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Action Alert from the Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project
May 14, 2008

Thank you for your calls and emails over the last few days! We were told that YOU made THE difference!

Please, take a moment now to make another round of emails or calls.

The Naturopathic Doctor Registration Bill is about to go to the Senate Floor for their vote! The calls and emails you make today will impact how this bill is passed.

Call and Write as many of the 67 Senators as you can. Tell the Senators you want to Keep the "Vickerman Amendment” as it came out of the Senate Finance Committee today. Tell the Senators you will only Support the bill without further new amendments introduced on the floor – unless the new amendments are accepted by Senator Vickerman.

Start by emailing and calling your own Senator. If you do not know who that is, visit this link or reply to this email with your full address: http://geo.commissions.leg.state.mn.us/districts/start.html

Then continue to contact as many of the 67 Senators as you are able. For a list, please visit this link: http://www.gis.leg.mn/php/senate.php?Body=Senate

Feel free to use this dialogue in your calls and emails:

My name is:
I live at:
I am a constituent of:

I support the Naturopathic Doctor Registration Bill (HF 1724) as it came out of the Senate Finance Committee with the Vickerman Amendment. It is a good compromise. Please vote to support the Naturopathic Doctor Registration Bill without further amendments on the Senate floor.

Thank You Very Much!

Please also take the time to thank the following Senators for their effort to amend this bill: Senators Vickerman, Dille and Fischbach


Naturopathic Doctor Registration Bill Update – May 13, 2008

The bill that came out of the Senate Finance Committee (HF 1724) is a much better bill than before.

MNHLRP wants you to know that the bill with the agreed upon amendments, as it came out of the Senate Finance Committee, is a good compromise. MNHLRP supports the bill without further amendments on the Senate floor.

Please call and email your Senator and let them know that this bill is ONLY ACCEPTABLE as it was passed by the Senate Finance Committee with the two amendments intact, one by the author, Sen. Torres Ray, and the other by Sen. Jim Vickerman.

The effects of the Vickerman Amendment are as follows:

The effective date of the legislation will be July 2009 instead of July 2008.

There will be a working group formed to develop recommendations and propose possible legislative modifications.

MNHLRP supports the actions by the Senate Finance Committee today on the Naturopathic Doctor Registration Bill! Specifically, we want to thank Senator Vickerman who made the motion, and note that he was strongly supported by Senators Dille and Fischbach.

The bill now proceeds to the Senate floor for their vote.

Thank you all for your hard work, dedication and patience.

Greg Schmidt, MNHLRP President
Victoria Welch, Board Member at Large

Any questions, please call - 651.322.4542 or email - mnhlrp@charter.net

To Find Information on HF1724.

Civics 101 – Need a little refresher on how a bill becomes law?

Dear Health Freedom Friends,

There is a grass roots demonstration at 8am in the Capitol building, outside Room 123, with signs to protest the bill SF 1520, being presented in the Health & Human Services Budget Division Committee. Let us know if you will be there by emailing us at mnhlrp@charter.net or call 651-322-4542

The demonstration preceeds the hearing on the Naturopathic Registration bill, SF1520, in the Senate Health and Human Services Budget Committee on:

Tuesday Morning at 8:30 AM
in the Capitol Building, Room 123

Attend and show your support for health freedom. Email and call each and every Senator on the committee with this message:

Dear Senator:
RE: SF 1520 Naturopathic Doctor Registration
DO NOT move this bill ahead as current language is unacceptable for securing the practice of traditional naturopaths and other alternative health care practitioners and securing freedom of access to those practitioners.
Sincerely,

Let your voice be heard. Attend the hearing and contact all of the following Senators:

Chair
Linda Berglin
651.296.4261

Vice Chair
Ann Lynch
sen.ann.lynch@senate.mn
651.296.4848

Ranking Minority Member
Michelle L. Fischbach
sen.michelle.fischbach@senate.mn
651.296.2084

