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Abortion (5 Bills)
HB 2031 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2153 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
HB 2172 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2256 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2371 - Relating to abortions performed on unemancipated minors
HB 2440 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions
HB 2458 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2468 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2568 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
HB 2715 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents

Actions and Suits (12 Bills)
HB 2034 - Providing immunity from civil liability hospital volunteers who in good faith render emergency care at a hospital
HB 2088 - Relating to limitations of actions and suits
HB 2091 - False Claims Act
HB 2153 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Acts (14 Bills)
HB 2001 - Repealing portions of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2033 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2042 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
HB 2052 - Relating to the labor-management relations act for the private sector
HB 2091 - False Claims Act
HB 2105 - Creating the Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2106 - Relating to the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2109 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 2110 - Relating generally to the tax treatment of manufacturing entities
HB 2119 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2153 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
HB 2166 - West Virginia Coal Employment Enhancement Act
HB 2195 - Making changes to the definition of electrical contractor
HB 2218 - Creating the Budget Reform Act
HB 2248 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 2430 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act
HB 2445 - Relating generally to the State Administrative Procedures Act
HB 2468 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2508 - Creating the West Virginia Freedom of Conscience Protection Act
HB 2511 - Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act
HB 2517 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act
HB 2531 - Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act
HB 2566 - Coal Jobs and Safety Act of 2015
HB 2568 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
HB 2574 - Amending the Aboveground Storage Tank Act
HB 2593 - Creating the Private Property Protection Act
HB 2600 - Fair Trial Act
HB 2604 - Creating the Second Chance for Employment Act
HB 2613 - West Virginia Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening Act
HB 2615 - West Virginia Small Business Capital Act
HB 2635 - West Virginia Native American Tribes Unique Recognition, Authentication and Listing Act
HB 2636 - Exempting information contained in a concealed weapon permit application from the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2637 - Clarifying that insurance adjusters are not considered insurers for the purposes of the unfair trade practices act
HB 2651 - Creating the "Firearm Protection Act"
HB 2666 - Internet Service Provider Accountability Act
HB 2679 - Good Jobs First Act
HB 2741 - Uncompensated Care Liability Act
HB 2785 - Statewide Interoperable Radio Network Act
HB 2794 - Making changes to the definition of contractor for purposes of the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 2819 - Relating generally to contested cases under the Administrative Procedures Act
HB 2830 - West Virginia Freedom of Conscience Protection Act
HB 2834 - Amending the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
HB 2869 - Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act
HB 2873 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 2874 - Creating the Earned Sick Time Act
HB 2875 - E-mail Privacy Act
HB 2881 - West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act
HB 2885 - The Youth Mental Health Protection Act
HB 2891 - Making the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act more consistent with the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
HB 2897 - Young Entrepreneur Reinvestment Act
HB 2902 - West Virginia ABLE Act
HB 2907 - West Virginia Student Education Incentive Act
HB 2911 - Voluntary Political Contribution Act
HB 2930 - Aged, Blind, Disabled and Long Term Services and Support Managed Care Act
HB 3011 - Relating to the Uniform Controlled Substances Act

Advertising (45 Bills)
HB 2190 - Removing limitations on advertising and promotional activities by limited video lottery retailers

Agriculture (1 Bills)
HB 2033 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2448 - Permitting the sale of raw milk
HB 2449 - Permitting co-owners of cows to receive raw milk from those cows
HB 2467 - Establishing a farmers market vendor permit and its scope and fees
HB 2529 - Requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to develop a pilot program for the cultivation of marijuana to be sold in states where sales are legal
HB 2657 - Allowing members of the Livestock Care Standards Board to be reimbursed for expenses consistent with the West Virginia Department of Agriculture Travel Policy and Procedure
HB 2658 - Relating to the inspection and slaughter of nontraditional agriculture
HB 2714 - Altering the method of determining when the Department of Agriculture must deposit into the General Revenue Fund funds it collects
HB 2767 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Agriculture, State Conservation Committee
HB 2807 - Expanding the list of persons the Commissioner of Agriculture may license to grow or cultivate industrial hemp
HB 2966 - Relating to the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
HB 3007 - Exempting from food related laws or rules for certain individually produced agricultural products

Air Quality (71 Bills)
HB 2141 - Relating to air pollution control

Alcohol (1 Bills)
HB 2069 - Providing for career development and establishing a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and supervisors
HB 2385 - Relating to brewer, resident brewer and brewpub licensing and operations
HB 2466 - Exempting valid nonprofit organizations from licensing requirements of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority during certain events
HB 2479 - Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs
HB 2633 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor
HB 2664 - Creating "Andrea and Willy's Law"; increasing certain penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs
HB 2684 - Creating a one-day special license for charitable events to sell nonintoxicating beer and wine
HB 2756 - Authorizing appointees or employees of the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to carry concealed handguns
HB 2803 - Relating to the sale of alcohol by licensed manufacturers
HB 2804 - Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays by private licensees
HB 2915 - Relating generally to wholesale sales of liquor
HB 2937 - Designating 5 million dollars per year for 4 years from beer, wine, and liquor tax revenue to the Fight Substance Abuse Fund
HB 2944 - Allowing restaurants, retailers, private clubs, mini-distilleries and wineries to sell alcohol at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays
HB 2957 - Relating to sales of liquor by distilleries and mini-distilleries
HB 2958 - Removing the requirement that distillery or mini-distilleries submit to the commissioner ten percent of the gross sales price

Animals (4 Bills)
HB 2033 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2189 - Permitting counties to adopt certain ordinances relating to dogs and cats
HB 2361 - Commissioner of Agriculture, dangerous wild animals
HB 2399 - Exempting all veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component thereof from having to obtain a hunting, trapping fishing license
HB 2420 - Relating to unlawful methods of hunting and fishing
HB 2449 - Permitting co-owners of cows to receive raw milk from those cows
HB 2618 - Creating a State Animal Abuse Registry
HB 2657 - Allowing members of the Livestock Care Standards Board to be reimbursed for expenses consistent with the West Virginia Department of Agriculture Travel Policy and Procedure
HB 2658 - Relating to the inspection and slaughter of nontraditional agriculture
HB 2719 - Increasing the criminal penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture
HB 2751 - Allowing hunting and trapping on private lands throughout the state on Sundays
HB 2783 - Modifying procedures available to persons to address bears causing property damage or destruction
HB 2822 - Prohibiting the training of dogs to be used in hunting bears under certain circumstances
HB 2959 - Allowing the use of rotary drum composters to destroy or dispose of the carcass of any animal to prevent the spread of disease

Appropriations (17 Bills)
HB 2016 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
HB 2220 - Providing a limit on consulting fees
HB 2933 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services

Arbitration (30 Bills)
HB 2589 - Establishing an appeal process for decisions issued by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Board of Review and the Bureau for Medical Services

Athletics (5 Bills)
HB 2058 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2492 - Repealing the requirement that an entity charging admission to view certain closed circuit telecast or subscription television events needs to obtain a permit from the State Athletic Commission
HB 2575 - Relating to approvals of televised racing days and simulcast contracts by Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association
HB 2650 - Creating the West Virginia Greyhound Racing Cessation Program
HB 2746 - Requiring that athletic trainers be licensed, instead of registered, by West Virginia Board of Physical Therapy
HB 2749 - Relating to the secondary schools athletic commission
HB 2905 - Relating to athletic coaches in public schools

Attorney General (24 Bills)
HB 2047 - Continuing the fraud control unit in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

Attorneys (2 Bills)
HB 2147 - Requiring the circuit court , when appointing counsel for alleged protected persons, to make appointments from a listing of all interested and qualified attorneys in the circuit
HB 2263 - Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children
HB 2955 - Increasing the hourly rate for attorneys providing Public Defender Services for in court and out of court work

Audits/Auditing (4 Bills)
HB 2186 - Auditing the Division of Highways

Aviation (2 Bills)
HB 2138 - Adding aircraft operations on private airstrips and farms to the definition of recreational purpose
HB 2182 - Relating to examination of Potomac Highlands Airport Authority accounts by Chief Inspector and Tax Commissioner
HB 2653 - Prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft
HB 2739 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 2740 - Clarifying how members of regional airport authority boards are to be allocated
HB 3014 - Changing the manner members are appointed to the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport Authority

Banks and Banking (8 Bills)
HB 2379 - Simplifying the process by which a bank may adjust the hours of operation for branch offices
HB 2398 - Prohibiting the number of inquiries reflected in a credit report, credit score report or CLUE report from adversely affecting an application for insurance

Boards and Commissions (15 Bills)
HB 2082 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2096 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2103 - Relating generally to boards of examination and registration
HB 2140 - Building governance and leadership capacity of county board during period of state intervention
HB 2156 - Relating to the State Board of Education
HB 2160 - WV Schools for the Deaf and Blind eligible for School Building Authority funding
HB 2202 - Relating to more equitable disbursement of funds to county boards
HB 2217 - Relating to qualifications of the Commissioner of Labor
HB 2227 - Relating to the National Coal Heritage Area Authority
HB 2236 - Abolishing the West Virginia Diesel Equipment Commission
HB 2239 - Creating a logistical advisory committee
HB 2267 - Authorizing a county school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message
HB 2271 - Relating to state control of county schools
HB 2272 - Relating to the authority of the Board of Pharmacy
HB 2370 - Increasing the powers of regional councils for governance of regional education service agencies
HB 2431 - Creating a board for review of officer-involved deaths
HB 2469 - Eliminating unnecessary, inactive, or redundant councils, committees and boards
HB 2489 - Relating to supervision of works by a sanitary board
HB 2492 - Repealing the requirement that an entity charging admission to view certain closed circuit telecast or subscription television events needs to obtain a permit from the State Athletic Commission
HB 2512 - Requiring the consent of the Public Service Commission before an electric utility subject to this chapter may retire or permanently shut-down an electric generating plant
HB 2561 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to contract with private providers or contractors for necessary emergency maintenance operations
HB 2577 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2589 - Establishing an appeal process for decisions issued by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Board of Review and the Bureau for Medical Services
HB 2732 - Relating to the Real Estate Commission and licenses issued by the commission
HB 2738 - Relating to the Women's Commission and placing it in the Department of Commerce
HB 2739 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 2827 - Abolishing the James "Tiger" Morton catastrophic illness fund and commission
HB 2836 - Requiring the clerk of a county commission to maintain a county ordinance book
HB 2849 - Creating the West Virginia Sentencing Commission
HB 2970 - Authorizing county commissions and municipalities to cooperate and enter into agreements removing or demolishing dwellings or buildings unfit for human habitation
HB 2983 - Prohibiting a county parks commission from rule-making authority as it regards firearms

Bonds (21 Bills)
HB 2193 - Providing the Parkways Authority with the power to issue $500 million worth of bonds
HB 2194 - Relating to the School Building Authority

Buildings (4 Bills)
HB 2194 - Relating to the School Building Authority
HB 2488 - Requiring the construction of new public buildings and when an entrance of an existing public building is renovated to be compliant with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act by having automatic doors

Capitol Complex (4 Bills)
HB 2120 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex
HB 2187 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings
HB 2872 - Requiring that three parking spaces in the West Virginia Culture Center parking lot be designated for use by Purple Heart Medal recipients
HB 2916 - Providing limited borrowing authority to the Governor for the completion of renovations to Capitol Complex Building 3

Cemeteries (5 Bills)
HB 2122 - Making it illegal for anyone to photograph a corpse except for certain legitimate purposes

Child Welfare (11 Bills)
HB 2025 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility
HB 2048 - Relating to juvenile proceedings
HB 2173 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2200 - Revising, rearranging, consolidating and recodifying the laws of the State of West Virginia relating to child welfare
HB 2255 - Increasing the felony criminal penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 2257 - Establishing a bill of rights for children in foster care
HB 2258 - "Parents' Bill of Rights"
HB 2263 - Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children
HB 2264 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents
HB 2366 - Relating generally to the solicitation of minors
HB 2368 - Relating to child welfare
HB 2403 - Relating to qualifying children of state employees, receiving income of $25,000 per year or less, for the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program
HB 2429 - Requiring a convicted sex offender who volunteers for an organization whose volunteers have contact with minors to inform that organization of his or her conviction
HB 2436 - Increasing the number of child protective service workers
HB 2455 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2460 - Relating to the effect of adoption on grandparent visitation rights
HB 2501 - Prohibiting sexual offenders from residing within one thousand feet of a school or childcare facility
HB 2502 - Possessing deadly weapons on school buses or on the premises of educational facilities
HB 2527 - Creating a Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children; "Erin Merryn's Law"
HB 2550 - Increasing the number of unexcused absences of a student before action may be taken against the parent
HB 2556 - Providing medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 2715 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents
HB 2742 - Recalculating child support obligations
HB 2748 - Relating to living arrangements for children in foster care and living arrangements for children sixteen years or older
HB 2828 - Modifying the requirements that allow a child witness to testify by closed circuit television
HB 2842 - Establishing a four year pilot program to have social workers in public schools, from prekindergarten through the elementary school
HB 2974 - Creating Office of Early Childhood Collaboration
HB 2989 - Requiring each judicial circuit to have a court-appointed special advocate program and each county to have a special advocate for children in abuse and neglect proceedings

Citizenship (1 Bills)
HB 2056 - Making clear that the Pledge of Allegiance said each instructional day in West Virginia public schools shall include the phrase "one nation under God."

