| WV | HB4404 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the allowance for volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments to make an expenditure for educational and training supplies and fire prevention promotional materials from $500 to $5,000 per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| WV | HB4801 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add the demolition of unsafe and unsanitary structures and planning for reuse or improvement of property owned by municipalities and county commissions as permissible expenditures of revenue from the hotel occupancy tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| WV | SB182 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill relates to annexation by minor boundary adjustment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB659 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities from prohibiting certain restrictions on the regulation of accessory dwelling units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/14/2026 |
| WV | SB717 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify disability and retirement benefits and procedures for municipal police and firefighters participating in municipal plans overseen by the Municipal Pensions Oversight Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB726 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove the 30% cap on municipal stabilization funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5622 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify city charters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB5319 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish misdemeanor crimes for camping in or storing personal property, including camp facilities and camp paraphernalia upon governmental or public property. It also provides definitions and criminal penalties, with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
On 2nd reading, rereferred to Judiciary |
| WV | HB5106 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the funding of the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District by permitting the Cabell County Board of Education to provide funds available to the board through special and excess levies to the park dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5630 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide notice for amendments to a zoning ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4537 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require municipalities and public service districts to determine the cost of adding potential customers to water service from the municipality and public service districts, apply through the West Virginia Infrastructure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB752 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2026-02-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB1076 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow municipalities not participating in any retirement plan administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board or the Municipal Pensions Oversight Board to elect to become participating employers in the Municipa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB1052 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require county commissions to approve all purchases made by volunteer fire departments over $10,000 and made with county fire fee levy money.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-21
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB1021 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates generally to municipal elections, and creates a limited-purpose ordinance procedure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB1002 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties and municipalities to create special assessment districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB1013 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allowing municipal police and firefighters participating in municipal plans overseen by the Municipal Pensions Oversight Board to use accrued leave toward credited service upon retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | HB5578 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to take 50 cents from every vehicle registration sold, or renewed, or both, in West Virginia and use that money to fund the Deputy Sheriff's Retirement Fund.This section is new; therefore,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5602 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a statutory mechanism allowing property owners of undeveloped or unimproved land located within municipal boundaries to petition for annexation of their property into the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5632 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the deadlines for permitting to ensure the petitioners have adequate time for review and approval by local administrators and eliminate conflicts with other legal notice requirements for the type of approvals req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB957 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow for Class IV towns and villages to have fewer council members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB930 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to raise the cost-of-living increase from the first $15,000 to the first $45,000 for supplemental pension benefits for municipal police, firefighters, employees of waterworks systems, sewage systems, or combined waterworks...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB918 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish civil service promotion criteria for municipal law enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5425 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the reporting process used by land reuse agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5422 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities participating in the Home Rule program from establishing additional protected classes of persons beyond what is designated in state statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB891 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the oversight by the Attorney General of a political subdivision's hiring of a private attorney under a contingency fee legal arrangement or contract to sue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5326 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to raise the cost-of-living increase from the first $15,000 to the first $30,000 for supplemental pension benefits for certain municipal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5331 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to give special consideration for municipalities to join the Municipal Police Officers & Firefighters Retirement System (MPFRS) for their paid firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5064 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to municipalities that have failed to complete required financial audits for multiple years; modify definitions; clarify fiscal emergency conditions; authorize State Auditor to evaluate a municipality's likelihood of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-06
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | SB700 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow city attorneys and municipal clerks to file judgment liens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5009 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to zoning ordinances and their effects; and defines the word "use" to mean "domestic use, farming, or activities on the land from where water was drawn, and not extraction for transport to another jurisdiction via bot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-30
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4924 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities participating in the home rule program from establishing nondiscrimination ordinances that include protected classes in addition to what is designated in state statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4816 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is relating to municipal fire protection fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4825 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize municipalities to place signage on state roads within their municipal jurisdiction and boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-26
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB4833 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the 30% cap on municipal stabilization funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4831 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit "lewd public content" from being advertised anywhere in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4652 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt construction projects from local taxes and fees for a duly elected municipal utility board, its contractors, subcontractors, and vendors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-23
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB4702 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove minimum lot sizes from zoning ordinances.This section is new; therefore,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-23
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB4776 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the maximum hotel occupancy tax permitted by municipal or county ordinances from six percent to eight percent
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-23
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4754 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove minimum lot sizes from zoning ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4737 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a municipality to regulate apartment buildings' stairway requirements
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4679 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit counties, towns, and municipalities from using tax money to hire lobbyists to represent the counties, towns, and municipalities at state level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4711 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities from adopting certain regulations in relation to accessory dwelling units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4707 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates 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 participation in housing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4675 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit any governmental entity from charging fees for stormwater, rain, or runoff from real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | HB4623 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require counties and municipalities to provide public notice for land or building purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4495 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide municipalities with the authority to regulate sober living housing within the cities, require that applications must be submitted and approved by the city prior to the facility commencing its operations, grantin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB488 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Council on Competitive Government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4540 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to the suspension of licenses for failure to respond or appear in court when charged with a motor vehicle violation. The bill requires written notice of all fees owed and impending suspension prior to license suspensi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4443 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a person owing a judgment to a municipal court to pay, or enter into a payment plan, within 90 days of judgment. The bill further provides that a municipal court may request the DMV to suspend the driver's licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
