| HB2335 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Family Protection Act. The bill makes it illegal to discriminate against an individual regarding his or her family responsibilities. The bill defines terms. The bill sets forth remedies and enforcement powers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain disclosures of election expenditures
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring minors in possession of marijuana and their parents to attend classes on danger of marijuana
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2112 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that state and public roads that have not been maintained for a period of three consecutive years shall be returned to their original tract of land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB2 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for automated license plate reader systems
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2508 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make certain defendants who have been convicted of two or more prior unrelated felonies not a part of the same criminal transaction ineligible for probation. The bill also establishes a procedure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to end tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike effective July 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB3004 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the Industrial Hemp Development Act consistent with federal law, providing the Commissioner of Agriculture to issue permits for growing industrial hemp, removing the requirement for background checks for permittee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2211 | 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] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB3129 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to legalize cannabis, provide for taxation of cannabis, and allow cannabis market activity as regulated by the Department of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2044 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make an exception to the prohibition preventing county and district officers, teachers and school officials from having a pecuniary interest in contracts when the contract is for goods or supplies, has been put out for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to define the word “person” or “persons” as those terms are used in Article III of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating DHHR social workers to promote school attendance and performance
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2199 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require pawnbrokers to provide certain information to law-enforcement agencies. The bill provides a mechanism to provide the information through a third-party database available on the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3006 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to provide days prior to early voting during primary, general and special elections for registering eligible students to vote and for the transportation of registered students to appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2403 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt firefighters, who are full-time employees of a local fire department, and volunteer firefighters who have successfully completed training requirements under §29-3-6 of this code and who are employed by a volunte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| HB2135 | 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 800 by July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB2711 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require public hearings on air quality permits for large facilities, in the county where the facility is to be located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB4055 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing Class IV municipalities to receive proceeds on the purchase of liquor from retail licensees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2860 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB3072 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit customers and developers to enter into solar power purchase agreements. The bill sets forth the benefits, purpose and considerations. The bill grants rule-making authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Energy Committee |
| SB15 | Intro
Sine Die | Removing municipalities' authority to restrict firearm possession without carry concealed permit during brief temporary events
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2495 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize certain West Virginia courthouse security officers to carry concealed firearms; authorize arrest powers to courthouse security officers under certain circumstances; prescribe requirements for permission to car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2155 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons who regularly do business at Building 1 of the State Capitol Complex, the opportunity to get an exterior door access security card, after being subject to a background check and paying a $250 fee, upon app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2425 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define work day and half work day for school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB3080 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to redirect up to $10Â million per year of any surplus in the state budget away from the Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund to state institutions of higher education to restore their funding up to adjusted 2013 fiscal year le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating generally to occupational pneumoconiosis
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that persons 16 years or older may carry pepper spray for self-defense
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2417 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a vehicle may not be backed into a public street or highway unless it does not interfere with other traffic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make it a misdemeanor for a person to knowingly allow a felony drug offense to be committed on his or her property. The bill creates a duty to report. The bill creates criminal penalties. The bill allows a private cause...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Changing determination of compensation paid to landowner when eminent domain used for pipeline
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| HB2445 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the Redistricting Office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years. The main task of the Redistricting Office is to propose a plan to the Legislature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2548 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a healthy living tax credit against the personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2332 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to is to prohibit the use of a person’s credit history in certain insurance transactions involving passenger motor vehicles or commercial vehicle insurance lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2948 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Agriculture Investment Fund and the West Virginia Agriculture Investment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2766 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that parents cannot overrule a teacher’s recommendation that a student not be advanced to the next grade unless the student is retested over summer break and can demonstrate proficiency in areas for which the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2881 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to alter the color scheme for county vehicle registration plates; alter the color scheme for city or municipality vehicle registration plates; provide that all county vehicle registration plates, title certificates, and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting means of regulating certain areas of employer-employee relationship and sale or marketing of consumer merchandise
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2094 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt motor vehicles from personal property tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB4045 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to provisions of the "Habitual Offender" statute
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2066 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove posting bail as the primary way of establishing conditions of release for pretrial defendants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3062 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend provisions relating to sale of delinquent tax liens; redemption; fees; and purchaser’s obligations and rights. The bill changes the time for redemption and time to set aside a deed; and reduces the time to red...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a group to become a recognized political party if the group’s candidate receives one percent of the votes in an election for any one of six statewide offices, including that of Governor, Secretary of State, Trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2543 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the tax on the privilege of severing natural gas and oil from 5 percent to 7and one-half percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating generally to horizontal well control standards
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2802 | Intro
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] | 2020-01-08
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2339 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the “Stay in the State Act” tax credit that allows residents of this state who remain in state after graduating with an undergraduate or associate degree from a state institution to be granted a tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2333 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to career progression of members of the State Police
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplementary appropriation of public moneys to DHHR, Center for End of Life
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2928 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the Public Service Commission’s exemption from provisions of Chapter 29A and to make all Public Service Commission rules subject to the Legislature’s review and approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
