{"id":3385,"date":"2016-09-12T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2016-09-12T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:25:28","slug":"legislative-update-09122016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-09122016\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update, 09\/12\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Federal:<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ALA submitted a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.districtdispatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/FCC-CGB-digital-inclusion-plan-letter2_9.1.16.pdf\">letter<\/a>\u00a0to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the recent inclusion of broadband Internet access to the Lifeline program. Lifeline provides low-income Americans with discounted phone service. In March 2016, the FCC voted to include broadband as an additional service of this program. Recommendations made by ALA addressed non-cost-related obstacles in accessing broadband. More on this story is available from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.districtdispatch.org\/2016\/09\/ala-makes-recommendations-to-fcc-on-digital-inclusion-plan\/\">District Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Broadband access was again an agenda item for ALA, with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.districtdispatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/comments.pdf\">comments<\/a>\u00a0filed for the FCC&#8217;s Broadband Progress Report. At issue were library broadband speed benchmarks, which are 100 Mbps for libraries serving populations of 50,000 or less, and 1 gigabit for libraries in communities greater than 50,000 people. ALA also recommended creating a benchmark for the number of Internet-connected devices within public libraries. Read more at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.districtdispatch.org\/2016\/09\/got-broadband-fcc-wants-know\/\">District Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>State:<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Illinois Health and Hospital Association has updated its extremely useful overview of state legislative activity affecting the hospital community:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihatoday.org\/uploadDocs\/1\/2016springsessionkeybills.pdf\">IHA Summary: Key Bills from 2016 Spring Legislative Session<\/a>. One item of possible interest involves required patient educational materials for opioid addiction. See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/publicacts\/fulltext.asp?Name=099-0553\">Public Act 099-0553<\/a>, which is effective 1\/1\/17, for additional details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal: ALA submitted a\u00a0letter\u00a0to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the recent inclusion of broadband Internet access to the Lifeline program. Lifeline provides low-income Americans with discounted phone service. In March 2016, the FCC voted to include broadband as an additional service of this program. Recommendations made by ALA addressed non-cost-related obstacles in accessing broadband&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-3385","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\/3385","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=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}