Civil Rights (10 Bills)
HB 2534 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation
HB 2653 - Prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft
HB 2689 - Repealing the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products
HB 2696 - Relating to investigations of discrimination by the Human Rights Commission
HB 2896 - Prohibiting discrimination in the appointment, promotion, demotion or dismissal based upon sexual orientation
HB 2956 - Preserving the rights of individuals guaranteed by the West Virginia Constitution and the United States Constitution when deciding the comity of a legal decision in a foreign country

Civil Service (1 Bills)
HB 2061 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees

Code Repealed (1 Bills)
HB 2001 - Repealing portions of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2106 - Relating to the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2180 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances

Commerce (5 Bills)
HB 2102 - Prohibiting the sale of United States flags or West Virginia flags unless manufactured in the United States
HB 2104 - Terminating the Tax Commissioner's authority to issue business licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2105 - Creating the Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2269 - Requiring rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal laws
HB 2539 - Increasing by seven the number of participants in the Home Rule Pilot Program
HB 2592 - Improving accountability in the state purchasing system
HB 2768 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce
HB 2852 - Relating to legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks
HB 2853 - Relating to disclaimers of warranties with respect to goods which are the subject of or are intended to become the subject of a consumer transaction
HB 2881 - West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act

Consumer Protection (1 Bills)
HB 2063 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2232 - Relating to consumer credit and protection
HB 2395 - Storm Scammer Consumer Protection Act
HB 2551 - Prohibiting internet service providers from advertising or offering to provide high speed internet service that is not at least ten megabytes per second
HB 2552 - Permitting utility consumers to use the consumer protection laws when concerning billing issues are in question
HB 2660 - Relating to health insurance exchange navigators and nonnavigator assisters
HB 2661 - Providing for the protection and privacy of persons seeking health insurance assisted by navigators and nonnavigator assisters under the federal Affordable Care Act
HB 2662 - Eye Care Consumer Protection Law
HB 2710 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish rates which ensure that the future customers to be served by the new project are solely responsible only for the debt costs associated for that specific project
HB 2854 - Relating to protection of consumers from price gouging and unfair trade practices

Contracts (7 Bills)
HB 2011 - Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer
HB 2027 - Requiring circuit courts to review foreign court judgments for jurisdiction before such orders may be enforced
HB 2028 - Relating generally to purchasing
HB 2041 - Establishing requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals
HB 2054 - Relating to the right of the landlord of commercial premises to terminate the lease under certain circumstances
HB 2199 - Relating to the surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies
HB 2223 - Including consumer credit sales that are secured by a mortgage, deed of trust or other equivalent consensual security interest on a dwelling or residential real estate in the definitions of "primary mortgage loan" and "subordinate mortgage loan"
HB 2234 - Requiring a court to permit a party in a divorce proceeding to resume using the name he or she used prior to the marriage
HB 2237 - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts
HB 2241 - Relating to licenses for the business of currency exchange, transportation or transmission
HB 2430 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act
HB 2561 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to contract with private providers or contractors for necessary emergency maintenance operations
HB 2579 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2697 - Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract
HB 2745 - Requiring an exempt spending unit to obtain authorization from the director of purchasing before entering into a contract for an amount equal to or exceeding ninety percent of the value of the largest contract
HB 2860 - Relating to copayments required in certain policies, provisions, contracts, plans or agreements to provide health care benefits

Corporations and Business Entities (1 Bills)
HB 2050 - Relating generally to the accountability of a corporation's political activities
HB 2086 - Relating to the accountability of a corporation's political activities
HB 2090 - Relating to the accountability of a corporation's political activities
HB 2182 - Relating to examination of Potomac Highlands Airport Authority accounts by Chief Inspector and Tax Commissioner
HB 2444 - Providing for the assignment of economic development office representatives to serve as Small Business Allies as facilitators to assist small business entities and individuals
HB 2490 - Establishing a tax credit for new businesses that locate in the state
HB 2587 - Creating tax credits for new small businesses created in this state and operating entirely within West Virginia

Corrections (15 Bills)
HB 2137 - Changing the way counties pay for regional jail inmates
HB 2191 - Work/Incarceration Prison pilot program
HB 2245 - Relating to salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2254 - Allowing the Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish a work program
HB 2274 - Authorizing the Commissioner of Corrections to enter into mutual aid agreements
HB 2375 - Providing civil service status for certain employees of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 2396 - Changing the way that the costs of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2406 - Changing the way the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2456 - Changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2473 - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jail fees
HB 2482 - Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to state hospitals
HB 2731 - Increasing salaries and creating longevity pay increases for all employees of the Division of Corrections, the Regional Jail Authority and the Division of Juvenile Services
HB 2759 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, West Virginia Division of Corrections, and to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, West Virginia State Police
HB 2805 - Transferring to an adult correctional facility any juvenile whose sentence runs beyond his or her eighteenth birthday
HB 2869 - Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act
HB 2928 - Allowing inmates to perform the community service of providing upkeep to cemeteries
HB 2964 - Allowing e-mails and other types of electronic communications to and from regional jail inmates be monitored, intercepted, recorded and disclosed

Counties (66 Bills)
HB 2603 - Allowing certain county or regional solid waste authorities in growth areas to designate common carriers of solid waste exempt from the requirement for a certificate of convenience
HB 2683 - Adding an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Lewis County
HB 2711 - Providing for a scratch-off game to fund a drug treatment facility on post-mine land in Mingo and Logan Counties
HB 2801 - Permitting county commissions and municipalities to designate areas of special interest which will not affect the use of property in those areas
HB 2847 - Permitting sheriffs to hire outside attorneys to assist with collection of taxes
HB 2865 - Providing county commissioners an ongoing mechanism to consider compensation increases for elected officials every two years
HB 2895 - Requiring the assessor of each county, within three months of a deed filing in the county clerk's office of each county, to prepare a new property tax ticket
HB 2904 - Requiring the clerk of a county commission to maintain a county ordinance book
HB 2906 - Relating to county budget stabilization funds
HB 2969 - Requiring that a county itemize and publish all activity related to budget stabilization funds

Counties (And Related Subheadings) (12 Bills)
HB 2577 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education

Counties -- Law Enforcement (7 Bills)
HB 2189 - Permitting counties to adopt certain ordinances relating to dogs and cats

Courts (2 Bills)
HB 2369 - Creating an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County
HB 2380 - Requiring the issuance of a search warrant before a driver of a motor vehicle can be made to submit to a secondary blood test
HB 2411 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to prosecute election violations
HB 2461 - Relating to delinquency proceedings of insurers
HB 2494 - Creating a provisional plea process in criminal cases
HB 2584 - Allowing a judge to excuse a potential juror from jury duty until a later date based on seasonal employment
HB 2600 - Fair Trial Act
HB 2683 - Adding an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Lewis County
HB 2703 - Permitting in absentia parole hearings in certain instances
HB 2721 - Specifying who receives notice of parole hearings via regular or certified mail
HB 2781 - Allowing a medical power of attorney representative or surrogate to waive the incapacitated person's right to a trial by jury
HB 2782 - Adjusting the judicial circuits of West Virginia
HB 2795 - Providing that when a party's health condition is at issue in a civil action, medical records and releases for medical information may be requested and required without court order
HB 2828 - Modifying the requirements that allow a child witness to testify by closed circuit television
HB 2833 - Establishing the Court Advanced Technology Subscription Fund
HB 2858 - Creating a public campaign financing program for circuit judges elections
HB 2862 - Adding additional magistrate court deputy clerks
HB 2882 - Increasing the number of magistrates in Monongalia County by one
HB 2898 - Requiring each judicial circuit to have a court appointed special advocate program
HB 2938 - Requiring the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to maintain a searchable, criminal database containing copies of all arrests and convictions by all the courts in the state
HB 2955 - Increasing the hourly rate for attorneys providing Public Defender Services for in court and out of court work
HB 2989 - Requiring each judicial circuit to have a court-appointed special advocate program and each county to have a special advocate for children in abuse and neglect proceedings
HB 2994 - Prohibiting courts from using, implementing, referring to or incorporating a tenet of any body of religious sectarian law into any decision

Courts -- Circuit (4 Bills)
HB 2038 - Relating to excuses from jury service
HB 2418 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to reimburse the circuit clerk of the county where involuntary commitment hearings are held for certain expenses
HB 2533 - Authorizing an additional circuit court judge for the twenty-third judicial circuit

Courts -- Magistrate (11 Bills)
HB 2036 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked
HB 2134 - Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2265 - Increasing the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county

Courts -- Supreme Court (3 Bills)
HB 2048 - Relating to juvenile proceedings
HB 2108 - Adding one family court judge to the twenty-third family court circuit

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (12 Bills)
HB 2038 - Relating to excuses from jury service
HB 2108 - Adding one family court judge to the twenty-third family court circuit
HB 2134 - Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2197 - Removing the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case coordinators
HB 2416 - Relating to competency and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of a crime
HB 2480 - Changing the number of strikes in jury selection in felony cases
HB 2481 - Providing forensic evaluators with civil immunity for acts committed by the subject of the evaluation

Creditors and Debtors (18 Bills)
HB 2051 - Limiting the use of credit information in connection with the declination and termination of property insurance
HB 2063 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings

Crimes (16 Bills)
HB 2081 - Including journalists as a protected profession within the definition of crimes of violence against certain categories of workers
HB 2130 - Including law-enforcement officers among those professionals the assault or battery of which leads to enhanced criminal penalties
HB 2240 - Providing that an act of domestic violence or sexual offense by strangling is an aggravated felony offense
HB 2251 - Making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace
HB 2252 - Relating to replacing the present crime of burglary with the crime of home invasion
HB 2255 - Increasing the felony criminal penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 2366 - Relating generally to the solicitation of minors
HB 2402 - Creating a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated
HB 2411 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to prosecute election violations
HB 2427 - Increasing penalties for destruction or theft of election campaign advertising
HB 2554 - Relating to protection of utility workers from crimes against the person
HB 2605 - Removing the limitation on actions against the perpetrator of sexual assault or sexual abuse upon a minor
HB 2606 - Clarifying the potential sentence for disorderly conduct
HB 2607 - Relating to the violation of interfering with emergency services communications and clarifying penalties
HB 2608 - Cleaning up redundant language in the statute relating to misdemeanor offenses for violation of protective orders
HB 2627 - Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, utilities and other industrial facilities
HB 2664 - Creating "Andrea and Willy's Law"; increasing certain penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs
HB 2719 - Increasing the criminal penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture
HB 2779 - Creating the crime of trademark counterfeiting
HB 2868 - Making it a felony to knowingly housing drug traffickers
HB 2939 - Relating to requirements for mandatory reporting of sexual offenses on school premises involving students
HB 2942 - Modifying the definition of child abuse or neglect to exclude accidental injury
HB 2963 - Expanding the definition of kidnaping
HB 2965 - Providing that a person using an object that reasonably appears to be a firearm or other deadly weapon, during a robbery or attempted robbery is guilty of robbery in the first degree
HB 3009 - Removing criminal penalties applicable to midwives
HB 3016 - Creating a meth offender registry

Crimes -- Alcohol and Drugs (4 Bills)
HB 2136 - Increasing criminal penalties for the transportation of controlled substances
HB 2611 - Relating to controlling methamphetamine

Crimes -- Felonies (7 Bills)
HB 2060 - Creating a crime for theft of a traffic sign or traffic signal
HB 2480 - Changing the number of strikes in jury selection in felony cases
HB 2855 - Relating to the death penalty for first degree murder

Crimes -- Juveniles (53 Bills)
HB 2428 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission
HB 2805 - Transferring to an adult correctional facility any juvenile whose sentence runs beyond his or her eighteenth birthday

Crimes -- Sexual Offenses (1 Bills)
HB 2205 - Creating the crime of prohibited sexual contact by a psychotherapist
HB 2428 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission
HB 2429 - Requiring a convicted sex offender who volunteers for an organization whose volunteers have contact with minors to inform that organization of his or her conviction
HB 2484 - Clarifying the statutory restrictions placed on sex offenders

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (10 Bills)
HB 2060 - Creating a crime for theft of a traffic sign or traffic signal
HB 2122 - Making it illegal for anyone to photograph a corpse except for certain legitimate purposes
HB 2275 - Increasing criminal penalties for littering
HB 2416 - Relating to competency and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of a crime
HB 2439 - Creating enhanced criminal penalties for assaults or batteries against pregnant women
HB 2482 - Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to state hospitals

Culture and History (3 Bills)
HB 2224 - Providing that historical reenactors are not violating the provision prohibiting unlawful military organizations

Disabilities (16 Bills)
HB 2011 - Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer
HB 2024 - Requiring preplanning, preparing and provisioning of public facilities for use as shelters for elderly and disabled during emergency situations
HB 2039 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2073 - Requiring retail establishments offering gasoline or other motor fuel to provide refueling assistance and refueling access to persons with a disability
HB 2160 - WV Schools for the Deaf and Blind eligible for School Building Authority funding
HB 2434 - Requiring any employer to retain a job for any veteran with a service-connected disability
HB 2463 - Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2464 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2472 - Issuing a special registration plate for persons who are residents of this state and who have a family member diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
HB 2488 - Requiring the construction of new public buildings and when an entrance of an existing public building is renovated to be compliant with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act by having automatic doors
HB 2506 - Relating to duty-related disability retirement in the West Virginia State Police Retirement System
HB 2598 - Ensuring that teachers of students with disabilities receive complete information about the school's plan for accommodating the child's disabilities
HB 2720 - Increasing the amount a person receiving a disability benefit from a municipal policemen's or firemen's pension and relief fund may earn from employment or self employment without penalty

Domestic Relations (3 Bills)
HB 2040 - Adding domestic violence and fraud to the list of crimes for which conviction would bar a person from holding public office
HB 2234 - Requiring a court to permit a party in a divorce proceeding to resume using the name he or she used prior to the marriage
HB 2240 - Providing that an act of domestic violence or sexual offense by strangling is an aggravated felony offense
HB 2251 - Making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace
HB 2258 - "Parents' Bill of Rights"
HB 2264 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents
HB 2460 - Relating to the effect of adoption on grandparent visitation rights
HB 2520 - Relating to domestic violence victims' eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits
HB 2586 - Allowing for an alternative form of service of process in actions against nonresident persons by petitioners seeking domestic violence or personal safety relief

Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia (31 Bills)
HB 2021 - Implementing drug testing for recipients of federal-state and state assistance
HB 2026 - Allowing terminally ill patients to have access to investigational products that have not been approved by the federal food and drug administration
HB 2044 - Relating generally to administration of an opioid antagonist
HB 2045 - Overdose Prevention Act
HB 2174 - Increasing criminal incarceration penalties for the transportation of controlled substances into the state
HB 2180 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2397 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics in this state; providing exceptions
HB 2455 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2529 - Requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to develop a pilot program for the cultivation of marijuana to be sold in states where sales are legal
HB 2733 - Removing certain combinations of drugs containing hydrocodone from Schedule III of the controlled substances law
HB 2806 - Creating a methamphetamine registry
HB 2925 - Relating to drug testing of legislators
HB 2931 - Adding drugs to the classification of schedule I drugs
HB 2961 - Relating to abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs
HB 3004 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund
HB 3016 - Creating a meth offender registry

