| SB598 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to Amend 11-1-1(e) to expand the authority of the Tax Commissioner to perform background investigations of employees and contractors and change obsolete language. Enactment of this bill is necessary for the Tax Commissione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB434 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the West Virginia Guaranty Association Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB597 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide more flexibility to state agencies for the procurement of technical infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB600 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the applicability of §16-29B-28 to accredited academic hospitals. Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SR35 | Pass | Congratulating Wirt High School wrestling team for 2017 Class A state championship
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
Completed legislative action |
| SCR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting study of potential alternatives to current recycling methods for municipalities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SCR37 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging DOT use existing signage on highways to display appropriate highway safety messages
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB492 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that all judicial circuits must be participating in a drug court or regional drug court program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB259 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require potential administrators of intestate estates to give bond and take oath in the county commission before being granted the administration; waive bond requirements for administrators of intestate estates where th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SCR34 | Intro
Sine Die | Joe Manchin, III Office Building
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB496 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that guaranteed asset protection waivers are not insurance; to specify terms and conditions under which guaranteed asset protection waiver contracts may be sold in this state; and to provide an exception for com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB591 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require emergency service organizations to create districts whereby towing services within a district may be dispatched or implement a policy whereby all available towing services within an area currently served by an o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB593 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the due date for employers to file their annual reconciliation and withholding statements with the Tax Commissioner to January 31, which date is consistent with the date by which employers must file their annual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to maintain the status quo if bond indebtedness is eliminated as the result of being paid off in order to continue collecting revenue for parkways roads and infrastructure projects. Current law requires, if bond indebtedne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement that the personal representative of a nonresident decedent apply to the Tax Commissioner for a certificate releasing all real property situate in this state from any estate tax lien, because We...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB596 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Counseling Protection Act. The bill prohibits state agencies and political subdivisions from denying or restricting mental health providers from providing counseling, or any patient from receivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB423 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow group homes in West Virginia with greater than four members to continue to offer services to up to eight current residents by seeking either a waiver to allow these services or a state plan amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to create a special registration plate for full-size special purpose off-road vehicles, self-assembled or modified original equipment manufactured vehicles, tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB491 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow litter control officers who are trained and certified as law-enforcement officers and whose certification is active to have the same authority as any other law-enforcement officers to enforce all litter laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SCR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study establishing four-year social worker pilot program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Referred to Rules |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of the Division of Natural Resources to study the feasibility of using a nonemployee work force to perform improvements in state parks and forests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB592 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for an independent redistricting commission to propose redistricting plans during census years. The commission consists of five members who are initially nominated by the State Election Commission. The actua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB587 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt honorably discharged veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States from payment of fees and costs required by this section for a license to carry deadly weapons. This exemption already applies to former law-e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB481 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to municipal courts notifying DMV of person's failure to appear and pay costs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB582 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill concerns coal mining, coal mining safety and environmental protection. The bill creates a special reclamation water trust fund. The bill establishes additional duties for the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for an independent redistricting commission to propose redistricting plans during census years. The commission consists of five members who are initially nominated by the state election commission. The actua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to is to abolish the office of environmental advocate effective July 1, 2017. Unused funds are to be deposited into the State General Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB580 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the amount of funds from the Unclaimed Property Fund that may be deducted during a fiscal year for the purpose of paying expenses of administering the Unclaimed Property Fund and the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB579 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt a farm winery from certain taxes on the selling or distribution of wine, when that wine is made on the farm winery and is sold at retail to the public on the premises of the farm winery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Â The purpose of this bill concerns the expansion of broadband service to unserved areas of West Virginia by providing loan insurance for commercial loans used for the expansion of broadband service to unserved or underserved areas. The bill establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
Senator Smith requests to be removed as sponsor of bill |
| SB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing State Police Academy expand sale of items from post exchange to general public
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB571 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating generally to certification and qualifications of sanitarians
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB573 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusting tax rate on wind-powered generating units
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county commissions to maintain websites with specific information and to provide website information to the Secretary of State, to require Class I and Class II municipalities to maintain websites with specific i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SCR3 | Engross
Sine Die | Urging Congress call convention of states to impose fiscal restraints on federal government
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SCR30 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging US Congress convene to propose amendment to US Constitution restoring free and fair elections
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR29 | Intro
Sine Die | Declaring pornography public health crisis
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB577 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the licensing of advance deposit wagering. The bill provides for source market fees. The bill provides for the distribution of those fees from wagers made by account holders but not within thirty miles of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB574 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make technical corrections and improvements to the West Virginia Uniform Trust Code and its companion provisions in the West Virginia Code dealing with trusts which was passed in 2011 as H.B. 2551.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB569 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Office of Rural Health Policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending WV Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
Senator Beach requests to be removed as sponsor of bill |
| SB393 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish procedures to correct errors in the administration of municipal pensions; make the act of fraud in relation to a record of a municipal pension a felony; and provide for criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR34 | Pass | Memorializing Frank Cuomo, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
Completed legislative action |
| SB565 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB567 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the superintendent the ability to set the fees for services under the central abuse registry related to background checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB555 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to dissolve the Public Employees Insurance Agency and convert it to an employer-owned mutual insurance company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
Senator Ferns requests to be removed as sponsor of bill |
| SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make it a crime for doctors and lawyers to knowingly file a fraudulent claim for disability benefits or providing substantive information in support of a fraudulent claim. The bill establishes the penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the disposition of vacated school buildings or other state-owned buildings by the Public Land Corporation and Real Estate Division within the Department of Administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB551 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the School Building Authority’s discretion to disburse funds on an ad hoc basis by requiring that the School Building Authority distribute specific funds to county boards on the basis of a county’s net student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB541 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to post professional personnel job vacancies and provide for job applications to be submitted and considered in a timely fashion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
