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Protecting Small Businesses from Predatory Website Lawsuits Act
To amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to require exhaustion of administrative remedies for certain claims, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the Americans with Disabilities Act to require individuals to exhaust administrative remedies before filing civil lawsuits for website or mobile application accessibility violations. An individual must first notify a website or app owner of non-compliance with ADA standards and provide the owner 180 days to fix the issue. If the owner does not comply within 180 days, the individual can file a complaint with the Department of Justice within a 180-day window, which has 360 days to investigate. If the Attorney General does not make a determination within the 360-day period, it is considered a finding of compliance. Only after this administrative process is completed can an individual proceed to file a civil action for website accessibility non-compliance.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6] (R-MO)
4 cosponsors
- Rep. Gooden, Lance [R-TX-5] (R-TX)
- Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17] (R-NY)
- Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-23] (R-CA)
- Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2] (R-MO)
Actions (2)
- Feb 3, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
- Feb 3, 2026 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 3, 2026
Mr. Graves introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to require exhaustion of administrative remedies for certain claims, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Small Businesses from Predatory Website Lawsuits Act”.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1990 RELATING TO CONSUMER FACING WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS OWNED OR OPERATED BY A PRIVATE ENTITY.
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new title:
“TITLE VI—CONSUMER FACING WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS OWNED OR OPERATED BY A PRIVATE ENTITY
“SEC. 601. ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES.
“(a) Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies.—No individual may commence a civil action for the failure of a consumer facing website or mobile application to comply with the title III until all administrative remedies under this section have been exhausted.
“(b) Notice to Owner or Operator.—
“(1) Notice.—Prior to filing a complaint with the Attorney General under subsection (c), an individual must first notify the private owner or operator of a consumer facing website or mobile application that such website or mobile application is not in compliance with the standard for compliance under title III.
“(2) Administrative complaint.—If, within 180 days after receiving notice under subsection (b), the owner or operator of a consumer facing website or mobile application fails to bring such website or such application into compliance with title III, an individual may file a complaint with the Department.
“(3) Copy of complaint.—If an individual files a complaint with the Department of Justice (referred to in this title as the ‘Department’) under paragraph (1), a copy of such complaint shall be provided to the owner or operator of a consumer facing website or mobile application.
“(c) Reporting of Violations to Attorney General.—
“(1) Deadline to file complaint.—If an individual files a complaint with the Department, such complaint shall be filed within the 180-day period beginning on the date after the 180- day period under subsection (b)(1) has terminated.
“(2) Investigation by attorney general.—Upon receiving a complaint of an alleged violation, the Attorney General shall complete an investigation within 360 days to determine whether a violation exists.
“(3) Final agency determination.—
“(A) Compliance determination.—For the purpose of determining whether an individual may commence a civil action described in subsection (a), a determination that the owner or operator of a consumer facing website or mobile application is in compliance with title III during the 360-day period after a complaint is filed with the Department is a final determination.
“(B) No determination.—For the purpose of determining whether an individual may commence a civil action described in subsection (a), the failure of the Attorney General to make a determination during the 360-day period after a complaint is filed with the Department shall be considered a final determination of compliance.
“SEC. 602. DEFINITIONS.
“In this Act:
“(1) Consumer facing website.—The term ‘consumer facing website’ means any website that is purposefully made accessible to the public for commercial purposes.
“(2) Mobile applications.—The term ‘mobile application’ means a consumer facing software application that can be executed on a mobile platform, or a web-based software application that is tailored to a mobile platform but is executed on a server.”.
SEC. 3. CLERICAL AMENDMENT.
The table of contents of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 515 the following new item:
“TITLE VI—CONSUMER FACING WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS OWNED OR OPERATED BY A PRIVATE ENTITY
“Sec. 601. Administrative remedies. “Sec. 602. Definitions.”. <all>
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