1. W EBINAR : M AY 1, 2012 T HE 2012 L EGISLATIVE S ESSION : R EFLECTIONS AND P ROJECTIONS Lucy Culp, American Heart Association Vic Colman, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition

2. S TATE O PERATING B UDGET : B ACKGROUND  November 2011: Governor’s Budget  December 2011: Special Session: $500 million cuts  February 2012: Revenue forecast  April 2012: Final agreement in last hours of special session

3. K EY B UDGET “H IGHLIGHTS ”  $1.7 million for tobacco Quitline, covers the uninsured  No cuts to public health funding  Did not eliminate Disability Lifeline  Preserved the Basic Health Plan  $12 million in new revenue from “roll your own” tobacco

4. K EY B UDGET “H IGHLIGHTS ” CONT.  School nutrition funding was maintained  The state legislature reduced funding for State Food Assistance (SFA) by half for the current biennium  Dental care for vulnerable populations retained  Transportation budget still unbalanced – too much for state highway improvements and not enough for other transportation modes  Local taxes for public transit in 2010 accounts for ¾ of the operating revenue for public transit systems – not a sustainable solution  Want more plain talk details on our transportation budget ? Want more plain talk details on our transportation budget ?

5. K EY B ILLS : T OBACCO P REVENTION Cigar Licenses (HB 1683 and SB 5542)  Creates loophole in Initiative 901  Licenses for cigar lounges and tobacco stores to allow non-cigarette smoking  Would allow 100 lounges and 500 stores 2011 Legislative Action:  Tied to tobacco prevention funding  Defeated in final hours of session 2012 Legislative Action:  New polling: 71 % oppose  Defeated again in the last hours of budget negotiating

6. K EY B ILLS : T OBACCO P REVENTION SB 6166: Tobacco Tax Increase  $1 increase in cigarettes, equivalent increase for all OTP’s  $40 million projected in new revenue, $1.7 million to reinstate Quitline for uninsured  64% support, goes up to 71% when includes revenue dedicated to prevention or cessation  Needs a 2/3 vote to pass  May not be the best option for funding statewide TPCP

7. HB 1246: Regulating Tobacco Products Introduced in 2011, retained but did not move in 2012  Prohibited the sale of dissolvable tobacco products  Banned flavored tobacco products, that are blatantly marketed to youth.  Put all tobacco products behind the counter where they are not accessible to youth.  Lifted local regulatory preemption so that counties can put in place policies that would reduce accessibility and marketing aimed at youth. K EY B ILLS : T OBACCO P REVENTION

8. K EY B ILLS : A CTIVE T RANSPORTATION HB 2370 HB 2370 (Billig): include health in the state transportation system policy goals. Transportation Choices Coalition as lead advocate group  Great start on this 1 st year bill  Solid prime sponsor who is highly motivated to reintroduce next year  Polling data on this topic demonstrated strong bipartisan support  House Transportation Committee even had bipartisan support  Challenges

9. K EY B ILLS : A CTIVE T RANSPORTATION – P OLL D ATA

10. K EY B ILLS : A CTIVE T RANSPORTATION HB 1217 HB 1217 (Ryu): Neighborhood Safe Speeds Bicycle Alliance as lead advocate group  Terrific support on the House side but ran out of time on Senate floor  Solid prime sponsor; committed to the issue for the future  Broader outreach to health interests this session than the previous

11. K EY B ILLS : H EALTHY E ATING HB 1801 HB 1801 (Jinkins): Statewide Food Procurement COPC as lead advocacy group.  Got further this year  Worked policy language of bill and got sign-off by key state agencies  Ran out of time to work fiscal issues  DSHS assumed 25% higher costs for “healthy foods”!!  Need to push fiscal responsibility – “power of the purse” (food umbrella contract)  DOC had no fiscal costs  Where do we go from here?  DOH workgroup with affected state agencies >> will assess summer/fall about pushing out another bill

12. R EFLECTIONS AND P ROJECTIONS  Olympia still a challenging venue for moving healthy communities policy work  Active transportation seems like a better bet now than nutrition work. Why?  Less threatening to personal lifestyles (more removed)  Active transportation advocates more organized and better funded than nutrition types  Will still need to work all sides of the issue to meet key policy goals but we need to overcome policymaker fatigue about nutrition standards metrics  New Fed standards for school nutrition could be that opportunity

13. http://copcwa.org/ Phone: (206) 910-7643 Email us at: info@copcwa.org info@copcwa.org

14. http://copcwa.org/ Phone: (206) 834-8658 Email me at: lucy.culp@heart.org lucy.culp@heart.org