| SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer all interest in real property to a coowner who has paid all taxes on the real property for a minimum of five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide quick and efficient medical treatment to the injured worker, which will allow a quick return to work for the injured worker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2013 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permanently reinstate the open and obvious doctrine for premises liability law, which has been the law of West Virginia for more than one hundred years, and overrule the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SR2 | Pass | Raising committee to notify House Senate has assembled and organized
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Completed legislative action |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase grandparents’ rights in matters of custodial or decision-making authority and visitation. The bill allows a guardian ad litem to recommend a psychological evaluation. The bill increases the importance of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR4 | Pass | Authorizing the appointment of employees for this, the First Regular Session of the Eighty-second Legislature, two thousand fifteen
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Completed legislative action |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring health insurance coverage for certain nonnarcotic pain relief systems
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2014 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Public Charter Schools Act of 2015. The bill provides purpose and intent. The bill defines terms. The bill establishes that charter schools are subject to certain requirements and exempt from ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a child support insurance match program that will assist the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement in determining whether a claimant has a child support obligation. The bill provides exemptions. The bill sets f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing state employee uniforms be manufactured in United States
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB2006 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to control the increase in the cost of liability insurance and to maintain access to affordable health care services for West Virginians. It provides a mechanism to increase the limitation on civil damages in medical malpr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certification of state bridge paint applicators
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB230 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow police, fire and emergency service providers, to possess Naloxone to administer in suspected narcotic drug overdoses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Education to provide professional development opportunities regarding dyslexia and other reading disabilities; and to require teaching staff receive two hours of such training annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SR1 | Pass | Adopting Rules of Senate
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Completed legislative action |
| SB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to purchase, possession, sale and use of fireworks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exemption from the moratorium on skilled nursing beds for beds for patients whose medical or nursing care or rehabilitation services exceed the traditional standard of skilled nursing care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to disclaimer of warranties for used motor vehicles
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to funeral service and embalmer licenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing liberal weighing of evidence in workers' compensation claims
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2019 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is require the mine foreman examiner to review and certify that the employment history of an applicant for the position of underground assistant mine foreman meets the underground experience requirements of section seven, art...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2030 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the presentation of documents with greater indicia of validity then those which are currently required for proof of identity prior to the issuance of a driver’s license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2037 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the sales tax on tax utility terrain vehicles. The bill sets forth the conditions that must be met to qualify for the exclusion. The bill also defines utility terrain vehicles as motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB134 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reform the civil justice system and create an intermediate court of appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HCR1 | Pass | Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
House received Senate message |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to selection of state agency administrative hearing examiners
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing teacher-pupil ratios; increasing certain classroom aides' pay
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2029 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow local governments 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 three percent. The bill limits a municipal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Healthy Children and Healthy Communities Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set the maximum amount for air-ambulance services which may be collected pursuant to the plans of the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit those individuals who have been issued a concealed weapons permit to keep loaded firearms in their motor vehicles on the State Capitol Complex grounds provided the vehicles are locked and the weapons are out of n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing cook-meal ratios for full-day and half-day school cooks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add “sexual orientation” to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation; add “age” and “sexual orientation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB2042 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Renewable Energy Act. The bill makes legislative findings and defines terms. The bill provides a maximum $2,000 investment cost recovery incentive for customer-generated electricity from renewab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Energy Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Redistributing and dedicating excise tax on real property transfers to regional jails
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2033 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate captive cervid farming as an agricultural enterprise in this state. Toward this purpose, the bill describes powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture. The bill provides for rule-making authority. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating loser-pays civil justice system
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make the weighing of workers’ compensation evidence a liberal interpretation; to allow parties to submit evidence after the Permanent Total Reviewing body has made its initial determination; to change the applicat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require write-in candidates for public office to pay a filing fee for the office sought and that the distribution of the fee be in the same manner as other candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2018 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2032 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring licensure of bartenders by ABCC
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the reporting and publication of all compensation, including the source of that compensation, paid to lobbyists for all lobbying activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to meeting and conference rights for police or fire departments
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB2036 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a summons be issued for the drawer of a worthless check whether a resident of this or another state. The bill requires the summons include the date, time and place where the drawer is required to appear. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB35 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that any law-abiding person twenty-one years of age or older may carry a concealed weapon within the boundaries of the state, including on or within municipally owned or controlled buildings, recreation centers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a West Virginia personal income tax modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for people who have spayed or neutered their dog or cat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that conservation district supervisors have their applications to participate in West Virginia Conservation Agency financial assistance programs evaluated and approved or rejected by the West Virginia Conservati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus. The bill also prescribes a criminal penalty for violations of the section. This section is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
