HARRISBURG, Oct. 28 – Pennsylvania House Democrats in Montgomery County are congratulating the Mission Kids Child Advocacy Center of Montgomery County for being awarded $5.75 million to build its Child Advocacy and Training Center. In a joint letter to Gov. Tom Wolf, members of the Montgomery County House Democratic Delegation shared that “Child abuse is a growing public health crisis that requires urgent intervention and response. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this issue significantly, placing an intense strain on our community’s most vulnerable members. The child advocacy center model is an evidence-based approach that has been found to provide a faster healing process for the child, more fluid collaboration between all professionals, and more effective and streamlined investigations. By providing on-site medical and mental health services, the facility would also be removing barriers to make care more accessible and equitable, as well as improving overall physical and mental health outcomes for children and their caregivers.” The Montgomery County legislators, including Reps. Matt Bradford, Tim Briggs, Joe Ciresi, Mary Jo Daley, Pam DeLissio, Nancy Guenst, Liz Hanbidge, Steve Malagari, Napoleon Nelson, Ben Sanchez, Greg Vitali, and Joe Webster, worked with the Wolf administration to help deliver the funds, which originate from the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program . Read more
HARRISBURG, Oct. 27— State Rep. Mary Jo Daley, D-Montgomery County today announced that the 148 th District received nearly $7 million in Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program funding for local projects. “I am proud to have secured $6,975,000 in RACP funding to support these important local projects that will help our community thrive,” Daley said. “This funding will have a positive impact on some of the vulnerable segments in our community. From helping our seniors to get active to supporting students with learning disabilities academic growth and the region’s autistic community development, this funding will help the old to the very young live full lives, engaged with the world and living to their fullest potential. I want to thank Gov. Tom Wolf for allocating this money for these projects.” The following projects have been awarded: $1 million to AIM Academy to construct a two-story addition which will hold 8 classrooms, offices and collaborative work areas. Green roofs and EV charging stations will be included on the new addition. $2 million to Lower Merion Township’s Department of Parks and Recreation to construct the Ardmore Community Center-PALM Senior Center Replacement Renovation. The Ardmore Avenue Community Center will be a newly constructed environmentally sensitive building with more Read more
HARRISBURG, Oct. 21 – A long-time advocate for legislation and programs that improve the environment, state Rep. Mary Jo Daley, D-Montgomery, is encouraging Montgomery residents who have recently worked on a successful environmental project to apply for 2023 Governor’s Awards for Environmental Excellence, the state’s top environmental honor. “I’ve been impressed by the many individuals and organizations in Montgomery County that are positively impacting our environment, transforming environmental obstacles into opportunities for renewal and growth,” Daley said. “The 2023 Governor’s Awards for Environmental Excellence is a fantastic opportunity for our local environmental projects to receive state recognition and show other Pennsylvanians that they too can contribute to protecting the environment we all depend on.” Any Pennsylvanian or Pennsylvania business, farm, government agency, educational institution or nonprofit organization who has developed or participated in a project that promotes environmental protection and stewardship in the commonwealth may apply. The Department of Environmental Protection will oversee the award selection process, evaluating projects on eight criteria: degree of environmental protection, environmental justice, climate change, sustainability, partnership, economic impact, innovation, and environmental education and outreach. Read more
HARRISBURG, Oct. 17 – State Rep. Morgan Cephas today sent a letter to the Human Relations Commission along with House Members of the PA Legislative Black Caucus and the Women’s Health Caucus, where she serves as co-chair, requesting the institution to investigate a recent incident that occurred at the Philly Pregnancy Center. The letter states that a black pregnant patient from Delaware County was harassed and scolded by a staffer who was questioning the need of a doctor’s note to leave work. “While we have made great strides, there is still much work to be done and the incident that took place at the Philly Pregnancy Center Norristown location exemplifies the reasons we are not done yet,” Members highlight in the letter. “Pregnant and birthing people in Pennsylvania should have safe places to seek and receive equitable care no matter their ZIP code, race, ethnicity, gender or income level. As shown in the viral video, that is not always the case.” The correspondence also signed by state Reps. Mary Joe Daley, D-Montgomery, co-chair; Donna Bullock, D-Phila., chairwoman and Darisha Parker, D-Phila., chairwoman of the PLBC Subcommittee on Women & Girls of Color. It emphasized the need to hold providers accountable for their interactions with patients in order to guarantee a fairness in the services they offer. The caucus also highlighted in the letter that there is an imperative to protect and expand access to care, Read more
HARRISBURG, Sept. 20 – State Rep. Mary Jo Daley, D-Montgomery, announced today that she secured $131,669 in state grants to install parking lot solar lights in Wentz Run Park in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County. The grants were awarded by the Commonwealth Financing Authority’s Greenways, Trails and Recreation Program. “This funding will help improve safety and reduce energy costs in Whitpain’s Wentz Run Park by installing parking lot solar lights,” Daley said. “By increasing safety, more people will take advantage of this wonderful community resource.” The funds will be used to replace the existing wooden light poles and lights at the Wentz Run Park parking lot with 18 new aluminum poles and solar LED lights. The new solar lights will reduce energy costs and improve safety at the park through adequate and reliable lighting. The Commonwealth Financing Authority was established in 2004 as an independent agency of the Department of Community and Economic Development to administer Pennsylvania’s economic stimulus packages. The Greenways, Trails and Recreation Program funds can be used to develop, rehabilitate and improve public parks, recreation areas, greenways, trails and river conservation. Read more
