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HB1206 - Obscene materials; modifies restrictions on purchase, distribution, exhibition, or loan.
Phillip A. Scott, Wendell Scott Walker, Eric R. Zehr
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Obscene materials; restrictions on purchase, distribution, exhibition, or loan; exceptions; libraries and schools. Modifies the exceptions to restrictions on the purchase, distribution, exhibition, or loan of obscene materials by providing that schools supported by public appropriation are not subject to the exceptions and limiting the exception applicable to libraries supported by public appropriation only to obscene material that is available exclusively in a section of the library to which access is restricted by age.
STATUS
Introduced
HB752 - Threats of death or bodily injury to persons on school property; penalty.
Wendell Scott Walker, William Chad Green
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Threats of death or bodily injury to persons on school property; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to orally make a threat to kill or do serious bodily injury to any person, regarding that person, while that person is (i) on the grounds or premises of any elementary, middle, or secondary school property; (ii) at any elementary, middle, or secondary school-sponsored event; or (iii) on a school bus, when the threat places the person who is the object of the threat in reasonable apprehension of death or serious bodily injury to himself.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1044 - Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date.
Sam Rasoul, Israel D. O'Quinn, William P. Davis
Last updated 7 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to
STATUS
Passed
HB292 - Drug Treatment Court Act; renames the Act as the Recovery Court Act.
Jason S. Ballard, Jonathan Arnold, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 7 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Drug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Committee.
STATUS
Passed
HB356 - Investment of public funds; qualified public entity allowed to invest in asset-backed securities.
Hyland F. Fowler, William Chad Green, Ian T. Lovejoy
Last updated 6 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Investment of public funds. Allows any qualified public entity of the Commonwealth to invest in asset-backed securities that are guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof.
STATUS
Passed
HB749 - Sexual extortion; penalty.
Wendell Scott Walker, Baxter Ennis, William Chad Green
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Sexual extortion; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony for any person to maliciously threaten eviction, loss of housing, property damage, or any financial loss with the intent to cause the complaining witness to engage in sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, or an act of sexual abuse and thereby engage in sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, or an act of sexual abuse. The bill also creates an unclassified felony punishable by not less than one nor more than 20 years and a fine of not more than $100,000 for any adult who violates the provisions of the bill with a person younger than 18 years of age.
STATUS
Introduced
HB755 - Industrial and commercial areas; civil penalties for certain local property violations.
Wendell Scott Walker
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Civil penalties for certain local property violations; industrial and commercial areas. Allows localities by ordinance to charge enhanced civil penalties for certain local property violations on property that is zoned or utilized for industrial or commercial purposes.
STATUS
Passed
HB759 - Food inspections; pickles and acidified vegetables, gross sales.
Nicholas J. Freitas, Mike A. Cherry, William Chad Green
Last updated 6 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower and are processed and prepared in a private home without an inspection as otherwise required to operate a food establishment. The bill expands the exemption for private homes where the resident processes and prepares certain food products to allow for such person to sell the food at a temporary event that operates for a period of no more than 14 consecutive days. The bill also clarifies that such person may advertise such food products over the Internet provided that the sale takes place in person and complies with certain restrictions. Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower and are processed and prepared in a private home without an inspection as otherwise required to operate a food establishment. The bill expands the exemption for private homes where the resident processes and prepares certain food products to allow for such person to sell the food at a temporary event that operates for a period of no more than 14 consecutive days. The bill also clarifies that such person may advertise such food products over the Internet provided that the sale takes place in person and complies with certain restrictions.
STATUS
Passed
HB233 - Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant.
Ellen H. Campbell, Ian T. Lovejoy, Kim A. Taylor
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Provides that the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority may determine a site of at least 50 contiguous acres to be an eligible site if such site meets certain criteria provided in the bill to receive a site development grant from the Virginia Business Ready Sites Program Fund.
STATUS
Passed
HB98 - Public secondary schools; satisfaction in physical education requirement, participation in Jr. ROTC.
William Chad Green, Mike A. Cherry, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 6 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Public secondary schools; satisfaction of physical education requirements; participation in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Permits each local school board to accept participation in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps as fulfillment of any physical education requirements applicable to students in grades nine through 12.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Virginia district HD-023
COMMITTEES
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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