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The California Senate Public Safety Committee passed the Equal Access for Victims of Police Violence Act, or SB 299, on Tuesday. SB 299 comes in the wake of families of victims of police violence — such as the family of Daunte Wright Sr., who was killed April 11 during a traffic stop — setting up GoFundMe campaigns to cover funeral and grief counseling costs. The bill would improve accessibility to California’s victim compensation program for victims of police violence. The bill was autho...

On April 7, 2021, in Gil v. Winn-Dixie, Case No. 17-13467, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an important decision on whether Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., is violated when a place of public accommodation (there, a grocery store) offers valuable in-store benefits to customers through a website that is inaccessible to individuals with visual disabilities. The 2-1 panel decision is significant, and is a likely p...

Behind The Bill To Curb Health Costs April 5, 2021 New legislation seeks to stem the rise in health care mergers and acquisitions.  For Jenelle Isaacson, owner of Portland real estate brokerage Living Room Realty, purchasing health care insurance for her 20 employees has been a persistent frustration.   In 2018 she purchased a plan with United Healthcare, but in 2019 the cost of coverage rose by 20%. Isaacson migrated to Health Net, but by the end of the year the cost of coverage increased b...

Tennessee Bill Would Expand Ban on Homeless Camping to All Public Property On 4/1/21 at 2:57 PM EDT Tennessee state lawmakers are working on legislation that they said would protect homeless people, but one bill would expand the states current ban on homeless "camping" from only state-owned property to all public property. State Senate bill 1610/HB 978 would make it Class C misdemeanor for a person to camp on the shoulder, berm or right-of-way of a state or interstate highway, as well as under ...

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Rachel Rodriguez Rachel Rodriguez has joined HopeWorks as the new Chief Development And Communications Officer. Rodriguez most recently served as the executive director of Equal Access to Justice, securing unrestricted revenue for New Mexico civil legal organizations. Prior positions include Development and Vision Director for Mountain Mahogany Community School; Deputy Director of Family Voices; and grant writer for the National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation. At HopeWorks, she will spearh...

Six or nine months from now, when the child credit needs to be extended, “pro-family” Republicans will be unified against it. Democrats need to be savage in their attacks on the GOP for that. I’m grumpy about the minimum wage, (and that fight isn’t over), but I think Biden, Harris, and the team’s strategy folks are teeing up a powerful economic message, and total Republican opposition is really risky given the 70% across the board public support. And the profligate waste of the Trump-...

The Times-Reporter The United Way of Tuscarawas County celebrated the conclusion of its 78th annual fundraising campaign with a virtual awards ceremony sponsored by Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital. Bob Alsept, superintendent of Buckeye Career Center and 2020 United Way campaign chair, announced a record breaking campaign total of $604,439.98. “This is an amazing total. As a person who was born in Tuscarawas County and has spent most of my life in this area, I am not surprised. I have seen thi...

email article Making the pandemics emergency suspension of Medicares telehealth rules permanent got overwhelming support at a virtual hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerces health subcommittee on Tuesday. Members touted their bipartisan appreciation for what the technology has done and can yet do for healthcare. "Its time to make Medicare reimbursement for telehealth permanent," said subcommittee chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) in opening the hearing. "Telehealth isnt ...

A legislative committee found Diego Hernandez, a Democrat from Portland, engaged in harassment and created a hostile work environment.