Pub. L. 100-630, tit. III, sec. 301
PRESIDENTS COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.
SEC. 301. PRESIDENTS COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. (a) National Disability Employment Awareness Month.— The joint resolution entitled “Joint Resolution to establish the first week in October of each year as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week”, approved August 11, 1945, is amended— (1) by amending the first sentence to read as follows: “That hereafter the month of October in each year shall be designated as National Disability Employment Awareness Month.”; and (2) in the second sentence— (A) by striking “week” and inserting “month”; and (B) by striking “handicapped workers” and inserting “workers with disabilities”. 102 STAT. 3316 (b) President’s Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities.— The joint resolution entitled “Joint Resolution authorizing an appropriation for the work of the President’s Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week”, approved July 11, 1949, is amended— (1) by striking “National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week” the first place it appears and inserting “National Disability Employment Awareness Month”; (2) by striking “President’s Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week” each place it appears and inserting “President’s Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities”; and (3) by adding at the end the following new section: “Sec. 2. The President’s Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities may— “(1) accept voluntary and uncompensated services, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1342 of title 31, United States Code; and “(2) in the name of the Committee, accept, employ, and dispose of, in furtherance of this resolution, any money or property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or nontangible, received by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise.”.