HOUSE OF DELEGATES
BILLS INTRODUCED
Friday, February 27, 2004
4673. By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss) and Del. R. M. Thompson - Including within those joint family
liabilities of the husband and wife the services provided by healthcare providers - To
Judiciary
4674. By Del. Amores, Craig and Smirl - Restricting involuntary commitment for addicted persons
to those who, as a result of such addiction, are likely to cause serious harm to themselves or
others - To Judiciary
4675. By Del. Armstead, Calvert, Walters, Overington and Webb - Instituting a "Celebrate
Freedom Week" - To Education
4676. By Del. Armstead, Carmichael, Howard, Webb, Walters, Trump and Calvert - Establishing
a maximum number of employees allowed in a department or separate spending unit of the
state - To Government Organization then Finance
4677. By Del. Beach, Perry and Swartzmiller - Prohibiting certain video monitors including certain
navigation monitors forward of driver's seats of motor vehicles - To Judiciary
4678. By Del. Beane, Michael, Amores, G. White, DeLong, Staton and Doyle - Relating generally
to the West Virginia racing commission - To Government Organization
4679. By Del. Beane, Spencer, Caruth, Cann, Ashley and Michael - Relating to the design-build
procurement act - To Government Organization then Finance
4680. By Del. Blair - Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public
facility - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
4681. By Del. Blair - Implementing a pilot project in Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties to
install flashing traffic signals between the hours of eleven o'clock p.m. and six o'clock a.m.
at certain intersections (FN) - To Finance
4682. By Del. Caruth (By Request) - Providing a fee to be charged to persons copying records in
the county clerk's office by digital photography - To Judiciary
4683. By Del. Caruth and Frich - Requiring attendance by elected and appointed officers at official
meetings of the governing bodies and committees of municipalities - To Political
Subdivisions then Judiciary
4684. By Del. Caruth (By Request) and Trump (By Request) - Providing that companies
performing contract repossession services for financial institutions may be issued temporary
decals from the DMV - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary
4685. By Del. Ellem, Boggs, Hall, Overington and Pino - Requiring medical facilities that provide
abortions to warn women seeking an abortion of their increased risk of breast cancer - To
Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
4686. By Del. Fleischauer, Beach, Houston, Caputo, Manchin, Kominar and Faircloth - Making a
technical correction to language dealing with fires being built on public and private roads -
To Judiciary
4687. By Del. Fleischauer, Manuel, DeLong, Leggett, Stemple, Yeager and Kominar - Requiring
the governing board of West Virginia University to maintain the competition rifle team
program (FN) - To Education then Finance
4688. By Del. Fleischauer, Manuel, Yeager, Stemple, Kominar, Faircloth and Trump - Authorizing
West Virginia University rifle team donations and create a special revenue account for the
money - To Education then Finance
4689. By Del. Fleischauer, Susman, Manuel, R. Thompson, R. M. Thompson, Long and Kominar
- Prohibiting the governing board of West Virginia University from eliminating the
competition rifle team program (FN) - To Education then Finance
4690. By Del. Frich, Walters, Romine and Calvert - Authorizing the alcohol beverage control
commissioner to license businesses offering exotic entertainment to prevent harmful
secondary effects associated with such businesses (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
4691. By Del. Hamilton, Poling, Hrutkay, Hatfield and Perdue - Establishing the hospitals infection
disclosure act requiring hospitals to disclose hospital-infection rates for the public - To
Judiciary
4692. By Del. Hamilton, Smirl, Poling, Wakim, Hrutkay, Houston and Yost - Providing for the
temporary detention of juvenile perpetrators of domestic violence - To Judiciary
4693. By Del. Howard - Increasing the resident vendor's bid ratio from two and one-half percent
to five percent - To Government Organization then Finance
4694. By Del. Iaquinta, Crosier, Talbott, Staton, Foster, Trump and Beane - Establishing threshold
quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver
if possessed by an individual - To Judiciary
4695. By Del. Louisos, Kuhn, Caputo, Browning, Fragale and Hatfield - Providing for a process in which to enlist binding arbitration in state employee grievance procedures (FN) - To
Judiciary then Finance
4696. By Del. Morgan - Authorizing a qualifying municipality to impose a municipal occupational
tax, a municipal sales and service tax and a use tax (FN) - To Finance
4697. By Del. Morgan (By Request) - Exempting from taxation property used exclusively for
retirement homes - To Finance
4698. By Del. Morgan (By Request) and Leach (By Request) - Prohibiting children under the age
of eight years old from being passengers on motorcycles on public roads - To Judiciary
4699. By Del. Overington - Exempting public works projects receiving federal assistance and
subject to federal labor standards from the state prevailing wage laws - To Judiciary then
Finance
4700. By Del. Overington - Lowering the threshold required for reporting certain information about
individuals, firms, associations or committees contributing to a campaign - To Judiciary
4701. By Del. Overington, Calvert, Brown, Schadler, Smirl, Webb and Blair - Providing the same
protection from animal fighting to all animals - To Judiciary
4702. By Del. Perdue, Beach, Fleischauer and Paxton - Prohibiting out-of-state lenders from
making loans over the internet or by other means unless they are licensed in West Virginia
- To Judiciary
4703. By Del. Perry, Pino, Stemple and Beach - Providing for law-enforcement officers to seek a
warrant to draw blood from a person arrested for DUI when the person refuses to submit to
a secondary chemical test - To Judiciary
4704. By Del. Perry, Shaver, Stemple, Crosier and Beach - Providing a statutory good faith
