| SB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring DUI convicts serve mandatory community service and creating a registry of such persons
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-09
On 2nd reading |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce acts of student violence and disruptive behavior through the implementation of a Bill of Rights, School Discipline Committee, series of county-wide meetings and increased penalties for chronically disruptive stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Recommitted to Education on 3rd reading |
| SB767 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the requirement that the Director of Personnel must have five years experience in personnel management in order to better the state's recruitment abilities for the position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
Recommitted to Government Organization on 3rd reading |
| SB533 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend various requirements for motor vehicle dealers. The bill expands the authority of the Dealer Recovery Fund Control Board to award claims; raises the minimum bond required of dealers during their first three years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for payment of General Educational Development (GED) exam fees for certain individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Recommitted to Finance on 2nd reading |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit to taxpayers which do not satisfy the new jobs percentage requirement prescribed for the credit allowed under chapter eleven, article thirteen Q.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Recommitted to Finance on 3rd reading |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of the bill is to create an Office for Oral Health under the Bureau for Public Health and to authorize a full time director.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Recommitted to Government Organization on 3rd reading |
| SB597 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Sesquicentennial Committee and Fund to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the State of West Virginia; establish membership and compensation; provide the powers and duties of the committee provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB652 | 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] | 2008-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB658 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enable the Division of Motor Vehicles to create and issue "Stop Domestic Violence" license plates for passenger vehicles and motorcycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying certain terms of Public Employees Insurance Agency participation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| SB316 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact a Joint Parenting Act. The bill would establish a rebuttable presumption of joint legal and physical custody of their children in child custody matters. It outlines procedures and criteria to be used when determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Rereferred to Judiciary on 2nd reading |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove certain exceptions in the definitions of employer and employee covered by the West Virginia minimum wage law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-21
On second reading to Finance |
| SB705 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act, allowing for a caregiver who is not a parent, legal custodian or guardian of a minor to consent to health care for a minor through an affidavit. The bill provides for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-21
On second reading to Judiciary |
| SB470 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that funds and pools of the West Virginia Management Board and the West Virginia Board of Treasury Investments are authorized investments for funds of political subdivisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing Excess Lottery Revenue Fund deposits to Higher Education Improvement Fund
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
Referred to Finance |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that state government exercises leadership in the reduction of petroleum based fuel consumption through improvements in fleet fuel efficiency and the use of alternative fuel vehicles and alternative fuels. Reduce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a leave donation program to allow members of the state trooper's association to donate accumulated leave time to the president and designee of the president of the state trooper's association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a loan forgiveness program for nurses similar to what currently exists for medical doctors and osteopathic physicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Finance |
| SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to further permit the use of electronic commerce. The Auditor and Treasurer are granted the discretion to require electronic filing of documents and to waive any requirements in such filing and the certification, notariza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB47 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the placement of Automated Teller Machines (ATM) in establishments that contain video lottery terminals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require each school principal to make recommendations regarding the appointment, assignment, promotion, transfer and dismissal of all personnel assigned to the school under the principal's control; to add the principal'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB633 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the number of days required for service credit of temporary employees of the Legislature's Joint Committee on Government and Finance and the Legislature from fifty five days to fifty days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Finance |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the state board to set and collect review fees from publishers participating in the state instructional materials adoption procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the pay grade of cafeteria managers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB708 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the name of the Division of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Veterans Assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Government Organization |
| SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the "West Virginia Volunteer Firefighter Length of Service Act"; and to create a fund to be used for pensions for volunteer firefighters with twenty years service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Finance |
| SB714 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to pay the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards salary bonus to the holders of certificates awarded to them during employment as a classroom teacher if they are subsequently employed as a school principal, as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a recruitment bonus for new math, science and special education teachers, or teachers filling positions that have remained vacant for one year or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Finance |
| SB502 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow penalties collected under the Department of Environmental Protection's blasting program to be deposited in the Special Reclamation Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Finance |
| SB768 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to designate the seventh day of December, "Pearl Harbor Day," as a legal state holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Military Committee |
| SB771 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the secretary of education and the arts to enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private entities to support Nontraditional Career Development Centers in assisting displaced homemakers or single paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB772 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate the practice of marriage and family therapy by establishing the Marriage and Family Therapy Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the stabilization of property tax increases for property owned, used and occupied by senior citizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB774 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify, that, notwithstanding the other terms of this section, the West Virginia Public Service Commission may authorize a water utility to implement a tariff incorporating reduced rates for low-income residential cust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB683 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner and certain employees to have arrest powers; and to authorize the carrying of a concealed weapon while performing his or her official duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that certain revenues may be allocated to fund pensions for volunteer firemen in order to improve recruitment and retention of volunteer firemen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Lottery Commission to require gaming facilities to issue monthly statements to patrons that list patrons' gaming winnings and losses, when a card or other data collecting method is used for this info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reaffirm the Constitutional authority of the Legislature to appropriate public moneys; to establish procedures for appropriation of moneys received in certain actions; and to require reporting expenses in these actions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB687 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a "War on Terrorism Service Medal" license plate displaying the "War on Terrorism Service Medal" logo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB688 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools to have an athletic trainer present at football and basketball games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB690 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a teacher to determine what classroom material the teacher posts on the Internet
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB691 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow more firms and accountants to practice accountancy in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact federal standards of crime victims rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate the secondary effects of sexually oriented businesses, establishing regulations governing sexually oriented businesses and penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a modification to income subject to personal income tax for the spaying and neutering of cats and dogs that are family pets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB700 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require coal prospectors to record certain geological information and to report said information to the department of environmental protection. The bill also provides for the sharing of geological information recorded ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB701 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Broadband Deployment Council and to develop a strategy and mechanism to be employed in extending broadband to every West Virginian by stimulating demand for broadband services and by constructing the necessar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB703 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce all solid waste assessment fees in West Virginia effective after the date the solid waste facility in McDowell County receives forty-five thousand tons of solid waste in any month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
