| HCR33 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting that the Joint Committee on Government and Finance authorize the study of an increase in the prevalence of coal workers' pneumoconiosis
[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 |
| HCR61 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to study the development of an intermodal transportation facility to promote economic development in Southern West Virginia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To Transportation and Infrastructure |
| 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 |
| SR25 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress reauthorize Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HCR72 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to study existing autism services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To Health and Human Resources |
| SR28 | Pass | Designating February 28, 2008, "Higher Education Day"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Completed legislative action |
| HCR75 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to authorize the study of the creation of a new retirement system for conservation officers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Rules Committee |
| HCR76 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to study the feasibility of providing for the motor vehicle registration and licensing of mini trucks for restricted use on public roads and highways
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Rules Committee |
| HCR77 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to study the administration and enforcement of oil and gas wells
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
To House Rules 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 |
| HR28 | Pass | Commemorating the life of Charles E. "Tate" Lohr, former member of the House of Delegates from Mercer County
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Completed legislative action |
| 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 |
| HB4148 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize that net settlement proceeds held for a minor may be invested in a Smart529 college savings plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Judiciary |
| SB567 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose regulations on the use and operation of all-terrain vehicles. The bill prohibits operation on paved roads or highways and provides for regulation of all-terrain vehicles by local government authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB65 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the school uniforms incentive plan pilot program to provide funding for certain public elementary schools which adopt and implement school uniform policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Education Committee |
| SB597 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Sesquicentennial Committee and Fund to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the State of West Virginia; establish membership and compensation; provide the powers and duties of the committee provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB3204 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow certain counties to regulate blasting with the use of explosives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Government Organization |
| SB611 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement for a minimum of eighteen hours of course work for alternative routes to certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Education Committee |
| HB4507 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enable the West Virginia National Guard to receive federal and state funds for national security and homeland security purposes; to develop and administer security programs; and the hiring of employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Military |
| SB652 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to attract private investment for financing, construction and operation of additional public cottages at Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park. The bill authorizes and directs the Director of the Division of Natural Resources...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB658 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enable the Division of Motor Vehicles to create and issue "Stop Domestic Violence" license plates for passenger vehicles and motorcycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB667 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to strengthen the financial condition of municipal policemen's and firemen's pensions and relief funds. The bill provides for new revenue by increased contributions by active members and municipalities, by increased insura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| SR26 | Pass | Memorializing Robert James Gould, former Senate employee
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Completed legislative action |
| SR27 | Pass | Designating February 27, 2008, "West Virginia Home School Day"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Completed legislative action |
| SB686 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the planning, construction, and expansion of new or existing water, sewer, gas, telecommunication lines or facilities and other infrastructure in conjunction with the the construction of the new roads proje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4037 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce state income taxes for certain county, state and federal retirees by increasing the amount excluded from their retirement income in calculating the federal gross income for state personal income tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Finance |
| SB697 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enable the Chief Medical Examiner to determine qualifications for persons who may obtain samples and conduct blood tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB720 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to specifically include the surviving spouse and a designated individual previously chosen by the deceased as a person who may designate the manner of disposition of a deceased person's body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4608 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to a study and investigation on issues in connection with creating a pilot program for child day care centers operated by the state
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Health and Human Resources |
| SB750 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require waiting periods after three failures on examinations for adjuster and insurance producer licenses; allowing for continuing education credit for active annual membership in professional organizations or associati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB4611 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Service Commission to institute additional rulemaking proceedings to update safety rules and regulations pertaining to walkways along railtracks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Judiciary |
| HB4616 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to health reimbursement accounts for local government employees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
To Government Organization |
| HB4618 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate the business of viatical settlements between insureds and viatical settlement companies with respect to life insurance policies. This bill will regulate how the company will operate its business; will require l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying certain terms of Public Employees Insurance Agency participation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| HR27 | Pass | Commemorating the life of Richard Lee "Dick" Schwartz, former member of the House of Delegates from Tucker County
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Completed legislative action |
| HB4384 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for the expansion of the number of members of boards of zoning appeal from five to seven.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
To Government Organization |
