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Creative Name Capitol Brief CAPITOLCREATIVE Ohio Alliance of YMCAs 40 West Long St, Columbus, OH 43215 BRIEFNAME Month Year www.ohioymcas.org A legislative newsletter for CEOs, CVOs, Staff, and Partners of the Ohio Alliance of YMCAs BILL ALLOWING CAMPS IN THIS ISSUE Bill Allowing Camps to Procure TO PROCURE INHALERS Inhalers Keeps Moving Keep Up the Great Work for KEEPS MOVING Sales Tax! This month, House Bill 39 (Duffey, R-Columbus) passed the Ohio House 2015 Membership Reciprocity by a unanimous vote, and now moves on to the Senate for hearings. The Trainings bill would permit schools and camps to obtain and use asthma inhalers in emergency situations, similar to legislation that went through last year U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Gay permitting these entities to obtain epinephrine autoinjectors. HB 39 Marriage Cases in April applies to residential and child day camps. Over 500 in 2015 YMCA If a camp chooses to procure and keep asthma inhalers, the bill requires a Youth in Government! camp to adopt a policy governing the maintenance and use of the inhalers after consulting with a licensed prescriber. The policy must include a Transportation Bill Heads prescriber-issued protocol to include dosages, number of times an inhaler to the Governor can be used before disposal, and how to dispose of them. In addition, the policy must do the following: 2018 Elections May Highlight the Convoluted Nature of Ohio Identify one or more locations in which an inhaler must be stored; Politics: Thomas Suddes Specify the conditions under which an inhaler must be stored, replaced, and disposed; Specify the employees or contractors who may access and use an inhaler to provide a dosage of medication to an individual in an ENJOY THIS ISSUE? emergency situation. Under the bill, a licensed school nurse or athletic trainer may access and use an inhaler. Feel free to share this newsletter Specify any training that employees or contractors, other than a school with anyone who you think may nurse or athletic trainer, must complete before being authorized to find it useful. access or use an inhaler; Identify the emergency situations, including when an individual exhibits signs and symptoms of asthma, in which an authorized employee, contractor, school nurse, or athletic trainer may access and use an inhaler; QUESTIONS, Specify that assistance from an emergency medical service provider COMMENTS, IDEAS? must be requested immediately after an employee or contractor, other than a school nurse, athletic trainer, or another licensed health Contact Beth Tsvetkoff at professional, uses an inhaler; [email protected]. Specify the individuals, in addition to students, school employees, or contractors, and school visitors, to whom a dosage of medication may Also follow Beth on Twitter at be administered through an inhaler in specified emergency conditions. www.twitter.com/BethTsvetkoff, or at www.ohioymcas.org. Continues next page 1 Continued from front page U.S. SUPREME The bill provides that a camp that elects to procure inhalers is encouraged COURT TO to maintain at least two inhalers at all times. A camp is permitted, under the bill, to buy inhalers directly from a registered wholesale distributor. HEAR GAY The bill requires a camp to report to ODJFS each procurement and MARRIAGE occurrence of the use of an inhaler. CASES IN Finally, the bill provides civil immunity to a camp as well as the governing APRIL authority of a camp, employee, and contractor of a camp for acts or omissions associated with procuring, maintaining, accessing, or using an The U.S. Supreme Court inhaler under the bill, except for willful or wanton misconduct. announced this month it will hear the four cases challenging the As the bill continues to move in the Senate, we will keep you updated. constitutionality of state same- sex marriage prohibitions on Tuesday, April 28. The plaintiffs in the case from KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK FOR Ohio, Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, argue Ohio’s ban on recognizing SALES TAX! the marriages of same-sex couples violates the due process Many thanks to all of you who made calls to your legislators this month to and equal protection clauses of ask them to support repealing the sales tax on memberships!! We made the U.S. Constitution. The case good progress, and could not do this work without all of your support! was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Sixth The first “substitute” version of the budget bill will be released the week Circuit Court of Appeals upheld of April 13, and we will know if our amendment for sales tax was marriage bans in Ohio, Michigan, included. I will let you know as soon as I do. Tennessee, and Kentucky. Also this month, a number of former and current Ohio elected officials signed an amicus brief in 2015 MEMBERSHIP support of marriage equality. The amici “believe that the Sixth