{"id":135637,"date":"2024-10-01T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=135637"},"modified":"2024-10-01T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:07:10","slug":"mcneill-appointed-chair-of-pa-house-children-youth-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=135637","title":{"rendered":"McNeill appointed chair of PA House Children &#038; Youth Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, Sept. 30 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0State Rep. Jeanne McNeill announced today she has been appointed majority chair of the PA House Children and Youth Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor to be named the chair of the House Children and Youth Committee allowing me the opportunity to continue to fight for the maximization of our future leaders\u2019 experiences,\u201d said McNeill. \u201cI look forward to working with my colleagues on this committee to give pieces of legislation the time of day to work toward a better future for children across the commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the House Joanna McClinton said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRep. McNeill is a champion for Pennsylvania\u2019s youngest residents. Having spent more than a decade as an educator and an advocate for children and families, she will leverage her experience as chair of the Children and Youth Committee and advance legislation to help all of the commonwealth\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Children and Youth Committee has the responsibility to study adoption and child protection issues, along with child day care services, infant\/child\/mother health issues, juvenile delinquency, and adolescent and teen problems.<\/p>\n<p>McNeill, who was chair of the Northeast Delegation, has resigned that position to give her full attention to her duties as chair of the Children and Youth Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nTom Andrews<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Communications Office<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Sept. 30 \u2013\u00a0State Rep. Jeanne McNeill announced today she has been appointed majority chair of the PA House Children and Youth Committee. \u201cIt is an honor to be named &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=135637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McNeill appointed chair of PA House Children &#038; Youth Committee<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rep-Jeanne-McNeill.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}