| 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 |
| HB2727 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a new criminal offense based on acts of violence against a pregnant woman that result in a miscarriage or stillbirth of her fetus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB3238 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit legislators from enrolling in the State Retirement System while providing legislators may elect to direct contributions deducted for retirement pensions into self-directed 401(K) pension plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a nonrefundable earned income tax credit from the state personal income tax for taxpayers with qualifying children. The earned income tax credit is equal to 15% of the federal credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2155 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to establish a special fund for the purpose of paying certain bail bonds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2730 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this section is to provide a student-to-school nurse ratio of 1:750 in the school year two thousand seven--two thousand eight and to eliminate contracts between county boards of education and county health departments for equivalent n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3240 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend the provisions of the higher education flexibility act to institutions of higher education that offer graduate degrees and are not or are no longer administratively linked to another institution of higher educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a voluntary program to control and prevent infections in hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers and other health care facilities in this state. The bill provides for the appointment of the Infection Control A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2156 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to equalize the number and alternate the selection of juror strikes between the prosecuting attorney and the accused in the trial of a felony. The bill also corrects a spelling error in existing code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2734 | 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 and prohibiting cancellation of property insurance for claims made by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3242 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Sentencing Commission and setting forth its membership, responsibilities, powers and duties. The bill also requires that the commission evaluate the state's sentencing and correctional laws and policies and ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit timbering operations within five hundred feet of any stream in this state that harbors native brook trout. Towards this goal the bill creates criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2157 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit discrimination in rates by insurance companies because of having filed claims under the uninsured and under insured coverage of an automobile insurance policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2735 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide the news media with limited immunity from disclosure of information obtained in the gathering or dissemination of news.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3246 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a discounted motor vehicle registration fee to members of volunteer fire departments. Members would receive two years' motor vehicle registration upon payment of a one-year registration fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require PEIA Finance Board to assume responsibility for medical and prescription coverage of retirees in the event any Medicare Advantage Program contract is not renewed or is otherwise terminated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| HB2158 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a base starting pay and retention salary increases for Division of Protective Services law-enforcement officers, excluding the Director and Deputy Director.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2737 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of any animal in animal fighting ventures and to expand the application felony criminal penalties to include additional activities carried on for the purpose of supporting animal fighting. Attending an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3247 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enter West Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Under the compact, the state agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require employers receiving fifty percent of their revenues or greater from state funds, must remain neutral in labor issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2159 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to encourage state and local governmental entities to display the national motto, "In God We Trust."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3250 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require assisted living residences to maintain adequate auxiliary power sources to generate electricity in the event of an extended power outage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit certain asbestos claims, provide for the fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims arising out of asbestos or silica exposure, to ensure that individuals who suffer imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to hold a public hearing and obtain approval from the county commission prior to issuing a first-time license for private club or upon the transfer of a license to a pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2744 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to equally compensate all state magistrates at the higher tier salary schedule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3252 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to institute a "Celebrate Freedom Week" and require the instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other founding American historical documents, including the Bill of Rights, during this week...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline and to define it as an unfair or deceptive practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2161 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to produce revenue by imposition of a tax upon the sale or rental of obscene materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2749 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Insurance Commissioner to review and report to the Legislature in an actuarially-based fashion the financial and other related impacts of any proposed legislation to mandate medical or health-related benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB3253 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revert the 911 fee on wireless telephones from three dollars to seventy-five cents while reverting the distribution formula for 911 fees to a pro rata share of total fee revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to designate English as the official language of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2162 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of the bill is to allow covered persons to assign their benefits to providers and establishes criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2750 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that county boards of education may, in cooperation with local public or regional transit authorities study the feasibility of entering into cooperative agreements to transport students to and from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3254 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority to present any proposed toll revision to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require insurers to cover the cost of smoking cessation services acquired by covered persons, just as it would for any other medication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2163 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the required minimum liability insurance required on a motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2752 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require all executive agencies to report to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Delegates and President of the Senate notices of disallowances or potential disallowances of federal funds within sixty days of receipt t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB3256 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the Code of West Virginia and adopting in lieu thereof, the Code of the Commonwealth of Virginia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose excise taxes on certain unauthorized substances, including cocaine, certain low-street-value drugs, marijuana, certain controlled substances, illicit alcoholic liquor, certain beer, certain wine and mash.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require lien holders to notify the sheriff's office via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days after the lien has been satisfied; require that the lien be removed from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2753 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that all state income tax taxpayers receive a reduction of five percent across-the-board in their income tax rates. It includes legislative findings that support these tax rate reductions and call for commensur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB3258 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit elected state officials from lobbying before two years after their term of office expires.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require principals to take on greater authority and control over teachers' classroom teaching performance. Toward this goal the bill requires the State Board of Education to propose rules for legislative approval desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide justification to use deadly force when a pregnant woman reasonably believes that her unborn child's life is threatened, even though the pregnant woman does not fear for her own life.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2754 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that employers perform criminal background checks of persons who are to work as in-home health care providers prior to employment and annually thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB3259 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2167 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide economies of scale and reduce costs by requiring that purchases made by a county board of education be made through the regional education service agency serving that county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB3261 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make English the official state language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
