| HB2670 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish limits applicable to the award of damages for medical monitoring.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Communicated to House |
| HB2779 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that proceeds from certain oil and gas wells that are due to persons whose name or address are unknown are to be kept in a special fund and if unclaimed within seven years the proceeds shall be transferred to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-09
Communicated to House |
| HCR61 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to apply to and urge Congress call a convention of the states, under the authority reserved to the states in Article V of the United States Constitution, limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-09
Midnight hour arrived |
| HB2420 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this to establish the Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Authority. The bill provides a statement of legislative purpose and findings. The bill provides definitions. The bill establishes the Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| HCR10 | Engross
Sine Die | Resiliency Week
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
Communicated to Senate |
| HB2595 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2837 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a mechanism to allow licensing of advance deposit wagering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2730 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2019-03-05
Motion to discharge bill from committee rejected (Roll No. 337) |
| HB2330 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow honorably discharged veterans who possess certain military ratings to qualify to take an examination for licensing as a plumber, electrician, and sprinkler fitter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
On 2nd reading to Government Organization |
| HCR81 | Engross
Sine Die | Erecting a statue of Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager on the State Capitol Complex grounds
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HCR15 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study the impact of business regulations and economic development incentives to recruit and retain small business
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HCR65 | Engross
Sine Die | Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-02
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2878 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to updating the controlled substances listed on schedule one
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB3149 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to manufacturing and producing hard cider in West Virginia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2519 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a person who holds a current and valid license to carry a concealed deadly weapon to carry such a weapon on the campus and in the buildings of a state institution of higher education. It provides exceptions and im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2843 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the State Agency for Surplus Property and split up its functions. Receipt and distribution of federal surplus will be handled by a new Office for Federal Surplus Property. The disposal of unnecessary or unused...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2951 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to move non-health related professions and occupations from Chapter 30 of the code to a new Chapter 30A. The old and new references are shown in the title. No substantive changes were made in the transferred articles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2882 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a health professionals’ student loan program; health sciences tuition program. The bill provides in-state tuition rates to out-of-state medical and osteopathic students who agree to practice for a specific ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2932 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer the regulation and licensing of charitable bingo, charitable raffles, and charitable raffle boards and games from the State Tax Department to the State Lottery Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2941 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reinstate the West Virginia Film Investment Tax Credit and to provide for direct involvement and coordination with the West Virginia Development Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2397 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county school boards to provide adequate mental health and counseling services in the form of the employment of a psychologist or psychiatrist to pupils to address issues stemming from drug abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2967 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a county to retain the excise taxes for the privilege of transferring title of real estate in that county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2966 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to the County Budget Flexibility Act. The bill permits a county to hold over unspent budgetary funds or excess revenue for future uses. The bill requires those funds be deposited in a county’s Future Needs Fund. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2718 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require purchasers of roundwood to collect and maintain certain information. It requires sellers to provide updated information to purchases prior to purchase. It also provides criminal penalties for failure to record, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2895 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow crime victims to petition a court to obtain restraining orders to prevent persons who committed specified crimes against the victim from living in proximity or knowingly coming into contact the victim, if the vict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB3102 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise certain wine code sections to permit wine alternating wine proprietorships as permitted under federal law; to clarify wine sampling procedures for wineries and farm wineries up to 2 fluid ounces at certain fairs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2011 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Road Maintenance Program for each district to contract with private contractors to perform certain road maintenance activities in each district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2866 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a requirement for a lessee to execute and deliver to the lessor, within a specified time and without cost, a recordable release for terminated, expired, or canceled oil or natural gas leases; provide for a proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB3145 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to student financial aid resources
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2991 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2497 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend or clarify protections under the state’s whistle-blower law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2943 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a wine specialty shop to deliver wine purchase at the shop without obtaining a direct shippers license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2014 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets Act. The bill provides criminal, injunctive and civil protections against the misappropriation of intellectual property and trade secrets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2535 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the handling of purchases by the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2760 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include a review of the administrative rules of an agency or regulatory board when the Legislature conducts performance reviews of agencies and boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2802 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. The bill defines terms and provides for a court hearing to determine if the partition action concerns heirs’ property and the manner in which such property and intere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| HB2974 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt any business relating to transporting scrap tires, waste tires, or other used tires to storage, disposal, or recycling locations from this chapter.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB3054 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the state agency for surplus property to require the state agency that is the current owner of property to remove all livery or other features identifying the property as state property prior to disposition; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB3134 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing criminal penalties for negligent homicide, and increasing criminal penalties for reckless driving
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2229 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add additional violations of law and remove exceptions for certain lesser included crimes, that could cause the forfeiture of a participant’s retirement plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2830 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a commission to study the costs and potential changes needed to implement NG911. The bill provides for legislative findings; establishes commission membership; establishes the commission’s duties; requires a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-26
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2598 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a charitable or public service organization to submit a certifying statement attesting to its status as a charitable or public service organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-26
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB3133 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to requiring a parolee or probationer found to have suffered with addiction to participate in a support service
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2901 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a licensed racetrack to establish a secondary location for racetrack video lottery terminals and racetrack table games at a location within the county as approved by the lottery commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2532 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons renewing their driver’s license or vehicle registration to make donations to the West Virginia 4 H foundation, the West Virginia Farm Bureau Foundation, and the West Virginia Future Farmers of America Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB3039 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the court’s consideration of the expression of a preference by children in certain child custody matters by removing language giving priority to preferences of 14-year-old children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2886 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to required counties with a population 25,000 or greater have a Division of Motor Vehicles office location within in the county unless there is a Division of Motor Vehicles office location within 25 miles from the county s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2929 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Tourism Office to enter into an agreement with the Division of Highways to provide staff at welcome centers and highway rest areas, and to create displays promoting in state tourism at the we...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2924 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the West Virginia Tourism Office to contract with the Division of Highways to sell advertising space on the WV511 website to promote in state tourism and raise capital for technological improvements to the websit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2855 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that rebate moneys collected by the State Auditor office may be used to operate and maintain accounting and transparency systems of the office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
