| HB2224 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase both the minimum annual disability benefits amount for a State Police officer and the minimum annual death benefits amount for a surviving spouse of a deceased State Police officer from six thousand dollars to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2849 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require all applicants for a license or learner's permit to be sight tested before receiving a license or permit; it requires specific driving restrictions based upon the extent of a driver's sight deficiency with sight...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2227 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a criminal offense for picketing or disrupting funerals or memorial services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2850 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set standards for school athletic directors. The bill also requires a high school to assign a full-time athletic director if the school has thirteen or more varsity sports, and at least a half-time athletic director if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2228 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit subsidies to entities that perform abortions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2851 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include sexual orientation and disability as a bias-based crime civil rights violation for purposes of criminal responsibility; and further removes unnecessary conspiracy provisions; and clarifies that the provisions of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2229 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Teachers Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2854 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the election of Public Service Commissioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2230 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that an employee has the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HB2855 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt all gallons of gasoline and propane gas for any church, religious sect, society or denomination or for the use or benefit of any church, religious sect, society or denomination as consumption use from the excise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2231 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2856 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of public service district board members; clarify when salary and expense payments may be made; and add sewer service to the salary schedule for public service districts which contract with others to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2232 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Literacy Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2857 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years. The main task of the redistricting office is to propose a plan to the Legislatur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Hospital Infections Disclosure Act which requires hospitals to disclose hospital-infection rates for the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2858 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise the grandparent visitation statute to include additional factors for consideration including the child's relationship with the parent contesting grandparent visitation; any history of abuse by the parent, any cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2235 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the willful obstruction or impediment of a funeral or interment service, and to prohibit demonstrations at a funeral or interment service within one thousand feet of the funeral home, church or cemetery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2859 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the state board to establish requirements for college readiness and work readiness credentials that certify to colleges and employers that a student has demonstrated the proficiencies needed to be successful. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2237 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent the taking of either checks, similar instruments or authorizations for electronic account debits in order to guarantee loans or cash advances by payday lenders or others.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2860 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add "sexual orientation" to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination in employment and places of public accommodations. This bill also adds "sexual orientation" to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2861 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HB2239 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Attorney General to comply with certain requirements when entering into contracts for legal services to be performed by persons other than full-time Assistant Attorneys General or other full-time employees o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2866 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require public notice of state plan amendments prior to submission for federal approval and increasing the membership of the Medicaid Advisory Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2240 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the reduction in the tax rate provided in this section of the West Virginia Code applies to mines operating before the effective date of the reduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2867 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize and encourage county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel and to obtain these services from regional education service agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that "Good Friday" is a state legal holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2869 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect consumers against the purchase of sick or underage pets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2243 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add language to make section consistent with previous amendments that allows comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the state board to count towards certain service personnel pay rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2871 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose upon a railroad company a one thousand dollar fine for violating any rule promulgated by the Public Service Commission and if not corrected within fifteen days, doubling the amount of the fine for every day of no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2245 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2873 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a procedure for committing violent sex offenders after they have served prison terms or when they have been found unfit to stand trial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2246 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau of the West Virginia State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2878 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require school boards to set and maintain reliable bussing schedules for bussing students and to limit the duration of travel for the students, based upon their age group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2247 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the maintenance of sufficient grab bars in hotel and motel rooms which have been set aside or designated to serve the needs of disabled patrons, to reduce the prospect of injury caused by falls in tubs and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2879 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a supplement of three percent to be paid to all annuitants of the Public Employees' Retirement and Teachers' Retirement Systems at the time they reach the age of seventy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect a mother's right to breast feed a child in any location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2880 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the use of a credit score to banking institution credit scoring for casualty insurance rate filings; to prohibit the use of credit scoring as a consideration in calculating insurance rates in homeowners or automob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2249 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make it a misdemeanor to fail to provide women with all available reproductive alternatives and to provide criminal penalties for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2252 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2883 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the fines to stores selling tobacco products to minors; increase the fines to anyone furnishing tobacco or liquor to a minor; and to increase fines for anyone under age twenty-one using false identification to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2255 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require bids under state contract to disclose the location of work to be performed or risk state termination of the contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2884 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to promote intellectual diversity and academic freedom in institutions of higher education. It protects faculty and students from discrimination resulting from political or religious beliefs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2257 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add a magistrate to those serving Putnam County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2888 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the fines for violations of hunting and fishing laws by nonresidents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2258 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Division of Natural Resources from approving or rejecting any certification issued under the provisions of 33 U.S.C. §1344. It also prohibits the director from requiring additional mitigation as a con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2889 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the arresting agency pays the cost incurred for the initial twenty-four hours of incarceration for each inmate they arrest and incarcerate. Additionally, the bill defines "arresting agency."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2259 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Self-Employment Assistance Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Industry & Labor, Economic Development & Small Business Committee |
| HB2890 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exclude federal interest income when applying $8,000 income exclusion available to persons age 65 or older and to persons who are permanently and totally disabled regardless of age and making the change retroactive to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2260 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a new article which proposes to provide a less complex, more expedient way for a party controlling the majority interest in a coal tract securing a coal lease to develop and recover the coal. This new article...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2896 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Court to enter mutually restrictive conditions in protective orders issued in domestic violence cases that require both parties to refrain from contacting or being within a certain proximity of the other. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
