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Legislative Issues

Legislative Disclaimer:
The Holistic Mentorship Network is a non-profit organization. We are proactive in educating and raising awareness to legislative issues that may affect the Holistic Field including being Green. We also reside with in the Community of our homelands and will do our best to keep you informed on issues that may arise. It is our objective to keep you informed and maintain an objective stance in order to provide you with free choice in accordance to the Constitution of the United States of America.

Check back here often to stay up-to-date on what's bills are being proposed and how to contact your representatives about them.

New Jersey Legislative Issues

A2933 "Dietician/Nutritionist Licensing Act."
To read Bill A2933: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/BillsByNumber.asp
Stay updated about the bill, votes and rallies at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1030
You can find your elected officials at: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/abcroster.asp

A260 "Provides a conscientious belief exemption to mandatory vaccination"
To read Bill A260: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/BillsByNumber.asp
Stay updated about the bill, votes and rallies at: www.njvaccinationchoice.org
You can find your elected officials at: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/abcroster.asp

US Legislative Issues

H.R. 875 and S.425: Bills that can effect Organic Farming

H.R. 875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
Sponsored by Representative Rosa DeLauro
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-875
Feb 4, 2009: Referred to House Agriculture
To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.

S. 425 Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act
Sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billxpd?bill=s111-425 Feb 12, 2009: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the establishment of a traceability system for food, to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspections Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for improved public health and food safety through enhanced enforcement, and for other purposes.

Below are also links to videos and articles of people opposed to H.R. 875 and S.425 for a variety of reasons, and blogs where different viewpoints are expressed.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c1112RD9bb:e11439: http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=12878056
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6726
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6726
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goodbye-farmers-markets-C-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090303-287.html
http://www.infowars.com/hr-875-and-the-criminalization-of-the-backyard-gardener/

If you would like to express your opinion on this bill, here is a link to find and contact your congressmen (senators and representatives) by entering your zip code on the top left hand side of the page. www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

The House Agricultural Committee has 45 members. If you would like to contact any or all of them to express your opinion on HR 875, go to this link.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/committee.xpd?id=HSAG

President Barack Obama
The Budget: Blueprint for the Future
Recently, President Obama submitted his first budget to Congress. The President said, the budget isn't just numbers on a page. It establishes our plans and priorities as we confront some of the longest-standing challenges this country has ever faced.

Watch a short video of President Obama introducing his budget.

With this budget, President Obama is asking Washington to look beyond the next election and take the long-term steps that he says will ensure America's future strength and prosperity.

It will involve sacrifices and difficult decisions. But it will also boldly invest in the three areas most critical to our economic future: energy, health care, and education.

The President proposes that:
Investing in a clean energy future will put America at the forefront of industry in the 21st century and create the jobs that will form a new foundation for the middle class.

Confronting the mounting cost of health care will put America back on a solid foundation so businesses can thrive and families can prosper.

Reforming and strengthening our education system will ensure American innovation and competitiveness well into the next century.

If you wish to support President Obama in this direction, please go to http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

Join Project Planet and Learn to Live Green!

An Invitation from Marie Presti,
Chair of Project Planet:
"Let us leave our children a legacy. Teach them to be keepers of this world and all living creatures that share in it's bounty. Come to Project Planet meetings to discuss your concerns & be a part of a "Think Tank."

Check out Project Planet's upcoming activities

For more information on Project Planet, please contact Marie at amlp@aol.com.

Project Planet is proud to be an affiliated organization of The Student Peace Alliance Team Student Peace Alliance represents a network of youth around the country who organize in support of a U.S. Department of Peace. Chapters actively advocate for the legislation through grassroots actions and local lobbying meetings, while working to educate their local community about effective violence prevention programs. SPA chapters also recognize the need to support such programs locally and work to become peace builders within their communities.

These Resources
support the next generation of caretakers for our planet...

