1990 to fix, and THEN they get the right to begin a lawsuit. All the while, they don't have access to the business and its services. --- http://i.imgur.com/0Bi86cp.gif <cite>legendary_zell posted [p:896157232] in Congress i... [t:76322557]...</cite> <quote><cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote>Actual text of bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/620/text <cite>Antifar posted...</cite> <quote><quote>The bill creates a new notice and cure requirement in the Americans with Disabilities Act, which would force people with disabilities to provide businesses with written notice of access barriers that need to be fixed, then wait for months to see if substantial progress has been made in removing them. This effectively exempts businesses from complying with their obligations under the ADA and proactively ensuring that people with disabilities have access to places of public accommodation.</quote></quote> What's so "bad" about that, instead of just having a process server suddenly show up with a multimillion dollar lawsuit?</quote> Because that completely neuters the original intent of the ADA. It's not just a revision, it changes the whole framework and intent of the law. Instead of businesses having the proactive duty to make sure their businesses are accessible, people would have to be denied access and then wait months while not having access to see if the business decided to fix something that they've had since 1990 to fix, and THEN they get the right to begin a lawsuit. All the while, they don't have access to the business and its services. --- http://i.imgur.com/0Bi86cp.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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