| HB4553 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a part-time prosecuting attorney to request the State Auditor's opinion regarding whether a county has sufficient funding to employ a full- time prosecuting attorney; to authorize the part-time prosecuting at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB708 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the name of the Division of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Veterans Assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Government Organization |
| SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the "West Virginia Volunteer Firefighter Length of Service Act"; and to create a fund to be used for pensions for volunteer firefighters with twenty years service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Finance |
| SB714 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to pay the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards salary bonus to the holders of certificates awarded to them during employment as a classroom teacher if they are subsequently employed as a school principal, as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a recruitment bonus for new math, science and special education teachers, or teachers filling positions that have remained vacant for one year or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Finance |
| SB502 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow penalties collected under the Department of Environmental Protection's blasting program to be deposited in the Special Reclamation Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
On second reading to Finance |
| SB290 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the fine for health care professionals whose licenses may be expired, lapsed or terminated who practice for less than three months and to specify as a felony the unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4520 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that workers on public improvement projects valued at one million dollars or more be covered by health care insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB193 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow consumer lenders to sell home and automobile membership plans to their customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB768 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to designate the seventh day of December, "Pearl Harbor Day," as a legal state holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Military Committee |
| HB4629 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the check cashing service fee making it consistent with the national average which is 3%-government, 5%-payroll and 10% for personal checks of the face value of the check cashed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4630 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a recognizance secured by execution of a bail bond is void upon the finding that the accused person is guilty, and to terminate bond liability at that time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4631 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give county school superintendents more flexibility and ease in placing service personnel workers in positions of need on a day-to-day basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB771 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the secretary of education and the arts to enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private entities to support Nontraditional Career Development Centers in assisting displaced homemakers or single paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB4632 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate dangerous and vicious dogs within the state of West Virginia and to provide regulatory requirements for owners or custodians of dangerous and criminal penalties for failing to comply with the provisions. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB772 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate the practice of marriage and family therapy by establishing the Marriage and Family Therapy Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB4633 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to approval of a student for homebound services and their rights
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the stabilization of property tax increases for property owned, used and occupied by senior citizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4634 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a funding mechanism for Child Advocacy Centers from the Crime Victim's Compensation Fund
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB774 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify, that, notwithstanding the other terms of this section, the West Virginia Public Service Commission may authorize a water utility to implement a tariff incorporating reduced rates for low-income residential cust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4635 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the definition of limited health service
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4638 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require coal prospectors to record certain geological information and to report said information to the department of environmental protection. The bill also provides for the sharing of geological information recorded ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4639 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the OxyContin Asset Forfeiture Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4640 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to mandate the State Bar through the Insurance Commissioner require lawyers to use doctors chosen for an independent panel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4641 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a Public Service Commission investigator for traffic accidents involving a motor carrier regulated by the Public Service Commission and in which an individual suffers severe bodily injury or death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4642 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to specifically authorize the Commissioner of Highways to seek the advice of, and consult with, county commissions and prosecuting attorneys with regard to all roads in and outside of the state road system located in their...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4645 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide pastured racehorses with care that is the same or substantially similar to the care they received when being used for racing purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4646 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include on the state personal income tax return a checkoff option to donate some or all of any tax refund to the "Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Checkoff Program" for the operation of the camp.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4647 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county commissions to hold public hearings to gather public opinion and comments prior to public question elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4648 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define "caving" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4649 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase certain penalties for persons convicted of domestic battery and domestic assault including the requirement that they complete an approved batterers' course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4650 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to elect all justices to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and all circuit court judges on a nonpartisan basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4651 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to consolidate all gambling- related functions within the Department of Revenue into a single gaming commission. The State Gaming Commission would also include the current state athletic (boxing) commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4652 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to insure that tobacco products are not sold in any packaging other than the original factory wrapped package and to insure that cigarettes are not sold individually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4653 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a beer licensee to locate within three hundred feet of a church if agreed to by the church under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4654 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the use of some lands for nonenergy related purposes in "growth counties."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4655 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limiting the valuation of any property still owned by the same person or persons who owned the property at the time of the previous periodic valuation, the property's assessed value may not be greater than one and seven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4656 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require lobbyists and lawyers when performing lobbying services to pay service tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4657 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill gives a ten per cent franchise tax credit to those home builders who sell more than ten homes for less than two hundred, fifty thousand dollars that are greater than one thousand, two square feet, provided those homes are sold to public sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4658 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying certain terms of participation in the Public Employees Insurance Agency
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4659 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the use of tax exempt property by auctioneers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4660 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to procedures for municipal police officers and firemen investigations and hearings
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4661 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminating civil service protection for probationary law-enforcement officers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4662 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Division of Motor Vehicles to notify the West Virginia State Police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4663 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add one magistrate to Wood County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4666 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for access to driver's license information to licensed private investigators and licensed security services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4667 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4668 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund by dedicating five cents per ounce of the uniform price of alcoholic liquors sold in this state to the fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4671 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is authorize the chief technology officer to receive confidential records and have access to agencies' databases which may contain confidential information, while accepting the responsibility to safeguard this information as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4672 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize certified animal euthanasia technicians to administer a sedative to an animal prior to euthanizing if warranted to humanely euthanize the animal or to protect the animal euthanasia technician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
