Release Date: 03/07/2018
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999

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State Senate

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 – 57th Day of Session

 

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

 

RESOLUTIONS

 

• SCR 53: US Army SGT Harold Scott White Memorial Bridge
• SR 65: Memorializing life of Leon McCoy

 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

• Com. Sub. for SCR 29: US Army SGT Benny Fleming Memorial Bridge
• SCR 52: Deputy Sheriff John Janey Memorial Bridge
• HCR 5: US Army PFC Jessie Franklin Crow Memorial Bridge - (Com. amends. pending)

THIRD READING (For Passage)

 

• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB. 4016: Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency - (Com. amend. pending)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB. 4035: Creating a legislative coalition to study and report to the Legislature on palliative care - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB. 4042: Redefining school zone to facilitate placement of school zone signs - (Com. amend. pending)
• Eng. HB 4183: Relating generally to standardized testing requirements for nonpublic schools - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4275: Relating to the law-enforcement authority of the director and officers of the division of protective services
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4400: Relating to the West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4546: Relating to where an application for a marriage license may be made

 

SECOND READING (Amendments Stage)

 

• 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
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2028: Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4214: Increasing penalties for unlawfully possessing or digging ginseng - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4276: Allowing magistrates to grant work release privileges
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4336: Updating the schedule of controlled substances - (Com. title amend. pending)
• Eng. HB 4376: Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Health and Human Resources
• Eng. HB 4379: Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of the existing appropriations to the Department of Transportation
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4401: Relating to the registration of business - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to SB 497)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4453: Relating to judicial review of contested cases under the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Board of Review
• Eng. HB 4529: Relating to oath by municipal official certifying list of delinquent business and occupation taxes
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4571: Relating to the final day of filing announcements of candidates for a political office - (Com. title amend. pending)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4618: Relating to the authority of the Division of Protective Services - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
• Eng. HB 4627: relating to providing a limitation on the eminent domain authority of a municipal park board - (Com. amend. pending)

 

FIRST READING

 

• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2008: Relating to the Dealer Recovery Program
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4036: Increasing the maximum salaries of family case coordinators and secretary-clerks
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4157: Eliminating the refundable exemption for road construction contractors
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4166: Establishing a special revenue fund to be known as the "Capital Improvements Fund - Department of Agriculture Facilities"
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4431: Establishing the Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Authority - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4558: Establishing the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Investment Fund in the West Virginia Development Office

 

Scheduled Committee Meetings

 

9 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)

• HB 4338: Relating to the powers and authority of the Divisions of Administrative Services, and Corrections and Rehabilitation of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
• HB 4629: Relating to broadband enhancement and expansion policies generally

 

9 a.m.: Education (451M)

• HB 4407: Relating to eligibility for alternative program teacher certificate

 

10 a.m.: Natural Resources (208W)

• Originating Resolution 1: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study methods for addressing the problem of abandoned horses on private lands
• Originating Resolution 2: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study methods of improved forest management
• Originating Resolution 3: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study formation of a program for state agencies to utilize non-employee work force for certain improvement and maintenance projects
• Originating Resolution 4: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study developing plans to reclaim abandoned landfills
• Originating Resolution 5: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study ways to expand legal rock climbing opportunities in West Virginia
• Originating Resolution 6: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study an adopt-a-waterway project
• HB 2662: Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish

 

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• HB 4511: Modifying bail requirements
• HB 4451: Creating the West Virginia Sentencing Commission
• HB 2655: Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying
• HB 4309: Restricting the sale and trade of dextromethorphan
• HB 4233: Relating generally to fraudulent transfers
• HB 4324: Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service
• HB 4009: State Settlement and Recovered Funds Accountability Act
• HB 4005: Clarifying that appeals to the Supreme Court are a matter of right
• HB 4002: Providing that all delegates shall be elected from one hundred single districts following the United States Census in 2020
• HB 4320: Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions
• HB 4150: Prohibiting telecommunications and IP-enabled voice services from displaying the name or telephone number of the recipient
• HB 4270: Providing for the timely payment of moneys owed from oil and natural gas production
• HB 4603: Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
• HB 4345: Relating to limitations on permits for growers, processors and dispensaries of medical cannabis

 

(*meeting to be announced from the floor if scheduled)

 

Committee Action on Bills from Tuesday, March 6, 2018

10 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)

• Naming Resolutions: SCR 17: John Hancock Hall Memorial Bridge; SCR 22: US Army Colonel Larkin Bilton Vance Memorial Highway; SCR 21: US Army PFC Charles Thurman "Buddy" Ellis Memorial Bridge; SCR 25: US Army PFC O. T. (Teaberry) Mullins Memorial Bridge; SCR 26: US Army PFC Thomas Mayford Martin Memorial Bridge; SCR 27: US Army CPL F. Lee Noel Memorial Bridge; SCR 29: US Army SGT Benny Fleming Memorial Bridge; SCR 37: Sheriff John E. White Memorial Road; SCR 43: US Army T-4 CE Caesar Bango Memorial Bridge; House Concurrent Resolutions: HCR 3: US Army Cpl David Michael Hopkins and U.S. Army Cpl Romey Earl Hughart, Jr. Memorial Bridge; HCR 4: US Army SPC4 Gary Wayne Morgan Memorial Bridge; HCR 5: US Army PFC Jessie Franklin Crow Memorial Bridge; HCR 16: Frenchburg Bridge; HCR 26: US Army PFC Tracy Victor Rohrbaugh Memorial Bridge; HCR 33: US Army 2LT Clarence Dragoo Memorial Bridge; HCR 87: Constable Joseph H. Davidson Memorial Bridge; HCR 91: US Navy Capt Homer Leroy Smith Memorial Bridge
• Adopted; to be reported to the floor

