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New policy positions: • Provide full funding for the implementation of the System Transformation, Excellence and Performance in Virginia (STEP -VA) throughout the Commonwealth to ensure that all ten core services are implemented by 2021. • In keeping with VFC support for prisoner reentry programs, support legislation that would reverse drug distribution or conspiracy to distribute drug felony convictions as a bar to receiving public assistance like TANF, food stamps or housing. Public Safety Long term policy positions: • Support for paying local governments $14 per day for all state - responsible inmates incarcerated in local jails, for which they are now paying $12 per day. • Fund Aid to Localities with Police Departments according to statute ( §9.1 -169) with a formula that is responsive to urban police departments. Support the General Assembly giving local governments the authority to regulate the possession of firearms on property owned, operated, managed or under the control of the local government. New policy position: • With the increased usage of police body worn cameras, and the resulting administrative costs that come with this use, we request the state refrain from mandating the hiring of additional local commonwealth attorneys and further cost shifting to local governments and, ultimately, the taxpayers. Taxation Long -term policv positions Virginia's 2019 General Assembly will Iikely be dominated by tax and spending issues, as the state's cash position will be significantly improved over previous years due to increased revenues. • Support increasing the Standard Individual Income Tax Deduction to help lower income filers and expand the state's Earned Income Tax Credit to encourage and support low -wage working families. • Support the modernization of the Communications and Sales Tax (CSUT) to ensure that it reflects the modem telecommunications landscape, which has evolved since the CSUT took effect in January 2007. 5