| WV | SB234 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction and allowing for the negotiated sale of real property to adjacent property owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Ordered to House |
| WV | HB2964 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow members of airport authorities to be a resident of either the municipality or county which the member represents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB3060 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to empower county commissions and local governing bodies to compel removal of unsafe real property conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2451 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to facilitate creation of home-based businesses, with certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB626 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow member of airport authorities to be residents of the municipality or county in which the airport is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | HB2053 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to include "Space Force" in the definition of "armed forces."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Military Committee |
| WV | SB601 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to charges for municipality-provided fire services; requires county commission approval before such fees are imposed on individuals or businesses located outside the municipality; and provides a process for individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB605 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require any public or private entity that owns, leases, or oversees a water supply or electrical supply utility to implement a Utility Continuity Rate Credit Program. The bill sets forth definitions. The bill sets forth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2030 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to hotel and motel housing vouchers programs; prohibiting city or town from requiring hotel or motel participation in housing voucher programs; prohibiting county from requiring hotel or motel participation in housing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB2484 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the probationary appointment period for vacancies filled by the Firemen's Civil Service Commission from six months to one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Government Administration Committee |
| WV | SB579 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities participating in the Home Rule program from establishing additional protected classes of persons beyond what is designated in state statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2866 | Intro
25% | To modify the process to impose county and municipal fine fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB2882 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a person owing a judgment to a municipal court to pay, or enter into a payment plan, within 90 days of judgment. The bill further provides that a municipal court may request the DMV to suspend the driver's licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2886 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow municipalities to exempt fire chiefs from civil service protection by ordinance so that the mayor or council (depending on city ordinances and charter) may appoint the fire chief in the same manner that municipal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB2749 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow understaffed volunteer and post-volunteer fire companies and departments to use money received from the Municipal Pensions and Fire Protection Fund or the Fire Protection Fund to employ or contract for the service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB566 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to providing all certified Law-Enforcement Officers ("LEOs") tuition free education up to the highest rate for higher education in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB2547 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to raise the cost-of-living increase from the first $15,000 to the first $45,000 for supplemental pension benefits for municipal police, firefighters, employees of waterworks systems, sewage systems, or combined waterworks...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Investments Committee |
| WV | HB2686 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize municipalities to place signage on state roads within their municipal jurisdiction and boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Enviroment, Infrastructure, and Technology Committee |
| WV | SB555 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibiting public sector unions from contracting with any municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB2181 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a county or municipality from charging, a private landowner with a private sanitary sewer system, fees based on the county or municipality sanitary sewer system; or for improvements for construction of, a count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Enviroment, Infrastructure, and Technology Committee |
| WV | SB540 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to annexation by minor boundary adjustment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2381 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit a citizen of this state to vote in the election of a municipality in which the citizen does not reside when the citizen pays service or user fees to the municipality, owns property within the municipality, or own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Legal Services Committee |
| WV | HB2565 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make unlawful the practice of municipalities' assessing user fees when employees are not present in the municipality in the performance of his or her job.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2550 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish that a defendant who may be fined $5,000 or more is entitled to a trial by jury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2561 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify Municipal Home Rule appeals. The bill provides for appeals and grounds therefor. The bill provides who is eligible to appeal. Finally, the bill provides procedures for the appeal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB2036 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities from collecting business and occupation taxes on projects that are funded by state or federal government programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Revenue Committee |
| WV | HB2465 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit counties, towns, and municipalities from using tax money to hire lobbyists to represent the counties, towns, and municipalities at state level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB2524 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to stop the collection of municipal user fees from state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB2469 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit any governmental entity from charging fees for stormwater, rain, or runoff from real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB500 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to transfer audit authority for volunteer fire companies to the West Virginia Legislative Auditor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB2100 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the process of appointing eligible law enforcement officers after competitive examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Homeland Security Committee |
| WV | HB2092 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require counties and municipalities to provide public notice for land or building purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB2371 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the allowance for volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments to make an expenditure for educational and training supplies and fire prevention promotional materials from $500 to $5,000 per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB2104 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit the imposition of municipal business and occupation taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB2062 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that all municipal elections be held on West Virginia state and federal general election dates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB20 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Fire Commission and the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health, respectively, to fund volunteer fire departments and emergency medical services units for any increased costs or expenditures that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB46 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow municipalities to complete work previously requested to the Division of Highways, with a provision for payment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
