Bill Sponsor
BILLSPONSOR
Bill Sponsor
Politicians
Bills
House Bill 8011
117th Congress(2021-2022)
Dignity for People with Disabilities in the Foreign Service Act
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on Jun 9, 2022
Overview
Text
Introduced in House 
Jun 9, 2022
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Introduced in House(Jun 9, 2022)
Jun 9, 2022
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Jump To
H. R. 8011 (Introduced-in-House)


117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8011


To amend the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to revise the terminology used to prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities serving in the Foreign Service.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 9, 2022

Mr. Khanna (for himself, Mr. Chabot, Ms. Titus, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Salazar, and Mr. Levin of Michigan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

A BILL

To amend the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to revise the terminology used to prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities serving in the Foreign Service.

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 “Dignity for People with Disabilities in the Foreign Service Act”.

SEC. 2. Dignity for people with disabilities serving in the Foreign Service.

The Foreign Service Act of 1980 is amended—

(1) in paragraph (2) of section 101(b) (22 U.S.C. 3901(b)), by striking “handicapping condition” and inserting “disability”;

(2) in section 105 (22 U.S.C. 3905), by striking “handicapping condition” each place it appears and inserting “disability”;

(3) in subparagraph (A) of section 1002(11) (22 U.S.C. 4102(11)), by striking “handicapping condition” and inserting “disability”; and

(4) in paragraph (4) of section 1015(b) (22 U.S.C. 4115(b)), by striking “handicapping condition” and inserting “disability”.