Member
Sharon L. Erickson Ropes
sen.sharon.erickson.ropes@senate.mn
651.296.5649


Paul E. Koering
sen.paul.koering@senate.mn
651.296.4875


Tony Lourey
sen.tony.lourey@senate.mn
651.296.0293


Mary A. Olson
sen.mary.olson@senate.mn
651.296.4913


Yvonne Prettner Solon
651.296.4188


Julie A. Rosen
sen.julie.rosen@senate.mn
651.296.5713


Kathy Sheran
sen.kathy.sheran@senate.mn
651.296.6153

Patricia Torres-Ray
sen.patricia.torres.ray@senate.mn
651.296.4274

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Did you know the “Naturopathic Doctor” registration bill, HF 1724/SF 1520, in the MN Legislature is listing a therapy you practice under Chapter 146A now as their expertise?

Stop everything you are doing and help us!

We can do this. Tell everyone you know to do as many of the following items as they possibly can this weekend.

1. Participate in an old fashioned Protest!
Show up on Monday, April 7th, at 2 p.m., and bring a sign if you can. We need everyone, hundreds of people!! We are trying to get the TV and Radio media alerted to the problem. Send an email to: mnhlrp@charter.net if you plan on coming!

2. Handwrite a letter to each legislator (too late for emails) and deliver it to:

Woodbury
Healing Insights
7582 Currell Blvd
Suite 112
Woodbury, MN 55125
Sat til 5:30 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Bloomington
8120 Penn Ave
Suite 154
Bloomington, MN 55431
Sat til 5 p.m. Sun 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Saint Cloud
Please call ahead (320) 232-8651, and then deliver your letters to:
Carol Spencer
520 15th Ave SE
#202
Saint Cloud, MN
Right across the street from the SA.
Have your letters delivered by 1 p.m. on Sunday.

If you cannot drop off a letter, please email it to mnhlrp@charter.net. We will print your letter and hand deliver it!

Keep your letter simple:

Dear Honorable Representative ____________ or
Dear Honorable Senator ____________
Please hear this concerned citizen’s voice regarding HR 1724/SF 1520. I oppose this bill. This bill is not ready to become law. My concerns have not been met. This bill requires more citizen input and discussion. Please honor this request and do not move this bill.
Respectfully,
Name
Address
Phone #

Representatives
Karen Clark
Scot Kranz
Dan Severson
Bruce Anderson
John Benson
Rob Eastlund
Thomas Huntley
Carolyn Laine
Shelley Madore
Carol McFarlane
Denny McNamara
Frank Moe
Will Morgan
Neil W. Peterson
Marsha Swails
Ken Tschumper

Senators
Linda Berglin
Ann Lynch
Michelle Fischbach
Sharon Erickson Ropes
Poel Koering
Tony Lourey
Mary Olson
Yvonne Prettner Solon
Julis Rosen
Kathy Sheran

3. Attend a Pre-Rally Meeting on Sunday, April 6th, from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Friends Meeting House
1725 Grand Ave.
St. Paul, Minnesota
1 block east of Fairview

See our website for a map: www.mnhlrp.org or call the MNHLRP at (651) 322-4542 and respond to this email that you will be attending or email us at mnhlrp@charter.net

MNHLRP’s efforts to amend the bill are not being heard. MNHLRP needs your help to stop this legislation. Rally at the Capitol the Monday, April 7th at 2 p.m. and literally hold up signs of protest!

We need to stop this. We CAN STOP this and it won't take that much work. But it will take numbers of us to be heard!

Come to this meeting and hear the truth.

Please visit our website for more information about this bill, your right to practice and your freedom of access to the health care modalities of your choice! www.mnhlrp.org

The Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project is a 501[c]4 non-profit political action organization.
MNHLRP; PO Box 315; Rosemount, MN 55068; Email mnhlrp@charter.net; (651) 322 - 4542