| WV | SB147 | Pass | Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB146 | Pass | Creating adult education taskforce
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB166 | Pass | Updating contested elections procedures
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/13/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | SB152 | Engross
50% | Displaying official US motto in public schools
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB148 | Pass | Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB280 | Pass | Allowing teachers in public schools to teach intelligent design
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB487 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for period reviews of required professional development for teachers and education staff
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB331 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties to save excess funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB533 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish that an emergency medical services agency may triage and transport a patient to an alternative destination in this state or treat in place if the ambulance service is coordinating the care of the patient throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB503 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to protect belief-based student organizations by expanding student organizations that are protected against certain types of discrimination by a state institution of higher education and expanding the types of discriminati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/24/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/20/2024 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB614 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to address elementary behavior intervention and safety; specify requirements applicable to when a grade kindergarten through six teacher in an elementary setting determines that the behavior of a student is violent, threat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB624 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize cancellation of voter registration records for individuals no longer West Virginia citizens and have obtained a driver's license in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB727 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to revise the process for county boards of education to hire aides, early childhood classroom assistant teachers, and secretaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Communicated to House |
| WV | SB873 | Pass | Schedule for tax installment payments
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB874 | Pass | Relating to WV Division of Multimodal Transportation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB875 | Pass | Relating to certain insurance coverage provided by BRIM
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB877 | Pass | Supplementing and amending appropriations to Higher Education Policy Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/14/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | SB876 | Pass | Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Health and Human Resources, Health Facilities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/13/2024 - House Journal |
| 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 | SB544 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to raise the threshold from $25,000 to $50,000 for the requirement of bids for municipal public works projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Approved by Governor 3/7/2024 - House Journal |
| 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 | 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 | SCR35 | Intro
25% | Requesting study on efficiency and accountability of county boards of education
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Referred to Rules |
| WV | SCR36 | Intro
25% | Requesting study of School Building Authority
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Referred to Rules |
| WV | SCR11 | Pass | US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
House Message received |
| WV | SJR6 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this resolution is to authorize the incorporation of churches or religious denominations which choose to incorporate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SR56 | Pass | Memorializing life of Honorable Warren Randolph McGraw Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SR55 | Pass | Memorializing life of Honorable William Wayne Bailey, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SB861 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to increase support and professional development for educators; expand factors used to determine how funds for supporting county-level implementation of the comprehensive systems for teacher and leader induction and profes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB167 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create a statewide Health and Safety Fee that would allow visitors to help contribute to the readiness cost of emergency services through an up to $1.00 per day/activity fee that would be distributed to the counties twi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Economic Development and Tourism Committee |
| WV | SB562 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the employment and training requirements necessary to receive SNAP benefits. The bill defines and expands exemptions. The bill clarifies the Secretary's duties when there is a lack of funding or inability to prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Finance 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 | SR51 | Pass | Memorializing life of Lora Susan Thompson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Completed legislative action |
| 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 | SR50 | Pass | Designating February 21, 2024, as WV History Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Completed legislative action |
| 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 | SR43 | Pass | Memorializing life of Honorable John Patton Fanning
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SR42 | Pass | Supporting Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas' constitutional right to self-defense
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SCR29 | Engross
50% | Urging Biden administration and Congress reevaluate proposed restrictions on chemical industry
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| WV | SB620 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide pregnancy help centers greater flexibility to receive funding for items such as capital expenditures and training. Currently, the funding is limited to a fee per service arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| 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 | 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 |
