| SB701 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Broadband Deployment Council and to develop a strategy and mechanism to be employed in extending broadband to every West Virginian by stimulating demand for broadband services and by constructing the necessar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB703 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce all solid waste assessment fees in West Virginia effective after the date the solid waste facility in McDowell County receives forty-five thousand tons of solid waste in any month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB707 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to legalize and regulate the selling of fireworks; to impose a special ten per cent fee on the sale of fireworks; and to use those proceeds for pensions for qualified volunteer firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB711 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the circumstances under which the West Virginia State Police is responsible for the payment of medical expenses associated with injuries received in the performance of official duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB713 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the use of force, including deadly force, against an intruder or attacker in a dwelling, residence, or vehicle under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB716 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the definitions of "shallow" and "deep" wells to allow a shallow well to be drilled deeper and provide clarity to both definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB717 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia State Police Higher Education Security Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB718 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a procedure for 911 operators to dispatch emergency calls for service to law enforcement in a fair and equitable manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB719 | 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] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB721 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt insurance burial policies from assignment by Medicaid recipients to the Department of Health and Human Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB723 | 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 Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the provision allowing a bail posted by someone other than the person under bail to be forfeited for failure to comply with a condition of bail, other than that to appear.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is regulate the sale of beverages in schools. It requires the State Board of Education to establish nutrition standards for such sales. It further provides that proceeds from sales from federally funded nutrition programs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB726 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a fund for the repair of bridges in Class III and Class IV municipalities when there is an immediate need for the repairs. The bill provides for administration by the West Virginia Economic Development Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change one of the sources of funding for county and regional solid waste authorities from landfill tipping fees to collection fees in recognition of the important services provided by county solid waste authorities and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB728 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to strengthen the prohibition of the taking of lawfully-owned firearms and ammunition in a declared state of emergency or riot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4589 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB729 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement of the use of a social security number in securing any state services or assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4590 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit classification of real property as managed timberland to prevent county property tax revenues from decreasing by more than five percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove obsolete statutory language pertaining to the carrying of deadly weapons by Department of Administration security officers, county park police officers, and municipal airport police officers. This bill also clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4591 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living provision for certain public employee retirement annuitants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make it easier for banking institutions to maintain the collateral levels needed to serve as depositories of public moneys. This bill accomplishes this purpose in three ways: First, depositories for municipal and coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB4592 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB732 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes: Limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms; defining terms; repeals language concerning county and municipal ordinances restricting firearms or ammunition; creates additional exceptions to certain restrictions on where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand technology infrastructure to provide broadband Internet access throughout the State of West Virginia; create the Electronic Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Act (ETOPIA); provide definitions for terms used i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB4594 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to sign National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB734 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs as a cabinet in the Governor's office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB4595 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a corporate net income tax credit of $2,000 per employee, per year, against the net corporate income tax for qualified health insurance policies provided by corporate employers to employees. The maximum yearly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB4596 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act, allowing for a caregiver who is not a parent, legal custodian or guardian of a minor to consent to health care for a minor through an affidavit. The bill provides for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4597 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit wagering at animal fighting ventures and providing a felony criminal penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB737 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the use of eminent domain by electronic transmission companies who do not have customers in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4598 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require annual adjustments of certain provider payments under agreements entered into under the provisions of chapters 16 (Public Health), 27 (Mentally Ill Persons) or 49 (Child Welfare) of the West Virginia Code, based...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB738 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include pharmacists and pharmacies in the definition of health care provider related to the Medical Professional Liability Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4599 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities; and dismissal from employment for violation of section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the definition of nonintoxicating beer so that craft beers are included.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4600 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require operators of mining sites to include the affects mining will have on cemeteries in close proximity to or included on the mining site.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4601 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to help better prepare the youth of West Virginia to succeed in life by providing them with an understanding of the great economic system known as capitalism. This bill would direct the State Board of Education to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB741 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to bring the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act up to current regulations and provide for financing regulations for development of infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| HB4602 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to maintain the peace in rural residential areas by providing for a public nuisance law for residential areas outside incorporated municipalities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB742 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill clarifies the purpose of the Purchasing Division by omitting the reference to leasing; requires bids to be based on written specifications; permits director to effectively negotiate; repeals the requirement for the director to establish a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB4603 | Intro
Sine Die | Making a supplementary appropriation to the state Bureau of Senior Services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB743 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for the leasing of school buses for the transportation of voters to the polls for general and special elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB4604 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Legislature to appropriate funds to the Small Claims Compensation Fund every six months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB744 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit surviving spouses of law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty to have a special license plate. The bill also expands the definition of those individuals who qualify as a law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB4605 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make the renewal or extension of a cellular telephone contract over the telephone without reducing the terms to writing an unfair or deceptive act or practice; and make the charging of a cancellation fee for cancelling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is related to definitions of qualified continuing care retirement community and designated common areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB4606 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give credit for energy savings when a solar heating water system is installed on a residential property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB748 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a $2,000 salary increase for socials workers and nurses at state hospitals that did not receive a $2,000 salary increase in 2007.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB4609 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Lottery Commission to require gaming facilities to issue monthly statements that list patrons' gaming winnings and losses, when a card or other data collecting method is used for this information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide Medicaid coverage for ventilator patient care at health facilities and to update the certificate of need standards applicable to ventilator services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
