| HB2216 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize only the Legislature to create state based health exchange.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR15 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $25,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2456 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to relieve the burden imposed on counties of incarcerating inmates in regional jails by changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected so that it is shared by the county, state and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2482 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the transfer of a person committed to a state facility to a regional jail following the commission of an unlawful act as defined in this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a farmers market vendor permit and its scope and fees. It states a purpose and provides definitions. The bill permits consignment farmers markets. And, the bill requires The West Virginia Department of Health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2455 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require health care providers to release unemancipated minor’s medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from that minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2451 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that recess periods or other such time allocated for student physical activity during the regular class day may not be reduced when a county school board is attempting to make up lost instructional days because ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| HB2476 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of special "SECOND AMENDMENT" registration plates. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2472 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to issue a special registration plate for persons who are residents of this state and who have a family member diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder who operates a motor ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow both the accused and prosecuting attorney to have four strikes from a panel of potential jurors. The bill sets forth the order the strikes are to be taken. The bill changes the current code that permits the prosec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2105 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate captive cervid farming as an agricultural enterprise in this state and creates the Captive Cervid Farming Act. Toward this purpose, the bill describes powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide civil immunity for forensic evaluators for acts committed by the subject of a dangerous assessment evaluation. The bill creates parity with other judicial participants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2469 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2015-01-28
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an exemption for autocycles, which are enclosed three wheel motor vehciles that are equipped with safety belts, a rollbar, a windshield, wipers and a steering wheel. A person may operate an autocycle with a valid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2490 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establishing a tax credit for new businesses that locate in the state. The bill sets forth how the credit is determined. The bill establishes the conditions that must be met to qualify for the credit. The bill defines t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| SCR12 | Pass | Adopting Joint Rules of Senate and House of Delegates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
House Message received |
| HB2464 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt disabled veterans from campground rental fees from the day after Labor day until four days prior to Memorial Day. The bill provides rule-making authority. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2486 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to discontinue the use of Common Core Standards and assessments in the state; require the department of education to promulgate new standards for academic curriculum and assessment; and allow school districts to develop ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| HB2488 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the construction of new public buildings and when an entrance to an existing public building is renovated to be compliant with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act by having automatic doors. The bill defi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2489 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a sanitary board is not required to have a registered professional engineer serving on the board if the board is supervising construction of a project for which a registered professional engineer is under c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require West Virginia municipal police officers to wear armor vests whenever feasible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2452 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require reports to the Governor from state agencies to be made available electronically via the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2484 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the statutory restrictions placed on sex offenders who have been adjudicated as violent sexual predators or who are under active supervision as a condition of release on parole or probation living or working wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate dedication of corporation net income tax revenues to and deposits of such revenues into the Special Railroad Intermodal Enhancement Fund on and after July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers for a living, elected official by any governmental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2450 | 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 permits advanced practice reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require state agencies to issue photographic identification cards to qualified retired law-enforcement officers that will enable the retired officers to carry a concealed weapon in compliance with the federal Law-Enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2475 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add language to West Virginia Code
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | If you have received this notice because you are the owner of an interest in the surface overlaying a mineral interest that was returned delinquent, you may pay the clerk twice the amount identified above, plus a nonrefundable $20 administrative fee,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2477 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require voters to present identifying documents issued either by the State of West Virginia or the United States government that contains the name, address, and a photograph of the person desiring to vote which the poll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB349 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide annual revenue to the Tourism Promotion Fund to ensure that the Division of Tourism is able to successfully promote West Virginia and participate in the Tourism Matching Advertising Partnership Program. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| HB2480 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the accused to have five strikes from a panel of jurors and to allow the prosecuting attorney to have three strikes from a panel of potential jurors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a procedure for the development of a state plan under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. It requires the Department of Environmental Protection to study the feasibility of a state plan and to submit a report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Referred to Judiciary |
| HB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a person restraining a mentally ill or mentally challenged person in a "four point restraint" to administer sedation by injection at the time the patient is secured in the "four point restraint". The bill provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2460 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to keep a grandparent visitation order in place unless it is vacated in the adoption order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2449 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit coowners of cows to receive raw milk from those cows. The bill authorizes rule making. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the state excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property tax be used to reimburse counties for regional jail fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2491 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to relating to require the State Board of Education to study the salaries and salary adjustments of new hire teachers in a six state region. The bill requires the averages of those salaries and salary adjustments to be the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| HB2463 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to raise the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled from $8,000 to $16,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2453 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require state institutions of higher education to waive tuition and fees for children and spouses of National Guard members and members of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States or persons on feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| HB2483 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the three commissioners of the Public Service Commission be elected from the three congressional districts for six-year terms, beginning with the 2016 general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SR16 | Pass | Designating January 28, 2015, Generation West Virginia Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Completed legislative action |
| HB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the sale of raw milk effective January 1, 2016. The bill authorizes rule-making. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB354 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Rehabilitation Services Vending Program Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Recodifying chapter relating to child welfare and juvenile disposition
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR17 | Pass | Designating January 28, 2015, Kids at Risk Day at Legislature
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Completed legislative action |
| HB2471 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a county may issue a food handler’s licenses that is valid state-wide. The bill provides that the county may charge separate fees, one for county only licenses and the other for multicounty licenses. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2470 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to promote the retention of nursing education faculty by providing them a tax deduction of $2,500 per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| SR18 | Pass | Recognizing value and importance of state's innovation industry
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
Completed legislative action |
| HB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include pharmacists and pharmacies in the definition of health care provider related to the Medical Professional Liability Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
