| WV | SB171 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit county commissions from adopting any ordinance, rule, license requirement, or other authorization that exceeds state law, rule, or regulation regarding agricultural operations. The bill revokes any ordinance, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 63, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB451 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require all prosecutors to undergo training prior to performing his or her duties; and require the West Virginia prosecuting attorneys Institute to conduct mandatory training for all prosecuting attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 64, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB445 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the certification periods for EMS personnel from four years to two years to align certification periods with those of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and to reduce the certification renewal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 211, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB222 | Pass | Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 265, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB261 | Pass | WV Veterans' Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 266, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB544 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to raise the threshold from $25,000 to $50,000 for the requirement of bids for municipal public works projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 66, 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 | 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 | SB690 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a commission on West Virginia Agritourism to review and investigate means of preserving our farmland and growing our agricultural tourism and agricultural economic development and recommend to the Legislature tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 4, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB873 | Pass | Schedule for tax installment payments
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 256, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB872 | Pass | Relating to county fire service fees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 71, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB877 | Pass | Supplementing and amending appropriations to Higher Education Policy Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 42, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB876 | Pass | Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Health and Human Resources, Health Facilities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 41, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| 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 | SB740 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create a new criminal offense of manipulating a photograph, image, video clip, movie, or similar recording containing sexually explicit conduct by the insertion thereof of a visual image of an actual minor so as to crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB741 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the criminal offenses of creating, producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing with intent to distribute visual depictions artificial intelligence created child pornography when no actual minor is depicted.
[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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| WV | 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 |
| WV | 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 |
| WV | SB821 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the same criminal elements and criminal penalties for abuse or neglect of incapacitated adults as are applicable to abuse or neglect of children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB801 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a tax on the production of electricity from wind and solar collection for distribution to the counties to be distributed to the volunteer fire departments in that county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB321 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prevent municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Rereferred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| 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 | SB756 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide state mine inspectors with a $4,000 raise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB737 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the exemption from taxation of state-owned real property within the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB596 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide further assurances to the United States Environmental Protection Agency regarding the state of West Virginia's application for primary enforcement authority over underground carbon dioxide sequestration programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB617 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt the processing of beef, pork, or lamb by a slaughterhouse for an individual owner of the product processed from the Consumer Sales and Service Tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance 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 | 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 | SB582 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Prohibition on Cell Cultured Animals Product Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill provides for a prohibition on cell-cultured animal products. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources 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 | SB448 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools located within this state shall give age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB549 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit investigators in the State Tax Division to carry concealed weapons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Government Organization 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 | SB298 | Intro
25% | Providing tax credit to certain disabled veterans for lifetime hunting, trapping, and fishing license
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB231 | Intro
25% | Clarifying wind power projects taxation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB532 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prevent oil and gas wells form being orphaned on surface owner's land with no responsible driller or operator with the resources to plug the well. The bill: -Does not make any changes in bonding requirements for wells t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining 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 | SB517 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the biological sex to be limited to male or female and to require that nonbinary birth certificates not be issued. The bill also provides circumstances when an amended birth certificate may be issued to change g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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 | 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 | SB467 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to license the sale of charitable raffles and boards to benefit Volunteer Fire Departments in this state. The bill sets forth the licensure requirement. The bill provides for the agency to issue licenses. The bill provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Government Organization 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 |
