Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law (Amendment No. 22 and Temporary Provision) (Postponement of the Commencement Date) Bill

What does the bill do?

In view of the delay in implementing the arrangement on accessibility for a person with a disability who is assisted by a service animal, and to make things easier for such a person, the amendment to the law updates the dates of the temporary provisions and transitional provisions detailed below that were set in the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law (Amendment No. 22), 5782-2022: a. The provision exempting a person with a disability accompanied by a service animal from carrying a service animal certificate was extended until 1.7.2025 (instead of 1.11.2023). b. The provision entitling anyone already assisted by a service animal to receive a certificate for it, subject to completing a competency test, will apply to anyone who had a service animal on 31.12.2024 (instead of only to anyone who had a service animal on 30.4.2023). c. The three years in which the training process will be recognized even if it was not carried out by a training and instruction center, and the two years in which the minister may recognize a training and instruction center even if it has only begun the recognition process in the umbrella organization, will start to be counted from 1.1.2025 (instead of from 1.5.2023).