| WV | SB159 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require that the party affiliation for county school board members be displayed beside their name on the ballot for election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB190 | Pass | Modifying definition of sexual contact
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | SB148 | Pass | Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB222 | Pass | Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB451 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require all prosecutors to undergo training prior to performing his or her duties; and require the West Virginia prosecuting attorneys Institute to conduct mandatory training for all prosecuting attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB539 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Cold Case database, explaining the types of cases to be included in the Cold Case database, explaining the state agency developing the Cold Case database, delineating the information that must be provided for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB548 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend the appellate jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court of Appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB578 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the offense of burglary involves a dwelling or outbuilding belonging to another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB587 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to enable the State Fire Commission to propose legislative rules and promulgate interpretive and procedural rules for legislative approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB632 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to continue the study group on competency and criminal responsibility, add brain injuries to the subjects to be studied, amend the membership of the study group, establish a steering committee within the study group, setti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB667 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates to the creation of the Physicians Licensure Compact. The bill provides for a purpose. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for state participation in the compact. The bill creates the compact privilege. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB712 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revise the statute to reduce the minimum age for a cadet for the West Virginia State Police from the age of 21 to the age of 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB716 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill generally relates to child support. The bill reconfigures the West Virginia Child Support Enforcement Commission. The bill authorizes a temporary stay of child support obligation under certain circumstances. The bill clarifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB768 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide exception to the confidentiality of child welfare records to allow the sharing confidential information with law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB837 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize Public Defender Corporations until July 1, 2025 to reorganize its offices to conform the circuit reconfiguration enacted during the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/13/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB850 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to define terms, remove commercial tort claims exclusion from definition of litigation financing, and exclude certain non-profit organizations from the definition of litigation financing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB858 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that taxpayers must begin the process of requesting reconsideration of property valuation, classification or taxability with their county assessor's office. This request may be in writing, in person or over the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB740 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create a new criminal offense of manipulating a photograph, image, video clip, movie, or similar recording containing sexually explicit conduct by the insertion thereof of a visual image of an actual minor so as to crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB738 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Fire Marshal to promulgate emergency rules relating to increased fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB741 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the criminal offenses of creating, producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing with intent to distribute visual depictions artificial intelligence created child pornography when no actual minor is depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB470 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Special Deposits Act, which was recommended for passage by the state Uniform Law Commission; special deposits are deposits held by banks, which unlike regular deposits are held until some contingent ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB442 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to remove liability for mental health professionals providing services in mental hygiene cases involving possible involuntary hospitalization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB851 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish requirements for contingency fee arrangements between political subdivisions and private attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB171 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit county commissions from adopting any ordinance, rule, license requirement, or other authorization that exceeds state law, rule, or regulation regarding agricultural operations. The bill revokes any ordinance, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Approved by Governor 2/23/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | SB496 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| WV | SB494 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| WV | SB318 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is modify the process of when parent rights have been terminated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Approved by Governor 2/20/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB615 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to limit statutory and common law causes of action against exempt wholesale generators to violations of the material terms and conditions of the siting certificates applicable to such facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB839 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide county boards of education with the option of seeking insurance coverage from licensed insurance carriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB836 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the provisions of the West Virginia Uniform Trust Code to permit the electronic execution of trust agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB629 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require a builder to follow the provisions of the State Building code in the construction or renovation of a structure, even if a county or municipality does not provide inspection and enforcement services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB321 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prevent municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Rereferred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB616 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to add brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law to the definition of family and household members subject to the provisions of domestic violence laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB556 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is modify the way that DNA that is maintained for law-enforcement purposes in West Virginia. The bill provides updates for the policy of maintaining DNA. The bill requires DNA testing of all persons convicted of felonies and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Referred to Finance |
| WV | SB764 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require Director of the Division of Natural Resources to enter into written agreements with federal agencies in the state with law enforcement duties on and in federal lands located within the boundaries of West Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | SB744 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit civil rights violations based on disability gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill provides that evidence of constitutionally protected speech or associations is not admissible in criminal prosecution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB728 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the awards and benefits to dependents of State Police officers who must take disability retirement to better match the awards and benefits of the dependents of State Police retirants who serve twenty years withou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB516 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to determine venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB269 | Pass | Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Approved by Governor 2/2/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | SB633 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to requiring training in brain injury screening for personnel at Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, requiring screening of all incoming and currently incarcerated individuals for brain injuries, requiring that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB402 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify the USCCA to provide concealed carry classes in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB189 | Engross
50% | Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent's interpretations of school laws
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB196 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to update and correct sections of the West Virginia Rail Trails Program. The bill provides for updated definitions to include a definition of "rail with trail." Finally, the bill addresses railroad liability and safety ris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB397 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to fully exempt both high tunnels and greenhouses from personal property taxes, whether the high tunnels or greenhouses are heated or unheated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB450 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a photograph of the user on EBT cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
Referred to Finance |
| WV | SB495 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that race discrimination includes discrimination based on certain hair textures and styles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB486 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish insurance provisions that require coverage for annual breast cancer screenings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB476 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a "pop-up" window that directs users to optional firearms safety classes offered by the NRA and the USCCA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | SB469 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act which was recommended for passage by the state Uniform Law Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB177 | Engross
50% | Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
