In 2020, the County shifted its State and Federal Legislative Platforms from one to two-year documents running concurrently with the legislative and congressional sessions. With the start of new sessions anticipated in January 2023, the County Administrator's Office, which is responsible for coordinating the development of the Platforms, launched the Platform development process for 2023-24 in the fall of 2022.
To date, the Legislative Platform development process has included the following steps:
1. Board members, County Department Heads, and/or senior staff were invited to meetings with the County's federal and state lobbyists to discuss the department’s legislative and regulatory priorities, sponsored bill proposals, and policy interests.
2. Department Heads and their senior staff were requested to solicit input from any Board-established advisory bodies for which they provide staff support. They were also requested to provide the legislative priorities and principles of the professional associations to which they belong.
3. Policy positions, when included in the Platform, were requested to be refashioned to “principles.” This is intended to streamline the documents, moving away from program, project, or legislation-specific policy statements and toward more general principles. (Principles are more basic than policy and objectives and are meant to govern both.)
4. Draft Platforms are presented to the Legislation Committee for consideration in November and/or December, prior to recommendation of adoption to the Board in January 2023.
SUMMARY OF
DRAFT 2023-24 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM CHANGES
Introduction: Demographic data updates. Board of Supervisors District IV member change to presumptive winner, Ken Carlson.
Priority Policy Statements: Edits proposed to the Climate Change, Health, Human Services, Library Services, Telecommunications and Broadband, and Veterans.
Attachment A is the Draft 2023-24 Federal Legislative Platform showing redline changes from the 2021-22 adopted Platform.
Attachment B is the Draft 2023-24 Federal Legislative Platform, with changes incorporated into a clean copy.
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