| SB356 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit the School Building Authority to transfer funds from the School Construction Fund into a special revenue account in the State Treasury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB353 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to specify the duties of a telephone company with regard to other businesses for which the telephone company provides billing services and to provide a means for the investigation and resolution of disputes between the tel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB352 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit utility consumers to use the consumer protection laws when billing issues are in question. The bill provides the Attorney General with the power to inquire about a billing issue. The bill provides that the remedy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SR16 | Pass | Designating June West Virginia Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Month and June 27 West Virginia Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Completed legislative action |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an offer of settlement; acceptance or rejection; consequences; frivolous claims or defenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR16 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging WV congressional delegation require DHHR renegotiate state Medicaid expansion contracts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB348 | Intro
Sine Die | This purpose of this bill is to prohibit local authorities from allowing parking along U.S. or primary state highways when doing so reduces flow of traffic to less than one lane of traffic moving in each direction. The bill provides exception for one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB342 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide compensation to victims of abusive lawsuits; and provide that a party in a civil action is entitled to recover attorney’s fees and costs after a court dismisses a claim as lacking any basis in law or fact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Raising legal age for purchase of tobacco, alternative nicotine and vaper products to 21
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB191 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that programs be jointly administered by labor and management trustees in order to qualify for tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB320 | 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] | 2017-02-17
Referred to Rules |
| SR14 | Pass | Designating February 16, 2017, as WV Homeschool Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Completed legislative action |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | DNR rule relating to miscellaneous permits and licenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 134 |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | DNR rule relating to special waterfowl hunting
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 134 |
| SB334 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the felony offense of aggravated cruelty to animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Division of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of any person who is 6 months or more behind in child support payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | DNR rule relating to commercial sale of wildlife
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 134 |
| SB237 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal obsolete rules relating to the Department of Revenue, and the banking and insurance commissioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of limited video lottery terminals located in a retail outlet from five to seven and in fraternal and veterans’ organizations from ten to twelve. The Commission is to conduct a bid process on or be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to address the recent prevalence of fentanyl, fentanyl derivatives and fentanyl analogs in this state, as well as the practice of misrepresenting the identity of a Schedule I controlled substance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training rule relating to certification, recertification and training of EMT-Miners and certification of EMT-M instructors
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 134 |
| SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt heating oil used for residential purposes from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | DNR rule relating to revocation of hunting and fishing licenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 134 |
| SB322 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Highways and the Director of the West Virginia Division of Personnel to collaborate to develop a special hiring process for Division of Highways positions; to ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB328 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a fund to relieve the burden upon municipalities and counties of certain fire related cleanup and demolition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Governor and Legislature from administering equal across-the-board budget cuts to all higher education and to protect community colleges from disproportionate budget cuts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | State Fire Marshal rule relating to fireworks and related explosive materials regulation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 116 |
| SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities on a voluntary basis based upon recommendations of the Center for Disease Control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the tax credit for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment. The bill sets a date after which the increase applies to new rehabilitation expenditures. The bill adjusts the tax credits with respect to both p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB319 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the student-school nurse ratio from 1,500-1 in grades K-7 to 750-1 and to expand it to all levels of school in the 2017-18 school year to provide for ever-increasing medical needs of students, while ensuring that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| SCR12 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting Joint Committee on Children and Families study government benefit programs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SCR10 | Intro
Sine Die | US Army SGT Arthur George Roush Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SR13 | Pass | Recognizing National Go Red for Women Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
Completed legislative action |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to strengthen and establish criminal offenses relating to human trafficking. The bill eliminates an existing criminal offense and penalty for human trafficking, and establishes a new article with multiple offenses and pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Highways or local authorities to establish minimum speed limits in certain congested areas and to assess fines for violating the minimum speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a family court judge to order substance abuse counseling of a child in emergency situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Lottery Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Limited Video Lottery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 127 |
| SB295 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit for modifications to homes made more accessible for an elderly person or a person with a disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to rename the Court of Claims the state Claims Commission, rename judges commissioners; modify definitions; provide explicit powers for the removal of commissioners; provide authority to the Joint Committee on Government a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow adjustment of gross income for calculating personal income liability for certain retirees entitled to reduced benefits related to a terminated defined benefit plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to govern when and how civil damages for future medical monitoring expenses will be paid and administered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB315 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the hourly rate for attorneys who are appointed in child abuse and neglect matters from $45.00 to $75.00 an hour out of court and from $65.00 to $95.00 an hour in court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an accounting of all registration plates issued to government entities, and to require the revocation of all registrations and plates issued erroneously.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB291 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to apply the residential solar energy tax credit of up to $2,000 to each installation of a solar energy system. The bill extends the tax credit until July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to classify the convention and visitor’s bureau as a public agency, subject to the ethics act and open meetings requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting liability of Parks and Recreation section of DNR
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Racing Commission rule relating to thoroughbred racing
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 127 |
| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt complimentary hotel rooms provided by a hotel operator to guests without charge from the hotel occupancy tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Pari-Mutuel Wagering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 127 |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Food Production Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
