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| Delegate Higginbotham sponsored 70 bills: |
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Title |
Status |
Committee |
Step |
Last Action |
| HB 2320 | Allowing nonmembers of a political party to request that party’s partisan ballot at a primary election | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/17 |
| HB 2340 | Relating to performance metrics for the West Virginia Division of Highways | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 02/13/17 |
| HB 2343 | Requiring the State Police to lease rather than buy vehicles if cost effective | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/28/17 |
| HB 2344 | Transferring the assets of the Library Commission relating to media broadcasting to the Educational Broadcasting Authority | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/13/17 |
| HB 2345 | Transferring all duties and powers previously belonging to the West Virginia State Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses to the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/13/17 |
| HB 2346 | Relating to motor vehicle license plates | Pending | Senate Transportation and Infrastructure | Committee | 03/27/17 |
| HB 2347 | Allowing schools licensed to provide barber, cosmetology and related training to hold theory classes and clinical classes at different locations | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2017) | ||
| HB 2348 | Eliminating any requirement that class hours of students be consecutive | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017) | ||
| HB 2349 | Relating to driving on the right side of the roadway, overtaking and passing | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 02/13/17 |
| HB 2352 | Relating to the criminal offense of desecration of graves and vandalizing cemeteries | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/17 |
| HB 2353 | Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 02/13/17 |
| HB 2354 | Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a statewide communications plan known as the Comprehensive Public Involvement Plan | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 02/13/17 |
| HB 2373 | Authorizing school bus drivers trained in administration of epinephrine auto-injectors to administer auto-injectors | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017) | ||
| HB 2374 | Requiring schools post signs displaying the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/13/17 |
| HB 2415 | Relating to construction of industrial access roads with state funds | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/17 |
| HB 2419 | Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/14/17 |
| HB 2428 | Establishing additional substance abuse treatment facilities | Signed | Effective from passage - (April 8, 2017) | ||
| HB 2429 | Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/14/17 |
| HB 2443 | Establishing academic standards and assessment methods | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/14/17 |
| HB 2477 | Developing a special hiring procedure for personnel positions in the Division of Highways | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 02/15/17 |
| HB 2494 | Providing that statewide school report cards are only to be made available to custodial parents and guardians of students upon request | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017) | ||
| HB 2504 | Prohibiting state nursing boards from limiting the number of students | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/16/17 |
| HB 2520 | Prohibiting the use of a tanning device by a person under the age of eighteen | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017) | ||
| HB 2529 | Adding sexual orientation to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 02/17/17 |
| HB 2546 | Allowing replacement costs of employer provided property to be deducted from an employee’s final paycheck if the property is not returned | Pending | Concurrence | 04/07/17 | |
| HB 2554 | West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 03/11/17 |
| HB 2555 | Relating to tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017) | ||
| HB 2557 | Relating to tuition and fees at community and technical colleges | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/20/17 |
| HB 2562 | Making unlawful any employer policy or rule prohibiting an employee from possessing a firearm inside a vehicle | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/20/17 |
| HB 2572 | Providing for the authorization and oversight of public charter schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/20/17 |
| HB 2573 | Ensuring that local Convention and Visitor Center Bureaus have a board that is elected by a governing body | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/20/17 |
| HB 2580 | Relating to damages for medical monitoring | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/21/17 |
| HB 2581 | Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/21/17 |
| HB 2583 | Relating to limitations on the use of wages and agency shop fees by employers and labor organization for political activities | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/21/17 |
| HB 2588 | Simon’s Law; life sustaining procedures | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/21/17 |
| HB 2589 | Permitting students who are homeschooled or attend private schools to enroll and take classes at the county’s vocational school | Vetoed | Vetoed | ||
| HB 2629 | Permitting a corporation to be represented by an officer of that corporation | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/21/17 |
| HB 2637 | Relating to employment of retired teachers and prospective employable professional personnel in areas of critical need and shortage | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017) | ||
| HB 2642 | Removing restrictions for hunting or trapping on private lands on Sundays | Pending | House ANR | Committee | 02/21/17 |
| HB 2647 | Preventing compensatory damage awards for medical expenses from including sums that the claimant has not and will not pay | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/22/17 |
| HB 2650 | Youth Mental Health Protection Act | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/22/17 |
| HB 2651 | Relating generally to standardized testing requirements for nonpublic schools | Pending | Senate Rules | Committee | 04/08/17 |
| HB 2652 | Relating generally to school closing or consolidation requirements | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/22/17 |
| HB 2655 | Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/22/17 |
| HB 2676 | Transferring the Security office under the Division of Culture and History to the Division of Protective Services | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 4, 2017) | ||
| HB 2679 | Relating to the possession of firearms in parks and park facilities | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017) | ||
| HB 2688 | Permitting natural gas companies to enter private property without prior consent from the owner for the limited purposes of obtaining data | Pending | House ENG | Committee | 02/23/17 |
| HB 2689 | Educational Savings Account Program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/24/17 |
| HB 2702 | Relating to excused absences for personal illness from school | Signed | Effective July 1, 2017 | ||
| HB 2704 | Prohibiting persons convicted of sexual offenses against children with whom they hold positions of trust from holding certification or license valid in public schools | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017) | ||
| HB 2705 | Eliminating obsolete, duplicate or unnecessary code language as it relates to higher education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/24/17 |
| HB 2706 | Authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 3, 2017) | ||
| HB 2713 | Permitting the carrying of concealed weapons on the campus of a state institution of higher education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/27/17 |
| HB 2714 | Permitting a firearm or other deadly weapon on or in a private primary or secondary education building, structure or facility | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/27/17 |
| HB 2715 | Establishing procedures for carrying out the death sentence | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/27/17 |
| HB 2727 | Providing an identification card for released inmates who do not have a West Virginia identification card or driver’s license | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/28/17 |
| HB 2738 | Providing flexibility in the transfer process of school personnel | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 03/22/17 |
| HB 2748 | Prohibiting civil rights violations based on gender identity, or sexual orientation | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/01/17 |
| HB 2764 | Allowing the State Building Commission or the Higher Education Policy Commission to request and receive money from the Investment Management Board | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/01/17 |
| HB 2799 | Prohibiting the superintendent of schools from requiring a physical examination to be included to the application for a minor’s work permit | Pending | 3rd Reading | 04/08/17 | |
| HB 2861 | Authorizing a medical power of attorney representative to sign a binding arbitration agreement | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/08/17 |
| HB 2883 | The Freedom to Prosper Act | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 03/09/17 |
| HB 2887 | Relating to retirement and separation incentives | Pending | Concurrence | 04/08/17 | |
| HB 2903 | Limiting the maximum number of appointees to certain county and municipal bodies | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 03/09/17 |
| HB 2992 | Relating to civil asset forfeiture | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/14/17 |
| HB 3061 | Encouraging mastery-based education through the Innovation In Schools program | Pending | 3rd Reading | 04/08/17 | |
| HB 3075 | Licensing the practice of athletic training | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/14/17 |
| HB 3088 | Relating generally to teacher-pupil ratios | Rejected | 03/28/17 | ||
| HB 3089 | Relating to the adoption of instructional resources for use in the public schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 03/24/17 |
| HB 3099 | Providing counties the power to establish a county sales tax under certain circumstances | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 03/14/17 |
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