The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee “on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill that would eliminate the use of the words ‘retarded’ and ‘retardation’ in federal health, education and labor law,” The Hill reports.
Rosa’s Law, introduced by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), had strong bipartisan support.
It would replace the terms “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” and “mentally retarded individual” to “individual with an intellectual disability.”
Update (8/6): This bill, S. 2781, has been unanimously passed by the full Senate.
Update (10/7): President Obama signed the bill into law earlier this week.
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