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HR 4761 117th Congress House

Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act

Official title: To amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to ensure workplace choice and opportunity for young adults with disabilities.

Introduced: September 28, 2021 Introduced by: Grothman, Glenn Republican · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
Labor and Employment
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jul 28, 2021
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act

This bill relaxes requirements that allow entities with a special wage certificate to pay subminimum wages to individuals with disabilities.

Specifically, the bill eliminates a requirement that an individual with disabilities who is younger than 24 receive pre-employment transition services and meet specified vocational rehabilitation criteria before beginning subminimum wage work.

The bill also relaxes career counseling and service referral requirements that apply to an individual with disabilities who is paid at a subminimum wage. Current law requires an entity to ensure that an individual employed by the entity at a subminimum wage receives periodic career counseling, information, and referrals to employment-related supports and resources in the area provided by the designated state agency. Under the bill, this requirement is satisfied if the employer makes documented effort to contact the state agency for those resources on behalf of the employee and the state agency fails to respond.

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Smith, Jason
Missouri · Sep 28, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4761: Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4761/
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"H.R. 4761: Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4761/.
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H.R. 4761, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4761/.
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