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)

• HCR 8: Funding for feasibility study of Coal-to-Chemicals Project
• Adopted; to be reported to the floor

 

2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)

• HB 4357: West Virginia Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act
• Removed from agenda

• HB 2869: Providing for paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4447: Providing for a uniform and efficient system of broadband conduit installation
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4465: Authorizing the acupuncture board to issue certificates to perform auricular acudetox therapy
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4350: Eliminating the regulation of upholstery
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4338: Relating to the powers and authority of the Divisions of Administrative Services, and Corrections and Rehabilitation of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

2 p.m.: Education (451M)

• HB 4006: Revising the processes through which professional development is delivered for those who provide public education
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 2799: Prohibiting the superintendent of schools from requiring a physical examination to be included to the application for a minor’s work permit
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 3089: Relating to the adoption of instructional resources for use in the public schools
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4428: Allowing training hours earned through public school education or apprenticeship to count towards an applicant’s occupational certification
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4251: Permitting employees of baccalaureate institutions and universities outside of this state to be appointed to board of governor
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• HB 4394: Relating to forest fires
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4187: Business Liability Protection Act
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4424: Providing that the Ethics Act applies to certain persons providing services without pay to state elected officials
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4511: Modifying bail requirements
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4451: Creating the West Virginia Sentencing Commission
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 2655: Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4309: Restricting the sale and trade of dextromethorphan
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4233: Relating generally to fraudulent transfers
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4324: Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4009: State Settlement and Recovered Funds Accountability Act
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4005: Clarifying that appeals to the Supreme Court are a matter of right
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4002: Providing that all delegates shall be elected from one hundred single districts following the United States Census in 2020
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4320: Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4150: Prohibiting telecommunications and IP-enabled voice services from displaying the name or telephone number of the recipient
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4270: Providing for the timely payment of moneys owed from oil and natural gas production
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4603: Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

• HB 4345: Relating to limitations on permits for growers, processors and dispensaries of medical cannabis
• Bill is laid over to Wednesday’s meeting

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• HB 4389: Expiring funds to the Enterprise Resource Planning System Fund
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

• HB 4628: Relating to authorizing the redirection of amounts collected from certain surcharges and assessments on workers' compensation insurance policies for periods prior to January 1, 2019
• Passed; to be reported to the floor

 

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, March 6, 2018 (223)

Senate Bills Passed the Senate

Joint Resolutions that Have Passed the Senate (2)

 

• SJR3: Judicial Budget Oversight Amendment (original similar to HJR 101, HJR 104, HJR 109) (1st Reading, 03-07)
• SJR 12: No Constitutional right to abortion Amendment (Completed legislation)

House Bills that Have Passed the Senate (76)