Rallies, Seminars and Conferences:

**Be Informed and Awake**

September 23, 2009
7:00-9pm

Kinnelon Library http://kinnelonlibrary.org/
132 Kinnelon Road
Kinnelon, NJ

Susannah Pitman MS, CA
Acupuncturist
Americans spent $33.9 billion out-of-pocket on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) over 12 months, according to a 2007 government survey. CAM is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products such as herbal supplements, meditation, chiropractic, and acupuncture that are not generally considered to be part of conventional medicine. CAM accounts for approximately 1.5 percent of total health care expenditures ($2.2 trillion) and 11.2 percent of total out-of-pocket expenditures (conventional out-of-pocket: $286.6 billion and CAM out-of-pocket: $33.9 billion) on health care in the United States.
Susannah states, "The government is putting a tremendous amount of energy into shifting our current health care system in order to make it more affordable and accessible for people. This shift may cause a large ripple effect throughout the health care system, making it necessary for all aspects of health care to change with the movement in order to continue practicing successfully."
The Holistic Mentorship Network will hold it first discussion meeting on September 23 starting at 7pm and will run till 9pm with Susannah facilitating the discussion for you to be heard. She encourages you to bring your thoughts and ideas to what will be an exciting, dynamic discussion on CAM therapies and health care reform.
Mark your calendars and join the discussion:
September 23, 2009
Where: Kinnelon Library http://kinnelonlibrary.org/
132 Kinnelon Road, Kinnelon, NJ
This discussion is open to everyone and we encourage you to come out to educate yourselves and be part of the discussion. You will not want to miss an opportunity to meet with holistic professional and people from your community. Invite your friends, colleagues, and family members to join you in this important night out for reform for health care for you and the future generation... our children.
RSVP to Susannah at:
Phone: 973-257-8924
Email: balance.acupuncture.center@gmail.com
Website: www.balanceacupuncturecenter.com

We read, you listen, we ALL decide.

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Preamble to the Constitution

...a more perfect union.
We lead busy lives. We have our work, our families, our homes and our communities. Any time left to read legislation? Legislation that will directly impact you, your families and communities. Few do."
Three voice over artists did this as a public service project. Rather than reading 1,000 pages of legislation that will be voted on this month, you can listen to it instead and choose which parts you want to listen to.

Download the audio of this bill, and listen to it as you would an audio book, whenever it's convenient for you.
http://www.hearthebill.org/Home_Page.html
"The greatest chance we have to keep our country great and strong is for us to be an educated, informed and active citizenry. To get the primary source knowledge that we all must have to make our choices, together."

Advanced Healthcare Practitioners Course:
Ethical and Legal Considerations

This seminar is intended for Natural (complementary and alternative modality or "CAM") Health Practitioners in every area of practice. The Vitamin Lawyer, Ralph Fucetola JD, an attorney with over thirty four years experience in the nutrient/natural health fields conducted this seminar. With the State and Federal Government agencies determined to stamp out all non-pharmaceutical focused treatments, you the advanced health practitioner, need accurate, up to the minute information on:

Standard Operating Procedure
Disclaimers
Disclosures
Informed Consent
Risks to Private Practitioners
Practical advice on structuring your practice
to protect yourself and your patients
Forbidden words
How to present what you do and why you do it
Waivers

Common sense, talent and experience may make you a great practitioner, but it takes legal information and careful strategic communication to keep you out of trouble and in practice. Join us for this essential course. Tuition includes a $30 tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation and an information-filled eBook with practical forms to use.

Online Course Details:
Hand-outs: Ethical & Legal eBook Hand-out & Course Certificate
Class Type: Any Natural Health Practitioner
Education: 2 Continuing Education Units for IMUNE, NEHCB & NTCB
Cost: $99.99

To register: Ethical & Legal Considerations Course

THOMAS: Free Federal Legislative Information

THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.

Since that time THOMAS has expanded the scope of its offerings to include the features and content listed here: Bills, Resolutions, Activity in Congress, Congressional Record, Schedules, Calendars, Committee Information, Presidential Nominations, Treaties, Government Resources, Information For Teachers, Help and Contact.