Member's Press Release
Release Date: 02/06/2018
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999
State Senate
Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for February 6, 2018
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 – 28th Day of Session
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
RESOLUTIONS
- SR 28: Designating February 6, 2018, as West Virginia State University Day
- SR 29: Congratulating Hurricane High School boys' soccer team
THIRD READING (For Passage)
- Com. Sub. for SB 102: Creating WV Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (original similar to HB 4209)
- Com. Sub. for SB 181: Authorizing MAPS promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4097)
- Com. Sub. for SB 244: Specifying conditions for unlawful possession of firearm at school-sponsored activities (original similar to HB 4139)
- SB 393: Relating to compensation and composition of WV Racing Commission
- SB 425: Removing sunset dates which members of policemen's or firemen's pension fund elect to participate in deferred retirement option plan
- SB 430: Encouraging collaborative agreements between community and technical colleges and federally registered apprenticeship programs
- SB 462: Establishing contribution holiday for public pension plans funded at 130 percent or more
- SB 463: Establishing group to examine benefits and need of transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Agriculture
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4013: Clarifying venue in West Virginia state courts as it applies to nonresidents of the state - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
SECOND READING (Amendments Stage)
- Com. Sub. for SB 94: Prohibiting counties from regulating fireworks
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 141: Expanding county assessment and collection of head tax on breeding cows
- Com. Sub. for SB 230: Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4108)
- Com. Sub. for SB 361: Relating to treatment supervision under Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act
- SB 371: Relating to proceedings for voluntary custody for examination
FIRST READING
There are no bills on First Reading on Tuesday, February 6, 2018.
Scheduled Committee Meetings
9 a.m.: Agriculture Subcommittee on SB 375, Relating to farmers markets (451M)
10 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)
- SB 402: Creating exemption from certain contract and common carrier laws for motor vehicles
- SB 256: Requiring motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers having hydraulically operated bed have warning device to alert driver
- SB 96: Establishing 80-miles per hour speed limit on certain roads
- SCR 1: US Army SGT Denver E. Short Memorial Road
1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)
1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)
- SB 407: Licensing and approval of child care programs
- SB 408: Licensing of nursing homes and assisted living residences
- SB 411: Removing Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health from State Board of Sanitarians
- SB 472: Providing funds to DHHR for local boards of health employee pay raises
2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- SB 392: Reconfiguring Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council
- SB 352: Creating emergency text number system for children
- SB 412: Relating to authority of county litter control officers
- SB 418: Relating to WV Monument and Memorial Protection Act of 2018
- SB 427: Modifying form of notice for certain tax delinquencies
- SB 440: Establishing Library Facilities Improvement Fund
- SB 464: Changing statutory payment date for incremental salary increases due state employees
- SB 468: Changing date and recipients for submission of Auditor's annual report
2 p.m.: Education (451M)
- SB 252: Requiring schools provide elective course on certain religious texts
- SB 319: Allowing individuals who completed home schooling be eligible for PROMISE scholarship without equivalent diploma
- Subcommittee Report on SB 83: Relating to higher education student success
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SJR 3: Judicial Budget Oversight Amendment
- Com. Sub. for SB 341: Creating new court of WV Intermediate Court of Appeals
- Com. Sub. for SB 355: Dissolving IS&C Division under Office of Technology
- Com. Sub. for SB 272: Relating generally to drug control
- SB 461: Extending time to file petition for motor fuel excise tax refund
- SB 441: Relating to health care provider taxes
- SB 103: Establishing tax credits for certain physicians who locate in WV to practice
Senate Bills to be Introduced Tuesday, February 6, 2018
- SB 488: Supplemental appropriation of funds from Excess Lottery Fund to DHHR, CARDIAC program (Stollings; Finance)
- SB 489: Creating WV Volunteer First Responder Act of 2018 (FN) (Boso; Government Organization then Finance)
- SB 490: Relating to Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act of 2015 (FN) (Gaunch; Government Organization then Finance)
- SB 491: Establishing fee for expungement of certain criminal convictions (Boso; Judiciary)
