{"id":2279,"date":"2016-03-23T22:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2016-03-23T22:45:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:45:06","slug":"legislative-updates-3232016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-updates-3232016\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Updates, 3\/23\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nRegistration is open for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/advleg\/nlld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Library Legislative Day<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the advocacy event runs May 2-3 and registration is due by April 22. The event includes: an advocacy training session preconference; a briefing day with sessions on issues affecting libraries and appearances by Congressional staff, legal experts, lobbyists, and ALA staff; a Congressional reception; and meetings with individual legislators. Register today if you want to take your library advocacy to the next level!<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Unfortunately the March 15th primary did not provoke any action on the budget stalemate. State legislators are currently considering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj20JDz8NfLAhUBr4MKHTGtDAkQFggcMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilga.gov%2Flegislation%2Fbillstatus.asp%3FDocNum%3D2059%26GAID%3D13%26GA%3D99%26DocTypeID%3DSB%26LegID%3D90603%26SessionID%3D88&amp;usg=AFQjCNE15CCQkyDj3j72Ovrmvuo0lNOkqQ&amp;sig2=g7lh1mRq5_drUyWKXwoCDw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 2059<\/a>, which would provide for both higher education funding and library equalization and per capita grant funding. Consider contacting your legislators (again) to express the need for consistent library funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal:\u00a0 Registration is open for\u00a0National Library Legislative Day\u00a0&#8211; the advocacy event runs May 2-3 and registration is due by April 22. The event includes: an advocacy training session preconference; a briefing day with sessions on issues affecting libraries and appearances by Congressional staff, legal experts, lobbyists, and ALA staff; a Congressional reception; and meetings with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","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\/2279","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}