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Supported a program that provides financial assistance to landowners in placing property under a conservation easement.

Helped to establish Sweet Run State Park.

- Supported a program that provides financial assistance to landowners in placing property under a conservation easement.
- Helped to establish Sweet Run State Park.

Energy & the Environment

As of July 25, 2023, Geary Higgins’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Economy

Supports legislation protecting the mentally ill.

- Opposes abortion.
- Supports legislation protecting the mentally ill.

Healthcare

Pushes for more athletic programs in schools.

Opposes education about race and racism in public schools.

- Pushes for more athletic programs in schools.
- Opposes education about race and racism in public schools.

Education

Wants to increase funding for law enforcement.

Intends to require safety audits and active intruder emergency plans for all schools.

Supports legislation that prohibits "biological men out of women’s locker rooms, bathrooms and prohibit them from competing in women’s sports."

- Wants to increase funding for law enforcement.
- Intends to require safety audits and active intruder emergency plans for all schools.
- Supports legislation that prohibits "biological men out of women’s locker rooms, bathrooms and prohibit them from competing in women’s sports."

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Geary Higgins

Supports protection of local farms and open land from development.

Opposes overdevelopment and data centers that "threaten our open land and conservation efforts."

- Supports protection of local farms and open land from development.
- Wants to ensure clean air and water.
- Intends to protect watersheds.
- Opposes overdevelopment and data centers that "threaten our open land and conservation efforts."

Wants to increase affordable housing options.

Supports rebates, tax breaks, and fair wages.

- Wants to increase affordable housing options.
- Supports rebates, tax breaks, and fair wages.

Intends to implement more mental health and wellness resources.

Supports lowering the price of prescription drugs.

Wants to provide accessible and affordable healthcare for all.

- Supports abortion.
- Intends to implement more mental health and wellness resources.
- Supports lowering the price of prescription drugs.
- Wants to provide accessible and affordable healthcare for all.

Intends to hire support staff focused on learning challenges and mental wellness of children in public schools.

- Wants to increase teacher salaries.
- Intends to hire support staff focused on learning challenges and mental wellness of children in public schools.

Wants to provide law enforcement with more support staff focused on specific issues, such as drugs or mental health.

- Wants to provide law enforcement with more support staff focused on specific issues, such as drugs or mental health.

Rob Banse

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- There are 100 members of the Virginia House of Representatives, each representing a single district.
- State Delegates are elected to two-year terms. They are paid a yearly salary of $17,640.