{"id":13614,"date":"2021-06-28T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2021-06-28T17:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:08:50","slug":"legislative-news-06-28-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-news-06-28-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative News, 06\/28\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Federal News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-care-transgender-sex-discrimination-77f297d88edb699322bf5de45a7ee4ff. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-care-transgender-sex-discrimination-77f297d88edb699322bf5de45a7ee4ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"0\">US restores transgender health protections denied by Trump<\/a> [AP News, 5\/10\/21]<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;&#8230;affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also protect gay and transgender people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/06\/genome-researchers-question-security-provisions-new-us-senate-bill. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/06\/genome-researchers-question-security-provisions-new-us-senate-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Genome researchers question security provisions in new U.S. Senate bill<\/a> [Science, 6\/14\/21]<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;&#8230;would require the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new security protocols aimed at preventing the misuse of U.S.-funded genomic data by China and other nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/supreme-court-declines-to-overturn-aca-again\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/supreme-court-declines-to-overturn-aca-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Supreme Court Declines to Overturn ACA &#8212; Again<\/a> [Kaiser Health News, 6\/17\/21]<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;By a vote of 7-2&#8230;the justices did not even reach the merits of the case, ruling instead that the suing states and the individual plaintiffs, two self-employed Texans, lacked &#8216;standing&#8217; to bring the case to court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>State News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB3202\/2021\">House Bill 3202 &#8211; HEALTH ED-E-CIGARETTES<\/a> has been sent to the Governor to sign.\u00a0 This bill amends &#8220;the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Adds e-cigarettes and other vapor devices as one of the educational areas the Comprehensive Health Education Program must include.&#8221; &#8211; Legiscan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal News US restores transgender health protections denied by Trump [AP News, 5\/10\/21] &#8220;&#8230;affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also protect gay and transgender people.&#8221; Genome researchers question security provisions in new U.S. Senate bill [Science, 6\/14\/21] &#8220;&#8230;would require the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new security protocols aimed&#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-13614","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\/13614","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=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}