Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 126 — Equal Opportunity for Individuals with Disabilities
§ 12103. Additional definitions
Statutory text
As used in this chapter:
Auxiliary aids and services
The term “auxiliary aids and services” includes—
qualified interpreters or other effective methods of making aurally delivered materials available to individuals with hearing impairments;
qualified readers, taped texts, or other effective methods of making visually delivered materials available to individuals with visual impairments;
acquisition or modification of equipment or devices; and
other similar services and actions.
State
The term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.”.
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.
Pub. L. 101–336 § 4 · 104 Stat. 327
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 12103
(Pub. L. 101–336, § 4, as added Pub. L. 110–325, § 4(b), Sept. 25, 2008, 122 Stat. 3556.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–336, § 4, as added Pub. L. 110–325, § 4(b), Sept. 25, 2008, 122 Stat. 3556.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(4) unlike individuals who have experienced discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, or age, individuals who have experienced discrimination on the basis of disability have often had no legal recourse to redress such discrimination;
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 101–336, , 104 Stat. 327, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 12101 of this title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , see section 8 of Pub. L. 110–325, set out as an Effective Date of 2008 Amendment note under section 705 of Title 29, Labor.
Executive Documents
Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Credits
(Pub. L. 101–336, § 4, as added Pub. L. 110–325, § 4(b), , 122 Stat. 3556.)