| WV | SB8 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit the installation of newborn safety devices at emergency service medical facilities, police departments, or sheriff's detachments that have been designated as safe-surrender sites and providing conditions for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
On 1st reading |
| WV | SB532 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the county to which ad valorem taxes should be paid when the seat of a well is in a different county than the location of the property from which the well draws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB530 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to the purchase of or acquisition of title to real property by certain aliens or foreign entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB439 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that wind power projects are not pollution control facilities for certain purposes, and providing that wind power projects are to be taxed as real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB516 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide extra state aid to school districts for students enrolled in extremely remote schools; and prohibit a county board from closing an extremely remote school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB521 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to electoral reforms of the West Virginia judiciary and Boards of Education generally. The bill requires the election of justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judges, family court judges, magistrates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SJR8 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to the Constitution to provide that in all elections held in West Virginia only citizens of the state who are citizens of the United States are qualified to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB510 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the Stable Energy Rates Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB507 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit drag shows from being performed in front of minors and to prohibit drags shows in schools and libraries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB465 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a short title; provide definitions; clarify investment opportunities for the Board of Treasury and state retirement fund; and establish rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB470 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow students, coaching staff, and athletic trainers to participate in non-school athletic activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB469 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow those persons 18-20 years of age to be permitted to carry a deadly weapon as those persons 21 and over are currently permitted to do.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB468 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require an official declaration of war or an action to call forth the state militia by the United States Congress before members of the West Virginia National Guard may be released from state control to participate in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Military Committee |
| WV | SJR6 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this amendment is to eliminate the current tax on business inventory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SJR7 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this resolution is to ensure legislative oversight on educational policies while still allowing for the State Board of Education to function. However, it would need to navigate potential legal challenges regarding the separation of pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB471 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to revise the school funding formula to be student-based and ensuring equal accessibility to funds for school maintenance and consolidation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB505 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect ratepayers from excessive costs stemming from the recent trend of electric utilities in building generation assets, transmission lines, substations, and interconnections that may underperform during periods of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB438 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Intrastate Energy Use Act, designating which environmental regulation of coal, oil, and natural gas extracted and used within West Virginia is exclusively regulated by the West Virginia Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB437 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Coal Marketing Program. The bill provides for the purpose of the program. The bill creates funding for the program and empowers the Governor to report on the program to the Joint Committee on Go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB440 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require judicial candidates to partisan file; require judicial candidates run in both the primary and general election; provide an effective date; clarify the form and content of ballots for judicial candidates; and cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB424 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Restoring Sanity Act; prohibit a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned entities fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB299 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the state's regulation of pubertal modulation and hormonal therapy to better protect the health and safety of minors in light of recent scientific developments that further demonstrate the harm of these drugs and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB289 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create exemptions to mandatory vaccination requirements to accommodate religious conviction and philosophical beliefs. The bill also revises the existing medical exemption process and eliminates the position of the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB97 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Chemical Abortion Prohibition Act. The bill creates the offense. The bill provides no liability to the patient. The bill provides a rule of construction regarding ectopic pregnancy. The bill pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB266 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a wind power project is not a pollution control facility for purposes of §11-6A-1 et seq. of this code and is taxed as real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB294 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to replace the statue of the Robert C. Byrd with a statue of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, and Arthur I. Boreman, placed in each corner of the rotunda of the Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB286 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SJR4 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to prohibit the state, counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions of the state from restricting the right to keep and bear arms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB43 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the required credentials for a certified registered nurse anesthetist who cooperates with a physician or dentist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SJR2 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this resolution is to authorize the incorporation of churches or religious denominations which choose to incorporate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB1 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all paving projects to be approved by the Public Service Commission in order to prevent the digging up of newly paved roads for planned utility projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB295 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that solar farms are not agricultural operations or in the business of farming for purposes of agricultural production and taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| WV | SB270 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to declare the sale, repair, maintenance, and manufacture of firearms, ammunition, and related accessories and components, etc. to be "essential" businesses and services for the purposes of safety and security in times of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB275 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement for cooks or custodians employed by public schools in this state to have a high school diploma or equivalent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB94 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend required courses of education to include human growth and development related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb; required methods of presenting this instruction and adding a human growth and devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB260 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify residency requirements and require photo identification to vote in person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB271 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect employees of the State of West Virginia and its political subdivisions from being commandeered by a federal agency or other agent to enforce federal regulations and other actions related to extractive resources ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB280 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require "In God We Trust" signs be displayed in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
