Advocating For Youth

Valerie Wiener has devoted herself to finding solutions for issues that affect our youth.  She has chaired both the Legislative Study Committee on Juvenile Justice and the Legislative Commission on School Safety and Juvenile Violence.  Also, in the 2003-04 legislative interim, Valerie chaired the Legislative Study Committee on Obesity.

Legislation That Will Make A Positive Difference

- Creating the Nevada Youth Legislative Issues Forum for 9th through 12th graders to teach the democratic principles and encourage their civic involvement.

- Making it easier for students to receive and repay loans for higher education.

- Preserving and expanding the amount of time allocated for physical education and physical activity for students.

- Urging coordinated efforts to combat obesity, especially as it affects young people, through better nutritional education.

Protecting Our Young People

Sample of Important Legislation Successfully Sponsored By Valerie Wiener

Making it a crime to leave a child, 7 years of age or younger, alone in a car.

Holding a person accountable for knowingly serving, selling, or furnishing alcoholic beverages to an under-age person-or controlled substances to anyone-that results in harm or damage to a person or property.