| SB556 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for prior written authorization for the towing of motor vehicles without the consent of the owner or operator, and to provide for criminal background checks for drivers of tow vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| SB72 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
Senate adopted conference report and rejected bill (Roll No. 84) |
| SB332 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide regulations and disclosure requirements for loans applied for in anticipation of an income tax return.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| SB600 | Engross
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 "age" and "sexual o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| HB4482 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow payments from the Parkways Authority to the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreational Authority to continue past the nine-year limitation in the statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
To conference |
| SB699 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the OxyContin Asset Forfeiture Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| HB4333 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an insurance company to withhold a specified amount from insurance proceeds to cover costs of fire cleanup of a structure within a municipality under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| SB735 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to dedicate 5% of every million dollars of certain severance taxes for the use and benefit of the counties and municipalities from which those taxes were generated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the severance tax on timber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| HB4074 | Engross
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] | 2008-03-07
House Message received |
| HB4092 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the requirements for licensure as a forester or forestry technician and give the Board of Foresters rule-making authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-07
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| HB4665 | Engross
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] | 2008-03-06
On second reading to Finance |
| HB4496 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the voluntary transfer of assets from the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System ("TDC") to the State Teachers Retirement System ("TRS"); to provide an election on the question...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
House Message received |
| HB4047 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of cell phone and text-messaging devices while operating a motor vehicle except when using a hands-free device or in the case of an emergency. This bill also prohibits the use of a cell phone by a scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
On second reading to Judiciary |
| HB2930 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
On second reading to Judiciary |
| HB3122 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include persons who served honorably in the National Guard and reserves as eligible veterans for preference in employment training and employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
To Finance |
| HB4487 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exclude a driver's or involved person's social security number from motor vehicle accident reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
To Judiciary |
| HB4329 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for an optional two-year registration period for motorcycles by collecting either one full year or two full year's fees. The bill also contains a provision to facilitate a change to expiration dates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
On second reading to Finance |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
