We can celebrate the start of FASD Awareness Month a little early this year as three new co-sponsors have signed onto HR 3946 The FASD Respect Act! Thank you to Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schultz [D-FL-25], Rep. Susie Lee [D-NV-3], and Rep. Collin Z. Allred [D-TX-32] for officially becoming co-sponsors on Read more…
Actually, to say the endorsements “rolled in” is not exactly correct. These endorsements from organizations came in due to the hard work and persistence of advocates across the country. Fourteen of these organizations are new endorsers, with five of them signing onto a letter of endorsement during the 117th Congress. Read more…
The beginning of August has brought endorsements from 38 new organizations, bringing the total number of organizations endorsing The FASD Respect Act to just below 100! These new organizations come to us from Florida (4), Georgia (9), Illinois (2), Michigan (1), New York (1), North Carolina (2), and Texas (18), Read more…
The FASD Respect Act (HR 3946/1800) closed out July with support from sixty organizations from all over the country! Nine of these organizations are national, while the remaining fifty-one have come in from nineteen different states. The most recent endorsements come to us from Georgia (The Carter Center Mental Health Read more…
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the July Policy Forum this past Wednesday, July 26th. This month’s forum featured an update on co-sponsors and meetings with legislators, a presentation by Julia Rivera on State Organizing for the FASD Respect Act, and information on how the FASD Respect Act Read more…
FASD United would like to thank Rep. Deborah K. Ross [D-NC-2] for co-sponsoring HR 3946, the FASD Respect Act! Rep. Ross co-sponsored The FASD Respect Act in the 117th Congress and is the first Congressperson from North Carolina to support this iteration of the bill. It has been nearly two Read more…
As the end of July approaches, we are happy to announce five more Co-Sponsors for HR 3946, The FASD Respect Act! Rep. Joe Neguse [D-CO-2], Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX-33], Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA-7], Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD-8], and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester[D-DE-At Large] all officially co-sponsored HR. 3946 on July Read more…
During the 117th Congress, FASD advocates managed to get nearly 300 organizations to sign onto a letter endorsing the FASD Respect Act. It has been fifty-four days since the FASD Respect Act was introduced in the 118th Congress by Senator Murkowski and we have already seen fifty organizations endorse what Read more…
As we approach the end of July the total number of organizations officially supporting the FASD Respect Act has grown to fifty! This past week four organizations endorsed HR 3946/S 1800 thanks to advocates like you. Each of these organizations endorsed the FASD Respect Act during the 117th Congress. National Read more…
July 19th saw five more Co-Sponsors show support for HR. 3946, The FASD Respect Act, bringing the total number of Co-Sponsors in the House of Representatives to seven. We are happy to welcome Rep. Jake LaTurner [R-KS-2], Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX-37], Rep. David Trone [D-MD-6] Rep. Dean Phillips [D-MN-3], and Read more…