| HB2903 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Fetal Heartbeat Act. The bill prohibits abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected. The bill provides exceptions. The bill makes findings. The bill establishes standards, requirements, and procedures. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2327 | Intro
Sine Die | This purpose of this bill is to ensure that public schools integrate age-appropriate components of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence into their existing programs and curricu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2985 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Faith Freedom Act to ensure that, in all cases where state action is alleged to substantially burden the exercise of religion, a compelling interest test is mandated, and, strict scrutiny is app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2959 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make certain acts of panhandling and solicitation unlawful. The bill exempts fire departments. The bill provides misdemeanor penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3040 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the law which makes prime contractors liable for the failure of subcontractors to make proper payments for workers’ compensation coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2561 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the eligibility for service on county school boards to those running for or serving as a nonpartisan elected official of a class III or class IV municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2033 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a death penalty and procedures and standards applicable thereto, and automatic review of the penalty, for commission of murder in the first degree. Procedures for carrying out the death sentence are establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminating, expiring, or cancelling oil or natural gas leases
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| HB3034 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit partially disabled deputy sheriffs to engage in other gainful employment without limiting earnings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HJR3 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to limit the number of terms a senator or delegate may serve in the West Virginia Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR101 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to put a proposed amendment to the West Virginia Constitution on the ballot during the 2020 general elections. The amendment would provide the West Virginia Legislature rulemaking oversight of the West Virginia Sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2756 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require contractors using computers to complete government contracts have software that verifies the amount of hours worked on the computer or computers for the contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2453 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make all convicts eligible to petition for parole when their good time credits and actual time served equal 30 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2091 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county from three to four.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating generally to WV Appellate Reorganization Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2152 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit retired public school teachers to teach college level courses without loss of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2442 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an increase in compensation for conservation officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to mobility impairment identifying documents
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2110 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reallocate and dedicate the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues, up to $30 million annually, to the natural gas and oil producing counties of origin. The bill provides for distribution of the moneys to the distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2920 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a police review board for the State Police and local review boards for local law-enforcement officers and deputy sheriffs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4054 | Intro
Sine Die | Vapor Products Warning Notice
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| HB2431 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a person newly elected or appointed as a member of the State Legislature after 2020 will not be eligible for pension benefits based on legislative service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring DHHR to file petition to terminate parental rights under certain circumstances
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2057 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to restore prevailing wages for certain government contracts to state law. This bill reinstates the Prevailing Wage Law that was in effect until its repeal in 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2631 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to qualify children of state employees, receiving income of $25,000 per year or less, for the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2836 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a special license plate for spay and neuter advocates. The bill also sets a fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2463 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price index.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2126 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an elected municipal or county office
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HJR12 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to the West Virginia Constitution that would exempt personal property in the form of manufacturing inventory and manufacturing equipment from ad valorem taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2758 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a minimum number of school counselors that shall be employed by the county board and assigned to each high, middle, and elementary school in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB4043 | Intro
Sine Die | Preventing state, county and municipal agencies from covering any portions of Public Employee Insurance Act premiums for spouse
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2309 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow municipalities to cancel municipal elections and appoint candidates by acclamation, if there is only one candidate running for each municipal office up for election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring county boards of education to provide free feminine hygiene products in grades six through 12
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2314 | 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] | 2020-01-08
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2551 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to propose a plan to fund school transportation costs as an item separate from the present total state basic foundation program, and providing for better consideration of fixed costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish an Economic and Community Development Task Force. The bill sets forth the composition of task force. The bill requires a report to Joint Committee on Government and Finance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4005 | Intro
Sine Die | West Virginia Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2818 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow purchase of Teachers Retirement System service credit by transfer from Teachers Defined Contribution System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Juvenile Justice Reform Oversight Committee to recommend averted costs reinvestment; create a juvenile justice account and provide its purpose, funding and disbursements; require new data to be collected and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing penalties for malicious assault, unlawful assault, and assault on law-enforcement officer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2059 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase PROMISE scholarships to persons majoring in STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields to pay the full cost of tuition, room and board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2902 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for fair pay and maximized employment of disabled persons; create a state “Employment First” policy that encourages agencies to facilitate employment of disabled persons; establish a task force to initiate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2705 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create 16 two-member senatorial districts and 96Â single-member delegate districts based on the 2010 census and implemented during the 2020 elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2221 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the cost of the fee for a state license to carry a concealed weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2348 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for magistrates to have the ability to remove a child from a home in which a parent’s use of drugs is causing an unsafe environment for the child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| SB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses the sole authority for the accreditation of nursing schools. The bill reverts the code provision on nursing school accreditation back to what...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing governing board of higher education institution to eliminate tenure for its faculty
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2318 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the persons responsible for the taxes on soft drinks and soft drink syrups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Finance Committee |