Economic Development (1 Bills)
HB 2176 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail head
HB 2531 - Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act
HB 2580 - Creating the Economic Fairness Act of 2015
HB 2908 - Prohibiting shifting future development costs onto existing public service district customers
HB 2936 - Relating to the West Virginia Economic Development Authority

Education (1 Bills)
HB 2005 - Relating to alternative programs for the education of teachers
HB 2007 - Requiring CPR to be taught in the public school system
HB 2014 - West Virginia Public Charter Schools Act of 2015
HB 2112 - Providing that school nutrition plans include take home meals for low income students
HB 2123 - Requiring students to attend school until the age of eighteen
HB 2139 - Relating to employment of retired teachers as substitutes in areas of critical need and shortage for substitutes
HB 2146 - Allowing a public school's recognition of, and education, regarding traditional winter celebrations
HB 2151 - Making the West Virginia state teacher of the year an ex officio, nonvoting member of the West Virginia Board of Education
HB 2155 - Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel
HB 2156 - Relating to the State Board of Education
HB 2163 - Increasing salaries for school service personnel
HB 2164 - Providing pay increases for teachers and counselors
HB 2183 - Relating to salary increase for school personnel
HB 2184 - Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state
HB 2250 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent
HB 2370 - Increasing the powers of regional councils for governance of regional education service agencies
HB 2372 - Relating to school calendars
HB 2377 - Authorizing State Board of Education to approve certain alternatives with respect to instructional time
HB 2387 - Relating to a framework for initiating comprehensive transformation of school leadership
HB 2388 - Requiring the State Board of Education to cause school buses to be equipped with safety belts
HB 2391 - Reducing early childhood education program requirements from five days per week to four days per week and imposing minimum instructional hours per week and minimum instructional days per year
HB 2392 - Adding flexibility for use of certain public school support plan amounts
HB 2412 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to public and private elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education
HB 2413 - Providing pay rates for teachers and other personnel employed by county boards of education and institutions of higher education for work assignments outside of regular school days
HB 2425 - Requiring a test that is identical to the civics portion of the naturalization test in order to graduate from high school or obtain a General Educational Development (GED) diploma
HB 2441 - Reducing the liability of county boards of education for loss or injury from the use of school property made available for unorganized recreation
HB 2442 - Relating to employment of retired teachers as substitutes in areas of critical need and shortage for substitutes
HB 2443 - Relating to required instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid in public school health education subjects
HB 2478 - Relating to public school finance
HB 2486 - Relating to school curricular standards and assessments
HB 2491 - Requiring the State Board of Education to conduct a study and periodically publish starting salary schedules for new hire teachers
HB 2499 - Making available elective courses on the history of the old and new testaments of the bible
HB 2502 - Possessing deadly weapons on school buses or on the premises of educational facilities
HB 2516 - Awarding of a posthumous high school diploma to parents of a high school senior who dies during the senior year; "Todd's Law"
HB 2522 - Exempting State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation
HB 2550 - Increasing the number of unexcused absences of a student before action may be taken against the parent
HB 2563 - Requiring the State Superintendent of Schools to be elected on a nonpartisan basis
HB 2564 - Relating to school curricular standards and assessments
HB 2567 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections only
HB 2582 - Requiring the State Board of Education to cause school buses to be equipped with safety belts
HB 2598 - Ensuring that teachers of students with disabilities receive complete information about the school's plan for accommodating the child's disabilities
HB 2599 - Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax
HB 2632 - Exempting the procurement of certain instructional materials for use in and in support of public schools from the division of purchasing requirements
HB 2642 - Reducing personnel employed by the West Virginia Department of Education
HB 2674 - Making home schooled students eligible for a PROMISE scholarship without taking the GED test
HB 2702 - Redefining service personnel class titles of early childhood classroom assistant teacher
HB 2717 - Relating to hiring of public school employees
HB 2725 - Permitting playground facilities to be part of a school construction project
HB 2755 - Relating to service and professional employee positions at jointly established schools
HB 2764 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the State Department of Education - School Building Authority
HB 2774 - Relating to public school standards and assessments
HB 2786 - Prohibiting transfers of school personnel to other positions under certain conditions
HB 2788 - Providing school days to register and transport students to vote
HB 2793 - Relating to exemptions from mandatory school attendance
HB 2799 - Requiring all high schools to teach fetal development
HB 2824 - Requiring the instruction in penmanship and writing in cursive in all public, private, parochial and denominational schools
HB 2837 - Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel by one percent a year, for three years
HB 2840 - Providing an alternative plan to make up lost days of instruction
HB 2846 - Relating to increasing salaries for teachers
HB 2848 - Requiring the Board of Education to implement a comprehensive drug awareness program in grades K through 12
HB 2866 - Establishing legislative findings, providing physical education and physical activity requirements for physical education classes in schools
HB 2870 - Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school
HB 2884 - Modifying training and development requirement for certain members of certain higher education boards
HB 2892 - Authorizing certain legislative rules regarding higher education
HB 2907 - West Virginia Student Education Incentive Act
HB 2934 - Repealing the common core standards
HB 2939 - Relating to requirements for mandatory reporting of sexual offenses on school premises involving students
HB 2960 - Permitting county boards of education to develop emergency preparedness drills in schools
HB 2972 - Requiring the accumulation of one and one-half years of instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other founding American historical documents
HB 2981 - Relating to purchase of service credit following transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2986 - Increasing pay to teachers

Education (And Related Subheadings) (5 Bills)
HB 2068 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2078 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2082 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2458 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2577 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education

Education -- Colleges & Universities (8 Bills)
HB 2270 - Protecting academic freedom in higher education
HB 2579 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan

Education -- Courses, Programs & Testing (3 Bills)
HB 2094 - Creating an environmental awareness program in the West Virginia School system
HB 2107 - Relating to required courses of school instruction generally
HB 2381 - Providing a teacher mentoring increment for classroom teachers with national board certification who teach and mentor at certain schools
HB 2451 - Providing that recess periods or other such time allocated for student physical activity during the regular class day may not be reduced
HB 2572 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week

Education - Higher (6 Bills)
HB 2412 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to public and private elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education
HB 2413 - Providing pay rates for teachers and other personnel employed by county boards of education and institutions of higher education for work assignments outside of regular school days
HB 2446 - Permitting the possession of firearms on the grounds of higher education institutions by all persons with valid licenses
HB 2594 - Requiring that all higher education institutions in the state award credit to transfer students for similar courses completed at a different institution
HB 2617 - Lengthening the residency requirement necessary to be eligible for the PROMISE Scholarship
HB 2622 - Relating to deductions from personal income tax for contributions to state-administered prepaid college tuition contracts or college savings plans
HB 2690 - Relating to student safety on higher education campuses
HB 2780 - Enhancing the ability of campus police officers at public colleges to perform their duties
HB 2815 - Authorizing certain state institutions of higher education to invest unlimited funds with their respective nonprofit foundations
HB 2867 - Requiring recommendations for higher education course credit transfer
HB 2935 - Relating to public education higher education personnel generally
HB 2950 - Providing for a $1,000 tax credit against personal income tax in tax years 2016-2017 for recent graduates of higher education programs
HB 2954 - Expanding the promise scholarship to technical and community college students
HB 2973 - Relating to public higher education procurement and payment generally
HB 2976 - Expanding the eligible master's and doctoral level programs for which a Nursing Scholarship may be awarded

Education -- Retirement (15 Bills)
HB 2059 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2154 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2198 - Permitting teachers under the State Teachers Retirement System to teach college level courses without loss of benefits

Education -- Salaries, Classifications, Leave (7 Bills)
HB 2032 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2228 - Modifying the funding ratio of school students to counselors
HB 2381 - Providing a teacher mentoring increment for classroom teachers with national board certification who teach and mentor at certain schools
HB 2414 - Permitting a salary increase for certain kindergarten aides and early childhood classroom assistant teachers
HB 2438 - Increasing the educational increment for school service personnel

Education (And Related Subheadings) (6 Bills)
HB 2020 - Relating to requirements for PROMISE scholarships
HB 2048 - Relating to juvenile proceedings
HB 2077 - Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an elected municipal or county office
HB 2091 - False Claims Act
HB 2188 - Relating to compulsory school attendance
HB 2194 - Relating to the School Building Authority
HB 2228 - Modifying the funding ratio of school students to counselors
HB 2261 - Requiring automated external defibrillators in public schools
HB 2267 - Authorizing a county school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message
HB 2271 - Relating to state control of county schools
HB 2422 - Removing the requirement that home schooled students have to acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for the promise scholarship
HB 2453 - Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans
HB 2465 - Authorizing the election of and specifying qualifications for nonappointed members of the West Virginia Board of Education
HB 2470 - Relating to nursing education faculty
HB 2510 - Relating to school celebrations, recognition programs and events
HB 2572 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2672 - Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer and worship
HB 2842 - Establishing a four year pilot program to have social workers in public schools, from prekindergarten through the elementary school

Education--Facilities (1 Bills)
HB 2428 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission

Elected Officials (2 Bills)
HB 2010 - Requiring the elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judges, family court judges and magistrates be nonpartisan and by division
HB 2040 - Adding domestic violence and fraud to the list of crimes for which conviction would bar a person from holding public office
HB 2077 - Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an elected municipal or county office
HB 2085 - Relating to the solicitation of public employees by a candidate for an elective office
HB 2116 - Eliminating straight ticket voting; and updating language on write-in candidates
HB 2187 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings
HB 2217 - Relating to qualifications of the Commissioner of Labor
HB 2229 - Relating to elections for vacancies in county offices
HB 2235 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2457 - Prohibiting the use of the name or likeness of elected or appointed officials on publicly-owned vehicles
HB 2537 - Requiring that the chairperson of the Public Service Commission be elected on a nonpartisan ballot
HB 2563 - Requiring the State Superintendent of Schools to be elected on a nonpartisan basis
HB 2567 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections only
HB 2839 - Eliminating late fees charged by the Secretary of State
HB 2865 - Providing county commissioners an ongoing mechanism to consider compensation increases for elected officials every two years

Elections (1 Bills)
HB 2010 - Requiring the elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judges, family court judges and magistrates be nonpartisan and by division
HB 2040 - Adding domestic violence and fraud to the list of crimes for which conviction would bar a person from holding public office
HB 2085 - Relating to the solicitation of public employees by a candidate for an elective office
HB 2086 - Relating to the accountability of a corporation's political activities
HB 2089 - All relating to the disclosure of information on campaign contributions and spending
HB 2092 - Relating to voter photo identification
HB 2116 - Eliminating straight ticket voting; and updating language on write-in candidates
HB 2157 - Relating to absentee ballot fraud
HB 2159 - Relating to the nonpartisan election of justices to the Supreme Court of Appeals
HB 2229 - Relating to elections for vacancies in county offices
HB 2247 - Prohibiting a chief deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities
HB 2365 - Relating to voting procedures
HB 2457 - Prohibiting the use of the name or likeness of elected or appointed officials on publicly-owned vehicles
HB 2465 - Authorizing the election of and specifying qualifications for nonappointed members of the West Virginia Board of Education
HB 2477 - Relating to voting procedures
HB 2483 - Requiring the three commissioners of the Public Service Commission be elected from the three congressional districts for six-year terms
HB 2537 - Requiring that the chairperson of the Public Service Commission be elected on a nonpartisan ballot
HB 2563 - Requiring the State Superintendent of Schools to be elected on a nonpartisan basis
HB 2567 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections only
HB 2588 - Relating to the filing of financial statements with the Secretary of State
HB 2602 - Requiring a voter to present an identifying document issued by the State of West Virginia or a United States military identification card that contains the name, address and a photograph of the person desiring to vote
HB 2624 - Relating to voter registration photo cards
HB 2628 - Changing the date of filing announcements of candidacies
HB 2694 - Requiring all local special elections to be held on the days and hours of general or primary elections
HB 2788 - Providing school days to register and transport students to vote
HB 2798 - Requiring a voter to present an identifying document which contains the name, address and a photograph of that person
HB 2808 - Providing that members of the House of Delegates in districts having more than one delegate be elected from numbered divisions
HB 2858 - Creating a public campaign financing program for circuit judges elections

Emergency Services (28 Bills)
HB 2024 - Requiring preplanning, preparing and provisioning of public facilities for use as shelters for elderly and disabled during emergency situations
HB 2034 - Providing immunity from civil liability hospital volunteers who in good faith render emergency care at a hospital
HB 2971 - Continuing the Office of Emergency Medical Services as an independent office within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety

Employment (23 Bills)
HB 2041 - Establishing requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals
HB 2052 - Relating to the labor-management relations act for the private sector
HB 2093 - Creating the Valued Employee Retention program
HB 2162 - Relating to payment of employees separated from payroll before paydays
HB 2434 - Requiring any employer to retain a job for any veteran with a service-connected disability
HB 2712 - Relating to employment and privacy protection

Energy (5 Bills)
HB 2001 - Repealing portions of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2062 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
HB 2106 - Relating to the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2409 - Repealing all of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2945 - Authorizing local units of government to adopt local energy efficiency partnership programs and to create districts to promote the use of energy efficiency improvements by owners of certain real property
HB 2946 - Relating to the spacing of shallow horizontal wells on a multiwell pad
HB 2982 - Relating to net metering
HB 3005 - Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling
HB 3013 - Relating generally to horizontal well control standards

Environmental Protection (3 Bills)
HB 2004 - Providing a procedure for the development of a state plan under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act
HB 2042 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
HB 2094 - Creating an environmental awareness program in the West Virginia School system
HB 2119 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2269 - Requiring rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal laws
HB 2275 - Increasing criminal penalties for littering
HB 2363 - Department of Environmental Protection, waste management
HB 2765 - Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Environmental Protection

Estates and Trusts (46 Bills)
HB 2053 - Relating to the form of trust deeds
HB 2266 - Relating to the publication requirements of the administration of estates
HB 2655 - Providing that a defendant in a civil action to recover a deficiency after a sale under a deed of trust may not assert as a defense that fair market value was not obtained for the property

