SENATE BILL: Keep PREPing Act (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

2.1 says "hereby amendment", I would presume that should be "hereby amended"

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Also, I will motion to assume sponsorship.

Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Since this is a house bill, would fixing the amendment typo require a Senate amendment constitutionally speaking?

As to the merits, it has long been my contention that the cheapest most efficient thing you can do in health care to both make expanding access practical and also to ensure better outcomes at lower prices is to champion preventative treatment, and preventative care. A large element of R&RPHA was to shift the focus of our system away from emergency rooms and towards preventative care for this very reason. It reduces costs, it reduces health care inflation (emergency room care is most expensive), it reduces debilitation, death and loss production and if you think about it by extension it reduces dependency since someone who can work will not be forced onto welfare and someone alive can take care of the kids. The benefits thus far outweight the upfront costs associated with it.

The reason I have sponsor this house bill, is because it continues to build on our previous success to expand and improve preventative care, specifically in the area of HIV/AIDs, We know the damage and the danger that is posed by HIV/AIDs and we know that even as treatment improves over time, the best thing is to prevent getting it in the first place. HIV/AIDs has ended a number of lives far too young and it has broken a number of families as well, and for too long action was stymied irresponsibly because of prejudice and ignorance about the disease itself. This has been costly not only in monetary terms but in societal terms and in terms of loss that no one can put a price on.

Now we see a surge of this in certain areas and it is the most responsible course of action at this point in time to take preventative measures and reduce this before it devastates communities, that are already suffering from a number of problems, with multiple stressers and strains on the families and people of these areas.

As such I urge the Senate to take action and pass this bill.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I motion for a final vote, Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A final vote is now open, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE