Meet Liz.

Liz and her family moved to Blue Bell in 2001, as she began her college career at the University of Pennsylvania. After earning her Bachelor’s degree, she continued her academic pursuits at University of Oxford and Harvard University, earning graduate degrees at each, followed by a law degree from the University of Wisconsin.

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HANBIDGE, Laura Elizabeth Frances, a Representative from Montgomery County; born, February 25, 1982; graduated, Foxcroft School, 2000; B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2004; M.S., psychology, Oxford University, 2005; M.Ed., Harvard University, 2006; J.D., University of Wisconsin, 2008; doctoral studies, social and developmental psychology, University of Cambridge; attorney-at-law; civics instructor, Gwyn-Nor Elementary and East Norriton Middle School; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2018; reelected to the House for 3 more consecutive terms.

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She lives on a farm near Montgomery County Community College with her family where she spends her early mornings caring for her two horses, most frequently accompanied by her beloved pups. A lifelong horseback rider, Division I collegiate varsity rower, occasional triathlete, and trained soprano, Liz's talents extend well-beyond the classroom and courtroom.

Liz continues to work tirelessly to build a vibrant community in which to raise a family of her own. In addition to her many legislative responsibilities, she takes great pride in continuing to teach civics to our local sixth graders at Gwyn-Nor Elementary and East Norriton Middle School, working in conjunction with the local bar association.

Liz Hanbidge moved to Blue Bell in 2001. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in psychology from Oxford University, a Master of Education from Harvard University, and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin. She lives on a farm near Montgomery County Community College and teaches civics to local sixth graders at Gwyn-Nor Elementary and East Norriton Middle School in conjunction with the local bar association.

Liz Hanbidge moved to Blue Bell in 2001. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in psychology from Oxford University, a Master of Education from Harvard University, and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin. She lives in Montgomery County.

Upon her return to Montgomery County in 2008, Liz put her expertise as an attorney and her passion for public service to use, opening her own family practice to serve the county's most vulnerable families and children. In 2015, she began studies to augment her legal practice - and pro bono work with the Montgomery County Child Advocacy Project - as a PhD candidate in Social & Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, her research focusing on the intersection of child psychology and the law.

Liz Hanbidge is an attorney who opened her own family practice in Montgomery County.

Rep. Liz Hanbidge's Biography

Representative Liz Hanbidge serves Pennsylvania’s 61st Legislative District in Montgomery County and has been a steadfast advocate for children, families, and seniors since her election in 2018. She holds leadership roles as Vice Chair of both the House Children & Youth Committee and the Southeastern Pennsylvania House Delegation. Her committee assignments include Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Judiciary, Children & Youth, the Committee on Committees, Health, and Local Government.

Rep. Liz Hanbidge's Biography

Liz currently serves as the state representative for Pennsylvania’s 61st Legislative District in Montgomery County. She was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2018 and reelected for three consecutive terms.

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Living wages. Thirty states have a higher minimum wage than Pennsylvania. In the past 13 years Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has not increased. Over the past decade, while the cost of living has increased significantly, the purchasing power of our minimum wage has dropped by nearly 17%. Increasing the minimum wage to $12 an hour would directly benefit more than 13% of Pennsylvania’s workforce. A higher minimum wage stimulates the local economy and reduces reliance on social safety nets.

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Job creation. Job creation and access to fair, strong wages must become a top priority in Harrisburg. Grappling with the changing economy, workers are seeking job training to compete in the workforce. Wracked with student debt, recent graduates are looking for jobs that pay strong wages. We must make strategic investments in our workforce and focus on creating and retaining high-quality, well-paying jobs. Families need and deserve access to good, safe jobs and living wages in order to survive.

Families need and deserve access to good, safe jobs and living wages in order to survive. While the majority party left small businesses and workers behind in the 2021 budget, I am committed to investing in our working families, supporting our unions, our worker training programs, and working to establish Pennsylvania as a leader in the national economy.

Childcare. Many parents, especially mothers, have been forced out of the labor market because of expensive or inaccessible childcare. We must work to ensure that parents who want to work and raise children are able to do so. Our economy benefits when we all participate and the majority party’s refusal to take on this issue continues to negatively impact our families and our economy. I have worked toward - and will continue to fight for - a system which truly supports children and growing families.

