| WV | HB4809 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act". The bill exempts a health care sharing ministry form the state's insurance laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 169, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| 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 | HB4793 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the manufacture in a limited amount of alcoholic liquor for personal use only and not for sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 8, 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 | HB4911 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the sale of raw milk in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 6, 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 | HB4986 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide computer science and cybersecurity instruction for adult learners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 115, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5013 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend the definition of managed timberland to include certain parcels of land that are within a subdivision as long as they are managed for timber production and harvesting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 132, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5153 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revise, update, and streamline the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 163, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5188 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the prerequisite that a disabled police officer or firefighter be found unable to engage in other substantial gainful employment before awarding disability benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 74, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5175 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to do away with the Center for Nursing and transfer its duties and authorities to the Higher Education Policy Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 201, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5151 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add former foster parents to the definition of fictive kin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 49, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5232 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to update the Business Liability Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 269, 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 | HB5295 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to expressly authorize a private outdoor designated area to simultaneously host multiple qualified permit holders, including but not limited to a special S2 licensed and properly insured private fair and festival.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 10, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5262 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the creation of a Teachers Bill of Rights. The bill defines the duties of counselors. The bill defines data to be provided. The bill defines the special education student to instructor ratio, a waiver process,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 248, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4830 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates generally to training requirements for school personnel; it modifies the frequency of training from annually to upon employment and every three years thereafter, for suicide prevention awareness, child sexual abuse pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 109, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4882 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to extend in-state tuition rates to all members of the military armed forces, National Guard, reserves, as well as veterans of such institutions and their spouses and dependents, in order to encourage our military, Guard, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 161, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5349 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Truth in Food Labeling Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for definitions. The bill defines misbranded food. The bill provides for the labeling of cell-cultured product....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 7, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5430 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow newly elected or appointed circuit judges, family court judges, and magistrates to receive compensation and expenses for training sessions prior to taking the oath of office and beginning their term. Other section...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 80, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5650 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit a suspended employee who presents no clear and present danger of disruption, disorder, riot of the event, or an immediate threat to public safety to attend public events on school property while serving their sus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 250, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5405 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide additional professional development and support to West Virginia educators by utilizing a portion of existing monies from the state aid funding formula for teacher and leader induction and professional growth ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 249, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4851 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize local school boards, public charter schools, and private or religious schools to employ school security officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
House Message received |
| WV | HB5553 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require all West Virginia high school students to requiring students to pass a minimum of one credit of computer science and technology courses, establish requirements for the classes, establish rulemaking, and create t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | HCR24 | Engross
Sine Die | To create a study resolution to examine the school aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Referred to Rules |
| WV | HB5137 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize and require the state auditor to conduct audits of all county boards of education relating to income or funds received, regardless of source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Government Organization |
| WV | HCR41 | Pass | Thurman W. Whisner Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
House received Senate message |
| WV | HCR46 | Pass | Jacob “Jack” Taylor Rudolph, Sr. Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
House received Senate message |
| WV | HB5180 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove requirements to submit certain evidence on behalf of home-schooled children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5289 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a partnership between Workforce West Virginia through its Division of Workforce Development and the West Virginia Board of Education for the implementation of the Plasma Games teaching program in high schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HCR68 | Pass | U. S. Army Air Force, Major (Ret.) Willis “Scottie” Adams Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
House Message received |
| WV | HR9 | Pass | Reaffirming the longstanding sisterhood partnership between West Virginia and Taiwan
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HB5062 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate in cases of child neglect or abuse.
[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 | HB5351 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the definition of "commercial solid waste facility" to exclude any solid waste facility that accepts solid waste collected by the owner or operator (or its affiliate(s)) of the solid waste facility for consolidati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HCR48 | Intro
Sine Die | November 7th to be designated annually as “Pastor Appreciation Day”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Be adopted, but first to Rules |
| WV | HCR90 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting That the Joint Committee on Government and Finance engage in a study concerning a program to provide funding support for major events in the state
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Rules 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 | HCR77 | Intro
Sine Die | To study on the cost of an alternative school in each county, that doesn’t have an alternative school
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HB4299 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize teachers in elementary or secondary schools to carry concealed firearms and be designated as a school protection officer (SPO).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HCR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Honoring Herschel “Woody” Williams as one of two West Virginia statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HCR87 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution to task the Economic Development Authority to find land around Flatwoods and funding and businesses to make an area similar to Pigeon Forge to increase tourism and entertainment
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HB5318 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that elected municipal police chiefs shall be certified law-enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4943 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to facilitate creation of home-based businesses, with certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5363 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections to continue the GOALS Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5140 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit custom or noncommercial slaughterhouses to sell meat to customers without restriction on portion size.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4436 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that municipal elections be held concurrently with regularly scheduled primary or general elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5087 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow Tier II members of the Teachers Retirement System to apply accrued annual and sick leave, on the basis of one day's retirement service credit for each two days of accrued annual and sick leave, toward an increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5660 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give power to modify county fire service fees to the county commission instead of the county fire board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
