Bills Pending West Virginia House Judiciary Committee

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WVSB470Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Special Deposits Act, which was recommended for passage by the state Uniform Law Commission; special deposits are deposits held by banks, which unlike regular deposits are held until some contingent ev...
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2024-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB717Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the sale of tobacco product to individuals younger than 21 years of age. The bill contains penalties.
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2024-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB816Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to inform the public about who receives the proceeds from the sale of donated consumer goods.
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2024-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSJR6Engross
50%
The purpose of this resolution is to authorize the incorporation of churches or religious denominations which choose to incorporate.
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2024-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB851Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to establish requirements for contingency fee arrangements between political subdivisions and private attorneys.
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2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB725Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the conditions for pretrial release and the maximum bail amount that may be set for individuals charged with multiple misdemeanor offenses. The bill revises the definition of "bail" and establishes that a defend...
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2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB575Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to set forth provisions for genetic and gestational surrogacy. The bill requires an agreement, sets forth requirements to enter the agreement, required terms, the process of the agreement, and the content of the agreement....
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2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB442Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to remove liability for mental health professionals providing services in mental hygiene cases involving possible involuntary hospitalization.
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2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB306Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to create the Equipment Right to Repair Act.
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2024-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB348Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to update the definition of "electioneering communication" to be consistent with the Federal Election Commission.
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2024-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB746Engross
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.
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2024-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB630Engross
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.
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2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB711Engross
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.
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2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB494Engross
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...
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2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB168Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to grant municipal Fire Marshals the authority to assist law enforcement officers.
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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB637Engross
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.
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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB444Engross
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...
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2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5597Intro
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Relating to school bus driver charged with DUI
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2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB375Engross
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.
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2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB615Engross
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.
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2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5255Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5624Intro
25%
Relating to Surface Use Notice
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2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB622Engross
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The purpose of this bill relates to the time period of voting inactivity required to initiate a confirmation notice mailing.
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2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5368Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to create Regional Jail Commissions; to set forth the composition of the commissions, the terms of the members, the compensation of the members, the administrative responsibilities, create the powers and duties of the comm...
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2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5670Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to, except for emergency medical treatment, require a parent a parent who has been allocated custodial responsibility to provide the other parent notice prior to medical expenses being incurred that may be greater than $20...
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2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5363Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections to continue the GOALS Program.
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2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB577Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to encourage landowners to make land available for recreational purposes by limiting landowner liability.
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2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5591Intro
25%
Relating to required modification of levy rates resulting from increased valuation yield
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2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4962Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5541Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to increase insurance coverage to a minimum amount of $2000 that may be recovered by a fire department responding to fire call at an insured property.
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2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4436Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require that municipal elections be held concurrently with regularly scheduled primary or general elections.
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2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4517Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to make unlawful the practice of municipalities' assessing user fees when employees are not present in the municipality in the performance of his or her job.
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2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB616Engross
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.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5659Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the conditions for pretrial release and the maximum bail amount that may be set for individuals charged with multiple misdemeanor offenses. The bill revises the definition of "bail" and establishes that a defend...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5645Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to grant additional local and state law enforcement privileges to commissioned law enforcement officers of the National Park Service.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5678Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to increase compensation rates for panel attorneys and investigators, and to provide indigent defendants with an opportunity to obtain expungements.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5677Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill 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 Employ...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5663Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to modify the sentence and parole eligibility for murder in the second degree.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB590Engross
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4004Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to eliminate restrictions to voting rights following an individual's release from incarceration through pardon, probation, parole, or completion of sentence.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5648Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to set the d fee for transactions sent to a recipient outside the United States.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHJR30Intro
25%
The purpose of this resolution is to amend the state Constitution to clarify the powers and division of powers of the branches of state government; change the legislative, executive and judicial departments to branches; and establish a legislative au...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5688Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from civil liability for accredited academic hospitals.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4364Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to limit state agencies from forming financial relationships that will benefit foreign entities that have values antithetical to those of the State of West Virginia.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4003Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to amend the law concerning ownership and possession of real property and for other purposes.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5665Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit persons from erecting, maintaining, funding, leasing, or otherwise facilitating billboard advertisements or statements that display messages concerning the availability of abortions in bordering states.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5651Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to repeal a provision of the code relating to the limitation on bringing an action to enter upon or recover lands.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4007Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to allow city attorneys or municipal court clerks to file judgment liens; it also allows suspension of drivers' license if a person who has entered into a payment plan for a fine fails to make payments.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5562Intro
25%
Relating to the repeal of the common law rule against perpetuities by extending it to 1,000 years for all trusts.
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2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5571Intro
25%
Requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access certain video survelilance
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2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee
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