| WV | HB5696 | Pass | Relating to the upper Ohio Valley Trail Network
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 195, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5544 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require certain reporting from the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority each year and beginning on December 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
House Message received |
| WV | HB5331 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a valid driver's license instead of certificate of boating safety education when operating a boat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB4006 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the West Virginia Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System accrued benefit for members who retire on or after January 1, 2027, to provide funding for the benefit, to remove the cap on the employer con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5270 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the cap on the NRPORS employer contribution and clarifies surviving spouse benefits when a member dies from a duty or non-duty related cause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5584 | Intro
25% | To require bag limits to be set by biologists at the DNR and not the commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5596 | Intro
25% | Exempt Division of Natural Resources from purchasing requirements
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4504 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand recreational benefits to West Virginia landowners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4289 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish an auto-renewal licensing program that is eligible for discounts on licensing fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5519 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4280 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit for 50% of the cost of a lifetime hunting, trapping and fishing license for veterans who have been honorably discharged from the armed services and who are certified by the Veterans Administration a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4745 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt quail and partridges possessed for agricultural purposes from the game preserve licensure requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5401 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to move muzzleloader hunting season to the week before rifle deer hunting season in November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5376 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow the children and grandchildren of a landowner in West Virginia to hunt and fish on such private land regardless of residency status without a permit or license, hunt and fish on their own land during open seasons ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5372 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove multiple severability clauses in the West Virginia Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5231 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that only one leashed dog may be used for tracking mortally wounded deer, elk, turkey, wild boar, or bear.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5234 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for free hunting licenses and fishing licenses for veterans with a post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| WV | HB5224 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt honorably discharged veterans from undergoing a hunter safety course as a prerequisite to obtaining a hunting license in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4825 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to 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; searc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5070 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to providing West Virginia residents a 25 percent discount for lodging and services at West Virginia State Parks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5033 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow for a three-year pilot program for the stocking of F1 largemouth bass fingerlings, otherwise known as "tiger bass."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5008 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the beginning and expiration of hunting and fishing licenses from the last day of the calendar year for which they were issued to a year from the date of issue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4964 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow for a twenty-five percent reduction in campground rental fees for state residents from Labor Day to four days prior to Memorial Day. The bill also provides that residents of West Virginia will have fifteen percent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Economic Development and Tourism Committee |
| WV | HB4992 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the restriction on baiting bears while hunting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4917 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a "pop-up" window directing users to optional firearms safety classes offered by the NRA and the USCCA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4915 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize Adopt-A-Trail programs for volunteers to clean up and maintain trails on public lands in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4871 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow youths and those carrying a Class Q special hunting permit to take antlered deer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4739 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit landowners or lessees of land whose land is damaged by deer or other wildlife to hire a third party to kill the deer or other wildlife by bow and arrow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4686 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit year-round hunting of coyotes using artificial light or night vision technology and to permit hunting of coyotes at any hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4692 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit fishing trotlines, droplines, and minnow traps to be lawful if certain conditions are met. The bill permits jug fishing, which is using a free-floating device to deploy a hook and line to take or attempt to take ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4632 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish an energy storage program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4630 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for energy storage system access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4570 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the beginning and expiration of hunting and fishing licenses from the last day of the calendar year for which they were issued to the last day of the month the licensee was born.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4575 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to set forth limitations of entry onto private lands; clarify the process for law enforcement entry onto posted private lands; and clarify the use of surveillance cameras on or near posted private lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4363 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow an owner of Japanese quail (Coturnix Quail and Button Quail) to keep them as pets without having to obtain a license for a private game farm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4522 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of the Division of Natural Resources to propose rules for hunting antlered deer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4321 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the "upland game bird" stamp to be administered by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4415 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a 75 percent discount for a lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license or permit for individuals who were honorably discharged from the U.S. armed forces.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| WV | HB4213 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to pension benefits which are exempt from income taxation. The bill adds Division of Natural Resources police, deputy sheriffs, full-time firefighters, and municipal police officers into the class of law-enforcement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4230 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require state parks to charge the market rate for the use of vehicle charging stations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4576 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to move the opening date of firearms season for deer to begin on the Saturday before the week of Thanksgiving each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
