| SCR40 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting DOH name bridge in Putnam County "U. S. Army Sgt. Deforest Lee Talbert Memorial Bridge"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB550 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize county commissions and municipalities to cooperate and enter into agreements removing or demolishing dwellings or buildings unfit for human habitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| SCR39 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study Cedar Lakes Camp and Conference Center
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules 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 |
| SB499 | Engross
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] | 2015-03-03
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB457 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit West Virginia public schools authority to hire the most qualified athletic coaches to serve in the best interest of the student-athletes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House 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 |
| SB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying restriction on limited video lottery location near business selling petroleum products
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB420 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide retirement benefits for persons employed as an aide or early classroom assistant teacher and braille or sign support specialist in kindergarten programs. The bill creates a class of Early Childhood Classroom Ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House 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 |
| SB399 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that hospitals owned or operated by nonprofit corporations, nonprofit associations or local governmental units have only one governing body whose meetings shall be open to the public; to establish certain matter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB278 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit hunting with night vision technology, a drone or other unmanned aerial vehicle. The bill permits hunting with crossbows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB413 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for licensing requirements, including criminal background checks and evidence of employment or college or university degrees in entomology and drug testing for applicants for a private or commercial applicator's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Government Organization 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 |
| SB395 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the definition of "battery" and "domestic battery" in order to conform with federal laws as a result of the decision in United States v Castleman 572 U.S. ___ (March 26, 2014). The 2014 Legislature modified the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB254 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to Fire, EMS and Law-Enforcement Officer Survivor Benefit Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House 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 |
| SB560 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a new special revenue fund to collect and remit moneys to the Court Advanced Technology Subscription Fund in the State Treasury for the use of certain advanced technology provided by the Judiciary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Finance Committee |
| SB122 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to adopt the federal definition for disabled veterans' preference eligibility in hiring for state civil service jobs and resident vendor bidding on state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| SB94 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill concerns the suspension or revocation of driver’s licenses. The bill makes legislative findings, establishes a driver’s license restoration program, permits waiving certain reinstatement requirements to restore dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Roads & Transportation 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 |
| SB503 | Engross
Sine Die | Permitting sheriff hire outside attorneys for tax collection assistance
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Judiciary 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 |
| SB291 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the powers of the Attorney General to enter into contracts for legal services with attorneys outside the Attorney General's office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HCR29 | Engross
Sine Die | That April 2 be designated as West Virginia Autism Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HCR51 | Engross
Sine Die | Making the fiddle the official musical instrument of the State of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB377 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to adopt and codify the learned intermediary doctrine as a defense to a civil action against a manufacturer or seller of a prescription and over-the-counter drug based upon inadequate warnings or instructions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To House Judiciary 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 |
| SCR38 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting transfer of WV from EPA Region III to EPA Region IV
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB484 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to alter the procedure for the removal of public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2615 | Engross
Sine Die | West Virginia Small Business Capital Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB109 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an exemption for certain veterans’ organizations and active duty United States Military organizations from indoor smoking rules adopted by local boards of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SCR6 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting DOH name bridge in Raleigh County "John Thomas Scott II Memorial Bridge"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB285 | 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] | 2015-02-24
To House Banking & Insurance 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 |
| SB364 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory from state purchasing guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB334 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reformulate what constitutes the unauthorized practice of medicine and podiatry under the West Virginia Board of Medicine, including qualified exemptions. The bill also updates and defines telemedicine and telemedicine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HCR46 | Engross
Sine Die | The U. S. Army SSG James C. Vickers and U. S. Marine Corps PFC Randall Carl Phelps Memorial Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
