| HB4537 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the tobacco products excise tax with the increased revenue be used by the Public Employees Insurance Agency to reduce employees premiums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4578 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this to permit residential customers of electric utilities to deduct up to 50% of their electric utility payments from their federal adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Energy Committee |
| HB4579 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise provisions of state election law relating contributions for political campaigns, anonymous advertising to influence elections, and limits for various forms and circumstances of political contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4593 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of special “Emergency Management” motor vehicle plates to authorized emergency management vehicles of the state or political subdivision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4577 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit classroom teachers or school service personnel who at the time of a school merger who are the sole occupants of the same positions that will exist at the new school will maintain that position at the new school. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4589 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for magistrate to have ability to remove child from a home in which parent’s use of drugs is causing an unsafe environment for the child. Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee |
| HB4535 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish dates for the processing of paper checks. The bill also authorizes a fee for processing of checks outside the scheduled dates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB4531 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that deputy sheriffs be paid no less than $10.50 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB4602 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the instructional term for students begins on the Tuesday after Labor Day and ends the Friday before Memorial Day. The bill provides an exception. The bill permits additional instruction minutes per day. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4572 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Police to update the Sex Offender Registry at least every three weeks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4547 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. The bill enters the state into the compact with all jurisdictions that also enact the compact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| HB4528 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the transfer and enrollment policies for students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4569 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a statutory right for siblings to petition a circuit or family court for visitation with their minor child siblings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4608 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a consumers sales and service tax exemption for motion pictures and other commercial film or audiovisual projects in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| HB4548 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the requirements for reporting by lobbyists, by requiring annual registration and requiring the reporting of a general description of subjects on which the lobbyist has lobbied. It also requires the disclosure of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4552 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the definition of raffle to include raffles conducted by electronic means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4519 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that an eligible provider may receive supplemental Medicaid reimbursement and reimbursement from Medicare, if available, in addition to the rate of payment that the provider would otherwise receive, for ground e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| HB4566 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit active members of the United States military and veterans who have been honorably discharged from service to elect one item, either real or personal to be exempt from the payment of various taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB4520 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to provide free feminine hygiene products in grades 6 through 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4515 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the election of justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals; circuit court judges, magistrates and family court judges is at general elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4584 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit retailers from selling or leasing products that make content accessible on the Internet, unless the product contains an active and operating digital blocking capability that renders obscene material inaccessibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4544 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a matching program for the Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| HB4561 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to address the opioid epidemic by authorizing prosecuting attorneys to appoint the Attorney General or an assistant of the Attorney General as a special prosecutor to enforce provisions of the Uniform Controlled Substances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee |
| HB4564 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement that a student placed in transitional education programs as a high school senior must re-take a college-and career-readiness examination or similar assessment of readiness if the student has al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4614 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove language requiring specific appropriations in order for the State Board of Education, State Department of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools to provide education to children and adults in housed in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB4565 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt social security benefits from personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Senior Citizen Issues Committee |
| HB4599 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit retail sale of alcoholic beverages after 1 p.m. on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4298 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create “The Campus Self Defense Act” which denies institutions of higher education the authority to restrict or regulate the carrying of a concealed deadly weapon by a person who holds a current license to carry a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4499 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for the creation of a flex band rating system for personal lines of insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB4493 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit county commissions to determine compensation of election officials at elections; exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB4489 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act in West Virginia. This law has been developed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws to establish uniformity among the states regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4508 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require contractors to provide for the safety of the public during construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB4510 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for judicial review of appealed decisions of the Air Quality Board, the Environmental Quality Board, and Surface Mind Board directly to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia except in certain cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4495 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require urban renewal authorities to submit active, amended and proposed urban renewal projects and plans to the affected local county boards of health for review and comment. The bill requires urban renewal authorities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB4498 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to stop the collection of municipal user fees from state officers and employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB4503 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a West Virginia business growth in low-income communities tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| HB4504 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent state agencies and political subdivisions from contracting with vendors and major subcontractors on public construction contracts if the vendor or subcontractor has outstanding debts to the state. This prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB4492 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the requirements for renewal of automobile insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HCR69 | Intro
Sine Die | James L. ‘Bud’ Hall, Sr. Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4500 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to the create an Industrial Hemp Research and Development Grant Fund and an Industrial Hemp Research Fund to conduct research and development of industrial hemp for commercial purposes. The bill authorizes the collection...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4496 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the responsibilities of persons providing credit card processing services in the state. The bill would prevent the current practice of where a company has charged as much as $18,000 to a small merchant for ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HCR66 | Intro
Sine Die | Dr. H. Luke Eye Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4491 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to legalize the personal use and possession of cannabis by adults; providing for a county option election to allow for the production and sales in that county; providing for regulation by the Bureau of Health; authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4506 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require agencies of the state, county or municipality that have authority to issue citations for violations of rules or law, to furnish a copy of the rule or law to the person accused.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4505 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make June 19 a special memorial day to be known as Juneteenth honoring human rights and the end of slavery in the United States; and encouraging all counties and municipalities in the state to do the same.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB4501 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow crime victims to petition a court to obtain restraining orders to prevent persons who committed specified crimes against the victim from living in proximity or knowingly coming into contact with the victim, if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4507 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make it a crime for a parent, guardian, custodian or other person in a position of trust to prostitute a child. The bill establishes criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4487 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a special license plate for pollinators. The bill also sets a fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Roads & Transportation Committee |
| HB4483 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the way savings derived from the filling of generic drugs are distributed. The provisions of this section as amended in 2018 are to apply retroactively to pharmacy transactions occurring since 1978.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4452 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a newly-established small business tax credit. It provides tax credits against Corporate Net Income Tax and Personal Income Tax in the amount of certain property taxes paid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