Ethics (7 Bills)
HB 2023 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including the source of that compensation, paid to lobbyists
HB 2028 - Relating generally to purchasing
HB 2050 - Relating generally to the accountability of a corporation's political activities
HB 2235 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2547 - Removing certain officials from office for misconduct or neglect of official duties
HB 2737 - Prohibiting licensure board from hiring or contracting with lobbyist

Fire Fighting and Prevention (6 Bills)
HB 2070 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2367 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2426 - Relating to the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund
HB 2507 - Relating to membership provisions in the West Virginia Municipal Police and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 2532 - Reducing federal adjusted gross income for volunteer fire department and rescue squad members
HB 2558 - Providing a $500 credit against state personal income tax for certain members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2647 - Allowing an employer to extend workers' compensation insurance coverage to an employee engaged in volunteer fire fighting and allowing employers a tax credit
HB 2659 - Providing that paid county or municipal fire departments and duly incorporated volunteer fire departments pay reduced workers' compensation premiums when not actively engaged in fire fighting

Firearms (5 Bills)
HB 2109 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 2120 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex
HB 2128 - Permitting those individuals who have been issued concealed weapons permits to keep loaded firearms in their motor vehicles on the State Capitol Complex grounds
HB 2134 - Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2145 - Relating to exceptions to prohibitions against carrying one or more concealed deadly weapons and reciprocity agreements
HB 2152 - Prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon
HB 2178 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting
HB 2446 - Permitting the possession of firearms on the grounds of higher education institutions by all persons with valid licenses
HB 2502 - Possessing deadly weapons on school buses or on the premises of educational facilities
HB 2610 - Making applications, permits, and renewal applications for carrying a concealed weapon not subject to public disclosure
HB 2619 - Clarifying when a chief law-enforcement officer is required to certify the transfer or making of certain firearms
HB 2636 - Exempting information contained in a concealed weapon permit application from the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2640 - Extending buck firearms season by one week
HB 2651 - Creating the "Firearm Protection Act"
HB 2756 - Authorizing appointees or employees of the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to carry concealed handguns
HB 2831 - Exempting indoor shooting ranges from the prohibition of shooting or discharging a firearm within five hundred feet of any church or dwelling house
HB 2951 - Recognizing those in active military service as residents for the purpose of obtaining concealed carry permits while stationed at a West Virginia military installation
HB 2965 - Providing that a person using an object that reasonably appears to be a firearm or other deadly weapon, during a robbery or attempted robbery is guilty of robbery in the first degree
HB 2980 - Providing that a concealed weapon license is not required when carrying a concealed handgun for self defense while hunting, hiking, camping or in a motor vehicle
HB 2983 - Prohibiting a county parks commission from rule-making authority as it regards firearms
HB 3002 - Making all future federal and local statutes, ordinances, laws, orders and rules concerning firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition and their accouterments invalid and unenforceable

Food and Food Services (22 Bills)
HB 2029 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2262 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2471 - Relating to food handlers' licenses
HB 2859 - Exempting certain food establishments from inspection
HB 3000 - Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit
HB 3007 - Exempting from food related laws or rules for certain individually produced agricultural products

Forestry (13 Bills)
HB 2268 - Removing the severance tax on timber

Freedom of Information (5 Bills)
HB 2149 - Exempting records of concealed weapon license applications and issuance from disclosure under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act
HB 2636 - Exempting information contained in a concealed weapon permit application from the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2991 - Relating to the Freedom of Information Act

Fuel (4 Bills)
HB 2035 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2073 - Requiring retail establishments offering gasoline or other motor fuel to provide refueling assistance and refueling access to persons with a disability
HB 2192 - Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax

Funds (9 Bills)
HB 2153 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
HB 2256 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2404 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy
HB 2406 - Changing the way the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2426 - Relating to the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund
HB 2435 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees
HB 2468 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2485 - Relating to the West Virginia Future Fund
HB 2514 - Creating a Bureau of Actuarial Services within the office of the Legislative Auditor
HB 2523 - Creating a special revenue account to offset costs for the West Virginia State Police 100th Anniversary in 2019
HB 2530 - Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund
HB 2541 - Permitting counties to impose additional levy on property within the county for the sole purpose of funding public libraries
HB 2571 - Creating a fund for pothole repair contributed to by private businesses or entities
HB 2583 - Removing the publication requirements of financial statements for municipalities
HB 2626 - Relating to use of the Abandoned Land Reclamation Fund
HB 2656 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game
HB 2663 - Creating the Rehabilitation Services Vending Program Fund
HB 2711 - Providing for a scratch-off game to fund a drug treatment facility on post-mine land in Mingo and Logan Counties
HB 2714 - Altering the method of determining when the Department of Agriculture must deposit into the General Revenue Fund funds it collects
HB 2718 - Transferring funds remaining in the Racetrack Modernization Fund to the State Road Fund and closing the Racetrack Modernization Fund
HB 2815 - Authorizing certain state institutions of higher education to invest unlimited funds with their respective nonprofit foundations
HB 2821 - Implementing a surcharge on licensed exotic entertainment facilities and adult bookstores to provide funding for rape information and prevention services and rape crisis centers
HB 2879 - Relating to certain limitations on amount of state funds on deposit in any depository
HB 2906 - Relating to county budget stabilization funds
HB 2937 - Designating 5 million dollars per year for 4 years from beer, wine, and liquor tax revenue to the Fight Substance Abuse Fund
HB 2947 - Relating to provider tax on hospitals to fund health care cost review fund
HB 2969 - Requiring that a county itemize and publish all activity related to budget stabilization funds
HB 2996 - Prohibiting public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion
HB 3004 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund

Gaming Activities (4 Bills)
HB 2175 - Increasing criminal penalties for the illegal killing, taking, or possessing of certain wildlife
HB 2190 - Removing limitations on advertising and promotional activities by limited video lottery retailers
HB 2214 - Permitting the resident lineal descendants of landowners to hunt, trap or fish on that resident landowner's property without a license
HB 2515 - Relating to elk restoration
HB 2575 - Relating to approvals of televised racing days and simulcast contracts by Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association
HB 2640 - Extending buck firearms season by one week
HB 2644 - Providing that persons trapping coyote need only check traps once every seventy- two hours
HB 2656 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game
HB 2671 - Establishing the state parks instant lottery scratch-off game
HB 2730 - Updating unlawful methods of bear hunting and clarifying the process for bear damage claims
HB 2751 - Allowing hunting and trapping on private lands throughout the state on Sundays
HB 2822 - Prohibiting the training of dogs to be used in hunting bears under certain circumstances

Governmental Agencies (10 Bills)
HB 2008 - Auditing the Division of Highways
HB 2011 - Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer
HB 2015 - Requiring the Legislative Auditor to conduct performance reviews and audits for every government spending unit, including all members of the Board of Public Works and the Legislature
HB 2101 - Eliminating obsolete government entities
HB 2121 - Establishing a policy for formal recognition of Indian tribes
HB 2129 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years
HB 2206 - Repealing the requirement of paying prevailing hourly rate of wages for construction of public improvements
HB 2218 - Creating the Budget Reform Act
HB 2235 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2393 - Requiring recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be issued a photo identification card
HB 2420 - Relating to unlawful methods of hunting and fishing
HB 2452 - Requiring reports to the Governor from state agencies to be made available electronically via the internet
HB 2514 - Creating a Bureau of Actuarial Services within the office of the Legislative Auditor
HB 2526 - Providing for the transfer of ownership, operation and maintenance of certain assets of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to the Division of Highways
HB 2542 - Requiring reviews of groups of agencies on a four-year cycle
HB 2576 - Creating new code sections which separate the executive departments
HB 2678 - Exempting certain agencies from seeking the advice of the Attorney General to adjust and settle upon certain accounts or claims
HB 2839 - Eliminating late fees charged by the Secretary of State
HB 2992 - Publishing detailed information about the operations of state, county and municipal agencies

Governor (1 Bills)
HB 2209 - Repealing of article creating the Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning
HB 2220 - Providing a limit on consulting fees
HB 2259 - Relating to the Governor filling vacancies on professional boards
HB 2916 - Providing limited borrowing authority to the Governor for the completion of renovations to Capitol Complex Building 3

Governor -- Bills Requested By (5 Bills)
HB 2016 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
HB 2114 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 2115 - Updating the meaning of the term "federal taxable income" and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act
HB 2117 - Providing criminal penalties for using automated telephone calls to disseminate false, misleading or deceptive information during a proclaimed state of emergency
HB 2118 - Relating to school nutrition standards during a state of emergency or state of preparedness
HB 2177 - Eliminating unnecessary, inactive, or redundant boards, councils, committees, panels, task forces and commissions
HB 2209 - Repealing of article creating the Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning
HB 2210 - Transferring the Children's Health Insurance Program and Children's Health Insurance Agency
HB 2211 - Eliminating the consumers sales and service tax exemption on purchases of certain materials by a second party in construction or maintenance of a highways project
HB 2212 - Changing the amount of severance tax revenue annually dedicated to the West Virginia Infrastructure General Obligation Debt Service Fund
HB 2213 - Reducing the distributions to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund
HB 2226 - Eliminating dedication of corporation net income tax revenues to and deposits of such revenues into the Special Railroad Intermodal Enhancement Fund
HB 2382 - Relating to the temporary assistance to needy families program
HB 2385 - Relating to brewer, resident brewer and brewpub licensing and operations
HB 2462 - Relating to certain deposits of tax proceeds
HB 2469 - Eliminating unnecessary, inactive, or redundant councils, committees and boards
HB 2478 - Relating to public school finance
HB 2525 - Relating to the West Virginia Fire, EMS and Law-Enforcement Officer Survivor Benefit Act
HB 2543 - Access to Opioid Antagonists Act
HB 2562 - Relating to sales tax increment financing
HB 2565 - Reorganizing the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction and its subcommittees
HB 2612 - Relating to the transfer of certain powers and programs of the West Virginia Affordable Housing Trust Fund to the West Virginia Housing Development Fund
HB 2631 - Alcohol and Drug Overdose Prevention and Clemency Act
HB 2641 - Relating generally to juvenile justice reform
HB 2645 - Expanding the availability of the Underwood-Smith Teacher Loan Assistance Program
HB 2691 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce
HB 2692 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the State Road Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways
HB 2698 - Making a supplementary appropriation from the State Fund, State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, to the Division of Human Services
HB 2757 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the State Road Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways
HB 2758 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Administration, Division of Purchasing - Purchasing Improvement Fund
HB 2759 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, West Virginia Division of Corrections, and to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, West Virginia State Police
HB 2760 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Bureau of Senior Services - Lottery Senior Citizens Fund
HB 2761 - Making a supplementary appropriation of federal funds to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, West Virginia State Police
HB 2762 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles - Motor Vehicle Fees Fund
HB 2763 - Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2764 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the State Department of Education - School Building Authority
HB 2765 - Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 2766 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated balance in the State Fund, General Revenue from the Joint Expenses, and from the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2767 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Agriculture, State Conservation Committee
HB 2768 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce
HB 2769 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue from various agencies
HB 2770 - Making a supplementary appropriation from the State Fund, State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, to the Division of Human Services
HB 2771 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services - Health Care Provider Tax
HB 2772 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, from the Auditor's Office - Purchasing Card Administration Fund
HB 2835 - Reorganizing the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority

Hazardous Materials (3 Bills)
HB 2603 - Allowing certain county or regional solid waste authorities in growth areas to designate common carriers of solid waste exempt from the requirement for a certificate of convenience
HB 2625 - Continuing the current hazardous waste management fee
HB 2802 - Relating to public sewage services
HB 2979 - Clarifying that the county or regional solid waste authority that may impose and collect an additional solid waste assessment fee is the county or region where the waste originates
HB 2985 - Establishing radiation levels for oil and gas drill cuttings that are disposed in solid waste

Health (1 Bills)
HB 2009 - Allowing State Police, police, sheriffs and fire and emergency service personnel to possess naloxone or other approved opioid antagonist
HB 2021 - Implementing drug testing for recipients of federal-state and state assistance
HB 2026 - Allowing terminally ill patients to have access to investigational products that have not been approved by the federal food and drug administration
HB 2046 - Relating to treatment for sexually transmitted diseases
HB 2100 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act
HB 2215 - Establishing certain protections for individuals seeking health care coverage through the WV Health Benefit Exchange
HB 2260 - Prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Resources from expanding the managed care population without authorization from the Legislature
HB 2269 - Requiring rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal laws
HB 2373 - Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics; providing exceptions
HB 2376 - Creating the Save the Hospitals Act
HB 2386 - Exempting cosmetologists who have been licensed for twenty years or more from continuing education requirements
HB 2390 - Relating to public health
HB 2393 - Requiring recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be issued a photo identification card
HB 2397 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics in this state; providing exceptions
HB 2408 - Relating to collaborative practice
HB 2443 - Relating to required instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid in public school health education subjects
HB 2496 - Adopting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
HB 2497 - Rewriting the licensing requirements for the practice of medicine and surgery or podiatry
HB 2500 - Allowing local boards of health to appoint physician assistants as local health officers
HB 2509 - Determining federal health care legislation invalid in this state
HB 2511 - Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act
HB 2544 - Clarifying that optometrists may continue to exercise the same prescriptive authority which they possessed prior to hydrocodone being reclassified
HB 2589 - Establishing an appeal process for decisions issued by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Board of Review and the Bureau for Medical Services
HB 2595 - Relating to certificates of need for the development of health facilities in this state
HB 2614 - Relating generally to health care provider taxes
HB 2623 - Establishing guidelines and materials to inform and educate students, parents and coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest
HB 2648 - Allowing authorized entities to maintain a stock of epinephrine auto-injectors to be used for emergency
HB 2652 - Reducing the assessment paid by hospitals to the Health Care Authority
HB 2662 - Eye Care Consumer Protection Law
HB 2670 - Relating to prescription authority for physician assistants
HB 2705 - Providing a pay increase for certain employees of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2708 - Requiring various professionals who provide mental health-related services, complete course work in suicide assessment, treatment and management
HB 2711 - Providing for a scratch-off game to fund a drug treatment facility on post-mine land in Mingo and Logan Counties
HB 2727 - Exempting certain health care professionals from licensure requirements while performing charity care
HB 2728 - Relating to risk-based capital reporting for health organizations
HB 2746 - Requiring that athletic trainers be licensed, instead of registered, by West Virginia Board of Physical Therapy
HB 2754 - Relating to uncompensated care
HB 2763 - Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2810 - Implementing the West Virginia Property Rescue Initiative to reduce the number of properties posing a threat to public health and safety
HB 2825 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to review rates it pays to care providers and to increase direct care rates
HB 2827 - Abolishing the James "Tiger" Morton catastrophic illness fund and commission
HB 2829 - Defining "midwife", "certified midwife" and "midwifery"
HB 2860 - Relating to copayments required in certain policies, provisions, contracts, plans or agreements to provide health care benefits
HB 2869 - Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act
HB 2880 - Creating an addiction treatment pilot program
HB 2885 - The Youth Mental Health Protection Act
HB 2888 - Allowing the use of rotary drum composters to destroy or dispose of the carcass of any animal to prevent the spread of disease
HB 2909 - Compassionate Use Act for Medical Cannabis
HB 2910 - Preserving employment and promoting health and safety in the coal industry
HB 2920 - Vesting the Public Employees Insurance Agency with the authority to negotiate and executing all health care and ancillary contracts for the Medicaid program
HB 2924 - Directing the Health Care Authority to establish a council to investigate and recommend to the authority pricing guides for pharmaceuticals that exclude advertising costs
HB 2999 - Relating to neonatal abstinence centers
HB 3008 - Relating to certificates of need for certain skilled nursing facilities

