| HB2373 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a procedure to streamline the process to claim abandoned mineral interests. The bill repeals §55-12A-3, §55-12A-6, §55-12A-7, §55-12A-8 and §55-12A-9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Energy Committee |
| HB3082 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal §55-9-1, §55-9-2, and §55-9-3 of the Code of West Virginia to remove antiquated provisions of the code relating to gaming activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee |
| HB2517 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit salary increases for full time official court reporters based upon years of service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB55 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring insurance coverage for residents with preexisting conditions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| HB2060 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the Division of Motor Vehicle’s administrative hearing process for suspending and revoking driver’s licenses based on D.U.I.; to eliminate all statutory provisions authorizing or requiring the division to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2168 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize temporary 30 day licenses for out-of-state nonintoxicating beer brewers to import beer for test marketing and distribute to festivals and samplings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2350 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit public employees the right to collectively bargain. The bill provides for an exclusive representative. The bill provides a procedure. The bill sets forth matters subject to collective bargaining.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Industry and Labor Committee |
| HB2735 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require any state road or bridge that exceeds 55 miles per hour that is under construction for longer than 72 hours proceed with work 24 hours per day until completed, weather permitting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB3010 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a 911 Emergency Services Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2863 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an advisory council to educate the public and the medical community in the recognition, diagnosis, treatment and research of rare diseases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB2981 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to utilize other governmental entities, in addition to the State Treasurer, to service the Rural Rehabilitation Loan Program. The bill exempts the loan program from having to ut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2899 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act ensuring that businesses, organizations and employers doing business in West Virginia are subject to uniform nondiscrimination laws and obligations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| HB2186 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a medical power of attorney representative to sign a binding arbitration agreement with an extended care facility operated in conjunction with a hospital, an assisted living facility, or a nursing home and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2458 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that West Virginia will not participate in the REAL ID Act of 2005 enacted by the United States Congress in Public Law 109-13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2380 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define surprise bills, to protect consumers from surprise bills in certain circumstances, to require additional disclosures by health care providers, hospitals and insurers and to require insurers to develop an access p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| HB4060 | Intro
Sine Die | Removing the registration fee for a vehicle operating on a combination of electricity and petrochemical fuels
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2643 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the West Virginia Farm Fresh Raw Milk Act. The bill authorizes the production and sale of raw milk by milk producers, requires producers to use best sanitary milking and milk handling practices, and establishes sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3137 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the personal income tax fund
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2051 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the annual cost of living benefits for retirants in the West Virginia State Police Retirement System from one percent a year to three percent a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| HB2972 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize local units of government to adopt local energy efficiency partnership programs and to create districts to promote the use of energy efficiency improvements by owners of certain real property; to provide for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Permitting certain veterans to hunt, trap, or fish in state without license
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3046 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase any award of just compensation to a property owner by to 200 percent of the fair market value eminent domain takings by nongovernment entities. The bill also provides for the compensation to landowners in the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2030 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit honorably discharged veterans to hunt, trap or fish in this state without first obtaining a license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2641 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require owners of oil and gas wells to install and maintain separate meters that calculate the amount of production from those well. The bill requires the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to work ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2683 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a bill of rights for children in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| HB2930 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enhance penalties for failure to use due caution when approaching an emergency vehicle using emergency signals; and authorizing tow trucks and wreckers to use red emergency lights when responding to an accident, and use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2123 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. The bill defines terms and provides for a court hearing to determine if the partition action concerns heirs’ property and the manner in which such property and intere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Energy Committee |
| HB2156 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a tax credit for improving facades in historic districts. The bill provides that individuals and corporations are entitled to a 25 percent tax credit of the replacement cost of a historic façade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring any newly constructed building to meet minimum standards for universal design for disabled persons
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| HB2916 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the ability of hard cider manufactures to produce hard cider in this state; eliminate the requirement of a private wine restaurant to serve meals or food with the sale of wine; establish a new tax classification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2336 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Bureau for Medical Services to file a request with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for an amendment to the current I/DD Waiver that will reinstate the terms of the amended waiver t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4038 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting county airport authorities from making or adopting rules prohibiting possession of firearms in public
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB2653 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of a special registration plate for recipients of the federal Presidential Service Badge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB2213 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow employees to elect to receive compensation in the amount of the premium the State would otherwise pay for their health insurance under the Public Employees Insurance Agency and to sunset the Public Employees Insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2636 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to waive the fees for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses or permits for individuals who are currently serving as volunteer firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| HB2862 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the purpose of the scholarship beginning in 2020; establish scholarship preference for applicants pursuing math and science teaching careers; modify selection criteria for the award of scholarships; modify schola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2615 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to develop an elective course on Vocational Agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2312 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to initiate collections for emergency ambulance services and to set a fee for those who refuse transport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| HB2842 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount that a faculty senate may allocate to a classroom teacher or librarian for academic materials, supplies or equipment which, in the judgment of the teacher or librarian, will assist providing instruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2216 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define the term “minor boundary adjustment” as applied to municipal annexations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| HB4025 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a State Central Legal Advertising Website
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Independent Redistricting Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2002 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an Educational Savings Account Program for students with disabilities and to provide for its administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2606 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require 30 minutes daily of unstructured play time for public school students in kindergarten through grade 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2682 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a bill of rights for foster parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| HB2919 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish Education Employees Funds in each county to dedicate more money to pay wages and benefits for education employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit year-round hunting of coyotes using artificial light or night vision technology and to permit hunting of coyotes at any hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| HB4031 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the salaries of the Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Attorney General
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2642 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that actions that do not require monetary payments by a government agency, and other similar actions, do not mean “judgment” as defined in this article, and therefore do not require prior notice to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
