Frequently Asked Questions
Holly Jones for Missouri House District 88
1. Who is Holly Jones?
Holly Jones is the Republican State Representative for Missouri's 88th District and chairs the House Committee on Children and Families. Elected in 2022 and serving since January 2023, Holly came to the legislature from the private sector, not from politics. She spent her career in global logistics and as a project manager for a federal contractor before running for office, and she still works in the private sector today. She is seeking re-election on November 3, 2026.
What this means for families: District 88 is represented by a proven conservative with a record voters can look up and check.
2. What district does Holly Jones represent, and where is it?
Holly Jones represents Missouri House District 88, which covers a portion of southwest St. Louis County, including Eureka. Holly lives in the district she represents. Her campaign is based in Eureka, and she has built her legislative work around the families, schools, small businesses, and first responders in this corner of St. Louis County.
What this means for families: Voters get a Representative who lives where they live and answers to them, not to Jefferson City.
3. What has Holly Jones actually passed into law?
Holly Jones has moved five significant measures through the Missouri legislature and into law. Her record includes the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, cross-reporting between child abuse and animal abuse investigators, the Food is Medicine nutrition waiver for MO HealthNet patients, expanded over-the-counter pharmacy access to ivermectin, and tougher penalties for human traffickers who exploit minors. That is a passed-bill record, not a list of press releases.
What this means for families: Conservative promises turned into Missouri law, with bill numbers attached.
4. What committees does Holly Jones serve on?
Holly Jones chairs the House Committee on Children and Families and serves on four additional committees. She also sits on Public Assistance, Crime and Public Safety, General Laws, and Government Accountability. The Children and Families chairmanship puts her in charge of the committee where Missouri's child protection, family policy, and parental rights bills are written.
What this means for families: District 88 has a seat at the table where family policy actually gets decided.
5. What is Holly Jones' professional background?
Holly Jones spent her career in business — global logistics, federal contract project management, law firm operations, and wellness. She has managed budgets, schedules, contracts, payroll, and compliance in the private sector. She serves as business manager for Renz Law and as vice president of wellness development for the Nepute Wellness Group. She brings the habits of someone who has had to make a budget work.
What this means for families: A legislator who ran real operations before she ever voted on a state budget.
6. Why is Holly Jones running for re-election in 2026?
Holly Jones is running to finish the work she started on protecting children, cutting taxes, and defending constitutional rights. Her first terms produced results — the Born Alive Act signed into law, stronger anti-trafficking penalties, better child abuse reporting. She believes the next term is where the tax fight gets won, and she wants to be in the chair when it happens.
What this means for families: Continuity and seniority instead of starting over with a freshman.
7. Is Holly Jones pro-life?
Yes. Holly Jones is unapologetically pro-life and has a signed law to prove it. She handled the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in the Missouri House and guided it to the Governor's desk, where it was signed into law on July 13, 2026. She has said plainly that a baby who survives an abortion attempt should receive every life-saving measure a wanted child of the same gestational age would receive.
What this means for families: Missouri law now protects children that the law used to leave behind.
8. What is the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act?
It is the Missouri law requiring that any infant born alive after an attempted abortion receive the same medical care and legal protection as any other newborn. Passed by the legislature in May 2026 and signed by Governor Mike Kehoe on July 13, 2026, the law grants full legal rights to infants who survive an abortion attempt and makes it a first-degree murder offense to knowingly kill one. Missouri Right to Life credited Holly Jones by name for guiding the measure through the House.
What this means for families: Every baby born alive in Missouri gets a doctor, not a decision.
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9. Does Holly Jones support taxpayer funding of abortion providers?
No. Holly Jones opposes the use of Missouri taxpayer dollars to fund abortion providers or their affiliates. She believes public money should reflect the values of the people who paid it in, and that no Missourian should be forced to subsidize something they consider the taking of a life.
What this means for families: Tax dollars stay out of the abortion industry.
10. What has Holly Jones done to protect children from abuse?
Holly Jones sponsored and passed House Bill 2292, which requires cross-reporting between child abuse and companion animal abuse investigations. Investigators have long known that cruelty to animals and cruelty to children show up in the same households. Her bill connects the two reporting systems so that when one investigator sees a warning sign, the other one hears about it. The House passed it on May 15, 2026.
What this means for families: Missouri catches abusive households sooner, before a child is the next victim.
