The ADA Archive

The ADA’s Legislative History

Core Materials from the 100th Congress

1988

• Oversight Hearing on H.R. 4498, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1988, Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor (Boston, Massachusetts), October 24, 1988

  • Transcript of Hearing

•  On S. 2345 to establish a clear and comprehensible prohibition of discrimination on the basis of handicap, Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Handicapped of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor, September 27, 1988

  • Transcript of S. Hearing 100-926

  • C-SPAN video of the Hearing

• President’s Committee on the Employment of Handicapped, May 6, 1988, C-SPAN video of the Meeting.

• S. 2345, 100th Cong. (1988); H.R.4498, 100th Cong. (1988)

  • Senator Weicker and Representative Coelho introduced the first versions of the ADA.