| WV | HB5348 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to rename the Raleigh County Recreation Authority to the Raleigh County Parks and Recreation Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB438 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish an exception to the roster requirements for authorizing entities subject to chapter 30 of the code and to remove geographical information about individuals authorized to engage in a trade, occupation, or profe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5013 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend the definition of managed timberland to include certain parcels of land that are within a subdivision as long as they are managed for timber production and harvesting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5082 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt persons who have held an insurance license for 20 years or more from the requirement to attend continuing education courses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Communicated to House |
| WV | SB675 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-09
To conference |
| WV | SB714 | Veto | The purpose of this bill generally relates to the licensing of physicians and the transition of the duties and functions of the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to the West Virginia Board of Medicine, effective January 1, 2025. The bill ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Vetoed by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB722 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to revise how a permittee is subject to examination of financial records relating to limited video lottery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Vetoed by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB778 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend and add certain qualifying offenses for the purpose of enhancing the sentence of a repeat offender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB826 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to harmonize the treatment of reciprocal deposit arrangements to satisfy security for public deposits from county commissions, municipal corporations, and boards of education. Current code sections relating to public depos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB738 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Fire Marshal to promulgate emergency rules relating to increased fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5355 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to allow volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases associated with the State Auditor's West Virginia Checkbook fiscal reporting system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| 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] | 2024-02-26
Approved by Governor 2/23/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | SB746 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to is to increase the composition of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board to 11 members, add additional county commissioners, and increase meetings to four times a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4008 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to change the time required for providing notice of an entry on to land for visiting a grave from ten days to three.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To Senate Judiciary 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 | SB629 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require a builder to follow the provisions of the State Building code in the construction or renovation of a structure, even if a county or municipality does not provide inspection and enforcement services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB799 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the parole eligibility for a person serving a sentence for first degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5678 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase compensation rates for panel attorneys and investigators, and to provide indigent defendants with an opportunity to obtain expungements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5677 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to correct the court for appeals of level 3 decisions. Per SB 275 (2021), effective July 1, 2022, the Intermediate Court of Appeals is the proper appellate court for appeals of level 3 decisions issued by the Public Employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary 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 | SB762 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the requirements for an applicant to obtain an occupational license or authorization to practice based on licensure or work experience in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5634 | Intro
25% | Empowering the Homeland Security Inspector General to oversee/investigate all County Metro 911 Agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5566 | Intro
25% | To facilitate the interstate practice and regulation of Cosmetology
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5640 | Intro
25% | Relating to the composition of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board and shceduled meetings
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5538 | Intro
25% | The purpose of bill is to modify parole eligibility for inmates serving life sentences and those who have been convicted of first degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | SB723 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council; establishing findings and purpose; establishing membership of advisory council; setting forth subjects to be addressed by advisory council in reporting; providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5508 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the West Virginia Racing Commission annually transfer $8,000,000 from the West Virginia Greyhound Breeding Development Fund to the Fire Protection Fund and the Emergency Medical Services Equipment and Train...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5433 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the education and apprenticeship requirements to obtain a license for funeral directors and embalmers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Government Organization 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 | HB4567 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that businesses have their respective business licenses/registrations protected from revocation by the State of West Virginia for noncompliance with any mandatory mask order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5233 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Board of Registered Nurses to comply with the Open Governmental Procedures Act, share a computer link to meetings that are live streamed, and publicly post meeting minutes to its website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary 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 | HB5168 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all County School Superintendents to be elected by the voters of their respective counties for four-year terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary 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 | HB5060 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow partisan elections for county board of education members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB537 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to have the members of the parks and recreation commission elected rather than appointed in counties that have decided to have a parks and recreation commission and whose population is greater than 150,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Outdoor Recreation Committee |
| WV | HB5015 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Fire Commission to reconsider current rules for rural area fire departments and volunteer firefighters and to propose new rules with the objective of eliminating unnecessarily burdensome or restrictive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| WV | HB4949 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify local permitting deadlines for local governing bodies or planning commissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4887 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to direct the County Commission of Berkeley County to hold a referendum election at the next general election to change the term of office for county commissioners from six years to four years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4910 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand access of licensing for hearing aid fitting and dealings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4840 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to include outside legal services under the state purchasing requirements to require the solicitation of bids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4765 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt healthcare workers' addresses from being made public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4724 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that if a public service board represents more than one community, there shall be one member from each such community on the service district board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | SB433 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the prohibition against monies in the board's special revenue fund reverting to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury and to clarify that any fines the board collects are to be deposited into the General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB369 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a licensed brewer or resident brewer may not produce more than 50,000 barrels per calendar year at a brewer or resident brewer's principle place of business and manufacture; clarifying that a licensed brewe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB416 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add additional members to the West Virginia Parole Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB432 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide clarification regarding when funds accumulated by boards may be transferred to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury and to limit the amount of excess funds that may be transferred to the General Revenu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4599 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Treasurer to transfer, into the State General Fund, certain funds accumulated by most boards of examination or registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB297 | Intro
25% | Providing that continuing education credits shall be valid for three years
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB239 | Intro
25% | Clarifying when excess funds accumulated by boards are to be transferred to General Revenue Fund
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
