{"id":11771,"date":"2020-03-13T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=11771"},"modified":"2020-03-13T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:51:10","slug":"legislative-news-03-13-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-news-03-13-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative news, 03\/13\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/487426-trump-to-hold-news-conference-on-coronavirus\">Trump to hold Friday news conference on coronavirus<\/a> [The Hill, 3\/13\/20]<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;Bloomberg News reported he plans to declare a national emergency, a move that had been under consideration for some time. Declaring a national emergency would allow wider use of federal funds by state and local authorities, some of which have been overwhelmed by the fast-moving coronavirus. The press conference will come as House lawmakers are likely to vote on sweeping legislation to provide financial help to victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2020\/03\/10\/outbreak-urgency-may-intersect-with-broader-health-bill-effort\/\">Outbreak urgency may intersect with broader health bill effort: The coronavirus outbreak is highlighting gaps in the health care system<\/a> [Roll Call, 3\/10\/20]<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/6074?overview=closed\">H.B. 6074<\/a> &#8220;Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020&#8221; became Public Law 116-123 on March 6, 2020. This bill provides $8.3 billion in emergency funding for federal agencies to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/blogs\/the-scoop\/advocates-motion-fundlibraries\/\">ALA continues to urge advocates to #FundLibraries<\/a> [American Libraries Magazine, 3\/3\/20]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal news Trump to hold Friday news conference on coronavirus [The Hill, 3\/13\/20] &#8220;&#8230;Bloomberg News reported he plans to declare a national emergency, a move that had been under consideration for some time. Declaring a national emergency would allow wider use of federal funds by state and local authorities, some of which have been overwhelmed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11771","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}