SENATE
HOUSE
JOINT
BILL STATUS
STATE LAW
REPORTS
EDUCATIONAL
CONTACT
home
home
SENATE (2018)(RS):| Bills Introduced | Bill History | Topical Index | Committee Schedule | Calendar | Journal | Menu |

Senate Topical


Actions, Suits and Liens (11 Bills)
SB 3 - Relating to venue for certain claims against state
SB 35 - Requiring presuit mediation for certain civil actions
SB 60 - Providing compensation to victims of abusive lawsuits
SB 326 - Protecting certain individuals from civil liability for damages when removing domesticated animal from locked or unattended vehicle
SB 358 - Imposing fee for processing criminal bonds
SB 564 - Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
SB 595 - Creating Protect Our Right to Unite Act
SB 602 - Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
SB 603 - Relating to proceedings for involuntary custody for examination
SB 606 - Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in civil action
SB 607 - Prohibiting certain misleading lawsuit advertising practices

Agriculture (15 Bills)
SB 86 - Permitting sale of home-based, micro-processed foods at farmers markets
SB 88 - Providing resident farm vendor's bidding preference
SB 115 - Requiring Agriculture Commissioner sell all department-owned farms by certain date
SB 136 - Providing addition of mini-distillery does not change nature of agricultural property for building code and property tax classification purposes
SB 145 - Relating to inspection of meat and poultry
SB 274 - Relating generally to horse and dog racing lottery
SB 310 - Transferring Division of Forestry to Department of Agriculture
SB 317 - Transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Department of Agriculture
SB 322 - Relating to employees of Department of Agriculture
SB 375 - Relating to farmers markets
SB 446 - Creating Agritourism Responsibility Act
SB 463 - Establishing group to examine benefits and need of transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Agriculture
SB 475 - Industrial Hemp Development Act
SB 557 - Relating to Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
SB 572 - Creating Farm-to-School Grant Program

Alcoholic Liquors and Beers (11 Bills)
SB 17 - Permitting certain ABCC appointees or employees to carry firearms
SB 101 - Creating one-day special license for charitable events to sell nonintoxicating beer
SB 110 - Requiring certain licensees notify law enforcement or EMS of life-threatening emergency on premises
SB 275 - Relating to tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors
SB 306 - Allowing grocery stores to sell certain amount of WV-made wine without license
SB 353 - Relating generally to certain permits and floor plans of nonintoxicating beer licensees
SB 354 - Creating one-day special license for charitable events to purchase and sell beer and craft beer
SB 374 - Creating private fair and festival license
SB 420 - Transferring Safety and Treatment Program from DHHR to DMV
SB 422 - Regulating liquor sales
SB 426 - Modernizing certain alcohol laws

Appropriations (22 Bills)
SB 132 - Supplemental appropriation from surplus balance to DHHR Division of Tobacco Education Program
SB 151 - Creating Appropriation Supremacy Act of 2018
SB 152 - Budget Bill
SB 334 - Supplemental appropriation from Excess Lottery Fund to DHHR Central Office
SB 378 - Expiring, supplementing, amending, increasing and adding items within various DHHR accounts
SB 379 - Supplemental appropriation from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR
SB 380 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds out of Treasury to certain DOE programs
SB 381 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to DOT, Division of Public Transit
SB 382 - Supplemental appropriation of Lottery Net Profits to Bureau of Senior Services, Lottery Senior Citizens Fund
SB 383 - Expiring funds from Treasurer's Office to WV Enterprise Resource Planning Board
SB 384 - Decreasing and increasing appropriations from State Fund, General Revenue to DHHR
SB 385 - Decreasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and MAPS
SB 386 - Decreasing and increasing appropriations from Treasury to Higher Education Policy Commission
SB 387 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to DHHR, Division of Health
SB 388 - Decreasing, increasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and Department of Administration
SB 389 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to DHHR, Division of Human Services
SB 390 - Supplemental appropriation from State Road Fund to DOT, Division of Highways
SB 391 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds out of Treasury to Department of Agriculture
SB 483 - Expiring funds to Department of Veterans Assistance from Insurance Commissioner
SB 488 - Supplemental appropriation of funds from Excess Lottery Fund to DHHR, CARDIAC program
SB 633 - Expiring funds from Insurance Commission Fund and appropriating funds to Consolidated Medical Services Fund
SB 634 - Adding, increasing, and decreasing appropriations from General Revenue to DHHR

Banking and Finance (1 Bills)
SB 398 - Relating to requirements for making consumer loans

Boards and Commissions (11 Bills)
SB 33 - Creating WV Motorsports Committee
SB 288 - Regulating cremation, embalming and directing of funeral service
SB 400 - Prohibiting state licensing boards from hiring lobbyists
SB 411 - Removing Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health from State Board of Sanitarians
SB 438 - Relating to debt service on bonds secured by State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund
SB 467 - Relating generally to Public Defender Services
SB 480 - Creating WV Sports Hall of Fame Commission
SB 565 - Clarifying authority of State Fire Commission
SB 576 - Relating to Patient Injury Compensation Fund
SB 624 - Relating to racetrack video lottery
SB 628 - Relating generally to WV Jobs Investment Trust Board

Bonds (1 Bills)
SB 524 - Relating to disposition of complaint proceedings

Claims (1 Bills)
SB 584 - Finding certain claims against state to be moral obligations of state

Constitutional Officers (1 Bills)
SB 468 - Changing date and recipients for submission of Auditor's annual report

Consumer Protection (5 Bills)
SB 241 - Relating to used motor vehicle warranties
SB 368 - Protecting consumers against business using automatic purchase renewals without consent
SB 433 - Rewriting code sections regarding pyramid promotional schemes
SB 579 - Establishing responsibilities of providing credit card processing services
SB 621 - Prohibiting consumer-reporting agency from charging fee to consumer

Corporations (4 Bills)
SB 261 - Transferring certain powers and programs of WV Affordable Housing Trust Fund to WV Housing Development Fund
SB 365 - Relating to Young Entrepreneur Reinvestment Act
SB 555 - Providing immunity from civil liability for qualified directors of certain governmental and nonprofit entities
SB 556 - Creating small business and minority populations economic and workforce development taskforce to assist Economic Development Authority

Corrections (4 Bills)
SB 18 - Relating generally to hiring of DOC and RJCFA correctional officers
SB 279 - Requiring correctional officers be paid overtime
SB 369 - Relating to powers and authority of newly created divisions of Administrative Services and Corrections and Rehabilitation within MAPS
SB 586 - Requiring certain probationers participate in work release program and spend six months in work release center

