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Senate Roll Call 461, 101st Congress · July 11, 1990

To permit the reassignment of food handlers with infectious and communicable diseases and to grant State and local food handling laws preeminence over Federal laws in this area. — TO AMEND S 933, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, TO PERMIT THE REASSIGNMENT OF FOOD HANDLERS WITH INFECTIOUS OR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND TO GRANT STATE AND LOCAL FOOD HANDLING LAWS PREEMINENCE OVER FEDERAL LAWS IN THIS AREA.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

99 yea · 1 nayAmendment Agreed to
Democrat54 yea · 0 nay
Republican43 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 933 ↗

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”

    model(0.95): Permitting reassignment of food handlers creates an exception that narrows ADA civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (99)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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