I’m writing to inform you of October events involving my office and our services here in the district. Please read on for updates! I’m also writing this week as co-chairwoman of the Women’s Health Caucus, which is a bicameral group of Pennsylvania state legislators whose interests, among many others, include faithfully upholding the right for women to choose from all forms of health care when they become pregnant. Read more
The Pennsylvania Women’s Health Caucus, in conjunction with the House and Senate Democratic Policy Committees, held its third hearing on post-Roe Pennsylvania at Chatham University. Read more
This victory in Kansas shows the power collective action has in defeating these minority-held, antifreedom policies. We hope this wakeup call will deter the Pennsylvania constitutional amendment from receiving a vote next session, and we can instead focus on legislation that would actually help our constituents like increasing the minimum wage, requiring paid family leave, and requiring insurance coverage for contraceptives. Read more
The House and Senate Democratic Policy Committees continued a series of hearings Tuesday to further discuss the impacts of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and what the future of reproductive healthcare looks like in Pennsylvania. Read more
HARRISBURG, July 18 – State Rep. Mary Jo Daley, D-Montgomery, today congratulated the Borough of Conshohocken for its awards of several state grants to address local traffic signal projects. “These state grants help keep borough costs low as we return more state tax dollars home to our communities,” Daley said. “I’m grateful to see this investment in our communities, and I hope that given our new state budget, we will see continued opportunities for community growth and improvement.” Borough officials echoed Daley’s sentiment. “The Borough of Conshohocken would like to express its sincere gratitude to Governor Wolf for the PennDOT Green Light-Go Grant. We were thrilled to learn that our borough was selected as a recipient. Grant funding of this magnitude will have a meaningful effect on safety and mobility in the borough by improving operation and efficiency along Elm Street. We are deeply appreciative of the governor’s support!” Funded by the state’s Green Light-Go program, grants awarded today to the city included: $319,315 for traffic signal at West Elm Street and Oak Street. $373,150 for traffic signal at East Elm Street and Harry Street. $391,071 for traffic signal at West Elm Street and Maple Street. $424,930 for traffic signal at West Elm Street and Colwell Lane. Green Light-Go grants are Read more
Harris traveled to Philadelphia Saturday to meet with more than three dozen state House and Senate Democrats, plus members of the state’s congressional delegation, to join the lawmakers in a call to action and to discuss the relentless effort of right-wing extremists to take away rights, starting with the right to abortion and reproductive health care. Read more
“As the majority party in Harrisburg continues to circumvent the governor with constitutional amendments to remove and restrict rights for Pennsylvanians, it is more important than ever that Governor Wolf uses the tools he has to protect rights and combat these extremist efforts to ban abortion,” Daley said. “Only by working together can we counter these attacks and protect the rights of our citizens.” Read more
Pa. state Rep. Mary Jo Daley, Co-Chair of the PA General Assembly’s bipartisan, bicameral Women's Health Caucus, knows that abortion is still safe and legal in Pa., but she also knows that we must all be vigilant so that it remains so. What happened in the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday is not what the majority of voters want. Rep. Daley and her colleagues with the Women’s Health Caucus will continue to fight for a woman’s right to reproductive healthcare. Read more
The ruling eliminates the constitutional right to an abortion recognized by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Since a draft of the opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked and its authenticity subsequently confirmed by the court, advocacy groups, elected officials, and stakeholders have been issuing dire warnings about what such a radical decision would mean and the detrimental impact it would have on the health of millions of Americans. Read more
“It’s just nuts,” says Mary Jo Daley, a Democratic state representative in Pennsylvania, who introduced a bill directed at pregnancy centers. “They’re collecting all this information, and you don’t know how they’re gonna use it because they’re not health care providers. And women don’t know that. It’s frightening.” Read more
Electric vehicle use is skyrocketing in the commonwealth. Of the 12 million registered vehicles in Pennsylvania, nearly 30,000 are electric passenger vehicles, a number that’s more than doubled in the past five years. Read more
We are facing a baby formula crisis in which mothers searching for formula are visiting stores with empty shelves or are paying grossly overcharged amounts to simply provide nutrients for their babies. There is a confluence of reasons why this is occurring, including a recall by one of the industry's largest manufacturers, persistent supply-chain issues, and a market dominated by only a few manufacturers. While supply-chain issues caused by the pandemic are unavoidable, there are still policy choices that have long caused a dependence on baby formula. Currently, in Pennsylvania, without a comprehensive paid family leave law, mothers can be forced back into work quickly after birth. Once they are at work, nursing mothers may not be guaranteed to have a reasonable accommodation to pump breast milk. Without time to breastfeed at home or the ability to pump breast milk in a private and sanitary place during work, the opportunity to breastfeed is nonexistent for far too many new mothers. My legislation, H.B. 1739, would require reasonable accommodations for nursing mothers. These accommodations include providing a private, sanitary space – not a restroom – where an employee can express milk and providing unpaid break time or allowing an employee to use paid break, mealtime, or both to express milk. The refusal of the majority party to even call up H.B. 1739 hurts children and mothers. The formula shortage is bringing those harms to light. This Read more
Pa. state Rep. Mary Jo Daley is looking to take action on meaningful gun violence prevention bills to help protect and save lives. She says that the Pa. House Republicans are willing to give moments of silence, their thoughts and prayers, but not willing to take any action. Read more
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