This is the month for email writing! We have the following three email campaigns that AARP would like us to take part in:
1. AB 824, “to stop pay-to-delay practices” on drug prices, was amended again on the 13th of September, and AARP still supports the bill. To learn more, visit states.aarp.org/California/AB824. Please consider sending an email or letter to the Governor’s office.
2. AB 1366, preventing the CPUC from performing its oversight role for VOIP and IP-enabled phone services, has been shelved, but only for this year. We will continue to work on OPPOSING this bill into 2020. This is a good time to send an email to our senators to let them know, we don’t want this one to pass! We want the CPUC to perform oversight!
3. AB 1118, which would establish California as an Age-Friendly State and requires the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research to include the 8 domains of livability developed by the World Health Organization to be included as recommendations in the next update of the State General Planning Guidelines. This bill has been sent to the Governor’s desk for his signature. Please consider sending him an email or letter as soon as possible urging him to sign AB 1118 into law.
Master Plan on Aging
Finally, the Governor’s Master Plan on Aging process kicked off on September 17. Nina Weiler-Harwell, Ph.D. | AARP California Associate State Director – Community, is on the Stakeholder Advisory Commission. We hope that she can enlighten us as to what has been decided as they “Pledge for Action allow[ing] all Californians the opportunity to share their ideas and suggestions for how we collectively build an age-friendly California.”
Recognizing that California’s over-65 population is projected to grow to 8.6 million by 2030, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order calling for the creation of Master Plan for Aging to be developed by October 1, 2020. The Master Plan will serve as a blueprint that can be used by state government, local communities, private organizations and philanthropy to build environments that promote an age-friendly California. Want to read more? https://www.chhs.ca.gov/home/master-plan-for-aging/