| HB2773 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a greater incentive for hiring West Virginia workers, by adjusting the amount of tax credit authorized as a percentage of qualified expenditures for purposes of calculating the West Virginia Film Industry Invest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| HB3018 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the allowable range of difference in salary potential of school employees in different counties
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| HB2816 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to specify that a tax credit may not be granted for reclamation or remediation performed prior to July 13, 2013, unless a written application for the tax credit was submitted to the Tax Commissioner prior to September 1, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| HB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase funding amounts at which charitable organizations are required to provide a professional audit or financial review, and to clarify filing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| HB2839 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the annual report late fee for domestic corporations, foreign corporations, domestic limited liability companies, and foreign limited liability companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| HB3016 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a meth offender registry
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-14
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| HB2021 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a procedure for any applicant or recipient of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) benefits who fails an initial drug test and will be required to undergo treatment and to pass a second drug test to mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
Tabled on 2nd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Statewide Interoperable Radio Network. The bill establishes a short title. The bill defines terms. The bill establishes objectives and a purpose.. The bill prescribes duties for the Statewide Interoperability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2846 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to raise minimum teacher salaries through fiscal year 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-28
Postponed indefinitely |
| HB2835 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reorganize the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority as a multicounty joint development entity and to provide for an orderly conversion of the powers, responsibilities and legal relationships for that entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-28
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB3011 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties and mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers bringing drugs into the state and for distributing drugs. The enhanced penalties apply to those individuals previously been convicted of a drug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2961 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide access to opioid analgesics with abuse-deterrent properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2827 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to abolish the James "Tiger" Morton catastrophic illness fund and commission, and to require that all appropriations to the fund to the be deposited in the state's General Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2881 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act ensuring that businesses, organizations and employers doing business in West Virginia are subject to uniform nondiscrimination laws and obligations. This art...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Recommitted to Government Organization on 1st reading |
| HB2834 | Intro
Sine Die | The bill amends the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) to modify the current version of UIFSA’s international provisions to comport with the obligations of the United States under the 2007 Hague Convention on Maintenance. Federal leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2440 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit health insurance coverage for elective abortions to coverage provided through supplemental policies. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2258 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents’ Bill of Rights. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2887 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Division of Motor Vehicles from issuing instruction permits to applicants who have not successfully passed drug tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide taxpayers repaying their own student loans a modification reducing federal adjusted gross income in the amount of the interest paid, for personal income tax purposes. This section is new; therefore, it has been...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2946 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Shallow Gas Well Review Board to grant waivers of minimum distance requirements for shallow wells, to encourage and accommodate pad drilling of multiple oil or gas wells from the same target formation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2982 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide definitions relating to net metering net metering and customer-generator. It requires the Public Service Commission to adopt certain net metering and interconnection rules and standards. It also strikes deadline...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | This purpose of this bill is to give a $1,500 salary increase to Department of Highways employees who earn less than $50,000 a year. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2991 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to redefine public record, to require the Secretary of State to maintain a record of FOIA requests and responses; to require public bodies to submit information to the Secretary of State following final action on a FOIA re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2940 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Tourist-Oriented Directional Signs Program. The bill states the legislative purpose. The bill sets forth the application and eligibility requirements for the program. The bill establishes the design and conte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2964 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow e-mails and other types of electronic communications to and from regional jail inmates be monitored, intercepted, recorded and disclosed. The bill provides an exception for attorney-client privileged communication...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2983 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a county parks commission from rule-making authority as it regards firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2974 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Office of Early Childhood Collaboration; to require the appointment of an Executive Director to the office; to establish the powers and duties of the office; to require the office to submit an annual report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2967 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the appraised value of an antique motor vehicle is no more than $3,000 for purposes of ad valorem property taxes. 11-1C-5c is new; therefore it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3015 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact enabling legislation for the "Nonprofit Youth Organization Tax Exemption Support Amendment" to Article X of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia passed by the voters of the state at the general election ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2969 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that a county itemize and publish all activity related to budget stabilization funds in the county's annual financial statements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2906 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that a county itemize and publish all activity related to budget stabilization funds in the county's annual financial statements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2954 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a PROMISE Scholarship for West Virginia residents similar to the one that exists for students working towards a four year baccalaureate degree. Using funds currently derived from winnings for slots at state ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| HB2889 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow and regulate Transportation Network Companies. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2928 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide wardens with ability to use inmates to perform work in the upkeep local cemeteries. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2909 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the “Compassionate Use Act for Medical Cannabis. It provides protections for the medical use of cannabis; defines debilitating medical conditions for which medical cannabis may be used; and authorizes the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB3000 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a hotel and restaurant renovation tax credit. This article is new; therefore it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2956 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to preserve the rights of individuals guaranteed by the West Virginia Constitution and the United States Constitution when deciding the comity of a legal decision in a foreign country, the choice of law used for contractua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2890 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a procedure to streamline the process to claim abandoned mineral interests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Energy Committee |
| HB3002 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make all future federal and local statutes, ordinances, laws, orders and rules concerning firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition and their accouterments invalid and unenforceable. The bill makes it a felony to attemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2920 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill to vest PEIA with the authority to negotiate and execute all contracts for health care and ancillary services for the Medicaid program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2977 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the rents and royalties from future mineral leases in respect of the state's rivers and streams shall be dedicated to road maintenance and paving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2938 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to maintain a searchable, criminal database containing copies of all arrests and convictions by all the courts in the state. This section is new; therefore, it has bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2900 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt certified professional estimator services from consumer sales and service tax. The bill provides a definition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2935 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the roles of each institution of higher learning, the Higher Education Policy Commission, and the Council for Community and Technical College Education by creating a system whereby legislative policy maximizes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| HB2942 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the definition of child abuse or neglect to exclude accidental injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3010 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify definitions related to the one-call system. It excludes nonproducing gas or oil wells that were established prior to 1990 and their associated production or gathering lines for which records do not exist indicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2996 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion. The bill prohibits knowingly and intentionally placing the names or likenesses of public officials and employees on trinkets. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2921 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the Courtesy Patrol Program and abolish the Courtesy Patrol Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2960 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to develop emergency preparedness drills in schools. The bill requires a three day notice of drills and permits parents or guardians to refuse participation. The bill exempts fire drill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| HB3008 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Health Care Authority from ordering a moratorium on skilled nursing facilities or services for children under one year of age suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and to exempt such facilities and se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
