H.R. 9195
Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act
Sponsor: Morgan McGarvey
30 cosponsors
- Adelita S. Grijalva
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Andrew R. Garbarino
- Angie Craig
- April McClain Delaney
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick
- Dwight Evans
- George Whitesides
- Gwen Moore
- Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.
- Jahana Hayes
- Jamie Raskin
- Janice D. Schakowsky
- John H. Rutherford
- John W. Mannion
- Joseph D. Morelle
- Josh Gottheimer
- Josh Riley
- Kevin Mullin
- Lloyd Doggett
- Mark Takano
- Nicole Malliotakis
- Paul Tonko
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
- Scott H. Peters
- Sean Casten
- Seth Moulton
- Summer L. Lee
- Ted Lieu
- Terri A. Sewell
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act
This bill expands special education and related services for children and youth who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind.
For example, the bill requires states to more specifically identify and evaluate children who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind to better allow for the provision of appropriate services.
In addition, a state's closure of a specialized school serving children who are blind or deaf shall result in a reduction of its financial support for special education and related services.
The bill also authorizes support, including grants for training special education personnel, to prepare individuals to become qualified teachers and early intervention specialists for children who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind.
Finally, the bill establishes within the Department of Education the Anne Sullivan Macy Center on Visual Disability and Educational Excellence to better support students with visual disabilities receiving special education and related services.
Text of the bill
I IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND RELATED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WHO ARE DEAF, HARD OF HEARING, OR DEAFDISABLED
A General Provisions
B Improving the Effectiveness of Early Intervention for Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deafdisabled Infants and Toddlers and Their Families
C National Activities To Improve Education of Children With Disabilities
II IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND RELATED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED
A General Provisions
B Specialized Early Childhood Intervention Services to Infants and Toddlers Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
C Anne Sullivan Macy Center on Visual Disability and Educational Excellence
(a) Coordination of research. The Secretary shall ensure that research activities authorized and carried out pursuant to this subtitle are conducted or funded in coordination as appropriate with the National Center for Special Education Research and other divisions within the Department of Education responsible for research activities.
(b) Relationship to services offered by the American printing house for the blind. Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to limit or otherwise condition the use of any funds appropriated pursuant to the Act to Promote the Education of the Blind (20 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) and no funds made available pursuant to this subtitle shall be used by any State or local educational agency to supplant the use of funds appropriated under such Act.
(c) Relationship to funding for National Center on Deaf-Blindness, State deafblind projects, and the Helen Keller National Center. The Secretary shall ensure that any activities conducted or funded by the Anne Sullivan Macy Center directly serving individuals who are deafblind are coordinated as appropriate with the National Center on Deaf-Blindness, State deafblind projects, and the Helen Keller National Center. No funds made available pursuant to this title may be used to support or supplant activities that are otherwise the sole responsibility of the National Center on Deaf-Blindness and State deafblind projects pursuant to sections 663(c)(8)(A) and 682(d)(1)(A) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1463(c)(8)(A); 20 U.S.C. 1482(d)(1)(A)). No funds made available pursuant to this title may be used to support activities that are otherwise the sole responsibility of the Helen Keller National Center or may be used to supplant funds for such Center.
(d) Work product. All matter produced by the Anne Sullivan Macy Center on Visual Disability and Educational Excellence shall be the property of the United States Government, except that entities comprising the consortium of entities described in section 212(b) shall be individually free, within the terms of the contract or cooperative agreement described in section 212(a), to reproduce, or author copyrighted derivative works, using such matter.
III IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND RELATED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WHO ARE DEAFBLIND
A General Provisions
B Improving the Effectiveness of Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers who are Deafblind and Their Families
C National Activities To Improve the Education of Children with Disabilities