Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 216C.1 (2026)

Participation by persons with disabilities

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1. It is the policy of this state to encourage and enable persons who are blind or partially blind and persons with disabilities to participate fully in the social and economic life of the state and to engage in remunerative employment. 2. To encourage participation by persons with disabilities, it is the policy of this state to ensure compliance with federal requirements concerning persons with disabilities. [C71, §93B.1; C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §601D.1] C93, §216C.1 93 Acts, ch 95, §6; 96 Acts, ch 1129, §32; 2010 Acts, ch 1079, §3 \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1999–2014 · leading case: Nicole Lara Shumate v. Drake Univ. A/K/A Drake Univ. Law Sch., 846 N.W.2d 503 (Iowa 2014).
Nicole Lara Shumate v. Drake Univ. A/K/A Drake Univ. Law Sch., 846 N.W.2d 503 (Iowa 2014). · cites it 12× “Iowa Code § 216C.1. Section 216C.11 creates access rights and states: 1.”
C. B. Alsbrook v. AR Comm'n on Law, 184 F.3d 999 (8th Cir. 1999). “In fact, the legislative record of the ADA suffers from exactly the same infirmity that the Supreme Court noted with respect to the legislative record of the PRA — an absence of a showing of widespread discrimination on the part of the states.”
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