VIRGINIA UPDATE

House Bill 784 has been pulled by the patron from the docket for the
2008 session of the General Assembly. The patron has indicated it will
be introduced again at the next session.

Take some time now to celebrate, to thank all your contacts for their
help and support, to pat each other on the back, but most importantly
to thank our God for guiding us to this victory.

I believe what we have accomplished is pretty remarkable and I thank
each and every one of you for your part in it.

Janet Sutton

Virginia Chapter Certified Natural Health Professionals

P.O. Box 316

Chesterfield, VA 23832-0005

Website: www.cnhpva.org

Virginia Certified Natural Health Professionals of Virginia had an urgent challenge in January 2008, when a Naturopathic licensing bill was introduced that would have shut down all traditional naturopaths in Virginia as well as many other natural health care practitioners. VCNHP mobilized the entire natural health community and successfully convinced the legislature to take the bill off the table for the 2008 session. In the midst of the mobilization, VCNHP launched a new initiative which they have titled, Virginians for Health Freedom. The group lobbied against the licensure bill NP1820, a Naturopathic Physician Bill and stopped it. They also introduced HB1744, a safe harbor exemption bill into the Virginia legislature in early 2009 Diane Miller went to Virginia to testify. It was tabled indefinitely.

Diane Miller of NHFA gave a lobbying workshop to VHF in January of 2008 to educate 20 of the VHF leaders about health freedom concepts and provide lobbying training and feedback to grassroots lobbyists. Virginia activists are strong and determined, and we are looking forward to their victory for freedom and natural health.

Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation State Coordinator, Dick Williams, is working hard to support the efforts in Virginia, and has rallied citizens to attend the important hearings. Williams is the head of a National Managers organization for Nature’s Sunshine distributors.

Virginia

Sunshine Health Freedom State Coordinator

Dick Williams

804-739-9670

fyiherbs@aol.com

Virginia Chapter of the CNHP

Janet Sutton, Pres.

Phone: 804-590-0360