Tuesday, February 21:
Senate Bill 282 scheduled for Senate Public Affairs Committee (rm 321) at 2:30 OR 30 minutes after the Senate dismisses for the day.
Legislative committee hearings are subject to time, date, and/or room change. So please plan to be there by 1:30 p.m.
The Put Patients First Act, would prevent hospitals and urgent care facilities from using
religious restrictions to limit a healthcare provider's ability to provide medically accurate and comprehensive information to a patient, including the ability to make referrals or provide reproductive health services when a failure to do so could put a patient's life or health in danger.
Time restrictions won't allow everyone to speak, but your presence says you care. We need to show up to ensure that when a woman seeks medical attention, she should be secure that she will receive the best care possible. She shouldn't have to worry that her care is being compromised by the medical facility's religious affiliation.
Tell them
that just because an institution asserts that it's directives are more important than the deeply-held beliefs of a woman accessing care does not make it so. This sort of presumptuous thinking is nothing short of spiritual harassment.
Wednesday; February 22,
House Bill 179, Pregnant Worker Protection Act, scheduled for House Judiciary Committee (rm 309) at 1:30 OR 30 minutes after the House dismisses for the day.
Legislative committee hearings are subject to time, date, and/or room change. So please plan to be there by 1:00 p.m.
Tell them that we must ensure that pregnant workers can continue to do their jobs and support their families by having access to reasonable accommodations for needs arising out of pregnancy.
Pending: House Bill
284, Contraceptive Access Bill, for House Judiciary Committee.
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passed House Health and Human Services Committee and waiting for the next hearing.
Pending: House Bills
37, 220 & 221 are waiting to be scheduled for their first hearing for House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee. Senate Bill
361 is waiting to be scheduled for Senate Public Affairs and House Bill
464 is waiting to be scheduled for House Health and Human Services.
*all of these bills would restrict access to reproductive health care, including abortion.
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