Counties (17 Bills)
SB 38 - Allowing county commissions to set standards for certain county road projects
SB 49 - Relating to funding sources for fire departments
SB 59 - Creating fund to relieve municipalities and counties of certain fire-related cleanup and demolition
SB 94 - Prohibiting counties from regulating fireworks
SB 98 - Creating incentives to consolidate local governments
SB 137 - Removing limitation on amount collected by county via hotel occupancy tax that may be used for medical care and emergency services
SB 141 - Expanding county assessment and collection of head tax on breeding cows
SB 295 - Relating to Local Powers Act
SB 301 - Removing limitation on amount collected by county via hotel occupancy tax used for medical or emergency services
SB 302 - Relating to size requirements for flags county commissions must purchase and display
SB 325 - Creating County Home Rule Pilot Program
SB 412 - Relating to authority of county litter control officers
SB 501 - Relating to accrued benefit of retirees in Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
SB 529 - Creating Citizen and State Accountability Act
SB 585 - Altering boundary line between Doddridge and Harrison counties
SB 598 - Relating to civil actions against county commissions and municipalities for injuries
SB 619 - Creating Prosecuting Attorney Directives Act

County Officials (1 Bills)
SB 503 - Shifting funding from Landfill Closure Assistance Fund to local solid waste authorities

Courts (22 Bills)
SB 4 - Establishing Mental Health and Military Service Member Court program
SB 35 - Requiring presuit mediation for certain civil actions
SB 50 - Reporting by Supreme Court Administrator
SB 53 - Correcting code reference in regard to certain persons exempted from prohibitions against carrying concealed deadly weapons
SB 60 - Providing compensation to victims of abusive lawsuits
SB 102 - Creating WV Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
SB 107 - Establishing Mental Health, Veteran and Service Members Court
SB 116 - Providing court costs collected under Second Chance Driver's License Program are not subject to 5 percent offset
SB 142 - Reducing number of strikes defendant has in criminal proceedings from six to four
SB 243 - Increasing number of Berkeley County magistrates
SB 341 - Relating generally to WV Appellate Reorganization Act of 2018
SB 358 - Imposing fee for processing criminal bonds
SB 359 - Authorizing Supreme Court establish curricula for mental hygiene commissioners and certain magistrates
SB 361 - Relating to treatment supervision under Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act
SB 362 - Relating to definitions of "child abuse" and "neglect"
SB 367 - Allowing retired judicial officers recalled to service avoid normal cap on temporary employment payments
SB 466 - Bringing statutory interest rate paid in condemnation cases into conformity with current statutory rates
SB 467 - Relating generally to Public Defender Services
SB 512 - Authorizing certain WV courthouse security officers carry concealed weapons
SB 528 - Providing additional circuit judge for nineteenth judicial circuit
SB 535 - Dedicating increased court fees in criminal cases to fund training programs for law-enforcement officers
SB 568 - Deferring further proceedings for certain first offenses upon completion of Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program within 12 months

Crime (43 Bills)
SB 16 - Increasing penalties for shoplifting
SB 25 - Prohibiting doctors and lawyers from filing fraudulent disability claims
SB 37 - Equalizing penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day
SB 39 - Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights
SB 44 - Increasing criminal penalties for certain crimes against law-enforcement officers
SB 61 - Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicle when minor 16 years old or less is present
SB 65 - Accessing controlled substance monitoring information
SB 70 - Creating felony offense of aggravated animal cruelty
SB 73 - Modifying crime of fleeing from scene of accident
SB 114 - Posting of National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline number
SB 244 - Specifying conditions for unlawful possession of firearm at school-sponsored activities
SB 245 - Prohibiting use of communication facility in commission of felony
SB 246 - Increasing penalty for burglary under certain circumstances
SB 247 - Relating to crime of attempted murder
SB 248 - Raising age to 16 for children who are victims of certain sexual offenses
SB 249 - Relating to felony possession of stolen firearm with altered serial number
SB 250 - Relating to crime of aggravated malicious wounding
SB 315 - Increasing penalty for impersonating law-enforcement officer or official
SB 327 - Providing extortion of anything of value, including sexual contact, subjects person to criminal penalty
SB 328 - Requiring participation in drug court program before conditional discharge for first offense of possession of controlled substance
SB 358 - Imposing fee for processing criminal bonds
SB 361 - Relating to treatment supervision under Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act
SB 394 - Changing requisite period necessary to take advantage of criminal offense reduction
SB 397 - Creating crime of impersonating blind or disabled person
SB 404 - Relating to sex offender registry information
SB 423 - Relating to hunting, trapping, or fishing on another person's lands
SB 460 - Requiring retailers ensure products that make content accessible on Internet contain digital blocking capability
SB 470 - Justice Through Grace in Communities Act
SB 491 - Establishing fee for expungement of certain criminal convictions
SB 517 - Relating generally to drug overdoses and controlled substances monitoring
SB 533 - Equalizing criminal penalties for intimidating and retaliating against public officers and employees
SB 534 - Increasing penalty for tobacco-related offenses on public school property
SB 549 - Creating felony offense of intimidation or harassment of certain persons that causes injury or loss to person or property
SB 551 - Relating to failure of employers to make contributions on behalf of employees to retirement plan administered by CPRB
SB 562 - Allowing courts discretion to impose period of supervised release of defendant
SB 567 - Including treason, murder, armed robbery, and organized crimes for which communications can be intercepted
SB 574 - Relating to crime of misrepresentation of military honors
SB 586 - Requiring certain probationers participate in work release program and spend six months in work release center
SB 588 - Prohibiting use of anabolic steroids and certain Class I drugs on racing dogs
SB 593 - Reducing criminal penalties and criminalization of marijuana
SB 608 - Creating misdemeanor offense of impersonating military
SB 610 - Providing penalty for possession of marijuana
SB 614 - Relating to crime of impeding investigation involving acts of violence

Domestic Relations (7 Bills)
SB 47 - Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person's child
SB 48 - Specifying forms of grandparent visitation
SB 51 - Relating to domestic relations
SB 79 - Relating to access to adoption records
SB 443 - Terminating parental rights when certain conditions are met
SB 465 - Relating to mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect
SB 511 - Creating Parents' Bill of Rights

Economic Development (8 Bills)
SB 24 - Requiring DNR study use of nonemployee workforce to perform improvements
SB 26 - Authorizing WV Disaster Recovery Board to restore access to property affected by natural or manmade disaster
SB 32 - Creating grant fund to encourage film and entertainment production in WV
SB 269 - Establishing 2018 Regulatory Reform Act
SB 448 - Relating generally to professional associations
SB 530 - Requiring Secretary of State provide database for registered corporations and sole proprietorship
SB 542 - Creating four-year middle high school pilot program as part of Upper Kanawha Valley Resiliency and Revitalization Program
SB 627 - Permitting local governments to access certain economic development project-related tax records

