Rosa's Law
Official title: “To change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual disability.”
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Norton, Moran, Peters Introduce Bill to Remove Offensive “R-word” Slur from the D.C. Code
“In 2010, Congress removed several instances of the term from federal law by passing Rosa’s Law (P.L. 111-256). Last Congress, I joined Republican and Democratic colleagues in introducing the Words Matter Act, which would remove several more instances of the term from federal law.”
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How it passed
The Senate passed it without objection on August 5, 2010. No individual votes are recorded.
The House passed it by voice vote on September 22, 2010. A voice vote records no individual votes.
It became law on October 5, 2010.
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