| HB3063 | Intro
Sine Die | Â The purpose of this bill is to increase the tax on providers of inpatient and outpatient hospital services for two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB3058 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the additional tax on insurance premiums by one-half percent for two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB3052 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit state funding of abortions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3085 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the structure of the tax on bottled soft drinks to 1¢ per ounce and to rededicate the proceeds to all three medical schools in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB3023 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to specifying State Board of Education and local school boards responsibilities relating to students with dyslexia or dyscalculia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize certain schools to grant applied associate of science degrees that target workforce needs; require the West Virginia State Board of Education to promulgate rules setting the minimum standards for granting appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB3007 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require paving contracts for state highways to have special requirements to prevent potholes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2989 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to place limitations on length of time that prescriptions may be issued for schedule II and III controlled substances. The bill defines a term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB3050 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a special revenue account for each county in the State of West Virginia for coal severance taxes; and make the funds in the special revenue account exclusively available for use by county governments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB3008 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate county boards of education and establish school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB3067 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize Internet gaming managed and licensed through existing authorized gaming facilities in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2994 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide uniformity in public bidding thresholds between sanitary boards, public service districts and municipalities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB3094 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exception to waste for certain oil and gas development, and to encourage the efficient and economic development of oil and gas resources by providing that a lawful use of mineral property that has been consen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Energy Committee |
| HB3070 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit parents to petition the court for visitation on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3100 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties for school employees convicted of embezzling public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB3079 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect the identity of private persons supporting charities through financial or nonfinancial contributions. The bill also provides for enforcement provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3075 | Intro
Sine Die | 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to license the practice of athletic training; and provide criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB3029 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill concerns coal mining, coal mining safety and environmental protection. The bill creates a special reclamation water trust fund. The bill establishes additional duties for the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Energy Committee |
| HB3072 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to end transfers to the Licensed Racetrack Modernization Fund; transfer funds remaining in the Licensed Racetrack Modernization Fund and the Historic Resort Hotel Modernization Fund to the General Revenue Fund of the state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3055 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the preparation of a comprehensive annual financial report. The bill requires heads of spending units to prepare financial statements. The bill requires notice be given to the spending units. The bill establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB3076 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain uninsured motorists from recovering noneconomic damages from an insured motorist. The bill provides exceptions and defines terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB3098 | Intro
Sine Die | style='color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to modify the crime of defrauding drug and alcohol screening tests and its penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2988 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clearly define the penalties for embezzlement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3044 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the structure of the tax on bottled soft drinks and soft drink syrups and powders to only cover soft drinks with added caloric sweeteners, increase the rate to one cent per ounce and directing the excess proceeds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB3014 | Intro
Sine Die | 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to define undue influence and prohibit exoneration of a fiduciary who has exerted undue influence over a principal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3087 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish an Economic and Community Development Task Force. The bill sets forth the composition of task force. The bill requires a report to Joint Committee on Government and Finance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB3031 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a new state program that allows high school students to enter into early specialized training to prepare them for careers while attending high school; allowing the State Board of Education to create agreements wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB3057 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to  prohibit the use of a person’s credit history in certain insurance transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB3011 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the determination of "just compensation" to be paid to the landowner when eminent domain is used for a pipeline and the pipeline does not connect directly to a residential or commercial end user. Currently the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Energy Committee |
| HB3015 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require fingerprinting and background checks for all licensed professional and commercial drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB3003 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Workers’ Compensation Commission to allocate disability or death benefits resulting from an occupational pneumoconiosis claim among the claimant’s employers on a proportional basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3046 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose an additional excise tax on soft drinks. The bill dedicates the revenues from the additional tax to the General Revenue Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2995 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit certain animal euthanasia technicians who have been certified by other states be certified animal euthanasia technicians in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3065 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the classification of certain civilian employees of the Forensic Laboratory as Evidence Technicians I-IV, Forensic Technicians I-IV, Forensic Analysts I-VI, Forensic Analyst Supervisors I-III and for the super...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3090 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the maximum licensed school psychologist-pupil ratio is one thousand five hundred pupils for each licensed school psychologist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB3026 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a vehicle driver who injures a “vulnerable road user” is guilty of reckless driving. The bill defines the term “vulnerable road user.” The bill imposes misdemeanor penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB3043 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the corporation net income tax by .8 % for two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB3040 | Intro
Sine Die | Â The purpose of this bill is to create an Intermediate Court of Appeals. The bill requires election of judges of the intermediate court of appeals be on nonpartisan basis. The bill requires elections be on a division basis when more than one judge ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3060 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the business and occupation tax on the production of electricity for two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Energy Committee |
| HB3084 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article of the code related to unfair trade practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2986 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit applications for involuntary examination of nonresidents to nonresidents found within the county whose acts or behaviors supporting the application for involuntary custody have occurred within the state and nonres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3051 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make more flexible the ability of the Legislature to craft a budget to address the needs of the state without the need to amend general law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3016 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent an individual from being disqualified from receiving unemployment compensation benefits when their separation from employment is due to domestic violence, sexual offenses or stalking by family or household membe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2990 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to implement the recommendations arising out of the studies required by the passage of sections twelve, twenty-two and twenty-three of the Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act passed by the Legislature December 14, 2011...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2996 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require truck tarpaulins on all motor carrier vehicles transporting solid waste. The bill creates a misdemeanor penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2991 | Intro
Sine Die | 10.0pt;color:windowtext'>The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Highways to develop a state hotline for travelers to identify road hazards; and to require the Commissioner of Highways to develop a communications plan to disseminat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB3017 | Intro
Sine Die | This purpose of this bill is to provide that a person when being attacked in a place that is not his or her home should retreat instead of using deadly force when deadly force is not necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3097 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that, in all cases where state action is alleged to substantially burden the exercise of a First Amendment right, a compelling interest test is mandated, and, strict scrutiny is applied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB3071 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for indigent burials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB3036 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow county boards of education to hire retired teachers and provide that retired teachers may work for county board without effect on retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Education Committee |
