| HB3020 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the penalty for hunting, trapping or fishing on the lands of another, entering upon posted lands, or destroying posted land signs shall be equivalent to the penalty for criminal trespass.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-08
Senate requests House to concur |
| HB2869 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that certain state employees may be granted a leave of absence with pay while providing assistance as an essential member of an emergency aid provider during a declared state of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-08
Communicated to Senate |
| HB2538 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that a physician assistant have a certain current certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-08
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| HB2887 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize Boards of Governors of institutions of higher education to develop retirement and incentive packages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-08
Senate requests House to concur |
| HB2916 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize supervising entities to authorize ambulance crew members, firefighters, rescue squad members and emergency service personnel to carry firearms. It specifies the training required for them to be eligible to car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
Committed to Rules on 3rd reading |
| HB3102 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to selling Hopemont Hospital
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
Senate requests House to concur |
| HB2366 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the selling of Jackie Withrow Hospital by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
Senate requests House to concur |
| HB2546 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow uniform costs to be deducted from an employee’s final paycheck if the uniform is not returned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
Senate requests House to concur |
| HB2868 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that presumed abandoned property in the form of amounts owed by an insurer on a life or endowment insurance policy or an annuity that has matured or terminated, and obligations related thereto, are guided by pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
Communicated to House |
| HB2004 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create and maintain a centralized state vehicle inventory system. The bill establishes the Fleet Management Office within the Department of Administration. The bill creates the State Vehicle Title, Registration and Reli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
On 2nd reading to Finance |
| HB2930 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a powerball winner to be anonymous if they elect to be anonymous. The bill also provides an exemption under FOIA if a person elects anonymity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
On 2nd reading to Finance |
| HB3006 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt certain contracts between the Department of Health and Human Resources and West Virginia University or Marshall University from state purchasing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2471 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that on and after January 1, 2018, insurance coverage for breast cancer screening be provided by the Public Employees Insurance Agency, accident and sickness insurance providers, group accident and sickness insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2028 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a pro se plaintiff or petitioner to file a claim or petition against the state, a state officer, or state agency in the circuit court of a county in which the plaintiff or petitioner resides or in which a claim ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
Resolution adopted to extend conference |
| HB3062 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the state Settlement and Recovered Funds Accountability Act. The bill requires the deposit of settlement moneys and recovered funds to be deposited in the general revenue. The bill additionally creates an Atto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2099 | Engross
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] | 2017-03-30
Resolution adopted to extend conference |
| HB2483 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2363 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that a state employee with a commercial driver’s license have a current medical evaluation certification and may not have a medical waiver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2933 | Intro
Sine Die | 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to reduce the rate of the consumer sales and service tax and use tax; to provide for further reductions to the rate of tax under certain circumstances and to eliminate certain exemptions and specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB2376 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the Bureau for Medical Services be renamed the Department of Medical Services with the Commissioner of the Bureau for Medical Services becoming the Secretary of the Department of Medical Services. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2776 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the creation of special revenue accounts in the State Treasury for the deposit of Division of Labor fees, and to authorize the commissioner utilize excess funds in new and existing special revenue accounts to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB2794 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require proof of mailing of notices to debtors that consumers are represented by legal counsel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB3108 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to authorizing redirection of certain amounts to the General Revenue Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| HB3091 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the due date for employers to file their annual reconciliation and withholding statements with the Tax Commissioner to January 31, which date is consistent with the date by which employers must file their annual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2654 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand county commissions’ ability to dispose of county or district property; and eliminate the requirement that property conveyed to volunteer fire department or volunteer ambulance service reverts back to county com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB3028 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact a comprehensive plan, based on public health, research and data, to combat the state’s opioid drug and substance abuse crisis. This bill creates the centralized Office of Drug Control Policy under the directio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2966 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Sentencing Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2816 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to solve the immediate fiscal crisis and stabilize the budget of the State of West Virginia. This bill increases the sales and service tax and use tax rates by one-half cent from 6% to 6.5%, with an expiration date of June...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
House rejected (Roll No. 225) |
| HB3088 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove teacher-pupil ratio requirements for grade six classes, and require the West Virginia Board of Education to collect and report class size information and number of pupils per teacher for grade six classes to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
House rejected (Roll No. 239) |
| HB2763 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the approval by the Council for Community and Technical College Education of acquisitions, bequests, donations, construction of new buildings, repairs, renovations or lease payments over the lifetime of the leas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2788 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow military veterans with certain military ratings to take examinations required for successful completion of a firefighter’s probation period.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
To Senate Military Committee |
| HB2515 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, rededication, or other disturbance of any statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, or plaque which is located on public property and has been erected for, or named, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB3105 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the Licensed Racetrack Modernization Fund
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2346 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to conduct a study on the cost effectiveness of flat license plates. The bill requires the commissioner to issue those types of plates if the study determines f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2838 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow military veterans who meet certain qualifications to qualify for examination for license as an emergency medical technician
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
To Senate Military Committee |
| HB3101 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating a misdemeanor for violation of catching, taking or killing fish within two hundred feet of agency personnel stocking fish into public waters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2841 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require board members to have attended a board meeting in order to be compensated for the meeting. The bill requires the member to attest to his or her attendance and it be witnessed. The bill requires records be kept f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2208 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties and municipalities to establish a joint airport hazard comprehensive plan for the purpose of satisfying requirements of federal aviation law, protecting the public safety or preventing hazardous condition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-25
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2524 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to improve the focus on school-level continuous improvement processes led by the principal. The bill includes instructional leadership among the duties and responsibilities of principals and assistants and requires instruc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB3089 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a transition to the county board of education level of the process for review and adoption of instructional resources required to be used in the schools under the jurisdiction of the county board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB3009 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification access to the Controlled Substances Monitoring Program database for regulatory purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2808 | Engross
Sine Die | baseline'>The purpose of this bill is to provide assisted outpatient treatment to individuals suffering from mental illness to prevent such individuals from decompensating to the point of likelihood to cause serious harm to self or others for safety ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2827 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the provisions of the all payor claims database.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| HB2840 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reorganize the departments, agencies and commissions within the executive branch of state government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2289 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensure of Speech-Pathology and Audiology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
Reported in Com. Sub. for H. B. 2219 |
| HB2239 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Qualifications, Training, Examination and Certification of Instructors in Barbering and Cosmetology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
Reported in Com. Sub. for H. B. 2219 |
| HB2299 | Intro
Sine Die | 10.0pt;color:black'>The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Waxing Specialists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
Reported in Com. Sub. for H. B. 2219 |
| HB2218 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Dangerous Wild Animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
Reported in Com. Sub. for H. B. 2219 |
| HB2820 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to abolish the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner; transferring its powers and duties to the State Lottery Commission; creating alcohol beverage distributors licenses; and creating a per case tax on alcohol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2293 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Treasurer's Office to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Procedures for Processing Payments from the State Treasury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
Reported in Com. Sub. for H. B. 2219 |
