{"id":4995,"date":"2017-06-19T19:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2017-06-19T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:24:04","slug":"legislative-update-06192017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-06192017\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update, 06\/19\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curious about what’s on the table with the American Health Care Act of 2017? The act narrowly passed in the House on May 4, 2017, with a vote of 217 – 213. Now, Republicans in the Senate have hopes to get a health care bill passed by July 4. Read about H.R. 1628 AHCA 2017 at\u00a0govtrack.us<\/a>. The section titled\u00a0What’s the Bottom Line?<\/em>\u00a0has a quick summary of how the AHCA will impact individuals.<\/p>\n

Paul Spitalnic, Chief Actuary for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, provides this June 13, 2017 memorandum:\u00a0Estimated Financial Effect of the AHCA 2017<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

State:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We still remain without a budget in Illinois.\u00a0Our representatives and senators will go back into session on June 21<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span>\u00a0So now would be a good time to contact them and let them know how you are feeling about the situation and what you as a registered voter think that they should do.<\/p>\n

If you need to, you can look up your Illinois senator or representative using this\u00a0tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately if you prefer electronic communication, the tool doesn’t always include a website or e-mail address so you may have to google them once you have the name.<\/p>\n

As the funding situation keeps getting bleaker for many of our libraries, there really is no better time to speak up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal: Curious about what’s on the table with the American Health Care Act of 2017? The act narrowly passed in the House on May 4, 2017, with a vote of 217 – 213. Now, Republicans in the Senate have hopes to get a health care bill passed by July 4. Read about H.R. 1628 AHCA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-4995","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\/4995","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}