[NFBMT-Parents] Montana 2019 Legislative Fact Sheet and Legislative Alert

[BRUCE&JOY BRESLAUER]

Attached and below my signature is the legislative fact sheet for Montana for
2019.  Please contact your local legislator, let him or her know how very
important these topics are to us, and ask him or her to sponsor these bills
in the 2019 Montana legislature.  

 

Joy Breslauer, Public Policies Committee Chair

National Federation of the Blind of Montana 

Web Site: http://www.nfbofmt.org <http://www.nfbofmt.org/> 

 

Live the life you want

 

The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and friends
who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind. Every day we work
together to help blind people live the lives they want. 

 

 

2019 Legislative Fact Sheet 

 

The following fact sheet summarizes the public policy positions adopted by
the National Federation of the Blind of Montana for the 2019 Montana
Legislature.

 

For more information, please contact:

Jim Marks, President, National Federation of the Blind of Montana

Phone: (406) 438-1421 or Email:  president at nfbofmt.org
<mailto:president at nfbofmt.org>  or 

Joy Breslauer, Chair, Public Policies Committee

Phone: (406) 454-3096 or Email:  breslauerj at gmail.com
<mailto:breslauerj at gmail.com> 

 

We support legislation that:

*	Prohibits the payment of sub-minimum wages to workers with
disabilities, and prioritizes the procurement of jobs in the community with
comparable wages and benefits for Montanans with disabilities.
*	Establishes an accessible electronic voting system that conforms with
web accessibility and voting privacy standards as an option when elections
are conducted by mail.
*	Assures that the ballots used by blind voters are of the same size
and content as ballots used by all other citizens in order to comply with
private voting rights.
*	Adopts civil and criminal penalties for actions and/or negligence
which results in the death of or harm to guide dogs or other service animals
used by Montanans with disabilities.
*	Affirms that the parental rights of blind parents will be upheld and
protected when visitation, custody, foster care, or adoption is determined to
be otherwise in the best interest of the child. 

 

In addition, the National Federation of the Blind of Montana vigorously
supports the autonomy, funding, and staffing of Blind and Low Vision Services
in the Division of Disability Employment and Transitions of the Montana
Department of Public Health and Human Services.

 

 

 

 

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