| SB815 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services and the Bureau for Social Services to make a rate study, analysis of workforce capacity, and the impact on children of the current reimbursement levels for child placement agenci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| SB167 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| SB562 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the employment and training requirements necessary to receive SNAP benefits. The bill defines and expands exemptions. The bill clarifies the Secretary's duties when there is a lack of funding or inability to prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| SCR30 | Engross
50% | Honoring Hershel "Woody" Williams as one of two WV statues in National Statuary Hall Collection
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Rules Committee |
| SB746 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to is to increase the composition of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board to 11 members, add additional county commissioners, and increase meetings to four times a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB838 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to mandate lending institutions who conduct five or more transactions annually to utilize the Division of Motor Vehicles electronic lien system to perfect or release security interest in a vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB773 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| SB763 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to protect sensitive military information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB779 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to impose deadlines for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to perform an autopsy and to provide a copy of the autopsy report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB630 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to define protections for election officials and election workers, including poll workers while performing the duties of the election process; and clarifies the conditions and circumstances of protections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB711 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| SB494 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Unlawful Restriction in Land Records Act, considered by the state Uniform Law Commission, which provides a mechanism for amending an existing deed by filing a document in the deed books severs a unlawf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB688 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the director of the Division of Forestry to enter into contracts for management of state forests and wooded areas for the purposes of preventing forest fires. This is a new section; therefore, underscoring and
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB168 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| SB637 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the public disclosure of an individual's personal information on the internet in certain circumstances; and provide penalty for violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB444 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that health insurance coverage for emergency services when a prudent layperson acting reasonably would have believed that an emergency medical condition existed includes prehospital screening and stabilization o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB669 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to grant Mason County and the Town of Henderson special district excise taxes, describe the boundaries of the Town of Henderson Economic Opportunity District, and authorize setting the base tax of said excise taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB635 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to modify when a commission, council, or a governing board may sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of any real property that was gifted or devised to it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB375 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB615 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to limit statutory and common law causes of action against exempt wholesale generators to violations of the material terms and conditions of the siting certificates applicable to such facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB622 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill relates to the time period of voting inactivity required to initiate a confirmation notice mailing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB441 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the regulation of driving in the left lane on four-lane interstate highways in West Virginia. The bill provides for the purpose and intent. The bill creates definitions and provides for the prohibition. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
House Message received |
| SCR29 | Engross
50% | Urging Biden administration and Congress reevaluate proposed restrictions on chemical industry
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| SB620 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide pregnancy help centers greater flexibility to receive funding for items such as capital expenditures and training. Currently, the funding is limited to a fee per service arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB629 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require a builder to follow the provisions of the State Building code in the construction or renovation of a structure, even if a county or municipality does not provide inspection and enforcement services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB577 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to encourage landowners to make land available for recreational purposes by limiting landowner liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB616 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to add brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law to the definition of family and household members subject to the provisions of domestic violence laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB590 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Local Government Labor Regulatory Limitation Act. The bill prohibits political subdivisions from enacting any ordinance, regulation, local policy, local resolution or other legal requirements regulating certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB351 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the definition of small arms to include the receiver or frame for purposes of taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| SB595 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to amend the embalmer licensing requirements to permit a certain number of years of active military duty to substitute for college credit hours to qualify for licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB516 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to determine venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB474 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify the Critical Incident Review Team, to set forth its responsibilities, provide access to information and to set forth confidentiality provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB436 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibition of certain additives in diesel fuel; defining terms; providing for penalties; and providing for enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB320 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirements for wineries to serve food in order to serve and sell wine by the glass or bottle; to allow the service of wine in glasses and sale of wine in bottles and glasses for consumption on winery proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB402 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| SB265 | Engross
50% | Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SCR20 | Engross
50% | Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Rules Committee |
| SB189 | Engross
50% | Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent's interpretations of school laws
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| SB196 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to update and correct sections of the West Virginia Rail Trails Program. The bill provides for updated definitions to include a definition of "rail with trail." Finally, the bill addresses railroad liability and safety ris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB156 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require that certain documents that contain records of wages be considered confidential.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB426 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the West Virginia Recreational Trails Development Act, provide definitions, require the Department of Transportation to prioritize design and construction of recreational trails in the state, assign duties to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB357 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the scope of work of a dental hygienist to permit the dental hygienist to provide tobacco cessation education to patients to improve overall dental health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB399 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to make it unlawful to harm, attempt to harm, or kill a police dog that is under the control of a law-enforcement or corrections officer who is acting in his or her official capacity. The bill also defines the term "police...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB293 | Engross
50% | Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SCR10 | Engross
50% | Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB143 | Engross
50% | Creating WV Guardian Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| SB154 | Engross
50% | Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB177 | Engross
50% | Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB150 | Engross
50% | Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB151 | Engross
50% | Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
