| HB4218 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to implement a formal recommendation offered by the West Virginia Commission on Oil and Natural Gas Industry Safety, which Governor Tomblin convened by executive order. Specifically, the bill expands the definition of â€...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 247, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4146 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide insurance coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs. It provides that direct health care services cover abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs while also providing certain contracts cover abuse-deterre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 134, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4295 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create Innovation in Education designated schools, which demonstrate innovation in STEM, community school partnership, entrepreneurship or career pathways. The bill provides for components and requirements of an Innov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 92, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4502 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Attorney General to engage in reciprocal agreements with states contiguous to this State and with the District of Columbia, intended to establish regulations, licensing requirements and taxes for small bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 141, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4009 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is give each county commission authority to submit road and bridge construction projects that are approved by the voters to the Commissioner of Highways. The bill authorizes county commissions to impose a county transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 51, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4612 | Pass | The purpose of this bill generally concerns tax increment financing and economic opportunity development districts and expanding its use for financing and funding road projects in West Virginia. The bill permits certain agreements between the Divisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 53, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB2615 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Small Business Capital Act. It exempts the offer and sale of certain securities from the Uniform Securities Act. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 224, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4265 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize an alternative means of payment of principal and interest on bonds owned by the United States or any governmental agency or department thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 223, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB2605 | Pass | Removing the limitation on actions against the perpetrator of sexual assault or sexual abuse upon a minor
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 1, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4145 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize residents of the State of West Virginia to carry a firearm in a concealed manner, without permit, so long as certain conditions are met. The bill permits eligible persons to carry a handgun for self-defense pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 252, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4163 | Pass | Providing the authority and procedure for municipalities to give notice to, and publish the names of, entities delinquent in paying business and occupation taxes
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 165, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4617 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize legislative rules of the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding the Underwood-Smith Teacher Scholarship Program and Nursing Scholarship Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4038 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the early refill of topical eye medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 133, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4046 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Purchasing Division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 148, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4345 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the West Virginia Permitting and Licensing Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 37, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4201 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture. It also provides criminal penalties for participating in wagering at an animal fighting venture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 70, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4340 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require numerous licensing boards in the medical field to place on websites with public access information on completed disciplinary actions in which discipline was ordered, and to require background checks on certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 176, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4674 | Pass | Relating to motor vehicle back-up lamps
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 244, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4060 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Fire Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 150, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4150 | Pass | The purpose of supplemental appropriation bill is to supplement, amend, and increase items of appropriation in the aforesaid accounts for the designated spending units for expenditure during the fiscal year 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 10, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4558 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow a victim to designate an additional adult individual to receive notice of an offender's release, sentencing, placement or escape. The bill additionally requires the victim to provide the additional adult individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 249, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4537 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to update definitions and exemptions and clarify hearing notice procedures with regard to the regulation of chronic pain clinics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 201, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4654 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove the Board of Registered Professional Nurses executive secretary’s experience requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 182, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4726 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to enhance the state’s mine safety and environmental statutes. The bill makes findings. The bill eliminates the Department of Environmental Protection Office of Explosives and Blasting and consolidates the remaining duti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 106, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4735 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that speech-language pathologists and audiologists are two different providers.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 156, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4323 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require well operators and pipeline operators to report certain emergency incidents to the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management within fifteen minutes, unless exceptions apply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 212, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4725 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to .
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 105, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4377 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions and municipalities to impose their hotel occupancy taxes on hotel and motel rooms regardless of the length of time for which the hotel or motel room is rented. It also provides that the tax is n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 226, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4586 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is ensure that the interest of protected persons, incarcerated persons and unknown owners are protected in condemnation actions filed by the Division of Highways. The bill requires the appointment of a limited guardian if a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 98, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4461 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change an eligibility requirement for School Major Improvement Fund projects through the School Building Authority that may penalize county boards that reduce maintenance costs through improved preventative and predicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 94, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4540 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the prohibition of the disposal of certain electronic devices such as computers, monitors, and television sets in landfills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 108, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4261 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the sale or transfer of student data to vendors and other profit making entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 85, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4519 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow certain municipalities participating in the Public Employees Retirement System to choose to have their paid police officers or firefighters move to the Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 220, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4315 | Pass | 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] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 130, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4245 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to replace the obsolete requirement of establishing an examining committee and clarify that a bank must employ an outside auditing firm. It also provides for shareholders to be given the bank’s most recent year-end aud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 28, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4618 | Pass | Relating to limitations on use of a public official's name or likeness
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 113, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB2852 | Pass | Relating to legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 121, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4330 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make it unlawful to take a fish, water animal or other aquatic organism from state waters to stock a commercial pond or lake.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 171, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4662 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Superintendent of the State Police to collect $3 from the sale of a motor vehicle inspection station to purchase, equip and maintain vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 246, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB2494 | Pass | Creating a provisional plea process in criminal cases
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 73, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4388 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require the Bureau for Public Health to designate certain hospitals as stroke centers and require the Office of Emergency Medical Services to establish protocols to treat and transport stroke patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 199, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4651 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require applicants for professional licensure to pass the International Licensing Examination for Hearing Healthcare Professionals or an equivalent examination; to require applicants for professional licensure to pass a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 187, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4309 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the criminal penalties for conviction of the offense of financial exploitation of an elderly person, protected person or incapacitated person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 64, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4186 | Pass | style='color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to establish additional duties for the Public Service Commission related to developing a process to review towing operator charges for fairness.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 163, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB2897 | Pass | Young Entrepreneur Reinvestment Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 83, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4566 | Pass | The purpose of this bill primarily is to adjust the final deadlines for personnel actions to May 1 and realign uniformly the deadlines for intermediate actions. Among the adjustments are moving the deadline for early notice of retirement for all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 89, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4655 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit insurers, vision care plan or vision care discount plans from requiring vision care providers to provide discounts on noncovered services or materials. It prohibits eye care providers from charging more to en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 138, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4659 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit local public health departments to bill for health care service fees without having to obtain the approval of the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 194, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4730 | Pass | Relating to computer science courses of instruction
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 86, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
| HB4463 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the practice of telemedicine. The bill establishes requirements and makes exceptions. The bill defines terms and authorizes rulemaking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-13
Chapter 179, Acts, Regular Session, 2016 |