Health (And Related Subheadings) (31 Bills)
HB 2031 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2455 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor

Health -- Insurance (1 Bills)
HB 2084 - Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient regardless of how that person was injured or became ill
HB 2242 - Requiring health insurers to reimburse ambulance service providers directly for ambulance services covered under a person's health insurance policy
HB 2660 - Relating to health insurance exchange navigators and nonnavigator assisters

Health -- Personnel (27 Bills)
HB 2419 - Adding fifty new positions to the staff at the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital
HB 2436 - Increasing the number of child protective service workers
HB 2450 - Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses and certified nurse-midwives
HB 2470 - Relating to nursing education faculty

Health (And Related Subheadings) (13 Bills)
HB 2205 - Creating the crime of prohibited sexual contact by a psychotherapist
HB 2261 - Requiring automated external defibrillators in public schools
HB 2418 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to reimburse the circuit clerk of the county where involuntary commitment hearings are held for certain expenses
HB 2487 - Requiring a person restraining a mentally ill or mentally challenged person in a "four point restraint" to administer sedation by injection at the time the patient is secured

Health--Mental (3 Bills)
HB 2487 - Requiring a person restraining a mentally ill or mentally challenged person in a "four point restraint" to administer sedation by injection at the time the patient is secured

Holidays (3 Bills)
HB 2250 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent

Homeland Security (13 Bills)
HB 2219 - Providing that West Virginia will not participate in the REAL ID Act of 2005
HB 2410 - Improving state emergency preparedness

Human Services (4 Bills)
HB 2011 - Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer
HB 2021 - Implementing drug testing for recipients of federal-state and state assistance
HB 2147 - Requiring the circuit court , when appointing counsel for alleged protected persons, to make appointments from a listing of all interested and qualified attorneys in the circuit
HB 2161 - Adopting the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking
HB 2203 - Redefining the parameters for the offense of human trafficking
HB 2436 - Increasing the number of child protective service workers
HB 2535 - Relating generally to suicide prevention training, "Jamie's Law"
HB 2553 - Relating to human trafficking
HB 2586 - Allowing for an alternative form of service of process in actions against nonresident persons by petitioners seeking domestic violence or personal safety relief
HB 2724 - Requiring benefit access devices to benefits provided by the Department of Human Services, to have a photograph of the person to whom a device was issued
HB 2729 - Relating to welfare system integrity
HB 2948 - Clarifying the exemptions provided by statute for Social Work Licensing
HB 2949 - Relating to requirements for provisional social worker licenses

Infrastructure (13 Bills)
HB 2158 - Creating the Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2206 - Repealing the requirement of paying prevailing hourly rate of wages for construction of public improvements
HB 2207 - Establishing the list of priorities for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of state roads and highways
HB 2864 - Relating to the transfer of certain revenues derived from lottery activities generally, restoring distribution to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund to 2013 rates and decreasing the funds available for grants therefrom
HB 3000 - Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit

Insurance -- Health (6 Bills)
HB 2084 - Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient regardless of how that person was injured or became ill
HB 2173 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2215 - Establishing certain protections for individuals seeking health care coverage through the WV Health Benefit Exchange
HB 2216 - West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange Act
HB 2242 - Requiring health insurers to reimburse ambulance service providers directly for ambulance services covered under a person's health insurance policy
HB 2244 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2367 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2383 - Freezing PEIA employee premiums for three years
HB 2398 - Prohibiting the number of inquiries reflected in a credit report, credit score report or CLUE report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2403 - Relating to qualifying children of state employees, receiving income of $25,000 per year or less, for the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program
HB 2432 - Relating to the licensure requirements to practice pharmacist care
HB 2440 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions
HB 2454 - Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act
HB 2461 - Relating to delinquency proceedings of insurers
HB 2493 - Relating to requirements for insurance policies and contracts providing accident and sickness insurance or direct health care services that cover anti-cancer medications
HB 2518 - Requiring insurers issuing group accident and sickness insurance policies to certain employers to furnish claims loss experience to policyholders
HB 2661 - Providing for the protection and privacy of persons seeking health insurance assisted by navigators and nonnavigator assisters under the federal Affordable Care Act
HB 2811 - Deleting obsolete provisions regarding the Physicians' Mutual Insurance Company
HB 2817 - Providing for security of private, employer-sponsored insurance and/or retirement plans
HB 2920 - Vesting the Public Employees Insurance Agency with the authority to negotiate and executing all health care and ancillary contracts for the Medicaid program
HB 2943 - Establishing a system to reduce the cost of medical care paid by the private medical insurance companies
HB 2990 - Relating to requirements for insurance policies and contracts providing accident and sickness insurance or direct health care services that cover prescription eye drops

Insurance -- Medicaid/Medicare (3 Bills)
HB 2047 - Continuing the fraud control unit in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

Insurance -- Motor Vehicles (17 Bills)
HB 2398 - Prohibiting the number of inquiries reflected in a credit report, credit score report or CLUE report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2461 - Relating to delinquency proceedings of insurers
HB 2536 - Relating to travel insurance limited lines producers
HB 2540 - Requiring automobile liability insurance providers must give a policyholder fourteen days notice of an intent to cancel the policy if the reason for cancellation is nonpayment
HB 2546 - Relating to insurance requirements for transportation network companies and drivers
HB 2557 - Clarifying that an insured driver of a motor vehicle is covered by the driver's auto insurance policy when renting or leasing a vehicle
HB 2790 - Relating to minimum responsibility limits of car insurance

Insurance (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2051 - Limiting the use of credit information in connection with the declination and termination of property insurance
HB 2063 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2096 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers

Internet (2 Bills)
HB 2666 - Internet Service Provider Accountability Act

Investments (3 Bills)
HB 2080 - Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
HB 2097 - Creating the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority Fund
HB 2110 - Relating generally to the tax treatment of manufacturing entities
HB 2158 - Creating the Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2201 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain net metering and interconnection rules and standards

Labor (26 Bills)
HB 2041 - Establishing requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals
HB 2052 - Relating to the labor-management relations act for the private sector
HB 2093 - Creating the Valued Employee Retention program
HB 2096 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2237 - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts
HB 2273 - Relating to prevailing wages
HB 2643 - Establishing the West Virginia Right to Work Law

Law Enforcement (4 Bills)
HB 2009 - Allowing State Police, police, sheriffs and fire and emergency service personnel to possess naloxone or other approved opioid antagonist
HB 2130 - Including law-enforcement officers among those professionals the assault or battery of which leads to enhanced criminal penalties
HB 2380 - Requiring the issuance of a search warrant before a driver of a motor vehicle can be made to submit to a secondary blood test
HB 2459 - Requiring state agencies to issue photographic identification cards to qualified retired law-enforcement officers
HB 2479 - Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs
HB 2506 - Relating to duty-related disability retirement in the West Virginia State Police Retirement System
HB 2507 - Relating to membership provisions in the West Virginia Municipal Police and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 2523 - Creating a special revenue account to offset costs for the West Virginia State Police 100th Anniversary in 2019
HB 2548 - Authorizing incorporated Class IV municipalities to enforce speed limits by use of any device designed to measure and indicate or record speed by means of microwaves or reflected light
HB 2619 - Clarifying when a chief law-enforcement officer is required to certify the transfer or making of certain firearms
HB 2780 - Enhancing the ability of campus police officers at public colleges to perform their duties
HB 2800 - Adding law-enforcement officers' contact information and names of family members to the list of exemptions from public records requests
HB 2845 - Requiring persons who are in the business of purchasing precious metals and precious gems to photograph those purchases and to transmit the photographs to law-enforcement
HB 2899 - Relating to career progression of members of the State Police

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (2 Bills)
HB 2813 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate

Law Enforcement -- County/Municipal (2 Bills)
HB 2247 - Prohibiting a chief deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities

Law Enforcement -- State Police (5 Bills)
HB 2057 - Requiring that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby and providing a stipend for housing cost for certain officers
HB 2065 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police
HB 2074 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers
HB 2075 - Establishing a minimum number of troopers to provide basic law enforcement services, and providing members of the West Virginia State Police a $580 salary increase at the end of two years of service

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (3 Bills)
HB 2555 - Forfeiture Reporting Act

Legislature (1 Bills)
HB 2015 - Requiring the Legislative Auditor to conduct performance reviews and audits for every government spending unit, including all members of the Board of Public Works and the Legislature
HB 2022 - Prohibiting certain political fund-raising activities for members of the Legislature during certain periods of time
HB 2129 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years
HB 2222 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature
HB 2235 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2424 - Providing a procedure for West Virginia to select delegates to an Article V convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America
HB 2747 - Prohibiting the expenditures for meals and beverages for members of the Legislature and their staff by lobbyists

Legislature--Rule Making (6 Bills)
HB 2276 - Legislative rule relating to the inspection of meat and poultry
HB 2277 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2278 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to refund, reinstatement, retroactive service, loan and employer error interest factors
HB 2279 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board to promulgate a rule relating to service credit for accrued and unused sick and annual leave
HB 2280 - Board of Dental Examiners, formation and approval of professional limited liability companies
HB 2281 - Dental Examiners, formation and approval of dental corporations and dental practice ownership
HB 2282 - Department of Environmental Protection, permits for construction and major modification of major stationary sources for the prevention of significant deterioration of air quality
HB 2283 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2284 - Department of Environmental Protection, control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities
HB 2285 - Department of Environmental Protection, requirements for operating permits
HB 2286 - Department of Environmental Protection, emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 2287 - Department of Environmental Protection, awarding of WV Stream Partners Program Grants
HB 2288 - Department of Environmental Protection, hazardous waste management system
HB 2289 - Department of Environmental Protection, requirements governing water quality standards
HB 2290 - Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the WV/NPDES rule for coal mining facilities
HB 2291 - Enterprise Resource Planning Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the enterprise resource planning system user fee
HB 2292 - State Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to volunteer firefighters' training, equipment and operating standards
HB 2293 - Department of Health and Human Resources, chronic pain management clinic licensure
HB 2294 - Insurance Commissioner, recognizing annuity mortality tables for use in determining reserve liabilities for annuities
HB 2295 - Division of Natural Resources, relating to special boating
HB 2296 - Division of Natural Resources, defining the terms used in all hunting and trapping rules
HB 2297 - Division of Natural Resources, lifetime hunting, trapping and fishing licenses
HB 2298 - Division of Natural Resources, hunting, trapping and fishing license and stamp fees
HB 2299 - Board of Osteopathy, fees for services rendered by the board
HB 2300 - Board of Physical Therapy, fees for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants
HB 2301 - Racing Commission, relating to thoroughbred racing
HB 2302 - Department of Administration, Purchasing Division
HB 2303 - Department of Administration, state owned vehicles
HB 2304 - Department of Administration, state plan for the operation of the West Virginia State Agency for Surplus Property
HB 2305 - Office of Administrative Hearings, appeal procedures
HB 2306 - Commissioner of Agriculture, animal disease control
HB 2307 - Commissioner of Agriculture, relating to auctioneers
HB 2308 - Commissioner of Agriculture, fee structure for the Pesticide Control Act of 1990
HB 2309 - Commissioner of Agriculture, West Virginia Plant Pest Act
HB 2310 - Commissioner of Agriculture, West Virginia Spay Neuter Assistance Program
HB 2311 - Commissioner of Agriculture, industrial hemp
HB 2312 - Commissioner of Agriculture, livestock care standards
HB 2313 - Commissioner of Agriculture, equine rescue facilities
HB 2314 - Commissioner of Agriculture, aquaculture importation
HB 2315 - Commissioner of Agriculture, frozen desserts and imitation frozen desserts
HB 2316 - Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, private club licensing
HB 2317 - Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, nonintoxicating beer licensing and operations procedures
HB 2318 - Board of Dental Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the board
HB 2319 - Board of Dental Examiners, dental recovery networks
HB 2320 - Family Protection Services Board, operation of the board
HB 2321 - Family Protection Services Board, domestic violence program licensure standards
HB 2322 - Family Protection Services Board, perpetrator intervention programs licensure
HB 2323 - Family Protection Services Board, Monitored Parenting and Exchange Program Certification
HB 2324 - Family Protection Services Board, perpetrator intervention programs licensure for correctional institutions
HB 2325 - State Fire Marshal, legislative rule relating to supervision of fire protection work
HB 2326 - Division of Forestry, relating to ginseng
HB 2327 - Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction, relating to law enforcement training and certification standards
HB 2328 - Department of Health and Human Resources, relating to nursing home licensure
HB 2329 - Department of Health and Human Resources, medication administration and performance of health maintenance tasks by approved medication assistive personnel
HB 2330 - Department of Health and Human Resource, relating to the nurse aid abuse and neglect registry
HB 2331 - Department of Health and Human Resources, relating to the state-wide trauma/emergency care system
HB 2332 - Department of Health and Human Resources, Fatality and Mortality Review Team
HB 2333 - Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to public water systems
HB 2334 - Insurance Commissioner, annuity disclosure
HB 2335 - Division of Labor, Amusement Rides and Amusement Attractions Safety Act
HB 2336 - Division of Labor, relating to weights and measures calibration fees
HB 2337 - Division of Labor, verifying the legal employment status of workers
HB 2338 - Division of Labor, supervision of plumbing work
HB 2339 - Division of Labor, heating, venting and cooling work
HB 2340 - Division of Labor, relating to child labor
HB 2341 - Board of Medicine, relating to licensure, disciplinary and complaint procedures; continuing education; and physician assistants
HB 2342 - Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training, safety of those employed in and around quarries in West Virginia
HB 2343 - Division of Motor Vehicles, examination and issuance of driver's licenses
HB 2344 - Division of Natural Resources, commercial whitewater outfitters
HB 2345 - Division of Natural Resources, wildlife damage control agents
HB 2346 - Division of Natural Resources, general hunting
HB 2347 - Office of Technology to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the procedures for sanitization, retirement and disposition of information technology equipment
HB 2348 - Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to osteopathic physician assistants
HB 2349 - Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure and the practice of pharmacy
HB 2350 - Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to immunizations administered by pharmacists
HB 2351 - Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the registration of pharmacy technicians
HB 2352 - Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to controlled substances monitoring
HB 2353 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, requirements for registration and renewal of appraisal management companies
HB 2354 - Secretary of State, procedures for recount of election results
HB 2355 - Secretary of State, standards and guidelines for electronic notarization
HB 2356 - Secretary of State, relating to notaries public
HB 2357 - Secretary of State, relating to a schedule of fees for notaries public
HB 2358 - Conservation Committee, financial assistance programs
HB 2359 - State Police, regulations and procedures pertaining to the West Virginia DNA databank
HB 2360 - State Tax Department, appointment of special assessors by the State Tax Commissioner
HB 2361 - Commissioner of Agriculture, dangerous wild animals
HB 2362 - Commissioner of Agriculture, Rural Rehabilitation Loan Program
HB 2363 - Department of Environmental Protection, waste management
HB 2364 - Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, examination, licensure and practice for professional engineers
HB 2892 - Authorizing certain legislative rules regarding higher education

