Access to Free Speech for All Act or the AFSFA Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to support national resource centers, as well as to establish an advisory committee, to address augmentative and alternative communication devices, services, and supports (which supplement or replace speech or sign language for individuals with disabilities that inhibit those forms of communication).
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Social Welfare
Advisory bodiesDisability and paralysisDisability assistanceElementary and secondary educationHearing, speech, and vision careHigher educationLanguage artsScience and engineering educationSpecial educationTeaching, teachers, curricula
AFSFA Act
USA116th CongressS-1836| Senate
| Updated: 6/13/2019
Access to Free Speech for All Act or the AFSFA Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to support national resource centers, as well as to establish an advisory committee, to address augmentative and alternative communication devices, services, and supports (which supplement or replace speech or sign language for individuals with disabilities that inhibit those forms of communication).
Advisory bodiesDisability and paralysisDisability assistanceElementary and secondary educationHearing, speech, and vision careHigher educationLanguage artsScience and engineering educationSpecial educationTeaching, teachers, curricula