Tackling the opioid crisis. Washington expanded the hub-and-spoke treatment model across the state to help people with opioid substance use disorder find help. The state has also reduced opioid prescribing, taken legal action against opioid prescription manufacturers, and has seen a decline in unintentional opioid overdose deaths and the percentage of minors abusing painkillers. Reproductive Parity Act. Inslee signed SB , requiring reproductive parity in all health insurance plans in Washington.
This means plans that offer maternity coverage must also cover contraception and abortions. Breakfast After the Bell. Health care transparency. Landmark legislation requested by the governor in requires commercial health insurance companies to disclose information for the database.
The department brings together services previously scattered across other agencies, including early learning, child welfare and juvenile justice programs, better equipping the state and its many partners to protect children and youth from harm and promote healthy development.
Progress on helping homeless youth. Inslee issued Directive , creating an interagency workgroup on youth homelessness led by the Office of Youth Homelessness. Investing in mental health care. Inslee signed SB to strengthen protections for minors against the sale and use of e-cigarettes and vapor products. Reducing lead exposure. Inslee issued a directive to the state Department of Health and partner agencies to assist local communities with lead testing and take steps aimed at reducing lead exposure in Washington.
Investments in behavioral health workforce. One of the key health care reforms underway in Washington state is the improved integration of mental health with primary care and chemical dependency treatment. This new behavioral health approach will require additional health care workers. Inslee directed the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, in partnership with the Health Workforce Council, to evaluate current and projected workforce shortages in behavioral health.
Better health care information on price and quality. In an effort to make health care data more transparent and available, Gov. Inslee worked to pass SB , which created an all-payer claims database. The database gives consumers, employers, medical providers and policy makers the information they need to make informed decisions about buying and using health care.
Better mental health care. Mental health care is one of Gov. He worked to pass HB , which made it easier for the families of people with mental health issues to get proper emergency mental care for their loved ones. Ensuring the Healthiest Next Generation.
Fair pay for health care workers. Supported living providers help thousands of people with disabilities and health issues remain at home instead of living in costly assisted care facilities.
These providers, many of whom earn minimum wage, received their first raise in eight years. Homeless youth. The office makes recommendations to the governor and Legislature about the strategies and resources needed to improve youth homelessness services.
Support for our veterans. SB is the complimentary bill that improved the way we care for people with severe mental illness, integrated chemical dependency with that care and began the integration of care to treat the whole person.
These laws do not ban abortion, nor do they have the potential to. They also do not give personhood to an unborn child.
But they do answer the call for legislation that addresses the loss of a fetus. Although some valid arguments may include emotional aspects, emotions can and will cloud the logic of an argument for the reader. Heather Surovik was eight months pregnant at the time of the car crash. This is a significant problem because it is more difficult for readers to detach themselves and logically assess the consequences of an issue when their emotions are being manipulated, Cody said.
The reader is likely unaware that this appeal to emotion is happening when reading this statement, as it is presented as fact. Although situations such as this one are often referred to as tragedies, Amendment 67 is not about the tragedy itself, it is about the protection of pregnant mothers and their unborn children. Gary Sheats, the drunk driver who hit Surovik on July 5, , had a blood alcohol level of.
This was his fifth DUI charge, and he was driving on a revoked license. He also suffered from stage-IV Lymphoma, and his father said Sheats only had a short time left to live. We checked Scott's website showing whether the bills had been signed by the morning of June Requires incoming high school students to take at least one online course before graduating. During the campaign, Scott said he supported school choice and vouchers.
After the campaign, he called for vouchers for everyone but then backed away from that idea. But the Legislature passed several bills that open up more school choice, including helping charter schools expand, paving the way for more students to get certain vouchers and expanding online offerings.
Scott has signed most of them, and is expected to sign the charter schools bill when it is presented to him. Rick Scott website, Bill action , accessed June 10, St.
One of Florida Gov. Rick Scott's education-related campaign pledges was to give parents more options for their children's schooling. I want to create an educational program that will allow parents to get creative in how to meet the distinctive needs of their children," Scott said on his campaign website. Scott may have his way this legislative session after several lawmakers have proposed bills aimed at expanding the state's school vouchers program, which allow public school students in failing schools to transfer to better-performing school.
Currently, students in failing schools can transfer to better-performing schools under the state's Opportunity Scholarship Program. The program was created in during Gov. Jeb Bush's administration, and provided students looking to opt out of their failing schools with state-funded vouchers to attend a different public or private institution. But in , the Florida Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to allow state money to pay for private school tuition and that element of the program was removed.
One bill recently filed in both chambers seeks to provide a means for public school money to pay for private school. SB , a pro-voucher measure, is being pushed in the Senate by Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. The bill, would create an "education savings account" for parents -- essentially allowing them to choose whether to pay for enrollment in a public or private school.
It remains to be seen how far SB will go this session. According to the St. Members can file legislation. It's open for discussion. Michael Bileca, a West Miami Republican. He has filed HB , which would broaden the definition of a struggling school.
Currently, a failing school is one that has received two F's in a four-year period. Under Bileca's plan, a failing school would be one that has received a D for two school years in a four-year period or an F for one school year in a two-year period. If the changes were approved, the number of "eligible schools" in the state -- those considered failing -- would increase from 24 to approximately , according to a March 21 House staff analysis report.
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