Now that the state Assembly has overwhelmingly approved legislation creating a state palliative care council (Assembly Bill 23) and the state Senate Health Committee has unanimously approved the Senate version of this bill (Senate Bill 39), WiHPCA’s lobbyists continue to aggressively work to move this bill forward in the state Senate.

We need your volunteers’ help! Recently, you should have received a WiHPCA Action Alert email requesting that palliative care agency volunteers either email or call their respective state senators and ask them to request Senate leadership to schedule this legislation for a vote in the full Senate. If your agency’s volunteers have not already done so, please kindly remind them to contact their respective state Senator – based on the volunteer’s residence address – and make this request. If the volunteer is not sure who their state Senator is, they may go to the Legislature’s interactive map website to find out.

Please thank your volunteers for their advocacy!