CTD 2007 Legistlative Report
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2007 Legislative Report 2007 Legislative Report of CTD/ Coalition of Texans with Disabilities
BILL & SPONSORS CTD’S ROLE/PARTNERS CTD testimonies, letter writing, direct visits with legislative offices, organizer of Capitol Day of advocacy, statewide media campaign Partners: all disability advocacy organizations, AARP CTD testimonies, letter writing, direct visits with legislative offices, organizer of Capitol Day of advocacy, statewide media campaign CTD lead and sole disability WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
HB1(budget bill)Funding for community services/ Reduce community services waiting list by 10%
$267 Million in state funds and federal match to reduce the community services wait list + $162 M state and federal match for demographic growth.
HB1(budget bill)Increase wages for community care attendants
Contingencies included in budget tied to increase in federal minimum wage rate.
After being zeroed out in 2005,
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HB1(budget bill)Systems Benefit Fund
advocate/testimony/letter writing, direct visits with legislative offices Partners: AARP CTD and Brain Injury Assn. of TX as lead advocates
reinstated programs that assist low income Texans who are having trouble paying their utility bills $6.3 M in new funding to end the waiting list for CRS (intensive early rehab of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries)
HB1(budget bill)End wait lists for Comprehensive Rehab Services
HB1(budget bill)Centers for Independent Living
CTD testimonies, fiscal analysis, office visits, $1M to establish 2 new centers for Capitol Day of Advocacy independent living Partners: TACIL, SILC
**voting legislation**
NOT PASSEDKept all onerous “voter ID” bills from passing. These laws HB 218 (Brown/Fraser), HB 1726 would have effectively suppressed (Harper-Brown voting by the elderly and people with disabilities. NOT PASSED CTD, and Advocacy Inc., Killed the worst of the bills designed to HB 690 (Brown), HB 600 (Smith as lead advocates in change Texas Election Code to exempt Wayne), HB 1031 (Chisum),HB 65 oppositionTestimony/direct political subdivisions from having (Leibowitz), HB 101 (Riddle), HB 731 visits with legislative accessible voting machines and meet (Kolkhorst) offices the same accessibility requirements Partners: ADAPT used in federal elections NOT PASSEDWould have created CTD and Advocacy Inc., new obstacles in the voter registration as lead advocates in process which could in turn opposition disenfranchise many voters & practically eliminate voter registration drives. PASSED Provides protections for people with disabilities: requires accessible voting CTD, Advocacy Inc. lead available on demand, public advocates in support /work notification of availability of accessible with senate author on bill voting machines in very small political text, diluting exclusionary subdivisions, maintaining at least one language accessible machine in small political subdivisions and maintaining current accessibility standards for medium and large political subdivisions. CTD, Advocacy Inc., AARP, ADAPT as lead advocates in opposition Testimony/direct visits with legislative offices
HB 626 (Phil King)
HB 556 (Hildebrand)
** Diverse Disability
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Legislation**
CTD initiated bill Partners: Lone Star Adaptive Auto Dealers Association, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Akin Gump PASSED Ensured that new vehicles structurally modified for people with disabilities will be available. NOT PASSED This bill would waive the state’s sovereign immunity to ADA complaints, ending Texas’ offensive practice of claiming immunity for its acts of disability discrimination. Passed in House Civil Practices committee, blocked in Senate State Affairs committee
HB 2216 (Turner/Shapiro) Modified Vehicles
CTD initiated bill testimonies, letter writing, direct visits with HB1299/SB447(Strama/Hinojosa)ADA legislative offices, bill organizer of Capitol Day of advocacy, statewide media campaign
HB5(Berman, Naishtat/Deuell) Tax cuts
HCR 35 (Rodriguez/Ellis) Eliminate Medicare waiting period
SB 439, other bills (Deuell/Hughes/Rodriguez) Don’t Pull the Plug
SB 409 (Janek/Gattis) Epilepsy medications
HB 75 (Naishtat/Wentworth) State court judicial review