Education (Higher) (14 Bills)
SB 11 - Relating generally to traumatic brain injury
SB 29 - Requiring school counselors to advise graduating students on availability of student aid
SB 66 - Relating to in-state tuition rates for members of National Guard, military and reserve units
SB 83 - Relating to higher education student success
SB 105 - Establishing tax credit for certain college graduates who remain in state
SB 111 - Enacting Forming Open and Robust University Minds Act
SB 128 - Establishing education expenses tax credit
SB 253 - Relating generally to associate of science degrees which target workforce needs
SB 319 - Allowing individuals who completed home schooling be eligible for PROMISE scholarship without equivalent diploma
SB 372 - Authorizing higher education institutions to eliminate faculty tenure
SB 518 - Extending WV Invests Grant programs to public and private institutions
SB 537 - Implementing Business PROMISE+ Scholarship
SB 552 - Making Pierpont Community and Technical College a division of Fairmont State University
SB 605 - Relating to vocational and technical education programs

Education (K12) (34 Bills)
SB 6 - Establishing education savings accounts for WV students
SB 8 - Permitting county boards of education to base certain workforce decisions on individual's qualifications
SB 9 - Directing certain school funding to assist county boards with exceptional students with special needs
SB 11 - Relating generally to traumatic brain injury
SB 19 - Requiring teachers to post online calendar of class activities
SB 20 - Requiring election of State BOE members
SB 27 - Relating generally to School Building Authority's disbursement of funds
SB 28 - Relating to hiring of school personnel
SB 41 - Increasing time school counselors spend on direct counseling
SB 52 - Setting maximum licensed school psychologist-pupil ratio at 1,500 pupils for each psychologist
SB 62 - Adjusting requirements for hiring school attendance directors
SB 124 - Providing authorization and oversight of public charter schools
SB 130 - Creating Tim Tebow Act
SB 252 - Requiring schools provide elective course on certain religious texts
SB 278 - Providing for disposition of vacated school buildings or other state-owned buildings
SB 304 - Relating to authorization and establishment of charter schools
SB 330 - Relating to exemptions from mandated immunizations
SB 349 - Providing teachers with a three percent pay raise
SB 364 - Allowing parent or legal guardian of homeschooled child provide signed statement for obtaining permit or license to operate motor vehicle
SB 366 - Prohibiting State Board of Education from accepting federal education plans without approval of Legislature
SB 494 - Considering members of State Teachers Retirement System absent while serving as officer with statewide professional association
SB 507 - Establishing Katherine Johnson Academy as magnet school programs at WV colleges and universities
SB 532 - Administering ACT or SAT tests to students
SB 538 - Providing classroom teachers credit against personal income tax for nonreimbursed supplies
SB 547 - Adding members to local school improvement council
SB 554 - Relating to distribution of School Building Authority funds
SB 559 - Creating Shared Table initiative in public schools
SB 561 - Increasing minimum contract price requiring execution of bond with respect to building or repairing school property
SB 569 - Establishing local choice program for alternative high school assessments for improving education
SB 572 - Creating Farm-to-School Grant Program
SB 573 - Relating generally to school calendars
SB 587 - Providing counties having less than 1,400 net enrollment be considered as having 1,400 net enrollment for basic foundation program
SB 599 - Relating to county boards of education providing free feminine hygiene products
SB 605 - Relating to vocational and technical education programs

Elections (10 Bills)
SB 40 - Requiring certain election expenditure disclosures
SB 54 - Creating Independent Redistricting Commission
SB 117 - Requiring vacancies in certain elected offices be filled by person of same political party as previous officeholder
SB 118 - Revising law regulating election financing
SB 140 - Requiring photo identification on voter registration cards
SB 144 - Providing for nonpartisan election of county surveyors
SB 351 - Permitting ballot commissioners serve while candidates for certain offices
SB 376 - Amending residency requirements for people entitled to vote
SB 548 - Authorizing county commissions to pay election officials
SB 582 - Allowing candidate for political party executive committee serve as election official

Energy (3 Bills)
SB 455 - Providing proceeds from oil and gas wells due to unknown persons be kept in special fund
SB 476 - Permitting surface owners to seek damages resulting from oil and gas operations
SB 516 - Requiring DEP work with Tax Commission, PSC and county assessors to develop system for verifying production information submitted by oil and gas producer

Environment (10 Bills)
SB 57 - Relating to third-party litigation financing
SB 146 - Correcting technical error within Solid Waste Management Act
SB 276 - Limiting DEP employees from entering private lands for environmental purposes only
SB 286 - Granting State Conservation Committee authority to contract for flood response and related stream restoration work
SB 290 - Relating to DEP standards of water quality and effluent limitations
SB 360 - Clarifying oil and gas permits not be on flat well royalty leases
SB 395 - Providing for judicial review of appealed decisions of Air Quality Review Board, Environmental Quality Board and Surface Mine Board
SB 410 - Appointing industry advocate within DEP
SB 476 - Permitting surface owners to seek damages resulting from oil and gas operations
SB 516 - Requiring DEP work with Tax Commission, PSC and county assessors to develop system for verifying production information submitted by oil and gas producer

Estates and Trusts (3 Bills)
SB 109 - Limiting funds deducted from Unclaimed Property Fund during fiscal year
SB 127 - Relating to personal representatives of estates
SB 447 - Updating powers of certain administrators of estates with regard to easements

Finance and Administration (18 Bills)
SB 71 - Defining "veteran" as it pertains to veteran-owned business
SB 133 - Exempting renewal of certain contracts entered into during declared state of emergency
SB 259 - Clarifying process to assess lowest qualified bidder in government construction contracts
SB 260 - Requiring state-owned or -leased vehicles be registered
SB 281 - Relating to state's spending units
SB 282 - Exempting State Conservation Committee from Purchasing Division requirements for contracts related to flood recovery
SB 283 - Relating generally to procurement by state agencies
SB 287 - Creating and maintaining centralized state vehicle inventory system
SB 296 - Relating to sale or transfer of surplus property
SB 303 - Relating to debarment of vendors seeking to provide goods and services to state and its subdivisions
SB 314 - Modifying procedure certain public agencies use to contract for architectural and engineering services
SB 321 - Relating to powers and duties of Public Land Corporation
SB 342 - Requiring agencies provide annual inventory of real property holdings to Real Estate Division
SB 355 - Dissolving IS&C Division under Office of Technology
SB 418 - Relating to WV Monument and Memorial Protection Act of 2018
SB 505 - Requiring contact information of state official or employee mobile phone furnished by employer be listed on directory or website
SB 513 - Increasing amount retirant may earn
SB 522 - Relating generally to Administrative Procedures Act

