| WV | SB506 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the restriction to carry a firearm on the state capitol complex grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB501 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to cruelty to animals. The bill creates and defines the felony offense of cruelty to animals; modifies and clarifies applicability of the section; defines terms; and creates criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB489 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that it is legal to carry a deadly weapon, firearm, or pepper spray specifically on the sidewalks and streets that directly border and surround the State Capitol Complex grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB488 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide non-exclusive prosecutorial authority over public integrity cases to the Attorney General of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB481 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to regulate pawnbrokers. The bill removes an exception for certain transactions from the report required of all pawnbrokers. The bill requires all pawnbrokers to be equipped with certain surveillance equipment and signage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB479 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the ability of a person's driver's license to be suspended for the failure to pay court fines and costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB473 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the death penalty in limited circumstances; the bill provides for procedures and standards applicable thereto, and automatic review of the penalty, for commission of murder in the first degree. Procedures fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB456 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to address define public camping in public spaces, create a penalty, and address existing ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB469 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act which was recommended for passage by the state Uniform Law Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB471 | Intro
25% | This bill relates to DNA that is maintained for law-enforcement purposes in West Virginia. It updates the policy for maintaining DNA and definitions. The bill adds language to include qualified arrestees in the state DNA database, and requires testin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB464 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish residency requirements for candidates seeking nomination and election to United States Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB449 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit use of fireworks in municipalities and within 300 feet of a residence -- the same limitations as firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB338 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Legislature to file suit against the Executive to faithfully execute the laws passed by the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB340 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prevent public water and sewer utilities from prohibiting a customer from constructing, installing, or maintaining a connection or other infrastructure necessary for the customer to connect to the public utility to rece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB307 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Patrolman Cassie Marie Johnson Memorial Act and to provide for a death penalty; the bill provides for procedures and standards applicable thereto, and automatic review of the penalty, for commission of murder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB312 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require CPS to interview mandatory reporters who submit screened-in abuse /neglect referrals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB367 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill to create the Anti-Racism Act of 2024. The bill prohibits a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB386 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to legalize the personal use and possession of cannabis by adults; providing for a county option election to allow for the production and sales in that county; providing for regulation by the Bureau of Health; authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB417 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a paid parental leave pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB356 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide voters with the ability to identify and verify their ballot cast in a statewide election in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB308 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the limitations period for a civil action based on a personal action of childhood sexual assault or abuse only for the purposes of filing claims against a bankruptcy estate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB360 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Substance Abuse Intervention Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for involuntary treatment for a substance use disorder and sets forth the rights of a patient. The bill establishes cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB392 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the admissibility of a victim's prior sexual history.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB326 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Black Lung Program and grants entitlement for pain and suffering for occupational pneumoconiosis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB422 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide reports on mental or physical disabilities, or disorders, to the Division of Motor Vehicles to determine an individual's medical competency to retain their driver's license. The bill also provides that this sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB328 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide voters with the ability to identify and verify their ballot cast in a statewide election held in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB393 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the placing of limitations on a concealed carry permit; excluding an individual from being charged with a crime in certain circumstances; and adding a severability clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB403 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define gift card fraud, with legislative findings; definitions; required notices; employee training; and misdemeanor penalties
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB353 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the procedure for the court to conduct written investigations into proceedings under Article 9, to ensure that the West Virginia judiciary remains neutral and detached in all matters pending before any court of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB434 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit aggressive panhandling and create a misdemeanor offense with penalties. The bill authorizes law enforcement officers to individuals who are engaged in street begging or panhandling to ascertain whether these in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB416 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add additional members to the West Virginia Parole Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB322 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the crime of sexual assault in the fourth degree; to prohibit school personnel from subjecting a minor student to sexually explicit or oriented discussion, gender persuasion, reading or viewing material as a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB431 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill generally relates to the verification of the legal employment status of workers. The bill modifies findings and policy. The bill adds to definitions. The bill clarifies that work authorization status is verified by the E-Veri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB359 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to declare the sale, repair, maintenance, and manufacture of firearms, ammunition, and related accessories and components, etc. to be "essential" businesses and services for the purposes of safety and security in times of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB355 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the spousal exception and allow for adverse testimony by a spouse when the defendant spouse has committed a crime against "any child" in addition to a child of either spouse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB437 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect the rights and welfare of children conceived as the result of sexual assault, protect the survivors of sexual assault from repeated interactions with the perpetrators, provide definitions, provide for terminatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB418 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize restitution to victims of securities fraud and to create a fund for that purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB316 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that it is unlawful for brewers or distributors to offer any prize, premium, gift, or other similar inducement, except advertising matter, including indoor electronic or mechanical signs, of nominal value up to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB339 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for operating a house of prostitution from a misdemeanor to a felony in order to provide law enforcement with adequate tools to address human trafficking in the illegal sex trade industries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB301 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that persons who reside in sober living homes are tenants and provided tenant protections granted by law and provide for reasonable attorney's fees for willful or bad faith landlord noncompliance when the tenant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB369 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a licensed brewer or resident brewer may not produce more than 50,000 barrels per calendar year at a brewer or resident brewer's principle place of business and manufacture; clarifying that a licensed brewe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB349 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for election reforms. The bill clarifies contents of a certificate of announcement. The bill clarifies the timing of a challenge to candidate qualifications. Finally, the bill limits the authority of political p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB358 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect employees of the State of West Virginia and its political subdivisions from being commandeered by a federal agency or other agent to enforce federal regulations and other actions related to extractive resources ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB303 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend the penalty of simple possession of marijuana (less than 15 grams) from a misdemeanor crime to a civil violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB384 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit registered voters to vote an absentee ballot by mail in all circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB435 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to collect DNA from those convicted of crimes to assist in solving other open criminal cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB350 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create and define the civil offense of unlawful discriminatory practices by a financial institution or government entity against manufacturers, retailers, distributors, shooting ranges, or trade associations that suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB366 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the department to file a petition to terminate parental rights when a parent whose child has been removed from their care and determined by a court to have subjected that child to abuse or neglect on two or more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB398 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the crimes of sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion; defines terms; establishes elements of sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion; and establishes criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB256 | Intro
25% | Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
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