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CTD and ADAPT lead disability organizations in PASSEDExtends property tax cuts to support homeowners with disabilities and older Partners: AARP, TX Silver homeowners. Haired Legislature CTD, TX Center for PASSED Disability Studies, UCP Urging the United States Congress to TX, Center for Public enact legislation to eliminate the 24Policy Priorities, ADAPT, month Medicare waiting period for DD Council, American participants in Social Security Heart Association Disability Insurance. All in support CTD in strong support, NOT PASSED testimony, office visits, Advanced directives legislation. CTD committee advocacy advocated for treatment pending Partners: TX Center for transfer—“don’t pull the plug”, Disability Studies, protection for people with disabilities. ADAPT, TX Right to Life NOT PASSED CTD offered testimony in Relating to restrictions on the support interchange of anti-epileptic drugs and Partner: Epilepsy drugs used to treat or prevent seizures. Foundation of South & This bill would have assured that Central Texas, Santos persons with epilepsy would not have Alliances their medications changed for any reason unless specified by their Doctor. CTD in strong support, testimony PASSED Partners: Texas Legal Allows state court judicial review of Services Center, Center for decisions about Medicaid and other
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Public Policy Priorities, Advocacy Inc. SB 744 (Seliger/Rose) Protection from abuse, neglect CTD offered testimony, committee advocacy, in support Partners: Advocacy Inc. CTD in strong support, worked with sponsor, testimonyPartner: Lone Star Amputee RightsCTD in strong support, committee advocacy Partners: ADAPT, Ovations Heatlh CTD in strong support, committee advocacyPartners: ADAPT, Ovations Heatlh
public assistance benefits. PASSED Prohibiting retaliation for reports of possible abuse, neglect, or exploitation of certain persons receiving home and community-based services.
SB458(Watson/Giddings)Workers comp coverage
PASSED Requires workers comp to cover prosthetics and orthotics damaged on the job.
SB 1766 (Watson/Naishtat)Consumer Directed Services
SB 1866 (Zaffirini/Naishtat) Remove HCS cost caps
HB 416 (Strama/Watson) Restroom Access
HB 308 (Kuempel) Accommodations for certain hunters with disabilities
HB 1168 (Menendez, Shapleigh)Standards for small group homes HB 1781 (Harless/Ellis) Accessible Parking
HB 1230 (Rodriguez/Zaffirini) Community living options
PASSED Continues the Consumer Directed Services Workgroup and extends CDS to more consumers PASSED as amendment to SB CTD in support, testimony 10Removes a cost cap on the Home Partner: TX Center for and Community Services waiver, will Disability Studies, ARC of allow people with high needs to more TX easily exit institutions PASSED CTD in support, working provides for restroom access for with sponsors persons with certain medical Partner: Krohn’s & Colitis conditions; for example: employee Foundation restrooms in commercial facilities PASSED CTD offered testimonies & A reasonable accommodation bill. press in supportPartners: Legalized the use of laser sighting Paralyzed Veterans of devices by hunters who are legally America, Texas State Rifle blind. This bill will allow hunters who Association are blind to hunt safer along side a sighted hunter. PASSEDExtends state licensing and CTD in support, testimony regulation to unregulated group homes; provides standards to protect residents PASSED CTD in supportPartners: Provides for easier ID by police of Travis County Constable, proper user of parking placards for Advocacy Inc. people who are disabled. CTD in support, testimony PASSED Partners: TX Center for Increases transition services for young Disability Studies, TX people with disabilities exiting school Advocates
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CTD key support, HB 1738 (Lucio III, Deuell) committee advocacy Medicaid Buy-In for families with kids Partner: TX Center for with disabilities Disability Studies SB 62/HB939 (Zaffirini/Naishtat)Individual development accounts CTD in support, testimony Partners: CPPP, Foundation Communities, TX Mental Health Consumers CTD in support, testimony Partners: Mental Health America, NAMI, TX Mental Health Consumers
NOT PASSED Would remove the disincentive to work for families with kids needing Medicaid services and require families to share in costs. NOT PASSED Would have created subsidized savings accounts for low income households.