Governor -- Bills Requested By (30 Bills)
SB 152 - Budget Bill
SB 261 - Transferring certain powers and programs of WV Affordable Housing Trust Fund to WV Housing Development Fund
SB 262 - Providing certain Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services and WV Regional Jail Authority pay equity salary adjustment
SB 263 - Eliminating film tax credits
SB 264 - Eliminating refundable exemption for road construction contractors
SB 265 - Updating meaning of certain terms in WV Corporation Net Income Tax Act
SB 266 - Updating meaning of certain terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act
SB 267 - Increasing salaries of certain state employees
SB 268 - Eliminating requirement that certain agencies purchase commodities produced on institutional farms
SB 269 - Establishing 2018 Regulatory Reform Act
SB 270 - Authorizing DNR implement silvicultural management for state park lands
SB 271 - Creating centralized Shared Services Section of Department of Administration
SB 272 - Relating generally to drug control
SB 273 - Reducing use of certain prescription drugs
SB 283 - Relating generally to procurement by state agencies
SB 284 - Increasing access to career education and workforce training
SB 378 - Expiring, supplementing, amending, increasing and adding items within various DHHR accounts
SB 379 - Supplemental appropriation from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR
SB 380 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds out of Treasury to certain DOE programs
SB 381 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to DOT, Division of Public Transit
SB 382 - Supplemental appropriation of Lottery Net Profits to Bureau of Senior Services, Lottery Senior Citizens Fund
SB 383 - Expiring funds from Treasurer's Office to WV Enterprise Resource Planning Board
SB 384 - Decreasing and increasing appropriations from State Fund, General Revenue to DHHR
SB 385 - Decreasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and MAPS
SB 386 - Decreasing and increasing appropriations from Treasury to Higher Education Policy Commission
SB 387 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to DHHR, Division of Health
SB 388 - Decreasing, increasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and Department of Administration
SB 389 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to DHHR, Division of Human Services
SB 390 - Supplemental appropriation from State Road Fund to DOT, Division of Highways
SB 391 - Supplemental appropriation of federal funds out of Treasury to Department of Agriculture

Health (54 Bills)
SB 1 - Relating to partial filling of prescriptions
SB 2 - Reducing use of opiates
SB 4 - Establishing Mental Health and Military Service Member Court program
SB 11 - Relating generally to traumatic brain injury
SB 13 - Raising age to purchase tobacco and related products to 21
SB 15 - Including nurses employed by nursing homes in WV Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act
SB 46 - Permitting pharmacists to inform customers of lower-cost alternative drugs
SB 61 - Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicle when minor 16 years old or less is present
SB 65 - Accessing controlled substance monitoring information
SB 80 - Powers and duties of local boards of health
SB 91 - Relating to care of aborted fetuses
SB 113 - Improper use or representation of service animals
SB 129 - Limiting time prescriptions may be issued for certain controlled substances
SB 149 - Establishing safeguards for treatment of acute pain and opioid medications
SB 251 - Relating to administration of Naloxone or other approved opioid antagonist by first responders
SB 257 - Creating WV Counseling Protection Act
SB 312 - Exempting certain employers from discriminating against tobacco users
SB 317 - Transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Department of Agriculture
SB 318 - Requiring influenza immunizations for health care workers
SB 329 - Relating to prescribing opioids
SB 332 - Granting DHHR rule-making authority to regulate local health departments
SB 333 - Granting DHHR rule-making authority to regulate local health departments
SB 337 - Permitting parents of newborns to decline administration of specific required medication at birth
SB 359 - Authorizing Supreme Court establish curricula for mental hygiene commissioners and certain magistrates
SB 363 - Removing requirement of finding of professional negligence concerning involuntary hospitalizations
SB 371 - Relating to proceedings for voluntary custody for examination
SB 392 - Reconfiguring membership of Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council
SB 406 - Clarifying that ground emergency medical transportation is eligible for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
SB 408 - Licensing of nursing homes and assisted living residences
SB 436 - Creating Nondiscrimination in Involuntary Denial of Treatment Act
SB 450 - Collecting and analyzing statistical information pertaining to terminating pregnancies under Medicaid Program
SB 456 - Physical Therapy Licensure Compact Act
SB 463 - Establishing group to examine benefits and need of transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Agriculture
SB 469 - Converting Addiction Treatment Pilot Program to permanent program
SB 472 - Providing funds to DHHR for local boards of health employee pay raises
SB 487 - Relating to WV Medical Cannabis Act
SB 502 - Creating Patient Safety Evidence-Based Prescribing Act
SB 510 - Designating hospitals for stroke treatment
SB 514 - Enacting Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact
SB 517 - Relating generally to drug overdoses and controlled substances monitoring
SB 527 - Creating WV Black Lung Program
SB 534 - Increasing penalty for tobacco-related offenses on public school property
SB 543 - Relating to confidentiality of medical records
SB 560 - Prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from using certain contract provisions
SB 575 - Approving additional beds for intermediate care facilities
SB 578 - Relating to Youth Mental Health Protection Act
SB 591 - Increasing reimbursement rate for certain Medicaid services
SB 602 - Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
SB 603 - Relating to proceedings for involuntary custody for examination
SB 604 - Relating to temporary permits to perform social work functions within community health centers
SB 611 - Relating to licensing of mental health facilities
SB 613 - Relating to Youth Mental Health Protection Act
SB 615 - Relating to licensing and registering opioid treatment programs
SB 620 - Creating opioid crisis recovery fine program

Human Rights (5 Bills)
SB 93 - Establishing WV Freedom of Conscience Protection Act
SB 99 - Prohibiting discrimination based on age or sexual orientation in certain circumstances
SB 405 - Creating Life at Conception Act of 2018
SB 471 - Relating to unlawful discriminatory practices in categories covered by Human Rights Act and Fair Housing Act
SB 595 - Creating Protect Our Right to Unite Act

Human Services (13 Bills)
SB 5 - Relating to Medicaid fraud and abuse
SB 55 - Providing continued eligibility for developmental disability services to dependents of military personnel
SB 362 - Relating to definitions of "child abuse" and "neglect"
SB 407 - Licensing and approval of child care programs
SB 417 - Amending definition of "medical services" to exclude abortion
SB 431 - Requiring DHHR implement work requirements for SNAP applicants
SB 439 - Exempting motor vehicles engaged in nonemergency transportation of Medicaid members from PSC requirements
SB 459 - Enacting Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act
SB 478 - Relating to mandatory insurance coverage for treatment of mitochondrial disease and other similar conditions
SB 492 - Eliminating certain special requirements for DHHR provisionally licensed social workers
SB 591 - Increasing reimbursement rate for certain Medicaid services
SB 602 - Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
SB 623 - Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of DHHR

