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NY TAKE ACTION: KEEP CALLING YOUR LEGISLATURS AND THE NY SENATE HEALTH COMM. MEMBERS

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5-16-19

We anticipate that the NY State Senate will be acting soon on S2994, the bill to repeal the religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school in New York. perhaps as soon as the next meeting of the Senate Health Committee next Tuesday,
 
   The top follow-up priority today is to call your State Senator, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, and you own Assemblymember, and while you are at it, call the members of the Senate Health Committee and politely tell the staffer that they should oppose the bill. They are ranked in rough order of need.
 
   The Legislators are not in session today so please call them at their district offices. If you have time call their Albany office as well.
 
   Your State Senator’s name and phone numbers should appear below:
 
 
 
 
 
   Your Assemblymember’s name and number in the district should appear below as well. Please let them know that you oppose Assembly Bill A2371.
 
 
 
 
 
Andrea Stewart Cousins, Senate Majority Leader
District: 914-423-4031, Albany: (518) 455-2585, Fax: (518) 426-6811
 
Gustavo Rivera, Chair of the Senate Health Committee
District: 718-933-2825, Albany: 518-455-3395, Fax: 518-426-6858
 
Democrats:
Sen. Todd Kaminsky, District: 516-766-8383, Albany: 518-455-3401, F: 516-766-8011
Sen. Jen Metzger, District: 845-344-3311, Albany: : (518) 455-2400, F: (518) 426-6780
Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, District: (718) 445-0004, Albany: 518-455-3461, F: (718) 445-8398
Sen. Julia Salazar, District: District, 917-370-4440, Albany: 518-455-2177, F: 518-426-6947
Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, District: 718-822-2049, Albany: 518-455-3595
Sen. David Carlucci, Rockland: 845-623-3627, Albany: 518-455-299. Ossining: 914-941-2041, F: 518-426-6737
Sen. Velmanette, Montgomery, District: 718-237-4137, Albany: (518) 455-3451, F: (518) 426-6854
Sen. Brian Benjamin, District: 212-222-7315, Albany: 518-455-2441, F: 518-426-6809
Sen. Brad Hoylman, District: 212-633-8052, Albany: (518) 455-2451, F: (518) 426-6846
 
Republicans:
Sen. Chris Jacobs, District: 716-854-8705. Phone: 518-455-3240
Sen. Robert Antonacci, District: 315-428-7632, Albany: 518-455-3511
Sen. Betty Little, District: 518-743-0968, Albany: 518-455-2811, F: (518) 426-6873
Sen. Patrick Gallivan, District: 716-656-8961, Albany: 518-455-3471, F: 518-426-6949
Sen. Patty Ritchie, District: Albany: (518) 455-3438, F: (518) 426-6740
 
Key Talking points:
·         Students with religious exemptions are only one out of 1000 people in the state,
·         Students with religious exemptions are less than 1% of students statewide,
·         Students with religious exemptions are less than .5% of students in NYC,
·         There are eight times as many students without religious exemptions who have not had the MMR vaccine as people with religious exemptions according to the CDC. S2994 does nothing about that.
     With the Democrats: This bill is established that the State has the power to tell people what to do with their bodies and their children’s bodies? What ever happened to “My body, My choice.”
     With the Republicans: This bill is a gross infringement on parental and religious rights and takes away a right we have always had in New York for no rational reason.
·         We have no data at all showing that students with religious exemption have any role in the outbreak. Even Mayor de Blasio admitted that. https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2019/05/07/de-blasio-measles-reality-has-nothing-to-do-with-religious-vaccine-exemptions-1009681
·         How are children with IEPs and 504 plans going to get the services that school districts must provide, whether the child is in school or not? And how much is this going to cost.
·         What is going to happen to the students who have medical problems deserving of a medical exemption who were told by there doctors to go get a religious exemption because getting a medical exemption is so difficult. Senator Gustavo Rivera, Chair of the Health Committee, has a bill right now, S477,  to fix this problem.
     Please share this message with friends and family, and please share on social media while we still can.
 
 Autism Action Network <jgilmore@autismactionnetwork.org>