exception to the exclusionary rule when evidence has been obtained during an execution of
a search warrant, arrest warrant or capias, - To Judiciary
4705. By Del. Shaver and Williams - Allowing certain rural counties with limited availability of
day care facilities to continue providing early childhood education programs to three-year
olds (FN) - To Education then Finance
4706. By Del. Sobonya - Prohibiting account wagering and electronic betting - To Judiciary
4707. By Del. Swartzmiller, Kominar, Ennis, Mezzatesta, Varner, Cann and Michael - Authorizing
a health benefit plan to provide health insurance benefits to certain former employees of
businesses in this State who have lost their jobs (FN) - To Finance
4708. By Del. Trump - Adjusting the formula by which the Public Service Commission distributes
wireless enhanced 911 fee revenues to the counties - To Finance
4709. By Del. Tucker, Kuhn, Varner, Stemple, Staton, Yost and G. White - Allowing the
commissioner of labor to charge fees for laboratory services and calibrations - To Finance
4710. By Del. Webb - Strengthening the current law against the dissemination of "spam" on the
internet - To Judiciary
4711. By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss), Del. Staton and Varner - Creating a West Virginia tourism
authority - To Government Organization then Finance
4712. By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss), Del. Mezzatesta, Michael, Beane, Kominar and Hall - Providing
autonomy and operating flexibility to certain higher education institutions (FN) - To
Education then Finance
4713. By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss), Del. Michael, Trump, Amores, Caruth and Kominar - Setting a
"clear and convincing" standard for determining whether an employer acted with "deliberate
intention" in causing a worker injury which would waive the employer's immunity from suit
under workers' compensation provisions (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
4715. By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss), Del. Fleischauer, Ellem, Hrutkay, R. M. Thompson and Amores
- Creating the crime of embezzlement by misuse of a power of attorney - To Judiciary
4716. By Del. Armstead - Making all unauthorized accessing of the computers of the state and its
political subdivisions a crime - To Judiciary
4717. By Del. Blair and Carmichael - Reducing and restricting compensation expense claims for
legislative members - To Finance
4718. By Del. Blair, Overington, Faircloth, Duke, Trump, Tabb and Manuel - Establishing a
three-year pilot project in Berkeley County creating a volunteer litter reporting program (FN)
- To Judiciary then Finance
4719. By Del. Boggs, Cann, Campbell, Michael and Staton - Creating the joint commission on
technology and advanced communications - To Government Organization then Finance
4720. By Del. Cann (By Request) - Providing for administration costs associated with the court
security fund and to eliminate obsolete language - To Judiciary
4721. By Del. Caruth and Carmichael - Requiring every woman seeking an abortion to be given
the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus - To Health and Human Resources
then Judiciary
4722. By Del. Fleischauer, Caputo, Webster, Susman, DeLong and Talbott - Relating to imposing
a fee of twenty dollars on the transfer of real property in addition to the excise tax presently
imposed on such transactions (FN) - To Finance
4723. By Del. Fleischauer, DeLong and Brown - Relating to reporting abuse and neglect of certain
adults - To Judiciary
4724. By Del. Fleischauer, Hrutkay, Long, Mezzatesta, Staton, Calvert and Overington - Adding
to the statutory members of multidisciplinary investigative teams and treatment teams for
certain children involved in the court system - To Judiciary
4725. By Del. Hatfield - Creating the criminal offense of injury to a pregnant woman that results
in miscarriage or stillbirth - To Judiciary
4726. By Del. Hrutkay, Butcher, Wright, Ferrell and Kuhn - Providing that a person is not guilty
of trespassing or hunting without permission merely because the person's dog pursues an
animal or wild bird onto another person's private or leased land - To Judiciary
4727. By Del. Leach, Craig and Morgan - Providing for the issuance of a special Lions
International membership license plate - To Roads and Transportation then Finance
4728. By Del. Spencer, Walters, Calvert, Palumbo, Hatfield and Brown - Granting various county
agencies authority to enter into intergovernmental agreements with other county levying
bodies - To Judiciary
4729. By Del. Staton, Amores and Caruth - Clarifying that the public service commission may
permit rates to become effective prior to the end of a suspension period - To Judiciary
4730. By Del. Sumner and Poling - Limiting the number of exceptional students in regular
education classes - To Education
4731. By Del. Trump, Caruth, Schoen, Overington, Hall, Sumner and Evans - Ensuring that
medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity without
fear of disciplinary action or dismissal - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
4732. By Del. Walters - Requiring the higher education policy commission to ensure that no person
employed by any state institution of higher education performs or participates in or instructs
students in how to perform any abortion or abortion procedure - To Health and Human
Resources then Judiciary
4733. By Del. Webb, Armstead, Walters, Stemple, Calvert and Amores - Making juvenile records
open for public inspection, when the juvenile has been charged with or convicted of an
offense involving violence against another - To Judiciary
4734. By Del. Webb, Webster and Amores - Providing that municipalities are free of legal
prohibitions to raise fines for municipal ordinance violations - To Political Subdivisions then
Judiciary
4735. By Del. Yost - Providing that a school levy election may be held during the primary election
- To Education then Judiciary
4736. By Del. Frich, Hamilton and Trump - Financing the West Virginia University rifle team if
the student government shows support for the measure - To Education then Finance