[Ohio-Talk] URGENT - H.B. 448 Sponsored by Representative Richard Brown

[Richard Payne]

Good work for the new vice president of the Akron  chapter.


Richard Payne,  President
National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
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Subject: [Ohio-Talk] URGENT - H.B. 448 Sponsored by Representative Richard Brown

Good evening. The Ohio House Insurance Committee held the first, sponsor testimony, hearing for our Accessible Prescription Labeling legislation, H.B. 448, back on February 16, 2022. Representative Richard Brown, who is sponsoring the legislation for us, did a fantastic job at the hearing explaining the need for H.B. 448. Unfortunately, despite two meetings since then, the Committee has not yet scheduled H.B. 448 for its second, proponent testimony, hearing.  So it is once again time to put pressure on the Chairman's office to move this legislation forward so that we can get it passed this year.

The Chairman of the House Insurance Committee is the Honorable Thomas E.
Brinkman, Jr. from District 27.  Representative Brinkman's email is rep27 at ohiohouse.gov

This is an urgent matter. We want to call upon Representative Brinkman to schedule H.B. 448's proponent testimony hearing as soon as possible and to keep the legislation moving after the proponent testimony hearing. I am asking that we fill Representative Brinkman's email with as many individual messages as possible on H.B. 448 by Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 P.M.  The emails should specifically ask Chairman Brinkman to schedule H.B. 448 for its second hearing. Remember to also impress upon Representative Brinkman why H.B. 448 is so important to us.

Fellow Federationists, we accomplished this once when our voices rang out loud and clear and the House Insurance Committee scheduled the first hearing. Let's make those voices heard loud and clear once again and keep H.B. 448 moving.

Please let me or Eric Duffy know if you have any questions regarding this issue.

Todd Elzey, Treasurer
National Federation of the Blind of Ohio toddelzey at gmail.com / 315-879-1746 _______________________________________________
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