[NFBWATlk] Update on accessible prescription label legislation

[Bennett Prows]

Marci and All,

This was a remarkable legislative session for us. You, Marci  have done a tremendous amount of work on this bill, and it was almost over the finish line even during its first year of introduction to the legislators. It is so unusual that this legislation got so far so fast. I’m confident, that working together, we’ll get this passed next year in the longer legislative session. Good work on all our parts, by contacting our representatives and senators this year. And we certainly appreciate your efforts on behalf of all federationists in Washington and the blind of the state in general. 

Thank you for all your hard work on this, and we all will keep on keeping on until this prescription labelling bill is a law.

/s/

Bennett Prows

From: Marci Carpenter via NFBWATlk
Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2022 2:36 PM
To: nfbwa-students at nfbnet.org; CCCNFBW at nfbnet.org; nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org; Seattle Chapter
Cc: Marci Carpenter
Subject: [NFBWATlk] Update on accessible prescription label legislation

Hello colleagues,

Today I received a note from state Representative Eileen Cody saying that our bill is indeed dead in this legislative session. I thought it might’ve fallen under one of the exceptions to the cut off date but apparently it does not. Our fight for accessible prescription label law is not over. We will come back with another bill next year and the legislative supporters in the state House and Senate are committed to getting something passed. We will be also monitoring the state Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission closely since they do have a request from a blind person to issue rules on accessible prescription labels.

I want to thank each and everyone of you who called or emailed your representatives over the last few weeks. You did great work! We gained a lot more support for this issue. Like many of our legislative efforts, this one will take more than one year. We in the National Federation of the Blind know that we will keep working until we are successful.

Thanks for all the work you have done… And now let’s work on getting more cosponsors for our national legislation.

Marci Carpenter, President
National Federation of the Blind of Washington




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