Webinar: June 5, 2013 The (regular) 2013 Legislative Session: Reflections and Projections

1. Webinar: June 5, 2013 The (regular) 2013 Legislative Session: Reflections and Projections Lucy Culp, American Heart Association Vic Colman, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition

2. 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

3. 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!

4. 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!

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6. 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?

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Key Budget “Highlights”: Still to be determined

11. 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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