Senate Bill 233 Dead!

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Senate Bill 233 " Dead " !

 

Today 5/28 marks the official deadline for bills to move from the Senate

Appropriations Committee to the Senate Floor for a full vote of the

Senate. With the passage of this deadline, Senator Figueroa's Senate

Bill 233 can be considered " dead " for the balance of this year. SB 233

would have eliminated the California Acupuncture Board and would have

severely restricted the authority of Licensed Acupuncturists to assess,

diagnose, and communicate with patients.

 

AIMS extends a hearty " Thank you! " to everyone--practitioners and

consumers--who took time to send opposition messages and encourage

others to join in this fight. The defeat of SB 233 would not have been

possible without the overwhelming participation of everyone involved. We

have been informed that Sacramento was deluged with faxes, emails, and

phone calls in opposition. The AIMS Online Advocacy system alone

generated more than 1,000 opposition messages, and this does not even

begin to account for the thousands of other messages sent directly to

legislative members.

 

Good job, everyone!

 

 

If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each

act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have

faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the

world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle

somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured

on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would

indeed be overwhelming.

Dorothy Day