{"id":12973,"date":"2021-02-10T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=12973"},"modified":"2021-02-10T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:16:49","slug":"legislative-news-02-10-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-news-02-10-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative News, 02\/10\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Federal news<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2021\/01\/28\/biden-to-change-health-coverage-womens-health-funding-policies\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2021\/01\/28\/biden-to-change-health-coverage-womens-health-funding-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Biden changes health coverage, women&#8217;s health funding policies<\/a> [Roll Call, 1\/28\/21]<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;The Biden administration announced two wide-ranging health care executive actions &#8230; one expanding access to reproductive health care and another supporting enrollment in the individual insurance market and Medicaid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/02\/death-epa-s-controversial-censored-science-rule-delights-researchers. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/02\/death-epa-s-controversial-censored-science-rule-delights-researchers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Death of EPA&#8217;s controversial &#8216;censored science&#8217; rule delights researchers<\/a> [Science, 2\/3\/21]<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;&#8230;would have allowed EPA to ignore or downplay data from human health studies resting on confidential medical information that is difficult to make public&#8221; for regulating toxins in air and water pollution, workplace chemicals, and cigarette smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><i>Bills to watch<\/i><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/legiscan.com\/US\/bill\/SB198\/2021. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/US\/bill\/SB198\/2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">SB198<\/a> To require the FCC to incorporate data on maternal health outcomes into its broadband health maps. [Introduced 2\/3\/21]<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/legiscan.com\/US\/bill\/HB870\/2021. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/US\/bill\/HB870\/2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">HB870<\/a>\/<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/legiscan.com\/US\/bill\/SB279\/2021. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/US\/bill\/SB279\/2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">SB279<\/a> To require the FCC to update the national broadband plan, and for other purposes. [Introduced 2\/5 and 2\/8\/21]<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/537810-black-maternal-health-omnibus-package-introduced-by-democratic-lawmakers. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/537810-black-maternal-health-omnibus-package-introduced-by-democratic-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Black maternal health omnibus package introduced by Democratic lawmakers<\/a> [The Hill, 2\/8\/21]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><strong>State News<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Vaccine Eligibility and Library Staff &#8211; The Illinois Library Association (ILA) has been working to help library workers request vaccine eligibility.\u00a0 For more information and to see the status in several counties, <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.ila.org\/advocacy\/covid-19-resources\/vaccine-eligibility-for-libraries-in-ill. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ila.org%2Fadvocacy%2Fcovid-19-resources%2Fvaccine-eligibility-for-libraries-in-ill&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cchoward4%40uic.edu%7Cb75756a2eaa54388ffef08d8cd160ea0%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C637484841928385526%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=t%2B10Los0VpRcSk1%2BNkVEewIvohHWfuQhORZ9%2B16d4go%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">visit the ILA Vaccine Eligibility page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Broadband Advisory Council &#8211; <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.ila.org\/news\/1305\/legislative-update-february-4-2021. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ila.org%2Fnews%2F1305%2Flegislative-update-february-4-2021&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cchoward4%40uic.edu%7Cb75756a2eaa54388ffef08d8cd160ea0%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C637484841928385526%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=9bu5cfWRnVnytPA01NpzeOr9ZkhVN1S2G547kf4QTDE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">See the ILA&#8217;s legislative update for links to news and opportunities related to broadband access in Illinois.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal news Biden changes health coverage, women&#8217;s health funding policies [Roll Call, 1\/28\/21] &#8220;The Biden administration announced two wide-ranging health care executive actions &#8230; one expanding access to reproductive health care and another supporting enrollment in the individual insurance market and Medicaid.&#8221; Death of EPA&#8217;s controversial &#8216;censored science&#8217; rule delights researchers [Science, 2\/3\/21] &#8220;&#8230;would have&#8230;<\/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-12973","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\/12973","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=12973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}