WEBINAR: JUNE 5, 2013THE (REGULAR) 2013 LEGISLATIVE SESSION:

REFLECTIONS AND PROJECTIONS

Lucy Culp, American Heart AssociationVic Colman, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition

Key Bills: Tobacco PreventionCigar Licenses• Creates loophole in Initiative 901• Licenses for cigar lounges and tobacco stores to allow non-cigarette

smoking• Would allow 100 lounges and 500 stores2011• Revenue tied to tobacco prevention funding• Defeated in final hours of session2012• New polling: 71 % oppose• Defeated again in the last hours of budget negotiating

Key Bills: Tobacco Prevention2013• 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 SchoolsHB 1556 (Van De Wege): CPR & AED’s in schoolsIncorporates 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!

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Phone: (206) 834-8658Email me at: lucy.asdourian@heart.org

KEY BILLS: HEALTHY EATINGHB 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 SpeedsBicycle 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

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