In order to help promote business growth here at home and incentivize corporations to make their home in Pennsylvania, we need to make the system fairer. We have the tools to do so, but far too many leaders seem too beholden to large corporate interests to prioritize small businesses over special interests. We must work to close the loopholes and restructure our tax code to reflect a more equitable distribution of wealth in our commonwealth. More from Liz on losing corporate tax loopholes.

Supports increasing Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $12 per hour.

Advocates for workforce investment, job training, and creating and retaining well-paying jobs.

Supports unions and worker-training programs as part of investing in working families.

Advocates for a system that enables parents to work while raising children.

Advocates for closing tax loopholes and restructuring Pennsylvania’s tax code for a more equitable distribution of wealth.

- Supports increasing Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $12 per hour.
- Advocates for workforce investment, job training, and creating and retaining well-paying jobs.
- Supports unions and worker-training programs as part of investing in working families.
- Advocates for a system that enables parents to work while raising children.
- Advocates for closing tax loopholes and restructuring Pennsylvania’s tax code for a more equitable distribution of wealth.

Economy

COVID-19. As a commonwealth, we have worked incredibly hard to protect our most vulnerable citizens from COVID-19, and to do so meant enormous economic and societal sacrifices. Until our youngest and most vulnerable can be vaccinated – for the sake of their health, the safety of our healthcare & front-line workers, and our economic stability – we must ensure that we are doing everything in our power to keep them safe. Masking, vaccinations, and following the advice of public health officials and infectious disease experts will be imperative to finally reaching the end of this pandemic.

Access & affordability. No person should have to forgo medical treatment – or vital insurance coverage – so that they can afford to live. We must remain committed to fighting to protect and expand access to affordable, quality, and comprehensive healthcare in Pennsylvania. We must work to lower prescription drug costs, protect our seniors’ access to Medicare, defend the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and preserve the protection that stops insurance companies from denying coverage for preexisting conditions.

Reproductive freedom. Abortion is essential (sometimes life-saving) healthcare. Banning abortion outright in this commonwealth – as gubernatorial candidate Senator Doug Mastriano has proposed – will endanger women.  We, as a country, already have the highest rate of maternal death of any developed country. With attacks on abortion access at both the state and federal level, we must elect leaders who will defend women’s rights to safe reproductive healthcare.

Limiting access to safe and legal abortion does not decrease the number of abortions, but it will decrease access to safe abortion care. If we as a commonwealth truly seek to reduce abortion rates, we must enact policies that support women having, and families raising, children. Pregnancy and childbirth are far more expensive here than other developed countries. We must enact policies to better support growing families: comprehensive coverage for pregnancy and post-natal care, paid parental leave, paid sick leave, affordable and accessible childcare, universal preschool, well-funded pre-K programs, and expanding WIC and food stamp to cover essentials like diapers, bottles, and over-the-counter medications for children. More from Liz on abortion.

Supports masking, vaccination, and following public-health and infectious-disease experts’ advice to protect people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advocates for expanding affordable, comprehensive healthcare, lowering prescription drug costs, and protecting Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and coverage for preexisting conditions.

Supports abortion access, describing abortion as essential healthcare and opposing outright abortion bans.

Advocates for pregnancy and post-natal coverage, paid leave, childcare, preschool, and expanded nutrition benefits for families with children.

- Supports masking, vaccination, and following public-health and infectious-disease experts’ advice to protect people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Advocates for expanding affordable, comprehensive healthcare, lowering prescription drug costs, and protecting Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and coverage for preexisting conditions.
- Supports abortion access, describing abortion as essential healthcare and opposing outright abortion bans.
- Advocates for pregnancy and post-natal coverage, paid leave, childcare, preschool, and expanded nutrition benefits for families with children.

Healthcare

Equitably and adequately funding our schools and providing relief to overburdened local taxpayers requires a comprehensive solution that takes into account the impact of decades of funding inequities which persist both across the commonwealth and in our local community. Our children’s education is quite literally an investment in our economic future. Properly funding our schools is not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do. More from Liz on education funding.

