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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

Lobbying for NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

 Filing 2nd Quarter - Report
Reporting period
2nd Quarter 2025
Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Jul 18, 2025
Expenses
$20,000.00
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 4
  • HR 1175
    Blind Americans Return to Work Act of 2025
  • HR 1529
    Access Technology Affordability Act of 2025
  • S 1918
    Access Technology Affordability Act of 2025
  • HR 3417
    Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025
 Lobbying activity 7
Education

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

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.

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. 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.

Computer Industry

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

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

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