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AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1990, AS AMENDED
Following is the current text of the Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1990 (ADA), including changes made by the ADA Amendments Act
of 2008 (P.L. 110-325), which became effective on January 1, 2009.
The ADA was originally enacted in public law format and later
rearranged and published in the United States Code. The United
States Code is divided into titles and chapters that classify laws
according to their subject matter. Titles I, II, III, and V of the
original law are codified in Title 42, chapter 126, of the United
States Code beginning at section 12101. Title IV of the original
law is codified in Title 47, chapter 5, of the United States Code.
Since this codification resulted in changes in the numbering
system, the Table of Contents provides the section numbers of the
ADA as originally enacted in brackets after the codified section
numbers and headings. The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis
of disability in employment, state and local government, public
accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and
telecommunications. It also applies to the United States Congress.
To be protected by the ADA, one must have a disability or have a
relationship or association with an individual with a disability.
An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as a person
who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits
one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or
record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by
others as having such an impairment. The ADA does not specifically
name all of the impairments that are covered. Full text of Law. (42
pages)
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