| SR12 | N/A
Sine Die | Designating February 18, 2009, "Marshall University Day"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB2607 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for the financial exploitation of elderly persons and incapacitated adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2501 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the Public Employment Relations Act, designed to require public employers to recognize and engage in collective bargaining with labor unions representing public employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2506 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit state funding for the distribution of holiday or greeting cards by elected officials, state employees, departments or agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2519 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow fireworks displays on public school property upon approval of the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Fire Marshal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Education Committee |
| HB2523 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase compensation for members of the West Virginia State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2524 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2545 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the arresting agency pays the cost incurred for the initial twenty-four hours of incarceration for each inmate they arrest and incarcerate. Additionally, the bill defines "arresting agency."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2546 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require persons incarcerated for sex offenses to register as such at the time they are incarcerated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2553 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit employee and retiree organizations to obtain state employees' home addresses as an exception to the limitation imposed on the release of personal information concerning state employees and retirees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2563 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conferences for their children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2570 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the "Correctional Industries Act of 2009" by modernizing the provisions of the Prison-made Goods Act of 1939. The bill also authorizes the creation of the Prison Industries Enhancement Programs provided...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR10 | N/A
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to clarify that nothing in the Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
294 |
| HJR11 | N/A
Sine Die | The purpose of this Joint Resolution is to amend the Constitution to provide a constitutional procedure for the appointment of a member of the Legislature to replace a former member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
294 |
| HJR12 | N/A
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $40,000. The bill also provides that the Legislature may adjust the exemption every ten years to reflect any increased rate of inflation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
294 |
| HJR13 | N/A
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to provide that the Governor, Speaker of the House of Delegates and President of the Senate shall each prepare and submit a budget bill to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
294 |
| SR11 | N/A
Sine Die | Recognizing Ed Evans as America's Top Science Teacher finalist
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB2490 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include persons who participate in or who contribute to taking a person's identity with fraudulent intent under the provisions of the criminal offense of taking the identity of another person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2549 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"; to define terms; to prohibit any person from obtaining, selling or receiving a person's telephone record without their consent; and to provide penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Definition of Surgery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to request the Supreme Court of Appeals to study the establishment, administration and effect of a uniform bail schedule, and that the Supreme Court of Appeals report to the regular session of the Legislature, 2010, as to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2491 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a statutory good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when evidence has been obtained during an execution of a search warrant, arrest warrant or capias, which is later determined to be invalid, as long as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2496 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possessed by an individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2544 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise the grandparent visitation statute to include additional factors for consideration including the child's relationship with the parent contesting grandparent visitation; any history of abuse by the parent, any cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the Fire Commission Rule adopting the Fire Code. The bill limits the exemption given to buildings used wholly as dwelling houses for no more than two families to those buildings only when owner-occupied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2527 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that all houses, dwellings and businesses located in a district where public water service is made available for the first time after July 1, 2009, be connected to the public water service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2558 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt from taxation properties owned by a nonprofit organization which are used for housing college or university students, which is also used for religious or leadership training of college or university students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Education Committee |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to relating to the State of West Virginia and its political subdivisions procuring surveying services on the basis of demonstrated competence and qualification for the type of professional services required.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HR8 | N/A
Sine Die | Creating a Select Committee on Federal Stimulus Utilization
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | No Action History Available |
| HB2514 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the public may request and shall receive, access under the state Freedom of Information Act to any purported scientific data used as the basis for proposed legislative rules or statutory enactments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2513 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $2,000 pay incentive to teachers who teach in their core field degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Education Committee |
| HB2554 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to abolish the business franchise tax effective July 1, 2009.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2508 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education the power to employ the most qualified person to be athletic and other extracurricular coaches. The bill also permits the boards to develop the criteria to be used when hiring and firin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-17
To House Education Committee |
| HB2483 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt the first $20,000 of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2409 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that fire officers may use adjacent property to prevent fire from spreading.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the creation of public defender corporations in the fourth, sixteenth, seventeenth and twenty-sixth judicial circuits and to raise the hourly rate of compensation for panel attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2428 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2440 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is the insertion of language which defines acts of violence and makes its false reporting a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers. Under the bill, a Child Advocacy Center is a safe place for multidisciplinary members to interview abus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2452 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a child born addicted to a controlled substance constitutes child abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2456 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit parents, guardians or custodians from allowing sexually violent predators and registered child abusers access to children. The bill also defines key terms and makes technical changes for purposes of consistenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2463 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that adultery be a bar to receiving alimony in a divorce proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2466 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add one magistrate to Wood County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Denial, Suspension, Revocation, Restriction or Nonrenewal of Driving Privileges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2484 | 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] | 2009-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2453 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit for scholarship donations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit Class III municipaliities to participate in the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a statutory framework through which the Legislature may appropriate funds to match the amount of federal funds used to supplement the provision of scientifically research-based alternative language education pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2427 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that each state public works contract include a provision requiring a definitive completion date and that contractors awarded such contracts be required to meet the time restriction. The bill also defines &quo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors outside corporate limits of municipalities from five percent to six percent, with the increase being deposited into the Regional Jail Operations Partial Reimbursemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-16
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