RECIPROCITY TRAININGS Circuit erred by elevating one important American value -- As Ohio’s membership reciprocity continues implementation, we continue democratic self-government -- to host trainings. One of our objectives with membership reciprocity is to over our Constitution’s bedrock offer trainings twice a year. April will be the end of our first six months, guarantees of liberty and equality. so we are offering a training opportunity on April 2 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 We join in asking this Court to pm for new staff or staff that would like a refresher in the implementation reverse its judgment.” of the program. Democrats make up the majority Our second training is scheduled for October 13 from 10:00 am to 12:00 of the brief, but it includes former pm. The trainings will be done by WebEx, so as many staff as would like Attorney General Jim Petro, a to attend are welcome. We also will try to have the training recorded as Republican. Former Gov. Ted we have in the past. Strickland and Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, both For specific WebEx information for the trainings, please contact Kathy running for U.S. Senate in 2016, Finney at [email protected], Ruth Knous at [email protected], appear on the brief. A number of or Beth Tsvetkoff at [email protected]. Ohio House and Senate Democrats also signed the brief. Continued on page 3 2 Continued from page 2 TRANSPORTATION BILL HEADS “Elected officials from across the TO THE GOVERNOR Sixth Circuit are speaking up for the thousands of couples in our Both the House and Senate accepted the conference committee report four states whose rights are being this month for the transportation bill, including stripping out language violated by the bans on same-sex that would have raised the speed limit to 75 miles per hour on certain marriage,” said Ohio Democratic rural highways, but left intact language that Democrats claim will make it Party Chairman David Pepper. harder for some Ohio college students to vote. An amicus brief in favor of same- The conference committee on HB 53 (Grossman, R-Grove City) ironed out sex marriage from 379 more than 50 differences between the House-passed version and the businesses also was filed. Senate passed version, including reverting back to the 70 miles per hour Businesses signing the brief speed limit; removing the restriction on driving in the left-hand lane on include Cardinal Health, three-lane highways, but still requiring the Ohio Department of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Transportation (ODOT) to post signs saying “Keep Right Except to Pass”; Company, Procter & Gamble, allowing a probationary driver’s license holder to travel to a school or JPMorgan Chase, Aetna, religious event with written documentation; and changing the proposed Amazon.com, and Microsoft. Legislative Task Force on ODOT Funding to the Legislative Task Force on ODOT Issues and including a study of increasing the speed limit on "The brief argues that the certain rural highways on the agenda of the panel. existing confused legal landscape places significant burdens on However, a Senate-added provision drew the most attention. The employers and their employees -- provision would require new Ohio residents who register to vote to making it increasingly hard to surrender their out-of-state driver’s license and get a new Ohio license conduct business," said Elliott along with a registration for their vehicle. The conference committee Frieder, a spokesman for Morgan, added two provisions to make a violation a minor misdemeanor and Lewis & Bockius, a law firm that removed a provision that specifies that any person who attends an Ohio contributed to the amicus brief. college or university and receives in-state tuition is an Ohio resident. Reported by Hannah News Service Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D-Kent) held a press conference to criticize the provision, which she said could affect up to 110,000 college students in OVER 500 IN Ohio. She said the provision has no place in the transportation budget and is in violation of the Voting Rights Act, suggesting a lawsuit would be 2015 YMCA filed to challenge the provision soon after it is passed. YOUTH IN Clyde was joined by Peg Rosenfield of the League of Women Voters of Ohio, and Leah LaCure, an Ohio State student, who said that the biggest GOVERNMENT problem is that not enough college students vote. They said the provision would create unnecessary hoops to jump through. From April 16 to 18, the 64th Ohio YMCA Youth in Government Secretary of State Jon Husted issued a statement defending the provision, State Assembly will take over the saying it’s all about residency for the purposes of vehicle registration with Ohio Statehouse. This year, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and has nothing to do with participation in Youth in Government will have elections.
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