- SB 492: Eliminating certain special requirements for DHHR provisionally licensed social workers (Trump, Boso, Gaunch, Maroney, Rucker, Takubo; Government Organization)
- SB 493: Relating to WV Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act (Azinger; Banking and Insurance)
- SB 494: Considering members of State Teachers Retirement System absent while serving as officer with statewide professional association (FN) (Azinger; Pensions)
- SB 495: Designating specific insurance coverages exempt from rate filing requirements (Azinger; Banking and Insurance)
* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note
* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill
Committee Action on Bills from Monday, February 5, 2018
1 p.m.: Natural Resources (208W)
- SB 451: Permitting Sunday hunting on public lands
- Passed; to Judiciary
- SB 416: Making fishing for catfish with bare hands lawful
- Passed; to Judiciary
- SB 429: Relating to forest fires
- Bill is laid over to a future meeting
- SB 87: Allowing purchase of Class XS resident senior hunting, fishing and trapping licenses at age 65
- Passed; to Gov Org
2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)
- SB 406: Clarifying that ground emergency medical transportation is eligible for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
- Passed; to Finance
- SB 370: Exempting nonpaid volunteers at ski areas from workers compensation benefits
- Passed; to Judiciary
- SB 398: Relating to requirements for making consumer loans
- Rejected
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- SB 151: Creating Appropriation Supremacy Act of 2018
- Passed; to Finance
- SB 404: Relating to sex offender registry information
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SJR 12: Acknowledging Legislative Authority Relating to Protection of Innocent Life Amendment
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
3 p.m. Finance (451M)
- Com. Sub. for HB 4135: Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- HB 4146: Updating meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 379: Supplemental appropriation from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 382: Supplemental appropriation of Lottery Net Profits to Bureau of Senior Services, Lottery Senior Citizens Fund
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 346: Permitting full-time nonresident students purchase lifetime resident hunting, trapping and fishing licenses
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 78: Continuing personal income tax adjustment for certain retirees
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- Com. Sub. for SB 355: Dissolving IS&C Division under Office of Technology
- Removed from agenda
- Com. Sub. for SB 283: Relating generally to procurement by state agencies
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- Com. Sub. for SB 271: Creating centralized Shared Services Section of Department of Administration
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Monday, February 5, 2018 (56)
- SB 7: Relating to claims under Wage Payment and Collection Act (House Judiciary)
- SB 10: Relating generally to PSC jurisdiction (original similar to HB 4355) (House Judiciary)
- SB 37: Equalizing penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day (House Judiciary)
- SB 39: Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights (House Judiciary)
- SB 46: Permitting pharmacists to inform customers of lower-cost alternative drugs (House Health and Human Resources)
- SB 51: Relating to domestic relations (House Judiciary)
- SB 53: Correcting code reference in regard to certain persons exempted from prohibitions against carrying concealed deadly weapons (House Judiciary)
- SB 62: Adjusting requirements for hiring school attendance directors (House Education)
- SB 67: Exempting DNR police officers' pensions from state income tax (House Pensions and Retirement)
- SB 71: Defining "veteran" as it pertains to veteran-owned business (House Veterans Affairs)
- SB 73: Modifying crime of fleeing from scene of accident (House Judiciary)
- SB 75: Relating to sale or transfer of video lottery locations (House Judiciary)
- SB 98: Creating incentives to consolidate local governments (House Political Subdivisions)
- SB 110: Requiring certain licensees notify law enforcement or EMS of life-threatening emergency on premises (House Judiciary)
- SB 116: Providing court costs collected under Second Chance Driver's License Program are not subject to 5 percent offset (House Judiciary)
- SB 133: Exempting renewal of certain contracts entered into during declared state of emergency (original similar to HB 4034) (House Gov Org)
- SB 134: Authorizing Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to engage individuals for emergency response and recovery (original similar to HB 4033) (House Gov Org)
- SB 143: Permitting DNR identification tag be used to identify trap (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SB 146: Correcting technical error within Solid Waste Management Act (House Judiciary)
- SB 154: Department of Administration rule relating to parking (original similar to HB 4086) (House Judiciary)
- SB 163: Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4093) (House Judiciary)
