{"id":12143,"date":"2020-06-23T15:43:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2020-06-23T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:43:53","slug":"legislative-news-06-23-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-news-06-23-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative News, 06\/23\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal news<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bills to watch<\/u><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 H.R.990<\/a> Recognizing racism as a national crisis and the need for a truth and reconciliation process. This resolution recognizes racism as a national public health crisis and supports the creation of a truth and reconciliation process to address historic, enduring systemic and structural racism against black people. [Introduced 6\/4\/20]<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 S.B.3917<\/a> A bill to establish a home-based telemental health care demonstration program for purposes of increasing mental health services in rural medically underserved populations and for individuals in farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. [Introduced 6\/9\/20]<\/p>\n

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In the news<\/u><\/p>\n

Alexander pushes for passage of pandemic planning law this year<\/a> [Roll Call, 6\/9\/20]<\/p>\n

Will the Supreme Court’s landmark LGBTQ decision impact health care discrimination rules?<\/a> [Roll Call, 6\/17\/20]<\/p>\n

Coronavirus economy drains Social Security, Medicare coffers<\/a> [Roll Call, 6\/18\/20]<\/p>\n

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State news<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a reminder to check the <\/span>ILA website’s Advocacy page<\/a>.\u00a0 They do a great job of keeping us up to date on legislative progress.\u00a0 To see what was just signed into law, visit <\/span>https:\/\/www.ila.org\/advocacy\/legislative-issues\/illinois-legislative-issues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal news Bills to watch \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 H.R.990 Recognizing racism as a national crisis and the need for a truth and reconciliation process. This resolution recognizes racism as a national public health crisis and supports the creation of a truth and reconciliation process to address historic, enduring systemic and structural racism against black people. [Introduced 6\/4\/20]…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143","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=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}