SB 568 (Ellis, Smithee) Mental health parity
HB 407 (Chisum/Watson) Home delivered meals
SB 1620 (Van De Putte)
NOT PASSED Would have required equal insurance coverage for mental illnesses as for physical illnesses. PASSED CTD advocated that extra funding CTD participated on could provide home delivered meals to implementation workgroup people with disabilities under 60, a population not allowed under federallyfunded home delivered meals. NOT PASSED CTD initially opposed a provision in CTD testimony this bill that would restrict prescription Partner: Santos Alliances information to consumers; once the provision was removed, CTD supported a study on this issue.
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2007 Student Film Competition Grand Prize Winner, Forgotten Lives, now available for purchase on DVD. Click here for details. Cinema Touching Disability shows that one's spirit need not be limited, either by a disability or society's stereotypes regarding disability, by illustrating how people with disabilities lead both ordinary and
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extraordinary lives, hold diverse attitudes, and possess varied accomplishments and abilities. To learn more about this disability awareness raising project please visit www.ctdfilmfest.org.
CTD's history making and award-winning Team Everest '03 was a huge success! Team Everest twice made history: first when the largest group of people with various disabilities successfully climbed to Mt. Everest Base Camp, at an elevation over 19,000 ft., then again when team Leader Gary Guller became the first man with one arm to summit Mt. Everest! Sign Up! CTD, 316 W. 12th Street Ste. 405, Austin, Texas 78701 Phone: (512) 478-3366 Fax: (512) 478-3370 e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.cotwd.org/2007_legislative_report.html
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12/1/11 10:00 AM
image of Texas Capitol, four pictures of people protesting
Home Page About Us CTD Annual Reports 2009 Film Festival Partners Legislative Reports Professional Services Press Room CTD Projects Annual Convention Consumer Directed Services Action Alerts External Resources Awards CTD Electronic Newsletter: The Messenger RAISE YOUR VOICE! Legless Lizard Tour de Tejas Capitol Ride '05
Legislative Reports
2009 2007 2005
2007 Legislative Report 2007 Legislative Report of CTD/ Coalition of Texans with Disabilities
BILL & SPONSORS CTD’S ROLE/PARTNERS CTD testimonies, letter writing, direct visits with legislative offices, organizer of Capitol Day of advocacy, statewide media campaign Partners: all disability advocacy organizations, AARP CTD testimonies, letter writing, direct visits with legislative offices, organizer of Capitol Day of advocacy, statewide media campaign CTD lead and sole disability WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
HB1(budget bill)Funding for community services/ Reduce community services waiting list by 10%
$267 Million in state funds and federal match to reduce the community services wait list + $162 M state and federal match for demographic growth.
HB1(budget bill)Increase wages for community care attendants
Contingencies included in budget tied to increase in federal minimum wage rate.
After being zeroed out in 2005,
Page 1 of 6
http://www.cotwd.org/2007_legislative_report.html
External Resources
12/1/11 10:00 AM
HB1(budget bill)Systems Benefit Fund
advocate/testimony/letter writing, direct visits with legislative offices Partners: AARP CTD and Brain Injury Assn. of TX as lead advocates
reinstated programs that assist low income Texans who are having trouble paying their utility bills $6.3 M in new funding to end the waiting list for CRS (intensive early rehab of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries)
HB1(budget bill)End wait lists for Comprehensive Rehab Services
HB1(budget bill)Centers for Independent Living
CTD testimonies, fiscal analysis, office visits, $1M to establish 2 new centers for Capitol Day of Advocacy independent living Partners: TACIL, SILC