Charter school reform. Over 400 of the 500 school districts in Pennsylvania – including Wissahickon and North Penn – have adopted resolutions requesting the General Assembly reform the charter school funding system. Cyber charter schools get essentially the same amount of taxpayer funds per student as brick and mortar schools, despite costing thousands less to operate. We need charter school accountability reform, to ensure taxpayer funds are properly allocated to our schools and to protect taxpayers. Low graduation rates and high failure rates mean we need better systems to hold cyber charters accountable. The system we have now is untenable.

Advocates for a comprehensive approach to adequately and equitably fund schools while providing local property-tax relief.

Advocates for charter-school accountability reform, including stronger oversight of cyber charter schools.

- Advocates for a comprehensive approach to adequately and equitably fund schools while providing local property-tax relief.
- Advocates for charter-school accountability reform, including stronger oversight of cyber charter schools.

Education

Every year, we are breaking records for rising heat and extreme weather – affecting our farms and our communities facing the costs of flooding, droughts, and violent storms. We must recognize that climate change is real and focus on the data-driven legislative action we can take to curb its effects with urgency.

Every year, we are breaking records for rising heat and extreme weather – affecting our farms and our communities facing the costs of flooding, droughts, and violent storms. We must recognize that climate change is real and focus on the data-driven legislative action we can take to curb its effects with urgency. We must invest in cleaner renewable energy (and the high-paying jobs that come with it), stand up against the special interests who would abuse our resources for profit, properly fund our Department of Environmental Protection, and refocus on preserving our public lands. Pennsylvania’s Constitution guarantees the protection of our public natural resources for us and for generations to come, yet our commonwealth is the 5th largest carbon polluter in the country and certain lawmakers seek to give more power to the oil and gas industries.

Advocates for urgent, data-driven legislative action to curb the effects of climate change.

Advocates for renewable-energy investment, funding the Department of Environmental Protection, and preserving public lands.

- Advocates for urgent, data-driven legislative action to curb the effects of climate change.
- Advocates for renewable-energy investment, funding the Department of Environmental Protection, and preserving public lands.

Energy & the Environment

Criminal justice reform. Our criminal justice system should protect the innocent, keep our communities safe and make rehabilitation the goal so people who have made mistakes and served their time can return to the workforce. We need to invest in appropriate, cost-effective strategies for decreasing recidivism, reform the cash bail system  to, end discriminatory sentencing practices, and modernize our criminal justice system with a commitment to restorative justice.

Advocates for criminal-justice reforms focused on rehabilitation, reducing repeat offenses, cash-bail reform, ending discriminatory sentencing, and restorative justice.

- Advocates for criminal-justice reforms focused on rehabilitation, reducing repeat offenses, cash-bail reform, ending discriminatory sentencing, and restorative justice.

Public Safety

Voting rights. Those dedicated to good governance should never seek to limit voting access. Every legally allowed voter should be able and allowed to vote. We constantly see attempts in our legislature to disenfranchise voters. We must always question any attempts to limit voters' voices. Gerrymandering, voter-roll purging, re-registration requirements, and barriers to voting all serve to disenfranchise voters.

Gerrymandering, voter-roll purging, re-registration requirements, and barriers to voting all serve to disenfranchise voters. The right to vote is the keystone of our democracy, and it must be protected. We must ensure every vote in the commonwealth is counted and that every legal voter in our commonwealth has equal access to the ballot box. More from Liz on voting rights.

Advocates for protecting voting access, counting every vote, and ensuring every legal voter has equal ballot access.

- Advocates for protecting voting access, counting every vote, and ensuring every legal voter has equal ballot access.

Voting & Elections

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- Advocates for expanding affordable, comprehensive healthcare, lowering prescription drug costs, and protecting Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and coverage for preexisting conditions.
- Supports abortion access, describing abortion as essential healthcare and opposing outright abortion bans.
- Advocates for pregnancy and post-natal coverage, paid leave, childcare, preschool, and expanded nutrition benefits for families with children.

- Advocates for workforce investment, job training, and creating and retaining well-paying jobs.
- Supports unions and worker-training programs as part of investing in working families.
- Advocates for a system that enables parents to work while raising children.
- Advocates for closing tax loopholes and restructuring Pennsylvania’s tax code for a more equitable distribution of wealth.

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