Member's Press Release
Release Date: 02/09/2018
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999
State Senate
Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Friday, February 9, 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018 – 31st Day of Session
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
RESOLUTIONS
- SR 34: Designating February 9, 2018, as Corrections Day
- SR 35: Recognizing distinguished military service of Brigadier General John C. "Doc" Bahnsen Jr.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- SCR 13: Jeffrey Alan Clovis Memorial Bridge
- SCR 14: US Army SPC 4 William L. Amos Memorial Bridge
THIRD READING (For Passage)
- SB 78: Continuing personal income tax adjustment for certain retirees
- Com. Sub. for SB 271: Creating centralized Shared Services Section of Department of Administration (original similar to HB 4188)
- Com. Sub. for SB 283: Relating generally to procurement by state agencies (original similar to HB 4261)
- Com. Sub. for SB 335: Protecting employees' wages or salaries from being withheld or diverted for political activities
- SB 346: Permitting full-time nonresident students purchase lifetime resident hunting, trapping and fishing licenses
- SB 379: Supplemental appropriation from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR (original similar to HB 4377)
- SB 382: Supplemental appropriation of Lottery Net Profits to Bureau of Senior Services, Lottery Senior Citizens Fund (original similar to HB 4378)
- Com. Sub. for SB 395: Providing for judicial review of appealed decisions of Air Quality Review Board, Environmental Quality Board and Surface Mine Board
- Com. Sub. for SB 404: Relating to sex offender registry information
- Com. Sub. for SJR 12: No Constitutional right to abortion Amendment
- Eng. 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
- Eng. HB 4146: Updating meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
SECOND READING (Amendments Stage)
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 272: Relating generally to drug control (original similar to HB 4227)
- Com. Sub. for SB 290: Relating to DEP standards of water quality and effluent limitations (original similar to HB 4426)
- Com. Sub. for SB 368: Protecting consumers against business using automatic purchase renewals without consent
- Com. Sub. for SB 392: Reconfiguring membership of Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council
- SB 427: Modifying form of notice for certain tax delinquencies
- Com. Sub. for SB 433: Rewriting code sections regarding pyramid promotional schemes
- Com. Sub. for SB 440: Establishing Library Facilities Improvement Fund
- SB 441: Relating to health care provider taxes
- 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
FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 57: Relating to third-party litigation financing
- SB 365: Relating to Young Entrepreneur Reinvestment Act
- Com. Sub. for SB 375: Relating to farmers markets
- Com. Sub. for SB 446: Creating Agritourism Responsibility Act
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2546: Allowing replacement costs of employer provided property to be deducted from an employee’s final paycheck if the property is not returned
- Eng. HB 2612: Repealing section relating to unattended motor vehicles and penalties
Scheduled Committee Meetings
9:30 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- SB 479: Establishing local government monitoring by Auditor
- HB 4162: Granting authority to the State Conservation Committee to contract for flood response
- HB 2831: Relating to the reconstitution of the Driver’s Licensing Advisory Board
- SB 503: Shifting funding from Landfill Closure Assistance Fund to local solid waste authorities
- Originating Bill 1: Transferring EMT- Mining to Miner’s Health, Safety and Training
- Originating Bill 2: Making technical corrections to code governing licensing board investigatory powers
Following Floor Session: VFD/EMS Subcommittee of Government Organization (208W)
1 p.m.: Pensions (451M)
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
Senate Bills to be Introduced Friday, February 9, 2018
- SB 512: Authorizing certain WV courthouse security officers carry concealed weapons (Trump; Judiciary)
- SB 513: Increasing amount retirant may earn (FN) (Trump; Pensions then Finance)
- SB 514: Enacting Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact (Sypolt; Government Organization then Judiciary)
- SB 515: Clarifying PSC jurisdiction over water and sewer utilities (FN) (Gaunch; Government Organization then Finance)
- 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 (Sypolt; Energy, Industry and Mining then Government Organization)
- SB 517: Relating generally to drug overdoses and controlled substances monitoring (Maynard; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
- SCR 15: US Marine SGT Stephen E. Drummond Memorial Bridge (Romano, Facemire)
- SCR 16: Sardis District Veterans Memorial Bridge (Romano, Facemire)
- SCR 17: John Hancock Memorial Bridge (Rucker, Unger)
* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note
* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill
Committee Action on Bills from Thursday, February 8, 2018
1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining
- SB 410: Appointing industry advocate within DEP
- Removed from agenda
- Originating Bill 1: Relating to Coal
- Bill is laid over pending new committee draft
- Originating Bill 2: Relating to Wind Power
- Passed; to Finance
1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources
- SB 473: Requiring insurance coverage for the prescription drug Varenicline
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 401: Requiring specified coverage in health benefit plans for treatment of substance abuse disorders
