Dear MS activist
In
March, you participated in advocacy efforts through contacting your
legislators during MS Action Day. Thank you for your support.
We now
have updates and action items for you regarding our two current legislative
issues:
- to improve gas station accessibility; and
- to improve safe
patient handling in hospitals.
Update on SB1238
(Improve Gas Station Accessibility)
SB 1238 is now in the Assignments Committee, which means it is in discussion
among legislators. (To view information about the current law, click here.) While it is currently under consideration, we
need your help to further this cause along through non-legislative
means. We are asking you to help us by doing one or all of the
following:
- Contact
the Illinois Petroleum Marketers Association to
voice your complaint. You can contact:
- Bill Fleischli, Executive Vice President
Illinois Petroleum Marketers Association 112 West Cook Street, Springfield, IL 62704 Phone: 217-544-4609 Ext. 1011
- Contact the U.S. Department of Justice and the
Disability Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General's Office to voice your complaints:
- Write
a letter to the editor of your local newspaper about why it’s important for gas stations to improve
accessibility by posting a phone number on the pumps to call for
help.
(To view information about the current State law, click here. To view information about the Federal law, click here.)
Update on SB1577/HB1684
(Improve Safe Patient Handling in Hospitals)
SB1577/HB1684 successfully passed both the House and Senate by a unanimous vote! Please thank your Senator and Representative for their support! In July, we will ask Governor Pat
Quinn to sign the bill into law so that over 20,000 people living
with MS and thousands more with mobility disabilities will be ensured
safe practices of being moved or lifted while in a hospital.
If you have any questions, please contact Jocelyn Cheng, Greater
Illinois Chapter Manager, Volunteer Development & Advocacy, at AdvocacyIllinois@nmss.org.
Thank you for being and MS Activist--your efforts help us move closer to a world free of MS!
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