FPA plays a lead role in the passage of several significant laws to: protect the confidentiality of HIV/AIDS-related information; certify nurse practitioners and grant them prescription privileges; and expand Medicaid eligibility for working poor families. FPA also works for passage of a new law to mandate insurance coverage of mammography screening.

FPA organizes a coalition to defeat the religious right’s deceptive “Parent and Pupil Rights Act” which would, among other things, ban sex education.

FPA’s government relations work results in Legislative approval of a $1 million increase in state family planning funding and an additional $4 million in new monies to cover the cost of mandated HIV testing and counseling in family planning clinics.