| WV | SB147 | Pass | Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 267, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| 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] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 119, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| 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] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 63, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB172 | Pass | The purpose of this bill generally relates to Local School Improvement Councils. The bill revises council membership requirements. The bill requires minutes be taken at every council meeting. The bill revises requirements pertaining to annual council...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 102, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB142 | Pass | Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 45, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB170 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to include three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters and provides that the presumption for the three types of cancer expires July 1, 2027, unless extended by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 270, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB400 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish a waiver of the requirement to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity for projects that are approved by the Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council and funded by ARPA/SFR monies through E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 239, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB354 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority Commission comprised of the economic development agencies of McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, and Wayne counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 96, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB300 | Pass | Relating to the organization of the Office of the Inspector General
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 208, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB452 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to designate certain water and wastewater facilities as an emergency project, and modifying the requirements to those designations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 127, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| 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] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 64, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB543 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the authority of state institutions of higher education to enter into agreements and contractual relationships with one or more corporations formed by the state institution of higher education for purposes of fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 156, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB544 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to raise the threshold from $25,000 to $50,000 for the requirement of bids for municipal public works projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 66, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB475 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend the requirements for recovery residences. The proposed bill sets forth a data collection process and requires rulemaking related to data collection. The proposed bill adds a process for suspension or revocation re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 212, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB568 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the focus from truancy and unexcused absences to a multi-tiered system of support and all absences, both excused and unexcused; limit the number of parental excuses that can be accepted each school year as docume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 105, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB782 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to define local permitting deadlines and extensions for applications for a permit, license, variance, or any other type of prior approval from a governing body or planning commission of a municipality or county for an acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 70, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB827 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to relate generally to salvage yards; provide a definition for regional distribution and dismantling center; and provide for specialized regional distribution and dismantling license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 186, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB873 | Pass | Schedule for tax installment payments
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 256, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB872 | Pass | Relating to county fire service fees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 71, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB874 | Pass | Relating to WV Division of Multimodal Transportation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 263, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB875 | Pass | Relating to certain insurance coverage provided by BRIM
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 148, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB152 | Engross
50% | Displaying official US motto in public schools
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB571 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority Commission comprised of the economic development agencies of Lewis, Upshur, Barbour, Randolph, Tucker, Grant, and Hardy, counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB785 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to add the Foster care ombudsman as a person to have access to records concerning a child or juvenile.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB819 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Secretary of the Department of Health from promulgating rules that require public water systems or businesses to have backflow preventers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB160 | Engross
50% | Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB188 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-05
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB774 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to outline the duties and responsibilities of trail system operators, bicyclists, and passengers on aerial passenger tramways related to commercial bicycling activities in the State of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading |
| WV | SB292 | Engross
50% | Hunger-Free Campus Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB742 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of sixty-two with eight or more years of service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB168 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| WV | SB798 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to describe Distressed Utilities Accounts and requiring utilities to hold at least 1/8 capital reserve to be eligible to request additional state funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Economic Development 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 | SB783 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the West Virginia School Construction Alternatives Pilot Program Act to authorize county boards of education to enter into construction management at risk contracts for public school construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB781 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the size of matching grants for local economic development from $30,000 to $50,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB756 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide state mine inspectors with a $4,000 raise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB564 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate requirement that the credit base be limited to wages paid to apprentices in the construction trades and specifying an effective date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB554 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define veterans benefits matters and identify actions that constitute representation and compensation for representing a person seeking veterans benefits. The bill requires that any such representation comply with feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB678 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the premises of the United States Armed Forces or the West Virginia National Guard are not a public service for purposes of the jurisdiction of the West Virginia Public Service Commissioner when receiving e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB320 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirements for wineries to serve food in order to serve and sell wine by the glass or bottle; to allow the service of wine in glasses and sale of wine in bottles and glasses for consumption on winery proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Government Organization 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 | SB604 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Short Line Railroad Modernization Act and tax credit allowed and credit limitations for short line railroad companies in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Economic Development 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 | SB565 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize application of the manufacturing investment tax credit and the manufacturing property tax adjustment credit against personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB566 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a council to establish a state Alzheimer's Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB552 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the threshold jobs creation number from 300 to 50; and to making stylistic changes, which authorizes an exemption for qualified purchases of computers and computer software, primary material handling equipment, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB549 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit investigators in the State Tax Division to carry concealed weapons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB510 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Children's Vision Act, requiring school children to have vision examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Education 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 |