Insurance (19 Bills)
SB 42 - Restoring one-percent surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies to fund volunteer fire departments
SB 59 - Creating fund to relieve municipalities and counties of certain fire-related cleanup and demolition
SB 84 - Prohibiting abortion coverage in certain qualified health care plans
SB 92 - Limiting health insurance coverage for elective abortions to supplemental policies
SB 242 - Requiring health insurance providers provide coverage for certain Lyme disease treatment
SB 297 - Eliminating taxation on annuity considerations collected by life insurer
SB 299 - Relating to mandatory insurance coverage for medical foods for amino acid-based formulas
SB 308 - Relating to use of aftermarket crash parts by motor vehicle repair shop
SB 339 - Relating to WV Retirement Health Benefit Trust Fund within PEIA
SB 340 - Relating to employer-employee cost-sharing ratio of premiums for PEIA active members
SB 401 - Requiring specified coverage in health benefit plans for treatment of substance abuse disorders
SB 442 - Establishing universal forms and deadlines when submitting prior authorization electronically
SB 453 - Fixing PEIA premium cost sharing at 85 percent for employer and 15 percent for employee
SB 473 - Requiring insurance coverage for the prescription drug Varenicline
SB 478 - Relating to mandatory insurance coverage for treatment of mitochondrial disease and other similar conditions
SB 493 - Relating to guaranty associations
SB 495 - Designating specific insurance coverages exempt from rate filing requirements
SB 526 - Providing salary increases for state employees over three-year period
SB 571 - Fixing PEIA aggregate premium cost sharing

Juveniles (5 Bills)
SB 47 - Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person's child
SB 61 - Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicle when minor 16 years old or less is present
SB 291 - Transferring child welfare enforcement responsibilities to WV State Police
SB 352 - Creating emergency text number system for children
SB 362 - Relating to definitions of "child abuse" and "neglect"

Labor (7 Bills)
SB 7 - Relating to claims under Wage Payment and Collection Act
SB 458 - Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting regulations or legal requirements relating to employer-employee relationship
SB 474 - Requiring that certain documents filed pursuant to WV Jobs Act which include records of wages be considered confidential
SB 481 - Requiring persons building residential structures inform county board of education of structures and estimated number of occupants
SB 497 - Removing requirement that Division of Labor charge annual device registration fee
SB 504 - Excluding seasonal amusement park workers from definition of "employee"
SB 558 - Relating to certification requirements for crane operators

Legal Gaming (9 Bills)
SB 75 - Relating to sale or transfer of video lottery locations
SB 106 - Legalizing certain sport pool betting
SB 274 - Relating generally to horse and dog racing lottery
SB 324 - Removing restrictions where certain traditional lottery games may be played
SB 350 - Eliminating obsolete requirement that Lottery Commission file racetrack video lottery game rules with Secretary of State
SB 357 - Relating generally to limited video lottery
SB 403 - Licensing advance deposit wagering
SB 415 - Permitting wagering on certain professional or collegiate sports events authorized as WV Lottery sports wagering activities
SB 630 - Relating to changes in distribution of certain racetrack video lottery net terminal income and excess lottery fund

Legislature (7 Bills)
SB 63 - Limiting number of days legislators may be paid in extended and extraordinary sessions in certain cases
SB 76 - Relating to legislative members' retirement benefits
SB 95 - Providing procedure for WV to select delegates to Article V convention
SB 104 - Drug testing of legislators
SB 151 - Creating Appropriation Supremacy Act of 2018
SB 292 - Relating to Commission on Special Investigations
SB 584 - Finding certain claims against state to be moral obligations of state

Legislature--Rule Making (88 Bills)
SB 153 - Department of Administration rule relating to state-owned vehicles
SB 154 - Authorizing Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules
SB 155 - DEP rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources
SB 156 - DEP rule relating to control of air pollution from combustion of solid waste
SB 157 - DEP rule relating to control of air pollution from municipal solid waste
SB 158 - DEP rule relating to control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities
SB 159 - DEP rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
SB 160 - DEP rule relating to ambient air quality standards
SB 161 - DEP rule relating to surface mining reclamation
SB 162 - DEP rule relating to voluntary remediation and redevelopment
SB 163 - Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules
SB 164 - DEP rule relating to underground storage tanks
SB 165 - Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules
SB 166 - DHHR rule relating to food establishments
SB 167 - DHHR rule relating to public water systems
SB 168 - DHHR rule relating to emergency medical services
SB 169 - DHHR rule relating to WV clearance for access
SB 170 - DHHR rule relating to development of methodologies to examine needs for substance use and disorder treatment facilities
SB 171 - DHHR rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses
SB 172 - Health Care Authority rule relating to financial disclosure
SB 173 - DHHR rule relating to child care centers licensing
SB 174 - DHHR rule relating to family child care facility licensing
SB 175 - DHHR rule relating to family child care home registration requirements
SB 176 - DHHR rule relating to child placing agencies
SB 177 - DHHR rule relating to informal and relative family child care home registration
SB 178 - DHHR rule relating to out-of-school-time child care center licensing
SB 179 - DHHR rule relating to drug screening of applicants for cash assistance
SB 180 - State Fire Commission rule relating to electrician licensing
SB 181 - Authorizing MAPS promulgate legislative rules
SB 182 - Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction rule relating to law-enforcement training and certification
SB 183 - Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction rule relating to protocol for law enforcement to domestic violence
SB 184 - Authorizing DOT promulgate legislative rules
SB 185 - Board of Accountancy rule relating to board rules and rules of professional conduct
SB 186 - Agriculture rule relating to animal disease control
SB 187 - Agriculture rule relating to auctioneers
SB 188 - Agriculture rule relating to noxious weeds
SB 189 - Agriculture rule relating to inspection of meat and poultry
SB 190 - Agriculture rule relating to WV apiary law
SB 191 - Agriculture rule relating to inspection of nontraditional, domesticated animals
SB 192 - Agriculture rule relating to charges for inspection services
SB 193 - Athletic Commission rule relating to administrative rules of WV State Athletic Commission
SB 194 - Athletic Commission rule relating to regulation of mixed martial arts
SB 195 - Board of Licensed Dietitians rule relating to licensure and renewal requirements
SB 196 - Board of Hearing Aid Dealers rule relating to governing WV Board of Hearing Aid Dealers
SB 197 - Board of Medicine rule relating to licensure, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, physician assistants
SB 198 - Board of Medicine rule relating to continuing education for physicians and podiatric physicians
SB 199 - Board of Optometry rule relating to rules of WV Board of Optometry
SB 200 - Board of Osteopathic Medicine rule relating to osteopathic physician assistants
SB 201 - Board of Pharmacy rule relating to licensure and practice of pharmacy
SB 202 - Board of Pharmacy rule relating to pharmacist recovery networks
SB 203 - Board of Pharmacy rule relating to immunizations administered by pharmacists and pharmacy interns
SB 204 - Board of Pharmacy rule relating to centralized prescriptions processing
SB 205 - Board of Pharmacy rule relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act
SB 206 - Board of Pharmacy rule relating to registration of pharmacy technicians
SB 207 - Board of Pharmacy rule relating to controlled substances monitoring program
SB 208 - Board of Examiners of Psychologists rule relating to fees
SB 209 - Board of Examiners of Psychologists relating to rules for licensure as psychologist and/or school psychologist
SB 210 - Board of Examiners of Psychologists rule relating to code of conduct
SB 211 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board rule relating to requirements for licensure and certification
SB 212 - Real Estate Commission rule relating to licensing real estate brokers, associate brokers and sales persons and conduct of brokerage business
SB 213 - Real Estate Commission rule relating to schedule of fees
SB 214 - Real Estate Commission rule relating to requirements for real estate courses, course providers and instructors
SB 215 - Secretary of State rule relating to procedures for canvassing elections
SB 216 - Secretary of State rule relating to procedures for handling ballots and counting write-in votes for optical scan ballots
SB 217 - Secretary of State rule relating to vote by mail pilot project phase 2
SB 218 - Board of Veterinary Medicine rule relating to organization, operation and licensing of veterinarians
SB 219 - Board of Veterinary Medicine rule relating to certified animal euthanasia technicians
SB 220 - Board of Veterinary Medicine rule relating to schedule of fees
SB 221 - Division of Labor rule relating to Zipline and Canopy Tour Responsibility Act
SB 222 - Division of Labor rule relating to bedding and upholstered furniture
SB 223 - Division of Labor rule relating to Amusement Rides and Amusement Attractions Safety Act
SB 224 - Division of Labor rule relating to Elevator Safety Act
SB 225 - Division of Labor rule relating to employer wage bonds
SB 226 - Division of Labor rule relating to registration of service persons and agencies
SB 227 - Division of Labor rule relating to registration of weighing and measuring devices used by businesses in commercial transactions
SB 228 - Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training rule relating to operating diesel equipment in underground mines
SB 229 - DNR rule relating to hunting, fishing, and other outfitters and guides
SB 230 - Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules
SB 231 - DNR rule relating to general hunting
SB 232 - DNR rule relating to special migratory game bird hunting
SB 233 - DNR rule relating to miscellaneous permits and licenses
SB 234 - DNR rule relating to wildlife disease management
SB 235 - Lottery Commission rule relating to state lottery rules
SB 236 - Racing Commission rule relating to thoroughbred racing
SB 237 - Authorizing Department of Revenue promulgate legislative rules
SB 238 - Tax Department rule relating to payment of taxes by electronic funds transfer
SB 239 - Tax Department rule relating to property tax transfer
SB 240 - Tax Department rule relating to municipal sales and service and use tax administration

