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State Advocacy Alerts/Updates:

• Update: Senate Vote on CON Extension Imminent (5/14/08)
• Contact Your State Representatives on Medicaid and the State Budget (5/14/08)
• IHA's State Budget Testimony (4/30/08)
• State to Make Assessment Payments on April 25 (4/17/08)
• Urge Your Senator to Oppose HB5954: Flawed Insurance Bill Waives Coverage Mandates (4/16/08)
• Update: HB5657 on ASTCs Held in Committee (4/16/08)
• Keep Contacting Your State Rep. to Oppose Nurse Staffing Ratios (4/9/08)
• Governor Signs Supplemental Appropriation for Hospital Assessment Program (4/8/08)
• Greenville Regional Hospital's Alan Gaffner Recognized as Illinois Grassroots Champion (4/8)
• Assessment Supplemental Goes to Governor (3/6/08)
• IHA State Budget Hearing Testimony (March 2008)
• Governor Releases FY2009 Budget (password required - 2/27/08)
• Update: JCAR Rejects Rules for FamilyCare Expansion (2/26/08)
• Strengthening Relationships with Your Legislators: A Mini-Residency (Updated 2008)
• IHA Testimony to Senate Appropriations II Committee Re: Hospital Assessment Program (11/20/07)
• IHA Testifies on HB684 - Hospital Pricing Bill (11/7/07)
• Associations Challenge Assessor's Valuation of Tax-Exempt Hospitals in Cook County (11/6/07)
• IHA Honors Senator Susan Garrett (11/1/07)
• Nurse Staffing Laws: Illinois Hospitals Committed to Nurses and Patients (Oct. 2007)
• Updated New State Laws with Governor's Latest Actions (9/26/07)
• Governor Signs SB867 into Law - Nurse Staffing by Patient Acuity  (8/24/07)
• Infection Control Bills Signed into Law (8/20/07)
• PA 94-0885 - Fair Patient Billing Act (8/8/07)
  - Details of New Law (HB 4999) - Fair Patient Billing Act (1/10/07)
• IHA Perspective on the Need to Continue CON in Illinois (1/07)
• Health Care Justice Act (updated 2/5/07)
• In Support of Hospital Property Tax Exemption (Feb. 07)