Make your voice heard! The Senate Rules committee needs to hear from you about 2 bills!
How can you help? Both action alerts below are directed towards the Senate Rules Committee. Calls are more effective than emails. We suggest starting with two calls to Committee Chair Matt Brass (404-656-0057) and Vice Chair Frank Ginn (404-656-9222) about both bills. Calls to other committee members are also encouraged! Refer to the action alerts below for helpful talking points and please be respectful and courteous to whoever answers the phone.
Thank you for your advocacy!
Send “Safe at Home Act” to the floor for a vote!
The Safe at Home Act (HB 404) needs your help! As we approach the final days of the legislative session, HB 404 is still in the Senate Rules committee and has not received a vote by the full Senate. Please call Rules Committee members and ask for HB 404 to be brought up for a vote.
This bill would strengthen the rights and protections of renters in Georgia. HB 404 would require landlords to ensure rental homes are “fit for human habitation.” The bill also increases protections for tenants facing eviction for falling a few days behind on rent.
Ultimately, the Safe at Home Act, would help families stay safely and stably housed (essential for preventing homelessness and its health consequences). Housing is a basic necessity that is closely tied to a person’s health. To live healthy lives, Georgians need stable, affordable, healthy housing. When people experience housing instability, they can suffer more from health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and disabilities. Kids and parents may miss school and work because of unstable or unhealthy housing.
Don’t know what to say?
My name is ________. (If you live in their district, add “I live and vote in your district.”) Please send House Bill 404, the “Safe at Home Act,” to the floor of the Senate for a vote. This bill ensures that renters will live in safe, healthy units, sets a reasonable maximum security deposit amount, and sets fair housing protections for families. That’s something all Georgia families should be able to rely on no matter where they live in our state.
To live healthy lives, Georgians need stable, affordable, healthy housing. When people experience housing instability, they can suffer more from health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and disabilities. That is why I am asking you to send HB 404 to the Senate for a vote. Thank you very much!
H 1170 new substitute language will hurt Georgia youth!
On Monday, the Senate Health & Human Services committee took a good public health bill–HB 1170–and added new, harmful language to it. In a surprise move, the committee changed the bill so that it would ban providers from offering medicines that temporarily pause puberty to Georgians under the age of 18. This form of puberty-delaying medicine helps give young people more time to mature and understand their gender so they can make important decisions about their health care.
As amended, HB 1170 now moves to the Senate Rules Committee and we need your help to urge committee members to say NO to this hurtful amendment.
Every major U.S. medical and mental health organization–including the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and American Psychological Association–supports access to gender-affirming care (including puberty-delaying medicines) for transgender young people and adults. These kinds of personal health care decisions should be left between families and medical providers, without political interference.
Don’t know what to say?
My name is ________. (If you live in their district, add “I live and vote in your district.”) Please vote NO on the amended version of HB 1170 that now includes an immediate ban on prescribed puberty delaying medications used by healthcare providers in the treatment of gender dysphoria.
We all want what’s best for our kids. That’s why it’s so important for parents to make decisions about the health care that is right for their families and allows their kids to grow up healthy and safe. This amendment puts politicians between parents and providers, and could ban access to essential medical care for transgender young people.
Every major U.S. medical and mental health organization supports access to medical care for transgender young people and adults, including puberty-delaying medicines. This amendment endangers transgender youth, their families, and the medical community as a whole by putting politics above expert medical recommendations. I urge you to oppose this harmful amendment. Thank you.
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