| HB2091 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the False Claims Act. It provides for qui tam proceedings (which are lawsuits brought by private citizens against a person or company who is believed to have violated the law in performance of a contract with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2083 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a senior citizen purchasing the Class XS senior resident hunting, fishing and trapping license is not required to purchase any additional hunting, fishing and trapping stamps or permits issued by the Divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SCR1 | Pass | Authorizing payment of supplies, services, printing and other expenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
House Message received |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a "grandfathering" exemption from any regulation, rule or policy requiring an associate's degree for the persons who, through their work and service as child care workers at the West Virginia School for the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the ability to pierce workers’ compensation immunity by filing a private cause of action and proving through five factors that an employer acted with deliberate intent to injure an employee. In lieu of this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2069 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a system for career development and establish a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and supervisors. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2062 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety to: (1) Direct certain state agencies and boards to report regularly to the commission; to direct the commission to study worker safety in the mini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2076 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB236 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit health insurance coverage for elective abortions to coverage provided through supplemental policies. Elective abortion exceptions are provided for certain pregnancies that threaten the life of the mother or result...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2074 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires the Superintendent of the State Police to develop a plan to increase the number of troopers to a minimum of eight hundred troopers by July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2061 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish seniority preference for all civil service workers bidding on jobs, seeking to transfer, or affected by reduction in force. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2072 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an increase in compensation for conservation officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2070 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments. The bill also creates duties for the firefighters’ Civil Service Commissions. This article is new; therefore, it has been complete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2065 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase compensation for members of the West Virginia State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2066 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees from $60 to $100 and to change eligibility criteria from three years of service to one.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2067 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to treat natural resources police like all other law enforcement and exempt their pension benefits from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2082 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school. The bill also requires the board to develop professional standards and the salary for the certified library media ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB2075 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a minimum number of troopers to provide basic law- enforcement services. The bill further provides that the salary increase at the end of two years of service for members of the West Virginia State Police will...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2060 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make the theft of a traffic sign or traffic signal a misdemeanor. The bill establishes misdemeanor penalties and requires restitution. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2078 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel. The bill provides that no lowering of a speed limit is effective until approved by the Commissioner of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2079 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Seniors Helping Seniors Fund. Personal income taxes paid on taxable Social Security benefits are to be deposited into the fund. The fund is to be used by the Department of Health and Human Resources and the B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Senior Citizen Issues Committee |
| HB2058 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to adopt rules to provide for use of neck braces by all football players in interscholastic athletic football events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB2080 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reallocate and dedicate the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues, up to $30 million annually, to the natural gas and oil producing counties of origin. The bill provides for distribution of the moneys to the distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2071 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an increase in compensation for natural resources police officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to permit the Legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property directly used in commercial and industrial businesses, or such components thereof as the Legislature may in its discretion desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SR6 | Pass | Honoring Doris Marks on Mineral County Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Completed legislative action |
| HB2057 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby so that they may be called back to work if necessary and to provide a stipend for housing cost for officers that reside ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2068 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conferences for their children. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2059 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give retired state personnel and retired teachers a five percent a year increase in retirement benefits over the next three consecutive years. These sections are new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HJR3 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $30,000. However, if the homeowner’s federal adjusted gross income is equal to or less than two hundred percent of the federal poverty level the exemption sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this joint resolution is to propose an amendment to the Constitution to require that bills imposing a tax or license fee and bills increasing the effective rate of any tax levied or fee imposed may not be enacted unless sixty percent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SR5 | Pass | Celebrating Monongalia County
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
Completed legislative action |
| HB2077 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in a part-time elected or appointed municipal or county office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB2063 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| SCR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting DOH name US Rt. 54/6 in Wyoming County "Virginia & U. S. Army Major Woodrow Cook Memorial Road"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2073 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require retail establishments offering gasoline or other motor fuel to provide refueling assistance and refueling access to persons with a disability, to establish requirements and exceptions, to provide the Secretary o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a ten percent discount to West Virginia residents for lodging, camping and other recreation activities at state parks and forests. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2081 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include journalists as a protected profession within the definition of crimes of violence against certain categories of workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the option for sentencing where a defendant is convicted of transporting Schedule I and II narcotics into the state by removing the minimum sentence and converting the penalty from an indeterminate period of 1-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2012 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require employers pay outstanding wages due to separated employees to be by the next regular payday. The bill provides an exception. The bill provides that bonuses and fringe benefits are not covered. The bill reduces t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2040 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include crimes of domestic violence and fraud in the list of offenses for which a conviction will disqualify an official from serving in, running for, or being elected to, public office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is clarify that an individual is disqualified from unemployment benefits for any week or portion thereof in which he or she did not work as a result of a strike.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to address disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer and permitting recovery in a private lawsuit. The bill requires the trier of fact to fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add one family court judge to the twenty-third family court circuit, comprising the counties of Mineral, Hampshire and Morgan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending period that terminated employees' wages must be paid
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowering threshold for low bidder's duty to submit subcontractors on government contracts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make it a felony to drive a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, controlled substance or other drug and cause serious bodily harm to another person. The bill also establishes penalties for first and subsequent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB51 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an employee, without measurable pulmonary impairment, twenty weeks of benefits at the same benefits rate as otherwise provided in this section which is a five percent benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB232 | 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] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
