| HB2483 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Public Land Corporation to condemn abandoned structures located in waterways that it finds inhibits water flow and exacerbates flooding or stream-bank erosion and to grant the Corporation enforcement autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3144 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires persons soliciting signatures for candidacy to provide a statement on every individual page of the certificate containing the dates of circulation and the signature of the person soliciting the signatures. The residency requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a one-time option to members of the Defined Contribution Retirement System to opt into the State Teachers Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| HB2072 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Health and Human Resources to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations. The bill also prescribes a criminal fine for violations of the section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2484 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of this state by reducing the opportunity for unsecured or improperly secured buildings, manufactured housing, propane and fuel oil tanks to impede water flow durin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3146 | Intro
Sine Die | Transferring administration of the donated food program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of annual incremental salary increases for eligible state employees from fifty dollars to seventy-five dollars. The bill also requires the State Auditor to provide a benefits statement with a state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2073 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make available to retired participants in PEIA the optional dental, vision, and audiology and hearing-aid services insurance plans that are available to current public employee participants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2485 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is enact measures to assist local and state authorities in flood plain management and flood clean up.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3147 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to use a certain portion of the civil penalties collected for watershed improvement projects
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the temporary detention of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officers to inquire on commission of a crime where probable cause appears to exist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2075 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a seller or a seller's agent at closing to disclose the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all utilities providing service to the real estate involved in a real estate sales transaction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2486 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include education related child care expenses in the child support calculation; and eliminate the 25% reduction to the child support adjustment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3148 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate unsolicited recorded telephone calls and provide for the establishment of a state "Do-Not-Call" list to protect consumers from telephone solicitors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a jobs impact statement to be completed by the West Virginia Development Office for certain proposed legislation which may impact both short-term and long-term jobs in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| HB2076 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the foundation allowance of professional educators per one thousand students from the current 53½ to 55 and to also increase the foundation allowance of service personnel per one thousand students from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure patient safety by establishing minimum direct-care registered nurse to patient ratios. It provides for creating an "acuity-based patient classification system" and requires annual nurse staffing plans ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB3151 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a county commission with an established planning commission to regulate the location of businesses selling sexually oriented material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2077 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the limit of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management from $75,000 to $125,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2489 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the State Superintendent of Schools to designate certain geographical areas as a School Choice Zone which would enable students residing in the designated area to attend school in a neighboring county if they wish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3154 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the rate of tax paid on the privilege of severing timber and eliminating the exemptions allowing reductions from the tax while creating a means of collecting the tax. The bill also imposes criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a court to conduct a hearing at the time it sentences a defendant to jail to determine the defendant's ability to pay the costs of the defendant's incarceration. The bill requires the court to require the defen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2080 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize lateral transfers for deputy sheriffs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2491 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments. The bill also creates duties for the firefighters' Civil Service Commissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB3156 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of "Kirstin's bill" is to provide for the issuance by the State Registrar of a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth to parents of a stillborn who request the record to be prepared.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2081 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the accumulation of one and one-half years of instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other founding American historical documents, including the Bill of Rights, before high school gradua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2492 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define "fill material" under the provisions of the Water Pollution Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3159 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that Justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals are to be elected from numbered divisions. Candidates from each numbered division are to be voted on at large from the entire state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate the use of automobile event data recorders, commonly known as "black boxes."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2083 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish when a permit for a proposed well near a permitted mine shall be refused; to add definitions; and to require every pipeline company to file facility maps of its various pipelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2493 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the free headlight adjustment provisions of the inspection fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB3160 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add physician assistants to the list of licensed healthcare workers who may conduct involuntary custody examinations to determine if a person may be involuntarily hospitalized for mental illness or addiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Office of Family and Foster Child Protection Ombudsman. The bill, additionally, authorizes the Ombudsman to hire staff; requires the Ombudsman to investigate and monitor the Department of Health and Human Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2084 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to implement a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2496 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that each state public works contract include a provision requiring a definitive completion date and that contractors awarded such contracts be required to meet the time restriction. The bill also defines "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HB3162 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require state agencies and political subdivisions thereof to verify the lawful presence within the United States of any applicant for certain public benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB77 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living increase to certain annuitants under the Public Employees and Teachers' Retirement Systems. The supplement is equal to the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index or three percent, whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| HB2086 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require every school to post and make available to the public the schedule for every teacher and staff personnel for each school, and if a school fails to do so, the principal of that school and the county superintenden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3165 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a credit against West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Tax Commissioner from issuing a new business registration certificate to any new business owned, managed, operated by or in which any person participated as a member of a board of directors, partner, manage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2088 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the compulsory school attendance age for children in the state from sixteen to eighteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2501 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enable a consumer to protect his or her credit against identity theft by permitting a consumer to put a credit freeze on his or her credit report, prohibiting access to and dissemination of information in a consumer's c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB3167 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow teachers employed by a statewide service personnel association to count this service towards retirement credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to subtract Social Security benefits from federal adjusted gross income to determine West Virginia adjusted gross income for purposes of personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2090 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for the continuation of misdemeanor prosecutions in cases where a defendant is charged by complaint with both a felony and misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2502 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a one-time supplement for annuitants and survivor beneficiaries after being retired five consecutive years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB3169 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the appointment of a police chief to the West Virginia Commission on Drunk Driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require verification of notice to adjoining landowners of timbering operations and notification of duration of these operations by certified mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2091 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee for vehicles used exclusively to carry out its goals and purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
