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HB1164 - Education Excellence for All Program; established, report.
Phillip A. Scott, Mark L. Earley, Thomas A. Garrett
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any per pupil share of state special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain qualified expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to program and account administration by the Department of the Treasury and a third party that serves as program administrator pursuant to a contract with the Department.
STATUS
Introduced
HB667 - Virginia Education Success Account Program; established, report.
Nicholas J. Freitas, Thomas A. Garrett, Mike A. Cherry
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Education Success Account Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any per pupil share of state special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain qualified expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to program and account administration by the Department of the Treasury and a third party that serves as program administrator pursuant to a contract with the Department of the Treasury.
STATUS
Introduced
HB424 - Toll facilities; free use by certain disabled veterans.
William Chad Green, Nadarius E. Clark, Baxter Ennis
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Free use of toll facilities; certain disabled veterans. Authorizes the free use of all toll bridges, toll roads, and other toll facilities in the Commonwealth for drivers who have been rated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as having a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability. The bill also replaces the current window sticker for certain persons exempted from tolls due to a disability with a specialized electronic toll collection device identifying such person as eligible for free passage.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1061 - Prisoners; Department of Corrections- and jailer-issued identification.
Wendell Scott Walker
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Department of Corrections may establish a procedure for securing a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card through the Department of Motor Vehicles and that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall expedite the processing of an application submitted by a prisoner for such government-issued identification card and the issuance of such identification. The bill also requires the Department of Corrections, in coordination with the State Board of Local and Regional Jails, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the State Registrar of Vital Records, to (i) review the processes involved in assisting a prisoner in applying for and obtaining a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card; (ii) identify any obstacles that may interfere with a prisoner obtaining such identification or documents prior to such prisoner's release or discharge; and (iii) issue a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB549 - Real property taxes; notice by mail of proposed increase.
Wendell Scott Walker, Baxter Ennis, William Chad Green
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Real property taxes; notice by mail of proposed increase. Requires localities, after conducting a reassessment of real estate, to provide notice to property owners by mail of certain information prior to adopting a tax rate that would increase the amount of real property tax collected above 101 percent of the prior year's tax collections. The bill requires the notice to include (i) the dollar and percentage amount of increase that the proposed tax rate would levy on the owner's particular property compared to the previous year's tax levy, (ii) the tax levy on the owner's particular property for the previous tax year and the proposed levy for the current tax year, and (iii) all of the information regarding the proposed tax rate that under current law is required to be posted in a newspaper and a prominent public location.
STATUS
Introduced
HB882 - Students; Department of Education's model policy on cell phone use during instructional time.
Mark L. Earley, Mike A. Cherry, William Chad Green
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Department of Education; model policy on student cell phone use during instructional time; local adoption. Requires the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model policy whereby public elementary and secondary school students are prohibited from possessing or using personal cell phones or other personal handheld communication devices during instructional time at school. The bill requires the Department, in developing and adopting such model policy, to seek to balance the interests of students' academic achievement, cognitive development, safety, and general well-being and permits the Department to include appropriate exceptions in extraordinary circumstances such as emergency situations or situations involving the need to contact the student's parents. The bill requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that is consistent with such model policy adopted by the Department.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1004 - Real property tax; notice of summary budget.
Ian T. Lovejoy, Baxter Ennis, William Chad Green
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Real property tax; notice of summary budget. Directs the governing body of every locality to send by mail, along with the annual property tax bill, a summary of the locality's budget for each of the two previous fiscal years. If the property tax bill is not ordinarily sent to the taxpayer, the budget summary may be mailed to the taxpayer separately. Real property tax; notice of summary budget. Directs the governing body of every locality to send by mail, along with the annual property tax bill, a summary of the locality's budget for each of the two previous fiscal years. If the property tax bill is not ordinarily sent to the taxpayer, the budget summary may be mailed to the taxpayer separately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1315 - Elected officials; Internet publication of personal information, definition of public official.
Wendell Scott Walker, William Chad Green, Eric R. Zehr
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Elected officials; Internet publication of personal information; definition of public official. Adds to the definition of "public official" any elected official for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet the personal information of any public official if a court has ordered that such official's personal information is prohibited from publication and the official has made a demand in writing to the Commonwealth, accompanied by the order of the court, that the Commonwealth not publish such information. The bill provides that such written demand made by an elected official is effective for four years if such elected official continuously serves throughout the four-year period.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1007 - Fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet; Department of Education to develop.
Ian T. Lovejoy, Mike A. Cherry, Baxter Ennis
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Department of Education; development and distribution of fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet; requirements. Requires the Department of Education to develop, in collaboration with the Department of Health, a fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet designed to promote awareness of the dangers associated with and the prevalence of fentanyl and provide essential information on fentanyl overdose prevention and preparedness among high school-age students. The bill requires the Department of Education to make available to each school board and post in a publicly accessible location on its website such informational one-sheet and to annually review and update such informational one-sheet in collaboration with the Department of Health to ensure its currency and accuracy. The bill requires each public high school or secondary school that includes grades nine through 12 to annually distribute such informational one-sheet to each student in grades nine through 12 within the first two weeks of the school year.
STATUS
Introduced
HB907 - Voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process, printed receipt for cast ballot.
Hillary Pugh Kent, William Chad Green, Ian T. Lovejoy
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Elections; voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to produce a printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that shows the date and time the voter's ballot was cast, the voter's number corresponding to the order in which ballots were cast, and a list of all the voter's selections on the ballot as recorded by the voting system.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Virginia district HD-023
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Virginia House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Wendell Scott Walker was born on November 2, 1967 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He earned his BA in business administration from Marquette University in 1990. After college, he moved to Minnesota where he managed the family's grocery business and worked in sales and marketing for Trim-Master Corporation. In 1993, Walker returned to Wisconsin and joined the American Red Cross as a professional fundraiser. He went on to work in finance and development at the local YMCA. Walker ran for the State Assembly in 2002 and won re-election three times before resigning in 2009.read less
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