| WV | SB171 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit county commissions from adopting any ordinance, rule, license requirement, or other authorization that exceeds state law, rule, or regulation regarding agricultural operations. The bill revokes any ordinance, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 63, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB149 | Pass | Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 62, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB331 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties to save excess funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 226, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB451 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require all prosecutors to undergo training prior to performing his or her duties; and require the West Virginia prosecuting attorneys Institute to conduct mandatory training for all prosecuting attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 64, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB461 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to extend when the Fort Henry Economic Opportunity Development District may be abolished or terminated and increase the land area within The Ridges Economic Opportunity Development District subject to the special district ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 97, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB530 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement for a county to draft and adopt comprehensive zoning ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 65, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB826 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to harmonize the treatment of reciprocal deposit arrangements to satisfy security for public deposits from county commissions, municipal corporations, and boards of education. Current code sections relating to public depos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 227, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB872 | Pass | Relating to county fire service fees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 71, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4274 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to rename the Department of Health and Human Resources.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission of Health and Human Resources Accountability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5122 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the age requirement of becoming a deputy sheriff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 73, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5267 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify DSRS surviving spouse benefits when member dies from duty or non-duty related cause, and to clarify how to compute a retiree's age when a member elected an early retirement and then returned to work.This bill wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 75, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB851 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish requirements for contingency fee arrangements between political subdivisions and private attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB669 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant Mason County and the Town of Henderson special district excise taxes, describe the boundaries of the Town of Henderson Economic Opportunity District, and authorize setting the base tax of said excise taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5103 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to initiate collections for emergency ambulance services and to set a fee for those who refuse transport and to require insurance plans to cover special emergency ambulance service fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB809 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to transfer duties from county commissions to the Department of Transportation when a road closure is requested to hold organized motorsports events on public roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB4962 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to relating 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 participatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB609 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify DSRS surviving spouse benefits when member dies from duty or non-duty related cause, and to clarify how to compute a retiree's age when a member elected an early retirement and then returned to work.This bill wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | HB5674 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit deputy sheriffs to retire after 20 years of honorable and actual service, with full benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5660 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give power to modify county fire service fees to the county commission instead of the county fire board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | SB771 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to distribute funds to volunteer fire departments equally among counties that have a levy in place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5675 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the multiplier for the deputy sheriff retirement accrued benefit from two and a half percent to three percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5657 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to designate certain distinct residential communities as villages. The bill does not interfere with the existing classification of villages for tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the amounts of deputy sheriff annual salary increases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB522 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the procedure for citations issued by the county litter control officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5486 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "County Home Rule Program."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5410 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize county commissions to designate a third person to approve signing or approving checks if there is a situation where there is a familial relationship between two persons in county government who are otherwise a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5382 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require convention and visitor's bureaus to receive accreditation from an accrediting body on or before June 30, 2026, in order to be eligible for distribution of net proceeds of hotel-motel tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5372 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove multiple severability clauses in the West Virginia Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5279 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require counties to establish a link to the public records of each county in the state and allow access to the public records of all of the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5264 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize and administer optional county sales and use taxes, admission, or amusement taxes and to provide terms for said administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5322 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Local Meat Processing Development Act" restricting county and municipality ordinances that are more stringent than state or federal requirements and regulation of meat processing businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5216 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county commissions to establish fire levies to fund volunteer fire departments and emergency medical services within those counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5173 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an election rather than appointment of members of the any parks and recreation commission of a county with a population of greater than one hundred and fifty thousand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5113 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant administrative control of fire departments within a county to a county fire board or, in the absence of a fire board, to the county commission in that county when they are not already under administrative control ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5088 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require mandatory drug testing for all classes of employees of county commissions, the state of West Virginia, State Board of Education, and in K through 12 schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5201 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require counties to provide ambulance services at a ratio of one ambulance for every 20,000 residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| WV | HB5146 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals in the care of animal shelters, breeders, and private individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | SB537 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to have the members of the parks and recreation commission elected rather than appointed in counties that have decided to have a parks and recreation commission and whose population is greater than 150,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Outdoor Recreation Committee |
| WV | HB5009 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4991 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties to save excess funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4935 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals in the care of animal shelters, breeders, and private individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4876 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the definition of "Final average salary" to mean the average of the highest annual compensation received for covered employment by the member during any five consecutive plan years within the member's last 15 yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4872 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require counties and municipalities to provide public notice for land or building purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4779 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement for a county to draft and adopt comprehensive zoning ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4729 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-15
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4719 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the manner of appointing members to county authorities and allowing appointments of members from contiguous counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4708 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create mechanisms for local governments to identify and address dilapidated and dangerous properties; requiring county assessor to conduct survey, and having staff receive training thereto; allowing empower county commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | SB420 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissioners an ongoing mechanism to consider compensation increases for elected county official every two years in an amount up to the increase in the annual Consumer Price Index published by the United S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB424 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the retirement benefit multiplier of the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act from two and one-half percent to three percent of the member's final average salary multiplied by the member's years of credited ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
