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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

Lobbying for NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

 Filing 3rd Quarter - Report
Reporting period
3rd Quarter 2025
July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 14, 2025
Expenses
$10,000.00
What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.
Client based in
Maryland

Official filing document

 Government bodies contacted 8
  • Education, Dept of
  • Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  • Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
  • Labor, Dept of (DOL)
  • SENATE
  • Social Security Administration (SSA)
  • Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

 Bills named in this filing 9
  • S 2438
    Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act
  • HR 4771
    Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act
  • HR 1529
    Access Technology Affordability Act of 2025
  • S 1918
    Access Technology Affordability Act of 2025
  • HR 5605
    Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act of 2025
  • HR 4206
    CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
  • S 1261
    CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
  • HR 3417
    Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025
  • HR 1175
    Blind Americans Return to Work Act of 2025
 Lobbying activity 7
Education

Increase non-visual access to technology and instructional material used in K-12 and post-secondary education.

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Eliminate authorization to pay sub-minimum wages to people with disabilities by repealing Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act. S. 2438 and H.R. 4771. Protecting business opportunities for blind licensed vendors under the Randolph-Sheppard Act--Rest area commercialization would result in a loss of employment opportunities for blind vendors.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Expanding opportunities for blind people to purchase access technology through the establishment of a refundable tax credit. Access Technology Affordability Act, H.R. 1529 and S. 1918.

Transportation

Working to ensure that fully autonomous vehicles are non-visually accessible to blind Americans. Protect the right of blind people to travel with service animals on airlines.

Health Issues

To ensure that home-based medical devices are non-visually accessible to blind Americans. Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act, H.R. 5605. Make Medicare telehealth expansion permanent, CONNECT for Health Act, H.R. 4206 and S. 1261.

Computer Industry

To ensure that websites and software applications are non-visually accessible. Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act, H.R. 3417.

Retirement

Remove the earnings cliff for Social Security Disability Insurance recipients and replace it with a two-for-one phaseout. Blind Americans Return to Work Act. H.R. 1175. Eliminate the five-month waiting period associated with Social Security Disability Insurance.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.

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