| WV | HB5664 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Mountaineer Scholars Grant Program, which would provide a $100 grant to each child born in West Virginia to establish a qualified higher education savings program account through the West Virginia State Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5179 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create "Jaycie's Law." The bill provides for legislative intent. The bill allows for excused absences for student parents, with time periods for natural births and C-section births. The bill provides for excused absence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources 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 | HB5535 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to apply an excise tax to e-cigarettes and other heated nicotine products excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5547 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide tax credits to incentivize investments and improvements in blighted properties in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4696 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to fund the West Virginia State Athletic Commission by implementing a 3% gate fee for all ticket and pay-per-view sales, live streaming right, video rights, sold for such contest and any rebroadcast rights from sanctioned ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5027 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum amount of food purchased from in-state producers. The bill creates penalties for noncompliance and breach of contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4767 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide an across-the-board raise for teachers' minimum salaries to bring about parity with teacher salaries in surrounding states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4763 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative within the Higher Education Policy Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4202 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $900 monthly increase to state school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5523 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize cancellation of voter registration records for individuals who are no longer West Virginia citizens and have obtained a driver's license in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5050 | Intro
25% | This purpose of this bill is to authorize legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding Guidelines for Employing and Evaluating Presidents, Higher Education Adult Part-Time Student (HEAPS) Grant Program, West Virginia Providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5304 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Small Business Payroll Tax Credit, a three-year program establishing a tax credit for defined payroll taxes paid on up to 10,400 employee hours at a statutorily designated wage rate for new businesses with 15...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5350 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the definition of "recreational purposes" to include mountain biking activities as an activity for which the duty and liability of a landowner who grants a lease, easement or license of land to federal, state, co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5038 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-07
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HCR64 | Engross
50% | Acknowledging and supporting the State of Texas
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5444 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow all members of the State Police retirement system to use accrued leave as credited service toward retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Pensions & Retirement 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 | HB5423 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a cognitively impaired or mentally defective person from being forced to testify in open court, and to increase the penalty for sexual assault of a mentally defective or mentally incapacitated person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5431 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to send the parent or legal guardian of a student who is deemed "chronically disruptive" the pro-rated amount of their education and remove that student from the school system for a yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5434 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide employees working for the Division of Highways with locality pay for working in certain jurisdictions designated by the commissioner as jurisdictions that are necessary for maintaining planning, engineering, con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB5424 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill generally relates to eligibility for and amount of unemployment benefits. The bill modifies the methodology for calculating maximum benefit rate. The bill modifies benefit table consistent with adoption of indexing. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4776 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to include elementary schools in the school disciplinary section as amended during the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB4974 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Save Our Farmland and Protect Our National Security Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5409 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit the number of improvement periods a parent may have per child or actions in abuse and neglect proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5408 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide safeguards when retail sellers engage in online delivery sales of tobacco products, tobacco-derived products, or vapor products via online certification and to further permit retail sellers to engage third party...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4905 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Tourism and Commercial Opportunity Zone Tax and Tax Credit Act in order to encourage investment in business development in this state and thereby increase employment and economic development, with concomit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5377 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow for privileged testimonial communications between a peer support team member and an individual receiving peer support services or advice from the team member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4777 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that county boards of education may allow staff members in public schools to eat lunch meals at no cost to the staff members, if there is sufficient food after every student has been fed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| 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 | HB5372 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove multiple severability clauses in the West Virginia Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5288 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the date for the primary election for the office of the President of United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5324 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create in the state Treasury a special revolving fund to be known and designated as the "Division of Personnel Recruitment and Retention fund" consisting of reappropriated funds from "Personal Services" to offer tuition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5276 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the calculation of the taxable wage base and modify the methodology for calculating the maximum benefit rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Finance 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 | HB4806 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to assign the use of bathrooms and multi-person common changing rooms by gender and to prohibit the usage of a designated room under this section by a person of the opposite sex, with exceptions for family members, renderi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5236 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the definition of domestic violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5234 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for free hunting licenses and fishing licenses for veterans with a post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| WV | HB5217 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is for West Virginia to recognize United States currency and coins as legal tender for all transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5075 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend required courses of education to include human growth and development related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb; required methods of presenting this instruction and adding a human growth and devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5199 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit parents to exempt their children from participating in this program by submitting a request in writing to the school that their children attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5186 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect gasoline-powered, state vehicles from government bans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5095 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to train at least one professional staff member at each school in grant writing procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5081 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require school personnel to pass a CPS background check prior to being hired.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education 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 | HB5185 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a tax credit for companies who donate to pregnancy and birthing centers in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB5139 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow teachers to bank any unused sick leave or personal leave to the next academic year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5124 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the restrictions of taxpayers to access online curriculum. The bill allows for any taxpayer to inspect additional instructional material adopted by the county board pursuant to including books in the classroom. F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
