| SB737 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the use of eminent domain by electronic transmission companies who do not have customers in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB738 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include pharmacists and pharmacies in the definition of health care provider related to the Medical Professional Liability Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the definition of nonintoxicating beer so that craft beers are included.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB741 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to bring the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act up to current regulations and provide for financing regulations for development of infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| SB742 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill clarifies the purpose of the Purchasing Division by omitting the reference to leasing; requires bids to be based on written specifications; permits director to effectively negotiate; repeals the requirement for the director to establish a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB743 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for the leasing of school buses for the transportation of voters to the polls for general and special elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB744 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit surviving spouses of law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty to have a special license plate. The bill also expands the definition of those individuals who qualify as a law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is related to definitions of qualified continuing care retirement community and designated common areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB748 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a $2,000 salary increase for socials workers and nurses at state hospitals that did not receive a $2,000 salary increase in 2007.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide Medicaid coverage for ventilator patient care at health facilities and to update the certificate of need standards applicable to ventilator services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB752 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the Public Employees Insurance Agency to charge interest to employers upon amounts not paid on time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB753 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a beer licensee to locate within three hundred feet of a church if agreed to by the church under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB754 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant a minimum amount of paid sick leave to almost all employees working within the State of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB755 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a track and lottery oversight committee and sets forth how its three members are selected. The bill also sets forth the qualifications of members, terms of office and compensation and bonding requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount from the Breeder Development Fund that can be used for construction and maintenance at two training track facilities, encourage participation in the sport from nonmembers of the association, and incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules relating to wind power projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is authorize the chief technology officer to receive confidential records and have access to agencies' databases which may contain confidential information, while accepting the responsibility to safeguard this information as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB760 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that pilot municipalities or metro governments may not pass ordinances contrary to the provisions of Chapter 5G of the West Virginia Code, relating to procurement of architect or engineering services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB761 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the months for scheduled ISE days to September, November, January, March and May.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a special revenue account in the State Treasury known as the Juvenile Services Status Offender Fund to facilitate reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Division of Juvenile Services in housing juvenile status...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB763 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons to continue as athletic coaches or coaches of other extracurricular activities in the public schools if they have served in the same position for three years and have received satisfactory evaluations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB764 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying certain Public Employees Insurance Agency participation terms
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this note is to allow the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to extend the period of certain licenses under extenuating circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase an eligible state employee's annual salary increase from fifty dollars for each year of service to one hundred dollars per year. The bill also reduces the qualifying length of service required to receive a sala...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB511 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require state boards of examination or registration to maintain a permanent public office space to conduct board business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas. It requires the State Board of Education to determine standards defining "critical needs areas" in both subject areas and geographic areas. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a special license for health care professionals who are retired and are donating their expertise in a clinic setting and to provide such persons who render such services with immunity from civil liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR51 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress declare annual National Miner's Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add two days to the employment term for teachers to be used for professional development; change instructional support and enhancement days into professional development days; and allow more of certain days to be schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to initiate the Healthy Lifestyles Restaurant Calorie Posting Program; to encourage private restaurants to participate in this program and to provide that any restaurant participating in and advancing this program will be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB399 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Water Wells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Highways to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Traffic and Safety Rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB675 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require boards of education to hire the best qualified person for extracurricular activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB678 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Board of Risk and Insurance Management to provide insurance to county and regional airport authorities and municipal airports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB679 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the definition of all-terrain vehicle to include all-terrain utility vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB434 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Disclosure of Information from the Files of the Division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Lottery Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to racetrack table games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt family court judges and magistrates from the licensing requirements for carrying a concealed weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to show state employees their true compensation which includes payments for health and retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require mandatory community service upon conviction of a misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence and creation of a central registry of persons convicted of driving under the influence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB669 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to attract private investment for financing, construction and operation of additional public cottages at Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park. The bill authorizes and directs the Director of the Division of Natural Resources...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-14
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prescribe the base and rate of tax for purposes of the special district excise taxes imposed pursuant to the authorizing code sections, and to grant the state Tax Commissioner discretion to require electronic filing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-14
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| SB672 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to promote public safety on the roadways of West Virginia by providing a mechanism by which health care providers may report when an individual they have treated has a condition that renders them incompetent to operate a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB216 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make the taxation of natural gas and coalbed methane equal and uniform, to dedicate certain amounts of tax revenue to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund, and to grandfather certain entitlements to the exemption previ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB609 | Intro
Sine Die | This purpose of this bill is to establish a West Virginia innovation and development program, to attract and support capital investment in innovation-driven enterprises in West Virginia through a combination of direct annual investment by the state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the prohibition against opening school on Saturday and to remove the requirement that special classes conducted on Saturday be conducted on a voluntary basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Alcohol Beverage Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Sale of Wine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to provide constitutionally that the Legislature appropriate one percent of the State's General Revenue Fund to the Division of Natural Resources each fiscal year to be used to promote and preserve the State's natura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB139 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a fund to reimburse group life insurance premiums paid by members of the National Guard while they are serving periods of active duty in combat areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