11. What is Holly Jones doing about human trafficking?
Holly Jones has worked to increase penalties for traffickers and expand legal protections for minors targeted for exploitation. As chair of the Children and Families Committee, she has made trafficking and child sexual exploitation a standing priority of the committee's agenda, and she has moved legislation raising the cost to offenders who prey on Missouri kids.
What this means for families: Traffickers face harder time, and Missouri children have more legal shield between them and predators.
12. Does Holly Jones support parental rights in education?
Yes. Holly Jones believes parents — not school administrators or state bureaucrats — are responsible for raising and educating their children. She supports parental consent requirements, parental access to instructional materials, and school policies that keep parents informed rather than working around them. Her committee chairmanship is built on the principle that the family, not the agency, comes first.
What this means for families: Parents stay in charge of their own children's upbringing and education.
13. What is Holly Jones' position on social-emotional learning in schools?
Holly Jones opposes social-emotional learning programs in Missouri classrooms and has called for removing them. She believes classroom time belongs to reading, math, science, and the core academic subjects Missouri students are falling behind in — not to psychological curricula that substitute the school's judgment for the parents' on matters of values and identity.
What this means for families: School hours go to academics, and questions of values stay at the kitchen table.
14. Does Holly Jones support curriculum transparency?
Yes. Holly Jones supports full curriculum transparency so parents can review what is being taught before it reaches the classroom. She believes a parent should never have to file a request or fight a school board to find out what their child is being taught. Transparency is how trust between schools and families gets rebuilt.
What this means for families: Parents can read the material themselves and make an informed decision.
15. Does Holly Jones support school choice?
Yes. Holly Jones supports expanding educational options so families are not locked into a single assigned school. She supports charter schools, homeschooling, and scholarship and savings account programs that let education dollars follow the student. She believes competition raises the floor for every school, including the public ones.
What this means for families: Families choose the school that fits their child instead of the one that fits the map.
16. Does Holly Jones support protecting girls' sports?
Yes. Holly Jones supports keeping biological males out of girls' athletics at every level of Missouri education. She believes fairness in women's sports is not a debatable proposition — it is the entire reason a separate girls' division exists. Missouri girls should compete against other girls for the roster spots, records, and scholarships they earned.
What this means for families: Missouri girls compete on a level playing field.
17. What is Holly Jones' position on the Second Amendment?
Holly Jones strongly supports the Second Amendment and the right of law-abiding Missourians to own and responsibly use firearms. She has consistently defended gun owners against new restrictions and believes the right to keep and bear arms is a constitutional guarantee, not a privilege the state grants and revokes.
What this means for families: Law-abiding families keep their constitutional right to protect themselves.
18. Does Holly Jones support ending the personal property tax?
Yes. Holly Jones supports eliminating Missouri's personal property tax. She considers it one of the most unfair taxes on the books — an annual bill for owning the truck you drive to work, the equipment you make a living with, or the car you already paid for. It hits working families and small businesses hardest.
What this means for families: No more yearly bill for property you already own and already paid tax on.
19. Does Holly Jones support property tax relief for seniors?
Yes. Holly Jones supported SB190 which gave seniors the chance to freeze their property taxes once they reach age 62 so seniors are not taxed out of homes they have already paid off. She believes rising assessments are a direct threat to anyone living on a fixed income, and she supports giving counties the tools to freeze or cap what seniors owe.
What this means for families: Seniors can stay in the homes they worked a lifetime to pay for.
20. How does Holly Jones approach state spending and fiscal responsibility?
Holly Jones supports balanced budgets, spending discipline, and eliminating waste before considering any new revenue. Her background is in operations and budgets, and she applies the same standard in Jefferson City that she applied in business: a program justifies itself by results, not by how long it has existed.
What this means for families: Missouri stays financially stable without reaching back into family paychecks.
21. Does Holly Jones support small businesses?
Yes. Holly Jones supports lower taxes and lighter regulation for Missouri's small businesses and job creators. She has spent her career on the business side of payroll, compliance, and contracts. She knows the difference between a regulation that protects someone and a regulation that just adds a filing fee and a form.
What this means for families: Local employers can afford to grow and hire in District 88.
22. Does Holly Jones support law enforcement and first responders?
Yes. Holly Jones supports Missouri's police officers, deputies, firefighters, and paramedics, and serves on the House Crime and Public Safety Committee. She has championed policies for all first responders and believes officers deserve the funding, equipment, and legal backing they need to do a dangerous job. She opposes every version of defunding the police and has the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police.
