118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 5705AACCENT Act

To support national training, technical assistance, and resource centers, to ensure that all individuals with significant expressive communication disabilities have access to the augmentative and alternative communication the individuals need to interact with others, in order to learn, work, socialize, and take advantage of all aspects of life in the United States.

Health
Introduced Sep 26, 2023
Last action Sep 27, 2023
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Sep 26, 2023
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Referred
Sep 27, 2023
Education and Workforce · T&I
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Senate
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill establishes a grant program to create national resource centers on augmentative and alternative communication. Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award three grants in geographically diverse regions to establish a network of these resource centers for individuals with significant expressive communication disabilities, particularly through improved access to tools, technologies, strategies, training, and other methods. Significant expressive communication disabilities are communication disabilities (other than communication disabilities that are primarily visual or auditory in nature) that prevent or significantly limit an individual fro...

Provisions · 13 sectionsIntroduced in House
Timeline · 4 actions
Sep 27, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Sep 26, 2023
Introduced in House
Sep 26, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 26, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.