| SB687 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a county commission member to act as an ex-officio, nonvoting member of its public service district board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enter West Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the states to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Under the compact, the state agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidentia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB691 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the West Virginia State Police to use traffic law photo-monitoring devices for verification of security upon a motor vehicle pursuant to §17-2A-1, et. seq. of the West Virginia Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to corporate political accountability
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB693 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill modifies the definition of "express advocacy" to make it consistent with recent U.S. Supreme Court holdings. The bill also increases the number of persons who must receive a broadcast or nonbroadcast communication naming a clearly...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require greater information to be submitted by the Public Service Commission annually regarding the quality of service provided by utilities and persons subject to its jurisdiction, and to require incumbent local exchan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4594 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to regulate railroads terminates July 1, 2011, and transferring this authority to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4595 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a five percent increase in teacher's salaries for each of the following school years, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, and also to add pay increment categories for teachers with BA +30, +45 and Master's +60.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| HB4596 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the Commissioner for the Bureau for Public Health from professional licensure boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4597 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Northern Panhandle Child Advocacy Commission. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4598 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for recording memorandums of deeds of trust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4599 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that when a controlled substance is dispensed by mail or delivery service, the person accepting delivery of the controlled substance must be eighteen years of age or older, must present government issued identif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4600 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the West Virginia University Board of Governors to participate in the Public Employees Insurance Agency Insurance Program; another third-party insurance program; or, in the alternative, the boards may separately s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4601 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the method of appraising certain affordable multifamily rental property for property tax assessment purposes This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4603 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a pilot program for the housing and treatment of low risk inmates who are disabled or impaired as a result of a medical, physical or mental disease or condition to lessen the cost of care for the prisoners a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4605 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish that the environmental regulation of business activities performed within the state is not subject to federal regulation. The bill excepts goods or services procured by the Federal Government or by one of its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB4606 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a different procedure for determining the credit for utility taxpayers with net operating loss carryovers relating to the corporation net income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4607 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Oral Health Pilot Program in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region. The bill makes legislative findings and creates the pilot program for two years. The bill funds the program in the amount of $100,000 per year. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2050 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of members on the West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority from 20 to 26 and expand the Authority's territory to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB4608 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase service personnel salaries by five percent for each of the next three years and to rectify inequities in the salary schedule and pay grades for service personnel by upgrading the pay grade of cooks and custodia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| HB4609 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt veterans' organizations which are exempt from income taxation by virtue of Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(19), from consumers sales and service tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4610 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4611 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to abolish joint liability and establish the principle of comparative fault by which each defendant is liable for damages according to the percentage of fault attributed by a judge or jury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4212 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Service Commission to institute additional rulemaking proceedings to update safety rules and regulations pertaining to walkways along railtracks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB4612 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose a severance tax on the generation of wind power into a renewable energy resource at rate of $4 for every megawatt-hour; creating the "Clean Coal Technology Research Fund"; dedicating the tax proceeds to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB4613 | Intro
Sine Die | Permitting unlicensed personnel to administer medications in certain circumstances
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4614 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an excise tax on transfers of utilities. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4616 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the natural gas resources transportation road system and to regulate the transportation of equipment and materials on those roads. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4617 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a new certificate of inspection with a parkway fee, and to authorize the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority to enter into compacts with other toll road authorities or state departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4618 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require greater information to be submitted by the Public Service Commission annually regarding the quality of service provided by utilities and persons subject to its jurisdiction, and to require incumbent local exchan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB4619 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create and provide structures and standards for a New Intermediate Court of Appeals. The article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4620 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require cutter heads, long wall shears, and other mining machines to automatically shut-off when the methane level reaches one percent to further protect health and well-being of our states miners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB4621 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the 80-20 eighty- twenty requirements for payment of 20% twenty per cent of the aggregate premium by active employees, to prevent premium increases unless there is an increase in salary or pensions, and to increa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4622 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise, consolidate and codify laws relating to the purchase, possession, sale and use of fireworks in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4624 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act." The bill makes legislative findings, sets forth labeling requirements regarding the sale of foods containing genetically engineered materials or food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB4625 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act." The bill makes legislative findings. The bill establishes liability for injuries arising from the release of genetically engineered organisms into th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB4626 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Genetically Engineered Crop and Animal Farmer Protection Act." The bill makes legislative findings, sets forth information requirements regarding the sale of genetically engineered seeds, plants an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB4627 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an automatic home incarceration sentence for nonviolent misdemeanor crimes. It also provides that moneys from the special fund may be used for community corrections programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4628 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the community corrections programs throughout the state by increasing the funding for such programs. It further provides that offenders convicted of the crimes of shoplifting and petit larceny be placed in commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4629 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exclude wine from the definition of alcoholic or intoxicating liquor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4631 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant the Higher Education Policy Commission rule-making authority to redeem or secure repayment of PROMISE scholarship funds from students who withdraw or drop classes. This section is new; therefore, it has been compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| HB4632 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to bring older contradicting language still remaining in the code into conformity with §3-2- 5(b)(3) and to reestablish a definition for "independent voter" as the presently cited definition is no longer in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4633 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit medical services providers who prescribe or dispense more than a forty-eight hour dosage of a Schedule II, III or IV controlled substance in an outpatient setting to have access to inspect certain confidential in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4635 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this is to provide that all fire alarm systems, including all components, shall be electronically supervised. It provides the exception that existing lodging and rooming houses as defined by the State Fire Code, be permitted to use low...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4636 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove a Latin phrase and replace it with the translated English phrase to allow the reader to better understand the code requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4637 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts and allow them to extend fifteen years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| HB4638 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give the Director of the Department of Environmental Protection the authority to promulgate new vehicle emission standards. The bill creates the "Low Emission Vehicle Act."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB4639 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence. The bill provides that the employer is not chargeable for benefits paid when the worker is unable to work due to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4640 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to initiate the Healthy Lifestyles Restaurant Calorie Posting Program, to require restaurants to participate in this program and will benefit from the marketing of this program through state agencies. This section is new...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4641 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the state to opt out of a federal statute that would otherwise not allow an individual living in the state who has been convicted of a felony involving a controlled substance from receiving certain benefits provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