**voting legislation**
NOT PASSEDKept all onerous “voter ID” bills from passing. These laws HB 218 (Brown/Fraser), HB 1726 would have effectively suppressed (Harper-Brown voting by the elderly and people with disabilities. NOT PASSED CTD, and Advocacy Inc., Killed the worst of the bills designed to HB 690 (Brown), HB 600 (Smith as lead advocates in change Texas Election Code to exempt Wayne), HB 1031 (Chisum),HB 65 oppositionTestimony/direct political subdivisions from having (Leibowitz), HB 101 (Riddle), HB 731 visits with legislative accessible voting machines and meet (Kolkhorst) offices the same accessibility requirements Partners: ADAPT used in federal elections NOT PASSEDWould have created CTD and Advocacy Inc., new obstacles in the voter registration as lead advocates in process which could in turn opposition disenfranchise many voters & practically eliminate voter registration drives. PASSED Provides protections for people with disabilities: requires accessible voting CTD, Advocacy Inc. lead available on demand, public advocates in support /work notification of availability of accessible with senate author on bill voting machines in very small political text, diluting exclusionary subdivisions, maintaining at least one language accessible machine in small political subdivisions and maintaining current accessibility standards for medium and large political subdivisions. CTD, Advocacy Inc., AARP, ADAPT as lead advocates in opposition Testimony/direct visits with legislative offices
HB 626 (Phil King)
HB 556 (Hildebrand)
** Diverse Disability
http://www.cotwd.org/2007_legislative_report.html Page 2 of 6
External Resources
12/1/11 10:00 AM
Legislation**
CTD initiated bill Partners: Lone Star Adaptive Auto Dealers Association, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Akin Gump PASSED Ensured that new vehicles structurally modified for people with disabilities will be available. NOT PASSED This bill would waive the state’s sovereign immunity to ADA complaints, ending Texas’ offensive practice of claiming immunity for its acts of disability discrimination. Passed in House Civil Practices committee, blocked in Senate State Affairs committee
HB 2216 (Turner/Shapiro) Modified Vehicles
CTD initiated bill testimonies, letter writing, direct visits with HB1299/SB447(Strama/Hinojosa)ADA legislative offices, bill organizer of Capitol Day of advocacy, statewide media campaign
HB5(Berman, Naishtat/Deuell) Tax cuts
HCR 35 (Rodriguez/Ellis) Eliminate Medicare waiting period
SB 439, other bills (Deuell/Hughes/Rodriguez) Don’t Pull the Plug
SB 409 (Janek/Gattis) Epilepsy medications
HB 75 (Naishtat/Wentworth) State court judicial review
http://www.cotwd.org/2007_legislative_report.html
CTD and ADAPT lead disability organizations in PASSEDExtends property tax cuts to support homeowners with disabilities and older Partners: AARP, TX Silver homeowners. Haired Legislature CTD, TX Center for PASSED Disability Studies, UCP Urging the United States Congress to TX, Center for Public enact legislation to eliminate the 24Policy Priorities, ADAPT, month Medicare waiting period for DD Council, American participants in Social Security Heart Association Disability Insurance. All in support CTD in strong support, NOT PASSED testimony, office visits, Advanced directives legislation. CTD committee advocacy advocated for treatment pending Partners: TX Center for transfer—“don’t pull the plug”, Disability Studies, protection for people with disabilities. ADAPT, TX Right to Life NOT PASSED CTD offered testimony in Relating to restrictions on the support interchange of anti-epileptic drugs and Partner: Epilepsy drugs used to treat or prevent seizures. Foundation of South & This bill would have assured that Central Texas, Santos persons with epilepsy would not have Alliances their medications changed for any reason unless specified by their Doctor. CTD in strong support, testimony PASSED Partners: Texas Legal Allows state court judicial review of Services Center, Center for decisions about Medicaid and other
Page 3 of 6
External Resources
12/1/11 10:00 AM
Public Policy Priorities, Advocacy Inc. SB 744 (Seliger/Rose) Protection from abuse, neglect CTD offered testimony, committee advocacy, in support Partners: Advocacy Inc. CTD in strong support, worked with sponsor, testimonyPartner: Lone Star Amputee RightsCTD in strong support, committee advocacy Partners: ADAPT, Ovations Heatlh CTD in strong support, committee advocacyPartners: ADAPT, Ovations Heatlh
public assistance benefits. PASSED Prohibiting retaliation for reports of possible abuse, neglect, or exploitation of certain persons receiving home and community-based services.
