[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2890 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2890

 To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to promote recognition of 
    the human rights of people with disabilities and elimination of 
                  discrimination against such people.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 1993

   Mr. Hoyer (for himself, Mr. Gilman, and Mr. Fish) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to promote recognition of 
    the human rights of people with disabilities and elimination of 
                  discrimination against such people.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Disability Rights in American 
Foreign Policy Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
            (1) at least 500 million people throughout the world have a 
        disability, most of whom live in developing countries;
            (2) legal and other forms of discrimination against people 
        with disabilities are pervasive worldwide;
            (3) such discrimination involves not only active exclusion, 
        but a lack of accommodations and accessibility that would allow 
        participation by people with disabilities;
            (4) discrimination against people with disabilities is a 
        violation of their human rights; and
            (5) discrimination against people with disabilities has not 
        historically been addressed by existing standards of human 
        rights employed in United States foreign policy.
    (b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this Act to promote recognition 
of the human rights of people with disabilities and to promote the 
elimination of discrimination against such people.

SEC. 3. UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY.

    Section 502B(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2304(a)(1)) is amended by inserting ``disability,'' after 
``language,''.

SEC. 4. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO BE INCLUDED 
              IN ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT.

    Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2151n(d)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (2);
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) discrimination toward people with disabilities in 
        each foreign country which is a member of the United Nations; 
        and''.

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