{"id":9000,"date":"2019-02-07T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:03:20","slug":"legislative-update-02-07-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-02-07-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update, 02\/07\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Trump vows to end AIDS in his State of the Union address. Here are follow-up stories from <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/trump-pledges-to-end-hiv-transmission-by-2030-doable-but-daunting\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/02\/how-hivaids-ended-trump-s-state-union-speech\">Science magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Debates over abortion rights could block movement on other legislation in the newly-elected Congress &#8212; from <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/new-house-democrats-focus-on-abortion-rights-could-stymie-work-with-senate\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Americans trying to purchase healthcare online in Fall of 2018 were often led to plans not supporting ACA protections &#8212; from <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/ads-for-short-term-plans-lacking-aca-protections-swamped-consumers-online-searches\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ILA&#8217;s Legislative Meet-ups are in full swing, but there is still time to register and attend.\u00a0 Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ila.org\/events\/legislative-meet-ups\">https:\/\/www.ila.org\/events\/legislative-meet-ups<\/a> to see the schedule and register online.<\/p>\n<p>A meet-up would be a great way to follow the <strong>ILA&#8217;s Advocacy Tip #3:\u00a0 Contact public officials personally if possible.<\/strong>\u00a0 Having the opportunity to talk to our legislators face to face is key to building a working relationship.\u00a0 One of the points that Senator Weaver and Representative Spain made at ILA&#8217;s Conference in October was that we need to be aware of their calendars.\u00a0 Our state legislators have very busy schedules and using the already planned meet-ups allows us to take advantage of time they have already committed to us as librarians and citizens. See the full list of tips at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ila.org\/advocacy\/top-ten-advocacy-tips\">https:\/\/www.ila.org\/advocacy\/top-ten-advocacy-tips<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal news President Trump vows to end AIDS in his State of the Union address. Here are follow-up stories from Kaiser Health News and Science magazine. Debates over abortion rights could block movement on other legislation in the newly-elected Congress &#8212; from Kaiser Health News. Americans trying to purchase healthcare online in Fall of 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","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=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}