[Tall-Corn] Accessible Prescription Labelling

[bray at nfbi.org]

Greetings, There is good news this week in the Iowa Legislature. The House
has taken the first to steps for our bill on accessible prescription
labelling to become law. John forbes and David Young promised us on the 16th
of January that they would take charge of this bill in the House and they
did exactly that. First, the two of them filed for it to become a House bill
with the two of them sponsoring it showing that it is truly a bipartisan
bill. Next, they saw to it that it would be assigned to committee where they
had some influence. It was assigned to the Commerce Committee and to a
subcommittee chaired by David Young and the two members of the subcommittee
were, John Forbes and Austin Baeth. Austin signed on to the bill immediately
too. 

 

On Thursday the subcommittee met and the full committee met right after
that. The vote in the full committee in favor of our bill was "yes" 22, and
"no" 0. We owe a big thank you to these people and now we must get it
through a vote for the entire House. Assuming it passes there, it then goes
on to the Senate to go through the same process. Is this war over? No, it
certainly isn't. The first battle have been won. Now it is up to us to make
sure that it goes the rest of the way. Everyone can play a part in making
that happen. Contact your Representative and ask them to support this much
needed legislation.

 

  National Federation of the Blind of Iowa Legislative Committee

 

 

Bob Ray, Legislative Chair, NFB of IOWA

Address:

3900 76th Street

Urbandale, IA 50322

Email:  <mailto:bray at nfbi.org> bray at nfbi.org

Phone. 515 334-7231

 

Mary L. McGee

Address: 201 Locust, #341, 

Des Moines, IA, 50309

Phone: 515 280-1281

EMAIL:  <mailto:mmcatitude at gmail.com> mmcatitude at gmail.com

 

Helen Mejia

Address: 1342 York Street

Des Moines, IA 50316 

Phone: 570 983-7867

EMAIL:  <mailto:hstevensnfb at gmail.com> hmejianfb at gmail.com

 

 

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