Enabling Laws

Protection & Advocacy for Persons with Developmental Disabilties (PADD)

Statute: Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights (DD) Act of 2000 [Rich Text version]

Regs [Rich Text]

Revised Monitoring and Technical Assistance Review System Guidelines

• Recommendations to the Administration on Developmental Disabilities Concerning Amendments to the DD Act Regulations (PDF) (August 2002)
• Analysis of the DD Act (December 2000)

Client Assistance Program (CAP)

Statute: Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, Title I, Part B, Sec. 112; 29 U.S.C. 732. [Rich Text version]

Regs [Rich Text]

General Information on the CAP statutory program, including staff contacts at the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and funding levels

Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)

Statute [Rich Text]:Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act, as amended in 2000

Regulations Implementing the PAIMI Act General Information about the PAIMI Program, and related Articles, Web Links and Resources (Link to Center for Mental Health Services, Department of Health and Human Services) [Rich Text version]

Implementing Authority under the PAIMI Act to Serve Persons with Mental Illness Living in the Community – Analysis of Policy and Management Implications (2001)

Community Services Authority Under the PAIMI Act – Summary of Strategy Discussion  by P&A CEOs (2001)

ALR article: Validity, Construction, and Operation of Protection and Advocacy For Mentally Ill Individuals Act, 191 A.L.R. Fed. 205,

Protection & Advocacy for Individual Rights (PAIR)

Statute[Rich Text]: Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights (PAIR) Program of the Rehabilitation Act

Regulations Implementing the PAIR Program [Rich Text]

General Information on the PAIR Program, including Staff Contacts at the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and Funding Levels (link to RSA, Department of Education)

Protection & Advocacy for Assistive Technology (PAAT)

Statute: Public Law 108-364: The Assistive Technology Act of 2004 [Rich Text]

Protection & Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS)

Statute: Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, as amended (“TWWIIA”), 42 U.S.C. § 1320b-21 [Rich Text version]

Regulations Implementing the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program under TWWIIA, 20 CFR Part 411, 66 CFR § 67370

Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI)

Statute: Title XIII of the Tramatic Brain Injury Act, as part of the Children's Health Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-310) [Rich Text version]

Protection & Advocacy for Voting Access (PAVA)

Statute [Rich Text]: Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access program of the Help America Vote Act