| HB2585 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require leaseholders of mineral interests to notify the owners of the minerals when there is an assignment of the lease to another party. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
Senate requests House to concur |
| HB2366 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the provisions of the current code that would allow law- enforcement officers to conduct undercover investigations to identify and prosecute adults who use computers to solicit minors or persons they believe to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading |
| HB2934 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the Common Core State Standards. The bill establishes through a series of findings the increasing federal intrusion on West Virginia’s Process for Improving Education, including its standards, assessments a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
Communicated to Senate |
| HB2263 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add language to the West Virginia Code to provide guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading |
| HB2479 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to state the legal right and authority of state or local law enforcement to enter public areas on or adjacent to any private club, or take other appropriate police action to enforce the underage drinking laws of this state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading |
| HB2688 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the unitization of interests in drilling units in connection with all horizontal oil or gas wells. The bill sets forth application requirements. The bill establishes the standard of review. The bill provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
House rejected (Roll No. 619) |
| HB2646 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to legalize and regulate the selling of fireworks, to create the West Virginia Veterans Program Fund, to impose a special fee on the sale of fireworks, and to use the proceeds for the Veterans Program Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
Conference report filed - Senate |
| HB2368 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to make annual reports to the Health and Human Resources Committees of the Senate and House of Delegates concerning child fatalities or near fatalitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-13
Communicated to House |
| HB2466 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt valid nonprofit organizations from licensing requirements of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority during certain events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-13
Senate requests House to concur |
| HB3019 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring official business and records of the state and its political subdivisions be conducted in English
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
On 2nd reading to Judiciary |
| HB2628 | Engross
Sine Die | Changing the date of filing announcements of candidacies
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
Senate requests House to concur |
| HB2015 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide greater transparency and accountability in state government and to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse as recently evidenced in the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Rehabilitation Loan Program by requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
On 2nd reading to Finance |
| HB2756 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize appointees or employees of the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to carry concealed handguns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
On 2nd reading to Judiciary |
| HB2795 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that when a party's health condition is at issue in a civil action, medical records and releases for medical information may be requested and required without court order. The bill prohibits unilateral restricti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
On 2nd reading to Judiciary |
| HB2805 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the transfer to the correctional facility of any juvenile in the custody of the Division of Juvenile Services whose sentence runs beyond his or her eighteenth birthday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
On 2nd reading to Judiciary |
| HB2717 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide transparency in the process of hiring employees of county school systems by requiring the school board to be informed of all persons who have applied to fill vacancies and the detailed qualifications of each app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
On 2nd reading to Education |
| HB2712 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect the privacy of personal electronic data for employees and applicants for employment, and to authorize employers to investigate to ensure compliance with applicable protections of certain business information. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
On 2nd reading to Judiciary |
| HB2828 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the procedure for a child witness to provide testimony in a criminal action where the child is a victim and when his or her testimony cannot be reliably obtained in the presence of the defendant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
On 2nd reading to Judiciary |
| HB2226 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate dedication of corporation net income tax revenues to and deposits of such revenues into the Special Railroad Intermodal Enhancement Fund on and after July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2429 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a convicted sex offender who volunteers for an organization whose volunteers have contact with minors to inform that organization of his or her conviction. The bill provides examples of those organizations. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2518 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require insurers issuing group accident and sickness insurance policies to certain employers to furnish claims loss experience to policyholders upon request of a policyholder. It also identifies the claims loss experien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2796 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that certain state employees may be granted a leave of absence with pay while providing assistance as an essential member of an emergency aid provider during a declared state of emergency. This section is new; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2239 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Board of Health Professions. Toward this purpose, the bill establishes the purpose of the board; defining terms; provides for appointment of executive director; sets forth the powers and duties of the board; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2916 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide limited borrowing authority to the Governor for the completion of renovations to Capitol Complex Building 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2675 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the severance taxes imposed on coal, natural gas and timber for Workers' Compensation debt reduction purposes, beginning July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2521 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the scope, application and methods for error correction required by the CPRB as it relates to PERS, DSRS, MPFRS, TRS, TDC Plan, State Police (Plan A), State Police (Plan B) and JRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| HB2718 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer funds remaining in the Racetrack Modernization Fund to the State Road Fund and closing the Racetrack Modernization Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB3017 | Engross
Sine Die | Addressing sudden cardiac arrest in interscholastic athletes
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2728 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to adopt a National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ model to establish standards for minimum capital and surplus to be maintained by a health organization and provide for the early detection of a potentially ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2474 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Board of Education to establish salary schedules or additional compensation for teachers whose job duties require specialized training and skills or assignments in addition to regular instructional d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2485 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit deposits into the West Virginia Future Fund in years when certain state retirement systems are not funded to ninety percent or more of their actuarial accrued liabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2048 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to specify the allocation of payment of salary and benefits for school-based juvenile probation officers in counties which have established a truancy program in a judicial circuit where a grant is provided by the county bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2829 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define "midwife", "certified midwife" and "midwifery"; and to require persons practicing midwifery in the State of West Virginia to make an annual report to the Bureau of Public Health as prescribed by the Section of Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2223 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include consumer credit sales that are secured by a mortgage, deed of trust or other security interest on a dwelling or residential real estate in the definitions of "primary mortgage loan" and "subordinate mortgage loa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2823 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the street and interurban and electric railways one and four-tenths percent tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2812 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify use of subsistence allowance in determining compensation for purposes of calculating pension benefits for natural resources police officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-01
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| HB2569 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the authority and discretion of the Dealer Recovery Board to hear claims. The bill further clarifies the types of payments which the Dealer Recovery Board may or may not disburse in the execution of their duties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2202 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a more equitable disbursement of funds to county boards to lessen the budgetary impact of serving high cost/high acuity special needs students. The bill eliminates the requirement of annual review of rules, poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2268 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the severance tax on timber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2103 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require boards of examination or registration to maintain a list of disciplinary actions on a public access website. It also provides that if a board cannot afford this, then the Attorney General shall have a link to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2820 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add language to the West Virginia Code providing for affirmative defenses against mechanic's liens. The bill provides that property owners of single family dwellings or residences are not entitled to affirmative defense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2615 | Engross
Sine Die | West Virginia Small Business Capital Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2054 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a landlord to terminate a lease of a portion of a multitenant commercial property if the tenant fails to use the premises for the purpose specified in the lease, and the tenant’s use or nonuse produces an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2545 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make a technical improvement in the language for reimbursement of teachers for fees upon enrollment, completion or renewal of National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification. Currently completio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2777 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to licensing of barbers, cosmetologists, and hairstylists, and revising the membership requirements of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2391 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill authorizes the state board to annually grant a waiver to a county board to implement a full day early childhood education program that has children in attendance four days per week and uses the fifth day for staff to work on program deliver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2387 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to initiate a comprehensive transformation in school leadership through a process that includes broad stakeholder input under the State Board of Education to assist it in developing recommendations to the Legislature and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2444 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide assistance to small businesses by the West Virginia Development office. The bill provides for the assignment of economic development office representatives to serve as Small Business Allies to act as facilitator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| HB2151 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make the West Virginia state teacher of the year an ex officio, nonvoting member of the West Virginia Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
To Senate Education Committee |
