2023 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES

Download our updated 2023 Legislative Priorities with FINAL results here.

You can also follow our Bill Tracker to see where our priority bills are in the legislative process!

Budget

  • The budget is a moral document. Therefore, Virginia’s budget ought to
    • Fund affordable housing.
    • Fund childcare and early childhood education.
    • Protect people who are incarcerated.
    • Target tax cuts at people who need it most.
  • Click here to read our Budget Fact Sheet

Economic Justice/Worker Justice

  • Protecting the Minimum Wage.
  • Paid Sick Days. Extend Paid Sick Days to key groups of essential workers.

Criminal Justice Reform

Health Equity

  • Unconscious (Implicit) Bias Training Licensing Criterion. Require unconscious (implicit) bias training become an eligibility criterion for all health care professionals licensed by the Virginia Board of Medicine.
  • Creating a plan for a Perinatal Health Hub model around Virginia. This would address the gaps in access to health care for parents, especially in low-income communities.
  • Allowing licensed midwives to administer medication. This would expand coverage and improve access to treatment for common complications during childbirth.
  • Click here to read our Maternal Health Fact Sheet

Affordable Housing

  • Affordable Housing budget amendments. Virginia needs to address our housing unit shortage, strengthen tenants’ rights, and combat rising eviction rates.
    • Increase funding in the Virginia Housing Trust Fund (VHTF) to build new affordable units.
    • Increase funding for the Virginia Eviction Reduction Program (VERP) to provide short-term financial assistance and provide tenant resources to help curb evictions. Click here for more information on VERP.
    • Fund Down-Payment Assistance to help offset up-front costs in the housing market and increase homeownership statewide. Click here for information on DHCD’s Down Payment Assistance (DPA) program.
    • Click here to read our Affordable Housing Funding Fact Sheet
  • Advancing Tenant Protections by providing localities with stronger enforcement mechanisms to punish malicious landlord activity.
    • Expand the “pay-or-quit” period before evictions.
    • Require transparency for rent increases and uninhabitable living conditions.
    • Click here to read our most updated Tenants’ Rights Fact Sheet

Defending Past Gains – VICPP is prepared to defend, if necessary, previous issues, such as:

  • Minimum wage increase
  • In state tuition for Dreamers & undocumented students
  • Death penalty abolition
  • Wage theft reforms