Levies (2 Bills)
HB 2029 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2262 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2541 - Permitting counties to impose additional levy on property within the county for the sole purpose of funding public libraries

Liability (3 Bills)
HB 2002 - Predicating actions for damages upon principles of comparative fault
HB 2003 - Relating to the liability of a possessor of real property for harm to a trespasser
HB 2006 - Relating to medical professional liability
HB 2011 - Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer
HB 2013 - Relating to the liability of a possessor of real property for injuries caused by open and obvious hazards
HB 2441 - Reducing the liability of county boards of education for loss or injury from the use of school property made available for unorganized recreation
HB 2481 - Providing forensic evaluators with civil immunity for acts committed by the subject of the evaluation
HB 2540 - Requiring automobile liability insurance providers must give a policyholder fourteen days notice of an intent to cancel the policy if the reason for cancellation is nonpayment
HB 2726 - Clarifying choice of laws issues in product's liability actions
HB 2741 - Uncompensated Care Liability Act

Libraries (17 Bills)
HB 2082 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2524 - Changing the Martinsburg Public Library to the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library
HB 2530 - Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund
HB 2541 - Permitting counties to impose additional levy on property within the county for the sole purpose of funding public libraries
HB 2919 - Requiring the Library Commission to survey the libraries of the state and develop a ten year plan for construction and maintenance of public libraries

Licenses (3 Bills)
HB 2018 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents
HB 2030 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2036 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked
HB 2083 - Relating to Class XS senior resident lifetime licenses
HB 2143 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting
HB 2149 - Exempting records of concealed weapon license applications and issuance from disclosure under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act
HB 2152 - Prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon
HB 2180 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2195 - Making changes to the definition of electrical contractor
HB 2466 - Exempting valid nonprofit organizations from licensing requirements of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority during certain events
HB 2471 - Relating to food handlers' licenses
HB 2578 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting

Liens (26 Bills)
HB 2053 - Relating to the form of trust deeds
HB 2087 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property in certain circumstances
HB 2621 - Relating to liens on vehicles
HB 2673 - Relating to liens on vehicles
HB 2820 - Relating to affirmative defenses against mechanics' liens

Local Bills (18 Bills)
HB 2099 - Extending the time of meetings of local levying bodies when meetings are delayed

Military Affairs (1 Bills)
HB 2049 - Requiring the Parkways Authority to provide free daily toll passes for veterans under certain circumstances
HB 2098 - Authorizing those health care professionals to provide services to patients or residents of state-run veterans' facilities without obtaining an authorization to practice
HB 2135 - Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses
HB 2168 - Requiring an official declaration of war or an action to call forth the West Virginia National Guard by the United States Congress
HB 2179 - Providing a discount on state campground rentals for veterans
HB 2181 - Relating to provide special outdoor recreational opportunities for eligible veterans
HB 2185 - Issuing of special veterans vanity registration plates for motorcycles
HB 2224 - Providing that historical reenactors are not violating the provision prohibiting unlawful military organizations
HB 2244 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2374 - Providing benefits for those who have served in the military service
HB 2399 - Exempting all veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component thereof from having to obtain a hunting, trapping fishing license
HB 2415 - Removing the armed conflict requirement before state employees may receive credit for time served in the Armed Forces
HB 2421 - Retaining jobs for certain disabled veterans seeking or receiving treatment for active duty service-connected injury
HB 2434 - Requiring any employer to retain a job for any veteran with a service-connected disability
HB 2453 - Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans
HB 2464 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2597 - Exempting all monetary benefits derived from military retirement from personal income tax obligations
HB 2676 - Defining a veteran-owned business and exempting such businesses from the initial registration and certain annual report fees
HB 2700 - Creating a program to allow for discounted veteran's licence plates and option on application for applicant to consent to receive information about veteran's services
HB 2759 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, West Virginia Division of Corrections, and to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, West Virginia State Police
HB 2775 - Relating to salary increase for Veteran's Service Officer 1 and Veteran's Service Officer 2 positions
HB 2929 - Relating to availability of military service credit for members of the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2951 - Recognizing those in active military service as residents for the purpose of obtaining concealed carry permits while stationed at a West Virginia military installation
HB 2971 - Continuing the Office of Emergency Medical Services as an independent office within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety

Mines and Minerals (1 Bills)
HB 2019 - Requiring the mine foreman examiner to review the employment history and certify that the applicant
HB 2062 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
HB 2087 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property in certain circumstances
HB 2095 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
HB 2119 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2124 - Relating to underground coal mines
HB 2125 - Requiring that mining equipment being transported or trammed underground be done by qualified personnel under supervision of a certified foreman
HB 2126 - Relating to substance abuse screening of persons certified to perform a duty in the operation of a mine
HB 2166 - West Virginia Coal Employment Enhancement Act
HB 2394 - Repealing the additional tax on the privilege of severing coal
HB 2528 - Providing scholarships for certain former coal miners
HB 2566 - Coal Jobs and Safety Act of 2015
HB 2627 - Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, utilities and other industrial facilities
HB 2816 - Relating to the eligibility of a mine operator to receive a tax credit for performing reclamation or remediation at a bond forfeiture site
HB 2910 - Preserving employment and promoting health and safety in the coal industry
HB 2987 - Relating to mine safety

Miscellaneous (14 Bills)
HB 2549 - Relating to the preparation and publication of county financial statements
HB 2573 - Establishing the English language to be the official language of the state
HB 2646 - Legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks
HB 2667 - Relating to electronic cigarettes and vapor products
HB 2678 - Exempting certain agencies from seeking the advice of the Attorney General to adjust and settle upon certain accounts or claims
HB 2680 - Relating to notices of revocation of certificate of authority
HB 2681 - Repealing outdated language for fees to be charged by a notary public
HB 2682 - Relating to donations of overpayment of fees to the Secretary of State
HB 2685 - Relating to eligible uses of prepaid tuition plans generally
HB 2716 - Relating to charitable organizations
HB 2723 - Relating to the expiration of the Multi-State Real-Time Tracking System
HB 2734 - Extending the Multi-State Real-Time Tracking System
HB 2787 - Relating to hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings
HB 2789 - Relating to neighborhood investment program advisory boards
HB 2797 - Changing the term "mentally retarded" to "intellectually disabled;" and changing the term "handicapped" to "disabled"
HB 2809 - Creating a preference for certain limited video lottery current permit holders in bid process
HB 2844 - Eliminating resort districts
HB 2850 - Relating to hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings
HB 2876 - Finding and declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state
HB 2886 - Relating to conditions under which used manufactured homes may be sold with warranty exclusions, limitations or modifications
HB 2914 - Providing for voluntary dissolution of resort area district
HB 2918 - Relating to delinquency charges on loans
HB 2921 - Eliminating the courtesy patrol program
HB 2926 - Relating to deferral charges in connection with a consumer credit sale or consumer loan
HB 2941 - Relating to conditions under which used manufactured homes may be sold with warranty exclusions, limitations or modifications
HB 2962 - Exempting certain wrapped pipe removal from asbestos abatement requirements
HB 2993 - Relating to pay on promotion of employees in the classified service
HB 3001 - Requiring private clubs to be closed from two o'clock a.m. to seven o'clock a.m. on weekdays
HB 3010 - Modifying definitions related to the one-call system
HB 3012 - Relating to the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs

Motor Vehicles (3 Bills)
HB 2148 - Conforming the motor vehicle law of this state to the requirements of section 1405(a) of the federal Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-first Century
HB 2171 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motorboats on lakes
HB 2196 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue special Hatfield-McCoy Trail license plates
HB 2225 - Relating to roof-mounted off-road light bar lighting devices
HB 2380 - Requiring the issuance of a search warrant before a driver of a motor vehicle can be made to submit to a secondary blood test
HB 2401 - Authorizing the issuance of special "In God We Trust" motor vehicle registration plates
HB 2405 - Providing a maximum repair cost for insured owners of motor vehicles if a collision with a deer caused the damage
HB 2495 - Relating to the written examination of applicants for a license to operate a motor vehicle
HB 2503 - Relating to appraisal value of certain motor vehicles for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 2540 - Requiring automobile liability insurance providers must give a policyholder fourteen days notice of an intent to cancel the policy if the reason for cancellation is nonpayment
HB 2548 - Authorizing incorporated Class IV municipalities to enforce speed limits by use of any device designed to measure and indicate or record speed by means of microwaves or reflected light
HB 2569 - Relating to the Dealer Recovery Program
HB 2601 - Adding motor fuel to the list of products exempted from unfair trade practices
HB 2616 - Updating the criteria by which the Division of Motor Vehicles must deny a motor vehicle salesperson license
HB 2621 - Relating to liens on vehicles
HB 2638 - Exempting motor vehicles from personal property tax
HB 2665 - Relating to participation in Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program
HB 2673 - Relating to liens on vehicles
HB 2693 - Relating to commercial motor carriers
HB 2701 - Relating to motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers
HB 2753 - Removing the requirement for vehicles operated by the West Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol to display front license plates with white lettering on a green background bearing the words "West Virginia" in one line and the words "State Car"
HB 2790 - Relating to minimum responsibility limits of car insurance
HB 2857 - Relating to operating a motor vehicle in the left lane of a controlled-access highway
HB 2861 - Relating to evidence of speed by the use of a device designed to measure and indicate the speed of a motor vehicle
HB 2887 - Prohibiting the Division of Motor Vehicles from issuing instruction permits to applicants who have not successfully passed drug tests
HB 2967 - Providing that the appraised value of an antique motor vehicle is a maximum of $3,000 for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 2978 - Relating to inspection of vehicles and providing that defects in windshields and windows that do not obscure vision are not unsafe conditions

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (3 Bills)
HB 2078 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction

Motor Vehicles -- Licenses, Registration & Inspection (15 Bills)
HB 2030 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2135 - Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses
HB 2219 - Providing that West Virginia will not participate in the REAL ID Act of 2005
HB 2433 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special license plate for applicants who are hearing impaired
HB 2476 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special "SECOND AMENDMENT" license plate
HB 2813 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate

Motor Vehicles -- Regulations (10 Bills)
HB 2036 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked

Motor Vehicles -- Taxation (12 Bills)
HB 2037 - Taxing of utility terrain vehicles

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (2 Bills)
HB 2150 - Prohibiting the modification of mufflers resulting in excessive noise levels
HB 2185 - Issuing of special veterans vanity registration plates for motorcycles
HB 2457 - Prohibiting the use of the name or likeness of elected or appointed officials on publicly-owned vehicles

Municipalities (17 Bills)
HB 2070 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2384 - Removing prohibition of municipalities that are participating in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program to pass ordinances, acts, rules or regulations pertaining to municipal pension plans
HB 2507 - Relating to membership provisions in the West Virginia Municipal Police and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 2539 - Increasing by seven the number of participants in the Home Rule Pilot Program
HB 2548 - Authorizing incorporated Class IV municipalities to enforce speed limits by use of any device designed to measure and indicate or record speed by means of microwaves or reflected light
HB 2583 - Removing the publication requirements of financial statements for municipalities
HB 2720 - Increasing the amount a person receiving a disability benefit from a municipal policemen's or firemen's pension and relief fund may earn from employment or self employment without penalty
HB 2801 - Permitting county commissions and municipalities to designate areas of special interest which will not affect the use of property in those areas
HB 2913 - Terminating the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program and Municipal Home Rule Board
HB 2970 - Authorizing county commissions and municipalities to cooperate and enter into agreements removing or demolishing dwellings or buildings unfit for human habitation

Natural Resources (1 Bills)
HB 2018 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents
HB 2033 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2067 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation
HB 2071 - Providing an increase in compensation for natural resources police officers
HB 2072 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2143 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting
HB 2144 - Permitting crossbow hunting
HB 2269 - Requiring rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal laws
HB 2515 - Relating to elk restoration
HB 2529 - Requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to develop a pilot program for the cultivation of marijuana to be sold in states where sales are legal
HB 2581 - Relating to the Chesapeake Bay watershed; and establishing a comprehensive nutrient reduction credit trading program
HB 2585 - Requiring leaseholders of mineral interests to notify the owners of the minerals when there is an assignment of the lease to another party
HB 2590 - Providing that residents sixty-five years of age or older are not required to have a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 2596 - Providing that all hunting and fishing licenses are valid for one year from the date issued
HB 2845 - Requiring persons who are in the business of purchasing precious metals and precious gems to photograph those purchases and to transmit the photographs to law-enforcement
HB 2890 - Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
HB 2977 - Providing that rents and royalties from leases of the minerals under the state's rivers and streams shall be expended for road paving and maintenance

Oil and Gas (29 Bills)
HB 2062 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
HB 2080 - Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
HB 2192 - Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax
HB 2407 - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin
HB 2688 - Providing for the unitization of interests in drilling units in connection with all horizontal oil or gas wells
HB 2707 - Permitting certain surface owners to purchase gas at market rates
HB 2722 - Requiring oil and gas lessees to make royalty payments within one hundred twenty days of production
HB 2784 - Requiring certification of correctness as to design, construction and performance of domestic and commercial liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances
HB 2927 - Clarifying restriction of businesses selling petroleum products from creating a restricted adult-only facility
HB 2975 - Relating to the assessment of oil and gas mineral interests
HB 2985 - Establishing radiation levels for oil and gas drill cuttings that are disposed in solid waste

Parks and Recreation (2 Bills)
HB 2017 - Providing for the posting of unenclosed lands to prohibit hunting, trapping or fishing
HB 2018 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents
HB 2064 - Providing a ten percent discount to residents at state parks and forests
HB 2097 - Creating the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority Fund
HB 2142 - Exempting recreational vehicles from taxable personal property
HB 2178 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting
HB 2179 - Providing a discount on state campground rentals for veterans
HB 2181 - Relating to provide special outdoor recreational opportunities for eligible veterans
HB 2196 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue special Hatfield-McCoy Trail license plates
HB 2221 - Clarifying that a valid West Virginia identification card is an acceptable form of ID to prove age and residency for purposes of obtaining a senior citizen campground rental discount
HB 2231 - Permitting grandchildren of resident landowners to hunt, trap or fish on that landowner's property without a license
HB 2578 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting
HB 2671 - Establishing the state parks instant lottery scratch-off game

Prescriptions and Medications (7 Bills)
HB 2272 - Relating to the authority of the Board of Pharmacy
HB 2450 - Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses and certified nurse-midwives
HB 2544 - Clarifying that optometrists may continue to exercise the same prescriptive authority which they possessed prior to hydrocodone being reclassified
HB 2556 - Providing medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 2611 - Relating to controlling methamphetamine
HB 2733 - Removing certain combinations of drugs containing hydrocodone from Schedule III of the controlled substances law
HB 2776 - Relating to prescribing hydrocodone combination drugs for a duration of no more than three days

Professions and Occupations (1 Bills)
HB 2011 - Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer
HB 2012 - Relating to the payment of wages by employers and when final wages are required to be paid
HB 2023 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including the source of that compensation, paid to lobbyists
HB 2081 - Including journalists as a protected profession within the definition of crimes of violence against certain categories of workers
HB 2098 - Authorizing those health care professionals to provide services to patients or residents of state-run veterans' facilities without obtaining an authorization to practice
HB 2100 - Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable Act
HB 2151 - Making the West Virginia state teacher of the year an ex officio, nonvoting member of the West Virginia Board of Education
HB 2163 - Increasing salaries for school service personnel
HB 2164 - Providing pay increases for teachers and counselors
HB 2195 - Making changes to the definition of electrical contractor
HB 2378 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2454 - Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act
HB 2475 - Relating to the requirements for and scope of practice for registered veterinary technicians
HB 2489 - Relating to supervision of works by a sanitary board
HB 2513 - Relating to school personnel, employment term and class titles of service personnel and definitions
HB 2528 - Providing scholarships for certain former coal miners
HB 2545 - Relating to reimbursement of certification fee for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification
HB 2554 - Relating to protection of utility workers from crimes against the person
HB 2584 - Allowing a judge to excuse a potential juror from jury duty until a later date based on seasonal employment
HB 2637 - Clarifying that insurance adjusters are not considered insurers for the purposes of the unfair trade practices act
HB 2643 - Establishing the West Virginia Right to Work Law
HB 2702 - Redefining service personnel class titles of early childhood classroom assistant teacher
HB 2708 - Requiring various professionals who provide mental health-related services, complete course work in suicide assessment, treatment and management
HB 2752 - Deregulating persons who perform work on heating, ventilating and cooling systems and fire dampers
HB 2755 - Relating to service and professional employee positions at jointly established schools
HB 2777 - Relating to licensing of barbers, cosmetologists, and hairstylists, and revising the membership requirements of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists
HB 2794 - Making changes to the definition of contractor for purposes of the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 2841 - Allowing a person to be both a limited video lottery operator and retailer
HB 2843 - Requiring school bus aides, who are trained in preventing bullying and providing a safe environment for students while being transported on a school bus, to be present on school buses
HB 2862 - Adding additional magistrate court deputy clerks
HB 2900 - Exempting certified professional estimator services from consumer sales and service tax

Public Employees (6 Bills)
HB 2032 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2043 - Granting all public employees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase
HB 2061 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees
HB 2066 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2068 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2113 - Increasing the amount of retirement income to be excluded from the gross income of individuals receiving retirement benefits under the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2163 - Increasing salaries for school service personnel
HB 2169 - Providing cost-of-living adjustments for certain current and former public employees
HB 2170 - Including volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2173 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2187 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings
HB 2245 - Relating to salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2246 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees
HB 2367 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2369 - Creating an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County
HB 2375 - Providing civil service status for certain employees of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 2389 - Granting all public employees, all teachers, all service employees, all public employee retirees, all teacher retirees and all service employee retirees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase
HB 2431 - Creating a board for review of officer-involved deaths
HB 2435 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees
HB 2442 - Relating to employment of retired teachers as substitutes in areas of critical need and shortage for substitutes
HB 2474 - Relating to the compensation of personnel employed at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
HB 2504 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System Fund
HB 2513 - Relating to school personnel, employment term and class titles of service personnel and definitions
HB 2521 - Clarifying the scope, application and methods for error correction required by the CPRB
HB 2522 - Exempting State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation
HB 2545 - Relating to reimbursement of certification fee for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification
HB 2547 - Removing certain officials from office for misconduct or neglect of official duties
HB 2560 - Relating to disqualification for public retirement plan benefits when a participant is determined to have rendered less than honorable service
HB 2620 - Relating to definitions used in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2642 - Reducing personnel employed by the West Virginia Department of Education
HB 2705 - Providing a pay increase for certain employees of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2706 - Providing a pay increase for certain employees of the Division of Highways
HB 2717 - Relating to hiring of public school employees
HB 2731 - Increasing salaries and creating longevity pay increases for all employees of the Division of Corrections, the Regional Jail Authority and the Division of Juvenile Services
HB 2791 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2796 - Providing paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency
HB 2800 - Adding law-enforcement officers' contact information and names of family members to the list of exemptions from public records requests
HB 2812 - Clarifying use of subsistence allowance in determining compensation for purposes of calculating pension benefits for natural resources police officers
HB 2814 - Expanding membership of the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board
HB 2818 - Increasing the threshold of signatures of named petitioners required to bring a petition seeking removal of a public official
HB 2837 - Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel by one percent a year, for three years
HB 2920 - Vesting the Public Employees Insurance Agency with the authority to negotiate and executing all health care and ancillary contracts for the Medicaid program
HB 2981 - Relating to purchase of service credit following transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2996 - Prohibiting public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion
HB 2997 - Providing a one-time salary increase of $1,500 for any Department of Highways employee with a salary less than $50,000
HB 2998 - Providing a one-time salary increase of $1,500 for any Department of Health and Human Resources employee with a salary less than $50,000

Public Service Commission (9 Bills)
HB 2201 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain net metering and interconnection rules and standards
HB 2238 - Relating to appointment of Public Service Commissioners
HB 2483 - Requiring the three commissioners of the Public Service Commission be elected from the three congressional districts for six-year terms
HB 2537 - Requiring that the chairperson of the Public Service Commission be elected on a nonpartisan ballot
HB 2710 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish rates which ensure that the future customers to be served by the new project are solely responsible only for the debt costs associated for that specific project
HB 2743 - Relating to additional duties of the Public Service Commission
HB 2744 - Preempting any local law, rule, regulation, ordinance, or policy regulating the environmental or operational aspects of any public utility within the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission; providing exceptions

Real Property (7 Bills)
HB 2003 - Relating to the liability of a possessor of real property for harm to a trespasser
HB 2051 - Limiting the use of credit information in connection with the declination and termination of property insurance
HB 2055 - Exempting from excise taxation the transfer of real property from an individual to a wholly-owned subsidiary
HB 2076 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2087 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property in certain circumstances
HB 2223 - Including consumer credit sales that are secured by a mortgage, deed of trust or other equivalent consensual security interest on a dwelling or residential real estate in the definitions of "primary mortgage loan" and "subordinate mortgage loan"
HB 2225 - Relating to roof-mounted off-road light bar lighting devices
HB 2430 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act
HB 2519 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2593 - Creating the Private Property Protection Act
HB 2638 - Exempting motor vehicles from personal property tax
HB 2750 - Abolishing the adverse possession of land
HB 2783 - Modifying procedures available to persons to address bears causing property damage or destruction
HB 2810 - Implementing the West Virginia Property Rescue Initiative to reduce the number of properties posing a threat to public health and safety
HB 2826 - Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to approve points of access to and from state highways to real property used or to be used for commercial, industrial or mercantile purposes; "Sarah Nott's Law"

Redistricting (7 Bills)
HB 2129 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years

Regulation of Trade (6 Bills)
HB 2012 - Relating to the payment of wages by employers and when final wages are required to be paid
HB 2097 - Creating the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority Fund
HB 2098 - Authorizing those health care professionals to provide services to patients or residents of state-run veterans' facilities without obtaining an authorization to practice
HB 2126 - Relating to substance abuse screening of persons certified to perform a duty in the operation of a mine
HB 2131 - Relating to shampoo assistants and persons practicing hair braiding
HB 2132 - Relating to barbers, cosmetologists and shampoo assistants
HB 2133 - Continuing education requirements for barbers and cosmetologists
HB 2171 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motorboats on lakes
HB 2231 - Permitting grandchildren of resident landowners to hunt, trap or fish on that landowner's property without a license
HB 2243 - Relating to minimum wage and maximum hours standards for employers
HB 2448 - Permitting the sale of raw milk
HB 2601 - Adding motor fuel to the list of products exempted from unfair trade practices
HB 2804 - Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays by private licensees

Religious Organizations (1 Bills)
HB 2672 - Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer and worship

Retirement (19 Bills)
HB 2113 - Increasing the amount of retirement income to be excluded from the gross income of individuals receiving retirement benefits under the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2253 - Reducing state income taxes for state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2389 - Granting all public employees, all teachers, all service employees, all public employee retirees, all teacher retirees and all service employee retirees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase
HB 2459 - Requiring state agencies to issue photographic identification cards to qualified retired law-enforcement officers
HB 2504 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System Fund
HB 2505 - Relating to retirement system participation and concurrent employment provisions
HB 2506 - Relating to duty-related disability retirement in the West Virginia State Police Retirement System
HB 2521 - Clarifying the scope, application and methods for error correction required by the CPRB
HB 2560 - Relating to disqualification for public retirement plan benefits when a participant is determined to have rendered less than honorable service
HB 2597 - Exempting all monetary benefits derived from military retirement from personal income tax obligations
HB 2791 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2812 - Clarifying use of subsistence allowance in determining compensation for purposes of calculating pension benefits for natural resources police officers
HB 2817 - Providing for security of private, employer-sponsored insurance and/or retirement plans
HB 2929 - Relating to availability of military service credit for members of the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2981 - Relating to purchase of service credit following transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2995 - Giving an annual 1% annuity adjustment to all eligible retired deputy sheriffs
HB 3003 - Continuing the personal income tax adjustment to the gross income of certain retirees

Retirement -- Education Personnel (10 Bills)
HB 2059 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2154 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2198 - Permitting teachers under the State Teachers Retirement System to teach college level courses without loss of benefits
HB 2417 - Relating to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2437 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired

Retirement -- Public Employees (2 Bills)
HB 2059 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2067 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation
HB 2154 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2415 - Removing the armed conflict requirement before state employees may receive credit for time served in the Armed Forces
HB 2423 - Reinstating service credit to certain members of the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2437 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired
HB 2620 - Relating to definitions used in the Public Employees Retirement System

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (5 Bills)
HB 2067 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation
HB 2222 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature
HB 2656 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game

Roads and Highways (2 Bills)
HB 2049 - Requiring the Parkways Authority to provide free daily toll passes for veterans under certain circumstances
HB 2060 - Creating a crime for theft of a traffic sign or traffic signal
HB 2078 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2186 - Auditing the Division of Highways
HB 2193 - Providing the Parkways Authority with the power to issue $500 million worth of bonds
HB 2447 - Prohibiting the naming for certain persons of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers
HB 2526 - Providing for the transfer of ownership, operation and maintenance of certain assets of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to the Division of Highways
HB 2571 - Creating a fund for pothole repair contributed to by private businesses or entities
HB 2609 - Prohibiting railroads from blocking crossings on privately owned streets
HB 2699 - Requiring that patching repair of hard surfaced roads, highways and streets be by use of mechanical rollers
HB 2706 - Providing a pay increase for certain employees of the Division of Highways
HB 2718 - Transferring funds remaining in the Racetrack Modernization Fund to the State Road Fund and closing the Racetrack Modernization Fund
HB 2826 - Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to approve points of access to and from state highways to real property used or to be used for commercial, industrial or mercantile purposes; "Sarah Nott's Law"
HB 2857 - Relating to operating a motor vehicle in the left lane of a controlled-access highway
HB 2901 - Relating to the establishment of state speed restrictions
HB 2923 - Relating to complaints by school bus drivers, against drivers who illegally pass or overtake a school bus
HB 2977 - Providing that rents and royalties from leases of the minerals under the state's rivers and streams shall be expended for road paving and maintenance

