| HB3219 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that West Virginia will not participate in the "REAL ID Act of 2005" enacted by the United States Congress in Public Law 109-13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB110 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the automatic court-ordered transfer of title to marital property upon a decree of divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2138 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2700 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3222 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the position of prisoner transportation officer, authorized to transport prisoners, and after training, carry firearms and employ reasonable force during prisoner transports to maintain custody of prisoners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to list certain professional and personal services that are exempt from the payment of the consumers sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2139 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that telephone subscribers and telephone service consumers, desiring to be placed on a "Do Not Call" list, indicating that the subscriber or consumer does not wish to receive telephone solicitations, m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2704 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide State Treasury, Fire Protection Fund revenue to the West Virginia State Fire Chiefs' Association and the West Virginia State Fireman's Association, to be used for both associations' administration and training e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB3225 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the appointment of a commission to develop and conduct a field test of a comprehensive, integrated statewide standardized electronic medical records access system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB112 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a person from driving in the passing lane of a highway if the speed limit is sixty-five miles per hour unless the person is passing other vehicles, turning left or the volume of traffic does not permit the vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2140 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define "the deceased" for purposes of prescribing that a deceased victim includes unborn children under first and second degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2705 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a procedure whereby a consumer may implement a security freeze to prohibit a consumer reporting agency from releasing all or any part of the consumer's credit report or any information derived from it without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3226 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an insured whose automotive liability insurance contract or policy has been canceled or not renewed to provide proof of valid insurance for a vehicle covered under the recently canceled or nonrenewed policy with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a county commission to provide by ordinance for regulation and restriction of the location of any premises in which a limited video lottery retailer holds a license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2142 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate a gap in employment for certain Alcohol Beverage Control Commission employees subject to a reduction in force and who are reemployed and reenter the public employees insurance plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reform the school aid formula by reducing from ninety-eight percent to seventy percent the amount of the regular levy deducted from county boards of education for general current expense purposes; by ensuring that impro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3227 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide the option for former state employees who were members of the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System prior to the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one, who became employed with a sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that horses are not included under the definition of "farm livestock" for purposes of an exemption to the prohibitions against animal cruelty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB2143 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt the retrieval of a dog turned loose before 5:00 a.m. on Sunday from offense of hunting on Sunday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2708 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the Auditor approve the electronic requisition format and it provides that the Auditor may set standards for archiving electronic and paper documents related to requisitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB3229 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase default late fees and shorten the period given to an occupant to cure a default before an owner may enforce a lien for self-service storage facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as an abortifacient or that can be used as part of an abortion-related ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2144 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a requirement that voters identify themselves prior to casting a vote
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3230 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers for a living, elected official by any governmental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB116 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require nonresident applicants for hunting licenses to provide proof they are holders in good standing of equivalent hunting licenses in their resident states prior to being eligible for a nonresident hunting license in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2147 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a firefighter who is a member of the Air National Guard and who is medically disqualified from service in the Air National Guard shall not be discharged as a firefighter if he or she is able to perform the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit parents, guardians or custodians from allowing registered sexual offenders access to children in their custody. The bill also defines key terms and makes technical changes for purposes of consistency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3231 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the assessment of value of managed timberland while providing for a tax of ten percent on the sale or transfer of managed timberland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this joint resolution is to clarify who is eligible for a seat in the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a tax incentive for the creation, construction or enlargement of tourism attractions or amenities. The credit operates to allow the taxpayer to recover up to 25% or, in the case of bed and breakfast facilities, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| HB2148 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that all persons have the right to be free from violence without regard to the motivation behind the violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2719 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the public may request and shall receive, access under the state freedom of information act to any purported scientific data used as the basis for proposed legislative rules or statutory enactments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3232 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce staff development programs for school personnel from eighteen hours to twelve hours; and requiring that the six hour reduction in staff development be used as an additional preparation day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| SJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to reduce the size of the House of Delegates to fifty members and to reduce the size of the Senate to seventeen members. The resolution also limits the term of Governor to one six-year term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the use of proportionate force by a person in any place the person has a legal right to be against an intruder or attacker. The bill also provides that the use of proportionate force is a full defense, civill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2149 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the collection of statistics relative to abortions performed in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2720 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $2000 pay incentive to teachers who teach in their core field degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3235 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an optometrist office and an optician office that adjoin each other to have an interior door to each others facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SJR3 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to recognize the right of the people to privacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect the consumers of failed water or sewer utilities by authorizing the Public Service Commission to order a capable water or sewer public utility to acquire the failed utility system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2150 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exemption from workers' compensation and surveyor licensing requirements for surveyors with more than thirty years of surveying experience with one employee over the age of sixty five. It also exempts from su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HB2721 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act." The bill exempts certain small businesses from paying business-related taxes if they qualify as start up businesses with limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HB3236 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the registration of motorcycles for twenty-four months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to provide that the Citizens Legislative Compensation Commission determines increases in legislators' pay and expense allowances. It eliminates the Legislature's authority to vote to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Service Commission to conduct quarterly safety inspections of propane tanks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2151 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to parental involvement in the minor's decision to obtain an abortion. The bill requires abortion providers to obtain proof of age prior to the performance of an abortion on a pregnant woman. The bill provides for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2725 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the director of purchasing to promulgate a rule authorizing public school teachers to purchase one personal computer and related devices per year from the state contract for use outside the classroom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3237 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include certain credit unions and their employees in the definitions of "employer" and "employee" for purposes of the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to develop a standard format for preferred drug lists or drug formularies and to make all preferred drug lists or drug formularies available in an electronic format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2154 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Supplement to West Virginia Veterans Higher Education Benefits Program Fund." The bill provides that resident veterans honorably discharged, who were residents at the inception of military service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
