| WV | HB4822 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify the monetary amount of grants issued under the Certified Sites and Development Readiness Program under the Department of Economic Development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 99, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4782 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prevent municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses. The bill shall be known as the Second Amendment Business Protectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 268, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4850 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove the sunset clause from the oil and gas personal property tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 257, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4863 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act. The bill defines patriotic societies. Finally, the bill provides for the opportunity to speak and recruit at public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 112, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4838 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to inform persons, who are employed as a long-term substitute teacher, about completing IEP and 504 plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 245, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4945 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make several specific changes in the Hope Scholarship Program; including that the annual Hope Scholarship Program appropriation calculation will be based on the estimated number of participating students instead of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 113, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5162 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Youth Apprenticeship Program and expanding registered apprenticeship programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 171, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5294 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revise and update the code regulating farm wineries in West Virginia to allow the state's farm winery industry to be more competitive with farm wineries in adjacent states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 9, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5604 | Veto | Relating to procurement by state spending units
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Vetoed by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5694 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to Firearms
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | HB5134 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a deceased disabled veteran real property exemption for widowed spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Finance |
| WV | HB5043 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise and/or establish requirements, prohibitions and regulation of foreign principals or agents of foreign principals, lobbying by or on behalf of such foreign principals or their agents, and to establish criminal lia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | HB5297 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove pubertal modulation and hormonal therapy from prohibited practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5399 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify state auditing practices and requirements to facilitate efficient financial management of volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments; directing state audit functions of these departments to the State Auditor; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5639 | Engross
Sine Die | Prompt Payment Act of 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5031 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add a definition for "illegal alien" under human trafficking and provide that illegal aliens are not eligible for restitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5280 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Short Line Railroad Modernization Act and tax credit allowed and credit limitations for short line railroad companies in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | HB5235 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties related to child sexual assault and sexual abuse; to increase penalties for distributing, possessing and transporting material depicting a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct; and to clarify th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4864 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities from shutting off a user's water for nonpayment of a stormwater fee. The bill allows for municipalities to impose a lien to obtain payment but prohibits municipalities from shutting off services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5652 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a statutory framework for lending state funds to local airports for hangar construction to enhance economic development in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5555 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Legislative Oversight Committee on Aviation Development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4803 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the process of appointing eligible law enforcement officers after competitive examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4985 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize victim restitution and creating a restitution assistance fund for victims of securities violations; create the Securities Restitution Assistance Fund; authorize the awarding of restitution in an administrative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4595 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the authority of LOCHHRA.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission of Health and Human Resources Accountability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5052 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the tax credit for employers providing child care for employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5051 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit against the state corporate net income tax and the state personal income tax for expenditures related to the operation of existing employer-provided or sponsored childcare facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5423 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a cognitively impaired or mentally defective person from being forced to testify in open court, and to increase the penalty for sexual assault of a mentally defective or mentally incapacitated person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5434 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide employees working for the Division of Highways with locality pay for working in certain jurisdictions designated by the commissioner as jurisdictions that are necessary for maintaining planning, engineering, con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB4974 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Save Our Farmland and Protect Our National Security Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5409 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the number of improvement periods a parent may have per child or actions in abuse and neglect proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4772 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to cease tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike upon completion of all bond payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4825 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to warrantless entry of private lands; limitations of entry onto private lands; clarifying the process for law enforcement entry onto posted private lands; use of surveillance cameras on or near posted private lands; searc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5119 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the felony offense of reckless and wanton vehicular homicide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5156 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the public disclosure of personal information on the internet, and to create penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5125 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require absentee ballots to be received by the time the polls close on election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5197 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include school resource officers ("SROs") as part of the school aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5126 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the chances of election fraud by clarifying requirements for voter registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5133 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the age limit of 40 years when hiring law-enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5135 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add a definition of the term "ammunition" relating to the requirements for obtaining a state permit to carry a concealed deadly weapon pursuant to the provisions of §61-7-4 of this code. The bill allows those persons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5129 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ban the unsolicited distribution of absentee applications by third parties and election officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5007 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that it is legal to carry a deadly weapon, firearm, or pepper spray specifically on the sidewalks and streets that directly border and surround the State Capitol Complex grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5030 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the penalties for election interference.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5010 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to the Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act; to establish a short title; define terms; establish application of act to certain government contracts; provide exceptions; and provide the Attorney General the authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4994 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify definitions of terroristic acts and groups, creates mandatory sentencing, and requires the Attorney General to identify terroristic groups and requires restitution to be paid to victims of terrorism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4972 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is provide the option to use accrued annual or sick leave for additional credited service or to fund health insurance under the West Virginia State Police Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4886 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose a civil penalty for phone companies who knowingly allow telemarking campaigns to use United States or West Virginia based phone numbers but provide no callback option using that phone number. The bill provides fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4833 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that any student in the 11th or 12th grade, who has been placed in a "free/elective/assistant" period, be informed of online college course opportunities available for them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4848 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the aggravated criminal offense of reckless driving resulting in death, establish the related penalty, and make several non-substantive technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4865 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the total amount for the senior citizen homestead tax exemption and lower the threshold to 200% of federal poverty guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4775 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the authority of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to issue further parkway revenue, parkway revenue refunding, or special obligation bonds after July 1, 2024. The bill also provides that subsequent to that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
