{"id":24,"date":"2023-09-05T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2024-11-02T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T13:35:03","slug":"leg-contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/leg-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NARFE encourages all members to take advantage of their rights as US citizens to voice their opinions with their elected Federal officials. On this website, there is a wealth of information\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/site\/chapter1270\/narfe.org\">NARFE National tab<\/a>\u00a0above relating to current National issues and concerns with links to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/legislation\/index.cfm?fa=voterVoice\">Legislative Hotline<\/a>. The Hotline is a perfect tool for members to contact their officials directly with pre-prepared letters on specific issues. Each of these letters can be used verbatim or modified to make them more personal. The link also has a tool which enables you to locate your Representative and Senators.\u00a0 If you have questions and\/or would like more information, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/contact-national-legislation-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here to contact our National Legislation Chair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">State Legislation 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each year the Virginia Federation of NARFE identifies several issues impacting Federal employees, retirees, and their families that are legislatively within the Commonwealth of Virginia\u2019s jurisdiction. NARFE members are encouraged to familiarize themselves with these Virginia issues and take every opportunity to bring them to the attention of their Virginia Delegate and\/or Senator. Click More Links below to learn about Virginia\u2019s 2024 Legislation Plan and who to contact within your own House of Delegate and\/or Senatorial District. This year\u2019s State Legislation Plan, which is detailed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/11\/2024_VFN_VA_State_Legislative_Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 2024 Virginia State Legislation Plan<\/a>, includes four issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exempting a Segment of CSRS Pensions Equivalent to Social Security Retirement from State Income Tax<\/li>\n<li>Minimum Nursing Home Standards<\/li>\n<li>Age Deduction<\/li>\n<li>Family Caregiver Tax Credit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any questions and\/or would like additional information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/contact-webmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please click here and submit your question.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Legislation is an important component to our VFN legislative agenda; check out our current Virginia General Assembly initiatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}