| SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that all state vehicles are registered with the DMV, are registered annually, and always display currently registered plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB540 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require school counselors to inform graduating high school students of the availability of student aid. The bill also requires all graduating high school students to apply for student aid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB556 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the requirements for contracts that allow for balloon payments, require proof of mailing of notices to debtors that consumers are represented by legal counsel and prohibit class action lawsuits under this chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB459 | Intro
Sine Die | Including "In God We Trust" license plate on statutory list of special license plates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB544 | Intro
Sine Die | This purpose of this bill is to require a warranty equal to or better than the remainder of the original manufacturer's warranty. The bill requires specification of genuine crash parts be made by the insurer. The bill requires documentation of afterm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB236 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish limits applicable to the award of damages for medical monitoring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB546 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an emergency text number system for children to escape violence and other emergencies and declaring that this be known as “Constance’s Law.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for teaching certificates for teachers whose spouses are married to a member of the Armed Forces who is on active duty stationed in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB553 | Intro
Sine Die | Â The purpose of this bill is to raise the minimum salary for teachers by three percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB542 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to seek funding, where feasible, for completing construction of Interstates 73 and 74 in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB561 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a severely economically depressed county to retain fifty percent of coal severance tax collected in that county for economic development and education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB543 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the maximum number of pupils per teacher to be exceeded by up to five pupils in certain instances; and remove restriction on number of classrooms with two or more grades that include one or more of certain grade l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Disaster Recovery Board to intervene to restore access to private property, real estate or other premises, when the access is destroyed as the direct result of damage from flooding or other n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB520 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to in-state resident tuition rates for certain reserve members
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB545 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase criminal penalties for malicious assault, unlawful assault and assault on a law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB209 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define the term “veteran” as that term pertains to veteran-owned businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| SB429 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Division of Corrections to monitor inmate electronic communications
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB532 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that all correctional officers be paid overtime for all hours worked beyond 40 hours in each one-week work period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to replace regional education service agencies with education service centers. The bill provides for transfer of property, equipment and records. The bill changes the meaning of the remaining code references to the agencie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB528 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a process for providing that a student is not eligible for either home instruction exemption once certain truancy related legal proceedings begin or after a conviction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to restore to one percent the surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies for the purpose of funding volunteer fire departments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the Public Employees Insurance program by: (1) Requiring the PEIA and the finance board to purchase stop-loss insurance; (2) requiring that spouses of persons eligible be required to enroll in an employer sponsor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB436 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow investigators from the Attorney General’s office to carry firearms in the course of their official duties under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB190 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the 5% bidders’ preference for in-state venders on state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB263 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an exemption from certain contract and common carrier laws for motor vehicles used by contract carriers exclusively for the transportation of railroad personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| SB527 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require State Board of Education, Higher Education Policy Commission and Council for Community and Technical College Education rules establishing Return-to-Learn protocols applicable when a student suffers a concussion;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing education savings accounts for WV students
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB439 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that because Salem Correctional Center lies in two counties, and the Courts of both Counties have expressed concern regarding venue, that venue shall lie in Harrison County for all actions.Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Returning Veterans and Displaced Miners Job Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Senator Azinger requests to be removed as sponsor of bill |
| SB517 | Intro
Sine Die | Permitting ABCC appointees or employees carry firearms after completing training
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB502 | Intro
Sine Die | This purpose of this bill is to permit the West Virginia National Guard to contract out and hire persons to perform specialized technical services. The bill permits the West Virginia Military Authority to hire persons, at industry rates as determined...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB509 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update fee structure provisions for broker-dealers, agents, investment advisers and certain securities offerings and opinions, and to increase the associated fund cap.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB511 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to alter public education higher education governance, including defining terms. The bill changes the powers of Higher Education Policy Commission, Council for Community and Technical College Education and certain institut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB506 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to treat natural resources police like all other law- enforcement and exempt them from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB508 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living adjustment for retirees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure attorney source payment is disclosed in certain hearings to provide full information regarding the interests at stake.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of lit tobacco products in a motor vehicle while individuals sixteen years of age or under of are present. The bill also provides that the misdemeanor offense created by this section is a secondary of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB514 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a special license plate for realtors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB503 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Library Facilities Improvement Fund, to set forth its general structure and provide for rulemaking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB513 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide graduated increases to state employee salaries over the next two years so that after two years state employees receive a salary that is $2,000 greater than their current salary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB510 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement that a person have no prior or subsequent convictions, other than minor traffic violations, in order to seek to have a criminal conviction expunged. The bill also makes a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB498 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to levy a five-tenths percent annual severance tax on Marcellus and Utica Gas which will be dedicated to retired public employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulating unmanned aircraft systems
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB489 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the requirements of the statement relating to the nature of the cause of action for commencement of an action in magistrate court by commercial creditors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB488 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to move the Office of Emergency Medical Services from the Bureau for Public Health to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, and to provide the Emergency Medical Services Council with authority and oversight...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB494 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for runoff elections for judicial offices if no candidate receives a majority of the votes. The bill identifies the specific offices affected as justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judge, fami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit to eligible caregivers for expenses of modifications to homes made more accessible for an elderly person or a person with a disability, lease or purchase of equipment, or other goods or services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB426 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the Division of Natural Resources’ legislative rule relating to the Litter Control Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Replacing 48-hour stickers with 60-day registration plates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminating need for certain power-generating facilities to obtain siting certificates from PSC
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
