| WV | SB443 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to mandate applicants for initial and provisional license as a speech-language pathologist, audiologist, or speech-language pathology or audiol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
On 1st reading |
| WV | SB154 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a public school student from being required to participate in instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity if a parent, custodian, or guardian of the student objects in writing; require each pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB564 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit voters not affiliated with a major political party from voting the primary election ballot of any political party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB563 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that members of the State Teachers Retirement System shall be considered absent from service as a teacher or nonteacher while serving as an officer with a statewide professional teaching association, or who have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB556 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the requirement of certain immunizations as condition of being a foster parent and provide an exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB555 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibiting public sector unions from contracting with any municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB549 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a personal income tax deduction applicable to qualified tipped wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB552 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to the Certified Business Industrial Expansion Development Program administered by the Department of Economic Development. The bill renames the expansion development program administered by the department. The bill re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB543 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the oversight by the Attorney General of a political subdivision's hiring of a private attorney under a contingency fee legal arrangement or contract to sue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB536 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates generally to county economic opportunity development districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB542 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that standalone methadone treatment programs or clinics not operated as part of a comprehensive primary care clinic are guilty of a felony offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Committee |
| WV | SB535 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize Raleigh County to levy a special district excise tax for the benefit the Raleigh County Economic Opportunity Development District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SCR8 | Intro
25% | US Army E6 Dennis Charles Hurley Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SR6 | Pass | Commemorating 75th anniversary of Sport Fish Restoration Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SB506 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enhance pay for teachers; provide for market pay enhancement for teacher salaries in certain circumstances; provide for certification to the State Auditor; set out distribution of funds; require reporting; make funds su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB476 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase permissible expenditures by the Water Development Authority from the Infrastructure Fund; modify the upper limit of funds which may be transferred to sub account; raising the cap on total project costs for cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB501 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the type of writing required to be maintained by a licensee regarding fees or points.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB473 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish limits applicable to the award of damages for medical monitoring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB449 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit compressed air and rimfire shooting teams in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB450 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Guardian Act. The bill allows the county school boards to contract for participation in the program. The bill defines terms. The bill sets out the authority of independent contractors partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB444 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a mandatory three-year sentence for possession of Schedule I or II substances, except cannabis. The bill provides exceptions from prosecution for persons incidentally exposed to the substances or who are forced t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB446 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to preclude the establishment of a branch bank or the acquisition or merger of a bank or a credit union by a bank or credit union unless they are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB445 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require legislators and staff who hold a current concealed carry permit to register with the Capitol Police an intent to carry concealed firearms within the Capitol buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB451 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide an enhanced retirement annuity for certain annuitants equal to 103 percent of the retirant's annual payment at age 65.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB206 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to preclude the Department of Agriculture from cancellation of certain leases; remove language allowing cancellation of any lease which the Department of Agriculture is a party and the consideration is less than five dolla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| WV | SB135 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to preclude the Department of Agriculture from the cancellation of certain leases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| WV | SB134 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to address define public camping in public spaces, create a penalty, and address existing ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SR3 | Pass | Creating Select Committee on Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SB112 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the acceptance of illegal ballots cast in any election and to provide criminal penalties for intentionally and knowingly accepting an absentee ballot that does not comply with state requirements for absentee vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB201 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill to create the Anti-Racism Act of 2025. The bill prohibits a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB288 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit the liability of employers in cases where convictions of an employee for certain crimes are expunged. The bill requires creation of a data base record showing offenses were expunged. Courts are required to cross-r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB127 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit spending authority for money used by an agency in support of a challenge to West Virginia law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB132 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB208 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Mountain Homes Act and creating the Mountain Homes Fund to remove barriers to funding for home construction with the goal of promoting a sustainable quality of life for the state's workforce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB205 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the prompt payment of legitimate, uncontested invoices by state agencies. The bill provides that registered and qualified vendors shall be entitled to prompt payment upon presentation to a state agency of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB213 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit spending authority for money used by an agency in support of a challenge to WV law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB203 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make syringe services unlawful and provide for penalties for violation of the article. The proposed bill permits the provision of harm reduction services not associated with a syringe exchange program and permits an adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB110 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a Medicaid state plan amendment. The bill provides that the Bureau of Medical Services shall seek a state plan amendment. The bill provides that the state plan amendment provides for cost sharing and/or premiums ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB130 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prioritize providing medical services to West Virginia Medicaid beneficiaries within West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB133 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit ranked choice voting in elections in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB131 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create prohibitions on the illegal entry into or illegal presence in this state by a person who is an alien. The bill provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions and certain related orders, including immunity fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB128 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the option for courts to order services at a higher rate than Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB209 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Guardian program to provide public safety and/or security on public school grounds and buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB200 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the placing of limitations on a concealed carry permit; excluding an individual from being charged with a crime in certain circumstances; and adding a severability clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB202 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the crime of sexual assault in the fourth degree; to prohibit school personnel from subjecting a minor student to sexually explicit or oriented discussion, gender persuasion, reading or viewing material as a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB207 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide definitions, to prohibit public funding of drag shows in West Virginia, and to prohibit minors from being involved in or attending drag shows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB204 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make opioid treatment programs unlawful and provide for penalties for violation of the article, permit an administrative timeframe for the transition of care, require the Office for Health Facilities Licensure and Certi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Committee |
| WV | SB109 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a program to reward citizens for information on drug trafficking; to create an excise tax on opioid antagonists and test strips; create a special revenue account; to establish a program for providing rewards for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Committee |
| WV | SJR4 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to prohibit the state, counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions of the state from restricting the right to keep and bear arms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB107 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to balance the interests of current landowners and future landowners to ensure surface, minerals, and forest land may be developed for future economic gain by limiting use restrictions for forest carbon capture and sequest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
