| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Removing limitation on amount collected by county via hotel occupancy tax that may be used for medical care and emergency services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2927 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer all the funds now existing or created in the future in the Greyhound Breeding Development Fund to the Excess Lottery Revenue Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2058 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB3101 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a misdemeanor and criminal penalties for fishing within 200 feet of agency personnel while stocking fish into public waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2181 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a new magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2958 | Intro
Sine Die | The bill provides for the construction of a state-wide, fiber optic broadband infrastructure network, known as broadband middle mile, to be purchased and owned by the state. The bill adds and defines new terms and creates a separate infrastructure fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Posting of National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline number
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying forms of grandparent visitation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2488 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the forfeiture of unencumbered funds in special revenue accounts and repayment of certain percentages of the special revenue accounts to the General Revenue Fund, if these accounts have been inactive for des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2627 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that open hunting season for big game begin on a Saturday; remove certain restrictions on hunting; permit Sunday hunting on private property throughout the state with written consent of the landowner; create a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to personal representatives of estates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2330 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit sale of paraphernalia designed or marketed for use with controlled substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Powers and duties of local boards of health
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2175 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be issued a photo identification card
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Determining assessed value of shares of natural resources property
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2055 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act and require the county commissions to pay either three-fourths or the full amount of premiums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2992 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the state to prove that the owner of seized property has been convicted of a crime and that the seized property was substantially related to said crime before the state can perfect title to seized property; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2074 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish seniority preference for all civil service workers bidding on jobs, seeking to transfer, or affected by reduction in force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2061 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that defects in windshields and windows that do not obscure vision are not unsafe conditions preventing a vehicle from passing state inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2918 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a felony penalty of life without mercy for the first degree murder of a law-enforcement officer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2115 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit sexual offenders from residing within one thousand feet of a school or childcare facility. The bill requires persons, as a condition of probation, parole or supervised release, convicted of sexual crimes agains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2374 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require schools to post signs displaying the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline number.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2042 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to treat natural resources police like all other law enforcement and exempt their pension benefits from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2670 | Intro
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 accommodation. The bill adds “age” and “sexual orientation” to the ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring DMV create special registration plates for full-size special purpose off-road vehicles
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2795 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that directors of multicounty schools are principals and not superintendents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require state institutions of higher education to waive tuition and fees for children and spouses of National Guard members and members of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States or persons on feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2316 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Superintendent of the State Police to develop a plan to increase the number of troopers to a minimum of eight hundred by July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB2824 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2990 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to implement the recommendations arising out of the studies required by the passage of sections twelve, twenty-two and twenty-three of the Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act passed by the Legislature December 14, 2011...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2146 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to funding sources for fire departments
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB3015 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require fingerprinting and background checks for all licensed professional and commercial drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2821 | Intro
Sine Die | West Virginia Farm-to-Food Bank Tax Credit
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2993 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a searchable online database containing past and recent budget and expenditure information creating and maintaining a searchable online budget database to easily access the details on how the state is spending th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2148 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide taxpayers repaying their own student loans a modification reducing federal adjusted gross income in the amount of the interest paid, for personal income tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2022 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to public health
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2903 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose limits on the number of appointees to certain county and municipal bodies; and impose quorum requirements on certain county and municipal bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB3008 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate county boards of education and establish school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Highways to contract with private providers or contractors for emergency maintenance operations if the Division of Highways cannot complete operations in a timely manner; to create a provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2386 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting recipients of the distinguished Purple Heart medal from payment of the vehicle registration fee
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB2053 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing by the parent or by a notarized signature of the parent; and providing a fine on the first offense of ten times the amount of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2095 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a procedure by which a local governing body may review and vote upon the adoption, amendment or revocation of existing local board of health rules and to require that a governing body officially adopt all prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HCR1 | Pass | Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
House received Senate message |
| HB2323 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting social security benefits from personal income tax
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Senior Citizen Issues Committee |
| HB2865 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a method by which aggrieved taxpayers, who believe that they were erroneously assessed or overpaid taxes based on an overestimation or unintentional mistake, may seek additional review by the State Auditor in ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2952 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the right of municipalities and counties to buy real estate for delinquent taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2754 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to cap the fire fees on nonresidents of a municipality who are users of that municipality’s fire service. The bill excludes charges for certain buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2385 | Intro
Sine Die | Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Energy Committee |
