| HB4698 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit for Ad Valorem tax paid on Manufacturing Inventory, and other tangible personal property which will reduce either or both the amount of business franchise tax or corporate net income tax owed, effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4699 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to requiring the Public Service Commission to allow Class I cities to enter into one or more agreements with contract carriers by motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4700 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs and require hospitals to provide free charity care to uninsured citizens one hundred one percent below poverty level and lowered ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4701 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a felony offense for certain persons convicted of fleeing a law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4702 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide regulation, penalties, and administration for natural gas and methane gas wells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4703 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to raise the state salary level to at least one hundred twenty-five percent above the Federal Poverty Guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4704 | Intro
Sine Die | Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Veterans' Affairs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4705 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to distribute the State Treasurer's "Road Fund" proportionally in each county according to the tax revenue generated from that county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4706 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide mandatory carding for all purchases of alcoholic liquor and nonintoxicating beer from a retailer. The bill additionally provides protection from criminal and civil liability for retailers that install transacti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4707 | 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 House Finance Committee |
| HB4215 | 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] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4216 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Auditor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Standards for Requisitions for Payment Issued to State Officers on the Auditor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4217 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Auditor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the State Purchasing Card Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4257 | 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] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4269 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Nursing Home Administrators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4275 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Use of Digital Signatures, State Certificate Authority and the State Repository.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House 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 |
| SB707 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to legalize and regulate the selling of fireworks; to impose a special ten per cent fee on the sale of fireworks; and to use those proceeds for pensions for qualified volunteer firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB711 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the circumstances under which the West Virginia State Police is responsible for the payment of medical expenses associated with injuries received in the performance of official duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB713 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the use of force, including deadly force, against an intruder or attacker in a dwelling, residence, or vehicle under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB716 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the definitions of "shallow" and "deep" wells to allow a shallow well to be drilled deeper and provide clarity to both definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB717 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia State Police Higher Education Security Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB718 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a procedure for 911 operators to dispatch emergency calls for service to law enforcement in a fair and equitable manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB719 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set standards for school athletic directors. The bill also requires a high school to assign a full-time athletic director if the school has thirteen or more varsity sports, and at least a half-time athletic director if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB721 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt insurance burial policies from assignment by Medicaid recipients to the Department of Health and Human Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB723 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define "caving" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the provision allowing a bail posted by someone other than the person under bail to be forfeited for failure to comply with a condition of bail, other than that to appear.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is regulate the sale of beverages in schools. It requires the State Board of Education to establish nutrition standards for such sales. It further provides that proceeds from sales from federally funded nutrition programs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB726 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a fund for the repair of bridges in Class III and Class IV municipalities when there is an immediate need for the repairs. The bill provides for administration by the West Virginia Economic Development Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change one of the sources of funding for county and regional solid waste authorities from landfill tipping fees to collection fees in recognition of the important services provided by county solid waste authorities and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB728 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to strengthen the prohibition of the taking of lawfully-owned firearms and ammunition in a declared state of emergency or riot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4589 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB729 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement of the use of a social security number in securing any state services or assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4590 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit classification of real property as managed timberland to prevent county property tax revenues from decreasing by more than five percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove obsolete statutory language pertaining to the carrying of deadly weapons by Department of Administration security officers, county park police officers, and municipal airport police officers. This bill also clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4591 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living provision for certain public employee retirement annuitants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
