| WV | HB4883 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to raise the salaries of certain state employees: West Virginia State Police and certain personnel; public school teachers; and school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 207, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4010 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require utilities to have in place an approved method of notice to customers for utility service disruptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5565 | Engross
50% | Relating to requiring the Division of Motor Vehicles to provide an identification card for eligible released inmates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB4797 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require child- care providers to be paid by enrollment rather than attendance of the child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4009 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create greater accountability and public input in the operations of the Public Service Commission; to remove the appointment process so Commission members are elected by non-partisan elections; revising the removal proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB5578 | Intro
25% | Modifying definition of sexual contact
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4593 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia First Foundation to comply with the Open Governmental Proceedings Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4961 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create an incentive for employers to hire people who are pursuing a formal program of recovery from substance abuse issues by allowing the employer to claim a tax credit for employing eligible individuals, with limits b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4720 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a waiver of tuition and fees at state institutions of higher education and community and technical colleges for military veterans, their spouses, and dependents, when that veteran has a service-related disabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance 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 | HB4796 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the removal or termination of parental rights of person who is participating in MAT or taking prescribed medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5393 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living increase, based on the annual increase in the consumer price index, for persons under the Public Employees Retirement Act and Teachers Retirement System that are at least 60 years of age and tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5378 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that impermissible discrimination includes discrimination based on certain hair textures and styles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5328 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women by having the Bureau for Medical Services request a State Plan Amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5329 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prevent the use of state funds to pay costs for attending out-of-state private schools or receiving other services from an out-of-state provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5160 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the prohibition of adding more licensed substance abuse treatment beds in counties who currently have more than 250 substance abuse treatment beds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4432 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to update the practice of physician assistants and advanced practice register nurses relating to midlevel practitioners. It permits physician assistants to own a practice, and establishes grounds for discipline or denial o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4795 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to inform a caretaker of his or her rights at the initial point of contact during a child protective investigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB4429 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exclude drug test strips from the definition of drug paraphernalia, and to specify that the possession, sale, and purchase of drug test strips is not prohibited within West Virginia. The bill was recommended for passage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5048 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the cap on the number of gas and other type wells for which operators are required to pay annual oversight fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB5047 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to implement changes in the West Virginia Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act recommended by the West Virginia Legislature's Post Audit Division to facilitate compliance with state and federal mining and reclamation la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4925 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that utility providers instigate text communications concerning utility outages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB4873 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to legalize the personal use and possession of cannabis by adults; providing for a county option election to allow for the production and sales in that county; providing for regulation by the Bureau of Health; authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4834 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a community solar program where subscribers can purchase an interest in a solar facility and use credits against their electric utility costs; establishing parameters and conditions for the program; and provided ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4771 | Intro
25% | The bill repeals law relating to additional registration fees for alternative fuel vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4750 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the Certificate of Need Mortarium on opioid treatment programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4752 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system or the Green Globes Building Initiative gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4751 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to allow in their network any willing provider which is otherwise qualified and credentialed, at the same reimbursement rate and other terms the same as comparab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4749 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for fair pay and maximized employment of disabled persons; create a state "Employment First" policy that encourages agencies to facilitate employment of disabled persons; establish a task force to initiate these...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4646 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow a bar to purchase liquor from a distillery or a mini-distillery if it is within 10 miles of the distillery or mini-distillery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4645 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the private ownership or operation of prison facilities in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4647 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities. The bill sets conditions and limitations. The bill requires rule-making.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4649 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove language requiring specific appropriations in order for the State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and the State Superintendent of Schools to provide education to children and adults housed in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4648 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the Redistricting Office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years. The main task of the Redistricting Office is to propose a plan to the Legislature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4631 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a paid parental leave pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4618 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the consumer advocate division as a separate, independent agency. The bill provides for legislative findings, provides the purpose of the consumer advocate division, and distinguishes the consumer advocate div...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4218 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt sales of tangible personal property to safely store firearms, including, but not limited to, safes and trigger locks from the consumer sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4177 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to direct the Supreme Court of Appeals to assign appropriate judicial officers for a pilot domestic violence court in Kanawha County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4181 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a tax credit to facilitate the purchase of reliable and affordable vehicles to low-income working West Virginia men and women to expand access to employment opportunities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4176 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Public Participation Act. The bill provides additional protections to individuals and entities engaged in the exercise of the protected constitutional rights of free speech, freedom to petiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4182 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to calculate the maximum number of students during the course of a year at alternative and year-round schools based on the maximum attendance for that school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4171 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make certain reforms to the special community development pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4528 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require urban renewal authorities to submit active, amended and proposed urban renewal projects and plans to the affected local county boards of health for review and comment. The bill requires urban renewal authorities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4179 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time limit on the expungement of certain criminal convictions. The bill also removes burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary from the specific crimes for which eligibility for expungement is limited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4183 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide easier access to contraceptives and sterilization services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4531 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill concerns forfeiture of contraband. The bill establishes criminal forfeiture and the items and property subject to forfeiture. The bill sets forth additional procedures for forfeiture. The bill establishes dates. The bill perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4184 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Employees Insurance Agency and other health insurance providers provide mental health parity between behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorders, and medical and surgical procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4175 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish workers cooperatives which are employee-owned corporations created to be operated for the benefit of the employees and the local community; providing guidelines and criteria for their incorporation and a proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Economic Development and Tourism Committee |
| WV | HB4319 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow the possession and smoking of medical marijuana by authorized persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4194 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation. The bill adds "age", "sexual orientation" an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Workforce Development Committee |
