PRIORITIES

Healthcare

  • Ensure that all Utahns have access to high-quality, affordable health care, improving their ability to live full, productive lives and maximize individual potential for happiness and dignity.

  • Seek prevention of new addictions to opioids by closing prescribing loopholes and improving provider-patient communications to minimize over-prescribing.

  • Provide robust treatment and recovery resources for patients struggling with addiction, particularly seeking individualized care to maximize the potential for success.

  • Improve protection and advocacy for Utahns with disabilities.

  • Oppose any restrictions on the ability to file complaints against businesses that limit accessibility.

  • Increase funding for mental health counselors in public schools and improve mental health care resources for Utah students.

Social Justice

  • Revisit Antidiscrimination Amendments and Hate Crimes Amendments every single year until meaningful legislation has passed.

  • Immediately create a legislative task force to quickly find answers about Utah’s unacceptably high rate of youth suicide, particularly among our state's LGBTQ community.

Education

  • Drastically increase oversight, regulation, and accountability of charter schools.

  • Support raises in teacher pay and providing more support to increase retention.

Environment

  • Provide financial incentives to build new green-certified, energy-efficient buildings, as well as to retrofit older buildings to decrease the significant contributions buildings make to hazardous air quality.

  • Require all publicly owned and subsidized properties to become water-friendly by improving watering habits in the short term, ultimately re-landscaping to create low-water properties.

  • For every dollar of subsidies cut for renewable energy, an equal amount of money, dollar for dollar, must be cut for subsidizing fossil fuels.

Economic Inequality

  • Incentivize the development of affordable housing for low-income families and individuals by lowering barriers to accessing LIHTC development tax credits.

  • Support bond to provide $100 million in funding for Affordable Housing in Utah.

  • Amend the statute that prevents counties, cities, and municipalities from setting minimum wage rates.

  • Invest in comprehensive, wrap-around care management teams to help individuals overcome homelessness and barriers to employment, combined with treatment for substance abuse disorder, mental health care needs, general health care needs, and life skills training.

Racial & Gender Justice

  • Conduct a comprehensive audit of criminal justice activity to determine level of disparities in arrests, convictions, and sentencing for different racial groups in Utah. Mandate appropriate policies and practices according to findings.

  • Create a policy that holds employers accountable for racial and gender pay gaps that cannot be otherwise explained.

  • Ensure that all working parents have access to affordable, high quality child care.

  • Support unfettered ability to access reproductive rights, ensuring privacy in healthcare choices for women.