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WVHB5317PassThe purpose of this bill is to revise the statute to make it permissive for commercial motor vehicles registered in this state to pass an annual inspection of all safety equipment to be consistent with the federal motor carrier safety regulations and...
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2024-04-22
Chapter 192, Acts, Regular Session, 2024
WVHB5583PassRelating of movement of oversized vehicles on roadways
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2024-04-22
Chapter 242, Acts, Regular Session, 2024
WVHB5237Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to requiring operators of vehicles to drive in rightmost portion or lane of roads or highways.
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2024-03-09
Communicated to Senate
WVHB5287Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to increase traffic safety by defining maintenance vehicles and describing making way for them.
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2024-03-08
Senate requests House to concur
WVHB4885Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit persons from sitting, standing, kneeling, or laying down in the roadway for the purpose of blocking traffic.
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2024-03-04
Referred to Judiciary
WVSB377Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to permit physicians to be exempt from specified traffic laws when responding to an emergency call. This proposed bill provides that the physician must continue to exercise due care and provides for rulemaking.
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2024-02-29
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB5039Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to grant the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles jurisdiction over license revocation proceedings for the civil offense of refusing a secondary chemical test.
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2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee
WVHB5020Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to make all first time misdemeanor DUI offenders and first time implied consent offenders eligible for deferred adjudication one time.
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2024-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVHB5597Intro
25%
Relating to school bus driver charged with DUI
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2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB441Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the regulation of driving in the left lane on four-lane interstate highways in West Virginia. The bill provides for the purpose and intent. The bill creates definitions and provides for the prohibition. The ...
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2024-02-16
House Message received
WVHB5644Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to create a special military license plate and placard for 100% disabled veterans.
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2024-02-13
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB5680Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to increase certain criminal penalties for unlawful use of designated accessible parking spaces for mobility impaired persons and unlawful creation and use of special plates or placards issued to mobility impaired persons ...
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2024-02-13
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB5672Intro
25%
The purpose of this generally relates to the transportation, towing, repair, dismantling and storage of damaged electric motor vehicles. The bill authorizes the Division of Motor Vehicles and the State Fire Marshal to promulgate safety rules for the ...
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2024-02-13
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVSB691Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill revising the statute to make it permissive for commercial motor vehicles registered in this state to pass an annual inspection of all safety equipment to be consistent with the federal motor carrier safety regulations; and ad...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
WVSB436Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to prohibition of certain additives in diesel fuel; defining terms; providing for penalties; and providing for enforcement.
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2024-02-06
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4965Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to mandate restitution to children of victims of negligent homicide or driving under the influence causing death.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVHB5385Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to regulate the modification of vehicle tires.
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2024-01-31
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB5387Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to require a motor vehicle to display emergency flashers when operating at 10 miles per hour below the posted speed limit on any public road.
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2024-01-31
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVSB611Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to allow prosecuting attorney vehicles to have flashing red warning lights.
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2024-01-31
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB5372Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to remove multiple severability clauses in the West Virginia Code.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5313Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to require that a three-second pause be added to all traffic-control lights and devices.
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2024-01-29
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB5119Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to create the felony offense of reckless and wanton vehicular homicide.
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2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5174Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill generally relates to amending the definition of negligent homicide. The bill defines vehicular homicide. The bill imposes a penalty. Finally, the bill increases the penalty for reckless driving.
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2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5068Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to provide that operating any vehicle at speeds in excess of 25 miles per hour over the posted speed limit is reckless driving.
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2024-01-25
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB5109Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to require that a warning light be erected on certain roads to warn of a traffic light ahead.
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2024-01-25
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB5066Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit electric bicycles, or "e-bikes," for hunting use in this state.
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
WVSB332Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to allow and regulate the operation of roadable aircraft on West Virginia highways.
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2024-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee
WVHB5042Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article creating mandatory state inspections of motor vehicles.
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2024-01-23
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4927Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to create the Road Usage Charge Pilot Program.
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2024-01-19
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4942Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a vehicle or combination of vehicles coupled together, whose length is in excess of 50 feet travelling on Route 61 between Oak Hill and Montgomery.
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2024-01-19
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4932Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to permit the prosecuting attorney's car to have a red warning light.
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2024-01-19
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVSB267Intro
25%
Adding grievance and appellate procedures for individuals participating in DMV safety and treatment program
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2024-01-18
To Senate Finance Committee
WVHB4907Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article creating mandatory state inspections of motor vehicles.
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2024-01-18
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4889Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to afford the same penalties for undocumented parking in "Purple Heart Wounded" or "Veterans" signed parking spaces as Handicapped.
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2024-01-18
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4895Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to establish a speed limit in licensed child care zones.
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2024-01-18
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4848Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to establish the aggravated criminal offense of reckless driving resulting in death, establish the related penalty, and make several non-substantive technical corrections.
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2024-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB163Engross
50%
Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death
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2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB380Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article creating mandatory state inspections of motor vehicles.
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2024-01-12
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4650Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to clarify and update the definition of a school bus.
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2024-01-12
To House Education Committee
WVSB255Intro
25%
Prohibiting parking fee for accessible parking space bearing international symbol of access
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2024-01-11
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
WVSB206Intro
25%
Establishing 80 miles per hour speed limit on interstate highways
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2024-01-11
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
WVSB215Intro
25%
Modifying permissible percentage of light transmission for sun screening devices used in automotive safety glazing
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2024-01-11
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4260Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to provide that when a registered owner or lessee, of a motor vehicle that vehicle is involved in the overtaking and passing a stopped school, is charged for a violation and misdemeanor offense, the state is not relieved o...
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2024-01-10
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4456Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to remove the helmet requirement from motorcycle safety equipment.
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2024-01-10
To House Banking & Insurance Committee
WVHB4247Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain devices which enhance a vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions and creating misdemeanor offense with penalty for violations.
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2024-01-10
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4221Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article creating mandatory state inspections of motor vehicles.
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2024-01-10
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4296Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to remove the fees for license plates, vehicle registration, operator's licenses, registration, and inspection fees for volunteer fire fighters.
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2024-01-10
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee
WVHB4503Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to require drivers involved in a motor vehicle accident causing injury to submit to a blood draw to determine any level of impairment. The bill requires an examination of the black box of vehicles involved in accidents cau...
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2024-01-10
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee
WVHB4239Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to make the criminal penalty of confinement in jail and the administrative penalty of driver's license suspension only apply for a conviction of passing or overtaking a school bus loading or unloading children applicable t...
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2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4351Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for passing a school bus and causing injury.
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2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee
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