| WV | SB439 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to Authorize certain 911 personnel to be members of the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 210, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB280 | Pass | Allowing teachers in public schools to teach intelligent design
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 103, 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 | SB475 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend the requirements for recovery residences. The proposed bill sets forth a data collection process and requires rulemaking related to data collection. The proposed bill adds a process for suspension or revocation re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 212, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB583 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a streamlined process for evaluating an employer's liability for personal injury and wrongful death claims involving operators of commercial motor vehicles and to limit noneconomic damages in such actions to $1 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 1, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB613 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to update the law related to mortgage lender and broker regulation to align control of a licensee and key individuals with other regulatory programs, allow West Virginia to participate in and accept multistate examinations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 137, 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 | SB152 | Engross
50% | Displaying official US motto in public schools
[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 | 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 | SB686 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit actions for damages or attorney's fees under Shamblin v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 183 W. Va. 585 (1990) against the Board of Risk and Insurance Management or any person employed by the board or any entity with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | 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 |
| WV | 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 |
| WV | SB812 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the distribution of pornographic materials to persons under 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB811 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit medical monitoring damages based on increased risk of disease and setting requirements for plaintiff's seeking such damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate 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 | SB749 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to recognize gold and silver bullion and specie as legal tender in West Virginia, to authorize the West Virginia Bullion Depository, and to authorize the depository to issue transactional currency backed by gold and silver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB733 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to replace the statue of the Robert C. Byrd with a statue of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, and Arthur I. Boreman, placed in each corner of the rotunda of the Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance 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 | SB621 | 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] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB455 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to set forth prohibited clauses in State banking contracts and to remove the date by which the Public Deposits Program must be operable under the West Virginia Security for Deposits Act to allow discretion for program impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| 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 | SB558 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require publicly-funded medical schools to teach the most current evidence-based, life-saving methods including abortion pill reverse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education 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 | SB450 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a photograph of the user on EBT cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
Referred to Finance |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB465 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit schools from starting an instructional day any earlier than 7:45 a.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB153 | Intro
25% | Making adoption records accessible for medical purposes
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
Referred to Rules on 3rd reading |
| 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 | SB376 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create obligations on law enforcement and CPS to notify certain school personnel of investigations regarding school employees involving certain conduct towards students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB237 | Intro
25% | Criminalizing engaging in adult cabaret performance where it may be viewed by minor
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB243 | Intro
25% | Requiring moment of silence at beginning of each school day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB206 | Intro
25% | Establishing 80 miles per hour speed limit on interstate highways
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB198 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the teaching of "divisive acts" and "critical race theory" in West Virginia public and charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB197 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit obscene materials in West Virginia schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB194 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit gender transition surgeries, treatments, and therapies to minors. The bill establishes penalties for practitioners in violation of regulations. The bill safeguards the mental and physical health of minors. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB195 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect minors from indecent displays of a sexually explicit nature, including but not limited to, transvestite and/or transgender performances or displays to minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB199 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide additional protection for the minor victims of sex trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