- SB 165: Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4129) (House Judiciary)
- SB 184: Authorizing DOT promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4099) (House Judiciary)
- SB 237: Authorizing Department of Revenue promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4102) (House Judiciary)
- SB 242: Requiring health insurance providers provide coverage for certain Lyme disease treatment (original similar to HB 4328) (House Health and Human Resources)
- SB 258: Exempting honorably discharged veterans from fees for license to carry deadly weapons (House Veterans Affairs)
- SB 263: Eliminating film tax credits (original similar to HB 4144) (Signed 1/29)
- SB 267: Increasing salaries of certain state employees (original similar to HB 4145) (House Finance)
- SB 268: Eliminating requirement that certain agencies purchase commodities produced on institutional farms (original similar to HB 4143) (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SB 280: Allowing airports' emergency management and operations vehicles to use red flashing warning lights (House Roads and Transportation)
- SB 284: Increasing access to career education and workforce training (original similar to HB 4267) (House Education)
- SB 285: Establishing regional recreation authorities and areas (original similar to SB 67) (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SB 292: Relating to Commission on Special Investigations (House Judiciary)
- SB 296: Relating to sale or transfer of surplus property (original similar to SB 283) (House Finance)
- SB 297: Eliminating taxation on annuity considerations collected by life insurer (House Banking and Insurance)
- SB 298: Authorizing county assessors make separate entries in landbooks when real property is partly used for exempt and partly for nonexempt purposes (House Finance)
- SB 299: Relating to mandatory insurance coverage for medical foods for amino acid-based formulas (original similar to HB 2051, HB 2072, HB 3021) (House Finance)
- SB 300: Creating five-year tax credits for businesses locating on post-coal mine sites (original similar to SB 12) (House Energy)
- SB 301: Removing limitation on amount collected by county via hotel occupancy tax used for medical or emergency services (original similar to SB 137) (House Political Subdivisions)
- SB 311: Specifying consumers sales and service tax exemption for purchase of certain services and tangible personal property related to aircraft (House Finance)
- SB 322: Relating to employees of Department of Agriculture (Pending House introduction)
- SB 324: Removing restrictions where certain traditional lottery games may be played (original similar to HB 4409) (House Judiciary)
- SB 327: Providing extortion of anything of value, including sexual contact, subjects person to criminal penalty (House Judiciary)
- SB 336: Providing certain DMV applicants ability to contribute to WV Department of Veterans Assistance (House Veterans Affairs)
- SB 338: Changing date for employers to file annual reconciliation and withholding statements (original similar to HB 4265) (House Finance)
- SB 343: Limiting expenses in preparing list for notice to redeem (Pending House introduction)
- SB 345: Authorizing DNR establish procedures and fee schedule for limited permit hunts (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SB 350: Eliminating obsolete requirement that Lottery Commission file racetrack video lottery game rules with Secretary of State (House Gov Org)
- SB 351: Permitting ballot commissioners serve while candidates for certain offices (House Judiciary)
- SB 357: Relating generally to limited video lottery (original similar to HB 4303) (House Judiciary)
- SB 364: Allowing parent or legal guardian of homeschooled child provide signed statement for obtaining permit or license to operate motor vehicle (Pending House introduction)
- SB 384: Decreasing and increasing appropriations from State Fund, General Revenue to DHHR(original similar to HB 4383) (with right to amend) (House Finance)
- SB 385: Decreasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and MAPS (House Finance)
- SB 386: Decreasing and increasing appropriations from Treasury to Higher Education Policy Commission (original similar to HB 4388) (House Finance)
- SB 388: Decreasing, increasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and Department of Administration (House Finance)
- SB 400: Prohibiting state licensing boards from hiring lobbyists (Com. title amend. pending) (Pending House introduction)
House Bills that Have Passed the Senate (1)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4020: Making technical corrections in the code when referencing Chapter 49 (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (Pending House concurrence)
Bills Awaiting Action by the Governor
No bills currently pending action by Governor.
Bills Signed by the Governor (1)
- SB 263: Eliminating film tax credits (original similar to HB 4144) (Signed 1/29)
** Committee times and agendas are subject to change. Visit www.wvlegislature.gov or follow @WVSenClerk on Twitter for the most current information. **
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