AID Local Government Leadership Act

(a) Findings. Congress finds the following:

(1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates approximately 1 in 4 adults in the United States has a disability.

(2) Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the labor force participation rate of people with disabilities is consistently half of that of people without disabilities.

(3) The National Council on Independent Living reports that people with disabilities are underrepresented in elected offices.

(4) Local governments are required, under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, to provide reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform official work duties.

(b) Purposes. The purposes of this Act are—

(1) to support local governments for jurisdictions that elect or appoint a person with a disability, in providing the accommodations needed for the local elected or appointed official to carry out the official’s official work duties, to enable the governments to meet the requirement described in subsection (a)(4); and

(2) to build the capacity of local governments, who otherwise do not have adequate funding to provide the accommodations, to have adequate and consistent funding to provide the accommodations for such officials.