| SB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulating unmanned aircraft systems
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB489 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the requirements of the statement relating to the nature of the cause of action for commencement of an action in magistrate court by commercial creditors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR26 | Pass | Recognizing Holly Boggs on winning 2016 Earle S. Dillard Insurance Agent of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
Completed legislative action |
| SR27 | Pass | Designating March 1, 2017, as Cancer Survivorship Day in WV
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
Completed legislative action |
| SB488 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to move the Office of Emergency Medical Services from the Bureau for Public Health to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, and to provide the Emergency Medical Services Council with authority and oversight...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB494 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for runoff elections for judicial offices if no candidate receives a majority of the votes. The bill identifies the specific offices affected as justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judge, fami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit to eligible caregivers for expenses of modifications to homes made more accessible for an elderly person or a person with a disability, lease or purchase of equipment, or other goods or services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB426 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the Division of Natural Resources’ legislative rule relating to the Litter Control Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Replacing 48-hour stickers with 60-day registration plates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminating need for certain power-generating facilities to obtain siting certificates from PSC
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating generally to severance taxes on producing coal
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting military retirement benefits from personal income tax
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Military Committee |
| SB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Equalizing criminal penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SR24 | Pass | Congratulating Chapmanville Lady Tigers Softball team for winning 2016 Class AA state championship
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
Completed legislative action |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating incentives for hiring and retaining correctional officers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB470 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating visitation rights for certain great-grandparents
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminating WV Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR25 | Pass | Congratulating Jeffrey Stutler as WV Outstanding Tree Farmer for 2017
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
Completed legislative action |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing license tax on successful bidders for road construction contracts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB447 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit retailers from selling or leasing products that make content accessible on the Internet unless the product contains an active and operating digital blocking capability that renders obscene material inaccessible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide class action safeguards. It attempts to ensure that the class action mechanism is not used to eliminate required elements of proof and precludes statutory damages in class actions. It addresses awards of attorne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB449 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a compensation payment schedule for members of the Legislature that is consistent with the state’s payroll systems..
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create protections for employees who are members of the Civil Air Patrol and who train for, and respond to, emergency services missions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
Rereferred to Judiciary on 1st reading |
| SB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminating WV Health Care Authority
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SR23 | Pass | Recognizing Leadership Berkeley
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
Completed legislative action |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a West Virginia Earned Income Tax Credit at ten percent of the federal credit. The bill states certain requirements for eligibility for the tax credit. The bill makes the tax credit refundable. The bill allows a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Tax Reform Committee |
| SB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to venue in WV courts as applies to nonresidents
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide continued eligibility for developmental disability services to dependents of military service members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Military Committee |
| SR22 | Pass | Congratulating Cabell Midland golf team on winning 2016 Class AAA golf tournament
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
Completed legislative action |
| SB394 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize certain schools to grant applied associate of science degrees that target workforce needs; require the West Virginia State Board of Education to promulgate rules setting the minimum standards for granting appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
Senator Unger requests to be removed as sponsor of bill |
| SCR20 | Intro
Sine Die | Curtis 'Pap' and Millie 'Mammie' Asbury Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB427 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to convert certain nonappropriated special revenue funds administered by the Department of Environmental Protection into appropriated special revenue funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB430 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill concerns hospital open meetings. The bill expands the definition of a hospital’s “governing body.” The bill requires notice to those persons who are the subject of the proceedings. The bill sets out what is required in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB182 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide procedures that will prevent the disqualification of low bids for government construction contracts due to documentation technicalities. The bill deals with the submission of bids and the information and docum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB438 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify when proceeds of a life or endowment insurance policy or annuity may be presumed to be abandoned and to reverse the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals in State of West Virginia ex rel. John D. Perdue v. Na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SR19 | Pass | Expressing support for confirmation of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to US Supreme Court
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
Completed legislative action |
| SB432 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the demonstration of proficiency in civics as a condition of receiving a high school diploma, Test Assessing Secondary Completion diploma or equivalent diploma.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB431 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the maximum licensed school psychologist-pupil ratio is one thousand five hundred pupils for each licensed school psychologist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB242 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify primary and secondary school instructional terms. The bill removes the word “separate” throughout the section as it relates to the number of instructional days in the school calendar. The bill requires that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To House Education Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Clandestine Drug Laboratory Remediation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 125 |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | DHHR rule relating to expedited partner therapy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 125 |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enable the West Virginia Attorney General to request the quantity of nongreen license plates to adequately protect the investigators of the Office while operating a state vehicle.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Care Authority rule relating to exemption from certificate of need
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 125 |
| SB371 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Consolidated Public Retirement Board to adopt a four-year smoothing method relating to actuarial gains and losses on Teachers Retirement System Fund assets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB422 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the sale, wholesale, dispensing or prescribing of cannabidiol in a product approved by the Food and Drug Administration with a tetrahydrocannibol content below 0.2% per dosage is permitted under the Uniform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB424 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update provisions relating to notification of a parent, guardian or legal custodian of an unemancipated minor requesting abortions services. This bill specifies time periods and methods for providing written notice, req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Clinical Laboratory Technician and Technologist Licensure and Certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 125 |
| SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make technical changes to statutes relating to concealed weapons permits. The bill clarifies the right of certain persons to carry a concealed weapon while hunting or fishing. It provides that a license to carry a d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to update the required minimum distribution laws to be in compliance with federal internal revenue code requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB354 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit municipalities with policemen’s and firemen’s pension plans fully funded at or above 125% to not pay normal cost into the pension plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
