| WV | HB5528 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to remove certain caps on renewable energy generating facilities and to remove the sunset date from this section. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 Vetoed by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5699 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add a new item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HR9 | Pass | Reaffirming the longstanding sisterhood partnership between West Virginia and Taiwan [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 Completed legislative action |
| WV | HB4507 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a tax credit for improving facades in historic districts. The bill provides that individuals and corporations are entitled to a 25 percent tax credit of the replacement cost of a historic façade. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HCR82 | Intro
Sine Die | To create a study resolution to review training, equipment and operating standards, and for certification and evaluation of local and rural fire departments for retention, training, and recruitment purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22 To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HR6 | Pass | A resolution reaffirming support for the town of Thurmond, the historic buildings within the community, and the strong coal mining history associated with it [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 Completed legislative action |
| WV | HB5658 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the School Building Authority to make an assessment of school safety needs for any new or existing projects. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5655 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a mandatory education program for incarcerated individuals. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5654 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that GED training is offered to inmates on a timely basis and to ensure that it is meaningfully available at the time of parole or release. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5653 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time free transfer for high school student-athletes and to grandfather in students who transferred during the 2023-2024 school year. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5657 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to designate certain distinct residential communities as villages. The bill does not interfere with the existing classification of villages for tax purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HCR78 | Intro
Sine Die | Honoring the leadership and achievements of West Virginia’s African Americans and urging the recognition of Black History Month [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HB5638 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing Juneteenth Day as an official state holiday [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5628 | Intro
Sine Die | Require Corrections authorities to gather an inmate’s identification documents prior to release [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB5631 | Intro
Sine Die | To allow wine to be served at outdoor gatherings where beer is permitted to be served. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5578 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifying definition of sexual contact [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5526 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a pilot program to provide legal services, advice, and representation to parents who are facing legal issues that may otherwise result in the removal of their child or children. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5393 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living increase, based on the annual increase in the consumer price index, for persons under the Public Employees Retirement Act and Teachers Retirement System that are at least 60 years of age and tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5378 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that impermissible discrimination includes discrimination based on certain hair textures and styles. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5390 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to proscribe a new penalty that is subject to the value limitations of W. Va. Code §61-3-13, that the sentence provided for in subsection (c) be amended to become the exact same sentence for a violation of W. Va. Code Ã... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HJR27 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the state constitution to preserve the right to reproductive freedom. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5328 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women by having the Bureau for Medical Services request a State Plan Amendment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5329 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent the use of state funds to pay costs for attending out-of-state private schools or receiving other services from an out-of-state provider. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4891 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the authority of the Agriculture Commissioner to increase certain fees by rules or regulations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4873 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to legalize the personal use and possession of cannabis by adults; providing for a county option election to allow for the production and sales in that county; providing for regulation by the Bureau of Health; authorizing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4834 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a community solar program where subscribers can purchase an interest in a solar facility and use credits against their electric utility costs; establishing parameters and conditions for the program; and provided ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4665 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to move the recovery of certain expenses from the reconcilable rate to be charged to the users of the broadband facilities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB4618 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the consumer advocate division as a separate, independent agency. The bill provides for legislative findings, provides the purpose of the consumer advocate division, and distinguishes the consumer advocate div... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4596 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create in the surviving spouse or the minor children of a decedent an exempt property allowance not exceeding $15,000 in the tangible items of the decedent which is equal to the exemption from levy which is permitted to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4597 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount of personal income tax paid by West Virginia taxpayers to $0 for those earning $60,000 or less. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4612 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize model Community Health Equity Initiative Demonstration Projects which use existing state and local resources to promote community health and well being. The bill authorizes the Commissioner of the Bureau for P... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4631 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a paid parental leave pilot program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4533 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a simple proceeding in family court to name a kinship legal guardianship where a person is unmarried and at least 16 years of age or older, and receives effectively no substantial care and support from his or he... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4340 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the division of forensic social work services within the Department of Health and Human Resources. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4256 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to incrementally increase the minimum wage in West Virginia every year to $15 an hour by 2028. The training rate would also increase and apply to workers younger than 22 years of age. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Workforce Development Committee |
| WV | HB4506 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to raise the reimbursement rate for congregate and in-home meals. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4444 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount of personal income tax paid by West Virginia taxpayers to $0 for those earning $80,000 or less. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4339 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to assist small municipalities with law enforcement officer training and reimbursement of expenses for police training. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4338 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a mechanism for evaluation and implementation of school ingress and egress assessments by the School Building Authority, in consultation with the Department of Education, the School Safety and Security Administra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4509 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to have social workers identified for each elementary, middle school, junior high school, and high school in the state who are to be available to teachers, principals, and other school staff upon request, to help improve o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4534 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum wage requirements in West Virginia to $15 per hour over a six year period. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Workforce Development Committee |
| WV | HB4445 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to simplify the manner in which a low-income senior citizen may claim certain tax credits. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4253 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a litigation practice license for social workers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4254 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to declare February 3 as a special memorial day to be known as Freedom Day to memorialize the February 3, 1865, Act by the Legislature that abolished slavery in West Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4446 | 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 appr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4255 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Service Commission to submit annual reports on ratepayer utility costs, to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, adjusted for inflation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4508 | 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] | 2024-01-10 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4491 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit home schooling of any child in homes where there is suspected or known child abuse or neglect, or domestic violence by a parent or person instructing the child. This shall be known as "Raylee's Law." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |