Autism CARES Act

• Autism CARES Act Summary
  • Since it was first enacted in 2006, the law has helped to expand research and coordination, increase public awareness and surveillance, and expand interdisciplinary health professional training to identify and support children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their families.

• Combating Autism Act of 2006
  • The original House and Senate bill introducing the Combating Autism Act of 2006.
• Combating Autism Reauthorization Act (P.L. 112-32)
  • House and Senate bills to reauthorize the Combating Autism Act of 2006 for an additional three years at fiscal year 2011 funding levels.
• Autism CARES Act, S. 2449
  • The Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Supports Act or -Autism CARES Act- a bill to reauthorize the Combating Autism Act of 2011
• Autism CARES Act of 2019, HR 1058
  
  • The Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Supports Act or -Autism CARES Act- a bill to reauthorize the Autism CARES Act of 2014
  • Summary of Changes Report
    

Summary of Programs

CARES impacts many different programs, learn more about how these programs fit within the federal government.

• About the Autism CARES Act
  • If Congress does not reauthorize funding under the Autism CARES Act, interdisciplinary diagnostic services for hundreds of thousands of children, training for tens of thousands of graduate students, and important research being conducted around the nation via LEND programs, would be eliminated after September 2019.