| SB779 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting hotel occupancy proceeds paid to certain convention and visitors' bureaus
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB533 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend various requirements for motor vehicle dealers. The bill expands the authority of the Dealer Recovery Fund Control Board to award claims; raises the minimum bond required of dealers during their first three years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading |
| SB534 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a Cigarette Fire Safety Standard and Firefighter Protection Act requiring certain cigarette ignition propensity standards; and establishing criteria for implementation of this article.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4669 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Director of the Division of Natural Resources to create multi-year hunting, fishing and trapping licenses in increments of three, five or ten years. The director is authorized to set fees for the multi-ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 2nd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB2039 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer loan agreements by regulated consumer lenders in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 2nd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4690 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that homeowners are adequately informed, prior to signing a contract for construction, of the nature of the licensed contractor's insurance coverage, including whether the insurance policy will cover damages resu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4466 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the powers of the Office of Consumer Advocacy within the Office of the Insurance Commissioner
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 2nd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4525 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to place the Weatherization Program under the control of the Division of Energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for payment of General Educational Development (GED) exam fees for certain individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Recommitted to Finance on 2nd reading |
| HB4534 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a five hundred dollar credit against personal income tax for the purchase of new wood and pellet stoves that meet certain criteria. The bill also permits a yearly two hundred fifty dollar tax credit for the purch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| SB676 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the liability of the section of Parks and Recreation of the Division of Natural Resources, county parks and recreation commissions, boards of park and recreation commissioners and owners of land used for public pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4026 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to restrict public access to concealed weapons permit records. The bill permits inspection of licenses by such persons as guardians of the licensee, executor or administrator, if licensee is deceased, attorney or other ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4027 | Intro
Sine Die | Transferring administration of the donated food program from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4549 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that volunteer fire departments are not required to pay into the Workers' Compensation Fund for time during which they are not performing on- duty functions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4552 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to water utility rates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit to taxpayers which do not satisfy the new jobs percentage requirement prescribed for the credit allowed under chapter eleven, article thirteen Q.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Recommitted to Finance on 3rd reading |
| HB4052 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish an advisory council on maternal risk assessment within the Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health and to grant legislative rule-making authority to the Bureau for Public Health to develop a uniform matern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
On second reading to Finance |
| HB4062 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is for certification of professional educators; authorizing holders of K-8 certificates to teach departmentalized courses for which certified; authorizing alternative education programs for certified teachers to obtain additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 2nd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4070 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the closing hours of private clubs from three a.m. or three-thirty to two a.m. every day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 2nd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB2934 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add "craft beer" to the state definition of "nonintoxicating beers".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 2nd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB4593 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt persons with masters or a doctorate degree in marriage or family therapy from being licensed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of the bill is to create an Office for Oral Health under the Bureau for Public Health and to authorize a full time director.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
Recommitted to Government Organization on 3rd reading |
| SB770 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce landfill solid waste assessment fees in West Virginia effective on the first day of a calendar month that begins 60 days after a three consecutive month period during which the average tonnage of solid waste disp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| SB520 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize municipalities to provide administrative procedures for the assessment and collection of delinquent municipal fees, with the right to appeal to circuit court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4125 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the faculty senate funds available to classroom teachers and librarians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To Finance |
| SB777 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing Marshall University and West Virginia University to manage certain real property
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB524 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require strict liability for a person who manufactures, sells or dispenses meth, LSD, PCP or any other schedule I or II controlled substances which causes another person's death; and penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4643 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to encourage the development of minority businesses in this state by establishing an Office of Minority Business Development within the West Virginia Development Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To Economic Development |
| SB783 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifying County Economic Opportunity Development Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| SB786 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing Department of Administration's Real Estate Division to acquire real property
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| SB787 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing mini-trucks' registration
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB559 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of net terminal income allocated to the Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4708 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize law enforcement officers to use citations in lieu of arrest warrants for certain offenses, no longer requiring that a law enforcement officer personally witness a misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To Judiciary |
| SB390 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Requirements Governing Water Quality Standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB666 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit fraternal organizations to use proceeds from charitable raffles in any manner consistent with its charter and not contrary to law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| SB165 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to lay out the procedure for county school boards to return unused donated personal leave days back to the donors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| SB677 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify restrictions relating to shooting and discharging firearms near residences, parks and certain other public places. The bill would allow the shooting and discharging firearms within five hundred feet of any dwell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB681 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Beckley-Raleigh County Building Code Authority to oversee operations of the Beckley-Raleigh County Code Enforcement Department and to adopt and enforce the state building code in Beckley and Raleigh County. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB693 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a senior resident lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license that will cost fifteen dollars Persons who are sixty-five years of age before the first day of January, two thousand nine, are grandfathered in.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4568 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require accident and sickness insurance providers and health maintenance organizations to cover certain Lyme disease treatments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| SB456 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Antidegradation Implementation Procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB462 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the age of consent for refusal of mental health treatment from twelve to eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB473 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to address Constitutional and other concerns left open after the passage of SB712 during the 2007 Regular Session. The bill sets application procedures for and restricts issuance of waivers of statutory raw product produc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB248 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that West Virginia will not participate in the "REAL ID Act of 2005" enacted by the United States Congress in Public Law 109-13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB251 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the exemption for employees or officers of West Virginia or any of its political subdivisions from the licensing and regulatory provisions that apply to land surveyors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB769 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill would continue the permissible appropriation of Public Employees Insurance Reserve Fund moneys to the bureau for medical services of the Department of Health and Human Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| SB782 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating Special Manufacturing Inventory Property Valuation Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| SB785 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing alcohol use by minor as juvenile delinquent offense
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4134 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the sale of less than twenty packaged cigarettes. It requires federally mandated warnings on all cigarettes sold. And, the bill provides a misdemeanor penalty of a fine of $250.00 for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Judiciary |
| HB4396 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide time frames (ten years following the last date of treatment or contract for adults) for retention of medical and other health care records, including diagnostic media, and methods for destruction of the records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Health and Human Resources |
