Important National call on FEMA Recoupment Waiver Process. FEMA has set up new procedures for waivers of FEMA overpayments. On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at 4pm Eastern Time, LSC will host a National Disaster Network call during which representatives of FEMA will discuss FEMA’s implementation of waiver of debts pursuant to the Disaster Assistance Recoupment [...]

It looks like charter schools are coming to Mississippi. We have got to get it right! We are moving too fast and many children will be left out and not educated. Historically children with disabilities and children with emotional and discipline issues are locked out. We Cannot Allow The Charter School to Cherry Pick Their [...]

US Access Board new accessibility standards for medical equipment Comment by June 8 The US Access Board is proposing some new accessibility standards for medical diagnostic equipment. The standards are designed to ensure that people with disabilities can enter, use, and exit equipment independently, and would cover transfer and stand supports, maneuvering space for wheelchairs, [...]

Dear Partners, We are excited to announce the Affordable Care Act Anniversary Challenge, a contest designed to celebrate the successes of health reform as we mark the second anniversary of the law’s passage. The goal of the contest is to use letters to the editor to illustrate how the Affordable Care Act has benefited people [...]

To our Region 4 Stakeholders EPA Seeks Comment on its Draft Environmental Justice and Equitable Development Report Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development Communities across the country are integrating smart growth and environmental justice approaches to achieve development that is healthy, environmentally and economically sustainable, [...]

The National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths is working with Congress to pass the Protect Our Kids Act and we are writing today to ask for your support. To join this growing list click here. The Protect Our Kids Act The bi-partisan Protect Our Kids Act (S. 1984 & H.R. 3653) was introduced in [...]

This morning (February 3), the House Ways and Means Committee passed HR 3864, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Financing Act of 2012. This bill would make dramatic changes to the way public transportation is funded, pulling $25 billion in funding. For three decades, public transportation has been funded through federal gas taxes, receiving 2.86 [...]

Rep. Bill Denny authored HB118. This bill would prohibit anyone who is not a registered voter from assisting voters at polls. This bill means that a individual with a disabilities who need assistance to vote – living in the community would have to have a registered voter to assist them. Many of our citizens are [...]

Attached is a Voter ID bill, House Bill 121, filed by Rep. Bill Denny and referred to the House Apportionment and Elections Committee. Download the Bill filed by Rep. Bill Denny This bill is intended as enabling legislation for the Voter ID referendum which passed in the November 2011 election. Highlighted are some of the [...]

Legislative Update Week January 30 – February 3 House and Senate Activities Both the House and the Senate convened briefly at 9:00am. The only business handled by the Senate was committee announcements. A schedule of both House and Senate committee meetings on Monday, February 6, is attached. Rep. Cecil Brown’s (D- Jackson) motion to reconsider [...]