Bill Status - 2017 Regular Session

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Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
HB 2063	Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/08/17
HB 2116	Establishing a policy for formal recognition of Indian tribes	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2123	Making the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind eligible to participate in any and all funding administered or distributed by the West Virginia School Building Authority	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2125	Reinstating service credit to certain members of the Public Employees Retirement System	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2134	Relating generally to workers’ compensation	Pending	House BNK	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2155	Relating to career progression of members of the State Police	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2156	Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2157	Relating to school calendar	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2183	Relating to appointment of Public Service Commissioners	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2186	Relating generally to human trafficking	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2207	Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances	Pending	House DA	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2212	West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2217	Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled	Pending	House Senior Citizen Issues	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2319	Relating to candidates or candidate committees for legislative office disclosing contributions	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017)
HB 2330	Prohibiting the sale of paraphernalia designed or marketed for use with controlled substances	Pending	House DA	Committee	02/10/17
HB 2361	Relating to the surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies	Pending	House BNK	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2364	Prohibiting electioneering within or near early voting locations during early voting periods	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017)
HB 2365	Relating to outdoor advertising regulated by the Commissioner of Highways	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2383	Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2385	Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin	Pending	House ENG	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2386	Exempting recipients of the distinguished Purple Heart medal from payment of the vehicle registration fee	Pending	House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2390	Providing death penalty for first degree murder	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2396	Requiring the circuit court, when appointing counsel for alleged protected persons, to make appointments from a listing of all interested attorneys in the circuit	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2397	Relating to donations of overpayment of fees to the Secretary of State	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2404	Barring persons who are convicted of certain criminal offenses from acquiring property from their victims	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017)
HB 2430	Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/14/17
HB 2432	Barring persons who are convicted of certain criminal offenses from acquiring property from their victims	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/14/17
HB 2437	Exempting persons practicing animal husbandry from provisions requiring licensing of veterinarians	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/14/17
HB 2442	Requiring a test that is identical to the civics portion of the naturalization test in order to graduate from high school or obtain a General Educational Development (GED) diploma	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/14/17
HB 2539	Permitting a housing authority to garnish delinquent rents and other amounts owed to the authority from the renter’s income tax refund	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/17
HB 2542	Relating to public higher education personnel	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2017)
HB 2568	Making the Holy Bible the official state book of West Virginia	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2571	Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	03/11/17
HB 2584	Relating to primary and secondary school instructional terms	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2586	Relating to required minimum distribution of retirement benefits of plans administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 3, 2017)
HB 2598	Requiring that senior status circuit judges only fill vacancies in districts or counties in which they were not previously elected	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2600	Relating to the Municipal Police and Fire Retirement System	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2601	Relating to municipal policemen’s or municipal firemen’s pension and relief funds	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017)
HB 2603	Relating to municipal policemen’s or firemen’s pension and relief funds that are funded at one hundred and twenty-five percent or more	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017)
HB 2604	Relating to employee information reported to the Consolidated Public Retirement Board	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2626	Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2634	Prohibiting a court from giving a jury an instruction commonly known as the “Allen Charge” to break a deadlock	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2638	Relating to county commissions authorizing reasonable fees charged for fire department or fire company response	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2641	Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2642	Removing restrictions for hunting or trapping on private lands on Sundays	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2649	Adding violations of law upon which a public servant’s retirement plan may be forfeited	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	03/17/17
HB 2650	Youth Mental Health Protection Act	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/22/17
HB 2658	Establishing that shared legal and physical custody of a child in cases of divorce is presumed to be in the best interests of the child	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/22/17
HB 2662	Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2663	Increasing the compensation for natural resources police officers	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2693	Relating to state ownership of wildlife	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/07/17
HB 2695	Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/24/17
HB 2696	Relating to crossbow hunting	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/07/17
HB 2699	Making information about Division of Natural Resources licensees exempt from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/07/17
HB 2707	Relating to the collection, possession and sale of naturally shed deer antlers	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/08/17
HB 2708	Relating to a lawful method for a developmentally disabled person to purchase a base hunting license	Pending		RECD	04/08/17
HB 2752	Relating to abuse and neglect of livestock	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/07/17
HB 2782	Permitting a time-share managing entity to foreclose upon its statutory lien for assessments	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/03/17
HB 2795	Clarifying a director of a multicounty vocational technical school is a principal	Pending	House EDU	Committee	03/06/17
HB 2805	Finding and declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state	Signed	Effective from passage - (April 8, 2017)
HB 2807	Equal Pay Act of 2017	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	03/06/17
HB 2821	West Virginia Farm-to-Food Bank Tax Credit	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/15/17
HB 2824	Exempting State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	03/08/17
HB 2867	Increasing penalties for failure to use due caution when approaching an emergency vehicle	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	03/08/17
HB 2938	Relating to deduction from jail sentence for litter cleanup	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/13/17
HB 2939	Relating to the sale of items in the State Police Academy post exchange to the public	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 4, 2017)
HB 2949	Exempting specified Division of Natural Resources’ contracts for some replacement, repair or design for repairs to facilities from review and approval requirements	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 4, 2017)
HB 2969	Increasing the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price index	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	03/13/17
HB 3002	Relating to special licenses for the retail sale of wine at festivals or fairs	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/14/17
HB 3044	Relating to the tax on soft drinks	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/14/17