| SB237 | Pass | Repealing county officers' annual report requirement of certain expenditures
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 32, Acts, Regular Session, 2008 |
| SB238 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the jurisdictional limit for filing suits in circuit court from $300 to $1,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 49, Acts, Regular Session, 2008 |
| HB4099 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow vehicles designated by the Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety for emergency response by the Division of Corrections, Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority and Division of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 151, Acts, 2008 |
| SB239 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the deferment of property tax increases for property owned, used and occupied by senior citizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 209, Acts, Regular Session, 2008 |
| HB4357 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to extend Neighborhood Investment Program Act, and eligibility for tax credits under the act, until July 1, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 156, Acts, 2008 |
| SB501 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to transfer the Stream Partners Program Fund from the Division of Natural Resources to the Department of Environmental Protection to ensure a sufficient level of funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 204, Acts, Regular Session, 2008 |
| SB503 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to require solid waste facility permit applicants and specified others connected with applicants and permittees to furnish fingerprints for the purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 102, Acts, Regular Session, 2008 |
| HB4364 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend various requirements for motor vehicle dealers. The bill expands the authority of the Dealer Recovery Fund Control Board to award claims; raises the minimum bond required of dealers during their first three years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 148, Acts, 2008 |
| SB504 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to: (1) Clarify that genetic tests must be attached to the 3-way paternity affidavit for it to be valid;(2) establish a definitive statute of limitations for child support orders; (3)clarify the definition of attributed i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 26, Acts, Regular Session, 2008 |
| HB4623 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish minimum deductions from salary payments due the employees and to allow governing boards to increase their contributions to employee retirement plans to one that exceeds the contributions of employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 82, Acts, 2008 |
| HB4368 | Pass | Reducing acts of student violence and disruptive behavior and increasing penalties for chronically disruptive students
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 77, Acts, 2008 |
| HB4624 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $50 per diem pay and mileage and expenses for volunteers who drive veterans to hospitals that are more than 30 miles from their home or local VA office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 225, Acts, 2008 |
| SB253 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to specify the United States Survey Foot and the associated conversion factor of one meter equals 39.37/12 feet for the purposes of the West Virginia Coordinate System of 1983.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 131, Acts, Regular Session, 2008 |
| HB4628 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit to taxpayers which do not satisfy the new jobs percentage requirement prescribed for the credit allowed under chapter eleven, article thirteen Q.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-08
Chapter 214, Acts, 2008 |
| HB4407 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to require automatic tire chains as standard equipment on all new school buses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-01
Vetoed by Governor 4/1/08 |
| HB4554 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to allow school bus drivers to only be tested once every two years if they are regularly employed as a school bus operator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-28
Vetoed by Governor 3/28/08 |
| SB337 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to remove obsolete language concerning the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/20/08 - Senate Journal |
| SB606 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to give applicants who are regularly employed on a full-time basis employment preference over other applicants when filling summer school program positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/28/08 - House Journal |
| SB638 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to require purchasers of catalytic converters or any material derived from catalytic converter to require additional information from the sellers. The bill sets penalties for knowing failures to collect and provide inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/31/08 - House Journal |
| HB4010 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to remove the limitation on terms for members on the board of library directors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/28/08 - House Journal |
| SB696 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the method of appraising certain affordable multifamily rental property for property tax assessment purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/31/08 - Senate Journal |
| HB4307 | Veto | Relating to bona fide residents wholly or solely owning greyhounds
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 4/1/08 - House Journal |
| SB207 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to make technical and other changes to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System; to provide for the correction of errors; to permit rollovers of any dollar amount; to provide for an onset date for disability retirement benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/28/08 - House Journal |
| SB477 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to provide an increase in compensation for conservation officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/20/08 - Senate Journal |
| SB227 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to make minor technical changes by changing the term "secretary" to "director"; adding a definition of "employer error"; to clarify definition of "member"; to clarify when membership...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/28/08 - House Journal |
| SB242 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to allow licensees with twelve or less points on their license to take a defensive driving course for a three point reduction in total points and to delay suspension of those licensees registered in the course pending succ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-16
Vetoed by Governor 3/28/08 - House Journal |
| SB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring DUI convicts serve mandatory community service and creating a registry of such persons
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-09
On 2nd reading |
| SB556 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for prior written authorization for the towing of motor vehicles without the consent of the owner or operator, and to provide for criminal background checks for drivers of tow vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| SB72 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
Senate adopted conference report and rejected bill (Roll No. 84) |
| SB332 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide regulations and disclosure requirements for loans applied for in anticipation of an income tax return.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| SB600 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add "sexual orientation" to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination in employment and places of public accommodations. This bill also adds "age" and "sexual o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| HB4482 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow payments from the Parkways Authority to the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreational Authority to continue past the nine-year limitation in the statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
To conference |
| SB699 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the OxyContin Asset Forfeiture Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| HB4333 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an insurance company to withhold a specified amount from insurance proceeds to cover costs of fire cleanup of a structure within a municipality under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| SB735 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to dedicate 5% of every million dollars of certain severance taxes for the use and benefit of the counties and municipalities from which those taxes were generated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the severance tax on timber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| HB4014 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-07
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4074 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of the bill is to create an Office for Oral Health under the Bureau for Public Health and to authorize a full time director.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-07
House Message received |
| HB4092 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the requirements for licensure as a forester or forestry technician and give the Board of Foresters rule-making authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-07
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| HB4665 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs as a cabinet in the Governor's office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
On second reading to Finance |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce acts of student violence and disruptive behavior through the implementation of a Bill of Rights, School Discipline Committee, series of county-wide meetings and increased penalties for chronically disruptive stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Recommitted to Education on 3rd reading |
| HB4496 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the voluntary transfer of assets from the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System ("TDC") to the State Teachers Retirement System ("TRS"); to provide an election on the question...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
House Message received |
| HB4047 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of cell phone and text-messaging devices while operating a motor vehicle except when using a hands-free device or in the case of an emergency. This bill also prohibits the use of a cell phone by a scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
On second reading to Judiciary |
| HB2930 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
On second reading to Judiciary |
| HB3122 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include persons who served honorably in the National Guard and reserves as eligible veterans for preference in employment training and employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
To Finance |
| HB4487 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exclude a driver's or involved person's social security number from motor vehicle accident reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
To Judiciary |
| HB4329 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for an optional two-year registration period for motorcycles by collecting either one full year or two full year's fees. The bill also contains a provision to facilitate a change to expiration dates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
On second reading to Finance |
| SB767 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the requirement that the Director of Personnel must have five years experience in personnel management in order to better the state's recruitment abilities for the position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
Recommitted to Government Organization on 3rd reading |
| HB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that employers perform criminal background checks of employees who are to be involved in the installation of home security systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4126 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that the Division of Culture and History and the commissioner make specific use of the archives library in the West Virginia Science and Culture Center; prohibiting the sale of food and drink in that building an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
