| WV | SB539 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Cold Case database, explaining the types of cases to be included in the Cold Case database, explaining the state agency developing the Cold Case database, delineating the information that must be provided for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 232, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB712 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revise the statute to reduce the minimum age for a cadet for the West Virginia State Police from the age of 21 to the age of 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 236, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB732 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require cooperation between law-enforcement agencies and military authorities; providing that prosecuting attorneys may assign an assistant prosecutor to provide assistance to the National Guard or other military author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 237, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4190 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons. The bill provides for the use of video image recording devices for search purposes during a Purple Alert. The bill provides for legislative findings. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 238, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4976 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 151, 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 | HB4867 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create liability for publishers and distributors of material harmful to minors. The bill provides definitions. The bill requires any commercial entity that provides pornography and other materials defined as being harmf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | HB4258 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require railroad companies to provide an alternative entry and exit way to one road communities when performing maintenance, repairs, and construction as a matter of public health and safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4621 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit release mug shots of persons arrested for a crime unless that person is convicted of the crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5355 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-26
To House Economic Development and Tourism Committee |
| WV | HB5445 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise the statute to reduce the minimum age for a cadet for the West Virginia State Police from the age of 21 to the age of 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB773 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB853 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 Marshall to enforce those rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
Referred to Government Organization on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB711 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add to the list of federal agencies and agents who under limited circumstances may enforce state laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-22
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB168 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant municipal Fire Marshals the authority to assist law enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4978 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the duties and responsibilities of the Secretary of the Department of Health, the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health, and the state health officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5255 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4962 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to relating 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 participatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB784 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4758 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a legislative select committee, require annual reports, create criminal penalties, and clarify the duties and functions of the Fusion Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB556 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is modify the way that DNA that 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Referred to Finance |
| 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 | HB5669 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove prohibitions against persons carrying guns in state or municipal buildings where security is inadequate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5575 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to fines for local fire departments
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5571 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access certain video survelilance
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5601 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit people taking their animals into a grocery store or a store that sells food if that animal is not a registered service animal
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5545 | Intro
Sine Die | Allow state policemen to get credit for half of years served as city officer or county deputy sheriff and what they paid into their retirement system
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a taxi company or network transportation company to provide annual training regarding human trafficking awareness to employees, and to provide for enforcement and rulemaking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5636 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a state-wide work release program for all offenders to facilitate their successful transition back into society; and to require that every eligible offender incarcerated five years participate in work release,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4341 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a State Military Funeral Honor Guard in honor of Hershel "Woody" Williams, known as the Hershel "Woody" Williams State Military Funeral Honor Guard to render professional military funeral honors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4423 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to combat the sexualization of children and to allow children in the State of West Virginia to avoid the detrimental effects, both during childhood and later into adulthood, caused by exposure to pornography through an age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5072 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is create the Act to Prohibit the Purchase of Small Unmanned Aircrafts Manufactured or Assembled by a Covered Foreign Entity. The bill provides for definitions. The bill prohibits the purchase of small unmanned aircraft from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5527 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons who have a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in or on the grounds of any primary or secondary educational facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB472 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5507 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the Governor's powers regarding a state of emergency or state of preparedness and changing the expiration of a state of emergency or preparedness to 30 days
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5502 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to bring state law in compliance with the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act by expanding the applicability of the Act to reflect federal law by modifying the reporting requirements and modifying penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5488 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to codify that The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits unlawful users of drugs and those addicted to controlled substances, specifically marijuana, may not ship, receive, or possess a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4868 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the certification periods for EMS personnel from 4 years to 2 years to align certification periods with those of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, to reduce the certification renewal fees to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5421 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia K9 Search and Rescue Advisory Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB402 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to codify the USCCA to provide concealed carry classes in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5415 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish certain crimes, processes, and procedures regarding individuals who have illegally entered or reentered the state in violation of state and federal laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| WV | HB5226 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect minors on social media and other Internet uses, listing requirements for social media usage, prohibit data collection on certain accounts, prohibit certain advertising, redirection of accounts, prohibit certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB612 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5275 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require local municipalities, at both the city and county levels, to declare, on a quarterly basis, the amount of money spent meeting the needs of certain noncitizen immigrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4723 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount paid to the Tax Commissioner for the annual licensure fees to volunteer fire departments for charitable raffles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4627 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is modify the way that DNA that 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
House rejected (Roll No. 38) |
| WV | HB5172 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount paid to the Tax Commissioner for the annual licensure fees to volunteer fire departments for charitable raffles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| WV | HB5086 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to all relating to the Food Safety Act of 2024; prohibiting persons or entities from offering for human consumption food products that contain certain substances; and establishing civil penalties for violation of section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
