{"id":11657,"date":"2020-02-26T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2020-02-26T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T17:32:47","slug":"legislative-update-02-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-02-26-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update, 02\/26\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/39d9c237bfc75c93016870b00ac6dab8\">White House unveils $2.5B emergency coronavirus plan<\/a> [Associated Press, 2\/24\/20]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/02\/white-house-formally-invites-public-comment-open-access-policies\">White House formally invites public comment on open-access<\/a> policies [Science, 2\/21\/20]<\/p>\n<p>In the House this week: <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/news\/announcement\/meeting-announcement-hr-2339-protecting-american-lungs-and-reversing-youth-tobacco\">HR 2339 Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019<\/a> [House.gov, 2\/25\/20]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FY21 Budget Proposal<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/02\/national-institutes-health-would-see-7-cut-2021-under-white-house-plan\">National Institutes of Health would see 7% cut in 2021 under White House plan<\/a> [Science, 2\/10\/20]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/3e110d8d879be2b98d0a14d85412f8e3\">Mystery $844B pot in Trump budget signals Medicaid cuts<\/a> [Associated Press, 2\/10\/20]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2020\/02\/ala-takes-fy-2021-budget-cuts-seriously-urges-members-congress-visit\">ALA takes FY 2021 budget cuts seriously, urges members of Congress to visit libraries<\/a> [ALA news, 2\/10\/20]<\/p>\n<p>Ask your representative to #FundLibraries: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/contact-congress\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/contact-congress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>State News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another Illinois General Assembly immunization bill was filed on February 14.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/SB3668\/2019\">SB3668<\/a> amends several acts and codes related to immunizations and school exemptions.\u00a0 Other current immunization bills include <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/SB1659\/2019\">SB1659<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB4870\/2019\">HB4870<\/a>.\u00a0 See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/vaccine-bill-new-illinois-bill-aims-to-remove-religious-exemptions-for-vaccines-in-state\/\">an article from CBSN about SB3668 [this link also includes a national story about Facebook Groups and false health information]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his budget address last week.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/live-video-illinois-gov-pritzkers-state-budget-address\/\">View the recording here<\/a> [his speech starts about 8 minutes into the video.]<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Library Association just published a new edition of <em>Illinois Library Laws and Rules<\/em>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ila.org\/store\/product\/9\/illinois-library-laws-and-rules-in-effect-january-2020\">Visit the ILA website<\/a> to purchase a copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal news White House unveils $2.5B emergency coronavirus plan [Associated Press, 2\/24\/20] White House formally invites public comment on open-access policies [Science, 2\/21\/20] In the House this week: HR 2339 Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019 [House.gov, 2\/25\/20] &nbsp; FY21 Budget Proposal National Institutes of Health would see 7% cut in 2021 under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}