| 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 |
| HB2019 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is require the mine foreman examiner to review and certify that the employment history of an applicant for the position of underground assistant mine foreman meets the underground experience requirements of section seven, art...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2030 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the presentation of documents with greater indicia of validity then those which are currently required for proof of identity prior to the issuance of a driver’s license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2037 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the sales tax on tax utility terrain vehicles. The bill sets forth the conditions that must be met to qualify for the exclusion. The bill also defines utility terrain vehicles as motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Roads & Transportation 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 |
| HB2029 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow local governments to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants. The bill providing for county and municipality options. The bill limits the total tax to three percent. The bill limits a municipal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Political Subdivisions 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 |
| HB2042 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Renewable Energy Act. The bill makes legislative findings and defines terms. The bill provides a maximum $2,000 investment cost recovery incentive for customer-generated electricity from renewab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Energy 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 |
| HB2033 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate captive cervid farming as an agricultural enterprise in this state. Toward this purpose, the bill describes powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture. The bill provides for rule-making authority. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources 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 |
| HB2018 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2032 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring licensure of bartenders by ABCC
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the reporting and publication of all compensation, including the source of that compensation, paid to lobbyists for all lobbying activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary 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 |
| HB2036 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a summons be issued for the drawer of a worthless check whether a resident of this or another state. The bill requires the summons include the date, time and place where the drawer is required to appear. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary 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 |
| HB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus. The bill also prescribes a criminal penalty for violations of the section. This section is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Health & Human 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 |
| HB2038 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow breast-feeding to serve as a valid excuse from jury service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to bailpiece surety
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the “West Virginia Corporate Political Accountability Act of 2015” relating to the accountability of a corporation’s political activities. It defines additional terms and requires annual authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House 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 |
| HB2034 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt hospital volunteers who, in good faith render emergency care at a hospital without remuneration, from civil liability for rendering those services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $2,008 increase in the annual salary of employees of the Division of Corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2024 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require advance planning for, and preparation and provisioning of emergency shelters for elderly or disabled persons for immediate use when certain emergencies occur.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals to insure that the public interest is being served when public sector jobs are outsourced to the private sector. This article is new; therefore, it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt sales of precious metals from the sales tax if the purchase is $5,000 or more and is an investment. The bill also defines the term “precious metal.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt all military, National Guard and Reserve income from state income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Military Committee |