• HB 2464: Relating to disclaimers and exclusions of warranties in consumer transactions for goods (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 2483: Requiring the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday (Completed legislative action)
• HB 2546: Allowing replacement costs of employer provided property to be deducted from an employee’s final paycheck if the property is not returned (Signed, 02-26)
• HB 2607: Extending the maximum period of confinement a judge may impose for certain, first-time probationary violations (Conference Committee appointed)
• HB 2612: Repealing section relating to unattended motor vehicles and penalties (Signed, 02-21)
• HB 2654: Expanding county commissions’ ability to dispose of county or district property (Completed legislation)
• HB 2693: Relating to state ownership of wildlife (Completed legislation)
• HB 2694: Relating to the development and implementation of a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas (Completed legislation)
• HB 2696: Relating to crossbow hunting (Completed legislation)
• HB 2831: Relating to the reconstitution of the Driver’s Licensing Advisory Board (Signed, 02-28)
• HB 2843: Permitting Class III municipalities to be included in the West Virginia Tax Increment Act (Completed legislation)
• HB 2889: Allowing military veterans with certain military ratings to qualify for examinations required of probationary police officer (Completed legislation)
• HB 2890: Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund that will serve to support library facilities construction, maintenance and improvement projects (Completed legislation)
• HB 2916: Authorizing certain first responders to carry firearms (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 2983: Granting priority to roadway construction, reconstruction and maintenance for roadways prone to recurring floods that hinder ingress and egress (Completed legislation)
• HB 2995: Permitting certain animal euthanasia technicians who have been certified by other states be certified animal euthanasia technicians in West Virginia (Conference Committee appointed)
• HB 3004: Relating to filling vacancies in offices of state officials, United States Senators, Justices, judges, and magistrates (Completed legislation)
• HB 3005: Relating to regulation of unmanned aircraft systems (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 3104: Transfer of the West Virginia Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Fund (Completed legislation)
• HB 4013: Clarifying venue in West Virginia state courts as it applies to nonresidents of the state (Conference committee report received)
• HB 4015: Relating to the management and continuous inventory of vehicles owned, leased, operated, or acquired by the state and its agencies (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4020: Making technical corrections in the code when referencing Chapter 49 (Signed, 02-21)
• HB 4022: Exempting the consumer sales and service tax and use tax for services for the repair, remodeling and maintenance of certain aircraft (original similar to SB 131, SB 311) (Completed legislation)
• HB 4024: Relating generally to direct cremation or direct burial expenses for indigent persons (House requests Senate to recede)
• HB 4079: Promulgating administrative rules by various executive or administrative agencies of the state (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4135: Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-21)
• HB 4138: Requiring certain public or private schools and daycare centers to install carbon monoxide detectors (Completed legislation)
• HB 4142: Providing certain employees of the Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services, and West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority a salary adjustment (Completed legislation)
• HB 4145: Increasing the annual salaries of members of the West Virginia State Police, public school teachers and school service personnel (Signed 03-06)
• HB 4146: Updating meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-21)
• HB 4162: Granting authority to the State Conservation Committee to contract for flood response (Signed, 02-28)
• HB 4169: Requiring certain establishments and facilities to post human trafficking assistance notices (Completed legislation)
• HB 4175: Preventing requirement that an advanced practice registered nurse participate in a collaborative relationship to obtain payment (Completed legislation)
• HB 4180: Relating to wildlife resources (original similar to SB345) (Completed legislation)
• HB 4186: Relating generally to guaranteed asset protection waivers (Conference Committee appointed)
• HB 4197: Requiring persons employed to dispatch emergency calls complete a course in cardiovascular care for telephonic resuscitation (original similar to SB 409) (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4199: Permitting a nursing home to use trained individuals to administer medication (Completed legislation)
• HB 4207: Authorizing an online application to receive a commission to act as a notary public, and eliminating the bond requirement (Completed legislation)
• HB 4230: Relating to credit for reinsurance (Completed legislation)
• HB 4236: Requiring agencies to provide an annual inventory of real property holdings to the Real Estate Division (original similar to SB 342) (Completed legislation)
• HB 4238: Authorizing counties and municipalities to establish a joint airport hazard comprehensive plan (Completed legislative action)
• HB 4242: Clarifying the jurisdictional amount for removal of a civil action from magistrate court to circuit court (Signed, 02-28)
• HB 4285: Relating to the West Virginia Safe Mortgage Licensing Act (Completed legislation)
• HB 4268: Co-tenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act (Completed legislation)
• HB 4289: Relating to disability pensions of municipal employees (Completed legislation)
• HB 4332: Relating to home peritoneal renal dialysis (Completed legislation)
• HB 4343: Relating to the delivery of financial statements to bank shareholders (Completed legislation)
• HB 4347: Relating to voluntary contributions to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund (Completed legislation)
• HB 4368: Relating to voluntary assignments of wages by state employees who have been overpaid (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4380: Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Agriculture (Signed, 03-03)
• HB 4381: Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education (Signed, 03-03)
• HB 4384: Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Transportation (Signed, 03-03)
• HB 4385: Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services (Completed legislation)
• HB 4386: Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health: Community Mental Health Services (Signed, 03-03)
• HB 4402: Relating to the prevention of sexual abuse of children (Completed legislation)
• HB 4410: Removing the requirement that the State Auditor receive copies of the Limited Video Lottery bids (Completed legislation)
• HB 4422: Permitting permanent endowment funds of cemeteries to invest their principal in certain government bonds, and corporate bonds (Completed legislation)
• HB 4433: Declaring certain claims against an agency of the state to be moral obligations of the state (Completed legislation)
• HB 4434: Clarifying provisions relating to candidates unaffiliated with a political party as it relates to certificates of announcement (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4436: Clarifying when a minor between the ages of 16 and 18 may be employed by or elected as a member of a volunteer fire department (Completed legislation)
• HB 4444: Clarifying the authority of the State Fire Commission in adopting a State Building Code (Completed legislation)
• HB 4462: Allowing off duty members and officers of the department of public safety to guard private property (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4473: Relating to use of state funds for advertising to promote a public official or government office (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4478: Authorizing public schools to distribute excess food to students (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4502: Adding the crimes of murder and armed robbery to the list of offenses for which a prosecutor may apply for an order authorizing interception (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4509: Relating to the establishment of substance abuse treatment facilities (Senate requests House to concur)
• HB 4522: Allowing certain tax information to be shared with the Director of Purchasing Division, Department of Administration, and State Auditor (Senate requests House to concur)

• HB 4619: Relating to supporting implementation of comprehensive systems for teacher and leader induction and professional growth (Completed legislation)
• HB 4621: Relating to removing reference to certain entities with respect to work (Completed legislation)

• HB 4624: Relating to West Virginia coordinate systems (Completed legislation)

Bills Awaiting Action by the Governor (59)

Actions by Governor

Bills Signed by the Governor (27)

Actions by Governor

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