Current Legislation
The highlighted bills are regularly updated, so make sure to come back again to see overviews of more bills.
Highlights of Federal Legislation
Vision Care for Kids Act: allows the federal government to award grants to states that the states can apply towards existing programs that promote three aspects of child vision care: detection, rehabilitation and education.
For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
Everyone Deserves Unconditional Access to Education (EDUCATE) Act: requires full funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
- For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
Geriatric Assessment and Chronic Care Coordination Act: provides Medicare beneficiaries with access to geriatric assessments and chronic care coordination services.
- For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2007: provides for the participation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs.
- For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
Catherine Skivers Currency for All Act: require the production of Federal Reserve notes in a manner which enables an individual who is blind to determine the denomination of each such note.
- For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
You can see all the relevant pending Federal legislation here.
Highlights of New York State Legislation
A 897/S 522: Establishes a senior vision services program to be run by the state office for the aging
- Status: PASSED
For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
Read Lighthouse's memorandum in support of this bill, here.
S 2841: guarantees the blind and visually impaired citizens the same access to voting machines and systems as every other citizen.
- For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
A 767/S 2926: establishes the save our sight program and the save our sight fund to provide vision screening and educational information.
For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
A 5768: provides for the offering of special menus printed in 18 point bold font type, with suitable ink/paper contrast, for visually impaired patrons of restaurants.
For more details on the bill, including bill text, recent legislative action and list of sponsors, click here.
You can see all the relevant pending New York State legislation here.