| SB815 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services and the Bureau for Social Services to make a rate study, analysis of workforce capacity, and the impact on children of the current reimbursement levels for child placement agenci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a statewide Health and Safety Fee that would allow visitors to help contribute to the readiness cost of emergency services through an up to $1.00 per day/activity fee that would be distributed to the counties twi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Economic Development and Tourism Committee |
| SB562 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the employment and training requirements necessary to receive SNAP benefits. The bill defines and expands exemptions. The bill clarifies the Secretary's duties when there is a lack of funding or inability to prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| SCR30 | Engross
Sine Die | Honoring Hershel "Woody" Williams as one of two WV statues in National Statuary Hall Collection
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Rules Committee |
| SB746 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to is to increase the composition of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board to 11 members, add additional county commissioners, and increase meetings to four times a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB860 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create alternative high-risk population public charter schools and permit an enrollment count of three times a year for funding purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-24
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| SB853 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Fire Commission promulgate standards for the installation of propane tanks at single family homes, and to require the State Fire Marshall to enforce those rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
Referred to Government Organization on 2nd reading |
| SB496 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that race discrimination includes discrimination based on certain hair textures and styles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to continue and reconstitute the membership of the Board of Risk and Insurance Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
Referred to Rules on 3rd reading |
| SR52 | Pass | Designating February 23, 2024, as WV Motorsports Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
Completed legislative action |
| SB838 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to mandate lending institutions who conduct five or more transactions annually to utilize the Division of Motor Vehicles electronic lien system to perfect or release security interest in a vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB773 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the powers of law enforcement officers of the National Park Service, which shall include traffic or parking related offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB763 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect sensitive military information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB779 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose deadlines for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to perform an autopsy and to provide a copy of the autopsy report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| SB630 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define protections for election officials and election workers, including poll workers while performing the duties of the election process; and clarifies the conditions and circumstances of protections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB761 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county school boards to publish an annual list of buildings that are closed, unused, or unoccupied for purposes of providing greater access to Charter Schools. Once a public charter school requests usage of a pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| SB711 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add to the list of federal agencies and agents who under limited circumstances may enforce state laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to designate the Forensic Analysis Laboratory of the Marshall University Forensic Science Center as a backup site for the division's DNA databank and database to function in the event of a natural disaster or statewide dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Unlawful Restriction in Land Records Act, considered by the state Uniform Law Commission, which provides a mechanism for amending an existing deed by filing a document in the deed books severs a unlawf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SR51 | Pass | Memorializing life of Lora Susan Thompson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Completed legislative action |
| SB688 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the director of the Division of Forestry to enter into contracts for management of state forests and wooded areas for the purposes of preventing forest fires. This is a new section; therefore, underscoring and
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| SB168 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant municipal Fire Marshals the authority to assist law enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB672 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require coverage and reimbursement for home blood pressure monitoring devices for certain persons diagnosed with hypertension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| SR50 | Pass | Designating February 21, 2024, as WV History Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Completed legislative action |
| SR49 | Pass | Recognizing World Scouting Museum
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Completed legislative action |
| SB637 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the public disclosure of an individual's personal information on the internet in certain circumstances; and provide penalty for violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB743 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set forth criteria for the Bureau for Medical Services to follow regarding anti-obesity medications and to require reporting of outcomes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent a lack of availability of license plates and other signs due to a temporary inability of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to manufacture them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| SCR32 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study establishing depository for gold and silver
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Rules |
| SB750 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Week for grades 6 through 12., to be known as "Laken's Law", relating fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness education in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Rules |
| SB528 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require centralized intake to have a process for a family assessment track and investigative track for protective services and to define these terms, to revise the process for centralized intake to incorporate these two...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading |
| SR47 | Pass | Recognizing week of May 5-11, 2024, as Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Completed legislative action |
| SR48 | Pass | Recognizing AARP of WV for many contributions provided to enhance our state and its people
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Completed legislative action |
| SCR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study benefits associated with increasing paid parental leave for state employees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB857 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage for clinical genetic testing for an inherited gene mutation and evidenced-based cancer imaging; and providing that this testing is not subject to cost-sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB867 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow student-athletes to participate in competitive events and activities while playing for their school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a new definition in the Tobacco Products Excise Tax Act on heated nicotine products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB849 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide just compensation to owners of coal slurry, oil, gas, crude products, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide or other natural resource lines if their property is taken for public use and to pay compensation for use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB869 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify definitions for customer-generator, cross-subsidization and full retail credit for net-metering, and to raise the net-metering cap to 1,000 kilowatts for commercial customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| SB843 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to recognize gold and silver bullion and specie as legal tender in West Virginia, to authorize the West Virginia Bullion Depository, and to authorize the depository to issue transactional currency backed by gold and silver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the designation of the Division of Culture and History as a separate independent agency to "an agency" within the Executive Branch as the Department of Arts, Culture, and History, by deleting the words "separate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB855 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend and clarify the felony of exhibiting "obscene matter" to a minor for the purpose of abuse to be clarified to include any depiction of sexually graphic material to a minor for the purpose of seducing a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB847 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that if a court enters an order of acquittal of all criminal charges against a person in a case, the court shall order the record expunged upon the expiration of 30 days, unless the person objects to the expunge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance providers to provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations without cost sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB854 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Public/Private Small Business Enhancement Program to encourage small business development and growth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| SB852 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the ratio of children at family child care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| SB845 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require yearly renewal of commercial driver's licenses and provide for the reinstatement of revoked or expired commercial driver's licenses due to inactive status and lack of medical certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB444 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that health insurance coverage for emergency services when a prudent layperson acting reasonably would have believed that an emergency medical condition existed includes prehospital screening and stabilization o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB395 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the valuation of industrial property and natural resources by the Tax Commissioner. The bill makes technical corrections. Finally, the bill removes a sunset provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Referred to Rules on 3rd reading |
| SB669 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant Mason County and the Town of Henderson special district excise taxes, describe the boundaries of the Town of Henderson Economic Opportunity District, and authorize setting the base tax of said excise taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
