law Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/law/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png law Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/law/ 32 32 The Top 5 Good Things That Happened For the Deaf In 2016 https://deafniche.com/top-good-things-happened-2016/ https://deafniche.com/top-good-things-happened-2016/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2017 10:25:58 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9733 This has been quite a year of changes, some good and some bad. We’d like to kick off the New Year with a list of positive things that happened in 2016! For the first time in television history, a deaf celebrity won a dancing show America already loved Nyle DiMarco when he proved his modeling […]

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]]> https://deafniche.com/top-good-things-happened-2016/feed/ 2 Florida Senate Pass Bill for Deaf Symbol on Driver Licenses https://deafniche.com/florida-senate-pass-bill-deaf-symbol/ https://deafniche.com/florida-senate-pass-bill-deaf-symbol/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:46:33 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9131 Starting July 1, 2016, all deaf residents of Florida will be able to get the international symbol for “deaf” on their driver licenses. The Florida Senate passed the bill CS/HB 487 “Persons Who Are Deaf” with the identical bill SB 740. Both proposed the use of the international deaf symbol for driver licenses to assist […]

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