EEOC Releases New ADAAA Regulations on Disability (2011)

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released the final version of its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations, which clarifies that HIV infection is always a covered disability under the ADA for purposes of protection from discrimination.
The EEOC's new regulations, which implement the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, state that the ADA's requirement that a person have an "impairment of a major bodily function" to qualify as a person with a disability under the law includes HIV, diabetes, epilepsy and bipolar diagnoses among others. The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) was passed to overturn a series of Supreme Court rulings that defined "disability" in increasingly narrow terms at odds with the inclusive intent of the original legislation.

More information on the EEOC and ADAAA can be found here:
EEOC Q & A: http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/ada_qa_final_rule.cfm
Fact Sheet on the ADAAA and EEOC: http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/adaaa_fact_sheet.cfm
Q & A on Small Businesses and the ADAAA : http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/adaaa_qa_small_business.cfm