| SB225 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit magistrates to conduct a proceeding for a temporary emergency protective order dealing with a temporary custody order entered by a family court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 65, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2815 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to alter public education higher education governance, including defining terms. The bill changes the powers of Higher Education Policy Commission, Council for Community and Technical College Education and certain institut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 122, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB554 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the crime of false swearing in a legislative proceeding and penalties for violators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 146, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2195 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to implement comprehensive drug awareness and prevention programs for all student in grades K through 12. The programs are to provide instruction regarding the dangers of substance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 69, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2767 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is elating to authorizing the Secretary of State to transmit electronic versions of undeliverable mail to the circuit clerks of the state to minimize agency costs and streamline processes for the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 121, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2318 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to strengthen and establish criminal offenses relating to human trafficking. The bill eliminates an existing criminal offense and penalty for human trafficking, and establishes a new article with multiple offenses and pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 129, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2781 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require voters to provide a photo identification when voting, to identify the requirements for those photo identifications, to set forth certain qualifying identification documents, to provide for provisional ballots to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 84, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2303 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the fines and community service hours for littering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 150, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2898 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to request and obtain criminal background information about prospective employees of the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB360 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a legislative coalition to study and report to the Legislature on diabetes in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 190, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB221 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the experience requirements for members and reduce the number of members of the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 102, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2805 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to declare certain claims against the state to be moral obligations of the state and to authorize payments therefor from the following funds: GENERAL REVENUE FUND:Â Â $ 624,388.72 STATE ROAD FUND:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 26, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2364 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit electioneering during early voting periods in and around early voting locations to the same extent as is currently prohibited at polling places on election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 83, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB687 | Pass | Relaating generally to coal mining, safety and environmental protection
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 86, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB299 | Pass | The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to supplement, amend, decrease, and increase items of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 13, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB634 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create an exemption for the Department of Health and Human Resources from having to go through the requirements of the Division of Purchasing when entering into agreements with West Virginia University or Marshall Unive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 126, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB690 | Pass | Authorizing WV State Police impose and collect fees for agencies and entities using their facilities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 203, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB694 | Pass | Expiring funds to unappropriated surplus balance in General Revenue fund to Department of Administration
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 21, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB344 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate conflicting provisions within current code relating to the application of payments and the assessment of delinquency fees on consumer credit sales and consumer loans. The bill also permits a lender to hold a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 37, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB3080 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to institute a “Celebrate Freedom Week” and require the instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other founding American historical documents, including the Bill of Rights, during this week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 70, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2679 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit county park commissions from prohibiting firearms in their facilities and to clarify that a firearm may be carried by a person for self defense in state parks, state forests and state recreational areas managed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 163, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB419 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the creation of special revenue accounts in the State Treasury for the deposit of Division of Labor fees, and to authorize the commissioner utilize excess funds in new and existing special revenue accounts to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 135, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2740 | Pass | The purpose of supplemental appropriation bill is expire funds to the surplus balance of General Revenue and to supplement, amend, add, and increase an items of appropriation in the aforesaid accounts for the designated spending units for expenditure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 10, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2219 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Livestock Care Standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 144, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB303 | Pass | The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to supplement, amend, and increase items of appropriation in the aforesaid accounts for the designated spending units for expenditure during the fiscal year 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 17, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2856 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to declare the public policy of the state of West Virginia and the intent of the Legislature to facilitate, advance and improve the availability of interstate passenger rail service to the state by the Cardinal Passenger T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 67, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2691 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons qualified by training to be a barber and a cosmetologist to elect to practice solely as a barber and maintain licensure by taking continuing education solely in subjects related to barbering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 179, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2348 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate any requirement that class hours of students be consecutive when studying professions regulated by the board of Barbers and Cosmetologists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 180, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB575 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to limit nuisance actions against shooting ranges for noises. The bill prohibits ordinances regulating to shooting ranges that are more stringent than such ordinances in effect at the time a shooting range was constructe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 5, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB608 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that lawful businesses or business structures operating in this state are unaffected by enactment of prohibitory legislation absent express language in the enactment prohibiting the continued operation of the bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 23, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2404 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to bar persons who are convicted of certain criminal offenses from acquiring property from their victims through joint tenancy or inheritance. The bill also creates exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 90, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB233 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to exclude from protection under the Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act oral communications uttered in a child care center where there are notices posted informing persons that their oral communications are being ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 58, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2494 | Pass | Providing that statewide school report cards are only to be made available to custodial parents and guardians of students upon request
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 73, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB349 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to repeal outdated code related to the Department of Corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 34, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2709 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the City of South Charleston to levy a special district excise tax for the benefit of the South Charleston Park Place Economic Opportunity Development District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB581 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make technical corrections to the Uniform Trust Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 92, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2083 | Pass | Increasing the felony criminal penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB113 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Awarding of Matching Grants for Local Litter Control Programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 140, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB3096 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow more local review and control over the operation of, and setting rates, fees and charges for, water and sewer utilities that are owned by political sub-divisions of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 161, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2479 | Pass | 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to adopt and implement the provisions of the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act in West Virginia. This bill codifies standard procedures for resolution and determination of custody...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 66, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB116 | Pass | Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction rule relating to law-enforcement training and certification standards
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 142, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB204 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require that persons appointed to fill a vacancy by the Governor have the same qualifications for the vacated office and receive same compensation and expenses for the office otherwise provided by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 101, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB433 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit counties to increase the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 235, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB578 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish a new fee structure for the furnishment of health care records, allowing records to be furnished to a patient’s personal representative and establishing a limit on the total fee allowable for the furnishment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 191, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB240 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the crime of distribution of nude and sexually explicit images when the person depicted has an expectation of privacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 54, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2509 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit a physician to prescribe certain controlled substances when using telemedicine technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 173, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2520 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of a tanning device by a person under the age of eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 192, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB392 | Pass | This purpose of this bill is to add a definition for “vested” to Municipal Police and Fire Retirement System; and clarify duty/nonduty disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 159, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| SB280 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to move the association of the Civil Air Patrol from the Aeronautics Commission and realign it under the Military Forces of the state because one of the Civil Air Patrol’s primary missions is the provision of emergency s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 202, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
| HB2431 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities on a voluntary basis based upon recommendations of the Center for Disease Control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-23
Chapter 187, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 |
