Health and Human Services

Policy and Research Committee Leadership in 2021-22 2021-22 Committee Roster Upcoming Events Past Events

The binational Midwestern Legislative Conference Health and Human Services Committee provides a forum for state and provincial legislators to exchange information and ideas on a range of critical policy issues. CSG Midwest’s primary staff liaison to the committee is Tim Anderson.

Committee activities include ongoing policy research, webinars for legislators and legislative staff, and in-person meetings. Committee members and officers for 2023-2024 will be named soon. (See below for committee leadership and membership from the past biennium.)

The committee will next meet in person in conjunction with the 77th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Legislative Conference, which will be held July 9-12, 2023, in Detroit. Details on this meeting will be provided soon. The committee last met in July 2022 at the MLC Annual Meeting in Wichita, Kan.

Summary of 2022 committee meeting, including links to presentations »

Policy and Research

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Health and Human Services

With possible end to decades-old federal law, Minnesota revamps its Indian Family Preservation Act Read More

Criminal Justice and Public Safety

New bills and laws aim to stem rapid rise in fentanyl-related overdose deaths Read More

Economic Development

Illinois adopts first law in Midwest requiring paid leave for workers Read More

Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Feed people, help farmers: How two nutrition programs have grown in two Midwestern states Read More

Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Under leadership of Michigan Sen. Roger Victory, CSG’s Midwestern Legislative Conference is exploring policies to improve food security in the region’s states and provinces Read More

Health and Human Services

State of health coverage in the Midwest: Four takeaways from studies showing a drop in uninsured, but continued disparities and rising costs Read More

Committee Leadership in 2021-22

Representative Jennifer Schultz

Minnesota, Co-Chair

Representative Bronna Kahle

Michigan, Co-Chair

Senator Pat Pettey

Kansas, Vice Chair

2021-22 Committee Roster

In 2021-2022, the MLC Health & Human Services Committee was led by two co-chairs, Michigan Rep. Bronna Kahle and Minnesota, Rep. Jennifer Schultz, and a vice chair Kansas Sen. Pat Pettey.