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]