Issue Position: Advocating for Virginia's Working Families

Issue Position

Government needs to promote policies that support our parents and help to strengthen families. Among his accomplishments:

* Moved by the plight of a local family with a critically ill child, Jeff sponsored legislation to increase Virginia's newborn screening program from only nine diseases to over thirty diseases, bringing Virginia law in line with other states. Since passage of this law, hundreds of lives have been saved and countless other children have had an improved quality of life.
* Jeff sponsored legislation creating Virginia's back-to-school sales tax holiday, eliminating the sales tax on school-related items one weekend each August.
* Jeff also sponsored legislation that eliminated the state sales tax on groceries.
* For military families, Jeff successfully passed legislation to extend all state and local government deadlines for deployed military personal so that those defending our nation don't have to worry about deadlines back home to renew their car registrations and pay their taxes when they are away putting their lives on the line.

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