ISSUES

Public Health & Health Care

• Responding to COVID-19

• Leading on infectious disease prevention

• Combating the opioid epidemic

• Affirming that mental health is an essential aspect of health

• Advocating for universal access to quality and affordable health care

• Funding healthy relationships education programming for young people​

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Transparent & Accountable Government​

• Shedding light on the Legislature

• Speaking up, standing up (for roll calls)

• Publishing voting records

• Promoting culturally competent census awareness and implementation

• Improving government information management, privacy, and security​

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Reproductive Justice​

• Fighting to license certified professional midwives

• Advancing reproductive freedom and choice

• Championing racial equity in maternal health

• Advocating for maternal mental health care 

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Childcare

• Fighting to recognize childcare as necessary infrastructure

• Establishing universal publicly-funded pre-kindergarten

• Advocating for publicly-funded full-day kindergarten​​

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Education​

• Centering teachers, students, and parents in discussions on public education

• Advocating for full funding and implementation of the Student Opportunity Act

• Supporting 21st Century curriculum

• Getting students and teachers the resources and tools they need to succeed​

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Voting Access & Election Reform​

• Advancing free, fair, and safely accessible elections

• Pushing for, leading on, and passing vote by mail

• Fighting to change our last-in-the-nation state primary date

• Advocating for ranked choice voting

• Calling for comprehensive upgrades to voter rolls and voting systems

• Fixing automatic voter registration​

Civil Rights & Equity for All​​

• Ensuring the safety, dignity, and civil rights of people experiencing homelessness

• Combatting weight stigma and body size discrimination 

• Working to thwart workplace sexual harassment 

• Fighting to pass the Safe Communities Act and advance immigrant rights

• Advancing civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community

• Pushing for stronger data privacy and security

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Climate Change & Environmental Justice​

• Passing the Next Generation Climate Package

• Addressing carbon emissions from existing large buildings

• Working toward 100% renewable energy

• Creating a statewide car seat recycling program

• Supporting green energy conversion and job creation​

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Jobs & Economy​

• Supporting our unions

• Advocating for revenue that uplifts workers and families

• Fighting for the Fair Share Amendment

• Assisting Small Business Owners

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Public Transportation

• Improving infrastructure to generate reliability

• Expanding services to increase access for riders

• Safeguarding reduced fares

• S.419, An Act to promote good democracy in primary elections
   

• S.1332, An Act relative to out-of-hospital birth access and safety
   

• S.1334, An Act to reduce racial disparities in maternal health
   

• S.2359, An Act promoting community immunity
   

• S.2011, An Act establishing building energy performance standards
   

• S.75, An Act providing for diaper changing stations in public buildings and accommodations
   

• S.76, An Act relative to the safety, dignity, and civil rights of persons experiencing homelessness; S.816, An Act providing a bill of rights for people experiencing homelessness
   

• S.1012, An Act making discrimination on the basis of height and weight unlawful
   

• S.1013, An Act to promote efficiency in co-parent adoptions
   

• S.1335, An Act advancing the health of pregnant persons