| WV | HB4008 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates to the West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB4012 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the regulatory burden on utility companies when constructing and maintaining electric power generation and transmission facilities within this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | HB4481 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enhance transparency and accuracy in electric load forecasting by providing the Public Service Commission with specific oversight responsibilities regarding submissions to PJM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | HB4026 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require utility companies to expand the integrated resource plans filed with the Public Service Commission to include comprehensive analyses and descriptions and describe current and potential future uses of advanced tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
Communicated to House |
| WV | SB420 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to restore electric-rate stability through the continued utilization of in-state coal generation; preserve employment and investment in West Virginia's coal and natural-gas industries; and coordinate with the Electric Grid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB669 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify when the Public Service Commission can approve utility rate increases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5475 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to have members of the Public Service Commission be elected to six-year terms from three divisions in nonpartisan elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
Motion to table the motion to discharge from committee (Roll No. 348) |
| WV | SB981 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose a one-year moratorium on approval of certain public utility rate increases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| WV | HB4894 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to restore utility affordability and reliability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
Motion to table the motion to discharge adopted |
| WV | HB5648 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow a more consumer-oriented approach to the setting of public utility rates by the Public Service Commission by prioritizing the interests of utility service customers; providing protections to certain disabled rate-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
Motion to table motion to discharge from committee adopted (Roll No. 230) |
| WV | HB4971 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require electric substations be located near industrial parks for certain high voltage transmission lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-26
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | HB5210 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to comprehensively reform the state's water and wastewater infrastructure, streamline and clarify the process for issuing certain state grants and loans for water and wastewater infrastructure projects, eliminating the Wat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to comprehensively reform the state's water and wastewater infrastructure, streamline and clarify the process for issuing certain state grants and loans for water and wastewater infrastructure projects, eliminating the Wat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB1041 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Energy Economic Load Dispatch Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-21
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB1040 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Energy Freedom Act related to power generation companies in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-21
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | HB5626 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish rates for and recovering costs of by public utilities, provide for the elective submission of future test year data in certain utility reports, and require the commission to rely on certain submitted data in r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5642 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the State Utility Accountability and Improvement Program to proactively identify and assist struggling water and wastewater utilities; establish the State Utility Management Corps within the Water Development Aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5657 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Electric Choice and Competition Act, permitting retail competition for the purchase and sale of electric power for certain non-residential retail customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5574 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enhance transparency and accountability of the Public Service Commission, and to shift the duties of the commission towards a greater focus of assuring affordable utility rates; and to assure that it is held to the high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5580 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity for local emergency telephone systems for referral to the national mental health hotline known as "988" and removing acts gross negligence from immunity protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB942 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an advanced-baseload ecosystem that provides affordable and reliable power while generating long-term economic and security benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB931 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to restore utility affordability and reliability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | HB5411 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Energy Freedom and Fairness Act, permitting retail competition for the purchase and sale of electric power for certain non-residential retail customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that Public Service Districts in West Virginia operate with greater transparency, accountability, and efficiency under the enhanced oversight of the Public Service Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5202 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend access to loan and grant funding from the Water Development Authority to non-governmental public utilities for assistance with distressed public water systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5187 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2026-02-04
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that an electric utility rate or fee increase that is not in effect by November 20 in any year may not take effect earlier than April 1 of the subsequent year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4508 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Public Utility Stability Act, which will set appropriate time frames and procedures for rate increases for water and sewerage utilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Environment, Infrastructure, and Technology Committee |
| WV | SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Energy Freedom and Fairness Act, permitting retail competition for the purchase and sale of electric power for certain non-residential retail customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | HB5069 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a minimum distance from residences and certain infrastructure for wind turbines in order for the commission to award a siting certificate for a wind energy system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5152 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit public utilities from terminating or disconnecting services during a state of emergency declared by executive order; to create a duty to restore service; to require public utility to enter into deferred payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5041 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that all electricity providers give their customers a choice between the smart meters and manually read meters that are installed on their homes, businesses, or rental units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB5032 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Citizens' Data Center Transparency Act. The bill creates a prohibition on use of data centers for unconstitutional surveillance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the Stable Energy Rates Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-30
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4991 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to restore electric-rate stability through the continued utilization of in-state coal generation; preserve employment and investment in West Virginia's coal and natural-gas industries; and coordinate with the Electric Grid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-30
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB656 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to implement certain ethics reforms at the Public Service Commission of West Virginia. The bill requires financial disclosures made by commission members to be made available online; requires commission members to act in f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4891 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that utility companies absorb the costs associated with maintenance and upgrades without passing that cost on to customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB4896 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that Commissioners to the Public Service Commission be an elected position; to establish that during the general election in 2026 three commissioners be elected to the Public Service Commission to a term of four...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4824 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create an infrastructure fund that will be made from 5% from every rate increase granted to public and private utilities that is to be used for infrastructure repairs and improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-26
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB577 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a one-year moratorium on electric and natural gas utility rate increases in West Virginia. The bill provides legislative findings, directs the Public Service Commission to implement the one-year moratorium, prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | HB4745 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit an increase in West Virginia electric rate payers for power transmission lines to be built to export electricity to another state. Power that is exported to a neighboring state will be absorbed by that particul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB4753 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit public utilities from making contributions to political candidates or campaigns, political action committees, groups that can make contributions from funds derived from rate payers to political candidates, camp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4635 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish certain requirements relating to requests for rate adjustments from public electric utilities; limiting the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission over rate adjustment requests by public utilities to he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB4653 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Public Service Commission or any separate water or wastewater utility customers of a self-supporting entity such as a water system or a wastewater system from being subsidized or charged for the costs of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to have members of the Public Service Commission be elected to six-year terms through statewide, nonpartisan elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4631 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that Internet Service Providers, or "ISPs", shall be considered a telecommunications utility for regulatory purposes by the Public Service Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB535 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose a one-year moratorium on utility rate increases pending a study on reducing utility rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-20
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | HB4556 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate net metering of public utilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-20
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB4491 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to certification by the Public Service Commission of advanced small modular and micro nuclear reactors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-19
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB461 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to holding hearings on rate adjustment requests by all utilities, to make recommendations to the Legislature, and to permit all utility rate adjustments to be veto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
