HOUSE OF DELEGATES
BILLS INTRODUCED
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
2151.By Del. Cann, Stalnaker, Pino, Fragale, Kominar, Ennis, Pethtel, Craig, Perry, Beach and
Iaquinta - Relating to parental notification requirements for abortions performed on
unemancipated minors - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2152.By Del. Lane - Eliminating mercury in childhood vaccines - To Health and Human
Resources then Judiciary
2153.By Del. Lane - Relating to public school campus police officers (FN) - To Education then
Finance
2154.By Del. Pino - Creating the "Supplement to West Virginia Veterans Education Benefits
Program Fund" - To Government Organization then Finance
2155.By Del. Pino - Authorizing county commissions to create a special fund for the purposes of
posting bond for certain individuals - To Political Subdivisions then Finance
2156.By Del. Pino - Equalizing the number and alternating the selection of juror strikes in a felony
trial - To Judiciary
2157.By Del. Talbott - Prohibiting discrimination in rates by insurance companies because of
having filed claims under the uninsured and under insured coverage of an automobile policy
- To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2158.By Del. Pino - Providing a base starting pay and retention salary increases for Division of
Protective Services law-enforcement officers, excluding the Director and Deputy Director
(FN) - To Finance
2159.By Del. Overington, Stemple, Long, Pino and Armstead - Encouraging state and local
government entities to display the national motto, "In God We Trust" - To Judiciary
2160.By Del. Overington and Sumner - Requiring a public hearing and county commission
approval prior to the issuance of an initial or transfer license for a private club - To Judiciary
2161.By Del. Azinger and Evans - Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene
materials - To Finance
2162.By Del. Marshall and Long - Assigning benefits directly to providers based on the patients assignment of benefit form - To Government Organization
2163.By Del. Barker and White - Increasing the required minimum liability insurance required on
a motor vehicle - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2164.By Del. Argento and Stemple - Relating to requiring lien holders to notify the sheriff's office
via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days
after the lien has been satisfied - To Judiciary
2165.By Del. Barker and Argento - Permitting employee organizations to obtain state employees'
home addresses in certain circumstances - To Judiciary
2166.By Del. Overington, Rowan, Evans and Blair - Justifying the use of deadly force by a
pregnant woman when she reasonably believes that her unborn child's life is threatened - To
Judiciary
2167.By Del. Eldridge, Marshall, Miley, Caputo and Perdue - Prohibiting the use of a person's
credit history in insurance transactions - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2168.By Del. Eldridge, Marshall, Miley and Caputo - Relating to credit card solicitation on college
campuses - To Judiciary
2169.By Del. Morgan and Craig - Creating sales and use tax exemptions for purchases of design
and engineering services and materials and equipment directly used in construction of new
or replacement amusement rides (FN) - To Finance
2170.By Del. Longstreth, Poling, M., Caputo and Martin - Providing that alleged victims of
domestic violence or abuse have the right to have a person of their choosing present when
they are interviewed by law-enforcement officers or the prosecuting attorney - To Judiciary
2171.By Del. Boggs - Creating the criminal offense of harassment of a participant of a
neighborhood crime watch - To Judiciary
2172.By Del. Morgan and Caputo - Providing that candidates for statewide political office
belonging to the party with the most registered voters in the state be placed in a preeminent
position on the election ballot - To Judiciary
2173.By Del. Eldridge, Barker, Hrutkay and Pino - Multiple Prescriptions Abuse Prevention Act
- To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2174.By Del. Boggs and Campbell - Creating the joint commission on technology and advanced
communications - To Government Organization then Finance
2175.By Del. Marshall, Eldridge, Miley, Caputo and Brown - Relating to the unauthorized
acquisition of data that compromises the security, confidentiality, or integrity of personal
information maintained by the data collector - To Judiciary
2176.By Del. Ellem, Hamilton and Proudfoot - Authorizing law-enforcement officials to deputize
law-enforcement personnel employed by out-of-state jurisdictions (FN) - To Judiciary
2177.By Del. Carmichael, Armstead, Long, Tansill, Walters and Schoen - Providing a tax credit
to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record
technology (FN) - To Finance
2178.By Del. Brown, Hatfield, Long, Poling, M. and Mahan - Providing criminal penalties for
persons convicted of human trafficking and involuntary servitude offenses - To Judiciary
2179.By Del. Argento, Stemple, Martin, Talbott and Fragale - Including persons who participate
in or who contribute to taking a person's identity with fraudulent intent - To Judiciary
2180.By Del. Barker and Hrutkay - Requiring that of the two judges allotted for the twenty-fifth
circuit, one must be a resident of Boone County and one a resident of Lincoln County - To
Judiciary
2181.By Del. Boggs and Hamilton - Requiring that annual reports be recorded on CD-Rom for
distribution - To Government Organization
2182.By Del. Brown, Spencer, Marshall and Longstreth - Providing that rehabilitation counselors
employed by the Division of Rehabilitative Services shall be paid at an equivalent rate to
public school counselors (FN) - To Education then Finance
2183.By Del. Wysong, Tabb, Stemple, Hrutkay, Eldridge, Williams, Poling, M., Perry and Beach
- Relating to authorizing reciprocity weapons licensing for nonresidents - To Judiciary
2184.By Del. Schoen and Martin - Prohibiting solid waste authorities from duplicating or
competing with private recycling businesses - To Judiciary
2185.By Del. Iaquinta and Hrutkay - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic
mail messages which are unsolicited - To Judiciary
2186.By Del. Caputo and Tucker - Providing that personnel carriers used to transport miners must
be maintained at the working section - To Judiciary
2187.By Del. Frederick, Stalnaker, Walters and Rowan - Allowing HEAPS funds to be used for
the costs of taking a GED exam - To Education then Finance
2188.By Del. Hamilton, Duke and Sumner - Providing for the continuance of medical coverage
for the spouse of a deceased retired public employee for any period previously purchased
with accumulated leave - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2189.By Del. Caputo, Paxton, Perry, Fragale and Poling, M. - Relating to substitute service
personnel seniority - To Education then Finance
2190.By Del. Fragale and Martin - Providing that applications for farm use valuation must be filed
with the county assessor between dates specified - To Judiciary then Finance
2191.By Del. Pino and Cann - Exempting certain start-up businesses founded by West Virginia
college or university graduates from various state, county and municipal taxes (FN) - To
Finance
2192.By Del. Swartzmiller, Stemple and Craig - Authorizing jailors and correctional officers to
carry firearms while performing their duties - To Judiciary
2193.By Del. Wysong, Tabb, Doyle, Marshall, Moore and Longstreth - Increasing the penalties for
child abuse - To Judiciary
2194.By Del. Yost and Tucker - Authorizing issuance of warrants to extract blood analysis of
persons charged with driving under the influence - To Judiciary
2195.By Del. Fragale, Iaquinta, Eldridge, Stalnaker and Miley - Requiring that the State School
Board ensure that no class size for grades seven through twelve be greater than twenty-five
students to every one teacher - To Education then Finance
2196.By Del. Stemple, White, Doyle and Paxton - Providing that United States flags fly at
half-mast for three days whenever a state resident soldier is killed by hostile fire or when an
in-state law-enforcement officer is killed in the line of duty - To Veterans Affairs and
Homeland Security then Judiciary
2197.By Del. Schoen and Martin - Creating new felony offenses of malicious wounding with the
use of a firearm and unlawful wounding with the use of a firearm of a law enforcement
officer and providing for mandatory jail sentences - To Judiciary
2198.By Del. Perry, Campbell, Argento, Boggs, Williams, Mahan, Sumner and Browning -
Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over
the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project (FN) - To Finance
2199.By Del. Varner, Williams, Mahan, Craig, Boggs, Proudfoot, Perdue and Barker - Allowing
a nonresident, licensed to carry concealed weapons in another state, to carry a concealed
weapon in this state without a reciprocal agreement between the nonresident's state and this state - To Judiciary
2200.By Del. Campbell and Canterbury - Clarifying the penalty provisions regarding battery on
a police officer - To Judiciary
2201.By Del. Perry and Stemple - 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
2202.By Del. Perry, Wells, Hrutkay and Tabb - Relating to granting campus police officers law
enforcement powers at private institutions of higher education in this state - To Education
then Judiciary
2203.By Del. Perry and Stemple - Altering the criminal penalties for driving while license is
suspended or revoked - To Judiciary
2204.By Del. Perry, Stemple and Cann - Providing that retiring municipal police officers may keep
their service revolver (FN) - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary
2205.By Del. Iaquinta, Miley, White, Campbell and Evans - Relating to the denial of course credits
for unexcused absences in school - To Education
2206.By Del. Talbott, Stemple, Eldridge, Hamilton, Poling, M. and Argento - Prohibiting a person
not the owner of a dog from removing tags, collars or apparel from a dog without the
permission of the owner - To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary
2207.By Del. Cann - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use
of West Virginia coal (FN) - To Finance
2208.By Del. Frederick - Relating generally to mine inspectors - To Industry and Labor, Economic