Local and Special Laws (1 Bills)
SB 500 - Authorizing City of White Sulphur Springs to expend principal and interest from special interest-bearing fund

Magistrates (1 Bills)
SB 482 - Allowing magistrates carry firearms in county courthouse or on premises of court of law

Military and Veterans (8 Bills)
SB 47 - Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person's child
SB 55 - Providing continued eligibility for developmental disability services to dependents of military personnel
SB 66 - Relating to in-state tuition rates for members of National Guard, military and reserve units
SB 68 - Creating Returning Veterans and Displaced Miners Jobs Act
SB 71 - Defining "veteran" as it pertains to veteran-owned business
SB 123 - Funding veterans' programs and volunteer fire departments
SB 258 - Exempting honorably discharged veterans from fees for license to carry deadly weapons
SB 608 - Creating misdemeanor offense of impersonating military

Motor Vehicles (20 Bills)
SB 21 - Requiring DMV create special registration plates for full-size special purpose off-road vehicles
SB 34 - Removing requirement that reconstructed vehicle be inspected prior to titling in certain cases
SB 43 - Authorizing DOH or local authorities establish minimum speed limits in certain areas
SB 45 - Providing special license plates for realtors
SB 90 - Repealing mandatory motor vehicle state inspections
SB 116 - Providing court costs collected under Second Chance Driver's License Program are not subject to 5 percent offset
SB 140 - Requiring photo identification on voter registration cards
SB 241 - Relating to used motor vehicle warranties
SB 256 - Requiring motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers having hydraulically operated bed have warning device to alert driver
SB 260 - Requiring state-owned or -leased vehicles be registered
SB 280 - Allowing airports' emergency management and operations vehicles to use red flashing warning lights
SB 294 - Relating generally to suspension and revocation of driver's licenses for DUI
SB 336 - Providing certain DMV applicants ability to contribute to WV Department of Veterans Assistance
SB 364 - Allowing parent or legal guardian of homeschooled child provide signed statement for obtaining permit or license to operate motor vehicle
SB 373 - Providing special license plate to support adoption
SB 420 - Transferring Safety and Treatment Program from DHHR to DMV
SB 563 - Allowing persons operate small-engine mopeds without driver's license or while license is suspended or revoked
SB 568 - Deferring further proceedings for certain first offenses upon completion of Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program within 12 months
SB 589 - Relating to issuance of personalized plates for antique motor vehicles
SB 590 - Providing special license plate for curing childhood cancer

Municipalities (16 Bills)
SB 10 - Relating generally to PSC jurisdiction
SB 59 - Creating fund to relieve municipalities and counties of certain fire-related cleanup and demolition
SB 98 - Creating incentives to consolidate local governments
SB 108 - Creating Volunteer Firefighter Appreciation Act of 2018
SB 137 - Removing limitation on amount collected by county via hotel occupancy tax that may be used for medical care and emergency services
SB 377 - Removing firefighters from certain procedures for investigation and hearing of misconduct allegations
SB 432 - Relating to municipal home rule
SB 479 - Establishing local government monitoring by Auditor
SB 521 - Requiring chief executive of municipal law-enforcement agency be certified law-enforcement officer
SB 529 - Creating Citizen and State Accountability Act
SB 531 - Eliminating required waiting period for municipal court notifications to DMV
SB 566 - Relating to disability pensions of municipal employees
SB 592 - Adding examination of advanced care technician for firefighter paramedic
SB 598 - Relating to civil actions against county commissions and municipalities for injuries
SB 612 - Relating to sale of municipal property
SB 617 - Allowing municipal fire chiefs appoint deputy fire chief

