Action needed: Write and call your assembly member to oppose Assembly Bill (AB) 650 (Muratsuchi, D-Torrance). Write and call your state senator, asking them to oppose Senate Bill (SB) 213 (Cortese, D-San Jose). CHA has developed a template letter and key messages about both bills for members’ use. Find contact information for both your assembly […]
Action Needed: Contact your congressional representative and ask them to cosponsor The Resetting the IMPACT Act (TRIA) of 2021, H.R. 2455. To find your representative’s contact information, visit www.house.gov/representatives/find. To cosponsor the bill your representative should contact the sponsors’ offices. In Rep. Terri Sewell’s (D-AL) office, they should email Earl Flood (Earl.Flood@mail.house.gov); in Rep. Vern […]
Action needed: Write to Assemblymember Ash Kalra, chair of the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee, to oppose Assembly Bill (AB) 650 (Muratsuchi, D-Torrance). CHA has developed a template letter for members’ use. Email your letter to Dawn Vicari at dvicari@calhospital.org so it can be sent to Assemblymember Kalra. Timing: Email your letter to CHA by […]
Action needed: WRITE to Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), chair of the the Assembly Health Committee, asking that the committee oppose, unless amended, Assembly Bill (AB) 1130, related to the Office of Health Care Affordability; and oppose AB 1132, related to health care integration. CHA has developed template letters about both bills for your use (see below). […]
Action needed: Urge your representatives in the U.S. House and Senate to include pressing hospital priorities in the next COVID-19 legislation. CHA sent a letter to the California congressional delegation that includes hospitals’ advocacy priorities, as well as an infographic illustrating the slowing of federal funding even as cases have surged. Hospital leaders are encouraged to […]