Senior Legislative Attorney
Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association (LAPPA)
Charlottesville, Virginia
Jonathan (Jon) Woodruff, Esq., is a Senior Legislative Attorney at the Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association (LAPPA). He has numerous years of experience researching and analyzing state and federal criminal justice and health care issues involving, among other things, fentanyl test strips and other drug paraphernalia laws, the health information disclosure provisions of HIPAA and 42 C.F.R. Part 2, law enforcement and other first responder deflection initiatives, naloxone access, Good Samaritan fatal overdose prevention, ethical substance use disorder treatment practices, and the warm hand-off of overdose survivors to treatment. Jon is the lead drafter of LAPPA's: (1) Model Fentanyl Test Strip and Other Drug Checking Equipment Act (forthcoming in 2023); (2) Model Law Enforcement and Other First Responder Deflection Act (released March 2022); and (3) Model Overdose Mapping and Response Act (released March 2020). Jon is a former Senior Legislative Attorney at the National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws (NAMSDL). Prior to joining NAMSDL, Jon was a private practice attorney in Virginia and the District of Columbia, as well as an insurance company actuary in Illinois. Jon received a B.A. in Physics from Illinois Wesleyan University (1995), and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law (2003), where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review. Although Jon is no longer a practicing actuary, he attained Fellowship in the Casualty Actuarial Society in 2000.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM