| WV | HB4274 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to rename the Department of Health and Human Resources.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission of Health and Human Resources Accountability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5122 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the age requirement of becoming a deputy sheriff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 73, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5267 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify DSRS surviving spouse benefits when member dies from duty or non-duty related cause, and to clarify how to compute a retiree's age when a member elected an early retirement and then returned to work.This bill wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 75, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5103 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to initiate collections for emergency ambulance services and to set a fee for those who refuse transport and to require insurance plans to cover special emergency ambulance service fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4962 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to relating to hotel and motel housing vouchers programs; prohibiting city or town from requiring hotel or motel participation in housing voucher programs; prohibiting county from requiring hotel or motel participatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5674 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit deputy sheriffs to retire after 20 years of honorable and actual service, with full benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5660 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to give power to modify county fire service fees to the county commission instead of the county fire board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5675 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the multiplier for the deputy sheriff retirement accrued benefit from two and a half percent to three percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5657 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to designate certain distinct residential communities as villages. The bill does not interfere with the existing classification of villages for tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5486 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the "County Home Rule Program."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5410 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize county commissions to designate a third person to approve signing or approving checks if there is a situation where there is a familial relationship between two persons in county government who are otherwise a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5382 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require convention and visitor's bureaus to receive accreditation from an accrediting body on or before June 30, 2026, in order to be eligible for distribution of net proceeds of hotel-motel tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Government Organization 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 | HB5279 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require counties to establish a link to the public records of each county in the state and allow access to the public records of all of the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5264 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize and administer optional county sales and use taxes, admission, or amusement taxes and to provide terms for said administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5322 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Local Meat Processing Development Act" restricting county and municipality ordinances that are more stringent than state or federal requirements and regulation of meat processing businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5216 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require county commissions to establish fire levies to fund volunteer fire departments and emergency medical services within those counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5173 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require an election rather than appointment of members of the any parks and recreation commission of a county with a population of greater than one hundred and fifty thousand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5113 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to grant administrative control of fire departments within a county to a county fire board or, in the absence of a fire board, to the county commission in that county when they are not already under administrative control ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5088 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require mandatory drug testing for all classes of employees of county commissions, the state of West Virginia, State Board of Education, and in K through 12 schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5201 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require counties to provide ambulance services at a ratio of one ambulance for every 20,000 residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| WV | HB5146 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals in the care of animal shelters, breeders, and private individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5009 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4991 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties to save excess funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4935 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals in the care of animal shelters, breeders, and private individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4876 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the definition of "Final average salary" to mean the average of the highest annual compensation received for covered employment by the member during any five consecutive plan years within the member's last 15 yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4872 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require counties and municipalities to provide public notice for land or building purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4779 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement for a county to draft and adopt comprehensive zoning ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4729 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to empower county commissions and local governing bodies to compel removal of unsafe real property conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4719 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the manner of appointing members to county authorities and allowing appointments of members from contiguous counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4708 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create mechanisms for local governments to identify and address dilapidated and dangerous properties; requiring county assessor to conduct survey, and having staff receive training thereto; allowing empower county commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4677 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to set the reimbursement rate paid by the Prosecuting Attorneys Institute for the cost of forensic medical examinations of persons alleged to be the victim of rape, and provides for an annual report to the Legislative Over...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4611 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to raise the retirement rate for deputy sheriffs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4185 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase certain fees collected by county sheriffs and add these increased amounts to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement Fund to provide modest increases in benefits for retired deputies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4285 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide funding to counties in the amount of $5,000 per deputy position in that county to be used exclusively for deputy pay raises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4525 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide an annual annuity adjustment of 1% for eligible deputy sheriff retirants and surviving spouses when the plan has reached a funded level of 105 percent. The bill permits the board to set the employer contribution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4478 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to impose limits on the number of appointees to certain county and municipal bodies; and impose quorum requirements on certain county and municipal bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