Development and Small Business then Judiciary
2209.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
2210.By Del. Porter - Prohibiting employees of higher education from assisting students in
securing abortions (FN) - To Judiciary
2211.By Del. Pino - Increasing supplemental benefits to certain teacher retirement annuitants (FN)
- To Education then Finance
2212.By Del. Frederick and Stalnaker - Requiring the secretary of the department of environmental
protection to adopt the federal regulations governing surface coal mining activities - To Judiciary
2213.By Del. Cann - Relating to assessments of real property (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
2214.By Del. Caputo and Longstreth - Providing that a legally unlicensed personal care home may
house up to four unrelated residents if there is at least one full-time employee working at the
home - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2215.By Del. Frederick, Stalnaker, Walters, Rowan and Cann - Creating incentives for
encouraging West Virginia workers to obtain the GED (FN) - To Education then Finance
2216.By Del. Craig and Morgan - Expanding the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and
Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties; and increasing the
number of members - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary
2217.By Del. Hrutkay and Martin - Prohibiting the reclassification of Class II real property for a
period of two years if the estate has not been settled (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
2218.By Del. Talbott, Perdue and Perry - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as
to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise - To Judiciary
2219.By Del. Blair and Sumner - Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one
parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor - To
Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2220.By Del. DeLong, Tucker, Hrutkay, Barker, Caputo, Marshall, Fragale, Eldridge, Miley and
Moore - Raising the "years of service" supplemental salary increase for public employees
(FN) - To Finance
2221.By Del. Kominar - Providing for a pilot project intended to divert low-income residents from
early institutionalization (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2222.By Del. Caputo, Tucker, Mahan, Boggs, Longstreth, Fragale, Barker and Hrutkay -
Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that
represents the interest of labor - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small
Business then Government Organization
2223.By Del. Hamilton, Hrutkay, Talbott and Romine - Restricting public access to concealed
weapons permit records - To Judiciary
2224.By Del. Wysong, Tabb, Williams, Overington, Duke, Doyle, Caputo and Blair - Increasing
the minimum annual disability benefits amount for a state police officer injured in
performance of his or her duties (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2225.By Del. Swartzmiller - Allowing counties to increase the occupancy tax on hotel use and stay
to six percent of consideration - To Political Subdivisions then Finance
2226.By Del. Perry, Campbell, Beach, Duke, Tansill and Williams - Authorizing county boards
of education to lease school buses for transportation associated with fairs, festivals and other
educational and cultural events (FN) - To Education then Finance
2227.By Del. Hrutkay, Poling, M., Eldridge, Proudfoot, Hamilton, Boggs, Browning and Talbott
- Creating a criminal offense for picketing or disrupting funerals or memorial services - To
Judiciary
2228.By Del. Lane, Walters, Armstead, Sumner and Porter - Prohibiting subsidies to entities that
perform abortions - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2229.By Del. Craig and Morgan - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired
under the teachers retirement system (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2230.By Del. Caputo, Tucker and Martin - Providing an employee the right to decline to work
more than forty hours in a workweek - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and
Small Business then Judiciary
2231.By Del. Caputo and Argento - Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay
for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises - To Health and Human
Resources then Finance
2232.By Del. Frederick, Stalnaker, Walters and Rowan - Creating the West Virginia Literacy
Council - To Government Organization then Finance
2233.By Del. Browning and Miley - Providing that the foundation allowance for regional
education service agencies is established by the Legislature (FN) - To Education then
Finance
2234.By Del. Hamilton, Hrutkay and Hatfield - Establishing the hospitals infection disclosure act
requiring hospitals to disclose hospital-infection rates for the public - To Health and Human
Resources then Judiciary
2235.By Del. Hamilton, Poling, M., Stalnaker and White - Prohibiting the willful obstruction or
impediment of a funeral or interment service - To Judiciary
2236.By Del. Craig and Morgan - Establishing the western West Virginia Highway Authority to
include representatives from Cabell, Mason, Jackson, Putnam and Wayne counties (FN) - To
