{"id":9657,"date":"2019-03-19T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=9657"},"modified":"2019-03-19T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:41:44","slug":"legislative-update-03-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-03-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update, 03\/19\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An international group of scientists call for a moratorium on human germline gene editing in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-00726-5\">commentary to <em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, and NIH files their support in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-00814-6\">follow-up correspondence<\/a>, also published in <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While Congress is unlikely to implement his recommendations, President Trump&#8217;s proposed budget includes a 13% cut to NIH funding. Read more in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/03\/trump-once-again-requests-deep-cuts-us-science-spending\">coverage from <em>Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>State news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a few pieces of legislation in Illinois right now that might generate some health related reference questions.<\/p>\n<p>SB 1659 &#8211; IDPH-HPV Vaccination (<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/SB1659\/2019\">https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/SB1659\/2019<\/a>): Currently &#8216;Tabled&#8217; as of 3\/13\/2019<\/p>\n<p>HB 0902 &#8211; Cannabis Legalization (<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB0902\/2019\">https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB0902\/2019<\/a>): Currently &#8216;Assigned to Judiciary &#8211; Criminal Committee&#8217; as of 3\/12\/2019<\/p>\n<p>HB 2604 &#8211; Safe Patient Limits (<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB2604\/2019\">https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB2604\/2019<\/a>): Currently &#8216;Assigned to Labor &amp; Commerce Committee&#8217; and adding sponsors as of 3\/12\/2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal news: An international group of scientists call for a moratorium on human germline gene editing in this commentary to Nature, and NIH files their support in this follow-up correspondence, also published in Nature. While Congress is unlikely to implement his recommendations, President Trump&#8217;s proposed budget includes a 13% cut to NIH funding. Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657","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=9657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}