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Current trends in West Virginia legislation over the last 72 hours as measured by public interest and activity.
| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HB5262 | Passed | 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 |
| #2 | SB172 | Passed | The purpose of this bill generally relates to Local School Improvement Councils. The bill revises council membership requirements. The bill requires minutes be taken at every council meeting. The bill revises requirements pertaining to annual council... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 102, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #3 | HB4945 | Passed | 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 |
| #4 | SB429 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to provide additional options for farm use vehicle tag placement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 185, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #5 | SB551 | Passed | The purpose of this bill generally relates to business improvement districts. The bill also modifies requirements related to levy of service fees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 67, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #6 | SB755 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to provide safeguards when retail sellers engage in online delivery sales of tobacco products, tobacco-derived products, or vapor products via online certification and to further permit retail sellers to engage third party... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 216, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #7 | HB4793 | Passed | 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 |
| #8 | SB325 | Passed | The purpose of this bill generally relates to the distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies. The bill provides for penalties. Finally, the bill provides for preemption. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 93, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #9 | HB4110 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Board of Accountancy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to board rules and rules of professional conduct.This section is new; therefore, [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 181, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #10 | SB142 | Passed | Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 45, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #11 | SB262 | Passed | Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 46, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #12 | HB4809 | Passed | 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 |
| #13 | HB4782 | Passed | 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 |
| #14 | HB4829 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that service personnel have a high school diploma or its equivalent. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 244, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #15 | HB5213 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to provide for one free Gold Star Family license plate to a Gold Star spouse. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 190, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #16 | SB877 | Passed | Supplementing and amending appropriations to Higher Education Policy Commission [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 42, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #17 | HB5151 | Passed | 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 |
| #18 | HB4883 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to raise the salaries of certain state employees: West Virginia State Police and certain personnel; public school teachers; and school service personnel. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 207, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #19 | SB147 | Passed | Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 267, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #20 | SB159 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to require that the party affiliation for county school board members be displayed beside their name on the ballot for election. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 119, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #21 | HB4350 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the filling of a vacancy for a candidate to an elected office after the time is closed for announcing as a candidate caused by failure of any person of a party to file for the elected office. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 124, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #22 | HB4026 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles.This section is new; therefore, [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 179, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #23 | HB4190 | Passed | 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 |
| #24 | HB4086 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sediment control during commercial timber-harvesting operations - licensing.This section is new; therefore, [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 180, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #25 | SB166 | Passed | Updating contested elections procedures [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 120, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #26 | HB4399 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to provide for additional reasons for a civil action to be filed to expunge criminal records. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 86, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #27 | HB4594 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to extend the foster care managed care contract.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] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 166, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #28 | HB4297 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to bring state code into compliance with the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) provision. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 60, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #29 | SB36 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to law enforcement training and certification standards.This section is new; therefore, [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 175, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #30 | SB31 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Human Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses.This section is new; therefore, [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 174, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #31 | SB170 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to include three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters and provides that the presumption for the three types of cancer expires July 1, 2027, unless extended by t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 270, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #32 | SB2 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to alternative emission limitations during startup and shutdown operations.This section is new; therefore, [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 172, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #33 | HB4305 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to grant in-state resident status to economic development participants in order to determine the rate of tuition to be charged for attendance at state institutions of higher education [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 158, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #34 | SB269 | Passed | Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 57, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #35 | SB240 | Passed | Increasing fees charged by sheriff [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 136, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #36 | SB370 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to is to correct the court for appeals of level 3 decisions. Per SB 275 (2021), effective July 1, 2022, the Intermediate Court of Appeals is the proper appellate court for appeals of level 3 decisions issued by the Public ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 206, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #37 | SB331 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties to save excess funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 226, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #38 | SB430 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to amend certain procedures relating to the regulation of the rental of consumer goods under rent-to own agreements, disclosure requirements when consumer is in default, and limitations on charges and fees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 54, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #39 | SB438 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to establish an exception to the roster requirements for authorizing entities subject to chapter 30 of the code and to remove geographical information about individuals authorized to engage in a trade, occupation, or profe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 196, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #40 | SB400 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to establish a waiver of the requirement to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity for projects that are approved by the Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council and funded by ARPA/SFR monies through E... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 239, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #41 | HB4667 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit harm reduction programs in West Virginia to distribute any smoking devices as part of the program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 220, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #42 | SB452 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to designate certain water and wastewater facilities as an emergency project, and modifying the requirements to those designations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 127, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #43 | HB4709 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to provide information to high school students regarding career and technical educational opportunities during and after high school, to create a career and technical education for middle school students, and to codify the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 108, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #44 | HB4756 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to create a council to establish a state Alzheimer's Plan. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 221, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #45 | SB466 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to develop a Safety While Accessing Technology education program to be taught to students from the 3rd to 12th grades. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 104, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #46 | HB4822 | Passed | 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 |
| #47 | HB4812 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to cap the amount of moneys to which third party vendors or contractors who collect business and occupation taxes on behalf of cities or municipalities may be entitled to for their services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 72, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #48 | SB462 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to update the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act; and specify effective dates. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 252, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #49 | SB461 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to extend when the Fort Henry Economic Opportunity Development District may be abolished or terminated and increase the land area within The Ridges Economic Opportunity Development District subject to the special district ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Chapter 97, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| #50 | HB4814 | Passed | The purpose of this bill is to extend the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
