H.R. 1255 and DD Act JUNE 2010 Action Alert

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1. Request for House Action
2. Congressional Contact Information
3. Senate Update – INTRODUCTION COMING SOON
4. Template Phone Message
5. Template Fax/Written Message

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Summary of Action Items: 

1. Please co-sponsor H.R. 1255, which already cosponsored by 73 Democrats and Republicans;

2. Support meaningful and critically necessary reforms to the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), which was last reauthorized in 2000. DD Act programs are violating the DD Act requirement to respect family decisionmaking including residential choice – resulting in demonstrated harm and even death to the people they are charged to protect; and

3. Call Chairman Henry Waxman and request that the House Energy & Commerce Committee take up the DD Act Reauthorization this session.