POLI330N Week 8 Discussion: Advocating for Change: How a Bill Becomes a Law

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POLI330N-11469: POLITICAL SCIENCE

POLI330N Week 8 Discussion: Advocating for Change: How a Bill Becomes a Law

Initial Post Instructions

Your team is tasked with proposing a bill that addresses a specific challenge in one of these areas: a pressing social health issue, an environmental issue, an economic issue, or a current event. Examples: increasing funding for mental health services, regulating telemedicine, improving vaccine distribution, reducing the use of plastics and hazardous materials, or increasing tax incentives for public health workers taking jobs in underinvested communities.

For the Week 8 discussion, you will take on the role of an advocacy group worker, and in one short paragraph (3-5 sentences), address a social health concern, an environmental challenge, an economic issue, or a current topic of your choice. Your task is to propose a new bill, or policy idea and how you will advocate for it.

• The Idea: Select a social, health, environmental, or economic issue, or a current topic of your choice. Talk about why you chose this issue/topic.
• Creating the Bill: What would your proposed bill include? Outline its main goal(s) and consider how it could improve health policies, protect the environment, drive economic growth, or address the topic you have chosen.
• Legislative Journey: Discuss how your Bill will move through Congress and the legislative process. Here is a resource about How a Bill Becomes LawLinks to an external site..
• Advocacy: How would you rally support from the public and lawmakers to get your Bill passed? Would you organize campaigns, engage with the media, form coalitions, or form a special interest group? You are welcome to “think outside the box,” and come up with your own advocacy ideas.

SOLUTION

As a mental health advocacy group worker, I propose the “Mental Health Equity and Access Act”—a bill aimed at increasing federal funding to expand mental health services in underserved urban and rural communities. This legislation would mandate insurance parity……………………..purchase entire solution at $5 only