Email Chairman Watson to request a hearing today!
ETA: This campaign was so successful that Chairman Watson begs you to please stop asking. A hearing was never called, but the message was received.
SB111, the Community Midwives Senate bill, has been assigned to the Health and Human Services committee. For a bill to become a law, it must pass through committee before going to the Senate (or House) floor for a vote. If it passes that vote it goes to the same committee on the other side, in this case the House committee, and then to the House floor for a vote. Georgia’s legislative session is only 40 days long, making it very difficult to get bills passed.
We (no longer) need everyone to email Chairman Ben Watson (ben.watson@senate.ga.gov) to request that he: (Click this link and the email autopopulates for you! Add your name and send! Done!)
Read SB111
Call a hearing in his committee, Health and Human Services
Support Georgia families by giving them more access to care by community midwives
Include information about why this is important to you if you like
Please copy us at paigethemidwife@gmail.com so that we can keep a copy for paper presentation and a record of how hard Georgia families are working to get access to care.