Rule Making Authority (3 Bills)
HB 2233 - Requiring that legislative rules be reviewed five years after initial approval by the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and the Legislative Auditor's Office
HB 2591 - Implementing a quality control procedure for agency rules

Safety (2 Bills)
HB 2058 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2062 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
HB 2074 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers
HB 2095 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
HB 2388 - Requiring the State Board of Education to cause school buses to be equipped with safety belts
HB 2412 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to public and private elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education
HB 2501 - Prohibiting sexual offenders from residing within one thousand feet of a school or childcare facility
HB 2527 - Creating a Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children; "Erin Merryn's Law"
HB 2535 - Relating generally to suicide prevention training, "Jamie's Law"
HB 2553 - Relating to human trafficking
HB 2556 - Providing medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 2566 - Coal Jobs and Safety Act of 2015
HB 2574 - Amending the Aboveground Storage Tank Act
HB 2582 - Requiring the State Board of Education to cause school buses to be equipped with safety belts
HB 2623 - Establishing guidelines and materials to inform and educate students, parents and coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest
HB 2648 - Allowing authorized entities to maintain a stock of epinephrine auto-injectors to be used for emergency
HB 2667 - Relating to electronic cigarettes and vapor products
HB 2690 - Relating to student safety on higher education campuses
HB 2810 - Implementing the West Virginia Property Rescue Initiative to reduce the number of properties posing a threat to public health and safety
HB 2843 - Requiring school bus aides, who are trained in preventing bullying and providing a safe environment for students while being transported on a school bus, to be present on school buses
HB 2883 - Requiring, for safety reasons, minimum personnel of two on certain trains
HB 2888 - Allowing the use of rotary drum composters to destroy or dispose of the carcass of any animal to prevent the spread of disease
HB 2910 - Preserving employment and promoting health and safety in the coal industry
HB 2959 - Allowing the use of rotary drum composters to destroy or dispose of the carcass of any animal to prevent the spread of disease
HB 2987 - Relating to mine safety
HB 3005 - Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling

Salaries (55 Bills)
HB 2032 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2043 - Granting all public employees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase
HB 2057 - Requiring that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby and providing a stipend for housing cost for certain officers
HB 2065 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police
HB 2066 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2069 - Providing for career development and establishing a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and supervisors
HB 2071 - Providing an increase in compensation for natural resources police officers
HB 2072 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2075 - Establishing a minimum number of troopers to provide basic law enforcement services, and providing members of the West Virginia State Police a $580 salary increase at the end of two years of service
HB 2162 - Relating to payment of employees separated from payroll before paydays
HB 2197 - Removing the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case coordinators
HB 2438 - Increasing the educational increment for school service personnel

Secretary of State (7 Bills)
HB 2588 - Relating to the filing of financial statements with the Secretary of State

Senior Citizens (1 Bills)
HB 2039 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2079 - Creating the Seniors Helping Seniors Fund
HB 2083 - Relating to Class XS senior resident lifetime licenses
HB 2204 - Eliminating the motor fuels tax on heating oil for residential use by eligible seniors
HB 2221 - Clarifying that a valid West Virginia identification card is an acceptable form of ID to prove age and residency for purposes of obtaining a senior citizen campground rental discount
HB 2404 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy
HB 2463 - Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2534 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation
HB 2590 - Providing that residents sixty-five years of age or older are not required to have a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 2760 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Bureau of Senior Services - Lottery Senior Citizens Fund
HB 2984 - Creating a Silver Alert program for senior citizens

Social Security (16 Bills)
HB 2230 - Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes

Taxation (5 Bills)
HB 2080 - Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
HB 2104 - Terminating the Tax Commissioner's authority to issue business licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2127 - Relating to corporation net income tax for manufacturers of medical devices
HB 2142 - Exempting recreational vehicles from taxable personal property
HB 2165 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses with more than twenty-five employees that relocate to reclaimed mountaintop removal land
HB 2167 - Providing a $500 tax credit to volunteer firefighters
HB 2182 - Relating to examination of Potomac Highlands Airport Authority accounts by Chief Inspector and Tax Commissioner
HB 2249 - Requiring the assessor of each county to, within three months of a deed filing in the county clerk's office of each county, prepare a new property tax ticket
HB 2253 - Reducing state income taxes for state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2360 - State Tax Department, appointment of special assessors by the State Tax Commissioner
HB 2394 - Repealing the additional tax on the privilege of severing coal
HB 2400 - Relating to quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2407 - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin
HB 2462 - Relating to certain deposits of tax proceeds
HB 2463 - Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2490 - Establishing a tax credit for new businesses that locate in the state
HB 2498 - Allowing taxpayers to make partial payments of real and personal property taxes
HB 2503 - Relating to appraisal value of certain motor vehicles for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 2522 - Exempting State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation
HB 2538 - Relating to administrative fees for the Tax Division of the Department of Revenue
HB 2558 - Providing a $500 credit against state personal income tax for certain members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2559 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes
HB 2570 - Relating to a tax deduction allowed for capital expenditures from the corporate net income tax
HB 2587 - Creating tax credits for new small businesses created in this state and operating entirely within West Virginia
HB 2599 - Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax
HB 2614 - Relating generally to health care provider taxes
HB 2622 - Relating to deductions from personal income tax for contributions to state-administered prepaid college tuition contracts or college savings plans
HB 2629 - Creating tax credits for small business economic impact
HB 2630 - Creating the West Virginia Earned Income Tax Credit
HB 2639 - Abolishing the Personal Income Tax
HB 2647 - Allowing an employer to extend workers' compensation insurance coverage to an employee engaged in volunteer fire fighting and allowing employers a tax credit
HB 2649 - Exempting social security benefits from personal income tax
HB 2675 - Reducing certain severance taxes that are dedicated to the Workers' Compensation Debt Reduction Fund
HB 2687 - Relating to personal income taxes
HB 2695 - Relating to gasoline and fuel excise tax
HB 2704 - Increasing sales and use taxes by one percent
HB 2709 - Exempting a percentage of social security benefits from personal income tax
HB 2713 - Providing taxpayers repaying their own student loans a modification reducing federal adjusted gross in the amount of the interest paid
HB 2771 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services - Health Care Provider Tax
HB 2773 - Relating to the West Virginia Film Industry Investment tax credit
HB 2792 - Relating to the business and occupation tax
HB 2816 - Relating to the eligibility of a mine operator to receive a tax credit for performing reclamation or remediation at a bond forfeiture site
HB 2821 - Implementing a surcharge on licensed exotic entertainment facilities and adult bookstores to provide funding for rape information and prevention services and rape crisis centers
HB 2823 - Eliminating the street and interurban and electric railways tax
HB 2832 - Reducing the motor fuel excise tax
HB 2838 - Relating to the reproduction, distribution and sale of tax maps
HB 2847 - Permitting sheriffs to hire outside attorneys to assist with collection of taxes
HB 2851 - Eliminating exemption from hotel occupancy taxes on rental of hotel and motel rooms for thirty or more consecutive days
HB 2870 - Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school
HB 2877 - Relating to electronic filing of tax returns and electronic funds transfers in payment of taxes
HB 2893 - Clarifying that complimentary hotel rooms provided without charge to guests are not subject to the hotel occupancy tax
HB 2894 - Providing tax breaks for employers assisting employees paying student loans
HB 2895 - Requiring the assessor of each county, within three months of a deed filing in the county clerk's office of each county, to prepare a new property tax ticket
HB 2900 - Exempting certified professional estimator services from consumer sales and service tax
HB 2903 - Providing a tax credit for first time home buyers
HB 2917 - Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit
HB 2947 - Relating to provider tax on hospitals to fund health care cost review fund
HB 2950 - Providing for a $1,000 tax credit against personal income tax in tax years 2016-2017 for recent graduates of higher education programs
HB 2953 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products
HB 2967 - Providing that the appraised value of an antique motor vehicle is a maximum of $3,000 for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 2968 - Exempting from property tax certain properties in this state owned by nonprofit youth organizations
HB 2988 - Authorizing the Tax Commissioner to collect tax, interest and penalties due and owing from payments to vendors and contractors from the Auditor and other state, county, district or municipal officers and agents
HB 3000 - Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit
HB 3003 - Continuing the personal income tax adjustment to the gross income of certain retirees
HB 3006 - Relating to the determination of the adjusted rate established by the Tax Commissioner for the administration of tax deficiencies
HB 3015 - Enabling legislation for the "Nonprofit Youth Organization Tax Exemption Support Amendment" to Article X of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2579 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan

Taxation -- Consumers Sales Tax (8 Bills)
HB 2029 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2035 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2037 - Taxing of utility terrain vehicles
HB 2262 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants

Taxation -- Personal & Corporate Income Tax (28 Bills)
HB 2039 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2067 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation
HB 2076 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2176 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail head
HB 2230 - Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes
HB 2470 - Relating to nursing education faculty
HB 2580 - Creating the Economic Fairness Act of 2015
HB 2668 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on taxpayers' personal residences to be used as a deduction for personal income tax purposes

Taxation -- Property (1 Bills)
HB 2076 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2110 - Relating generally to the tax treatment of manufacturing entities
HB 2111 - Providing a special method for valuation of certain wireless technology property for property taxes
HB 2473 - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jail fees
HB 2668 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on taxpayers' personal residences to be used as a deduction for personal income tax purposes

Taxation -- Roads & Fuel (5 Bills)
HB 2035 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2192 - Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (3 Bills)
HB 2055 - Exempting from excise taxation the transfer of real property from an individual to a wholly-owned subsidiary
HB 2268 - Removing the severance tax on timber
HB 2633 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor
HB 2634 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products

Technology (1 Bills)
HB 2111 - Providing a special method for valuation of certain wireless technology property for property taxes
HB 2452 - Requiring reports to the Governor from state agencies to be made available electronically via the internet
HB 2519 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2551 - Prohibiting internet service providers from advertising or offering to provide high speed internet service that is not at least ten megabytes per second
HB 2654 - Relating to location information of an electronic device
HB 2666 - Internet Service Provider Accountability Act
HB 2712 - Relating to employment and privacy protection
HB 2785 - Statewide Interoperable Radio Network Act
HB 2833 - Establishing the Court Advanced Technology Subscription Fund
HB 2871 - Creating the statewide Interoperable Radio Network
HB 2875 - E-mail Privacy Act
HB 2877 - Relating to electronic filing of tax returns and electronic funds transfers in payment of taxes
HB 2878 - Creating a one-stop electronic business portal in West Virginia
HB 2889 - Relating to regulation of transportation network companies
HB 2912 - Relating to third-party telecommunications services provided to residential and business consumers
HB 2922 - Relating to the Broadband Deployment Council
HB 2932 - Relating to the distribution of wireless enhanced 911 fees
HB 2952 - Creating the Statewide Interoperable Radio Network
HB 2964 - Allowing e-mails and other types of electronic communications to and from regional jail inmates be monitored, intercepted, recorded and disclosed

Tobacco and Tobacco Products (1 Bills)
HB 2104 - Terminating the Tax Commissioner's authority to issue business licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2208 - Relating to local smoking restrictions
HB 2634 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2689 - Repealing the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products
HB 2953 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products

Tourism (1 Bills)
HB 2018 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents
HB 2176 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail head
HB 2686 - Providing funds for the Tourism Promotion Fund
HB 2940 - Creating the Tourist-Oriented Directional Signs Program

Transportation (2 Bills)
HB 2148 - Conforming the motor vehicle law of this state to the requirements of section 1405(a) of the federal Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-first Century
HB 2174 - Increasing criminal incarceration penalties for the transportation of controlled substances into the state
HB 2401 - Authorizing the issuance of special "In God We Trust" motor vehicle registration plates
HB 2468 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2472 - Issuing a special registration plate for persons who are residents of this state and who have a family member diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
HB 2495 - Relating to the written examination of applicants for a license to operate a motor vehicle
HB 2677 - Creating a legislative commission to study the feasibility of the state entering into sponsorship agreements for transportation structures
HB 2693 - Relating to commercial motor carriers
HB 2700 - Creating a program to allow for discounted veteran's licence plates and option on application for applicant to consent to receive information about veteran's services
HB 2736 - Relating to regulation of transportation network companies
HB 2757 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the State Road Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways
HB 2856 - Revising the requirements for the removal of the daytime driving restriction for Class G driver's licenses
HB 2857 - Relating to operating a motor vehicle in the left lane of a controlled-access highway
HB 2861 - Relating to evidence of speed by the use of a device designed to measure and indicate the speed of a motor vehicle
HB 2863 - Authorizing the issuance of special "Homeland Security and Emergency Management" registration plates
HB 2883 - Requiring, for safety reasons, minimum personnel of two on certain trains
HB 2887 - Prohibiting the Division of Motor Vehicles from issuing instruction permits to applicants who have not successfully passed drug tests
HB 2889 - Relating to regulation of transportation network companies

Unemployment Compensation (10 Bills)
HB 2011 - Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer
HB 2520 - Relating to domestic violence victims' eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits
HB 2735 - Changing the date the unemployment fund reaches a certain level to reduce the threshold wage

Uniform Laws (90 Bills)
HB 2145 - Relating to exceptions to prohibitions against carrying one or more concealed deadly weapons and reciprocity agreements
HB 2430 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act

Utilities (1 Bills)
HB 2201 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain net metering and interconnection rules and standards
HB 2512 - Requiring the consent of the Public Service Commission before an electric utility subject to this chapter may retire or permanently shut-down an electric generating plant
HB 2552 - Permitting utility consumers to use the consumer protection laws when concerning billing issues are in question
HB 2554 - Relating to protection of utility workers from crimes against the person
HB 2627 - Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, utilities and other industrial facilities
HB 2744 - Preempting any local law, rule, regulation, ordinance, or policy regulating the environmental or operational aspects of any public utility within the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission; providing exceptions
HB 2802 - Relating to public sewage services

Vendors (1 Bills)
HB 2028 - Relating generally to purchasing
HB 2663 - Creating the Rehabilitation Services Vending Program Fund

Vital Records (19 Bills)
HB 2455 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor

Weapons (7 Bills)
HB 2120 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex
HB 2134 - Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2149 - Exempting records of concealed weapon license applications and issuance from disclosure under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act
HB 2152 - Prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon
HB 2651 - Creating the "Firearm Protection Act"

Workers Compensation (1 Bills)
HB 2426 - Relating to the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund

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