| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a person to file a bond, instead of cash, in escrow with a court in an amount sufficient to cover a mechanics lien.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase salaries for State Police forensic lab employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Uniform Commercial Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Covered Electronic Devices Recycling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB309 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Administration of the Address Confidentiality Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to hazardous waste administrative proceedings and civil penalty assessment
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Regulation of Political Party Headquarters Financing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Regulation of Late Registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the offense of failure to wear a safety belt to a primary offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB325 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a loan forgiveness program for health professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for examination of persons, who have successfully completed a course for a commercial drivers license, by any certified state business. It also permits certification of certain out of state school bus operators ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB328 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that the laws of West Virginia satisfy the accreditation standards of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). More specifically, this bill amends the insurance code with respect to risk-based ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase grandparents rights in matters of custodial or decision-making authority and visitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB330 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting firearm seizure during declared state of emergency
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that all workers who paint state bridges have successfully completed the SSPC Coating Application Specialist (CAS) Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is permit persons who have been issued state licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons to carry those weapons on the grounds of the State Capitol Complex, except for the third and fourth floors of the east wing of Building O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Greyhound Racing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Pari-Mutuel Wagering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that all magistrates, magistrate assistants, magistrate court clerks and deputy clerks be paid equally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require applicants for licenses under the West Virginia Real Estate License Act to successfully pass criminal history record checks. The bill grants the West Virginia Real Estate Commission with the authority to perform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that a quorum of the board of canvassers be present to canvass the returns of the election. The bill authorizes the chief circuit court judge to appoint a person to the board of canvassers to make a quorum. And,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a county commission to temporarily fill vacancies in the offices of the clerk of the county commission, prosecuting attorney, sheriff, assessor and county surveyor. The bill permits the temporary successors to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB215 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to place limits on the amount of punitive damages that may be awarded in a personal injury or wrongful death action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB216 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that prevailing hourly rates be used in connection with the construction of public improvements. The bill provides that the Commissioner of Labor to base the determination of prevailing rates on statistics made ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off-road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off-road use to 4.85 percent effective January 1, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section of state code that allows soft drinks to be sold in the school system under specified circumstances. This bill has been recommended for passage during the 2013 Regular Session by the Joint Committee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
Senator Nohe requests to be removed as sponsor of bill |
| SB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Expiring funds from State Fund, General Revenue, and making supplementary appropriations to various accounts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Making supplementary appropriation from State Fund, State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, to DHHR, Division of Human Services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enter West Virginia into an interstate compact known as the agreement among the states to elect the President by National Popular Vote. Under the compact, the state agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidentia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To Senate Interstate Cooperation Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to except magistrates and municipal court judges from the requirement of having a license to carry a concealed weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB196 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer the supervisory and jurisdictional responsibilities of the area of Coopers Rock State Forest located south of Interstate 68 and the area located north of Interstate 68 known as the trout pond and its immediate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article of the West Virginia Code that permits the sterilization of persons deemed to be mentally incompetent. This bill has been recommended for passage during the 2013 Regular Session by the Joint Committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to proscribing juveniles from manufacturing, possessing, and distributing nude or partially nude images of minors; declare a violation to be an act of juvenile delinquency; and provide for the punishment thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the licensure of certain veterinarians by endorsement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB178 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the issuance of a special license plate for a next of kin of a law-enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. The bill also assesses a special initial application fee and a special annual fee for the sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the probation officer in preparing a presentence report to calculate the costs associated with the potential different forms of sentencing that may be imposed by the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to promote orderly and constructive employment relations between the state and its employees; to increase the efficiency of the state; and to ensure the health and safety of the citizens of this state. The Legislature has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow payment of workers compensation benefits for mental illness when a person becomes ill after being a victim of a crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that judgment awards in tort actions be reduced by the amount of certain collateral source benefits received by the claimant or to which the claimant is entitled. Actions where the defendants actions constitute ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of compensation members of county boards of education may receive for attending certain meetings. The bill increases from $100 to $200 the amount a board member may receive for attending council meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a tax credit for physicians who provide physicians services at no charge to free health facilities in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend the period during which an employer must pay the wages of a terminated employee from seventy-two hours to thirty days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide meetings and conference rights for members of municipal police and fire departments seeking to self-organize an employee group to be exclusive representative agent for the employees. The bill also creates duties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reform the Medicaid subrogation statute. The bill reorganizes the statute, clarifies the departments subrogation right, and provides a twenty-one day notification requirement upon actions, claims or settlement offers af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to improve enforcement of laws against drugged driving. The bill defines drug and provides that implied consent applies to testing for controlled substances or drugs upon arrest of a driver in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act by bringing them into conformity with their meaning for Internal Revenue Code's definitions; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Keep Jobs in West Virginia Act. The bill requires all work performed for the state by contractors be performed in the United States. The bill makes legislative findings. The bill also permits the state to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to terminate all deposits of corporate net income tax moneys into the special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund after June 30, 2013; to change the amount of the annual severance tax dedicated to the Infrastructure G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase civil penalties for pipeline safety violations to make West Virginia law consistent with federal law. Moreover, the bill clarifies that civil penalties collected by the Public Service Commission are to be submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
