| HB2268 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that the Joint Committee on Government and Finance approve any proposed settlement involving the Office of the Attorney General while, additionally, providing that any proceeds received in any civil action invol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2901 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish a work program for qualified inmates sentenced to a regional jail facility. It includes provisions specify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2269 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit law-enforcement officers from asking crime victims if they have insurance coverage to cover losses occasioned by criminal activity. The rationale for the proposal is that law enforcement have less incentive to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2902 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a woman of child bearing age to complete an advance directive as provided, and to allow her to specify a special directive in the event that she is left in a terminal condition while pregnant, or is in a persisten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2270 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide West Virginia students with a partial PROMISE scholarship for schooling outside the state for the reason that no in-state institution offers a course for a major or a degree in the student's desired field.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2904 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an emergency contraception education program within the Department of Health and Human Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2272 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow bus operators for county school systems to carry-over years of experience operating buses for purposes of determining seniority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2905 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity without fear of disciplinary action or dismissal. The bill also prescribes a criminal fine for violations of the sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2273 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit businesses or organizations from using a public facility to perform abortions; and providing for a penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2906 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a mandatory sentence of fifteen years for any person who maliciously shoots a police officer on duty, while providing a mandatory sentence of ten years for any person who unlawfully, but not maliciously, shoots ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2274 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to calculating child support under the extended shared parenting plan
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2911 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a framework to avoid imposition of policies and practices on the public schools that distract from the education process. The bill contains the following provisions in furtherance of its primary purpose, as afo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that making a false statement to a law-enforcement officer in the conduct of an investigation is a misdemeanor offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2913 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include conservation officers in the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2276 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for nonprofit organizations to hold up to two charitable Texas hold'em tournaments per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2914 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose regulations on the use and operation of all-terrain vehicles. Toward this end, the bill contains provisions addressing the following: (1) Prohibiting operation on paved roads or highways; (2) prohibiting operati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2277 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to end the practice of county clerks offices paying for tax lien real estate purchasers' required notices to redeem, by requiring purchasers of real estate subject to tax liens to pay for each and every notice to redeem.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2919 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require persons incarcerated for sex offenses to register as such at the time they are incarcerated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2278 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide salary increases for state employees based upon residential housing costs. The employee shall receive an annual salary increase of two percent of the employee's regular salary for every ten percent that residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2920 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to subject persons convicted of sexual offenses against minors who are on parole or probation to "GPS" monitoring for the duration of their life.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to impose term limitations on legislators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2279 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a special primitive black powder muzzle-loading rifle deer hunting season and requiring a stamp therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2921 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the inclusion of additional information on the sex offender registry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $50,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2280 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of actual and honorable service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2922 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt certain physicians from obtaining Medicaid preauthorization before dispensing or prescribing immunosuppressives or medications for treatment of cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HJR3 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $30,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2283 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to notify persons residing out-of-state who write worthless checks in this state and who after being served with a summons upon a worthless check complaint fail to pay the check and applicable fine or fail to make an appe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2923 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase criminal penalties for the illegal killing, taking or possessing of certain wild life.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to provide constitutionally that the Legislature appropriate one percent of the state's General Revenue Fund to the Division of Natural Resources each fiscal year to be used to promote and preserve the state's natura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2284 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow certified law-enforcement officers to transfer to other departments in the state and retain all civil service status from the previous department in which they were employed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2924 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is eliminate good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR5 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this Resolution is to propose an amendment to the State Constitution that would increase the terms of members of the House of Delegates from two to four years, and would increase the terms of members of the State Senate from four to si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear, the person shall have his or her privilege to drive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2925 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to relieve the burden imposed on counties of incarcerating inmates in regional jails by changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected so that it is shared by the county, state and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR6 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to change the term limit of sheriffs from two to three consecutive terms and to eliminate language stating that if a sheriff has served "any part" of a term then that portion counts as one of the terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2292 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the state minimum salary increment rates for principals and assistant principals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2927 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a state income tax exemption to retired federal employees retirement pensions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HJR8 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to section fourteen, article VII of the West Virginia Constitution, relating to creating a veto session of the Legislature to consider bills vetoed by the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a properly certified person to examine underground mines after cutting and welding has been performed to determine if there are any hot spots not previously undiscovered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HB2928 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalty for driving under the influence causing death from one to ten years to five to fifteen years in prison.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR9 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to restrain the growth of government by limiting the amount of revenues and expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2295 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make the fifty percent discount on campground rental fees at state parks for West Virginia senior citizens available year-round, instead of during the "off-season" only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2929 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the felony offense of possession of one gram or more of cocaine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR10 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this Resolution is to amend the State Constitution to give the people the powers of initiative, referendum and recall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2296 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the consumer's right to know regarding telemarketers; to require certain vendors to use only persons authorized to work in the United States; to establish customer's right to know a customer sales or customer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this Resolution is to amend the Constitution to provide for single senatorial and delegate districts, and for the Senate to be comprised of thirty-four members and the House of Delegates to be comprised of one hundred members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2297 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a ten percent discount to West Virginia residents for lodging, camping and other recreational activities at state parks and forests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to prohibit the taking of private property for private use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Constitutional Revision Committee |
| HB2298 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for increased compensation for aides and paraprofessionals with large numbers of pupils in kindergarten and grades 1-6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
