| SB353 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Standards for the Certification and Continuing Education of Municipal, County and Other Public Building Code Officials, Building Code Inspec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB354 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Fire Marshal to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Supervision of Fire Protection Work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2971 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify domestic relations definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2955 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove West Virginia University Institute of Technology from the merger with West Virginia University and return it to its former status as a singular state institution of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Policies, Standards and Criteria for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges, Departments or Schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2040 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a recognizance secured by execution of a bail bond is void upon the finding that the accused person is guilty, and to terminate bond liability at that time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2406 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that local fiscal bodies shall not be held personally or criminally liable for certain deficits caused by the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the West Virginia Retiree Health Benefit Trust Fun or amounts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB457 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the terminology of collection of DNA samples and to create a fund to collect fees for the DNA database.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB460 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include telecommunications devices as contraband in jails, state correction facilities, juvenile facilities and juvenile detention centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2970 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the crime victims compensation program by: (1) Expanding the definition of "criminally injurious conduct" to include criminally injurious conduct committed outside of the United States against a residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB469 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make revisions in the process for issuing grants for water construction projects; it limits fees for engineering costs of utility projects; it expands the membership of the Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB438 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the definition of shared parenting; and updating language regarding the allocation of custodial responsibility and decision-making responsibility of children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB449 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify domestic relations definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that accessible parking (formerly referred to as handicapped parking) violations will be considered motor vehicle violations and criminal offenses for certain penalty and record keeping purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to rescind state financial assistance from students who receive two or more citations for an open container violation, DUI, underage consumption, public intoxication or contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to: (1) Increase the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make for an individual award to $16,000; (2) Require the Board to report to the Legislature every five years the amount the maximum award amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Dental Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensure of Medical Adult Day Care Centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Labor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Limited Prescriptive Authority for Nurses in Advanced Practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2307 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the code by removing an outdated reference to state licensure tax on businesses and its required use by municipalities. This bill will permit the governing body of a municipality to enact an ordinance to continu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to preserve any biological evidence in connection with a criminal case so that the evidence is available for DNA testing when a convicted felon makes a written motion for DNA testing on the basis that the felon was not the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to an exchange of information agreement between the State Tax Division and the Department of Health and Human Resources Office of the Inspecto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB360 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2308 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to codify the West Virginia Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being established by Executive Order No. 8-04.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| SB455 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the "Protect Children from Dangerous Lighters Act"; short title; legislative findings; definitions; and banning certain novelty lighters in conformance with Federal Consumer Product Safety Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB447 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define a commercial dog breeder as any person who maintains twenty or more adult dogs for the purpose of the sale of their offspring as companion animals. The bill requires a commercial dog breeder to obtain a valid bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB2944 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill provides for the criminal offenses of home invasion in the first, second, third and fourth degrees, with prescribed penalties, and otherwise modify the present law of burglary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB433 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a special revenue account in the State Treasury known as the Juvenile Services Status Offender Fund to facilitate reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Division of Juvenile Services in housing juvenile status...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-04
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2907 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill all relates to sales of wine; adding and removing certain definitions; providing for winery and farm winery license to manufacture and sell; authorizing wine specialty shops to conduct wine sampling events and wine-tasting ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2923 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the disclosure of subcontractors within two hours of the close of bids for public contracts. The bill provides that if this disclosure is not made the bid will be disqualified. The bill also requires that if n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB2917 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in consideration in the planning, development and redevelopment of state roads, railways and waterways. It provides that bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways shall be establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2914 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that West Virginia State Police receiving on-call and off-duty pay be paid minimum wage for every hour on-call. It also guarantees a minimum of two hours pay to state police when called to duty off hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2915 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the sale of prohibited fireworks; to require the sales tax on fireworks to be ten percent; and to establish a special fund that distributes the firework sales tax proceeds equally to each West Virginia volunt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2921 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant tuition and fee waivers to members of the State Police to attend a college or university.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To House Education Committee |
| HB2925 | Intro
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 or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB432 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change new police hires to an at will employee during the one year probationary period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB420 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to raise the cigarette tax to the national average, to raise the tax on other tobacco products to fourteen percent of their wholesale price and to establish a special revenue account to fund the Governor's Office of Health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB423 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enhance the service and enforcement of domestic violence protective orders issued by state courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB411 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a temporary reinvestment fee for health insurers, third party administrators and others to assist in funding health information technology in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a West Virginia innovation and development program, to attract and support capital investment in innovation-driven enterprises in West Virginia through a combination of direct annual investment by the state i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB13 | Intro
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] | 2009-03-02
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require West Virginia public colleges and universities to participate in the federal Yellow Ribbon G.I. Education Enhancement Program ("the Program"). The Program will be established pursuant to the Post-9/11 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB412 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning to oversee coordination of state departments, agencies, bureaus and commissions for the purpose of redesigning health system delivery services in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2900 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank. The purpose of the bank is to provide loans and other financial assistance to government units for transportation infrastructure. Strike-throughs indicate la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2891 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to phase in requirements for electric providers to add renewable energy systems to help protect and sustain the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| SB416 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of family court judges from $82,500 to $111,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2898 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill shall create four part-time Magistrate Court Deputy Clerk positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2883 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit employers and labor unions from requiring employees to become or remain members of labor unions as a condition of employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-03-02
To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee |
| HB2864 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of electronic voting technology that employs "touch screens" or requires the voter to touch a screen with a stylus to cast a vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
