| WV | HB2395 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to include police canine units and community search and rescue group canines assisting law-enforcement officers in the search and rescue for individuals and cadavers in definitions of "law enforcement officers" in relation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary 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 | SB481 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow off duty law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons at public schools and at public school events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2384 | 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 House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2394 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to implement a wearable panic alert system, to be known as Alyssa's law, in all schools in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB2378 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make syringe services unlawful and provide for penalties for violation of the article. The proposed bill permits the provision of harm reduction services not associated with a syringe exchange program and permits an adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Public Health Committee |
| WV | HB2106 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish that an emergency medical services agency may triage and transport a patient to an alternative destination in this state or treat in place if the ambulance service is coordinating the care of the patient throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Legal Services Committee |
| WV | HB2030 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to hotel and motel housing vouchers programs; prohibiting city or town from requiring hotel or motel participation in housing voucher programs; prohibiting county from requiring hotel or motel participation in housing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB2210 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a speed limit in licensed child care zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB2066 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a felony offense of damaging, destroying, or stealing equipment used by first responders in their duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 9:30 am]
To House Courts Committee |
| WV | HB2371 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the allowance for volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments to make an expenditure for educational and training supplies and fire prevention promotional materials from $500 to $5,000 per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB2068 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit activities connected with sexual abuse of an animal; establish criminal penalties; provide for forfeiture of animals, payment of associated costs, and restrictions on owning animals upon conviction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2074 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to ventilation and fire suppression for limited use food preparation facilities. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for enactment of the section. Finally, the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB2088 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit those listed on the state sex offender database from attending public school activities and events. The bill also requires parent teacher conferences for those persons to be conducted off school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB2073 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Refugee and Immigrant Absorptive Capacity Act. The bill provides a short title. The bill defines terms. The bill sets forth the duties of the state office within the Department of Human Services that deals wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2204 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a state animal abuse register; the bill requires all those convicted of animal abuse to register and directs the State Police to maintain a registry of registered animal abusers; and establishes criminal penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2170 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases associated with the State Auditor's West Virginia Checkbook fiscal reporting system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB225 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the powers of law enforcement officers of the National Park Service, which shall include traffic or parking related offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB259 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to license the sale of charitable raffles and boards to benefit Volunteer Fire Departments in this state. The bill sets forth the licensure requirement. The bill provides for the agency to issue licenses. The bill provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB65 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for recruitment and retention of volunteer and part volunteer fire departments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB20 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Fire Commission and the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health, respectively, to fund volunteer fire departments and emergency medical services units for any increased costs or expenditures that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB106 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security to assist with border security in the state of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB223 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a statewide Health and Safety Fee that would allow visitors to help contribute to the readiness cost of emergency services through an up to $1.00 per day/activity fee that would be distributed to the counties twi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB81 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a criminal offense for knowingly, willfully, and forcibly obstructing or hindering home incarceration supervisors and social service workers while they are lawfully acting in their official capacity and the ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB113 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish responsibility for reimbursement of training costs of law-enforcement employees who leave original jurisdiction of employment for employment in any other law-enforcement agency in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB31 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is modify the way that DNA is maintained for law-enforcement purposes in West Virginia. The bill provides updates for the policy of maintaining DNA. The bill requires DNA testing of all persons convicted of felonies and certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary 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 | SB173 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a hotel or public lodging establishment to provide annual training regarding human trafficking awareness to employees, and to provide for enforcement and rulemaking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB126 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Volunteer State Defense Guard. The West Virginia National Guard is often called to other duties such as filling roles as corrections officers in West Virginia prisons, filling staffing shorta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Military Committee |
| WV | SB265 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to transfer child welfare enforcement responsibilities to the West Virginia State Police. The bill transfers employees, funds and property of the Department of Health and Human Resources to the West Virginia State Police. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB243 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require counties to register automated external defibrillators with the Office of Emergency Medical Services. The bill provides a penalty when a county fails to register such a device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB88 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Fire Commission promulgate standards for the installation of propane tanks at single family homes, and to require the State Fire Marshal to enforce those rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB120 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to designate the Forensic Analysis Laboratory of the Marshall University Forensic Science Center as a backup site for the division's DNA databank and database to function in the event of a natural disaster or statewide dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
