| 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 | SB166 | Pass | Updating contested elections procedures
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 120, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB173 | Pass | The purpose of this bill generally relates to new motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, manufacturers, factory branches, and distributor branches. The bill defines terms. The bill clarifies a manufacturer's obligations for warranty and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 184, 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 | SB222 | Pass | Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 265, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB280 | Pass | Allowing teachers in public schools to teach intelligent design
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 103, 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 | 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 | SB445 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the certification periods for EMS personnel from four years to two years to align certification periods with those of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and to reduce the certification renewal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 211, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB453 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require any pharmacy benefit manager ("PBM") who contracts with PEIA to be entirely transparent in providing its full data around pricing and payments for drugs and to pharmacies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 142, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB439 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to Authorize certain 911 personnel to be members of the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 210, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB466 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to develop a Safety While Accessing Technology education program to be taught to students from the 3rd to 12th grades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 104, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB583 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a streamlined process for evaluating an employer's liability for personal injury and wrongful death claims involving operators of commercial motor vehicles and to limit noneconomic damages in such actions to $1 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 1, 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 | SB679 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to regulate select plant-based derivatives, including hemp-derived cannabinoid products and regulation of kratom. The bill amends the short title; clarifies findings; defines terms; requires permits to manufacture, process...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 3, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB690 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a commission on West Virginia Agritourism to review and investigate means of preserving our farmland and growing our agricultural tourism and agricultural economic development and recommend to the Legislature tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 4, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB768 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide exception to the confidentiality of child welfare records to allow the sharing confidential information with law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 47, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB712 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revise the statute to reduce the minimum age for a cadet for the West Virginia State Police from the age of 21 to the age of 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 236, 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 | SB152 | Engross
50% | Displaying official US motto in public schools
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB155 | Engross
50% | Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To conference |
| WV | SB352 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the Unborn Child Protection act. The bill provides for definitions. The bill creates a process of informed consent. The bill provides for printed information. The bill provides for the creation of an Internet web...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB601 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Women's Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB740 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create a new criminal offense of manipulating a photograph, image, video clip, movie, or similar recording containing sexually explicit conduct by the insertion thereof of a visual image of an actual minor so as to crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB741 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the criminal offenses of creating, producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing with intent to distribute visual depictions artificial intelligence created child pornography when no actual minor is depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| 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 | SB468 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB870 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Anti-Woke Act; prohibit a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned entities from prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading |
| 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 | SB444 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that health insurance coverage for emergency services when a prudent layperson acting reasonably would have believed that an emergency medical condition existed includes prehospital screening and stabilization o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB821 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the same criminal elements and criminal penalties for abuse or neglect of incapacitated adults as are applicable to abuse or neglect of children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB810 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalty for voluntary manslaughter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary 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 | SB515 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a public school student from being required to participate in instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity if a parent, custodian, or guardian of the student objects in writing; require each pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB787 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a limit for fees charged for medical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB784 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security to assist with border security in the state of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB777 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create prohibitions on the illegal entry into or illegal presence in this state by a person who is an alien. The bill provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions and certain related orders, including immunity fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB733 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to replace the statue of the Robert C. Byrd with a statue of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, and Arthur I. Boreman, placed in each corner of the rotunda of the Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB735 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use or sale of abortifacients and to enact criminal penalties and permit private causes of action for supplying abortifacients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate 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 | SB156 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require that certain documents that contain records of wages be considered confidential.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB582 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Prohibition on Cell Cultured Animals Product Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill provides for a prohibition on cell-cultured animal products. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | SB567 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from liability for hospitals that have established a hospital police department if a loss or claim results from the failure to provide police protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB399 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to make it unlawful to harm, attempt to harm, or kill a police dog that is under the control of a law-enforcement or corrections officer who is acting in his or her official capacity. The bill also defines the term "police...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB553 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a religious exemption to school attendance vaccines requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB517 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the biological sex to be limited to male or female and to require that nonbinary birth certificates not be issued. The bill also provides circumstances when an amended birth certificate may be issued to change g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources 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 |
| WV | SB506 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the restriction to carry a firearm on the state capitol complex grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB488 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide non-exclusive prosecutorial authority over public integrity cases to the Attorney General of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
