Title 29 — Labor
Part B · Chapter 16 — Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services
§ 796j. “Older individual who is blind” defined
Statutory text
For purposes of this part, the term “older individual who is blind” means an individual age 55 or older whose significant visual impairment makes competitive employment extremely difficult to attain but for whom independent living goals are feasible.
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.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Pub. L. 93–112 title VII § 751 · 87 Stat. 355
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 796j
(Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 751, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 410, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1237.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 751, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 410, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1237.)
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Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 796j, Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 751, as added Pub. L. 102–569, title VII, § 703(a), , 106 Stat. 4464, defined “older individual who is blind”, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–220.
Credits
(Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 751, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 410, , 112 Stat. 1237.)