Legislative Summaries
These summaries are written by Government Affairs Director Doug Farquhar.
2024
- May: Back on the Hill Again, Virtually
- May: We Were Back on Capitol Hill Advocating for You
- April: Our Visit to the CDC Vector-Borne Laboratory
- April: State Voices Amplified During 2024 Hill Day
- March: President Biden Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Proposal Released
- March: Congress to Approve Fiscal Year 2024 Funding for Several Federal Agencies
- February: Federal Funding: Congressional Update
- January: 2023 State Legislation on Body Art
- January: 2023: Our Year in Review for Government Affairs
2023
- December: House and Senate Have Until January 19 to Finalize Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations
- October: 2023 Update on State Food Safety Legislation
- October: Our Story to Tell
- September: The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act
- August: FDA Appoints Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Program
- August: House and Senate Appropriators Remain Far Apart on Fiscal Year 2024 Budgets
- July: House and Senate Continue to Work on Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations
- June: Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Moving Forward, Albeit Slowly
- June: Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
- May: Iowa and South Carolina Redesign Their Public Health Agencies
- May: Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Bill
- May: We Were Back in Washington, DC, in Early May
- May: We Advocate for Support of FDA Food Safety Efforts
- April: Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Meets With the FDA Commissioner
- March: Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ in Washington, DC, 2023
- February: Government Affairs Accomplishments in 2022
2022
- December: Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill
- December: Congress in Negotiations to Finalize the Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations
- November: Results of the Midterm Elections on Environmental Health
- November: State Ballot Measures on Environmental Health
- September: The Biden Administration Tackles Environmental Justice
- July: Food Safety Remains Top Government Concern
- June: Accomplishments So Far
- April: Congressperson Rob Wittman Visits Harris Teeter Store
- March: Congress Finally Enacts Omnibus Spending Package for Fiscal Year 2022
- March: Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ in Washington, DC, 2022
- January: The 2022 Year Ahead in Government Affairs
- January: The 2021 Year in Government Affairs
2021
- November: Congress Passes the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
- September: Enacted State Legislation Regarding Food
- August: The Senate Version of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Covers Environmental Health
- July: Congressional House Appropriations Markup of the Labor-HHS-Education Budget Provides Significant Increases to the Nation's Public Health Infrastructure
- June: 2021 State Enacted Legislation: Food, June 2021
- June: Biden-Harris Administration to Invest $7 Billion From American Rescue Plan to Hire and Train Public Health Workers in Response to COVID-19
- May: Congresswoman Lawrence Introduces the Environmental Health Workforce Act
- April: Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Visits Congress Virtually
- April: The American Jobs Plan Could Provide Billions for the Environmental Health Workforce
- March: Laws to Exempt Retail Foods From State Oversight Are on the Rise
- February: States Seek to Limit the Authority of Public Health
- January: Biden Announces Nominees for Key Positions on Health and Science
2020
- December: Fiscal Year 2021 Budget
- December: The Beginning of the Next Administration
- November: The Beginning of the End of Election Season
- October: National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Is October 25–31, 2020
- September: Congress and Congressional Appropriations in the Final Weeks
- September: State Food Safety Legislation Enacted in August 2020
- August: The Food Freedom Movement: Laws in Maine, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming
- August: Public Health Authorities in the Time of COVID-19
- July: U.S. House of Representatives Adopt Budgets for FY 2021
- June: 2nd Annual World Food Day
- June: Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Advocates for the Environmental Health Profession to the United Nations
- June: Environmental Health Holds the Keys to Public Health's Future