HOUSE OF DELEGATES


BILLS INTRODUCED


Friday, February 11, 2005


2196.By Del. Susman - Requiring commercial trucks to have the corporate name prominently displayed on the truck - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary


2197.By Del. Walters - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities and graduates of undergraduate programs of such state institutions for the first two tax years postgraduation from the payment of state income tax - To Education then Finance


2198.By Del. Frederick, Long and Kominar - Providing that the reduction in the tax rate provided in this section applies to mines operating before the effective date of the applicable provision - To Finance


2199.By Del. Walters - Prohibiting the department of health and human resources from being involved in aiding or assisting any person to obtain an abortion to a greater extent than is required by law - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2200.By Del. Walters - Prohibiting family planning centers in West Virginia that receive state funding from discussing abortion or abortion referrals - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2201.By Del. Hrutkay - Requiring county boards of education to establish the daily observance of a minute of silence in all county schools - To Education then Judiciary


2202.By Del. R. M. Thompson - Personal income tax exemption for members of volunteer fire departments (FN) - To Finance


2203.By Del. Brown and Hatfield - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2204.By Del. H. White, Frich and Hrutkay - Relating to rate and form filing for group accident and sickness policies - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary


2205.By Del. Evans and Louisos - Excluding federal interest income when applying the income exclusion available to those sixty-five years of age or older and to persons permanently and totally disabled (FN) - To Finance


2206.By Del. R. M. Thompson, Perry and Hrutkay - Requiring a license for entities that only take assignment of regulated consumer loans or for entities that only service regulated consumer loans - To Judiciary


2207.By Del. Caputo, Tucker, Butcher and Stemple - Establishing the consumer's right to know regarding telemarketers and requiring certain vendors to use only persons authorized to work in the United States - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Judiciary


2208.By Del. Perry and Stalnaker - Making available to retired participants in PEIA the optional dental, vision, and audiology and hearing-aid services insurance plans that are available to current participants (FN) - To Finance


2209.By Del. Ennis, Swartzmiller, Perry, Boggs, Amores and Yost - Creating an affirmative defense for certain civil and criminal actions arising from the sale of certain alcoholic drinks and nonintoxicating beer by licensed private clubs to persons under the age of twenty-one whose age is verified by use of scanner technology - To Judiciary


2210.By Del. R. M. Thompson - Exempting sales of propane gas for any church, religious sect, society or denomination consumption from the imposition of the excise tax on gasoline or special fuel - To Finance


2211.By Del. R. M. Thompson - Granting wider authority of local fire departments to request materials and equipment to prevent further danger when dealing with an accident - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary


2212.By Del. R. M. Thompson - Providing for a felony offense under the shoplifting statute - To Judiciary


2213.By Del. Doyle - Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining and manufacturing activities and uses - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary


2214.By Del. Perdue - Requiring the county school boards to train all school personnel in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and blood precaution - To Education then Finance


2215.By Del. Spencer - Banning the use and possession of tobacco products by minors on school property and restricting the use of tobacco by all persons on school property - To Education then Finance


2216.By Del. Susman - Exempting certain physicians from obtaining preauthorization before being able to dispense psychotrophic medications to mentally ill medicaid recipient patients - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2217.By Del. Louisos - Providing that a woman who obtains an abortion has a cause of action against any physician who causes injury to the woman or the unborn child - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2218.By Del. Louisos - Creating a three person rate review board within the public service commission - To Judiciary then Finance


2219.By Del. Howard - Requiring all motor vehicle mufflers to conform to the original manufacturers specifications - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary


2220.By Del. Doyle - Prohibiting sale at full retail price of any damaged container or canned goods - To Judiciary


2221.By Del. H. White - Removing the maximum aggregate penalties limit in regard to violations of the unfair trade practices act - To Judiciary


2222.By Del. Williams - Providing retirement service credit to teachers at private colleges and universities - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2223.By Del. Caputo, Mahan and Staton - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees - To Judiciary


