| WV | SB839 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide county boards of education with the option of seeking insurance coverage from licensed insurance carriers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Banking and Insurance 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 | 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 | 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 | SB737 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the exemption from taxation of state-owned real property within the counties. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5072 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is create the Act to Prohibit the Purchase of Small Unmanned Aircrafts Manufactured or Assembled by a Covered Foreign Entity. The bill provides for definitions. The bill prohibits the purchase of small unmanned aircraft from ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Finance 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 | HB5485 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to The purpose of this bill is to ensure the $1 service fee for the renewal of vehicle registration is dedicated to the county sheriff for contribution to the county general fund and the deputy sheriff's retirement system. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5403 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to place a $1.00 charge on Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Door Dash, and all like services with the proceeds to be disbursed to the WVDOH and equally applied to each county's annual budget. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5406 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-01 To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5418 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to vest the power of overall approval of the requirements for the position of bailiff. This section is new; therefore, [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 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 | HB4723 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount paid to the Tax Commissioner for the annual licensure fees to volunteer fire departments for charitable raffles. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To House Finance 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 | HB5172 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount paid to the Tax Commissioner for the annual licensure fees to volunteer fire departments for charitable raffles. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| WV | HB5102 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount paid to the Tax Commissioner for the annual licensure fees to volunteer fire departments for charitable raffles. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee |
| WV | HB5071 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the state to reimburse a county for inmate costs when a conviction of an inmate results in credit for time served towards any sentence imposed. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5115 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that land assessed as farm property in West Virginia for taxation purposes be assessed at the regular rate of taxation for the preceding three years after the sale of the property for development. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To House Agriculture & Natural Resources 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 | 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 | HB4949 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify local permitting deadlines for local governing bodies or planning commissions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19 To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4888 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to distribute 10 percent of state revenues derived from sales tax, excise tax, severance tax, or generated by any other means be placed in General Revenue and returned to the County offices of the Division of Highways. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB4870 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for a one-time allocation of money into the West Virginia courthouse facilities improvement fund for the purpose of allowing counties to apply for a state match for the construction, reconstruction, repair, mainte... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4856 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the number of vape stores and head shops in West Virginia to one for every 15,000 residents per county. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse 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 | HB4778 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league athletic events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission and to establish the West Virginia Youth Sports Safety Commis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4790 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Division of Corrections to prepare a report on the feasibility of splitting the per diem costs for incarcerating inmates among the municipalities, counties, and the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 To House Jails and Prisons 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 | HB4728 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county tax assessor to have a justification for increasing the valuation of an antique or classic vehicle. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15 To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | SB388 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish responsibility for reimbursement of training costs of law-enforcement employees who leave original jurisdiction of employment for employment in any other law-enforcement agency in this state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4673 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Tourism Office to limit the number of visitor bureaus in the counties of the state in order to maximize effectiveness of one main visitors bureau in smaller populated counties. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To House Economic Development and Tourism Committee |
| WV | HB4670 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to the Foundation allowance for transportation cost. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a homeless education coordinator in counties designated by the state board as an urban county. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing county commissions to impose amusement tax [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4636 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Local Government Labor and Consumer Marketing Regulatory Limitation Act. The bill prohibits political subdivisions from enacting any ordinance, regulation, local policy, local resolution or other legal requir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4624 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require counties to provide information to the State Auditor for inclusion on the financial transparency website. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4185 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase certain fees collected by county sheriffs and add these increased amounts to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement Fund to provide modest increases in benefits for retired deputies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4285 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide funding to counties in the amount of $5,000 per deputy position in that county to be used exclusively for deputy pay raises. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB4262 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create three separate job titles for school bus operators based on years of service. The bill establishes pay scales. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4213 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to pension benefits which are exempt from income taxation. The bill adds Division of Natural Resources police, deputy sheriffs, full-time firefighters, and municipal police officers into the class of law-enforcement o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |