Legislation Flashcards
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act banned
discrimination based on disability in all parts of public life. People with disabilities could no longer be denied access to jobs, schools and transportation.
What is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act?
The EMTALA requires hospitals with emergency departments to provide a medical screening examination to any individual who comes to the emergency department and requests such an examination, and prohibits hospitals with emergency departments from refusing to examine or treat.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996?
HIPAA is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
FERPA is a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education.
What is the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act?
FECA provides workers’ compensation coverage for employment-related injuries and occupational diseases. Benefits include wage replacement, payment for medical care, and where necessary, medical and vocational rehabilitation assistance in returning to work and survivor benefits.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
The Rehabilitation Act replaces the Vocational Rehabilitation Act:
- to extend and revise the authorization of grants to states for vocational rehabilitation services, with special emphasis on services to individuals with the most severe disabilities
- to expand special federal responsibilities and research and training programs with respect to individuals with disabilities,
- to create linkage between state vocational rehabilitation programs and workforce investment activities carried out under title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998
- to establish special responsibilities for the Secretary of Education for coordination of all activities with respect to individuals with disabilities within and across programs
administered by the federal government
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
IDEA is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.
What is the Office for Civil Rights?
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
provides additional resources of interest for individuals with disabilities and their families.
OCR does not enforce the IDEA; however, OCR does enforce the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Title II rights of IDEA-eligible students with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
An entitlement program for people with low income or under the poverty level.
It is funded through a combination of state and federal dollars.
What is Medicare?
Provides health insurance for all people eligible for Social Security benefits over 65 and people under 65 with disabilities
What is Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015?
Provides a new framework for reimbursing clinicians who successfully demonstrate value over volume in patient care.
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides health coverage to eligible children through Medicaid and separate CHIP programs administered by the state. It is funded by state and federal government.
What is the Social Security Act?
Was established to provide financial assistance to people in their old age to be self-supporting.
Comes with the expectation that everyone will contribute through income taxes.
The money collected through the Social Security Tax was to be used to pay out monetary benefits to people over 65.
What is Wyatt v. Stickney?
The Wyatt v. Stickney lawsuit created minimum standards for the care and rehabilitation of people with mental illness and mental retardation that have been emulated throughout the nation.
Johnson ruled in 1971 that all patients held involuntarily in state hospitals had a right to treatment that might enable them to regain their freedom. He created a set of minimum standards, including staff and treatment protocols, that raised the bar for treatment in Alabama.
What is the Olmstead Decision?
People with disabilities have a qualified right to receive state funded supports and services in the community rather than institutions.
