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PERRY'S PRIORITIES - OUR PRIORITIES

OUR ENVIRONMENT

As a lifelong environmentalist, Perry understands that protecting our environment is vital to our public health and safety.  As your State Representative, Perry has advocated and will continue to advocate for the environment by

  • Protecting our water:  Keep fracking out of the Delaware River Basin to guarantee the safety of our drinking water.

  • Protecting our parks:  Support Governor Wolf's moratorium on leasing state park and forest land for the purposes of natural gas extraction and liability protection for park volunteers and volunteer organizations.  

  • Supporting green energy and green jobs: Approach environmental problems by finding solutions that are both environmentally and economically sustainable.

  • Reducing waste. Reduce plastic water bottle waste through installation of water bottle filling stations in new and retrofitted public buildings, part of the Zero Waste package of bills.

 

OUR EDUCATION

As a former public school teacher and a proud parent of public school graduates, Perry knows the importance of supporting our area’s award-winning school districts.  As your State Representative, Perry has advocated and will continue to advocate for:

  • Early childhood education: Ensure equal access to quality education.  As your State Representative, Perry helped pass bipartisan funding for education in our state budgets every year he’s been in office.

  • Funding Public Schools: Perry supports full funding of public schools and has voted for increased funding in the state budget, to reduce the reliance upon local property taxes and local earned income taxes for school funding,

  • College affordability: Guarantee affordable post-secondary education that reduces the necessity and life-long financial burden of student loans.

  • Training workers today for careers of tomorrow: Perry secured grants for local workforce development boards to train workers for in-demand jobs. The grants will provide relevant job training for members of our community to allow for an easier transition from education into the workforce, while also bolstering our local businesses

 

OUR DEMOCRACY

Perry knows that now more than ever, we need legislation that protects our rights as voters and citizens. As your State Representative, Perry has advocated and will continue to advocate for:

  • An end to gerrymandering: Allow the voters to choose their politicians, and not the other way around. Perry was a co-sponsor of the original House Bill 722, which called for an independent redistricting commission.

  • Election reforms: Keep corporations out of our elections and make it easier, not harder, for members of our community to vote.

  • Free press: Guarantee protection of a free press that allows us to have a reliable source of information for what’s happening in our community, in Harrisburg, and in our nation.

 

OUR LOCAL ECONOMY

As an entrepreneur and business owner, Perry knows the value of legislation that protects working class families and stimulates job growth.  As your State Representative, Perry has protected and will continue to protect the financial stability of his constituents by:

  • Stepping up in a crisis: Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Perry led efforts to provide relief to small business owners and workers. Perry introduced the bill that was signed into law as Act 21 of 2020, which enabled local restaurants to add additional products for curbside pickup and takeout during the crisis.

  • Raising the minimum wage: Guarantee a living wage that protects the quality of life of workers and their families.

  • Supporting local businesses:  Support existing small businesses and build a community in which new entrepreneurs can succeed.

  • Creating well-paying jobs in our community: Provide programs and pathways for long term job creation in our community.

  • Grants: Perry obtained grants to improve local infrastructure, advance our education system, upgrade community institutions and services and improve transportation and recreation.Improved, reliable infrastructure will allow all commuters to travel to and from work in a timely manner. At the Morrisville Senior Center, grant money is being used to provide access to relevant job training for residents throughout our community.  

 

OUR CHILDRENS’ SAFETY

As a father of five, Perry understands the importance of protecting our children. As your State Representative, Perry has supported and will continue to support:

  • An end to child marriage: Perry authored and introduced HB 360, a bill ending child marriage by setting the minimum age for marriage in Pennsylvania at 18, protecting children from coercive marriages. When Perry first introduced the bill, no U.S. state prohibited child marriage. On May 8, 2020 Governor Wolf signed the bill into law as Act 18, making Pennsylvania just the third state to end child marriage. Since then, four more states and several countries have followed Perry’s lead.

  • Sensible gun legislation: Pass legislation that keeps guns out of our schools and away from our children. Perry is the prime sponsor of House bills that would require universal background checks, safe storage of firearms, civil responsibility for failure to report a lost or stolen firearm subsequently used in a crime, and no fly/no buy.

  • Priority of the child’s best interest: Perry is the joint sponsor of the Kayden’s Law bill, which would improve child custody and visitation law and ensure that the best interest of the child is the top priority in child custody and visitation proceedings.

 

OUR EQUALITY

Perry understands that although we have made major strides towards creating a more equal society, there is still more work to be done. As your State Representative, Perry has worked and will continue to work to end discrimination by fighting for:

  • Equal pay for all:  Fight to close the wage gap by implementing legislation combating workplace inequalities.

  • Ending discrimination:  During Perry’s tenure on Newtown Borough Council, he helped write and pass an anti-discrimination ordinance, supporting LGBTQ+ members of our community.  He supports and has cosponsored similar legislation in the House of Representatives.

 

OUR HEALTH

As your State Representative, Perry is working to maintain and improve health by:

  • Defending bodily autonomy: Perry has always supported a woman’s right to choose and will continue to work to make reproductive health care safe and accessible.

  • Protecting consumers: Perry introduced the anti-hoarding bill discouraging people from buying products in bulk with the intent of selling them on a secondary market for a higher price, including necessities like toilet paper, diapers, and baby formula. The bill also has measures that prevent people from returning items which may have been contaminated after the original purchase by giving grocery stores the sole discretion of accepting returned items that may have been unsafe or otherwise defective at the time of sale.

  • Safeguarding our health insurance: Perry supports legislation ensuring health care coverage for pre-existing conditions and reducing the cost of prescription medications.

  • Battling opiod addiction: Perry supports measures and education to battle the opioid addiction crisis and legislation to inform community members of all ages about the real-life dangers of opioid addiction.

  • Finding solutions, not punishments: Fund drug courts so addicts are given a chance to turn their lives around instead of being condemned to a life of crime and addiction.