What this means for families: Communities are safer when the people who answer the call have real support behind them.
23. What is Holly Jones' stance on crime and public safety?
Holly Jones supports a justice system that puts victims ahead of criminals and holds repeat offenders accountable.
As a member of the Crime and Public Safety Committee, she has focused on the crimes that target the vulnerable — trafficking, child exploitation, and abuse — and on making sure the penalties match the offense.
What this means for families: Neighborhoods are safer and violent repeat offenders stay off the street.
24. What did Holly Jones do on Ivermectin access?
Holly Jones passed legislation expanding over-the-counter access to ivermectin through Missouri pharmacies.
She believes the decision about a legal, long-approved medication belongs to a patient and their pharmacist or physician, not to a federal agency or a hospital committee. The law removed a barrier between Missourians and a drug that has been in safe use for decades.
What this means for families: Patients and their doctors make the call, not a bureaucracy.
25. What is the Food is Medicine program Holly Jones sponsored?
House Bill 2355 creates a MO HealthNet waiver allowing nutrition-based services for patients with diet-related chronic conditions.
The idea is simple: for a patient whose diabetes, heart disease, or kidney disease is driven by diet, treating the diet is cheaper and works better than treating the complications later. The House passed the bill on April 2, 2026.
What this means for families: Better health outcomes for chronically ill Missourians at a lower long-term cost to taxpayers.
26. What is Holly Jones' position on medical freedom?
Holly Jones supports the right of Missourians to make their own medical decisions without government or employer coercion.
Her work on ivermectin access and patient-directed care reflects a consistent principle: informed adults, advised by the professionals they choose, decide what goes into their bodies and their children's bodies.
What this means for families: Medical decisions stay between a family and their doctor.
27. What is Holly Jones' position on illegal immigration?
Holly Jones supports enforcing immigration law and opposes sanctuary policies in Missouri.
She supports full cooperation between Missouri law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, and she opposes spending state tax dollars on benefits for people in the country illegally. She views border failure as a public safety problem that has already reached Missouri communities.
What this means for families: Missouri families are not left paying the bill for Washington's failure.
28. Does Holly Jones support voter ID and election integrity?
Yes. Holly Jones supports photo voter ID and the safeguards that keep Missouri elections trustworthy.
She supports paper ballot records, reliable audits, accurate voter rolls, and ensuring that only U.S. citizens vote in Missouri elections. She views these as basic housekeeping, not partisan measures.
What this means for families: Missourians can trust that every lawful vote counts and is counted once.
29. How does Holly Jones address government overreach?
Holly Jones believes government should be limited, accountable, and slow to add new authority over private life.
She serves on the Government Accountability Committee and describes her own politics in plain terms: policies that let Missourians make their own choices. She is consistently skeptical of unelected agencies writing rules that carry the force of law.
What this means for families: Fewer mandates from people voters never elected.
30. Does Holly Jones support religious liberty?
Yes. Holly Jones is a firm defender of religious liberty for every peaceful Missourian.
Faith is the first word in her campaign's own statement of values. She believes the First Amendment protects the right of Missourians to live and worship according to their beliefs, free from government pressure or retaliation.
What this means for families: Missourians of faith remain free to live out their beliefs at home, at work, and in public.
31. Does Holly Jones support property rights?
Yes. Holly Jones supports strong protections for homeowners and property owners against unnecessary government interference.
She believes what a family owns is theirs, and that the burden should be on government to justify a taking, an assessment increase, or a new restriction — not on the owner to justify keeping what they bought.
What this means for families: Families keep control of their own homes and land.
32. What values guide Holly Jones' service?
Faith. Family. Freedom.
That is the campaign's own statement of principle, and her record tracks it: protecting the unborn and abused children, defending parental rights and religious liberty, and pushing to get the state's hand out of Missourians' paychecks and personal decisions. She describes herself as a conservative who believes people should be trusted to run their own lives.
What this means for families: A Representative whose votes match the values she campaigns on.
33. How can voters contact or support the Holly Jones campaign?
Voters can reach the campaign by email at holly@hollyjonesformo.com or by mail at P.O. Box 433, Eureka, MO 63025.
The campaign is looking for volunteers to knock doors, host yard signs, and host events ahead of the November 3, 2026 election. More information is available at hollyjonesformo.com.
What this means for families: A direct line to a campaign that answers to District 88 voters.