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SB257PassThe purpose of this bill is to repeal outdated provisions of the West Virginia Code relating to the operation of the penitentiary by the Commissioner of Public Institutions, the hiring of inmates as domestics and the hiring out of inmates by contract...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 33, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB258PassThe purpose of this bill is to repeal outdated provisions of the West Virginia Code relating to the Huttonsville Correctional Center.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 34, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB262PassThe purpose of this bill is to repeal outdated provisions of the West Virginia Code relating to Denmar State Hospital.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 35, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB263PassThe purpose of this bill is to update various provisions of the code relating to the Division of Corrections. The bill would:
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2008-04-08
Chapter 40, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB775PassRelating to state parks and state forests
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2008-04-08
Chapter 157, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB9PassThe purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to prescribe an orientation program in firearms and firearms safety in the public schools of this state with the advice of the Division of Natural Resources.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 73, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB265PassThe purpose of this bill is to provide a methodology for the valuation of all aircraft owned or leased by commercial airlines, charter carriers, private carriers, private companies or private firms, for property tax purposes.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 208, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB778PassRelating to veterans' benefits
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2008-04-08
Chapter 226, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB780PassRelating to Public Employees Grievance Procedure
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2008-04-08
Chapter 175, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB13PassThe purpose of this bill is to modify the West Virginia Dental Practice Act by: Clarifying definitions; clarifying powers of the board; clarifying temporary permits; establishing a special license for volunteers who are retired and volunteer their d...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 162, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB781PassRelating to service of suggestee execution and notice
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2008-04-08
Chapter 143, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB270PassThe purpose of this bill is to eliminate provisions that require circuit clerks to handle and disburse inmates moneys. This provision was necessary when the counties were responsible for housing inmates. All inmates are now housed in either a region...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 118, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB271PassEstablishing grievance procedure for State Police
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2008-04-08
Chapter 200, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB272PassClarifying "telemarketing solicitation" definition
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2008-04-08
Chapter 224, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB784PassRelating to reforming, altering or modifying county government
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2008-04-08
Chapter 42, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB535PassThe purpose of this bill is to make the interlock program available to first time offenders while also increasing incentives for participation in the program; increased periods on the interlock program for aggravating circumstances involving a second...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 70, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB280PassThe purpose of this bill is to promote development of municipal areas which are unusable without extraordinary expenditures.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 46, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB536PassThe purpose of this bill is to exempt vehicles operated by the Supreme Court of Appeals from registration requirements for state cars.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB545PassThe purpose of this bill is to require electronic filing of tax returns for taxpayers that satisfy the threshold requirements; to authorize the combining of tax assessments resulting from one audit; to authorize the Tax Commissioner to promulgate rul...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 211, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB291PassThe purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor to appoint an additional judge to the twenty-second Judicial Circuit consisting of Pendleton County, Hardy County and Hampshire County to alleviate case load.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 52, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB292PassThe purpose of this bill is to permit bond claims by the Commissioner of Banking to collect unpaid civil administrative penalties and unpaid examination invoices while allowing priority for pending consumer claims.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 17, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB552PassThe purpose of this bill is to provide an alternative means of equitably collecting and remitting telecommunications taxes, fees and charges applicable to prepaid wireless calling arrangements.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 216, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB553PassThe purpose of this bill is to create the permitting information ombudsman in the Governor's Office of Technology; to establish the ombudsman's authority; establishing the duty of agencies to provider permitting information; development of permitting...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 5, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB305PassThe purpose of this bill is to clarify procedures for seizing abandoned, neglected or cruelly treated animals.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 9, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB564PassThe purpose of this bill is to remove the age limitation for spouses of deceased service men and women to be eligible for special education benefits; to repeal unclear language on granting tuition and fee waivers; change method of calculation limits ...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 81, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB309PassThe purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of the Secretary of Transportation and the Commissioner of Highways when one person is performing both duties.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 198, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB311PassThe purpose of this bill is to allow judges in particular instances to order jurors from another county or counties to be summoned to ensure an adequate jury pool.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 128, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB570PassThe purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to be involved in joint development efforts.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB571PassThe purpose of this bill is to create a presumption of compensability for cardiovascular injury or disease of professional firefighters employed by municipal fire departments.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 230, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB317PassThe purpose of this bill is to update the licensing requirements for physicians and podiatrists to conform to national trends. It removes outmoded and expired language and provides for a period of ten years for applicants to pass all steps of the li...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB573PassThe purpose of this bill is to increase annual salaries for public school teachers, provide salary bonuses for classroom teachers, and increase annual salaries for school service personnel.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 223, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB574PassThe purpose of this bill is to increase the compensation of the membership of the West Virginia State Police.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 199, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB323PassThe purpose of this bill is to allow for the termination of water service for the nonpayment of duly enacted stormwater fees of municipalities, municipal sanitary boards and public service districts; to allow for the enactment and enforcement of muni...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 202, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB580PassThe purpose of this bill is to authorize magistrate courts to accept payments when persons mail or deliver such payments to the court to pay citations.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 50, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB325PassThe purpose of this bill is to delete unnecessary language pertaining to the matching program of the deferred compensation plan for state employees, to clarify that an employee must have received pay every payday during a fiscal year to qualify for p...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 62, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB590PassThe purpose of this bill is to extend to health care workers the same protections afforded other persons who serve the public and are thereby regularly exposed to the threat of physical violence in the course of performing their jobs, by establishing...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 57, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB340PassThe purpose of this bill is to provide a procedure to notify consumers when the unauthorized acquisition of data that compromises the security, confidentiality or integrity of personal information maintained by the data collector occurs. The bill re...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 37, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB88PassThe purpose of this bill is to create brownfield economic development districts in areas involved in the extraction and processing of coal, limestone or other natural resources and that are currently designated as brownfield or voluntary remediated s...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 21, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB101PassThe purpose of this bill is to provide an exemption from property taxation for property used by nonprofit corporations to provide electricity to residents of this state.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 206, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB619PassThe purpose of this bill is to add definitions for anticipated and unanticipated users of external defibrillators and limiting liability toward unanticipated users who render aid.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 112, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB622PassThe purpose of this bill is to provide for land conservation and stewardship through a newly-created Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund to provide grants to certain state agencies and qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations. An enhanced fee for the recor...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 38, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB641PassThe purpose of this bill is to authorize the continuation of the water resources survey; authorize DEP to develop a state water resources management plan; and authorize designation of regional and critical area water resources planning areas and plan...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 228, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB645PassThe purpose of this bill is to exempt city and county hospitals from audit requirements for local government offices.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 113, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB650PassThe purpose of this bill is to add the definitions of "early retirement age","full time employment", and "political subdivision"; specify the date contributions are due the fund and provide for delinquency fees; clarify ...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 190, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB653PassThe purpose of this bill is to permit Internet sales of life and accident and sickness insurance.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 122, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB142PassThe purpose of this bill is to allow the limited expungement of certain criminal records for a nonviolent crime committed by a person between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 60, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB657PassThe purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Alcohol and Drug-Free Workplace Act, to require public improvement contractors to have and implement a drug-free workplace program that requires drug and alcohol testing be conducted by a contra...
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2008-04-08
Chapter 7, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB659PassThe purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of certain benefits for crime victims.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 54, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB671PassThe purpose of this bill is to increase the compensation of the presiding judge of the Court of Claims by an additional fifty dollars for each day serving as presiding judge.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 48, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
SB185PassThe purpose of this bill is to authorize the disclosure of certain mental health records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
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2008-04-08
Chapter 55, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
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