| HB2070 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments. The bill also creates duties for the firefighters’ Civil Service Commissions. This article is new; therefore, it has been complete... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2065 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase compensation for members of the West Virginia State Police. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Finance Committee |
| HB2066 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees from $60 to $100 and to change eligibility criteria from three years of service to one. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Finance Committee |
| HB2067 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to treat natural resources police like all other law enforcement and exempt their pension benefits from state income tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2082 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school. The bill also requires the board to develop professional standards and the salary for the certified library media ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Education Committee |
| HB2075 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a minimum number of troopers to provide basic law- enforcement services. The bill further provides that the salary increase at the end of two years of service for members of the West Virginia State Police will... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Finance Committee |
| HB2060 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make the theft of a traffic sign or traffic signal a misdemeanor. The bill establishes misdemeanor penalties and requires restitution. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2078 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel. The bill provides that no lowering of a speed limit is effective until approved by the Commissioner of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2079 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Seniors Helping Seniors Fund. Personal income taxes paid on taxable Social Security benefits are to be deposited into the fund. The fund is to be used by the Department of Health and Human Resources and the B... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Senior Citizen Issues Committee |
| HB2058 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to adopt rules to provide for use of neck braces by all football players in interscholastic athletic football events. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Education Committee |
| HB2080 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reallocate and dedicate the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues, up to $30 million annually, to the natural gas and oil producing counties of origin. The bill provides for distribution of the moneys to the distri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2071 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an increase in compensation for natural resources police officers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to permit the Legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property directly used in commercial and industrial businesses, or such components thereof as the Legislature may in its discretion desig... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2057 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby so that they may be called back to work if necessary and to provide a stipend for housing cost for officers that reside ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2068 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conferences for their children. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority Fund. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2059 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give retired state personnel and retired teachers a five percent a year increase in retirement benefits over the next three consecutive years. These sections are new; therefore, it has been completely underscored. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HJR3 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $30,000. However, if the homeowner’s federal adjusted gross income is equal to or less than two hundred percent of the federal poverty level the exemption sha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this joint resolution is to propose an amendment to the Constitution to require that bills imposing a tax or license fee and bills increasing the effective rate of any tax levied or fee imposed may not be enacted unless sixty percent o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2077 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in a part-time elected or appointed municipal or county office. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Education Committee |
| HB2063 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| SCR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting DOH name US Rt. 54/6 in Wyoming County "Virginia & U. S. Army Major Woodrow Cook Memorial Road" [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2073 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require retail establishments offering gasoline or other motor fuel to provide refueling assistance and refueling access to persons with a disability, to establish requirements and exceptions, to provide the Secretary o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a ten percent discount to West Virginia residents for lodging, camping and other recreation activities at state parks and forests. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2081 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include journalists as a protected profession within the definition of crimes of violence against certain categories of workers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the option for sentencing where a defendant is convicted of transporting Schedule I and II narcotics into the state by removing the minimum sentence and converting the penalty from an indeterminate period of 1-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2012 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2015-01-14 To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2040 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include crimes of domestic violence and fraud in the list of offenses for which a conviction will disqualify an official from serving in, running for, or being elected to, public office. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is clarify that an individual is disqualified from unemployment benefits for any week or portion thereof in which he or she did not work as a result of a strike. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to address disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer and permitting recovery in a private lawsuit. The bill requires the trier of fact to fi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add one family court judge to the twenty-third family court circuit, comprising the counties of Mineral, Hampshire and Morgan. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending period that terminated employees' wages must be paid [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowering threshold for low bidder's duty to submit subcontractors on government contracts [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make it a felony to drive a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, controlled substance or other drug and cause serious bodily harm to another person. The bill also establishes penalties for first and subsequent ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB51 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an employee, without measurable pulmonary impairment, twenty weeks of benefits at the same benefits rate as otherwise provided in this section which is a five percent benefit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for expedited partner therapy treatment for a sexually transmitted disease. The bill permits prescribing antibiotics for the partner of a patient without first examining the partner under certain circumstances. Th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Redistributing portion of net racetrack video lottery terminal income dedicated to Development Office Promotion Fund [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the hourly rate for attorneys who are appointed in child abuse and neglect matters from $45.00 to $75.00 an hour out of court and from $65.00 to $95.00 an hour in court. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB50 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a rebuttable presumption that a professional firefighter has developed leukemia, lymphoma or multiple myeloma arising out of and in the course of employment as a firefighter if the firefighter completed certain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying circumstances when person may possess certain firearms during outdoor recreational activities [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2035 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off-road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off-road use to 4.85 percent effective July 1, 2015. This section is new; therefore, it has been complet... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To House Finance Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to Class C courtesy statewide hunting and fishing licenses for certain military personnel [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating tax refund checkoff program for Cedar Lakes Foundation [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB56 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to acknowledge that the deficit crisis is over. The bill recognizes that West Virginia’s labor force is its greatest asset and resource. The bill states that injured workers should receive preeminent and efficient tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Revising definition of "obscene matter" [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses and certified nurse-midwives and to remove the requirement for collaborative relationships with physicians. The bill removes certain notifications... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to Class C courtesy statewide hunting and fishing licenses for certain military personnel [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to predicates actions for damages upon principles of comparative fault. The bill establishes the comparative fault standard. The bill abolishes joint liability and implements several liability. The bill establishes how to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to propose a constitutional amendment that would change the composition of the state board of education to six elected members and three appointed members. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Education Committee |
| SB84 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include pharmacy benefits manager within the definition of third-party administrator; to impose reasonable restrictions on audits conducted by pharmacy benefits managers, including an internal appeal process; and to req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14 To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |