HOUSE OF DELEGATES


BILLS INTRODUCED


Wednesday, February 16, 2005


2371.By Del. Perdue, Amores and Anderson - Authorizing collaborative pharmacy practice agreements between pharmacists and physicians and specify requirements for the agreements - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2372.By Del. Long, Frederick, Susman and Leach - Exempting sales of drugs to licensed physicians which are to be consumed in the performance of a professional service from the consumers sales and service tax (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Finance


2373.By Del. Caputo and R. Thompson - Increasing the multiplier for a retirement annuity in the public employees retirement system - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2374.By Del. Hrutkay, Butcher, Iaquinta and Wakim - Providing service credits for service in the West Virginia national guard and reserve for public employees retirement system and civil service examinations - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2375.By Del. Paxton, Perry and Hamilton - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools - To Health and Human Resources then Finance


2376.By Del. Hatfield, Perdue, Webster, Brown and R. Thompson - Creating the genetic information privacy act - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2377.By Del. R. Thompson and Hrutkay - Permitting the consumer advocate to act as the manager of consumer activities in the insurance commission - To Banking and Insurance then Government Organization


2378.By Del. Ellem, Boggs, 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


2379.By Del. Perry and Pino - Requiring property owners to keep property adjacent to intersections clear of obstacles for line of sight of operators of motor vehicles - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary


2380.By Del. Leach, Michael, Perdue and Susman - Providing for a program intended to divert low-income residents from early institutionalization in nursing homes by providing personal home care in their communities (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Finance

2381.By Del. Amores, Webster, Palumbo and Kominar - Authorizing patients or residents of certain health care facilities or homes to designate nonrelatives to receive the same visitation privileges as immediate family members - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2382.By Del. Howard, Sobonya and Sumner - Providing the option for teachers who withdrew from the state teachers retirement system in favor of the defined contribution retirement system the option to return to the state teachers retirement system - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2383.By Del. Walters - Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn child - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2384.By Del. Stalnaker and Ennis - Including education service personnel eligibility for the five hundred dollar early retirement notification bonus (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Judiciary


2385.By Del. Webster, Palumbo and Hatfield - Adding the laser speed gun as a device for measuring speeds - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary


2386.By Del. Hatfield, Martin and Caputo - Requiring nursing homes to publicly post staffing information and granting rights to family councils - To Health and Human Resources then Government Organization


2387.By Del. Leach and Amores - Requiring a vision test for renewal of a driver's license - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary


2388.By Del. R. Thompson, Staton, Hrutkay, Caputo and Perdue - Making the office of consumer advocacy independent of the insurance commissioner - To Banking and Insurance then Government Organization


2389.By Del. Border, Long, Perdue, Leach and Hatfield - Including persons diagnosed with disability of a major body system with an accompanying degree of severity for the purpose of determining eligibility to obtain a Class Q special resident hunting permit for disabled persons - To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance


2390.By Del. R. Thompson and Perdue - Removing language which might reduce a public employee's disability benefits upon reaching age 65 - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2391.By Del. Perry, Crosier, Pino and Beach - Increasing retirement pensions for police and firefighters (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance


2392.By Del. Border and Perdue - Requiring health benefit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information cards or technology - To Health and Human Resources then Finance


2393.By Del. Hatfield, Doyle and Amores - Creating an emergency contraception education program within the department of health and human resources - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary


2394.By Del. R. M. Thompson, Perry and Frich - Providing for provisional licenses, requiring disclosure of fees prior to closing in a mortgage loan, and changing the mortgage order appeal and hearing schedule to make them consistent with the banking code - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary


2395.By Del. Beach and Stemple - Prohibiting discrimination by a county school superintendent or school board member in the appointment, job placement or advancement of any applicant - To Education then Judiciary


2396.By Del. Williams, Stephens and Paxton - Increasing the salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals - To Education then Finance


2397.By Del. Barker, Hunt, Long, Marshall, Spencer, Talbott and Overington - Establishing an integrated system of care under the Governor's Cabinet on Children and Families for children and families with, or at risk of social, emotional and behavioral health needs - To Government Organization then Finance


2398.By Del. Leach, Michael, Perdue and Susman - Providing for a standard form informational list of universal accessibility features to be provided to a future buyer of any proposed residential housing in the state - To Government Organization


2399.By Del. Amores, Mahan and Spencer - Requiring the governor's cabinet on children and families to create a plan to encourage the establishment of family resource centers - To Government Organization then Finance


2400.By Del. R. Thompson, Swartzmiller, Ennis and Caputo - Creating the "Job Preservation Act of 2004" - To Government Organization


2401.By Del. Caputo and Martin - Increasing the opportunity for a more equitable body for the hearing of grievances made by state and education employees - To Government Organization then Finance


2402.By Del. Susman, Leach and Boggs - Providing for the appointment of a blind person as an ad hoc nonvoting member of the state library commission to serve as an advisor - To Government Organization


2403.By Del. Amores and Spencer - Establishment of family resource centers in needy counties - To Government Organization then Finance


2404.By Del. Leach, Michael, Varner, Anderson and Browning - Relating to the use of federal funds for youth in the custody of the division of juvenile services - To Government Organization then Finance


2405.By Del. Butcher and Caputo - State personal income tax exemption for certain members of volunteer fire departments (FN) - To Finance


2406.By Del. Leach, Michael, Perdue and Susman - Limiting financial assistance from the housing development fund to nonresidential projects - To Finance


2407.By Del. Cann and Kominar - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal (FN) - To Finance


2408.By Del. Webster, Spencer, Palumbo, Hatfield, Amores and Brown - Establishing in the state treasury a targeted minority economic development fund to address economic issues of minorities and minority communities - To Finance


2409.By Del. Amores, Cann, R. M. Thompson and Kominar - Providing tax relief for homeowners and renters under the age of sixty-five (FN) - To Finance


2410.By Del. Pino, Cann and Brown - Exempting certain start-up businesses from various state, county and municipal taxes (FN) - To Finance


2411.By Del. Michael, Campbell, Cann and Doyle - Increasing general revenues of the state by authorizing new fees and increasing existing fees to be charged by the state police - To Finance


2412.By Del. Perdue, Mahan and Boggs - Exempting from personal property taxation, the equipment, inventory and raw materials of crafts people who have had their work evaluated and accepted or juried and accepted by the West Virginia arts and crafts guild (FN) - To Finance


2413.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss) - Administration of tax credits available under the West Virginia Capital Company Act (FN) - To Finance


2414.By Del. Susman - Requiring the department of health and human resources to review the pay equity adjustment it made in 1999 - To Finance


2415.By Del. Tabb, Beach, Crosier, Michael and Armstead - Creating a voluntary checkoff on state income tax returns to donate refunds to family literacy program (FN) - To Finance


2416.By Del. Howard, Craig, Morgan, Sobonya and Leach - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death - To Judiciary


2417.By Del. Amores and Kominar - Relating to compressed gas container safe transport - To Judiciary


2418.By Del. Hamilton, Sobonya, Sumner, Duke, Howard, Wakim and Tansill - Requiring persons appointed to any state board or commission or employed in state government to disclose political contributions for a seven-year period prior to the appointment or employment - To Judiciary


2419.By Del. Hamilton, Hrutkay, Talbott, Romine and Sobonya - Restricting public access to concealed weapons permit records - To Judiciary


2420.By Del. Staton and Mahan - Retitling the "Clerk of the Circuit Court" as the "Clerk of the Courts" - To Judiciary


2421.By Del. Howard and Hamilton - Regulating sexually oriented businesses to promote the morals and general welfare of the citizens of the state - To Judiciary


