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Pennsylvania

ACA Advocacy Staff

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

State Prosthetic Parity Campaign:

Representative Bernie O’Neill introduced the prosthetic parity bill in Pennsylvania on April 22, 2009! The bill number is HB 1333 and it currently has 36 cosponsors!

It’s important that if any of the representatives below are your local representative to reach out to them and thank them, or if your local representative hasn’t signed on, to contact their office and encourage them to support HB 1333.

If you’re unsure who your local representative is, you have to go to the main assembly page (http://www.legis.state.pa.us/index.cfm) and in the top right corner you can fill out your zip code + 4. If you aren’t sure what your zip + 4 is, you can find out by going to http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp.

Representatives currently cosponsoring HB 1333:O'NEILL, MATZIE, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BEYER, COHEN, D. COSTA, CREIGHTON, DALEY, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, GEIST, GEORGE, HENNESSEY, HESS, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, KULA, MAJOR, MELIO, MILLARD, MURPHY, MURT, OBERLANDER, D. O'BRIEN, PICKETT, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, SCAVELLO, SEIP, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, VULAKOVICH, WATSON and YOUNGBLOOD

Thank you all for your continued support and help in getting this legislation introduced, now let’s all work together to get HB 1333 moving for amputees in Pennsylvania!!!If you would like more information, or would like to get involved, please, contact us at 202-742-1885 or state@amputee-coalition.org.

Other Advocacy Issues: While parity is a big priority for the ACA’s advocacy team, we have recently been involved in a number of issues advocating on behalf of people with limb loss and limb difference. Is there a bill or issue in your state that we need to know about? Contact us at state@amputee-coalition.org.

The ACA is also working hard to pass federal parity legislation in order to extend protections for health plans regulated by Congress (about half of all policies). Get informed by visiting our federal parity page.

Help keep up the fight for parity and protect the health and rights of amputees throughout the country! Whether you can give $5, $50 or $500 we need your financial support!! Write a check to the “Amputee Coalition of America” and send it to: ACA, 300 East Hill Ave, Suite 205, Knoxville, TN, 37915 or make a donation online on our secure marketplace at: www.amputee-coalition.org/advocacy/donation.

For more information contact the Advocacy Department

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