| SR3 | Pass | Raising committee to notify Governor Legislature has organized
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Completed legislative action |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the student-school nurse ratio from 1,500-1 in grades K-7 to 750-1 and to expand it to all levels of school in the 2015-16 school year to provide for ever-increasing medical needs of students, while ensuring that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a covered employee to be paid the maximum temporary total disability benefits for lost time without penalty to the employee. The bill requires a covered employee to be paid the maximum temporary total disability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer all interest in real property to a coowner who has paid all taxes on the real property for a minimum of five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide quick and efficient medical treatment to the injured worker, which will allow a quick return to work for the injured worker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SR2 | Pass | Raising committee to notify House Senate has assembled and organized
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Completed legislative action |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase grandparents’ rights in matters of custodial or decision-making authority and visitation. The bill allows a guardian ad litem to recommend a psychological evaluation. The bill increases the importance of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring health insurance coverage for certain nonnarcotic pain relief systems
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a child support insurance match program that will assist the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement in determining whether a claimant has a child support obligation. The bill provides exemptions. The bill sets f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing state employee uniforms be manufactured in United States
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certification of state bridge paint applicators
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from certain offenses for a person who seeks health care for someone or for himself or herself who is experiencing an overdose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow police, fire and emergency service providers, to possess Naloxone to administer in suspected narcotic drug overdoses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Education to provide professional development opportunities regarding dyslexia and other reading disabilities; and to require teaching staff receive two hours of such training annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SR1 | Pass | Adopting Rules of Senate
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Completed legislative action |
| SB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to purchase, possession, sale and use of fireworks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exemption from the moratorium on skilled nursing beds for beds for patients whose medical or nursing care or rehabilitation services exceed the traditional standard of skilled nursing care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to disclaimer of warranties for used motor vehicles
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to funeral service and embalmer licenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing liberal weighing of evidence in workers' compensation claims
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB134 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reform the civil justice system and create an intermediate court of appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to selection of state agency administrative hearing examiners
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing teacher-pupil ratios; increasing certain classroom aides' pay
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Healthy Children and Healthy Communities Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set the maximum amount for air-ambulance services which may be collected pursuant to the plans of the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit those individuals who have been issued a concealed weapons permit to keep loaded firearms in their motor vehicles on the State Capitol Complex grounds provided the vehicles are locked and the weapons are out of n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing cook-meal ratios for full-day and half-day school cooks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add “sexual orientation” to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation; add “age” and “sexual orientation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Redistributing and dedicating excise tax on real property transfers to regional jails
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating loser-pays civil justice system
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make the weighing of workers’ compensation evidence a liberal interpretation; to allow parties to submit evidence after the Permanent Total Reviewing body has made its initial determination; to change the applicat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require write-in candidates for public office to pay a filing fee for the office sought and that the distribution of the fee be in the same manner as other candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring licensure of bartenders by ABCC
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to meeting and conference rights for police or fire departments
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB35 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that any law-abiding person twenty-one years of age or older may carry a concealed weapon within the boundaries of the state, including on or within municipally owned or controlled buildings, recreation centers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a West Virginia personal income tax modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for people who have spayed or neutered their dog or cat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing threshold of defendant's liability to qualify for several liability in tortious actions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to develop a matching grant program to foster the development of creative communities in West Virginia. The bill creates the Creative Communities Development Pilot Program. The bill makes legislative findings and declares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to facilitate compiling and making available nonidentifying social and medical histories of birth parents prior to an adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to bailpiece surety
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB100 | 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 is to base the determination of prevailing rates on statistics ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB25 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to affirm the parent or guardian as the final authority in all matters of a student’s education and to require prior parental or guardian written affirmative consent for disclosure of any student information other th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to apply the residential solar energy tax credit of up to $2,000 to each installation of a solar energy system. The bill extends the tax credit until July 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a drug testing program for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits; and for recipients of unemployment benefits. Any applicant or recipient who fails an initial drug tes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to lessen the financial impact of attempting to incorporate a system that does not properly interface with the agencies and institutions’ current systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to correct an internal code reference that needs updated following a bill that passed the 2013 regular session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating State Labor Relations Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing temporary reassignment of injured or ill school service personnel
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to creates a teacher corps program. The bill provides for teacher certificates. The bill sets forth qualifications and conditions to be met. The bill provides for recommendation for professional certification of teacher co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
