Accelerate mapping of the state's aquifers. Energy Positive Low confidence ↗
Adopt a Housing First approach: place people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing as quickly as possible, with services following. Housing Positive High confidence ↗
Bar the use of state and local resources and personnel for civil immigration enforcement. Immigration Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Build and expand permanent supportive and transitional housing units (including wraparound services; e.g., tiny-home villages). Housing Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Build more affordable rental housing located near jobs, schools, and transit. Housing Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Conduct a statewide census/needs assessment of the childcare industry covering workforce recruitment and retention, quality, and whether the supply of slots meets demand, including in rural and tribal areas. Childcare Mixed Low confidence ↗
Continue and fund the existing universal free childcare program (no income-based eligibility limit). Childcare Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Create a cabinet-level state Water Resources Department. Energy Mixed Low confidence ↗
Create a public dashboard tracking progress on housing people experiencing homelessness. Housing Mixed Low confidence ↗
Create a state program to incentivize construction of affordable starter homes for first-time buyers, paired with buyer financing (e.g., zero-interest construction-linked loans up to a set amount), and give renters first opportunity to buy. Housing Mixed Low confidence ↗
Eliminate the gross receipts tax on medical/health-care services. Economy Mixed Low confidence ↗
Establish a family-caregiver tax credit (up to $3,000). Economy Mixed Low confidence ↗
Establish a salaried (paid) state Legislature. Governance Mixed Low confidence ↗
Establish term limits for state legislators via constitutional amendment. Governance Negative Moderate confidence ↗
Expand access to student tutoring programs, including in reading and math. Education Positive High confidence ↗
Expand access to universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, including by recruiting pre-K teachers. Education Mixed High confidence ↗
Expand Advanced Placement (AP) course offerings. Education Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Expand career and technical education and vocational/career pathways in middle and high schools, including partnerships with local businesses and employers and a focus on skilled trades and in-demand sectors. Education Positive High confidence ↗
Expand charter schools and school-choice options, including charter replication, charter/traditional-school parity, and magnet schools. Education Mixed High confidence ↗
Expand development of renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal), including on state trust land and through public investment. Energy Positive High confidence ↗
Expand investment in and delivery of mental/behavioral health services. Healthcare Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Expand rental assistance. Housing Positive High confidence ↗
Expand state loan programs to finance rooftop solar and storage for small businesses. Economy Mixed Low confidence ↗
Expand tax credits for medical providers. Healthcare Mixed Low confidence ↗
Expand treatment and use of brackish groundwater and other reused water for supply. Energy Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Focus immigration enforcement and prosecution on violent and serious criminal offenders. Immigration Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Hold schools accountable for student outcomes, including statewide achievement goals set with educators, public reporting of progress toward targets, and turnaround plans for consistently underperforming schools. Education Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Impose mandatory time limits (a 'shot clock') on local governments' housing permitting/approval decisions. Housing Positive Low confidence ↗
Increase compensation for early childhood educators and expand workforce training programs. Childcare Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Increase or expand the state child tax credit. Economy Positive High confidence ↗
Increase penalties for juvenile offenders and/or expand adult prosecution and secure custody for serious youthful offenders. Crime Negative High confidence ↗
Increase the number of counselors, psychologists, social workers, and nurses in schools. Education Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Increase the number of sworn officers/deputies through expanded recruitment and funding for additional positions. Crime Positive High confidence ↗
Increase the state Working Families Tax Credit. Economy Positive High confidence ↗
Issue direct cash payments or rebates to residents funded by oil-and-gas revenue surpluses, without new taxes. Economy Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Join interstate medical licensure compacts that let out-of-state clinicians practice in the state. Healthcare Mixed Low confidence ↗
Mandate involuntary behavioral health treatment for certain individuals convicted of repeated petty offenses. Healthcare Unrated High confidence ↗
Modernize the state's hate-crime laws. Crime Mixed Low confidence ↗
Partner with community colleges and businesses to provide apprenticeships and industry-recognized credentials. Education Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Prosecute federal immigration agents who break the law, including detaining people without a judicial warrant or probable cause. Immigration Mixed Low confidence ↗
Provide a tax credit to small businesses for each job created. Economy Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Provide businesses grants and tax credits for energy-efficient equipment through state economic-development programs. Economy Mixed Low confidence ↗
Provide down-payment / homebuyer financial assistance to first-time buyers (and, in some versions, workers in critical sectors), administered via the state housing finance agency. Housing Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Provide early literacy and numeracy support — including literacy coaches and science-of-reading instruction — to identify and help struggling students reach grade-level reading and math before 3rd grade. Education Positive High confidence ↗
Provide every child a $10,000 'launch pad' savings account for their future. Education Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Provide homebuyer down-payment assistance. Economy Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Provide targeted supportive housing for specific populations (veterans via housing vouchers; youth aging out of foster care and LGBTQ youth; domestic-violence survivors). Housing Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Raise teacher pay/salaries. Education Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Recruit out-of-state clinicians by having large healthcare organizations host them and funding travel reimbursement for visiting specialists, alongside easing telehealth entry. Healthcare Mixed Low confidence ↗
Redirect education funding from administrative/bureaucratic overhead toward teachers and classrooms. Education Unrated Moderate confidence ↗
Reform the capital-outlay process by requiring all new projects to be included in the state budget and subject to public debate under published selection criteria. Governance Positive Low confidence ↗
Replace the alternating 30-day/60-day legislative sessions with annual 90-day sessions open to any subject. Governance Positive Low confidence ↗
Require active oil-and-gas operators to plug and remediate wells and hold non-compliant operators accountable, including through enforcement and litigation. Energy Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Require and fund teacher professional development, including a minimum number of paid training days. Education Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Require oil-and-gas operations to be fueled/powered by cleaner energy sources. Energy Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Restrict large corporate, private-equity, and speculative ownership of housing. Housing Mixed Moderate confidence ↗
Set Medicaid reimbursement/premium rates high enough to maintain provider participation and patient access. Healthcare Positive Moderate confidence ↗
Set statewide shelter service standards (meals, showers, laundry, case management, job services) and tie shelter funding to services/performance rather than bed count. Housing Mixed Low confidence ↗
Support data-center development rather than reflexively rejecting it, while ensuring adequate, non-competing energy and water. Energy Mixed Low confidence ↗
Use state funds/reserves to maintain Medicaid funding when federal Medicaid support is reduced. Healthcare Positive High confidence ↗
Adopt a posture of evaluating rather than reflexively rejecting large industrial and energy projects, favoring those that create jobs. Economy Stated position ↗
Build a set number of new homes per year (e.g., at least 5,000). Housing Broad goal ↗
Campaign on a prosecutorial record (e.g., increased homicide prosecutions, zero-tolerance for guns in schools, technology to clear the sexual-assault testing backlog) as the basis for a crime approach. Crime Stated position ↗
Continue and support oil-and-gas development as a revenue source, framed as responsible/'all-of-the-above' and partnering with the industry. Energy Stated position ↗
Reduce dependence on oil-and-gas revenue by diversifying the state's and Land Office's revenue and energy economy. Energy Broad goal ↗
Treat AI data-center development as an economic-development priority and actively work to attract such facilities to the state. AI Stated position ↗