| WV | HB2605 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to enact a Good Samaritan Law. The bill provides that persons who render assistance to a person in an accident, emergency, or disaster, without remuneration, are not liable for civil damages and also that persons trained i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 1, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB2839 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make a technical change correcting an incorrect fund name and to clarify the applicability of §2-2-10 to mine lands governed by both §2-3-1 et seq. and §2-2-1 et seq.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3012 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to encourage economic development regarding rare earth elements and critical minerals, as defined, by providing temporary severance tax relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 318, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3044 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide an incentive to upgrade video lottery terminals and their operating software by reducing the per terminal annual permit fee from $1,000 to $500 for terminals that generate a certain level of revenue above the 10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3110 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that the WVDEP Office of Oil and Gas has sufficient money to inspect the oil and gas wells of the State of West Virginia in an efficacious and diligent manner that protects the people and environment of the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 150, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3218 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require suicide prevention resources be printed on student identification cards at any school that issues identification cards for students in grades 6 to 12 in public schools and for students in a public or private ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 142, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3303 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify and expand the powers and duties of the director of the Coalfield Community Development Office and to provide funding to the office through federal grants and portions of West Virginia's severance tax collection...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 122, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3307 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West-Virginia Ireland Trade Commission. The bill proposes findings. The bill provides for the composition of the Commission, appointment of members and filling of vacancies. The bill provides for compensat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 170, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3328 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority to contract to build and maintain trails on private property with the consent of the property owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 224, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3308 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Public Service Commission of West Virginia to consider and issue financing orders to certain utilities to permit the recovery of certain costs through securitization via consumer rate relief bonds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 293, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3479 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is relating to unmanned aircraft; to add definitions; to require compliance with all federal laws and regulations relating to such vehicles; and create criminal offenses and penalties for certain conduct using an unmanned air...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 105, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB3450 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates to racetrack video lottery. The bill provides for certain transfers to and from the Licensed Racetrack Modernization Fund; specifies the eligible purpose for recoupment of funds on deposit in facility modernization ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 161, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB2814 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Hydrogen Power Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Chapter 168, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 |
| WV | HB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Critical Mineral Investment Tax Credit Act of 2023. The bill exempts rare earth elements, critical minerals, and carbon-based products otherwise taxed elsewhere in code. The amount of credit allowable depends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HCR72 | Engross
Sine Die | To study the effect of the establishment Whole-Homes Repair Act of 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | HCR80 | Pass | To study pediatric cancer in Appalachia and to provide directive language asking for a report on this issue in the appalachian region.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR23 | Pass | Medal of Valor nomination of retired Roane County Sheriff’s Deputy John Westfall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR22 | Pass | Medal of Valor nomination of WV State Police Corporal Marshall Lee Bailey
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR20 | Pass | Medal of Valor nomination of Deputy Thomas E. Baker, III
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR21 | Pass | Medal of Valor nominee, WV State Police Trooper Eric Michael Workman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR19 | Pass | Medal of Valor nominee Firefighter John Dean Forbush
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR25 | Pass | Medal of Valor nomination of Patrolman Cassie Marie Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR24 | Pass | Medal of Valor nominee, James W. Spencer of the Charleston Fire Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-11
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HCR4 | Pass | Jon D. Wayt Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
House received Senate message |
| WV | HB3059 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to railroad powers of the Public Service Commission. It provides a definition; clarifies regulation of service applicable to railroads; provides exceptions; allows for inquiries into management of railroads and invest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB2896 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Radiation Control Act. The bill provides for declaration of policy and purpose. The bill provides for certain definitions. The bill provides for an exemption. The bill creates the Radiation Advisory Board and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| WV | HCR12 | Engross
Sine Die | To place Purple Heart Signs at the entrances to the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HCR11 | Pass | Relating to Higher Education Consortium for Emerging Energy Technologies
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
House received Senate message |
| WV | HB3095 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a fund for, and a grant program dedicated to, the purposes of constructing, renovating and/or expanding agricultural, vocational and technical training facilities at West Virginia primary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB3280 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to pension benefits which are exempt from income taxation. The bill adds Division of Natural Resources police, deputy sheriffs, full-time firefighters, and municipal police officers into the class of law-enforcement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | HR17 | Pass | Urging the West Virginia Geologic and Economic Survey to work with groups to evaluate policy options to encourage the capture and beneficial use of coal mine methane
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR11 | Pass | Reaffirming the longstanding sisterhood partnership between West Virginia and Taiwan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HR16 | Intro
Sine Die | Calling for condemnation of the new FDA regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HCR19 | Intro
Sine Die | Declaring the “pepperoni roll” to be the official state food of West Virginia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
To House Rules Committee |
| WV | HR12 | Pass | Encouraging Monongahela Power to purchase Pleasants Power Station
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Completed legislative action |
| WV | HB3304 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to encourage and incentivize the sale of thermal or steam coal to coal-fired electric generating facilities, which are located in West Virginia and that serve West Virginia residents, by exempting the sale of such coal fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB3335 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for enhanced damages for nonpayment of royalties due from oil, natural gas, or natural gas liquids production under the terms of a lease or other agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3273 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the State Tech Transfer Commission for the purpose of oversight for the utilization of intellectual property held by state institutions of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3494 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require lessees of West Virginia real estate who make natural resources royalty payments for in-state property to any nonresident lessor, to withhold West Virginia personal income tax on natural resources royalty paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB3294 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB3346 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Mental Hygiene Reform Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill provides for a new classification system. The bill sets guidelines. Finally, the bill provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB3322 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the first $100,000 of income filed jointly, or the first $50,000 filed individually, is exempt from the tax on social security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB3316 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Domestic Violence Registry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3284 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate unmanned aircraft systems. It requires compliance with federal laws and regulations relating to such vehicles; defines terms; creates criminal offenses for certain conduct using an unmanned aircraft system and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3220 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the maximum amount of money in a county's financial stabilization fund from 30 percent of the county's most recent general fund budget to 50 percent of that fund. This fund is commonly known as a "Rainy Day Fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB3182 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the duties and responsibilities of mental health professionals in West Virginia. The bill provides for a physician, psychologist, licensed professional counselor, licensed independent social worker, advanced nur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB3132 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for bribery and corrupt practices and disqualification to hold office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3137 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add a definition for "illegal alien" under human trafficking and provide that illegal aliens are not eligible for restitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3129 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the speed and dexterity with which the Department of Environmental Protection is able to send out projects related to incoming federal infrastructure grants for bid and to construct those projects within the na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-27
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB3043 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require drivers involved in a motor vehicle accident causing injury to submit to a blood draw to determine any level of impairment. The bill requires an examination of the black box of vehicles involved in accidents cau...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
