State Representative, 8th District

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2 years

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Election

Nov 3, 2026

What this office does: A state representative votes on Kentucky laws and the state budget in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Walker Wood Thomas

RepublicanIncumbent

State representative; moving and storage business · Hopkinsville

The gist

• Sponsored bill requiring disclosures from paid veterans' benefits advisers.In office
• Sponsored bill expanding free tuition for veterans' spouses and children.In office

In office = from the candidate's own official statements or legislation as an officeholder, not their campaign.

More about Walker

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1. Sponsored bill requiring disclosures from paid veterans' benefits advisers.

   2026 Regular Session HB 274: AN ACT relating to the protection of veterans' benefits.

   Government record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov

   “provide a signed disclosure document stating these services may be provided for free from other entities”

2. Sponsored bill expanding free tuition for veterans' spouses and children.

   2026 Regular Session HB 381: AN ACT relating to disabled and deceased veteran benefits.

   Government record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov

   “allow the nonremarried spouse or a child under the age of 26 of a deceased veteran free tuition”

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