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President George W. Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law yesterday. Supported by a broad coalition of advocacy and employer organizations, the amendments disavow U.S. Supreme Court decisions that define ‘covered disabilities’ more narrowly than Congress had intended when first passing the ADA in 1990.
These amendments do not affect design and construction standards under the ADA, and are unrelated to the U.S. Department of Justice’s administrative process of adopting the 2004 ABA/ADA Accessibility Guidelines, known to most architects as ‘the new ADAAG.’
Please download this excellent summary (*pdf) by Seyfarth Shaw, LLP.