| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing threshold of defendant's liability to qualify for several liability in tortious actions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to develop a matching grant program to foster the development of creative communities in West Virginia. The bill creates the Creative Communities Development Pilot Program. The bill makes legislative findings and declares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to facilitate compiling and making available nonidentifying social and medical histories of birth parents prior to an adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR1 | Pass | Adopting Rules of the House of Delegates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Completed legislative action |
| HB2038 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow breast-feeding to serve as a valid excuse from jury service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to bailpiece surety
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the “West Virginia Corporate Political Accountability Act of 2015” relating to the accountability of a corporation’s political activities. It defines additional terms and requires annual authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that prevailing hourly rates be used in connection with the construction of public improvements. The bill provides that the Commissioner of Labor is to base the determination of prevailing rates on statistics ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB25 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to affirm the parent or guardian as the final authority in all matters of a student’s education and to require prior parental or guardian written affirmative consent for disclosure of any student information other th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to apply the residential solar energy tax credit of up to $2,000 to each installation of a solar energy system. The bill extends the tax credit until July 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a drug testing program for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits; and for recipients of unemployment benefits. Any applicant or recipient who fails an initial drug tes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to lessen the financial impact of attempting to incorporate a system that does not properly interface with the agencies and institutions’ current systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to correct an internal code reference that needs updated following a bill that passed the 2013 regular session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating State Labor Relations Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing temporary reassignment of injured or ill school service personnel
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to creates a teacher corps program. The bill provides for teacher certificates. The bill sets forth qualifications and conditions to be met. The bill provides for recommendation for professional certification of teacher co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2034 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt hospital volunteers who, in good faith render emergency care at a hospital without remuneration, from civil liability for rendering those services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $2,008 increase in the annual salary of employees of the Division of Corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2024 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require advance planning for, and preparation and provisioning of emergency shelters for elderly or disabled persons for immediate use when certain emergencies occur.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals to insure that the public interest is being served when public sector jobs are outsourced to the private sector. This article is new; therefore, it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt sales of precious metals from the sales tax if the purchase is $5,000 or more and is an investment. The bill also defines the term “precious metal.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt all military, National Guard and Reserve income from state income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Military Committee |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to apportionment of damages in tortious conduct actions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring legislative rule establishing level for higher education capital project spending project approval
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2020 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the amount of PROMISE scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to practice of psychology
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses membership
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide quick and efficient delivery of medical benefits to injured workers, provide for medical treatment that is reasonably and causally related to the injury, ensure that the treating doctor’s opinion is not su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB26 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to discontinue the moratorium on the issuance of commercial rafting licenses on a section of the New River from the confluence of the Greenbrier and New rivers to Brooks Falls, located approximately five miles north of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB16 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Pharmacy to specify which prescription drugs may be considered specialty drugs by a pharmacy benefits manager and provide licensed pharmacists who meet specified requirements with the opportun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this joint resolution is to propose an amendment to the West Virginia Constitution that would protect the principal of the West Virginia Future Fund and specify how the interest from the fund may be spent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow police, fire and emergency service providers, to possess Naloxone or other opioid antagonists to administer in suspected narcotic drug overdoses. The bill sets guidelines for administration of these antagonists, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB15 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide greater transparency and accountability in state government and to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse as recently evidenced in the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Rehabilitation Loan Program by requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2017 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the posting of unenclosed lands to prohibit hunting, trapping or fishing thereon by placing identifying paint marks on trees or posts at each road entrance and adjacent to public roadways and public waterway...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2051 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the use of credit information in connection with the declination and termination of property insurance and to expand the information required to be provided by the insurer to the insured or applicant in the notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| SB47 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a fifty percent discount to members of the West Virginia National Guard and the West Virginia Reserves in campground rental fees in state parks. The bill also provides for rulemaking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SR4 | Pass | Relating to mailing of bills and journals
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Completed legislative action |
| HB2007 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require CPR to be taught in the public school system as a condition of graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing article authorizing roadside memorial markers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Equal Pay Coordinator within Division of Personnel
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB2003 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to codify existing common law in West Virginia as it relates to the duty of care possessors of property owe trespassers. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2052 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make certain clarifications of the definition of the term employment as contained in this article.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2049 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Parkways Authority to provide the Beckley VA Medical Center a sufficient number of free daily toll passes to permit Veterans who travel to that center for medical care to travel the West Virginia Turnpike wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB2055 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt from excise taxation the transfer of real property from an individual to a wholly-owned subsidiary or limited liability company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Tax Revenue Act of 2015
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
