Action Alerts
Solve Child Care - Pass Com. Sub. for HB 4191
West Virginia’s child care crisis is a challenge for thousands of parents who struggle to find affordable, reliable, quality child care. When they can’t, they are forced to reduce hours, turn down promotions, or leave the workforce entirely. At the same time, child care providers operate on razor-thin margins, and many are closing their doors.
Com. Sub. for House Bill 4191 takes a comprehensive approach to solving this problem. It incentivizes employers to invest in child care through generous tax credits, stabilizes the child care provider business model by shifting to enrollment-based reimbursement, and protects working families from the “cliff effect” that punishes them for earning more.
The bill has passed the House of Delegates and is now pending in the WV State Senate. Please use the link below and send a personalized message to your Senators urging them to vote YES on HB 4191!
No Tax Cuts Until Child and Family Programs are Funded
The State Senate is voting on SB 392, a bill that would permanently remove $125 million to $250 million from our state budget each year to fund another round of income tax cuts. This decision will have lasting consequences for children, families, and communities across West Virginia. Lawmakers need to hear from constituents before the vote. Use the link below to contact your legislators. Tell them to invest in kids and families - not tax cuts!
Preserve Child Labor Laws - Protect WV kids from dangerous work
Com. Sub. for HB 4005 has passed the House of Delegates and now heads to the WV Senate. The bill would eliminate state rules that restrict teenagers from operating dangerous equipment in hazardous industries such as lumber, demolition, metalwork, and roofing. The bill also REMOVES supervision requirements for youth working with hazardous equipment. The bill surrenders state authority for protecting teen workers to the federal government, which ignores the importance of West Virginia setting its own standards.
Com. Sub. for HB 4005 eliminates critical protections for children. Use the link below to contact your Senators and urge a NO vote on HB 4005 to keep kids safe.
Tell WV Lawmakers: Children and Families Deserve to Be a Priority in the Budget
West Virginia’s children and families are the foundation of our state’s future — and it’s time the budget reflects that.
Right now, our lawmakers are finalizing the state budget, and they need to hear loud and clear: Put kids and families first.
Please use the link below to send a personalized message to your legislators and tell them to put Kids and Families First in the State Budget!
Tell Lawmakers to Put an End to the Executive Branch’s Militarized Crusade Against Its Own People
In the wake of the United States government’s killing of another U.S. citizen, the Legislative Action Team for Children and Families is expressing our devastation through a call for collective action.
For every West Virginian who rejects the traumatizing of children at the hands of masked government agents, who believes that it is the duty of our elected officials to put an immediate stop to the executive branch’s militarized crusade against its own people, as well as a duty of every one of us to stand in solidarity with people regardless of their immigration status, we suggest the following actions: