| SB3 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to codify existing common law in West Virginia as it relates to the duty of care possessors of property owe trespassers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 3, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB294 | Pass | This bill eliminates councils, committees, and boards that are unnecessary, inactive, or redundant, including the Council for Community and Economic Development; the Statewide Mutual Aid Committee; the Principals Standards Advisory Council; and the W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 40, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB398 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to extend the expiration date for the tax rate on eligible acute care hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 236, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB312 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to set a deadline by which candidates or their financial agents must file financial statements in order to avoid being disqualified as a nominee for the general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 106, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB447 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a person who administers a program of secondary education at a public, private or home school to issue a diploma or other appropriate credential to a person who has completed the program of secondary education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 99, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB360 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to repeal two outdated provisions relating to circuit clerk responsibilities concerning indexes of books and reports about claims against the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 57, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB242 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide misdemeanor criminal penalties for using automated telephone calls to disseminate false, misleading or deceptive information with the intent to create panic, incite violence or cause harm to individuals during a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 195, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB532 | Pass | Relating to civil liability immunity for clinical practice plans and medical and dental school personnel
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 165, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB436 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the composition of the State Athletic Commission; increase payments to referees, judges and timekeepers; increase certain licensing fees; and make other changes generally related to this article.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 221, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB502 | Pass | Relating to eligibility for certain reclamation or remediation tax credit
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 226, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB273 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify licensing and operational requirements for brewers, resident brewers and brewpubs by: (1) permitting licensed brewers and resident brewers to conduct nonintoxicating beer sampling on their brewery premises withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 13, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB425 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide West Virginia University, Marshall University, and the Osteopathic School of Medicine with more authority to invest assets of the respective institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 148, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB344 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish adequate and reasonable amounts of compensatory and punitive damages that may be awarded in statutory and common law wrongful or retaliatory discharge and other employment law claims or causes of action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 6, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB403 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase from ten years to fifteen years the time period during which a lien noted on the face of the certificate of title to a motor vehicle is valid. The bill increases from two years to five years the time period dur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 166, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB12 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require employers pay outstanding wages due to separated employees to be by the next regular payday. The bill provides an exception. The bill provides that bonuses and fringe benefits are not covered. The bill reduces t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 152, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB435 | Pass | This bill creates the West Virginia Sheriffs Professional Standards Bureau.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 219, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB486 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement for vehicles operated by the West Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol to display front license plates with white lettering on a green background bearing the words "West Virginia" in one line and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 171, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB332 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to: (1) Authorize a 1% fee for the Tax Department on collections of specified taxes, for collection, distribution and administration of special revenue fees by the Tax Department and for collection of money for another sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 230, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB467 | Pass | Making supplementary appropriation of federal funds to Department of Agriculture, State Conservation Committee
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 28, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB481 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to further regulate investment of moneys in municipal policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds. Investment authority may be delegated to appropriately registered professional investment advisors. Diversification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 210, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB361 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article requiring public authorities engaged in the construction of public improvements to pay the prevailing hourly rate of wages. The bill also repeals other provisions associated with that requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 183, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB286 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children. The bill would require parents and guardians to assert their religious beliefs in an affidavit. Parents or guardians seeking an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 123, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB415 | Pass | Relating to circuit judges
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 73, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB6 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to control the increase in the cost of liability insurance and to maintain access to affordable health care services for West Virginians. It provides a mechanism to increase the limitation on civil damages in medical malpr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 168, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB390 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Public Service Commission to approve expedited cost recovery of natural gas utility infrastructure projects deemed just and reasonable and in the public interest. The bill makes findings. The bill establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 198, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB192 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the examination and issuance of driver's licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB529 | Pass | Relating to PERS, SPRS and TRS benefits and costs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 204, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB578 | Pass | Relating to occupational disease claims
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 244, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB507 | Pass | Relating to monitoring inmates' electronic communications
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 69, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB284 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to state the procedure when a chief law-enforcement officer is required to certify the transfer or making of certain firearms. The bill includes definitions and right of appeal if a request for certification of the transfe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 79, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB453 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to update and clarify the article of the code relating to motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 172, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB366 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Patient Protection and Transparency Act which requires information to be given to, and provides protections for, persons who purchase insurance through the West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange or an exchange ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 182, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB542 | Pass | Reforming provisions of Consumer Credit and Protection Act relating to debt collections
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 63, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB88 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require background checks for individuals who have direct access to residents, members or beneficiaries of covered providers participating in the West Virginia Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 119, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB545 | Pass | Removing certain prior bank overdraft approval by director or executive officer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 38, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB466 | Pass | Making supplementary appropriation of federal funds to Department of Commerce
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 27, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB195 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Conservation Committee to promulgate a legislative rule relating to financial assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 161, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB187 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to thoroughbred racing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 159, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB483 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify continuing election of trustees for municipal policemen's pension and relief funds and firemen's pension and relief funds which have closed to new members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 209, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB508 | Pass | Reorganizing Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 117, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB393 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to reform the juvenile justice system in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 150, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB407 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to implement a State Safety Oversight Program pursuant to a mandate per 49 U.S.C. 5329.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 223, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB274 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow flexibility to the Department of Health and Human Resources in complying with federal mandates under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program. Specifically, the bill will improve DHHR's monitoring capabi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 138, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB463 | Pass | Making supplementary appropriation to DHHR, DHS, Health Care Provider Tax, Medicaid State Share Fund
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 26, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB421 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify when punitive damages may be awarded in civil actions, and to limit the amount of punitive damages that may be awarded to comport with the due process rights of defendants. The bill also requires that one third ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 5, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB574 | Pass | Relating to liquor sales by distilleries and mini-distilleries
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 14, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB250 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide that conservation district supervisors have their applications to participate in West Virginia Conservation Agency financial assistance programs evaluated and approved or rejected by the West Virginia Conservati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 61, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB170 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Rules Governing the Safety of Those Employed in and around Quarries in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 163, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB351 | Pass | 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] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
| SB477 | Pass | Supplementing, amending, decreasing and increasing appropriation from State Road Fund to DOT, DOH
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Chapter 35, Acts, Regular Session, 2015 |
