 While at Hall & Associates, Howard also served on the Drafting Committees for Proposition 186, an initiative that proposed to establish a state single-payer health care program.Though defeated, the initiative modeled the program's feasibility and was the largest grassroots political campaign fund-raising effort in California history.From 1995 to 1998, Howard served as the executive director and lead staff attorney for the now dissolved Center for Law in the Public Interest.