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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 16 — Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services

§ 717. Client assistance information

Statutory text

All programs, including community rehabilitation programs, and projects, that provide services to individuals with disabilities under this chapter shall advise such individuals who are applicants for or recipients of the services, or the applicants’ representatives or individuals’ representatives, of the availability and purposes of the client assistance program under section 732 of this title, including information on means of seeking assistance under such program.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Rehabilitation Act of 1973

    Pub. L. 93–112 § 20 · 87 Stat. 355

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 717

    Pub. L. 93–112, § 20, formerly § 18, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 403, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1114

    Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 93–112, § 20, formerly § 18, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 403, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1114

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (18) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the Policy planning, trainee participation. State agency designated pursuant to clause (1) (or each State agency if two are so designated) and any sole local agency administering the plan in a political subdivision of the State will take into account, in connection with matters of general policy arising in the administration of the plan, the views of individuals and groups thereof who are recipients of vocational rehabilitation services (or, in appropriate cases, their parents or guardians), working in the field of vocational rehabilitation, and providers of vocational rehabilitation services; and

  2. Pub. L. 105–277 § 101(f)(tVIII)(s402)(b)(5) · 112 Stat. 2681

    Amended · 29 U.S.C. § 717

    Pub. L. 105–277, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 402(b)(5)], made technical amendment to section designation and catchline in the original

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 105–277, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 402(b)(5)], made technical amendment to section designation and catchline in the original.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 101. For programs, projects or activities in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, provided as follows, to be effective as if it had been enacted into law as the regular appropriations Act: AN ACT Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 718a of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–220.

A prior section 717, Pub. L. 93–112, § 18, as added Pub. L. 99–506, title I, § 109(a), , 100 Stat. 1813; amended Pub. L. 100–630, title II, § 201(g), , 102 Stat. 3304; Pub. L. 102–569, title I, § 108(b), , 106 Stat. 4363, related to review of applications, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 403, , 112 Stat. 1093. See section 715 of this title.

A prior section 20 of Pub. L. 93–112 was classified to section 718a of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–220.

Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–277, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 402(b)(5)], made technical amendment to section designation and catchline in the original.

Credits

1998 · 2 acts
  1. 1998Pub. L. 93–112, § 20, formerly § 18, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 403, , 112 Stat. 1114
  2. 1998renumbered § 20 and amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 402(a)(1), (b)(5)], , 112 Stat. 2681–337, 2681–412, 2681–413.
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(Pub. L. 93–112, § 20, formerly § 18, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 403, , 112 Stat. 1114; renumbered § 20 and amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 402(a)(1), (b)(5)], , 112 Stat. 2681–337, 2681–412, 2681–413.)

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