| SB328 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that the Division of Culture and History and the commissioner make specific use of the archives library in the West Virginia Science and Culture Center; prohibiting the sale of food and drink in that building an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include school psychologists and school nurses with other professional school personnel for a salary supplement and reimbursement for achieving national board certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB330 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend immunity from civil liability to the operators of parks and recreation districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the commissioner of highways to transfer surplus cash balances between funds to cover temporary cash flow needs provided the originating fund is not impaired and the receiving fund gives a credit to the originati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the composition of the Municipal Home Rule Board and change the timetable and responsibilities for the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB338 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the number of written status reports on civil actions brought against state government agencies that are required to be provided by the chief officer of the government agency to the President of the Senate and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB339 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the recording of electronic real property documents by county clerks and the validity of real property documents with electronic signatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB341 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill repeals the current Anatomical Gift Act and replaces it with a Revised Act based on the Uniform Laws Commission's 2006 revision. The Revised Act makes it easier to make a document of gift, particularly with regard to organ donor notations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulating time to sell alcohol in private clubs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
Referred to Judiciary |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify certain fees assessed by circuit clerks and to increase the fee for copies from fifty cents to one dollar per page and for preparing appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB302 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is require all rules that are currently exempt from the legislative rulemaking process, policies and state plans of the Department of Health and Human Resources relating to public assistance to undergo notice, public comment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB303 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit employers from mandated captive meetings with their employees on political or religious matters. The bill provides a prohibition on these meetings and allows employees to recover damages for any adverse action...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for legislative notice by the Insurance Commissioner whenever a rule, policy or guideline that affects the workers' compensation insurance system is implemented.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB306 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize probation officers employed by the Supreme Court of Appeals and parole officers employed by the Division of Corrections to access certain information maintained by the Board of Pharmacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB307 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit state funding of abortions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to preserve any biological evidence in connection with a criminal case so that the evidence is available for DNA testing when a convicted felon makes a written motion for DNA testing on the basis that the felon was not the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to is to allow insurers who have been suspended from writing new policies in West Virginia to continue to service existing policies and accept premiums on those existing policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a county board of education to enter into a lease-purchase agreement for land, buildings and equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make unlawful text messaging while operating a motor vehicle and to provide penalties for violators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to notify the public at a set time of school cancellation and delays to allow working parents sufficient time to make arrangements for child care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB315 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a county commission without an established planning commission to regulate the location of businesses selling sexually-oriented material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt social security income from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB319 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the applicability of certain hunting regulations to the carrying of firearms. This bill repeals limitations on how handguns may be carried in vehicles or in wooded areas or while bowhunting and clarifies miscel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB321 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase benefits of certain retired state personnel, who have been retired for 5 years or longer, by three percent in July, two thousand eight, and then increase the benefits by three percent every five years thereafte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| SB322 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give retired teachers who have been retired for 5 years or longer, an increase in retirement benefits by three percent in July, 2008, and then increase the benefits by three percent every five years thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to the regulating of parking for state office buildings in Charleston.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB326 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the sale of tobacco products in anything other than original factory wrapped package; prohibit the sale of cigarettes in packages of less than twenty; prohibit the sale of single cigarettes; and warnings requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to mandate that the driver's license examination in West Virginia be administered only in English.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB294 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require applications for license or registration and all examinations pertaining to professions to be in English only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB295 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update language to conform to national changes and to require supervising physicians to be fully licensed without restriction or limitation, to require reporting of failure of any recertification examination and expirat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require assessors to verify with the Tax Commissioner that Class II property owners have filed a West Virginia Resident Income Tax Return indicating that the address of the property is the residential address of the own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB299 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to phase in the requirements for electric providers to add renewable energy systems to help protect and sustain the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to not allow accelerated rate recovery for adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities and revising the definition of "need."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prescribe minimum requirements relative to tethering or chaining animals, including the length and weight of chains or tethering devices, as well as other requirements, all of which are intended to protect animals from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the time frame for submitted claims for reimbursement. This bill was recommended by Subcommittee A of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance during the 2007-2008 legislative interim session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB277 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to create a panel of senior status magistrate assistants, allowing the West Virginia Supreme Court to employ retired magistrate assistants when current assistants are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for the separation of the positions of Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health and state health officer and to define the requirements for each.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB281 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow entry by land surveyors, at their own risk, onto railroad property for the purpose of ascertaining property boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate Professional Employer Organizations, and to require a study as to their impact on the health insurance market.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the qualifier for low income to three hundred percent or less of the federal poverty guideline from one hundred and fifty percent or less of the federal poverty guideline for a senior citizens' homestead tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow entry by land surveyors, at their own risk, onto railroad property for the purpose of ascertaining property boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a procedure by which a person whose driver's license is suspended for certain reasons may obtain a restricted driver's license in order to drive in the course of the person's employment or occupation, to and fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule which will allow persons charged with crimes to be released by posting a standard bail when a magistrate is not available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB261 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to validate certain transactions in which a grantor conveys property not owned at that time but subsequently acquires it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize state agencies to condition compensation paid to employees for job-related training, education or professional development on continued employment with the state agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the state income tax for correctional retirees by exempting state correctional officers' retirement income from the federal adjusted gross income for calculating adjusted gross income for state income tax purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-18
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide retention salary increases for Division of Corrections and the Division of Juvenile Services employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow vehicles designated by the Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety for emergency response by the Division of Corrections, Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority and Division of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit "straw purchases" of firearms in which a person ineligible under federal law to purchase or possess a firearm attempts to purchase a firearm from a firearm dealer through a third party who is not inel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
