| WV | SB261 | Pass | WV Veterans' Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4721 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require land surveyors to offer to record maps or plats of measured parcels of land made by the surveyor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4940 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit squatting, and to clarify that squatters are not considered tenants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5091 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add the criminal offense of damaging, destroying, or stealing any amount of copper, with felony penalties, providing for forfeiture of items of personal property which are used, have been used, or are intended for use, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5326 | Pass | Relating to prohibition of unfair real estate service agreements
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5134 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a deceased disabled veteran real property exemption for widowed spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Finance |
| WV | HB4952 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide 60 days to persons who are served notice by purchaser of tax lien to redeem subject property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5093 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clean up language relating to the revision of order concerning distribution of marital property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB822 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to balance the interests of current landowners and future landowners to ensure surface, minerals, and forest land may be developed for future economic gain by limiting use restrictions for forest carbon capture and sequest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| WV | SB494 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Unlawful Restriction in Land Records Act, considered by the state Uniform Law Commission, which provides a mechanism for amending an existing deed by filing a document in the deed books severs a unlawf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | HB5443 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to include in the high-technology property valuation statute the hosting and processing of electronic data as part of a data center operation and high-performance data computing to process data and perform complex computat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB635 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to modify when a commission, council, or a governing board may sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of any real property that was gifted or devised to it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5311 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to set the tax rate for property located in West Virginia that is owned by another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance 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 | HB4003 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend the law concerning ownership and possession of real property and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5630 | Intro
25% | Requiring that county assessors send out notice to taxpayers when their property tax increases
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Finance 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 | SB694 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to mandate registration of land use associations with the Secretary of State's office. The bill provides definitions, a statement of legislative purpose, and the required content of the registration form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Government Organization 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 | SB265 | Engross
50% | Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5416 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to incentivize independent power producers to site solar arrays on degraded land rather than prime farmland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB5407 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to give a party to a real property partition proceeding with more than 50 percent interest in the real property first right of refusal to purchase the entire subject property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5327 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5283 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain foreign ownership of land in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5333 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a tenant's right to contact emergency services, leave a lease due to violence or threats of violence, and to ensure tenant privacy from landlords.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5222 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties associated with certain crimes when they occur on state property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5214 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit the payment of taxes by co-owners or other interested parties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5164 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish state requirements for land use, manufacture, installation, and safety certification of Fabricated self-contained expandable box built permanent homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5169 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to restrict foreign ownership of land and other interests in the State of West Virginia as specified. The bill defines terms. The bill requires registration as specified. The bill authorizes enforcement of ownership restri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB497 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to proscribe rent control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4859 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a new real property tax category for short term rentals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB457 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Prohibition of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreements Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for enforceability. The bill defines a deceptive act. The bill pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Government Organization 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 | 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 | HB4660 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to revise landlord tenant laws; extending notice of rent increase in month-to-month rentals to 60 days; providing prior notice for landlord to enter rented premises and exceptions thereto; allowing renter to effectuate rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB364 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to lower rent for tenants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4685 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt motor vehicles from personal property tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4619 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to reduce from two years to one year the period allowed to set aside a deed when one entitled to notice in a tax sale was not notified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB256 | Intro
25% | Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4347 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish certain tenant protections and landlord notice requirements at rental properties for house trailers, mobile homes, manufactured homes, and modular homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4528 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require urban renewal authorities to submit active, amended and proposed urban renewal projects and plans to the affected local county boards of health for review and comment. The bill requires urban renewal authorities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | SB191 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to regulate land installment contracts for the sale of real estate. The bill provides for definitions. The bill lays out land installment contract requirements. The bill provides for vendor requirements. The bill provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4520 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to recognize convictions of domestic battery or domestic assault in the fair and equitable distribution of marital property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4529 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to place upon the manufacturers of manufactured homes the duty to meet their obligations and responsibilities under the terms of the express warranties extended to the consumers in this state. The bill provides consumers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
