Welcome to our new Women’s Caucus weekly legislative update! We have some great and important bills to pay attention to this week, and we need your voices.
We especially want to highlight S267, being heard MONDAY in the Senate Judiciary committee. This bill allows Medicaid and state healthcare plans to cover abortion services. We have a special blog post on action items you can take on Sunday, April 25 or Monday, April 26, ahead of the hearing.
As well, on WEDNESDAY, the $15 minimum wage bill is being heard in House Labor committee! This bill already passed the Senate this year, so now we need to push it through the House as well.
These are definitely not all the bills being heard this week. It is a sampling of bills you, the members of the Women’s Caucus, may be interested in. The bill text is linked next to every brief bill description, and links to sign up to testify for or against a bill are included below as well!
MONDAY, APRIL 26
Requests for verbal testimony must be submitted by 4:00pm on April 25th. Written testimony may be submitted by email to jpbaxter@rilegislature.gov by 2:00 on the 26th.
Senate Judiciary
Senate Finance
Requests for verbal testimony must be submitted by 4:00pm on April 25th. Written testimony may be submitted by email to jpblume@rilegislature.gov by 2:00 on the 26th.
S576: provides healthcare services for undocumented children
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28
Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
Requests for verbal testimony must be submitted by 4:00pm on April 27th. Written testimony may be submitted by email to sLegislation@rilegislature.gov by 2:00 on the 28th.
S614: creates a special “Choose Life” license plate, the purchase of which at the DMV would fund problematic anti-choice “crisis pregnancy centers”
Senate Labor
Requests for verbal testimony must be submitted by 4:00pm on April 27th. Written testimony may be submitted by email to sLegislation@rilegislature.gov by 2:00 on the 28th.
House Labor
To testify, email of call committee clerk James DeCastro at HouseLabor@rilegislature.gov or 401-222-1882.
THURSDAY, APRIL 29
Senate Health and Human Services
Requests for verbal testimony must be submitted by 4:00pm on April 28th. Written testimony may be submitted by email to SLegislation@rilegislature.gov by 2:00 on the 29th.
S484: provides for doula coverage
S168: requires all insurance plans to cover all FDA approved contraceptive drugs, devices, and other products
S646: requires a set of uniform criteria to be established for prior authorization requests by insurance companies, so denial of drugs can be better regulated
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