| WV | HB4809 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act". The bill exempts a health care sharing ministry form the state's insurance laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 169, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4975 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create an information sharing child welfare system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 48, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5151 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add former foster parents to the definition of fictive kin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 49, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5430 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow newly elected or appointed circuit judges, family court judges, and magistrates to receive compensation and expenses for training sessions prior to taking the oath of office and beginning their term. Other section...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 80, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4867 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create liability for publishers and distributors of material harmful to minors. The bill provides definitions. The bill requires any commercial entity that provides pornography and other materials defined as being harmf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | HB4313 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Judiciary |
| WV | HCR33 | Pass | U. S. Army PFC Gale Hall Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
House received Senate message |
| WV | HB5358 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create an ombudsman program within the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to review complaints against a state agency or correctional facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HR9 | Pass | Reaffirming the longstanding sisterhood partnership between West Virginia and Taiwan
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HB5062 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to allow a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate in cases of child neglect or abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5280 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | HB5516 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of deep fake images for the criminal invasion of privacy or the unlawful depiction of nude or partially nude minors or minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct; establishing such conduct as criminal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5572 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting cameras and recording devices in bedrooms and bathrooms of foster children
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5337 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the legislative oversight committee of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation; clarify that the legislative oversight committee shall be charged with the immediate and ongoing oversight of the Division...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HCR48 | Intro
25% | November 7th to be designated annually as “Pastor Appreciation Day”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Be adopted, but first to Rules |
| WV | HCR91 | Intro
25% | Requesting That the Joint Committee on Government and Finance engage in a study concerning differences in commercial real property taxes in West Virginia versus bordering states and what can be done to mitigate such differences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HCR88 | Intro
25% | Relating to the Bureau for Social Services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HCR82 | Intro
25% | To create a study resolution to review training, equipment and operating standards, and for certification and evaluation of local and rural fire departments for retention, training, and recruitment purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HB5318 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that elected municipal police chiefs shall be certified law-enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5319 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the offense of exposing a law-enforcement officer, probation officer, parole officer, courthouse security officer, correctional officer, the State Fire Marshal, a deputy or assistant fire marshal, firefighter, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5368 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create Regional Jail Commissions; to set forth the composition of the commissions, the terms of the members, the compensation of the members, the administrative responsibilities, create the powers and duties of the comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5363 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections to continue the GOALS Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5140 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit custom or noncommercial slaughterhouses to sell meat to customers without restriction on portion size.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HCR71 | Engross
50% | Requesting the Division of Highways to place at least 10 additional signs along highways entering West Virginia honoring fallen veterans and Gold Star Families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB5674 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit deputy sheriffs to retire after 20 years of honorable and actual service, with full benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5675 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the multiplier for the deputy sheriff retirement accrued benefit from two and a half percent to three percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5634 | Intro
25% | Empowering the Homeland Security Inspector General to oversee/investigate all County Metro 911 Agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5210 | Intro
25% | Relating to voluntary private school immunization
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5559 | Intro
25% | Authorizing sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of sixty-two with eight or more years of services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5558 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide management agencies receiving funds from the West Virginia Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program the ability, in coordination with the Bureau for Public Health, to promulgate rules requirements, and proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5641 | Intro
25% | Relating to the electrical needs of the premises of the United States Armed Forces or the West Virginia National Guard
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB5529 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the development of a plan to monitor and improve reading and math skills of children who are or have been in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4423 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to combat the sexualization of children and to allow children in the State of West Virginia to avoid the detrimental effects, both during childhood and later into adulthood, caused by exposure to pornography through an age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5526 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a pilot program to provide legal services, advice, and representation to parents who are facing legal issues that may otherwise result in the removal of their child or children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5515 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a three-year pilot program relating to West Virginia Public Guardian ad Litem Services, established initially in three circuits, and providing services initially in three circuits. Circuit based West Virginia Pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5513 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Pierpont Community and Technical College Great Expectations Pilot Program. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill provides for the enactment of the program. The bill establishes funding. Finally...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HCR64 | Engross
50% | Acknowledging and supporting the State of Texas
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5063 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the time to terminate a foster care arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5364 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5359 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to recognize the law-enforcement powers of correctional officers employed by the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation; provide that such officers are not subject to certain certification requirements; authorize the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5360 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the provisions of the section shall not apply to certain official law-enforcement acts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HR7 | Pass | Supporting the Preservation of the Charleston Processing and Distribution Center
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HB5299 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Closed Captioning Act. The bill requires public places that have televisions for use by the public to have at least one half of those televisions to have their closed captioning feature activated at all times....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4772 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to cease tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike upon completion of all bond payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5197 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to include school resource officers ("SROs") as part of the school aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5142 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide exemptions from mandatory immunizations based on religious reasons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5012 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove references to the sale or distribution of alcohol as being in the best interest of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5028 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that final orders be prepared and signed within 10 days of the disposition hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4897 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the circumstances when a child may be removed from a foster home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4899 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide stronger language for the freedom of association and nondiscrimination against students and student organizations on campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Education Committee |
