WEBINAR: JUNE 5, 2013 THE (REGULAR) 2013 LEGISLATIVE SESSION: REFLECTIONS AND PROJECTIONS Lucy Culp, American Heart Association Vic Colman, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition.
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Transcript WEBINAR: JUNE 5, 2013 THE (REGULAR) 2013 LEGISLATIVE SESSION: REFLECTIONS AND PROJECTIONS Lucy Culp, American Heart Association Vic Colman, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition.
WEBINAR: JUNE 5, 2013
THE (REGULAR) 2013 LEGISLATIVE SESSION:
REFLECTIONS AND PROJECTIONS
Lucy Culp, American Heart Association
Vic Colman, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition
Key Bills: Tobacco Prevention
Cigar Licenses
• Creates loophole in Initiative 901
• Licenses for cigar lounges and tobacco stores to allow
non-cigarette smoking
• Would allow 100 lounges and 500 stores
2011
• Revenue tied to tobacco prevention funding
• Defeated in final hours of session
2012
• New polling: 71 % oppose
• Defeated again in the last hours of budget negotiating
Key Bills: Tobacco Prevention
2013
• Introduced again HB 1750 and SB 5070
• Heard and passed out of House Committee
• Brought to the Senate floor as a budget
amendment and FAILED!
Key Bills: CPR in Schools
HB 1556 (Van De Wege): CPR & AED’s in schools
Incorporates CPR training into high school health classes and
provides guidance for schools to accept and properly use AED’s.
Enacted and signed by the Governor!
Great collaboration across public health, community
organizations and first responders.
One of few non-funding, education related bills that
passed.
Will prepare the next generation to save a life!
http://copcwa.org/
Phone: (206) 834-8658
Email me at: [email protected]
KEY BILLS: HEALTHY EATING
HB 1321 (Jinkins): State Agency Food and
Beverage Standards
COPC as lead advocacy group.
Passed out of House State Government
Committee for 2nd year in a row
Greater engagement by various state agencies
Where do we go from here?
KEY BILLS: ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
HB 1045 (Ryu): Neighborhood Safe Speeds
Bicycle Alliance as lead advocate group
Enacted and signed by the Governor!
Great example of how state legislation can support
local work
Terrific local policy opportunity for local healthy
community groups to lower speed limits in their
cities and counties
KEY BILLS: ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
HB 1233 (Jinkins): include health in the state
transportation system policy goals.
Transportation Choices Coalition as lead
advocate group
Passed House Transportation for 2nd
year in a row (with some bipartisan
support)
Will get pushed again next year
KEY BILLS: CHILD CARE
HB 1784 (Farrell): provides for a stronger
health lens in child care licensing and
training. COPC as lead advocate group.
March 15th Work session in the House
Early Learning & Human Services Committee
Next steps: still to be determined but
legislative interest is strong
KEY BUDGET “HIGHLIGHTS”:
Still to be determined
REFLECTIONS AND PROJECTIONS
Reasons for renewed optimism about state-level
work
COPC lobbyist presence – Erin Dziedzic
New Governor and legislators provide new
opportunities for moving healthy communities policy
work
Active transportation strategies still seems like
easier (or perhaps “less hard”) to accomplish
than nutrition work. Why?
Federal level still a battleground for the
consistent funding of community-based
prevention
http://copcwa.org/
Phone: (206) 910-7643
Email us at: [email protected]