| HB3170 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide noncivil service employment protection for chiefs of police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit insurers offering nursing services coverage from limiting the definition of scope of practice for purposes of benefit determination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2092 | 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 House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a registry containing names of employees from any agency or organization under the authority of the Department of Health and Human Resources who have committed acts of abuse, neglect or misappropriation of proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB3171 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make it a crime for persons to give false or misleading information to county and municipal officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow advanced nurse practitioners to sign do-not-resuscitate orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow family court judges to carry a concealed deadly weapon without obtaining a license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2509 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exclude certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3172 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the qualifier for low income to two hundred and fifty percent or less of the federal poverty guideline from one hundred and fifty percent or less of the federal poverty guideline for a senior citizens' homestead ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow advanced nurse practitioners to sign death certificates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2094 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle and to provide penalties for violations of this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish in the State Treasury a targeted minority economic development fund to address economic issues of minorities and minority communities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HB3173 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow municipal chiefs of police to appoint a deputy chief or principal supervisor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB84 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create criminal penalties for a railroad company or employee who denies, delays or interferes with medical treatment or first-aid to a railroad employee injured on the job, or who threatens discipline to an injured empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2095 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define the offense of trespassing on a railroad track and to make trespassing on a railroad track a misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2511 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a mechanism whereby unused, unexpired nonnarcotic drugs previously owned by a deceased nursing home patient or resident may be donated to free health care clinics in the state, provided that the family of the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB3176 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the expiration date of the synthetic fuel tax is the later of June 30, 2007, or the termination date of the federal synthetic fuel tax credit set forth in 26 U.S.C. §45k.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the State Treasurer to donate surplus information technology to political subdivision, educational, nonprofit, and charitable organizations. Recipients of donated technology are liable for all matters associated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize county commissions to enact ordinances prohibiting cats from running at large. The bill also authorizes county dog wardens or others to seize and impound cats under authority of an ordinance while requiring n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2512 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the offense of failure to wear a safety belt to a primary offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB3177 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of members of county boards of education to $12,000 a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the maximum weight amount for trucks equipped with six axles and two additional brakes to ninety-seven thousand pounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide teacher retirement eligibility, with full pension rights, when a member's age plus years of total service equals or exceeds eighty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2514 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to waive the requirement that a training course in handling and firing handguns must be completed prior to the issuance of a concealed weapons permit for veterans who served during a period of armed conflict.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3179 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the presiding officer of a juvenile proceeding to order a juvenile taken into custody or a law-enforcement official to take a juvenile into custody when there is probable cause to believe that juvenile has ille...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB87 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a system to assist farmers to make the transition from growing tobacco to growing other crops or pursuing other agricultural endeavors. The bill includes provisions which create the "Transition Program for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB2100 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit charitable organizations from soliciting contributions on public highways and providing a penalty for violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3186 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reclassify methamphetamine as a schedule II narcotic rather than a schedule II nonnarcotic which also increases the penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2101 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a modification in the state personal income tax by reducing the federal adjusted gross income for motor fuel expenses incurred in commuting to and from one's occupation at the mileage rate allowed at the federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2532 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the membership of the Racing Commission from three to five members and reorganizes the administrative functions of the West Virginia Racing Commission by establishing a State Racing Office and creating the positi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB3187 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing by the parent or by a notarized signature of the parent; and providing a fine on the first offense of ten times the amount of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that when, during the course of an abortion procedure, a fetus is aborted alive, that all available medical means be used to preserve its life. The bill would make a violation of the section a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2103 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to direct one half of any budget surplus in a fiscal year equally to every West Virginia family or individual whose gross income is within 200% of the poverty line in the form of a tax rebate to be mailed on July 1, 2007.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB90 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt insurance agents with twenty or more years' experience who are sixty-five years of age or older from being required to obtain continuing education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2539 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a tax credit to landlords who rent residential property to parolees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB3191 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the limitation on child support is tolled until the last child that is subject of an income withholding order reaches eighteen years of age or is legally emancipated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this section is to provide a student-to-school nurse ratio of 1:750 in the school year 2008-2009 and to eliminate contracts between county boards of education and county health departments for equivalent nursing services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2106 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Transportation Oversight Commission. The bill provides for the designation of five transportation districts with the selection of members of the commission from each district. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2546 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exclude disability income received by a veteran from the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security |
| HB3192 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the sentences relating to driving suspended and revoked; create an enhanced criminal penalty for driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol content of .15 or greater; create an enhanced criminal p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is relative to parental involvement in the minor's decision to obtain an abortion. The bill requires physicians to obtain proof of age prior to the performance of an abortion on a pregnant woman. The bill provides for a con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2107 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a deduction from the adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2556 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the institute for increased postsecondary education participation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3194 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to determine defendants' ability to pay costs of incarceration be done at time of sentencing; require arresting agency to pay cost of pretrial incarceration; and releasing persons charged with nonviolent and nondrug relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that accessible parking (formerly referred to as handicapped parking) violations will be considered motor vehicle violations and criminal offenses for certain penalty and record keeping purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2108 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property, or against school personnel or students who are on school property, a felony punishable by 25 years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2557 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a two-tiered personal income tax credit to parents or legal guardians who provide home or private, primary or secondary education for their children. The tax credit will be effective upon the completion of a sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3198 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Windfall Profit Tax Act. The bill includes provisions defining "windfall profit" while providing the tax applies to all corporations selling natural gas or petroleum products in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make changes to the disclosure requirements regarding fees in a mortgage loan, grant the commissioner the authority to issue a provisional mortgage license and to change time frame for hearings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2559 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the homestead exemption for low-income taxpayers who qualify for the homestead exemption for ad valorem property taxation purposes by ten thousand dollars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
