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Policy & Advocacy
Policy Updates
May 29, 2007:
On May 29, Gov.
Bill Ritter signed
HB 1301
requiring insurance companies to cover the cost
of a vaccine for cervical cancer.
May 15, 2007:
Governor Ritter signed
Senate
Bill 242 on May 15th, calling for the
creation of an Office of Health Disparities and two
advisory councils to address racial, ethnic and rural
health disparities.
May 14, 2007:
Governor Ritter signed
HB 1292 into law.
The law requires public schools that offer sex education
to adopt science-based standards.
New Report on Teen
Pregnancy Released by the Brookings Institution
Julia Isaacs, Child and Family Policy Fellow at the
Brookings Institution, offers a new look at America's
budget. In her paper, Cost-Effective Investments in
Children, Isaacs proposes four areas of investment that
merit expanded federal funding even in a time of fiscal
austerity - one of which being increased attention to
teen pregnancy prevention. Specifically, Isaacs proposes
an investment of $7.7 billion over five years in
volunteer outreach and youth development programs.
Click
here to download the
full report from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy website.
March 16, 2007: The
Senate rejected the amended
SB 80.
The
bill originally
called for all middle school girls
to receive the new HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine,
with the exception of those whose parents chose to opt
out. The amended version rejected by the Senate
would have just required that doctors tell parents about
the vaccine.
March 15, 2007:
Governor Ritter signed a measure that requires hospitals
to adopt protocols to inform a survivor of sexual
assault of the availability of emergency contraception.
Health care professionals who object to emergency
contraception for moral or religious reasons are exempt
from providing the information to survivors, but
hospitals must have someone on staff available who can.
Laws Affecting
Reproductive Health & Rights: Trends in the States 2006
From the
Guttmacher Institute.
Provides a state-by-state chart of legislation enacted
in 2006.
Examples of Other
States' Teen Pregnancy Prevention Plans
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