| HB2978 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make technical corrections and improvements to the West Virginia Uniform Trust Code and its companion provisions in the West Virginia Code dealing with trusts which was passed in 2011 as H.B. 2551.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to create a special registration plate for full-size special purpose off-road vehicles, self-assembled or modified original equipment manufactured vehicles, tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2958 | Intro
Sine Die | The bill provides for the construction of a state-wide, fiber optic broadband infrastructure network, known as broadband middle mile, to be purchased and owned by the state. The bill adds and defines new terms and creates a separate infrastructure fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2951 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to. require the Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health to conduct a public health impact statement assessing the health impact of any new air or water rule, or modification of an existing air or water rule, proposed by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2945 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide exemptions from mandatory immunizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of the Division of Natural Resources to study the feasibility of using a nonemployee work force to perform improvements in state parks and forests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB592 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for an independent redistricting commission to propose redistricting plans during census years. The commission consists of five members who are initially nominated by the State Election Commission. The actua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB587 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt honorably discharged veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States from payment of fees and costs required by this section for a license to carry deadly weapons. This exemption already applies to former law-e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2956 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a new special revenue fund, designated the Adult Drug Court Participation Fund, for the purpose of collecting and remitting moneys to the State Treasury for participation in an adult drug court program adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2968 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the moneys collected from the sale of timber realized through management of the state-owned forests and parks be distributed on a pro rata basis to the specific forest or park that was timbered. The bill creates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2344 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer the assets of the Library Commission relating to media broadcasting to the Educational Broadcasting Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Finance Committee |
| SB582 | 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] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for an independent redistricting commission to propose redistricting plans during census years. The commission consists of five members who are initially nominated by the state election commission. The actua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to is to abolish the office of environmental advocate effective July 1, 2017. Unused funds are to be deposited into the State General Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB580 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the amount of funds from the Unclaimed Property Fund that may be deducted during a fiscal year for the purpose of paying expenses of administering the Unclaimed Property Fund and the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB579 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt a farm winery from certain taxes on the selling or distribution of wine, when that wine is made on the farm winery and is sold at retail to the public on the premises of the farm winery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
To Senate Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Â The purpose of this bill concerns the expansion of broadband service to unserved areas of West Virginia by providing loan insurance for commercial loans used for the expansion of broadband service to unserved or underserved areas. The bill establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-11
Senator Smith requests to be removed as sponsor of bill |
| SB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing State Police Academy expand sale of items from post exchange to general public
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2934 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the tax brackets under the personal income tax and change the rate of the tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2908 | Intro
Sine Die | Making appropriations of public money out of the Treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article VI of the Constitution
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2919 | 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] | 2017-03-10
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2925 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a child sixteen years of age or older to petition for a change of parental custody.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB571 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating generally to certification and qualifications of sanitarians
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2907 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish consumer protections for rent-to-own land contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2917 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the name of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act to the Unborn Victims of Abuse Act. The bill permits a “person” to be exempt from a certain provision of the act. The bill defines the term “person.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2928 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a low interest student loan refinancing program for teachers. The bill creates a special fund. The bill establishes allocations to the fund. The bill makes legislative findings. The bill establishes eligibility r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2932 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide the owner of a conservation easement be given the right of first refusal to purchase land upon which it holds the easement when a landowner intends to sell land upon which the easement exists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB573 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusting tax rate on wind-powered generating units
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county commissions to maintain websites with specific information and to provide website information to the Secretary of State, to require Class I and Class II municipalities to maintain websites with specific i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2922 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the cost of the fee for a state license to carry a concealed weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2920 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties and mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers bringing drugs into the state and for distributing drugs. The enhanced penalties apply to those individuals previously been convicted of a drug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2910 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to legalize autonomous vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2912 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to abolish regional education service agencies; transfer duties, powers and services of regional education service agencies to various government agencies; establish that state board rules about regional education service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2929 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to continue providing a personal income tax adjustment to the gross income of certain retirees receiving pensions from defined pension plans that terminated and are being paid a reduced maximum benefit guarantee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2909 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to is to abolish the office of environmental advocate effective July 1, 2017. Unused funds are to be deposited into the State General Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2926 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to to require ACT and ACT Aspire to be used as the comprehensive statewide student assessment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2931 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent waste of oil and gas. The bill provides for payment of shut-in royalty or shut-in payments and for deferment of certain charges or fees in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2923 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that Department of Highways contracts in excess of $500,000 be entered into with contractors who verify that its employees and those employees of any subcontractors only utilize workers lawfully working in the U...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB577 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the licensing of advance deposit wagering. The bill provides for source market fees. The bill provides for the distribution of those fees from wagers made by account holders but not within thirty miles of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2924 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the installation of conduit for fiber optic cable on state highway construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB2911 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of video lottery terminals authorized for retailers and fraternal societies or veteran's organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| HB2915 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add persons who have been adjudicated as a juvenile delinquent for conduct related to qualifying offenses to comply with the registration requirements of the Sex Offender Registration Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2927 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer all the funds now existing or created in the future in the Greyhound Breeding Development Fund to the Excess Lottery Revenue Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2918 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a penalty for the offense of killing a law-enforcement officer. The penalty is life without mercy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a temporary tax credit for small group employers to cover a tax credit of up to fifty percent of the costs of branding, marketing and advertising of agricultural or manufactured products produced or manufactured...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2913 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the licensing of advance deposit wagering. The bill provides for source market fees. The bill provides for the distribution of those fees from wagers made by account holders but not within thirty miles of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB574 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make technical corrections and improvements to the West Virginia Uniform Trust Code and its companion provisions in the West Virginia Code dealing with trusts which was passed in 2011 as H.B. 2551.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2921 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish an intergovernmental clearinghouse to share information among agencies of state and local government regarding potential sources of revenue and technical and legal assistance for government agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2895 | Intro
Sine Die | the purpose of this bill is to restore employees’ right to agree to be represented by a labor organization; allowing a majority of similarly situated employees to vote to be represented by a labor union, and requiring all employees represented by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2873 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow certain alternate sentencing for nonviolent felony offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
