| HCR16 | Intro
Sine Die | The US Army CPL F. Lee Noel Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2203 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the provisions of the current Code to human trafficking to allow for the charges to be brought and associated remedies are available when even a single individual is exploited and victimized by sex trafficking or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2215 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of the bill is to establish certain protections for individuals seeking health care coverage through the WV Health Benefit Exchange. It also requires certain information to be published on the WV Health Benefit Exchange website in order t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HCR11 | Intro
Sine Die | The 1st Sgt. Carl J. Crabtree Memorial Road
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2228 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a funding ratio of 350/1 of students and school counselors. The bill would allow counties to set their own caseload standards so long as these are equally distributed at each academic level in the county. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| HB2235 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists . The bill provides an effective date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2207 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set guidelines that the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways must follow in establishing the list of priorities for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of state roads and highways. This article...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the resident lineal descendants of 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 |
| HCR12 | Intro
Sine Die | The US Army SP4 Lawrence Mendez, Jr. Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2218 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Budget Reform Act. The bill makes legislative findings. The bill requires a one percent spending cut per year for ten years, and reduction in the size of state government. The bill also establishes July 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HCR18 | Intro
Sine Die | The Betty Jo Delong Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HCR17 | Intro
Sine Die | The U. S. Air Force S/Sgt Bethel Howard McNeely and U. S. Marines S/Sgt Clyde Elmo Bryant Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2219 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that West Virginia will not participate in the “REAL ID Act of 2005" enacted by the United States Congress in Public Law 109-13. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2229 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a county employee may run for a vacant county office without giving up the employee’s current position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HCR14 | Intro
Sine Die | The James Earl Pelfrey Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2230 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to subtract social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income to determine West Virginia adjusted gross income for purposes of personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2238 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that the Governor’s appointees to the Public Service Commission be from each of the three U. S. congressional districts and no more than one may serve from any one county. Current commissioners may serve o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB1 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article and all sections of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Energy Committee |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the number of member counties in the National Coal Heritage Area Authority. It increases the number of members and provides for appointments by county commissions rather than the Governor. The bill provides for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2206 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal requirements to pay prevailing wages for construction of public improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2236 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to abolish the West Virginia Diesel Equipment Commission; transfer all power duties and appropriations of the commission to the Director of the office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training; establish legislative rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2221 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a valid West Virginia identification card is an acceptable form of ID to prove age and residency for purposes of obtaining a senior citizen campground rental discount at state parks and forests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2232 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that an automatic renewal provision of a contract for service, maintenance or repair is unenforceable unless notice of renewal is given to the recipient of the service no less than 30 days prior to the cancellat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2195 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make changes to the definition of electrical contractor in this article.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define the act of leaving the scene of a crash involving death or serious bodily injury as a felony. The bill also establishes certain presumptions of knowledge based on the circumstances of a vehicle crash.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2199 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the fire and casualty insurance surcharge from .55% to 1% The bill provides that the collected funds be distributed solely to volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB2172 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing by the parent or by a notarized signature of the parent; and providing a fine on the first offense of ten times the amount of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $1,000 cost-of-living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees. These sections are new; therefore, they have been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2198 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit retired public school teachers to teach college level courses without loss of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate local participation in funding school construction projects and the associated limited funding reserve. The bill eliminates certain regional planning activities when evaluating proposed construction projects. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HJR10 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to prohibit the taking of private property for private use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail head and in the same county as that trail head. The bill establishes variable amounts of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the severance tax on timber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2177 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill eliminates boards, councils, tasks forces, commissions, and committees that are unnecessary, inactive or redundant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2196 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue special Hatfield-McCoy Trail license plates. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2184 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to discontinue the use of common core standards and assessments in the state. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| SR10 | Pass | Recognizing Nuru International
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Completed legislative action |
| HB2046 | 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] | 2015-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to creating a tax credit for certain businesses with more than twenty-five employees that relocate to reclaimed mountaintop removal land. The bill provides that the credit lasts for ten years. This section is new; theref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| HB2186 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a performance and efficiency audit of the Division of Highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2178 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting or engaging in other outdoor recreational activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Work/Incarceration Prison pilot program. The bill establishes guidelines for what offenders may be sentenced to the program. The bill provides for the establishment of one work/incarceration prison. The bill fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit to coal producers who sell coal to taxpayers who increase their consumption of West Virginia coal in this state for the purpose of increasing coal production and coal related employment in West Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide additional pay for state teachers and counselors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the statutory provision which authorizes the State Tax Commissioner to issue business licenses for the purpose of selling drug paraphernalia, to void licenses already issued and to prohibit the sales on and after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2185 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize issuance of special veterans vanity registration plates for motorcycles. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2170 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to the inclusion of volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act and requiring the county commissions to pay either three-fourths or the full amount of premiums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| SB271 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require medical facilities that provide abortions to administer anesthesia to an unborn fetus when aborted if it is older than seven weeks. It also provides that when, during the course of an abortion procedure, a fetus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2175 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase criminal penalties for the illegal killing, taking or possessing of certain wildlife.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2171 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the use of motors exceeding nine horsepower in the operation of motorboats on lakes. The bill provides the conditions that must be met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
