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RECORD

 

FOR HEALTH CARE -

  • Co-sponsored HB 4354 allowing West Virginians to deduct long-term care insurance premiums from their federal adjusted gross income.
  • Served on the Senate/House Conference Committee that helped establish the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
  • Actively supported local and additional state funding for HSTA (Health Sciences Technology Academy).
  • Directed funding for improvements at Rainelle Medical Center and the Northern Greenbrier Health Clinic.
  • Served on the conference committee that agreed on legislation to contain the high cost of prescription drugs.
FOR SENIORS -
  • Obtained funding for purchase of new Fairlea Senior Center and new roof on the Committee on Aging Office in Rupert.
  • Supported the increase in the Homestead Exemption to $30,000 for lower income taxpayers.
  • Introduced legislation to improve Homestead Exemption to $40,000 for lower income taxpayers and to give an increased Homestead Exemption for those seniors seeing dramtic increases in property taxes.
  • Obtained funding for the paving of the parking lot for the Committee on Aging facility in Rupert.
FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -
  • Obtained funding for managed timberland supplement used by County Commission to help purchase industrial park.
  • Supported development of infrastructure through Frankford, PSD #2, and Caldwell-Monroe Draft water projects.
  • Lead sponsor of the bill that named I 64 a technology corridor.
  • Member of the Legislative Committee on Medical Malpractice Insurance that helped lauch reforms in our Medical Liability statutes to let our doctors stay in West Virginia.
  • Member of the Select Legislative Work Group that hammered out the Worker Compensation Reforms.
FOR EDUCATION -
  • Supported over $2 million in additional funds over the years for capital improvements and special projects to WVSOM, Greenbrier College of New River and Community Technical College and Greenbrier County schools.
  • Lead sponsor of the legislation that fully funded and stabilized the Promise Scholarship Program and provided further funding to the Higher Education Grants Program.
  • Helped guide the legislation to move West Virginia Tech to full division status of West Virginia University.
  • Leader in obtaining funding for the FFA curing facility at Greenbrier East High School.

 
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