| HB4320 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove the presumption that an act is not within the scope of authority granted in a power of attorney when an agent benefits from the act to the detriment of an ancestor, spouse, heir, or descendant. The bill removes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 176, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4338 | Pass | The purpose of this bill concerns the powers and authority of the newly created Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety Divisions of Administrative Services and Corrections and Rehabilitation. The bill abolishes certain divisions and authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 107, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2696 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the use of a crossbow for hunting big game requires additional licenses, stamps or permits (with exception of buck firearms season) with a Class A hunting and trapping license. The bill permits crossbow hun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 171, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2831 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to reconstitute the Driver’s Licensing Advisory Board, to require one member of the board to be a licensed neurologist in this state, to require the board to respond to requests of the commissioner when necessary in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 156, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4169 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require posting of a notice in designated locations of a hotline available for people to call to report human trafficking to be posted in areas where persons are subject to human trafficking; authorizing state represent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 216, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2694 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to develop and implement a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas, welcome centers, and roads. The bill provides for sponsorship agreements. The bill provides for agreement requirements. The bill provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 224, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB3089 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a transition to the county board of education level of the process for review and adoption of instructional resources required to be used in the schools under the jurisdiction of the county board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 72, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4242 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the jurisdictional amount for removal of a civil action from magistrate court to circuit court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 5, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4016 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to combat waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency. The bill directs that Auditor to establish and maintain a searchable financial transparency website. The bill clar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 206, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4394 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that there are civil and criminal penalties for failure to remove flammable material, failure to create a safety strip and fire escape. Further, the bill establishes a prescribed burn program.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 173, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2889 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow military veterans with certain military ratings to take examinations required for successful completion of a police officer’s probation period.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 213, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4214 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties for unlawfully possessing or digging ginseng.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 11, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4268 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exception to waste and trespass for certain oil and natural gas use and development to encourage the efficient economic development of oil and natural gas resources. The bill provides that use and development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4025 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the Board of Pharmacy to license individuals as a pharmacy technician if certain requirements are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 182, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4023 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to update the regulation of dialysis technicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 181, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4347 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit individuals to voluntarily contribute to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 108, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4183 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove certain restrictions on achievement tests that must be administered to nonpublic students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 73, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4027 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create an education permit for an allopathic physician resident. .
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 183, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4138 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require all schools and daycares that use a heating system or other device that emits carbon monoxide to install a carbon monoxide detectors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 215, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4079 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia apiary law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4001 | Pass | The purpose of this to set forth the eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance. The bill defines terms. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Resources to implement work requirements for applicants for the Supplemental N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 119, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4324 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service need not be a resident of the municipality or the county in which he or she seeks to become a member of the paid fire dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4434 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify provisions relating to candidates unaffiliated with a political party as it relates to certificates of announcement, preventing potential candidates registered as members of a political party from using the prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 82, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2008 | Pass | Relating to the Dealer Recovery Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 155, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2028 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow a pro se plaintiff or petitioner to file a claim or petition against the state, a state officer, or state agency in the circuit court of a county in which the plaintiff or petitioner resides or in which a claim ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 40, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2483 | Pass | Requiring the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 49, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4385 | Pass | The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to supplement, amend, and increase items of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 26, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4424 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make the Ethics Act apply to persons who provide services for elected public officials without pay when other similarly situated persons receive pay for similar services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 88, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4384 | Pass | The purpose of this supplemental appropriations bill is to supplement, amend, and increase an item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 25, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4402 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is prevent sexual abuse by educating students in K-12 and providing training to public school employees. The bill requires yearly education to students and requires the state board to promulgate rules therefore. It also r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 74, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4350 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the regulation of upholstery. The bill modifies and eliminates certain definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 221, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4400 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove language that is no longer relevant to the operation of the company as a private mutual insurance company and amend the current statute where necessary to accommodate policies written to physicians outside the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 132, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4142 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $6,000 pay increase spread over a period of three years, to all employees of the Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services, and West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 192, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4289 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of income that may be earned by a person receiving a municipal disability pension before an offset of benefits is required. The bill also provides an automatic increase to that limit when the minim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 159, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4178 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow certain portions of certified nurse aide training to be provided through distance learning technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 203, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4285 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend continuing educational requirements under the West Virginia Safe Mortgage Licensing Act. The bill modernizes and standardizes licensing requirements for mortgage loan originators to permit adoption of a uniform na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 185, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4279 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to specifically provide that the goals of the legislative rules applicable to the adult protective services system within the Department of Health and Human Services separately include the preventing, reducing and eliminat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 121, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4376 | Pass | The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to expire supplement, amend, and increase, and add items of appropriation in the aforesaid accounts for the designated spending units for expenditure during the fiscal year 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 21, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2869 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide that certain state employees may be granted a leave of absence with pay while providing assistance as an essential member of an emergency aid provider during a declared state of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 212, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4186 | Pass | 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 solid in this state; and to provide an exception for co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 130, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2983 | Pass | Granting priority to roadway construction, reconstruction and maintenance for roadways prone to recurring floods that hinder ingress and egress
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 225, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2464 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the sale of used manufactured homes with “as is” warranties or sale with waivers of warranties as to defects disclosed by the merchant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4368 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow a state employee to voluntarily deduct an amount greater than 25 percent of their wages in order to repay an overpayment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 136, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4422 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit permanent endowment funds of cemeteries to invest their principal in government bonds, and corporate bonds that have been rated A or above.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 32, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4175 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prevent entities providing insurance for requiring an advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant to participate in a collaborative relationship to obtain payment for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 129, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4035 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a legislative coalition to study and report to the Legislature on palliative care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 202, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4145 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the compensation of the membership of the West Virginia State Police and increase the salaries for public school teachers and school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 193, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB2995 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit certain animal euthanasia technicians who have been certified by other states be certified animal euthanasia technicians in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 180, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4042 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to redefine school zone to facilitate placement of school zone signs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 243, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
| HB4020 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make technical corrections in the code when referencing chapter 49 of the code. Chapter 49 was reorganized and renumbered in 2015 and certain references to that chapter in other portions of the code are required to be c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Chapter 37, Acts, Regular Session, 2018 |