2422.By Del. Sumner, Frich, Howard and Sobonya - Providing a separate offense when a person causes death or serious bodily injury to an unborn child while attempting to cause death or serious bodily injury to the mother - To Judiciary


2423.By Del. Amores and Brown - Increasing the compensation of family court judges (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance


2424.By Del. Webster, Mahan, Kominar, Stemple and Michael - Prohibiting persons from impersonating a public official by copying or imitating the markings of a public agency or official on a motor vehicle - To Judiciary


2425.By Del. Perry, 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


2426.By Del. Williams, Stemple, Cann and Varner - Notifying persons from out of state who issue worthless checks that a notice of their failure to pay the fine will be sent to the division of motor vehicles - To Judiciary


2427.By Del. Louisos and Sumner - Providing for the election of public service commissioners - To Judiciary


2428.By Del. Spencer, Amores, Beane and Perdue - Providing that magistrate court may be temporarily held in various locations throughout the county - To Judiciary


2429.By Del. Spencer, Palumbo, Webster and Amores - Providing relief from property taxes for property damaged or destroyed in a disaster (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance


2430.By Del. Mahan - Removing the provision of the code that prohibits primary enforcement by police action of the legal requirement to wear a seatbelt - To Judiciary


2431.By Del. Marshall, Houston and Beach - Establishing the offense of setting fires in a public right of way as arson in the fifth degree - To Judiciary


2432.By Del. Walters and Wakim - Relating to the misrepresentation of age and use of false identification to purchase alcoholic liquor, beer or tobacco products - To Judiciary


2433.By Del. Spencer and Amores - Allowing candidates for countywide office the option of filing with the county clerk or the secretary of state - To Judiciary


2434.By Del. Frederick, H. White, R. M. Thompson and Stalnaker - Requiring the secretary of the department of environmental protection to adopt the federal regulations governing surface coal mining activities - To Judiciary


2435.By Del. Frederick, Long and Kominar - Creating the "West Virginia Joint Coal Owners Trust and Conservation Act" - To Judiciary


2436.By Del. Fragale and Iaquinta - Defining "felony offense" to include a plea of guilty to a misdemeanor as the result of bargaining down from a felony charge - To Judiciary


2437.By Del. Hrutkay, Martin and H. White - Prohibiting the reclassification of Class II real property for a period of two years if the estate has not been settled - To Judiciary then Finance


2438.By Del. Tabb, Doyle and Stemple - Requiring preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver - To Judiciary


2439.By Del. Staton and Amores - Clarifying that the public service commission may permit rates to become effective prior to the end of a suspension period - To Judiciary


2440.By Del. Howard, Hamilton, Crosier and Craig - Authorizing home incarceration supervisors to arrest persons who obstruct them in the performance of their duties - To Judiciary


2441.By Del. Beach, Perry and Stemple - Increasing the fines for trespass to structures, conveyances and all other tangible properties - To Judiciary


2442.By Del. Amores, Doyle and Brown - Including sexual orientation and disability as a bias-based crime civil rights violation for purposes of criminal responsibility - To Judiciary


2443.By Del. Staton, Amores, Campbell, Mahan and G. White - Relating to the request for an applicant's e-mail address on application for voter registration - To Judiciary


2444.By Del. Palumbo, Pethtel, Stemple, Craig and Amores - Mandatory participation in the motor vehicle alcohol test and lock program for repeat offenders - To Judiciary


2445.By Del. Sumner, Sobonya, Wakim, Frich, Schoen and Ellem - Relating generally to the comprehensive reform of the state's tax laws (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance


2446.By Del. Staton, Amores, Campbell, Mahan and G. White - Relating to checks on consumer deposit accounts show date account was opened - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary


2447.By Del. Staton, Amores, Campbell, Mahan and G. White - Providing additional tests for newborn children - To Health and Human Resources then Finance


2448.By Del. Staton, Amores, Campbell, Mahan and G. White - Relating to criminal offenses involving the theft of mail matter - To Judiciary