2024 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES

Check out our updated 2024 Policy Priorities (with Governor actions) HERE!

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

Raising minimum wage will have a huge impact on families with lower income in Virginia. If you are a clergy or faith leader, please sign our letter to the governor HERE to add your voice supporting this increase. You can also check whether your faith community’s leaders have signed on HERE.

Economic Justice/Supporting Working Families

• Reenact the Minimum Wage. Make sure Virginia’s minimum wage continues rising on track to $15 per hour.
  • Click here to read the Minimum Wage Fact Sheet
• Paid Sick Days. Ensure that all workers in Virginia have access to paid sick days.
  • Click here to read the Paid Sick Day Fact Sheet
  • Click here to Learn More
• Child care. Fund access to child care for families with lower incomes.
  • Click here to read the Child Care Fact Sheet
• Farmworker minimum wage. Farmworkers in Virginia are currently exempt from minimum wage laws.
• Child Labor: Increasing already existing penalties to disincentivize employers from committing child labor violations.
  • Click here to read the Child Labor Fact Sheet

Criminal Justice Reform

• Limit use of attack dogs in prison.
  • Click here to read the Attack Dogs in Virginia Prisons Fact Sheet
• Oversight of Department of Corrections. 
• Ending profiteering in prisons and jails.
  • Click here to read the No Cost Communication Fact Sheet
    
• Supporting higher education for people incarcerated.
  • Click here to read the Higher Education in Prison Fact Sheet

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.
  • Click here to read the Unconscious Bias Training Mandate Fact Sheet
  • Click here to review Support & Evidence-Based Resource List
  • Click here to Learn More
• Cover All Kids. Provide health insurance for undocumented children who would be eligible for Medicaid other than their immigration status.
  • Click here to read the Cover All Kids Fact Sheet
• Community Health Workers. Support funding for the workers who serve as bridges between communities with historically low access to health care and the information and providers they need.
  • Click here to read the Community Health Workers Fact Sheet

Affordable Housing

• Faith and Housing for the Commonwealth. The affordable housing crisis in Virginia means we need to streamline projects to build affordable housing. This bill would allow faith communities to build affordable housing on their property without having to go through rezoning, fighting “not in my backyard” attitudes with “yes in God’s backyard” (YIGBY).
  • Click here to read the Faith in Housing Fact Sheet
• Funding for affordable housing. Virginia needs to address our housing unit shortage, strengthen tenants’ rights, and combat rising eviction rates.
  • Click here to read our Affordable Housing Funding Fact Sheet
• Tenant Protections. Support people who rent by providing clarity in rental applications, stronger enforcement mechanisms for localities, and protections against frivolous evictions.

Gun Safety

• Limit access to assault rifles.
• Safe storage of guns, especially around children.

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

• Death penalty abolition
• Wage theft reforms