| WV | SB548 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend the appellate jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court of Appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 76, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB649 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that senior status intermediate court judges and family judges are subject to the same per diem compensation limits as senior circuit court judges. This addresses a possible gap in code created after the creatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 77, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB837 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize Public Defender Corporations until July 1, 2025 to reorganize its offices to conform the circuit reconfiguration enacted during the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 78, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5430 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow newly elected or appointed circuit judges, family court judges, and magistrates to receive compensation and expenses for training sessions prior to taking the oath of office and beginning their term. Other section...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 80, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5257 | Engross
50% | Relating generally to allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals discretion to create uniform pay scales for all levels of judicial support staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | HB4196 | 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] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5418 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to vest the power of overall approval of the requirements for the position of bailiff. This section is new; therefore,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5225 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow a credit toward judicial retirement for public defender service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5053 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a statutory right for siblings to petition a circuit or family court for visitation with their minor child siblings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4858 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a report, of the statements of charges against a judge in this state, made by Judicial Investigation Commission and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel to be sent, annually, to the Legislature's Joint Committee o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB263 | Intro
25% | Expanding candidates eligibility for judicial retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | HB4333 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a raised seal is not necessary for a court order to be valid and to clarify that electronic filing without a raised seal is permissible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4581 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the ability of family courts to order services provided by the Department of Health and Human Resources; and establish that the costs for those services remain expenses of the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4533 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a simple proceeding in family court to name a kinship legal guardianship where a person is unmarried and at least 16 years of age or older, and receives effectively no substantial care and support from his or he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4566 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section of code limiting the jurisdiction of circuit courts to consider divorce cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4311 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow a party to a civil action to seek an expeditious answer to a certified question on the constitutionality of any statute, rule, or executive order from the Intermediate Court of Appeals while pending in circuit cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
