| WV | SB354 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority Commission comprised of the economic development agencies of McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, and Wayne counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 96, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB543 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the authority of state institutions of higher education to enter into agreements and contractual relationships with one or more corporations formed by the state institution of higher education for purposes of fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 156, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB503 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to protect belief-based student organizations by expanding student organizations that are protected against certain types of discrimination by a state institution of higher education and expanding the types of discriminati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 154, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB568 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the focus from truancy and unexcused absences to a multi-tiered system of support and all absences, both excused and unexcused; limit the number of parental excuses that can be accepted each school year as docume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 105, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB824 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to expanding the membership of the West Virginia Motorsport Committee from five to 18 members, including the chairperson; and to designate the motorsport to be represented by the increased membership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 98, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB152 | Engross
50% | Displaying official US motto in public schools
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB614 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to address elementary behavior intervention and safety; specify requirements applicable to when a grade kindergarten through six teacher in an elementary setting determines that the behavior of a student is violent, threat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB352 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the Unborn Child Protection act. The bill provides for definitions. The bill creates a process of informed consent. The bill provides for printed information. The bill provides for the creation of an Internet web...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB601 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Women's Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB819 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Secretary of the Department of Health from promulgating rules that require public water systems or businesses to have backflow preventers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB468 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to amend required courses of education to include human growth and development related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb; required methods of presenting this instruction and adding a human growth and devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB870 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Anti-Woke Act; prohibit 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 entities from prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB845 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require yearly renewal of commercial driver's licenses and provide for the reinstatement of revoked or expired commercial driver's licenses due to inactive status and lack of medical certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB846 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create an associate's of bachelor's degree based on skills, education, and experience earned while serving in the military.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Military Committee |
| WV | SB818 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $5,000 raise to state road employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB808 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a onetime allocation of $100,000 to the Flatwater Trail Commission by the Economic development promotion and closing fund to be used solely for travel expenses and promotion of flat water trails in West Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB809 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to transfer duties from county commissions to the Department of Transportation when a road closure is requested to hold organized motorsports events on public roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | 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 |
| WV | SB515 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a public school student from being required to participate in instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity if a parent, custodian, or guardian of the student objects in writing; require each pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB735 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use or sale of abortifacients and to enact criminal penalties and permit private causes of action for supplying abortifacients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB719 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records without requiring a child to sign a document permitting his or her parents to see the records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB721 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that final orders upon a disposition hearing in child abuse and neglect proceedings be prepared and signed within 10 (ten) days of the disposition hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB538 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exception for a public nuisance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB604 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Short Line Railroad Modernization Act and tax credit allowed and credit limitations for short line railroad companies in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB397 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to fully exempt both high tunnels and greenhouses from personal property taxes, whether the high tunnels or greenhouses are heated or unheated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB592 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is authorize the Division of Motor Vehicles to provide images of persons issued any identification or license to the Secretary of State for voter identification purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB588 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that parents, named as a respondent, in an abuse and neglect case or investigation by Child Protective Services are given a copy of their rights that is written in plain, understandable language and giving autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB580 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to stop warrantless entry of private lands; limitations of entry onto private lands; clarifying the process for law enforcement entry onto posted private lands; use of surveillance cameras on or near posted private lands; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | SB567 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from liability for hospitals that have established a hospital police department if a loss or claim results from the failure to provide police protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB560 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect medical practitioners, healthcare institutions, and healthcare payers from discrimination, punishment, or retaliation as a result of any instance of conscientious medical objection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB553 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a religious exemption to school attendance vaccines requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB541 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to facilitate creation of home-based businesses, with certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB525 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the responsibility of the Governor to fill a vacancy in the state legislature. The bill provides a process for the selection of three legally qualified persons to fill a vacancy in the office of state senator or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB523 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require public schools to notify parents when dispensing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides a definition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB511 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to use Department of Health and Human Resources group home funds to assist cadets' enrollment at the Mountaineer Challenge Academy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB524 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, or renaming, of any statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, or plaque which is located on public property and has been erected for, or named, or dedicated in honor of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB520 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact an informed consent for vaccinations law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB527 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require physicians to notify parents when prescribing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB519 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit cadets the Mountaineer Challenge Academy; to enroll in accredited virtual instructional courses online or to attend accredited courses, in person, in order to obtain a West Virginia Education Information System N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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 | SB505 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
[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 | SB476 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a "pop-up" window that directs users to optional firearms safety classes offered by the NRA and the USCCA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources 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 | 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 | SB423 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary private school immunization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB324 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the name of the School Building Authority to the School Maintenance Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB347 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to fully eliminate state income tax for Social Security benefits received by taxpayers for taxable years beginning in 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB289 | Intro
25% | Exempting Social Security payments from state income tax
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
