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Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act
To amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to ensure workplace choice and opportunity for young adults with disabilities.
Summary
- Changes the age requirement for subminimum wage employment of individuals with disabilities from age 24 and younger to age 18 and older.
- Requires that individuals with disabilities must choose to accept subminimum wage employment.
- Requires employers to make documented efforts to contact state vocational rehabilitation units to help individuals access regular employment services before employing them at subminimum wage.
- Allows employers to satisfy their obligations if they make documented efforts to contact state units and the state fails to provide services.
- Requires documentation of employment decisions to be made available to employers when individuals with disabilities are employed by them.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] (R-AR)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Tom Cotton’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $80,461
- APOLLO MANAGEMENT $25,600
- APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $19,800
- BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $13,200
- APOLLO $11,600
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Actions (2)
- Jul 15, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
- Jul 15, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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Text versions (1)
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 15, 2026
Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to ensure workplace choice and opportunity for young adults with disabilities.
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 “Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act”.
SEC. 2. USE OF SUBMINIMUM WAGE.
Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794g) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)—
(i) by striking “No” and inserting “Any”;
(ii) by striking “24 or younger” and inserting “18 or older”; and
(iii) by striking “unless” and inserting “if”; and
(B) by inserting at the end the following new paragraph:
“(3) The individual chooses to accept employment with such entity.”;
(2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking “24” and inserting “17”;
(3) in subsection (c), by inserting at the end the following new paragraph:
“(4) Other exceptions.—The entity described in subsection
(a) can satisfy the requirements of paragraph (1)(A) with respect to an individual, if—
“(A) such entity makes documented efforts, at the intervals described in paragraph (2), to contact on behalf of the individual, the designated State unit for the counseling, information, and referrals described in paragraph (1)(A); and
“(B) such designated State unit fails to provide such counseling, information, and referrals after such documented efforts.”; and
(4) in subsection (d)(1), by inserting before the period at the end the following: “and, if such individual is employed by an entity described in subsection (a) at the time such documentation is made pursuant to such process, to make available copies of such documentation to the entity”.
SEC. 3. APPLICATION.
The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to the employment of an individual on or after the date of enactment of this Act. <all>
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