| 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 | HB4940 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit squatting, and to clarify that squatters are not considered tenants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 251, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5539 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that causes of action under Chapter 46A of the Code of West Virginia shall survive the death of the party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5621 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting the termination of employment of an employee who defends themselves from an attack inside workplace
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB615 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to limit statutory and common law causes of action against exempt wholesale generators to violations of the material terms and conditions of the siting certificates applicable to such facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5067 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify when a minor may bring a medical malpractice cause of action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB811 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit medical monitoring damages based on increased risk of disease and setting requirements for plaintiff's seeking such damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB795 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit liability for accredited academic hospitals to only the amount of insurance covered by State Board of Risk and Insurance Management, to provide medical professional liability insurance to accredited academic hospi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5688 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from civil liability for accredited academic hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5651 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal a provision of the code relating to the limitation on bringing an action to enter upon or recover lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5600 | Intro
25% | Creating a private cause of action for the deprivation of a right granted by the state constitution or by state law
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | SB734 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the statute of limitations on actions to recover on both oral and written contracts, on bonds of fiduciaries and personal representatives, and on recognizances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4423 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to combat the sexualization of children and to allow children in the State of West Virginia to avoid the detrimental effects, both during childhood and later into adulthood, caused by exposure to pornography through an age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5439 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that using deadly force against an intruder or attacker in a workplace by person not engaged in unlawful activity if the person reasonably believes that he or she or another is in imminent danger of death or ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB538 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exception for a public nuisance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5316 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit the applicability of this article to certain practices by medical care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5193 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the financial exploitation of a person in recovery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5116 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit a civil action for the unauthorized disclosure of an intimate image. The bill permits civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images. The bill provides for a short title. The bill creates defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5169 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to restrict foreign ownership of land and other interests in the State of West Virginia as specified. The bill defines terms. The bill requires registration as specified. The bill authorizes enforcement of ownership restri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4980 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make choice of law provisions in franchise contracts inoperable as a matter of West Virginia law if the West Virginia franchisee objects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4912 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act which was recommended for passage by the state Uniform Law Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB469 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act which was recommended for passage by the state Uniform Law Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB165 | Engross
50% | Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB301 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that persons who reside in sober living homes are tenants and provided tenant protections granted by law and provide for reasonable attorney's fees for willful or bad faith landlord noncompliance when the tenant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB308 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the limitations period for a civil action based on a personal action of childhood sexual assault or abuse only for the purposes of filing claims against a bankruptcy estate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4641 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal §55-9-1, §55-9-2, and §55-9-3 of the Code of West Virginia to remove antiquated provisions of the code relating to gaming activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB338 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Legislature to file suit against the Executive to faithfully execute the laws passed by the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB283 | Intro
25% | Relating to use of force, including deadly force, in defense of self, real, and personal property
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4176 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Public Participation Act. The bill provides additional protections to individuals and entities engaged in the exercise of the protected constitutional rights of free speech, freedom to petiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4383 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for damages for medical monitoring. The bill establishes requirements for an order for payment of medical monitoring expenses. The bill provides that an increased risk of disease is not a compensable basis for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4482 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to include tax incentives for retail food distributors who make wholesome and fit grocery products available for nonprofit organizations who will distribute the food to indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4273 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to revise the criminal code. The bill relates to the failure of a sex offender to register or provide notice of registration changes and the penalty for the same. The bill relates to timber theft, investigations thereof, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4362 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Protecting Everyone's Constitutional Rights Act and end qualified immunity. The bill provides legislative findings and definitions; clarifies respondeat superior liability; and recognizes a civil action for i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4400 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from civil or criminal prosecution against persons using force, including deadly force, in defense of self, real and personal property. The bill also includes the use of force in defensive actions prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
