[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1256 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1256

 To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to examine the status of 
        the human rights of people with disabilities worldwide.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 16 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

 Mr. Dole (for himself, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Helms, Mr. McCain, Mr. Leahy, 
 Mr. Simon, Mr. D'Amato, Mr. Durenberger, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Inouye, Mr. 
 Lugar, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Hatfield, Mrs. Kassebaum, Mr. 
Moynihan, and Mr. Hatch) introduced the following bill; which was read 
        twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to examine the status of 
        the human rights of people with disabilities worldwide.

    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 PURPOSES.

    (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 American 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. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES INCLUDED IN 
              ANNUAL REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS.

    (a) 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) an examination of discrimination toward people with 
        disabilities; and''.
    (b) Section 502B(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2304) is amended by inserting ``disability,'' after 
``language,''.

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