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Legislative Tracker Bulletins and Legislative Reports Please click on drop down arrow to view, then highlight one and click on go! To view the most recent 2009 Bulletin, please click here. If you would like to review all of the legislation that the Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire is monitoring and/or following for the 2010 Legislative Session, please click here to review the most current Disability Legislative Status Report.
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 | Brain Injury Association Announce Public Policy Vice Chair Welcome to Freddi Gale who has accepted the nomination for Vice-Chair of the Brain Injury Public Policy Committee. Freddi has been the Program Director of North Country Independent Living for the past 4 years. She currently is the facilitator for the Conway Area Brain Injury Support Group, serves on the Provider Council, Legislative Policy Committee and State Independent Living Council. She also volunteers for the BIA Vertical Challenge, is President of the Annie Forts “UP Fund” and is member of the Lakes Region Conservation Trust, Moultonborough Lions Club and Moultonborough Recreation Planning Team. |
| Did you know that the New Hampshire General Court is the third-largest governing body in the English-speaking world after the United States Congress and the British Parliament? Unlike most states in our country, we have a “citizen legislature” and not a professional legislature whose members receive salaries. These volunteers are committed and dedicated to the good of the citizens of New Hampshire by offering their time and energy in creating and supporting public policy and legislation. | |
| In our state, we are able to meet our legislators while carrying on with our everyday life. These are the individuals that you come upon at your local grocery store, bank, post office, church, PTA meeting or at your child’s sports game. They are your coworkers, relatives, and friends. | |
| We have 424 legislators in the New Hampshire Legislature with 424 opportunities to introduce ourselves and talk to these legislators about brain injury public policy and legislature that supports individuals with brain injury and their families. If you are comfortable while talking to them, share with them the challenges that you are met with on a daily basis as a survivor, family member or professional working with individuals with brain injury. | |
| If you want to learn more about the New Hampshire General Court and find out who your representatives and senators are along with reviewing the proposed 2008 legislation, please visit the NH General Court Website at: www.gencourt.state.nh.us | |
| The committee and the Disability Legislative Network has earmarked quite a few pieces of legislation that will require monitoring and/or support this session. Proposed legislature have acts relating to Special Education, Case Management, Long Term Care Services, Residential Care Facilities, Trust Funds and Bingo Regulations. | |
| If you would like to review these bills, please click here | |
| WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Your Public Policy Committee continues to meet regularly and welcomes attendance and/or input relative to public policy and proposed legislation by all. We invite guest speakers at our periodic meetings to keep the Committee abreast of current affairs. We are pleased to have Amy Messer as Chair. | |
| The Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire Public Policy Committee welcomes additional members to help work on public policy and legislation for the 2008-2009 Legislative Session. Please click here for more information and how to be contacted if you are interested in joining our committee. | |
| If you would like additional information relative to the Brain Injury Public Policy Committee and/or the Brain Injury Legislative Network, please contact Ellen M. Edgerly, Community Organizer at 332-9891 or e-mail Ellen. | |
| Legislative Coffees | |
| We have a lot of new legislators that will need to be informed and educated on the challenges that individuals with brain injuries live with. We are asking all of you to consider hosting a legislative coffee in your home as a way to invite local representatives and senators to partake in a discussion on brain injury experiences and legislation. If you are interested in hosting a coffee, (as small or large as you want it to be), please contact Ellen Edgerly at 332-9891 or e-mail Ellenedge@metrocast.net and she will help you facilitate the coffee. | |
| In the past, these coffees have proven worthwhile to all in attendance. Legislators hear hundreds of bills proposed throughout the session and often do not have the knowledge as we do relative to life with a brain injury. As a survivor, family, friend or professional of brain injury, our experiences are very valuable in this education of our legislators. | |
| Constituent Contact | |
| If you have not been involved in contacting your legislators relative to brain injury legislation in the past, let this be the year that you will commit to taking the time to call your representatives and/or senator to discuss our issues. If you feel you have more time to spare, attend a hearing in Concord to provide testimony or to show your support. Your support is important as we take great pride in pursuing legislation and public policy on a grassroots level which has proven to be effective and credible to our legislators. | |
| If you are not on our legislative mailing list or e-mail listserv, and would like to be, please contact Ellen Edgerly at 332-9891 or e-mail Ellen at Ellenedge@metrocast.net | |
2006 HB 118 Celebration! Remember! It can be done! | |
| HB 118, an act relative to bicycle helmet use by certain minors, had a photo signing with Governor John Lynch on Friday, January 6, 2006 in the Governor’s Chambers. As all of you know, HB 118 went into law on January 1, 2006. Thank you to Governor Lynch for taking part in our victory! |  |
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M. Edgerly Community Organizer Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire | |
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