Government Organization then Finance
2237.By Del. Hrutkay, Mahan and Ellem - Relating to the use of checks, bank account debit
authorizations, or share drafts as security for loans or cash advances - To Banking and
Insurance then Judiciary
2238.By Del. Hrutkay and Iaquinta - 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
2239.By Del. Frederick and Carmichael - Requiring the Attorney General to comply with certain
requirements when entering into contracts for legal services - To Finance
2240.By Del. Frederick and Long - Providing that the reduction in the tax rate provided in this
section applies to mines operating before the effective date of the applicable provision (FN)
- To Finance
2241.By Del. Perry, Pino and Beach - Providing Good Friday as a state legal holiday - To
Government Organization then Finance
2242.By Del. Perry, Beach and Pino - Limiting the eligibility of parole if the person has violated
the terms and conditions of probation or home incarceration - To Judiciary
2243.By Del. Perry, Williams, Cann and Poling, M. - Allowing comparable credit at trade or
vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
- To Education then Finance
2244.By Del. Perdue, Brown, Doyle, Palumbo, Ellem, Long, Eldridge and Marshall - Promoting
and facilitating the breastfeeding of infants - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2245.By Del. Porter, Sumner and Lane - Requiring the Department of Health and Human
Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to
the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors (FN) - To
Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2246.By Del. Border - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State
Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments (FN) - To Finance
2247.By Del. Azinger - Relating to minimum grab bar standards for hotel and motel rooms that
are specifically designated or intended for use by handicapped or disabled guests - To
Judiciary
2248.By Del. Brown, Long, Palumbo, Ellem and Doyle - Relating to a child's right to nurse - To
Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2249.By Del. Brown and Hatfield - Making it a misdemeanor to fail to provide a woman with
information regarding all available reproductive alternatives - To Judiciary
2250.By Del. Perry, Proudfoot, Varner, Hrutkay and Longstreth - Providing retention salary
increases for Division of Corrections and the Division of Juvenile Services employees (FN)
- To Finance
2251.By Del. Campbell - Establishing certain requirements regarding direct shipment, delivery and
receipt of alcoholic beverages - To Judiciary
2252.By Del. Caputo and Longstreth - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed
limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction - To Roads and
Transportation then Education
2253.By Del. Caputo, Perdue, Tucker and Stalnaker - Providing certain correctional officers be
transferred into the civil service system as covered employees - To Judiciary then Finance
2254.By Del. Lane, Overington, Walters, Blair, Sumner, Armstead and Carmichael - Requiring
the Joint Committee on Government and Finance approve any proposed settlement involving
the Office of the Attorney General - To Judiciary then Finance
2255.By Del. Martin, Argento, Tucker, Blair and Rowan - Requiring bids under state contract to
disclose the location of work to be performed or risk state termination of the contract - To
Government Organization
2256.By Del. Perry, Argento, Long and Canterbury - Giving reserve deputy sheriffs the authority
to carry firearms and to arrest, if properly certified - To Judiciary
2257.By Del. Schoen and Martin - Adding a magistrate to those serving Putnam County - To
Judiciary then Finance
2258.By Del. Frederick, Porter and Long - Prohibiting the Division of Natural Resources from
approving or rejecting any certification issued under the provisions of 33 U. S. C. section
1344 - To Judiciary
2259.By Del. Frederick, Stalnaker, Walters, Rowan and Cann - Creating the Self-Employment
Assistance Act - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then
Finance
2260.By Del. Frederick and Long - Creating the "West Virginia Joint Coal Owners Trust and
Conservation Act" - To Judiciary
2261.By Del. DeLong - Relating to the requirements and certifications to be held by graduates of foreign veterinary colleges as a condition of application - To Government Organization
2262.By Del. DeLong - Relating to qualifications of the Commissioner of Agriculture - To
Government Organization
2263.By Del. Brown, Caputo, Marshall, Rowan and Mahan - Ensuring clean credit information
and identity theft protection (FN) - To Judiciary
2264.By Del. Stemple, Stalnaker, Mahan, Varner, Hrutkay, Cann, Williams, Perry and Browning
- Relating to the justifiable use of force, including deadly force, in the protection of persons
and property - To Judiciary
2265.By Del. Perry, Beach, Long, Williams, Sumner, Paxton, Campbell and Duke - Extending the
expiration date of provisions permitting retired teachers to accept employment as substitutes
in areas of critical need and shortage for an unlimited number of days without affecting
retirement benefits (FN) - To Education then Finance