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- HF 3483: March 5, 2024 – House State & Local Government Committee
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- HF 4159: March 19, 2024 – House Education Policy Committee
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- 2023 Public Policy Letters
- SF 0008: Special Education Cross Subsidy Aid Appropriation
- HF 0170: Right to a Certified Deaf Interpreter in School
- SF 0183: Nonexclusionary Discipline
- SF 0237: Small School District Disability Access Grants
- HF 0271: Nonexclusionary Discipline Provided
- SF 0295: Right to a Certified Deaf Interpreter in School
- SF 0366: Malicious and Sadistic Conduct Prohibition
- HF 0384: Rare Disease Diagnoses and Treatment Unrestricted Services Access
- HF 0687: Inclusive Higher Education
- SF 0705: Rare Disease Advisory Council Appropriation
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- HF 1043: Task Force on Disability Services Accessibility
- HF 1067: Restoring Community Access to the PCA Program
- SF 1261 & HF 0383: Employment and Retention of State Employees with Disabilities
- SF 1272: MA-EPD Income and Asset Limits
- HF 1434: TEFRA Fee Elimination
- SF 1476 & HF 1502: Ethnic Studies Requirement
- SF 2044: Requiring Closed-Captions in Public Places
- SF 2105: Hearing Aid Insurance Coverage
- HF 2486: Ranked-Choice Voting Task Force
- SF 2669 & HF 2513: Eliminating Subminimum Wage
- HF 2746: Voter Polling Place Accessibility
- HF 2920: Improving the Health and Wellbeing of People with Disabilities
- HF 2930: MDH Disability Health Equity Proposal
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- Keep Moving Forward
- Transcript: Margot Imdieke Cross - Life Before The ADA
- Transcript: Sherry Bartholomew - Start A Conversation
- Transcript: Karen Thorud - Everybody Has A Disability
- Transcript: Kate Eifrig - Reaching True Parity
- Transcript: Ben McCarthy - I'm Gonna Show Them What I Can Do
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- Transcript: Christine Morgan - Hearing Loss Is An Invisible Disability
- Transcript: Mai Thor - It's All Part Of The Human Condition
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- Keep Moving Forward - Page Two
- Transcript: Lisa Kidder - From Qualified to "Just Blind"
- Transcript: Mark Braun - I Like To Go Fast
- Transcript: John Riddle - I Can See Where I Want To Go - But Can't Get There
- Transcript: Ben McCarthy - Give Me A Chance
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- Transcript: George Shardlow - I Was The One Kid Like Me In The Room
- Transcript: Margot Imdieke Cross - You Figure It Out
- Transcript: Kate Eifrig - The Pain Of Mental Illness Is Real
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- Keep Moving Forward - Page Three
- Transcript: Christine Morgan - Untreated Hearing Loss Is Dangerous
- Transcript: Lisa Kidder - I Feel Like Nobody Sometimes
- Transcript: John Lee Clark - Awkward And Unneeded “Help”
- Transcript: Karen Thorud - Not Enough Opportunities For Work
- Transcript: Sherry Bartholomew - Art Is Life-Saving
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- Keep Moving Forward - Page Four
- Transcript: Adonia Kyle – Black People Are Left Out
- Transcript: Jeff Bangsberg - I Found My American Dream
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- Third Annual Disability Pride Festival, July 17
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