Missouri Legislative Alert
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MISSOURI LEGISLATIVE ALERT Legislation: H.B. 28 and General Law Status: Passed the House and hearings held in the Senate Hearing/Vote: Hearings have been held, awaiting scheduling for vote in the Senate. Points of Contact: Your local State Senator can be found by visiting: http://www.senate.mo.gov/LegisLookup/default.aspx/leg_lookup.aspx Analysis H.B. 28 designates the month of November as "Diabetes Awareness Month" and encourages Missourians to participate in activities that raise awareness for diabetes. Missouri has a scope of practice licensure law, which restricts who can practice nutrition care. Recommendations We should use H.B. 28 to educate and raise awareness of this law, and encourage a change to Section 324.206(6) to expand to include assessing and recommending nutritional intake and lifestyle changes. SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE(S) May 5th, 2017 Dear ____________: I am writing to ask that you support H.B. 28, which designates the month of November as Diabetes Awareness Month, but also to encourage you to introduce a change to the nutrition law to allow for greater competition, and choice in nutrition care. Missouri law strictly limits who can provide nutritional care, including advice, guidance, education, and assessment. Presently, only a licensed dietician or nutritionist may provide nutrition care including assessment, goal setting, counseling or advice. This law has had the unfortunate affect of giving one nutrition philosophy a monopoly over the whole practice of nutrition. No one group should have this monopoly, and no one method, practice, education, or philosophy is right for everyone. As a supporter of holistic nutrition, which seeks to heal the “whole” body, and provide a comprehensive assessment, I would like to see a more broad and diverse choice in nutrition providers. Nutrition is not “one size fits all” and it’s important that the practice of nutrition is open to all philosophies, not only to have gainful employment and improve the health of all citizens, but to provide maximum competition which gives maximum choice for consumers and helps to lower costs. I urge you to sponsor legislation that would expand Section 324.206(6) to explicitly provide for anyone to provide nutrition assessment, guidance, and education, pertaining to nutritional intake, provided, however, no such individual may call himself or herself a dietitian unless he or she is licensed. Sincerely, (Your signature here) Missouri Senate Mailing Address: 201 W Capitol Ave Jefferson City, MO 65101 First Last name Dist. Room Email Address: Phone #: nameScott Sifton 1# 427# [email protected] (573) 751-0220 Bob Onder 2 227 [email protected] (573) 751-1282 Gary Romine 3 429 [email protected] (573) 751-4008 Jacob Hummel 4 328 [email protected] (573) 751-3599 Jamilah Nasheed 5 330 [email protected] (573) 751-4415 Mike Kehoe 6 321 [email protected] (573) 751-2076 Jason Holsman 7 421 [email protected] (573) 751-6607 Will Kraus 8 320 [email protected] (573) 751-1464 S. Kiki Curls 9 434 [email protected] (573) 751-3158 Jeanie Riddle 10 417 [email protected] (573) 751-2757 John Rizzo 11 425 [email protected] (573) 751-3074 Dan Hegeman 12 332 [email protected] (573) 751-1415 Gina Walsh 13 333 [email protected] (573) 751-2420 Maria Chappelle- 14 428 [email protected] (573) 751-4106 Andrew KoenigNadal 15 220 [email protected] (573) 751-5568 Dan Brown 16 422 [email protected] (573) 751-5713 Ryan Silvey 17 331A [email protected] (573) 751-5282 Brian Munzlinger 18 319 [email protected] (573) 751-7985 Caleb Rowden 19 433 [email protected] (573) 751-3931 Jay Wasson 20 323 [email protected] (573) 751-1503 Denny Hoskins 21 431 [email protected] (573) 751-4302 Paul Wieland 22 334 [email protected] (573) 751-1492 Bill Eigel 23 226 [email protected] (573) 751-1141 Jill Schupp 24 329 [email protected] (573) 751-9762 Doug Libla 25 219 [email protected] (573) 751-4843 Dave Schatz 26 419 [email protected] (573) 751-3678 Wayne Wallingford 27 225 [email protected] (573) 751-2459 VACANT 28 426 (573) 751-8793 VACANT 28 426 (573) 751-8793 David Sater 29 419 [email protected] (573) 751-1480 Bob Dixon 30 221 [email protected] (573) 751-2583 Ed Emery 31 420 [email protected] (573) 751-2108 Ron Richard 32 326 [email protected] (573) 751-2173 .