SB458(Watson/Giddings)Workers comp coverage
PASSED Requires workers comp to cover prosthetics and orthotics damaged on the job.
SB 1766 (Watson/Naishtat)Consumer Directed Services
SB 1866 (Zaffirini/Naishtat) Remove HCS cost caps
HB 416 (Strama/Watson) Restroom Access
HB 308 (Kuempel) Accommodations for certain hunters with disabilities
HB 1168 (Menendez, Shapleigh)Standards for small group homes HB 1781 (Harless/Ellis) Accessible Parking
HB 1230 (Rodriguez/Zaffirini) Community living options
PASSED Continues the Consumer Directed Services Workgroup and extends CDS to more consumers PASSED as amendment to SB CTD in support, testimony 10Removes a cost cap on the Home Partner: TX Center for and Community Services waiver, will Disability Studies, ARC of allow people with high needs to more TX easily exit institutions PASSED CTD in support, working provides for restroom access for with sponsors persons with certain medical Partner: Krohn’s & Colitis conditions; for example: employee Foundation restrooms in commercial facilities PASSED CTD offered testimonies & A reasonable accommodation bill. press in supportPartners: Legalized the use of laser sighting Paralyzed Veterans of devices by hunters who are legally America, Texas State Rifle blind. This bill will allow hunters who Association are blind to hunt safer along side a sighted hunter. PASSEDExtends state licensing and CTD in support, testimony regulation to unregulated group homes; provides standards to protect residents PASSED CTD in supportPartners: Provides for easier ID by police of Travis County Constable, proper user of parking placards for Advocacy Inc. people who are disabled. CTD in support, testimony PASSED Partners: TX Center for Increases transition services for young Disability Studies, TX people with disabilities exiting school Advocates
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http://www.cotwd.org/2007_legislative_report.html
External Resources
12/1/11 10:00 AM
CTD key support, HB 1738 (Lucio III, Deuell) committee advocacy Medicaid Buy-In for families with kids Partner: TX Center for with disabilities Disability Studies SB 62/HB939 (Zaffirini/Naishtat)Individual development accounts CTD in support, testimony Partners: CPPP, Foundation Communities, TX Mental Health Consumers CTD in support, testimony Partners: Mental Health America, NAMI, TX Mental Health Consumers
NOT PASSED Would remove the disincentive to work for families with kids needing Medicaid services and require families to share in costs. NOT PASSED Would have created subsidized savings accounts for low income households.
SB 568 (Ellis, Smithee) Mental health parity
HB 407 (Chisum/Watson) Home delivered meals
SB 1620 (Van De Putte)
NOT PASSED Would have required equal insurance coverage for mental illnesses as for physical illnesses. PASSED CTD advocated that extra funding CTD participated on could provide home delivered meals to implementation workgroup people with disabilities under 60, a population not allowed under federallyfunded home delivered meals. NOT PASSED CTD initially opposed a provision in CTD testimony this bill that would restrict prescription Partner: Santos Alliances information to consumers; once the provision was removed, CTD supported a study on this issue.
search
search term find
2007 Student Film Competition Grand Prize Winner, Forgotten Lives, now available for purchase on DVD. Click here for details. Cinema Touching Disability shows that one's spirit need not be limited, either by a disability or society's stereotypes regarding disability, by illustrating how people with disabilities lead both ordinary and
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extraordinary lives, hold diverse attitudes, and possess varied accomplishments and abilities. To learn more about this disability awareness raising project please visit www.ctdfilmfest.org.
CTD's history making and award-winning Team Everest '03 was a huge success! Team Everest twice made history: first when the largest group of people with various disabilities successfully climbed to Mt. Everest Base Camp, at an elevation over 19,000 ft., then again when team Leader Gary Guller became the first man with one arm to summit Mt. Everest! Sign Up! CTD, 316 W. 12th Street Ste. 405, Austin, Texas 78701 Phone: (512) 478-3366 Fax: (512) 478-3370 e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.cotwd.org/2007_legislative_report.html
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