After a very productive 2024 Legislative Session, we want to carry the momentum into the 2024-2025 community and statewide work! We’ve started planning for the 2025 Legislative Session agenda, having conversations with Legislators and partners to determine our priority issues and create collaborative strategies for success. We’re also working to recruit more advocates for health…Read More…

Summer is a season for kids to spend outdoors enjoying an active healthy lifestyle. This summer, our kids should be enjoying the fun activities our state has to offer, not being lured by addictive, candy-flavored tobacco products that can negatively affect their health. That is why even though the 2025 Legislative Session is months away…Read More…

Looking back at our work so far in 2024 it has been another hard-fought year in Utah but there have also been some bright moments. At the Legislative level, we helped defeat a dangerous anti-Medicaid bill. This bill was an extension of an ongoing sentiment from segments of the Utah State Legislature concerning the viability…Read More…

The American Heart Association’s RI advocacy team works to advance policies at the state and local levels that will further our mission of being a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. We do this lifesaving work in collaboration with volunteers, advocates, coalition partners, community organizations, legislators, and state agency staff. Together we…Read More…

Earlier this month Governor Green signed the state budget. We are excited to share that there was funding in the budget for two very important programs that help ensure families who need help putting food on the table get it. Included in the final state budget was: Funding for the Da Bux program ($1.5 million)…Read More…

In June the American Heart Association joined 65 other organizations across the state to call on the Governor to fund access to public benefits. While public assistance benefits such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are mostly or fully federally funded, individual states are responsible for administering these programs. The state’s commitment…Read More…

Although the Nevada Legislature didn’t convene in 2024 that doesn’t mean we haven’t been working on our priority issues. We’d like to give you an update on two of them. Universal School Meals Last session (2023), Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo vetoed AB319 which would have provided funding for universal no cost school meals. While we…Read More…

While June marks the point in the year when the legislature begins its summer recess back in the districts, prepping for the upcoming election, the 135th General Assembly will continue until December 31, 2024. As a result, we will still have opportunities to pass, or defend against, outstanding legislation upon their return in November, in…Read More…

Jackson Public Schools administrative staff will soon receive hands-only CPR and AED training, thanks to a grant supporting the placement of 100 AEDs across the district. Learn more about the upcoming event and how Senate Bill 2750 is helping schools prepare for emergencies.Read More…

We have great news! On July 1st, Governor Pritzker signed House Bill 5394 which requires schools and school athletic facilities to have comprehensive cardiac emergency response plans. These plans will more than DOUBLE the chance of survival for the 2 million people in Illinois schools every day and will help students, teachers, support staff, families, and…Read More…