| HB2458 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit all employees of the State Board of Education or any county board from counseling, referring, transporting or assisting any student to obtain an abortion. The bill provides a violation of its provisions is a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| HB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the possession of firearms on the grounds of higher education institutions by all persons with valid licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is give each county commission authority to submit road and bridge construction projects to the Commissioner of Highways. The bill authorizes county commissions to impose a county transportation sales and service tax and a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2445 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the state Administrative Procedures Act. It defines the term "legislative exempt rule" and adds that term to the provisions regarding the requirements for amendments to existing rules, proposed new rules and the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that neither the state nor any county may reimburse any person or entity for transporting any person to schedule, arrange or procure an abortion. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2409 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal all of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the current required instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid in any of the grades six through twelve in public school health education subjects. It adds care for conscious choking in the first ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HCR25 | Intro
Sine Die | The US Army PFC Jessica Dawn Lynch Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2434 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide job retention for any veteran employed by any employer in the state, while the veteran seeks or receives treatment for the injury or injuries related to the veteran’s service-connected disability, and is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB2436 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of child protective service workers and to reduce the caseloads of child protective service workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2399 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt all veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component thereof from having to have hunting, trapping and fishing licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR14 | 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] | 2015-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2384 | Intro
Sine Die | Removing prohibition of municipalities that are participating in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program to pass ordinances, acts, rules or regulations pertaining to municipal pension plans
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2423 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is open an enrollment period of eleven months in which certain members of the Public Employees Retirement System may purchase previously forfeited service credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2414 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a salary increase for kindergarten aides and early childhood classroom assistant teachers who have more than twenty pupils per session. The bill permits early childhood classroom assistant teachers to have the sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a state agency owning a state building to maintain insurance on the building and its contents in an amount approved by the board of Risk and Insurance Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2418 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Health and Human Resources to reimburse the circuit clerk of the county where involuntary commitment hearings are held for expenses of filing, postage and copies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2424 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a procedure for West Virginia to select delegates to an Article V Convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. The bill defines terms. The bill sets forth delegate dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2437 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living increase, based on the annual increase in the consumer price index, for persons under the Public Employees Retirement Act and Teachers Retirement System that are at least sixty years of age and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2383 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to freeze PEIA employee premiums for three years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2398 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the use of a credit score to banking institution credit scoring for casualty insurance rate filings; to prohibit the use of credit scoring as a consideration in calculating insurance rates in homeowners or automob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2425 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that, in order to graduate from high school or obtain a General Educational Development (GED) diploma, a pupil must correctly answer at least sixty of the one hundred questions listed on a test that is identical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| SB319 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons due a refund of $25.00 or less to donate the refund amount to the West Virginia Children’s Trust Fund rather than receiving the refund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2417 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a beneficiary under the State Teachers Retirement System who has been approved for a retirement with a joint life annuity to convert to the maximum life annuity if the spouse dies within the first five years of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2431 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish procedures for investigation and review of police officer-involved deaths. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of participants allowed in the Home Rule Pilot Program to allow the seven municipalities who were not accepted in the Home Rule Pilot Program to reapply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2419 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add fifty new positions to the staff at the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital so that the safety of the staff and patients may be enhanced. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2438 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase one of the educational increments for school service personnel from $11 per month to $15 per month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HB2420 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of night vision technology and drones or other unmanned aerial vehicles for the hunting or taking of wildlife.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2389 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant all public employees, all teachers, all service employees, all public employee retirees, all teacher retirees and all service employee retirees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase. These sections are new; t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2426 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the merger of the purposes and provisions of the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers’ Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers’ Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund, in
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2388 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to cause school buses to be equipped with safety belts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HB2396 | 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 is collected so that it is shared by the state and county and municipality whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2430 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB337 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Right to Work Law. The bill prohibits any requirement that a person become or remain a member of a labor organization as a condition of employment. The bill prohibits any requirement that a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit costs to insured automobile owners for repairs needed when they hit a deer on a state highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2421 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide job retention for certain veterans employed by state or local agencies seeking or receiving treatment for the injury or injuries which led to the veteran’s service-connected disability. This article is ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB2390 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require all public accessible restrooms, including all schools, to provide hand sanitizers either in or at the exit from the restroom facility. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2413 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide pay rates for teachers and service personnel employed by county boards of education and institutions of higher education for work assignments outside regular school days or regular employment duties or beyond co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HB2416 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the language to comport with the evaluation standard used in releasing forensic admissions from mental health facilities to a less restrictive environment as related to competency and criminal responsibility of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2402 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2422 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that home schooled students have to acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to be eligible to receive a PROMISE scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a public hearing before there is fee simple transfer of real property to or from the Division of Natural Resources and the Division of Forestry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2412 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide sex offender registration information to elementary schools, secondary schools, higher education institutions that lack a campus police department where the registrant is employed or attends school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HB2415 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that those who are eligible for public employees retirement benefits and who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States must have served during a time of armed conflict before, up to fiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require voters to provide a photo identification when voting, to provide for provisional ballots to be cast by voters who do not possess the required photo identification and, additionally, to provide for complimentary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR13 | Pass | Designating January 27, 2015, Higher Education Day at Legislature
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Completed legislative action |
| SR15 | Pass | Recognizing independent insurance agent Timothy W. Dyer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Completed legislative action |
| HB2428 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission of a judge or parole officer. The bill creates criminal penalties. The bill also defines terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
