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Legislative Updat
FE* President Reagan has nominated
Susan Suter, directo: of the
Illinois Department of
Rehabilitation, for the position of
Rehabilitation Services
Administration commissioner.
She is currently under contract
until such time as a Federal
Bureau of Investigation report is
finalized, the White House has
made the announcement and
the Senate has given its consent.
* The Social Security
Administration made formal in
February a three-year-old
practice that allows poor AIDS
victims to receive immediate
financial assistance from the
government. Final regulations
published in the Federal Register
allow low-income people to
receive Supplemental Security
Income and Medicaid up to
three months before formally
being declared disabled from
AIDS. About 3,200 people with
AIDS have qualified for SSI since
the interim rules for AIDS
assistance were established in
1985. Medicaid has projected anV.
AIDS budget of more than $650
million in FY 1988.
" The Rehabilitation Services
Administration announced in
February that it will release to
each state rehabilitation agency
its full FY 1988 allotment for the
State Supported Employment
Services Program, under Title VI,
Part C of the Rehabilitation Act.
The total appropriation for the
program for FY 1988 is $2 5.9
million.
" Lex Frieden has resigned as
executive director of the National
Council on the Handicapped
effective June 1. Frieden is past
chairperson of the Texas
Rehabilitation Commission
Consumer Advisory Committee
and has worked extensively in
Texas to promote independent
living for people with disabilities.
The council is accepting
applications for a replacement.
Application deadline is April 15.
For more information, contact
Ethel D. Briggs at (202) 267-3846
(voice) or (202) 267-3232 (TDD).RMtE5I*NES
FEBRUARY 1988
Region I
20 years: Darlene E. Boykin
Region 11Earnestine Williams
15 years:
Region IV
10 years: Adela 0. Brick
Region VIDebra Kay Lambright
Ronald W. Anderson
Mae F. GoffneyDDD
10 years: Betty R. McKinney
Malaya Halfm Wilson
15 years: Bruce R. Rollman
Robert S. Sebesta
William R. Johnson
Major P. Craddock
Ellen Kay Chee
Isaac 1. Ramirez
Kaye costin
John F. Wright
Richard F. Dykstra
20 years: Delia Villarreal
Central Office
10 years: Linda Sue Cage10 years:
15 years:
20 years:Board Ends Meeting with Unfinished Business
It was a case of too much material
and too little time to cover it.
That was the TRC Board's
quandary when it failed to
recommend FY 1990-91 state
appropriations requests for the
complete list of TRC programs as
planned at its February 18-19
meeting.Wanting to make sure its
recommendations were informed
and met the needs of Texans with
disabilities, the Board probed deeply
into each program it considered.
Work continued late into the night
of the first day and well into the
afternoon of the second day.
The Board's thoroughgoing
approach to its task clearly indicated
a commitment to providing the best
array of services possible to people
with disabilities seeking TRC help.But, such careful consideration of
the individual programs, punctuated
with questions and discussion,
slowed the Board's progress through
the agenda.
Since Board members got to only
about one-half the programs up for
consideration, they voted to
complete the recommendation
process at a special continuation of
this meeting March 26-27.
Further, they decided not to firm
up their current recommendations
until all programs are considered
together in March.
'News & Views" will report on
finalized Board-recommended
funding requests in the next issue.ews & Views
March 1988TRC N
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