| HB2542 | Pass | The bill clarifies certain provisions related to access to cemeteries and grave sites located on private land by authorizing agents of family members or decedents to access private cemeteries or grave sites. Additionally, the bill clarifies that main...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-16
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| HB2955 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Mining and Reclamation to assess certain fees to coal mine operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-16
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| HB3054 | Pass | Relating to DNA data collection
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2745 | Pass | The bill provides that certain information submitted by insurance companies to the insurance commissioner is confidential and exempt from the freedom of information disclosure requirements. The bill provides those documents may not be subject to subp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3100 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the sale of liquor on election days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2752 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the maximum age for persons applying for appointment for the police force in a Class I or Class II city from thirty-five to forty years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3134 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make technical corrections to the code, allow amnesty payment agreements to extend past two years, require emplyers to notify the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement prior to issuing a bonus to its employees and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2532 | Pass | Zipline Responsibility Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3143 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the fine and minimum penalty for causing death or injury to animals used by law enforcement agencies and in explosion explosive detection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2551 | Pass | The bill was recommended for introduction and passage by the Commission on Interstate Cooperation. The purpose of this bill is to make comprehensive revision to the state's trust laws by substantially enacting the Uniform Trust Code and integrating i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3028 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to expand responsibilities the Maternal Mortality Review Team to include reviewing infant mortalities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2362 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for the financial exploitation of elderly persons and incapacitated adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3185 | Pass | Allowing county commissions to waive or reduce impact fees and capital improvement fees of affordable housing units in their county
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3105 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from civil or criminal liability for first responders who use forced entry to a residence when rendering emergency care pursuant to a documented 911 call. This section is new; therefore, it has been com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3225 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add to the definition of harassment, intimidation or bullying. The bill requires a child to attend two months of counseling provided by a school if he or she is found to be harassing, intimidating or bullying a fellow s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3021 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add two new members to the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission. The bill provides that if two specific members designate another person to serve in his or her place, those designees are nonvoting members. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2159 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit members of the news media from being compelled to give testimony in any court in the state relating to the source of information in the public communication, without the consent of the person or persons providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2959 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide additional funds to the West Virginia Racing Commission for its Administration and Promotion Account for the Thoroughbred Development Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2437 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require cutter heads, long wall shears, and other mining machines to automatically shut- off when the methane level reaches one percent to further protect health and well-being of our states miners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2845 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a senior resident lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license that will cost $25. Persons who are sixty-five years of age before January 1, 2012, are grandfathered in. However, if a person meeting the age re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3116 | Pass | Relating to the authority of school curriculum teams and local school collaborative processes
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2451 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to preserve to members of a deceased victim's immediate family the opportunity to present an impact statement to a court in misdemeanor matters when death occurs during the commission of a crime. Strike throughs indicate l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3271 | Pass | Relating to the distribution of state funds to volunteer fire companies and departments
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2539 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Marshall University Forensic Science Center as the state designated laboratory for DNA typing, testing and research in support of CODIS and forensic DNA testing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2888 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to further protect whistleblowers for reporting the unsafe working conditions in mines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2562 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to update the authority and structure of the Athletic Commission. The Athletic Commission is moved under the Lottery Commission to assist in administrative functions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3126 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require a railroad company to provide pesticide safety information at a central location accessible to employees of the railroad company and to the public and local communities along the right-of-way treated by pestici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2958 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the West Virginia Racing Commission to use fees for the registration of colors or assumed names to pay salaries and other budgeted expenses. The bill also clarifies that judges and the Racing Commission may also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3202 | Pass | Relating to residential rental security deposits
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3144 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a criminal offense for picketing or disrupting funerals or memorial services. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB2993 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make technical changes to correct some infirmities related to incorrect terminology, unworkable effective dates, and to disallow some related transactions within the Commercial Patent Incentives Tax Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-10
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| HB3119 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the expenditure limit from $15,000 to $25,000 on public service district construction and purchase contracts before competitive bids are required.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2075 | Pass | 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 continue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2517 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow Correctional Industries to directly purchase workers' compensation coverage for inmates rather than having the private employer purchase such coverage. Correctional Industries has the authority under current law t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2860 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates to the authorization of the promulgation of rules by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction to establish procedures for the investigation of child abuse and neglect investigations. This section ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2864 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a misdemeanor crime of unlawful restraint and when the offender has a present or past domestic relationship with the victim, upon conviction is subject to the penalties set for the second, third or subsequent cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB3000 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make it lawful to hunt coyotes with a green colored light.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2918 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the procedure for suspending, revoking or canceling a business registration certificate. The bill permits a registrant to appeal an order to suspend, revoke or cancel a business registration certificate. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2969 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require the disclosure of the number of stamps by brand name that have been purchased from a nonparticipating tobacco product manufacturer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2248 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs and special agents within the Office of Inspector General to carry firearms while performing their duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2013 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates to requirements for enhanced emergency telephone systems and county emergency dispatch centers The bill requires emergency dispatch centers to develop policies and procedures to establish a protocol for dispatching ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB2936 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the date of canvassing of votes in a primary election from the Friday following the election to the Monday following.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-09
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| HB3094 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to use existing department funds to develop a program to compensate employees for personal property loss in work related incidents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-08
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| HB2863 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the costs of disability physical and/or mental examinations approved by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board under the West Virginia State Police plan to be paid from the State Police Death, Disability a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-08
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| HB3145 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a one-time bonus payment of $600 to certain annuitants of the Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System. Sections §5-10-22k and §18-7A-26v are new, therefore they have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-08
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| HB2818 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the allowable expense under the Crime Victims Award Program that may be paid for the clean-up of real property damage by a methamphetamine laboratory from $5,000 to $10,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-08
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| HB3075 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the time period in the hold-harmless provision, when distributing state aid to local health departments and basic public health services funds, from three years to four years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-08
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| HB2479 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the certificate and permit requirements to administer anesthesia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-08
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| HB2498 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the practice of dentistry by adding two ways a dentist may be disciplined; providing the board with the authority to require a licensee have a psychological evaluation in certain situations; increasing the length...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-08
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| HB2550 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the adoption and enactment of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. The bill also establishes the West Virginia Council for Educational Opportunities for Military Children ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-08
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