{"id":2872,"date":"2016-06-14T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:19:00","slug":"legislative-update-6142016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-6142016\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update, 6\/14\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the MLA Board of Directors endorsed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mla.socious.com\/blog\/mla-endorses-lesbian,-gay,-bisexual,-and-transgender-special-interest-group-statement\">statement<\/a>\u00a0by the LGBT Librarians SIG, with concern for health impacts resulting from discrimination against transgender and gender variant people. Instead, they &#8220;affirm laws and regulations that decrease stigma and discrimination against citizens and colleagues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Federal library funding for FY17 got a boost on June 9. The Senate Appropriations Committee increased the program budget for the LSTA Grants to States program by $314K, despite presidential recommendations to decrease funds to this program by $950K. National Leadership Grants funding was increased by $314K and IMLS funding increased by $1M. The Innovative Approaches to Literacy program will see similar funding to FY16 levels. A timetable for moving\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/senate-bill\/3040\/all-info?resultIndex=1\">the bill<\/a>\u00a0has yet to be established. More on this story is at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.districtdispatch.org\/2016\/06\/good-news-library-funding-senate-appropriations-committee\/\">District Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Illinois news continues to focus on the budget impasse. Illinois universities are now facing a credit rating review; Comptroller Munger is reminding state leaders and citizens that she will not be able to write checks as of July 1; and Mrs. Rauner&#8217;s Ounce of Prevention is part of a lawsuit against Governor Rauner.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sj-r.com\/news\/20160609\/fallout-of-illinois-budget-feud-grows\">More on the budget feud from The State Journal-Register.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal: Earlier this month, the MLA Board of Directors endorsed a\u00a0statement\u00a0by the LGBT Librarians SIG, with concern for health impacts resulting from discrimination against transgender and gender variant people. Instead, they &#8220;affirm laws and regulations that decrease stigma and discrimination against citizens and colleagues&#8221;. Federal library funding for FY17 got a boost on June 9&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}