2224.By Del. Cann, Kominar, H. White and Stalnaker - Creating a health care providers lien - To Judiciary


2225.By Del. Amores and Doyle - Expanding the comprehensiveness of the section concerning what causes civil rights violations for purposes of criminal responsibility - To Judiciary


2226.By Del. Brown, Amores, Hrutkay and Doyle - Removing the confidentiality privilege in communications to clergy when the communication involves sexual abuse of a minor child, unless the communication was made as a recognized, privileged confession - To Judiciary


2227.By Del. Boggs, Swartzmiller and Hrutkay - Prescribing minimum standards for municipal judges and requiring criminal background checks of persons applying for municipal judgeships - To Judiciary


2228.By Del. R. M. Thompson, Perry, Iaquinta and Hrutkay - Allowing state-chartered banks to organize as limited liability companies if the FDIC determines they are eligible for deposit insurance - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary


2229.By Del. Hamilton, Wakim, Hrutkay and Yost - Providing for the temporary detention of juvenile perpetrators of domestic violence - To Judiciary


2230.By Del. Border and Azinger - Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2231.By Del. Doyle - Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders (FN) - To Education then Finance


2232.By Del. R. M. Thompson - Authorizing service credit under public employees retirement for federal employment service (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2233.By Del. R. M. Thompson - Small Business Tax Credit Act (FN) - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Finance


2234.By Del. Walters - Providing a five percent personal income tax reduction (FN) - To Finance


2235.By Del. H. White - Increasing salaries for magistrate clerks, magistrate assistants and magistrate deputy clerks (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance


2236.By Del. Stalnaker - Relating to the compensation paid to temporary senior magistrates (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance


2237.By Del. Hall - Relating to personal income taxes and exemptions - To Finance


2238.By Del. Iaquinta and Hrutkay - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited - To Judiciary


2239.By Del. Fragale and Evans - Creating a presumption of compensability for cardiovascular injury or disease of firefighters - To Judiciary then Finance


2240.By Del. Caputo and R. M. Thompson - Salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health (FN) - To Finance


2241.By Del. Talbott and Pino - Providing telephone subscribers with a highly effective means of preventing the receipt of telemarketing phone solicitations - To Judiciary


2242.By Del. Howard, Hamilton and Louisos - Establishing the child internet protection act - To Education then Judiciary


2243.By Del. Stemple, Spencer, Boggs and Pethtel - Removing the seasonal restriction concerning when cultivated ginseng may be harvested - To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary


2244.By Del. Stemple and Amores - Making the state's criminal and penalty laws applying to the use and display of beer and alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles conform to federal law - To Judiciary

2245.By Del. Perry, Stemple and Crosier - Altering the criminal penalties for driving while license is suspended or revoked - To Judiciary


2246.By Del. Susman, Hrutkay and Spencer - Securing the right of blind and visually impaired people to vote under the same conditions of privacy and independence as sighted people (FN) - To Judiciary


2247.By Del. Leach and Morgan - Providing for the issuance of a special Lions International membership license plate (FN) - To Roads and Transportation then Finance


2248.By Del. Doyle and Overington - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs (FN) - To Finance


2249.By Del. Leach and Craig - Increasing the penalty for the unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery or as a physician assistant - To Judiciary


2250.By Del. Hrutkay and Brown - Relating to the titling and ownership of property for area vocational education programs - To Judiciary


2251.By Del. Williams - Reducing the burdens of jury service and increasing participation in the jury system - To Judiciary


2252.By Del. Iaquinta - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders - To Judiciary


2253.By Del. Romine - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals - To Education then Finance


2254.By Del. Sobonya, Sumner, Howard and Hamilton - Prohibiting the elected or appointed public officials from using their names or likenesses under certain specific circumstances - To Judiciary


2255.By Del. Caputo and Butcher - Crediting a deceased teacher's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and other dependents - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2256.By Del. Caputo and Butcher - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Judiciary


