(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor wrote the following column to explain why the State is challenging a new Final Rule related to the Rehabilitation Act, adopted last year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To be clear: this case is not asking the court to eliminate the Rehabilitation Act […]
The Justice Department announced Tuesday its findings that Alaska violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide an accessible ballot for in-person voting, selecting inaccessible polling places for federal, state and local elections and maintaining an inaccessible elections website. The ADA requires that states’ voting services, programs and activities be […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) reintroduced a bipartisan bill to better support seniors and people who experience disabilities who are struggling with eating disorders. The bipartisan Nutrition CARE Act would expand access to medical care for Medicare beneficiaries with eating disorders by including coverage of outpatient medical nutrition therapy through Medicare […]
JUNEAU, Alaska— Following a regulatory change that went into effect Friday, Alaska employers are no longer allowed to pay less than minimum wage to workers who experience disabilities. In repealing 8 AAC 15.120, Alaska joins New Hampshire and Maryland as the first states in the nation to eliminate payment of subminimum wages for persons with […]