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Legislative Tracker - Health & Human Services

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our public policy agenda. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here. Did we miss any important bills?

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A Historical Model for AI Regulation and Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

People were afraid that employers and health insurance companies would use the data from genome mapping to discriminate, and they demanded a public policy response. I believe we can achieve such cooperation again to ensure AI advancements help humanity thrive.

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

It’s hard to pin down the cause of these perceptions, but as a group they threaten the health of our sector and the operability of your missions. Specific issues addressed by MNA Following is a recap of specific issues MNA addressed in the context of our Public Policy Agenda. If it seems long, well… it was a long session.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits.

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Land Rematriation: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Donald Soctomah, Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin, Gabriela Alcalde, and Kate Dempsey

NonProfit Quarterly

You came into this world very much from the public health perspective and had to learn about the conservation world. Federal land policy in Maine,” Public Policy in Maine, Ballotpedia, accessed September 5, 2023, ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_policy_in_Maine#Land_and_Water_Conservation_Fund. Allison Kanoti et al.,

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Health inequities, crime levels, and immigration are all intrinsically linked to financial inequities, as are the failings of our criminal justice system. Farms, especially small farms, were failing. The rhetoric of the U.S.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.