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In a hearing for the bill, its supporters often referenced anecdotal or debunked evidence, while those against the bill warned of its potentially devastating effect on the blood supply, according to the outlet. Montana House Bill 645, introduced on Feb. 17, sought in part to ban people from knowingly donating blood or tissue after getting an mRNA vaccine. It proposed fining both donors and distributors up to $500 for the misdemeanor offense, according to the bill text. In private conversations with Johnson, Biden and White House officials emphasized the stakes for Europe if Ukraine were to fall to Russia. But significant damage has been done to the Biden administration’s effort to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion during the funding impasse that dates to August, when the Democratic president made his first emergency spending request for Ukraine aid.
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The information presented here is collected from a variety of sources including the Montana Legislature’s public roster and its official bill-tracking system, the Legislative Automated Workflow System, or LAWS. Reporting and web design was done primarily by MTFP Deputy Editor Eric Dietrich. About 12 people testified in opposition to the bill at the Friday hearing, some of whom had received organ transplants or were planning to donate organs to sickly family members.
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But supporters say increasing paid sick leave will better allow workers to avoid spreading illnesses by staying home when they’re sick or need to care for sick family members. “There’s no test to do that, so we would not be able to comply to determine whether people have received it or not,” he said. Other proponents said that blood recipients should not have to worry about adverse effects in an emergency situation. The Food and Drug Administration said that respiratory viruses aren’t generally transmitted by blood transfusion and there have been no reported cases of transfusion-transmitted COVID-19. Others cited concerns over a spike in myocarditis cases among teens who received some types of vaccine, which U.S. The American Red Cross requested during May, Trauma Awareness Month, citizens help hospitals to stay prepared for transfusions, according to ABC News 4.
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To get the buy-in of the powerful union, Kamlager amended the bill to require workers on projects under 40 units be paid the countywide prevailing wage for public works. Any project with 40 or more units would be subject to the city of L.A.’s Project Labor Agreement requirements on worker pay and the mix of skill levels on projects. The journals or printed bills of the respective chambers should be consulted as the official documents of the Legislature. The Times’ newsroom is keeping track of the important bills Newsom will either sign or reject. Below are several of particular interest to Californians and you can read up on the others here.
Because while it bolsters budget reserves and reduces pension debt, legislators are scrambling to find a fraction of this revenue boon — about $400 million — to avert further cuts next fiscal year in higher education and human services. Chief Medical Officer for the American Red Cross in the Western U.S. Dr. Walter Kelley said this bill would “decimate” blood supply in Montana as 80% of the state has received at least one dose of the vaccine. Though the bill's opponents said there was no evidence to support a ban on vaccinated donors giving blood, the bill's proponents said that was because studies have not yet been done.
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They said it inaccurately classifies millions of dollars of stable revenue as “volatile” to the detriment of education and human services. U.S. and Ukrainian officials said resupply efforts could take place relatively quickly, because of supply chains and logistical networks established early in the more than two-year-old conflict. President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a statement of appreciation moments after the vote, which occurred late Saturday evening Ukraine time. He thanked by name House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Louisiana Republican who had been heavily lobbied by Ukraine’s supporters to bring the measure to a vote despite bitter opposition from his party’s far-right flank. House of Representatives approved a long-sought $61 billion in aid, breaking a legislative logjam that had deepened hardships on the war’s front lines, and made it difficult for Ukrainian forces to fend off Russian attacks on civilian neighborhoods and critical infrastructure. Former President Trump, the presumptive 2024 presidential GOP nominee, has long criticized U.S. support for Ukraine and has defended Putin.
While COVID-19 patients are barred from donating blood while infected with the virus—primarily because of the precondition for donors to be in "good health" when donating—all blood donation groups and the American Red Cross have maintained that it is safe to donate blood after receiving the vaccine. “That would devastate the blood supply,” said Cliff Numark, vice president of the blood bank Vitalant, who spoke in opposition to the bill. He added that blood banks are struggling to meet patient needs today and decreasing the blood supply in this manner would devastate patient care – people would die. But the speaker and Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, who commented during separate interviews, also said Connecticut needs to adjust the black ink it’s piling up.
The bill called for perpetrators who knowingly collect and distribute blood or tissue “containing gene-altering proteins” or other “isolates introduced by mRNA or DNA vaccines” or chemotherapies, to face a misdemeanor charge punishable by a fine up to $500. Blood from donors vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine is safe for transfusion because, while it generates an immune response to the virus, the “vaccine components themselves are not found within the bloodstream,” according to Jessa Merrill, director of communications for American Red Cross Biomedical Services. But Lamont’s critics counter that the “historic levels of investment” the governor cites are, in many cases, years of state payments that failed to keep pace with inflation. In other words, though state funding has increased over time, core programs effective support has grown stagnant or has shrunk. Majority Democrats in the House and Senate increasingly have joined other critics of this system over the past year, arguing the savings program is poorly designed.
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McCarthy’s ouster by the GOP’s far right came after he agreed earlier to allow federal spending levels that many far-right House Republicans disagreed with and wanted undone. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) delayed a vote on the supplemental aid package for months as members of his party’s far right wing, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky, threatened to move to oust him if he allowed a vote to send more assistance to Ukraine. Tucked into the measure is a provision that gives TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, nine months to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States.
"Many of my constituents question just because we hear these two words, 'safe and effective,' a million plus times, does that make them true?" Kmetz asked colleagues in a hearing on the bill last week. "[...] These are the people that are concerned about our blood supply. These are the people that put me in this office. These are the people that I represent." A spokesperson for The Red Cross confirmed it is safe for those who have received the vaccine to donate blood.
Teran served as the leader of the office’s ethics and integrity unit, being responsible for divisions that prosecuted misconduct allegations against police and other public officials, according to Fox News Digital. For months, Teran remained in the position despite the investigation into her. The bill stalled in the Assembly last year over what, if anything, it should specify about wages and the distribution of skilled workers for construction projects. There’s a long-standing dispute between legislators and the powerful State Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents a variety of skilled laborers, over what this and other housing-related bills should say. When an ambitious bill to create a Los Angeles County affordable housing agency stalled in the Assembly late last year after passing in the Senate, author Sen. Sydney Kamlager (D-Los Angeles) met with stakeholders, considered amendments “and even lit candles” to get it moving, she says.
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