Natural Resources (34 Bills)
SB 14 - Permitting guided bear hunting
SB 24 - Requiring DNR study use of nonemployee workforce to perform improvements
SB 30 - Relating generally to hunting with dogs
SB 67 - Exempting DNR police officers' pensions from state income tax
SB 69 - Exempting certain persons from hunting, fishing and trapping licenses and permit fees
SB 81 - Determining assessed value of shares of natural resources property
SB 87 - Allowing purchase of Class XS resident senior hunting, fishing and trapping licenses at age 65
SB 112 - Clarifying that natural resources police officers' subsistence allowance is pensionable
SB 122 - Limiting liability of Parks and Recreation section of DNR
SB 143 - Permitting DNR identification tag be used to identify trap
SB 150 - Relating to wind power projects
SB 285 - Establishing regional recreation authorities and areas
SB 323 - Creating Office of Outdoor Recreation
SB 345 - Authorizing DNR establish procedures and fee schedule for limited permit hunts
SB 346 - Permitting full-time nonresident students purchase lifetime resident hunting, trapping and fishing licenses
SB 347 - Relating to operation of motorboats
SB 348 - Allowing for disposal of service weapons of special DNR police officers
SB 414 - Requiring purchasers of roundwood collect and maintain certain information
SB 416 - Making fishing for catfish with bare hands lawful
SB 421 - Relating to crossbow hunting
SB 424 - Allowing developmentally disabled person purchase base hunting license free of charge
SB 429 - Relating to forest fires
SB 438 - Relating to debt service on bonds secured by State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund
SB 451 - Relating generally to hunting and fishing
SB 452 - Exempting hunting license information from public disclosure
SB 455 - Providing proceeds from oil and gas wells due to unknown persons be kept in special fund
SB 498 - Creating two-year pilot program allowing all-terrain or recreational vehicles in Cabwaylingo State Forest
SB 508 - Establishing State Trail Authority
SB 536 - Allowing foster and adoptive children obtain lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license within two years of placement
SB 544 - Establishing WV DNR Police Officer's Retirement System
SB 583 - Bringing WV in compliance with federal pipeline safety regulations
SB 594 - Directing DNR to file rule relating to WV wildlife management areas
SB 626 - Relating generally to coal mining
SB 629 - Expanding conditions of permanent disability required for Class Q permit

Professions and Occupations (17 Bills)
SB 1 - Relating to partial filling of prescriptions
SB 15 - Including nurses employed by nursing homes in WV Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act
SB 68 - Creating Returning Veterans and Displaced Miners Jobs Act
SB 103 - Establishing tax credits for certain physicians who locate in WV to practice
SB 121 - Licensing practice of athletic training
SB 257 - Creating WV Counseling Protection Act
SB 305 - Requiring DHHR provide long-term care and substance abuse treatment facilities
SB 312 - Exempting certain employers from discriminating against tobacco users
SB 313 - Waiving occupational fees and licensing requirements for certain low-income individuals, military families, and young workers
SB 434 - Specifying documents not subject to discovery in certain proceedings
SB 449 - Using criminal conviction records to disqualify person from license or authorization to practice occupation
SB 490 - Relating to Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act of 2015
SB 499 - Requiring one year of certain approved postgraduate clinical training for persons with foreign medical degrees
SB 506 - Deregulating persons who perform work on heating, ventilating, and cooling systems
SB 521 - Requiring chief executive of municipal law-enforcement agency be certified law-enforcement officer
SB 597 - Prohibiting individuals convicted of domestic violence misdemeanor from conducting private investigation business
SB 604 - Relating to temporary permits to perform social work functions within community health centers

Public Safety (17 Bills)
SB 36 - Relating generally to DNA testing
SB 53 - Correcting code reference in regard to certain persons exempted from prohibitions against carrying concealed deadly weapons
SB 74 - Creating WV Volunteer Fire and Rescue Act of 2018
SB 108 - Creating Volunteer Firefighter Appreciation Act of 2018
SB 123 - Funding veterans' programs and volunteer fire departments
SB 129 - Limiting time prescriptions may be issued for certain controlled substances
SB 134 - Authorizing Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to engage individuals for emergency response and recovery
SB 280 - Allowing airports' emergency management and operations vehicles to use red flashing warning lights
SB 291 - Transferring child welfare enforcement responsibilities to WV State Police
SB 293 - Adding grievance and appellate procedures and judicial review for participants in DHHR safety and treatment program
SB 294 - Relating generally to suspension and revocation of driver's licenses for DUI
SB 320 - Permitting law-enforcement or humane officer remove animal from motor vehicle under certain circumstances
SB 369 - Relating to powers and authority of newly created divisions of Administrative Services and Corrections and Rehabilitation within MAPS
SB 404 - Relating to sex offender registry information
SB 419 - Establishing classification and base salaries of certain civilian employees of WV State Police Forensic Laboratory
SB 541 - Increasing salaries of WV State Police over three-year period
SB 546 - Improving coordination of law-enforcement agencies in finding missing persons and identifying remains

Public Service Commission (11 Bills)
SB 10 - Relating generally to PSC jurisdiction
SB 23 - Relating generally to towing services and PSC jurisdiction
SB 57 - Relating to third-party litigation financing
SB 396 - Creating West Virginia Net Neutrality Act
SB 402 - Creating exemption from certain contract and common carrier laws for motor vehicles
SB 409 - Requiring training course in telephonic cardiopulmonary resuscitation for county emergency call dispatchers
SB 457 - Relating to jurisdiction of PSC over motor carriers
SB 515 - Clarifying PSC jurisdiction over water and sewer utilities
SB 553 - Requiring federal fingerprint background checks for transportation network company drivers and taxi drivers
SB 600 - Relating to powers and duties of PSC
SB 631 - Relating generally to one-call system

Real and Personal Property (4 Bills)
SB 64 - Requiring minimum standards of universal design for disabled persons in certain newly constructed buildings
SB 148 - Permitting surface owners purchase mineral interests when they become subject to tax lien
SB 455 - Providing proceeds from oil and gas wells due to unknown persons be kept in special fund
SB 580 - Updating language for WV geodetic datum to match federal coordinate systems

Records and Papers (1 Bills)
SB 543 - Relating to confidentiality of medical records

Retirement (10 Bills)
SB 58 - Providing cost-of-living adjustment to certain state retirees
SB 76 - Relating to legislative members' retirement benefits
SB 78 - Continuing personal income tax adjustment for certain retirees
SB 254 - Expanding finance board's discretion to include subsidies from Retirement Health Benefit Trust Fund in its financial plans for certain employees
SB 331 - Relating to retirement and pension benefits of certain members of PERS and Teachers Retirement system
SB 339 - Relating to WV Retirement Health Benefit Trust Fund within PEIA
SB 425 - Removing sunset dates which members of policemen's or firemen's pension fund elect to participate in deferred retirement option plan
SB 501 - Relating to accrued benefit of retirees in Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
SB 551 - Relating to failure of employers to make contributions on behalf of employees to retirement plan administered by CPRB
SB 632 - Allowing retired judicial officers recalled to service to avoid limit on temporary payments under certain circumstances

