How can a local community have an impact on a national issue such as NF?

Background (What circumstances necessitate Congressional action?/What happened to the Bill in Congress? Did it pass, or die in committee?):
The Senate bill 1299 is a bill to reform the care for first response workers that can contract resistant strains and infectious diseases such as MRSA, or like NF. It's currently being lost in Senate committees.

Goal of Action:
To reduce the amount of first response workers such as EMT's, nurses, police, and fireman, and workers exposed to diseases such as MRSA and NF.

Specifics/Means of Goal:

180 days after passed, an infectious disease control organization for offices should be set up, and personal prevention equipment is to be administered to workers. Also, education on ways to prevent, recognize, and recover from these diseases, as well as provide medical attention to at risk workers.


Type of Power (Is Congress acting according to an expressed or implied power? If it is implied, what expressed power grants it? - Check the Constitution to figure this out!):
This is a bill acting on an implied power of the expressed interstate commerce clause. The Senate wants to protect workers which has to be regulated between states.


Analysis (Do you think Congress should do this according to its Constitutional powers?)
I think that this bill is certainly in the best interest of the people involved, and shouldn't be stopped, although I don't really know why congress sees that they should do it.