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ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill requires the Disability Rights Section of the Department of Justice to develop a program to educate state and local governments and property owners on strategies for promoting access to public accommodations for persons with a disability. The program may include training for professionals to provide a guidance of remediation for potential violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
(Sec. 3) The bill prohibits civil actions based on the failure to remove an architectural barrier to access into an existing public accommodation unless: (1) the aggrieved person has provided to the owners or operators a written notice specific enough to identify the barrier, and (2) the owners or operators fail to provide the person with a written description outlining improvements that will be made to improve the barrier or they fail to remove the barrier or make substantial progress after providing such a description. The aggrieved person's notice must specify the circumstances under which public accommodation access was denied.
(Sec. 5) The Judicial Conference of the United States must develop a model program to promote alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve such claims. The model program should include an expedited method for determining relevant facts related to such barriers and steps to resolve accessibility issues before litigation.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 620 as passed House amended on Feb 15, 2018. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Feb 15, 2018Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveFeb 15, 2018
House Feb 15, 2018 · the primary vote
ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017
Passed
225 Yea 192 Nay 13 not voting
Party-line vote 31 of 417 voting members broke with their own party: 12 Democrats, 19 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 620 and vote against it. 5 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 620 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
370 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.