ADA Sign Depot Blog — The ADA and Your Business
After it passed the California Legislature unanimously, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill giving protections to small businesses against frivolous Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits.
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An act to amend Sections 55.53 and 55.56 of the Civil Code, and to amend Sections 4459.7, 4459.8, and 8299.06 of, to add Section 65941.6 to, and to add Article 4 (commencing with Section 65946) to Chapter 4.5 of Division 1 of Title 7 of, the Government Code, relating to disability access, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
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His hotel didn’t understand what ‘wheelchair accessible’ meant. So he built an app.
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on May 10, 2016
“Typically, when a hotel advertises itself as wheelchair accessible, they are looking specifically at the hotel rooms themselves,” he says. “Rarely can you find specific accessibility information about the exterior of the hotel itself or access to the other amenities in the hotel such as the breakfast room, restaurant, or bar.”
State and federal lawmakers have launched several pieces of legislation aimed squarely at people they believe are manipulating well intentioned discrimination laws to pad their own bank accounts.
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California lawmakers: single-occupancy bathrooms to be relabeled with “all gender” signage
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Apr 06, 2016
In a unanimous, bipartisan vote on Tuesday, California lawmakers advanced a bill that would require every single-occupancy bathroom in the state to be relabeled with “all gender” signage, making it clear that none of those spaces are exclusively for men or women.