- Passed; to Judiciary
- SB 450: Collecting and analyzing statistical information pertaining to terminating pregnancies under Medicaid Program
- Passed; to Finance
- SB 469: Converting Addiction Treatment Pilot Program to permanent program
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 472: Providing funds to DHHR for local boards of health employee pay raises
- Passed; to Gov Org
2 p.m.: Government Organization
- SB 288: Regulating cremation, embalming and directing of funeral service
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 321: Relating to powers and duties of Public Land Corporation
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 477: Relating to five-year sunset on tax credits and incentives
- Passed; to Finance
- SB 407: Licensing and approval of child care programs
- Passed; to be reported the floor
- SB 408: Licensing of nursing homes and assisted living residences
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 411: Removing Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health from State Board of Sanitarians
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SCR 11: Evans Center for Excellence in Aircraft Maintenance
- Adopted; to be reported to the floor
2 p.m.: Education
- SB 319: Allowing individuals who completed home schooling be eligible for PROMISE scholarship without equivalent diploma
- Passed; to Finance
- Subcommittee report on SB 83: Relating to higher education student success
- Bill is laid over to a future meeting
3 p.m.: Judiciary
- SB 36: Relating generally to DNA testing
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 348: Allowing for disposal of service weapons of special DNR police officers
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 397: Creating crime of impersonating blind or disabled person
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 347: Relating to operation of motorboats
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 458: Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting regulations or legal requirements relating to employer-employee relationship
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.: Finance
- Com. Sub. for SB 341: Creating new court of WV Intermediate Court of Appeals
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- Com. Sub. for SJR 3: Judicial Budget Oversight Amendment
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- Com. Sub. for SB 355: Dissolving IS&C Division under Office of Technology
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
- SB 461: Extending time to file petition for motor fuel excise tax refund
- Passed; to be reported to the floor
Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Thursday, February 8, 2018 (67)
- 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 (1st Reading, 02-09)
- 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 102: Creating WV Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (original similar to HB 4209) (House Judiciary)
- 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 141: Expanding county assessment and collection of head tax on breeding cows (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- 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 181: Authorizing MAPS promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4097) (House Judiciary)
- SB 184: Authorizing DOT promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4099) (House Judiciary)
- SB 230: Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4108) (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 244: Specifying conditions for unlawful possession of firearm at school-sponsored activities (original similar to HB 4139) (House Education)
- 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) (1st Reading, 02-09)
- 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 (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- 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 (House Judiciary)
- 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 361: Relating to treatment supervision under Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act (House Judiciary)
- SB 364: Allowing parent or legal guardian of homeschooled child provide signed statement for obtaining permit or license to operate motor vehicle (House Judiciary)
- SB 371: Relating to proceedings for voluntary custody for examination (House Judiciary)
- 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 393: Relating to compensation and composition of WV Racing Commission (House Gov Org)
- SB 400: Prohibiting state licensing boards from hiring lobbyists (Com. title amend. pending) (House Gov Org)
- SB 425: Removing sunset dates which members of policemen's or firemen's pension fund elect to participate in deferred retirement option plan (House Pensions and Retirement)
- SB 462: Establishing contribution holiday for public pension plans funded at 130 percent or more (House Pensions and Retirement)
- SB 463: Establishing group to examine benefits and need of transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Agriculture (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
House Bills that Have Passed the Senate (2)
- HB 4020: Making technical corrections in the code when referencing Chapter 49 (Completed legislation)
- HB 4013: Clarifying venue in West Virginia state courts as it applies to nonresidents of the state (Pending House concurrence)
Bills Awaiting Action by the Governor (1)
- HB 4020: Making technical corrections in the code when referencing Chapter 49 (Completed legislation)
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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