2257.By Del. Amores, R. M. Thompson and Frederick - Increasing the amount in which may be expended for training of high technology business employees under the guaranteed work force program (FN) - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Finance

2258.By Del. Amores, Doyle and Stalnaker - Uniform Arbitration Act - To Judiciary


2259.By Del. Browning and Staton - Providing a one-time supplement to certain public employee retirement system annuitants (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2260.By Del. Browning and Staton - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2261.By Del. Amores, Pino, Stemple, Varner and Webster - Increasing the penalties for attempted crimes - To Judiciary


2262.By Del. Boggs and Mahan - Extending the filing deadline for homestead property tax exemption - To Judiciary then Finance


2263.By Del. Williams - Requiring persons who have judgments against them and their wages to notify the court of any change of job status or employer - To Judiciary


2264.By Del. Williams, Leggett, Stemple and Michael - Establishing a special sidelock black powder rifle deer hunting season - To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance


2265.By Del. Stemple, Michael and Varner - Exempting funeral-related retail sales from the consumers sales tax - To Finance


2266.By Del. Doyle, Hatfield and Amores - Imposing a one hundred dollar per year fee for licenses allowing wine sampling events by wine retailers (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance


2267.By Del. Leach, Campbell, Kominar, Morgan, Craig and Boggs - Implementing a transportation and economic development information system (FN) - To Government Organization then Finance


2268.By Del. Stalnaker - Requiring county commission of the county in which an indigent individual resides to pay the expenses of a commitment hearing - To Judiciary


2269.By Del. Stalnaker - Penalty for failing to make a reasonable, good-faith attempt to return a minor child in a timely manner at the expiration of lawful custody or visitation - To Judiciary


2270.By Del. Howard and Sobonya - Exempting individual retirement accounts, pension and profit-sharing plans from executions - To Judiciary


2271.By Del. Mahan and Amores - Relating to the payment of expert fees in child abuse and neglect cases - To Judiciary


2272.By Del. Michael and Campbell - Relating to the monitoring of nursing home residents through the use of electronic monitoring devices - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2273.By Del. Walters - Requiring the insurance commissioner to review and report to the Legislature the financial and other related impacts of any proposed legislation to mandate medical or health-related benefits - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary


2274.By Del. Stalnaker - Requiring that a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial in misdemeanor cases is forever waived unless requested within twenty days of initial appearance - To Judiciary


2275.By Del. Spencer - Relating to a state income tax exemption for certain first year businesses (FN) - To Finance


2276.By Del. Louisos - Providing that surplus revenues remaining in the general revenue fund after such revenues have been set aside for the revenue shortfall reserve fund shall be used to reduce personal and corporate income tax rates - To Judiciary then Finance


2277.By Del. Doyle - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy - To Judiciary


2278.By Del. Caputo, Martin, R. Thompson, Tucker and Perdue - Providing for the Public Employment Relations Act - To Judiciary then Finance


2279.By Del. Doyle - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act - To Judiciary


2280.By Del. Walters - Requiring the tax commissioner to refund to the five counties with the highest unemployment twenty percent of personal income tax collected (FN) - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Finance


2281.By Del. Hatfield, Hrutkay and Martin - Requiring nursing homes to have quality assurance programs and plans - To Health and Human Resources then Finance


2282.By Del. Sobonya, Howard and Crosier - Providing a state income tax exemption to retired federal employees (FN) - To Finance


2283.By Del. Spencer, Hatfield, Webster and Brown - Restricting increased assessments on real property to no more than five percent in any one year (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance


2284.By Del. R. Thompson and Perdue - Relating to the PROMISE scholarship and effective dates for increases in the objective standards applicable to eligibility - To Education then Finance


2285.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss), Del. Varner, Michael, Leach, Kominar, H. White and Williams - Provide procedure for payment of the veterans bonus to veterans of the Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq conflicts - To Finance


2286.By Del. Williams, Beach, DeLong, Perry, Martin and Cann - Relating to the sounding of Taps at veteran's honors funerals - To Education