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On August 7, 1992, Peter Schilla of the Western Center for Law and Poverty wrote to Assembly Speaker Willie Brown to urge him to separate the Proposition 99 diversions from the remainder of the budget on the grounds that it would be difficult to get a four-fifths vote on the entire state budget.70 The budget needed only a two-thirds vote to pass, and Schilla and others were arguing that the money could be diverted because of the language in the initiative that permitted the Legislature to enact amendments to Proposition 99 by a four-fifths vote, so long as the amendments were consistent with its purposes. (Critics were arguing that any reductions in the Health Education and Research programs below 20 percent and 5 percent would not be consistent with the intent of the initiative.) Brown followed Schilla's advice, removing the Proposition 99 accounts from the budget bill and placing them in separate bills that would be easier to pass under the four-fifths requirement.71 In the end, the bills did not come to a vote

Our clients who have implemented a Tobacco-Free Policy have been most successful when utilizing a 6-8 month communication strategy (ultimately enabling their employees time to quit), they offer onsite tobacco-cessation classes at no-cost to their employees, include nicotine replacement therapy as part of their medical benefit offerings, and have visible senior-level support of the initiative

The high-risk populations for hepatitis A in this outbreak include: People who use drugs (injection or non-injection) People experiencing unstable housing or homelessness People who are currently or were recently incarcerated Men who have sex with men (MSM) People with chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C To protect Illinois' residents, IDPH recommends hepatitis A vaccination for those individuals most at risk including men who have sex with men (MSM), persons experiencing homelessness, persons who use drugs and/or persons who are currently or were recently incarcerated
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