SENATE CALENDAR

Friday, March 13, 2026

10:00 AM

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

S. R. 63 - Designating March 13, 2026, as Veterans Visibility Day

S. R. 64 - Opposing China’s Misuse of UN Resolution 2758

THIRD READING

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4007 - Relating to industrial access roads - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4010 - Providing a statutory program for loaning financial assistance to local airports for airplane hangar construction in this state

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4012 - Relating to reducing the regulatory burden on utility companies when constructing and maintaining electric power generation and transmission facilities within this state - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4025 - Exempting certain employees from the classified civil service system  - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4087 - To create a West Virginia-Ireland Education Alliance.

Eng. H. B. 4106 - Allowing constitutional carry for 18- to 20-year-olds - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4176 - To allow youth and handicapped hunters to harvest a buck deer or doe during youth/handicapped special hunts

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4191 - Relating to providing child care generally

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4198 - E-Verify Safe Harbor Act - (Com. amend. pending) - (With right to amend)  (original similar to SB462)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4245 - Authorizing Certain Agencies of the Department of Revenue to Promulgate Legislative Rules - (Com. amend. pending) - (With right to amend)  (original similar to SB292)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4345 - Relating to the preservation of missing persons records and evidence

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4418 - Creating “The Tax Efficiency Act of 2026”

Eng. H. B. 4425 - To repeal the provision allowing for students to transfer from one school to another without losing eligibility.

Eng. H. B. 4452 - To remove Mortmain restrictions on religious organizations - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4577 - Relating to driver’s licenses - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for H. B. 4588 - Relating to participating in the federal tax credit scholarship program (original similar to SB644)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4592 - Relating to college campus safety

Eng. H. B. 4602 - Relating to requiring the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot program to contract for supplemental caseworker aide services for the Bureau for Social Services - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4603 - Relating to the creation of the process of obtaining and adjudicating a pre-adjudicatory alternative disposition

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4606 - Relating to the meaning of residence for the purpose of bail

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4710 - Changing the limit on switching parties before filing to run for office from 60 days to 180 days prior to an election.

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4712 - Increasing the criminal penalties for DUI causing death to be known as “Baylea’s Law.” - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. H. B. 4765 - Teacher, School Personnel, and State Police Pay Raise - (Com. amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4865 - Providing for a program allowing election official trainees to be appointed as election officials - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4869 - Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia.

Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for H. B. 4995 - Require the use of video cameras in certain special education classrooms - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4996 - Relating to bail in cases involving terroristic threats to schools or children - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. H. B. 5048 - To ensure virtual instruction for foster students while in temporary placement facilities.

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5065 - Relating to hotel occupancy tax. - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5074 - Relating to changing the allocation of proceeds in the Medical Cannabis Program Fund.

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5101 - The Joanna Phillips Domestic Violence Prevention Act

Eng. H. B. 5166 - To provide notice to any political committees violating the filing requirements prior to assessing any civil fines and giving the Secretary of State authority to grant additional time for compliance not to exceed an additional 14 days. - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5168 - To increase funding for EMS first responders.

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5182 - Relating generally to authorizing security personnel employed by the State Treasurer to carry concealed weapons while performing his or her official duties

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5212 - Relating to financial aid for post-secondary education.

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5214 - Relating to drug testing of parents who have had abuse and/or neglect claims substantiated against them prior to reunification. - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5353 - To bring virtual currency kiosks within the purview of money transmission licensure and create disclosure requirements and daily transaction limitations for new and existing customers.

Eng. H. B. 5366 - Relating to rules governing the practice of law - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5401 - Relating to voting in West Virginia elections while residing overseas - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5438 - To modify the foundation allowance to improve instructional programs.

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5441 - Reforming State Personnel System - (Com. amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5462 - Relating to Mine Subsidence

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5484 - Creating the crime of conspiracy to deny medical treatment to victim of sexual offense - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5515 - Relating to modernizing and updating workers’ compensation statutes. - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5527 - Relating to Wellness Reimbursement Programs

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5528 - Relating to protection of personal residential information of certain public officials.  - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5537 - Repealing obsolete and outdated sections of the Education code. - (Com. amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 5582 - Extending program for drug screening of applicants for TANF - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. H. B. 5687 - Relating to reducing the tax rate imposed on the gross value of metallurgical coal produced in this state

Eng. H. B. 5689 - Supplemental appropriation, Department of Homeland Security

Eng. H. B. 5690 - Supplemental appropriation, Adjutant General

Eng. H. B. 5691 - Supplemental appropriation, Department of Health

Eng. H. B. 5692 - Supplemental appropriation, State Road Fund

Eng. H. B. 5693 - Supplemental appropriation, Department of Tourism Revenue

Eng. H. J. R. 42 - Homestead exemption - (Com. title amend. pending)

SECOND READING

Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for H. B. 4004 - Creating the Recharge West Virginia Program - (Com. amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4006 - Creating the West Virginia Aerospace and Advanced Manufacturing Growth Act - (Com. amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4009 - Relating to the creation of the Portable Benefit Account Act - (Com. amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for H. B. 5412 - Future Ready Education Act - (Com. amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for H. B. 5453 - To modify the school aid funding formula. - (Com. amend. pending) - (With right to amend)

Eng. H. B. 5510 - Eliminate the requirement for private wedding venues to own or lease 2 acres in rural location. - (Com. amend. pending)