Roads and Transportation (19 Bills)
SB 31 - Providing special obligation notes to finance completion of I-73 and I-74 in WV
SB 38 - Allowing county commissions to set standards for certain county road projects
SB 96 - Establishing 80-miles per hour speed limit on certain roads
SB 135 - Relating to safety of tow trucks, wreckers and tilt-bed vehicles
SB 255 - Prohibiting transportation network company drivers from soliciting rides or occupying designated cab stands
SB 306 - Allowing grocery stores to sell certain amount of WV-made wine without license
SB 307 - Declaring fundraising on state highway or roadway by volunteer fire department is not obstruction or nuisance
SB 309 - Relating to outdoor advertising regulated by DOH
SB 344 - Requiring DOH implement program to recycle surplus metal supplies, materials and equipment
SB 437 - Relating to penalties for leaving motor vehicle unattended
SB 444 - Repealing antiquated code sections regarding safety glass and lighting in motor vehicles
SB 445 - Allowing DOH acquire real or personal property for utility accommodation
SB 466 - Bringing statutory interest rate paid in condemnation cases into conformity with current statutory rates
SB 509 - Authorizing Commissioner of Culture and History designate road as "Historic Route"
SB 520 - Increasing weight limits for vehicles on certain highways
SB 539 - Increasing limit for settling claims against DOH
SB 577 - Allowing commercial rental car providers to rent vehicles online
SB 616 - Establishing maximum gross weight for certain wood-bearing trucks
SB 622 - Imposing additional court costs on violations of seat belt usage

Salaries (8 Bills)
SB 56 - Increasing state employees' pay over 2-year period
SB 335 - Protecting employees' wages or salaries from being withheld or diverted for political activities
SB 349 - Providing teachers with a three percent pay raise
SB 472 - Providing funds to DHHR for local boards of health employee pay raises
SB 519 - Increasing salaries of justices of WV Supreme Court of Appeals
SB 540 - Increasing salaries of magistrates, supreme court justices, circuit court judges, and family court judges
SB 541 - Increasing salaries of WV State Police over three-year period
SB 635 - Relating to 2019 salary adjustment for employees of DHHR

Senior Citizens (1 Bills)
SB 97 - Creating fixed-income tax credit for low income seniors

State Personnel (10 Bills)
SB 56 - Increasing state employees' pay over 2-year period
SB 277 - Allowing public employees to cash out their retirement plans in lieu of pension payments
SB 435 - Removing elected or appointed officers
SB 453 - Fixing PEIA premium cost sharing at 85 percent for employer and 15 percent for employee
SB 464 - Changing statutory payment date for incremental salary increases due state employees
SB 478 - Relating to mandatory insurance coverage for treatment of mitochondrial disease and other similar conditions
SB 486 - Stabilizing PEIA benefits
SB 505 - Requiring contact information of state official or employee mobile phone furnished by employer be listed on directory or website
SB 526 - Providing salary increases for state employees over three-year period
SB 551 - Relating to failure of employers to make contributions on behalf of employees to retirement plan administered by CPRB

Taxation (53 Bills)
SB 12 - Creating 5-year tax credits for businesses on post-coal mine sites
SB 22 - Adjusting tax on electric-generating capacity of wind turbines
SB 67 - Exempting DNR police officers' pensions from state income tax
SB 72 - Allowing adjustment of gross income for calculating personal income tax liability of certain retirees
SB 78 - Continuing personal income tax adjustment for certain retirees
SB 85 - Allowing local governments to offset personal property tax rates with local sales tax
SB 89 - Creating educational expense tax credits
SB 97 - Creating fixed-income tax credit for low income seniors
SB 100 - Taxing digital goods, products and services
SB 103 - Establishing tax credits for certain physicians who locate in WV to practice
SB 105 - Establishing tax credit for certain college graduates who remain in state
SB 108 - Creating Volunteer Firefighter Appreciation Act of 2018
SB 119 - Establishing WV business growth in low-income communities tax credit
SB 120 - Restoring exception for florists from general sourcing rules for sales and use taxes
SB 125 - 2018 Tax Reform Act
SB 126 - Creating earned income tax credit for low income workers
SB 131 - Exempting certain services and personal property sold for repair, remodeling and maintenance of aircraft
SB 137 - Removing limitation on amount collected by county via hotel occupancy tax that may be used for medical care and emergency services
SB 138 - Exempting heating oil for residential use from motor fuel excise tax
SB 139 - Changing qualifier for low income for homestead tax credit
SB 141 - Expanding county assessment and collection of head tax on breeding cows
SB 147 - Exempting farm winery from certain taxes
SB 264 - Eliminating refundable exemption for road construction contractors
SB 265 - Updating meaning of certain terms in WV Corporation Net Income Tax Act
SB 275 - Relating to tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors
SB 289 - Entitling natural resource producers to economic opportunity tax credit
SB 298 - Authorizing county assessors make separate entries in landbooks when real property is partly used for exempt and partly for nonexempt purposes
SB 300 - Creating five-year tax credits for businesses locating on post-coal mine sites
SB 311 - Specifying consumers sales and service tax exemption for purchase of certain services and tangible personal property related to aircraft
SB 316 - Creating refundable personal income tax credit to encourage persons receiving public assistance to get married
SB 338 - Changing date for employers to file annual reconciliation and withholding statements
SB 343 - Limiting expenses in preparing list for notice to redeem
SB 399 - Creating Taxation with Representation Act
SB 413 - Levying 0.5 percent severance tax on deep sand gas and future cracker plants
SB 427 - Modifying form of notice for certain tax delinquencies
SB 428 - Relating to tax credit for making home more accessible for elderly or disabled
SB 441 - Relating to health care provider taxes
SB 461 - Extending time to file petition for motor fuel excise tax refund
SB 477 - Relating to five-year sunset on tax credits and incentives
SB 486 - Stabilizing PEIA benefits
SB 489 - Creating WV Volunteer First Responder Act of 2018
SB 523 - Relating to tax treatment of pollution control facilities and wind power projects
SB 537 - Implementing Business PROMISE+ Scholarship
SB 538 - Providing classroom teachers credit against personal income tax for nonreimbursed supplies
SB 570 - Limiting amount property reappraisal can increase
SB 571 - Fixing PEIA aggregate premium cost sharing
SB 581 - Allowing Tax Commissioner share certain tax information with certain state entities
SB 596 - Establishing WV Community Investment Tax Credit Program
SB 601 - Relating to personal income tax
SB 609 - Relating generally to valuation of natural resources property
SB 618 - Relating to sale of tax liens
SB 621 - Prohibiting consumer-reporting agency from charging fee to consumer
SB 627 - Permitting local governments to access certain economic development project-related tax records

Workers Compensation (7 Bills)
SB 77 - Providing rebuttable presumptions for certain injuries and diseases for workers' compensation coverage for police and firefighters
SB 82 - Including rebuttable presumptions in certain cases for firefighters with regard to workers' compensation
SB 370 - Exempting nonpaid volunteers at ski areas from workers' compensation benefits
SB 454 - Classifying owner-operators and independent contractors under workers compensation
SB 485 - Terminating Workers Compensation Debt Reduction Fund assessment on self-insured employers
SB 527 - Creating WV Black Lung Program
SB 550 - Allowing workers' compensation benefits for first responders diagnosed with job-related PTSD

This Web site is maintained by the West Virginia Legislature's Office of Reference & Information.  |  Terms of Use  |   Email WebmasterWebmaster   |   © 2024 West Virginia Legislature **