Issues
With Jolanda Jones on our side, we stand a fighting chance in Austin. Jolanda Jones will carry the torch to Austin to protect our right to vote, expand access to affordable health care, give our kids a first-class education, and more.
Voting Rights: Opposing any unnecessary barriers to voting
- Working to ensure increased access to the ballot by promoting legislation that will expand voting rights
- Replacing our opt-in voter registration system with an expanded and more inclusive opt-out system
- Restoring individuals voting rights who have served time in prison
- Fighting against laws that will hinder access to the ballot
- Fighting to protect the federal Voting Rights Act
Healthcare: Ensuring health care is affordable and accessible to all Texans
- Reducing health disparities for low-income Texans and people of color
- Simplifying access and entry to Children’s Medicaid & CHIP
- Expansion of Medicaid and healthcare coverage of our uninsured population
- Increasing mental health and substance abuse services
Public Education: Always a champion for our kids
- Raising pay for teachers and all public-school employees
- Opposing the use of public money for private school vouchers
- Improving access to trade programs, vocational training, and community colleges
- Crafting policies to close the learning gap for students
- Ensuring our schools are safe from gun violence
- Closing the digital divide in public education
Public Safety & Criminal Justice Reform: Fighting for our kids, families and seniors
- Supporting legislation to eliminate guns from falling into the wrong hands
- Driving policies that enforce good policing and reforming our criminal justice system
- Support reforms for reentry into society for the workforce for the formerly incarcerated
- Fixing a broken juvenile justice system
- Rebuilding trust in the judicial process.
Women’s Health: Empowering women’s bodies, voices and rights
- Standing up for a woman’s right to choose
- Expanding the availability of quality postpartum and prenatal care for women
- Supporting resources and funding for women owned small businesses
- Fighting for equal pay protections to ensure women are paid fairly
Economic Development: Advancing small and minority owned businesses
- Advocating for the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program which helps to foster the growth of women and minority-owned firms as they seek to do business with the state
- Ensuring the expansion and opportunity of small businesses
- Ensuring Texas remains a top destination to do business with record-setting job growth
Infrastructure: Supporting the development of safe roadways and resilient communities
- Ensuring the $30 billion of federal infrastructure funding is equally distributed within HD 147
- Advocating and working to improve local highways, public transit and street infrastructure
- Protecting and ensuring residents of HD 147 are safe during hurricanes and winter storms