# Regulations Under the Americans With Disabilities Act
> **US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2016-05-17 · Effective 2016-07-18 · 81 FR 31126
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-11558
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 31126
- **CFR reference:** 29 CFR 1630
- **Publication date:** 2016-05-17
- **Effective date:** 2016-07-18
## Abstract

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) is issuing its final rule to amend the regulations and interpretive guidance implementing Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to provide guidance on the extent to which employers may use incentives to encourage employees to participate in wellness programs that ask them to respond to disability-related inquiries and/or undergo medical examinations. This rule applies to all wellness programs that include disability-related inquiries and/or medical examinations whether they are offered only to employees enrolled in an employer-sponsored group health plan, offered to all employees regardless of whether they are enrolled in such a plan, or offered as a benefit of employment by employers that do not sponsor a group health plan or group health insurance. Published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, the EEOC also issued a final rule to amend the regulations implementing Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) that addresses the extent to which employers may offer incentives for an employee's spouse to participate in a wellness program.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/05/17/2016-11558/regulations-under-the-americans-with-disabilities-act)
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