| HCR22 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the Division of Highways to build the bridge on County Route 65/03 located near Tug Valley High School in Naugatuck, Mingo County
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2259 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Governor to make appointments within sixty days of the date a vacancy occurs on a professional board. The bill also provides that a person appointed to serve on a professional board is limited to eight years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure patient safety by establishing minimum direct-care registered nurse to patient ratios. It provides for creating an "acuity-based patient classification system" and exempts critical access hospitals from its provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2262 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a procedure by which local governments may be authorized 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase fees for certain services and documents issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2253 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce state income taxes for state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income in calculating the federal gross income for state personal income tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2256 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit state funding of abortions. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SR11 | Pass | Recognizing Calhoun and Gilmer counties
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Completed legislative action |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise, arrange, consolidate and recodify the laws of the State of West Virginia relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources and the Bureau of Medical Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
Senator Plymale requests to be removed as sponsor of bill |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the maximum licensed school psychologist-pupil ratio is fifteen hundred pupils for each licensed school psychologist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2264 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a bill of rights for foster parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a uniform date of December 31 for the expiration of licenses for the business of currency exchange, transportation or transmission. The bill requires licensees to provide the Division of Financial Institutions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2249 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires the assessor of each county to, within three months of a deed filing in the county clerk’s office of each county, prepare a new property tax ticket and cause the tax ticket to be mailed, from the county sheriff’s office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise certain aspects of public school finance and the school aid formula. First, it eliminates the authority of growth county boards of education to designate regular school board levy revenues due to new construction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2246 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to recognize seniority for public employees for the purposes of promotion, transfer, advancement, lay off, reduction in force and recall. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2255 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2242 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require health insurers to reimburse ambulance service providers directly for ambulance services covered under a person's health insurance policy, plan or contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2271 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give the State Board of Education no more than five years to improve any school or school system under its control. The bill requires the State Board of Education to provide a public hearing if it seeks to take control ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HB2260 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Resources from expanding the managed care population without authorization from the Legislature. This section is new; therefore, it is completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB297 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the amount of nonintoxicating draught beer that may be sold to a consumer in certain instances. The bill removes the limitation on how much nonintoxicating beer may be sold to consumers for consumption off the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| HB2045 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from certain offenses for a person who seeks health care for someone or for himself or herself who is experiencing an overdose. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2244 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2265 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county from three to four.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| SB290 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to promote the growth of craft beer production and facilities in West Virginia by restructuring license fees for brewers in proportion to production volumes, allowing brewers of craft beer to offer complimentary samples at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| HJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $25,000 on July 1, 2017 and then, on July 1, 2018, to $30,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2252 | Intro
Sine Die | The bill replaces the present crime of burglary with the crime of home invasion. This bill provides for the criminal offenses of home invasion in the first, second, third and fourth degrees. The bill prescribes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2257 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a bill of rights for children in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2251 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace. The bill provides examples. The bill provides for criminal penalties. The bill defines a term. These sections are new; therefore, they have been completely underscored...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2009 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow police, fire and emergency service providers, to possess Naloxone or other opioid antagonists to administer in suspected narcotic drug overdoses. The bill sets guidelines for administration of these antagonists, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2270 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to promote intellectual diversity and academic freedom in institutions of higher education. The bill prohibits employment decisions concerning faculty members from being based solely on political or religious beliefs. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HB2261 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require automated external defibrillators in public schools. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HB2273 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require prevailing wages to be established by a commission. This section has been completely rewritten; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2254 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish a work program for qualified inmates sentenced to a regional jail facility. It includes provisions specify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2245 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant a salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees of $5,000 to be paid over a three-year period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2247 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a chief deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities. The bill prohibits a chief deputy sheriff from soliciting contributions from anyone employed in a sheriff’s office. The bill also proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2250 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the fines and community service hours for littering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2269 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal law or regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HCR13 | Intro
Sine Die | The MSgt Johnny Baxter Clark and MSgt Carl Richard (Dick) Clark Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HCR5 | Intro
Sine Die | The Fredrick Dempsey Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HCR10 | Intro
Sine Die | The US Navy LCDR Helen Elizabeth Peck Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2209 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal Article 29H of Chapter 16 of the West Virginia Code, titled “Governor’s Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HCR3 | Intro
Sine Die | The Balentine Brothers Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SCR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study issues facing military veterans and active duty service personnel
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HCR15 | Intro
Sine Die | The US Marine Corps GySgt Lionel Collins Memorial Road
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2211 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the consumers sales and service tax exemption on purchases of certain materials by a second party in construction or maintenance of a highways project for the 2015 fiscal year, and to resume the exemption for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2204 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exemption for eligible seniors from payment of tax on heating oil in a private dwelling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Senior Citizen Issues Committee |
| HB2231 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit grandchildren of resident landowners to hunt, trap or fish on that landowner's property without a license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB138 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow posting of real property by certain clearly visible paint markings in order to prohibit hunting or trespassing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2028 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit awarding or renewing state contracts of over $2 million to vendors owned, in whole or part, by state officials or by family members of state officials. The bill also requires an affidavit of compliance with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
