Member's Press Release

Release Date: 03/08/2018
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999

State Senate

Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Thursday, March 8, 2018

Thursday, March 8, 2018 – 58th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

RESOLUTIONS

SCR 54: Requesting study on effect of new vehicle weights on WV roads
SCR 55: Urging Congress pass law permitting WV to increase vehicle weight on interstate highways
SCR 56: PFC Franklin L. Conn and SGM Bill Jeffrey Memorial Bridge

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

SCR 53: US Army SGT Harold Scott White Memorial Bridge
HCR 19: World Moyamoya Awareness Day

THIRD READING (For Passage)

Com. Sub. for SB 152: Budget Bill
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
Com. Sub. for HB 2028: Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state
Com. Sub. for HB 4214: Increasing penalties for unlawfully possessing or digging ginseng - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4276: Allowing magistrates to grant work release privileges
Com. Sub. for HB 4336: Updating the schedule of controlled substances - (Com. title amend. pending)
HB 4376: Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4379: Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of the existing appropriations to the Department of Transportation
Com. Sub. for HB 4401: Relating to the registration of business - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to SB 497)
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
HB 4529: Relating to oath by municipal official certifying list of delinquent business and occupation taxes
Com. Sub. for HB 4571: Relating to the final day of filing announcements of candidates for a political office - (Com. title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4618: Relating to the authority of the Division of Protective Services - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
HB 4627: relating to providing a limitation on the eminent domain authority of a municipal park board - (Com. amend. pending)

SECOND READING (Amendments Stage)

SB 635: Relating to 2019 salary adjustment for employees of DHHR
Com. Sub. for HB 2008: Relating to the Dealer Recovery Program
Com. Sub. for HB 2655: Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 2799: Prohibiting the superintendent of schools from requiring a physical examination to be included to the application for a minor’s work permit - (Com. amend. pending)
HB 2869: Providing for paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 3089: Relating to the adoption of instructional resources for use in the public schools
Com. Sub. for HB 4006: Revising the processes through which professional development is delivered for those who provide public education - (Com. amends. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4009: State Settlement and Recovered Funds Accountability Act - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4036: Increasing the maximum salaries of family case coordinators and secretary-clerks
Com. Sub. for HB 4156: Establishing the qualifications of full and part time nursing school faculty members - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4157: Eliminating the refundable exemption for road construction contractors
Com. Sub. for HB 4166: Establishing a special revenue fund to be known as the "Capital Improvements Fund - Department of Agriculture Facilities"
Com. Sub. for HB 4187: Business Liability Protection Act - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to SB 484)
Com. Sub. for HB 4217: Permitting an attending physician to obtain a patient’s autopsy report
Com. Sub. for HB 4251: Permitting employees of baccalaureate institutions and universities outside of this state to be appointed to board of governors - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4270: Providing for the timely payment of moneys owed from oil and natural gas production - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for 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 - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4350: Eliminating the regulation of upholstery - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
HB 4389: Expiring funds to the Enterprise Resource Planning System Fund - (Com. amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4392: Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources - (Com. amends. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4394: Relating to forest fires - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4424: Providing that the Ethics Act applies to certain persons providing services without pay to state elected officials - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4428: Allowing training hours earned through public school education or apprenticeship to count towards an applicant’s occupational certification - (Com. amends. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4431: Establishing the Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Authority - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4447: Providing for a uniform and efficient system of broadband conduit installation
HB 4465: Authorizing the acupuncture board to issue certificates to perform auricular acudetox therapy
Com. Sub. for HB 4524: Establishing guidelines for the substitution of certain biological pharmaceuticals - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
Com. Sub. for HB 4558: Establishing the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Investment Fund in the West Virginia Development Office
Com. Sub. for HB 4603: Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
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
HB 4629: Relating to broadband enhancement and expansion policies generally - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Scheduled Committee Meetings

9:30 a.m.: Judiciary (208W)

HB 4002: Providing that all delegates shall be elected from one hundred single districts following the United States Census in 2020
HB 4488: Relating to the Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Authority
HB 4150: Prohibiting telecommunications and IP-enabled voice services from displaying the name or telephone number of the recipient
HB 4486: Relating to persons required to obtain a license to engage in the business of currency exchange
HB 4233: Relating generally to fraudulent transfers
HB 4324: Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service
HB 2982: Relating to allowing draw games winners to remain anonymous
HB 4320: Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions
HB 4309: Restricting the sale and trade of dextromethorphan
HB 4011: Requiring agencies, when submitting a new rule or changes, to also identify two existing rules that could be repealed
HB 4345: Relating to limitations on permits for growers, processors and dispensaries of medical cannabis

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

HB 4001: Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance.

Committee Action on Bills from Wednesday, March 7, 2018

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
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4629: Relating to broadband enhancement and expansion policies generally
Passed; to be reported to the floor

9 a.m.: Education (451M)

HB 4407: Relating to eligibility for alternative program teacher certificate
Motion to report the bill to the floor failed

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
All adopted; to be reported to the floor

HB 2662: Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish
Motion to report the bill to the floor failed

1:45 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

HB 4217: Permitting an attending physician to obtain a patient’s autopsy report
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4392: Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4156: Establishing the qualifications of full and part time nursing school faculty members
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4524: Establishing guidelines for the substitution of certain biological pharmaceuticals
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4153: Imposing a health care related provider tax on certain health care organizations
Removed from agenda

HB 4623: Relating to obtaining substance abuse treatment services
Motion to report the bill failed

HB 4001: Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance
Reported and re-referred to Health

HCR 19: World Moyamoya Awareness Day
Adopted; to be reported to the floor

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

HB 4511: Modifying bail requirements/HB 4451: Creating the West Virginia Sentencing Commission
Combined into study resolution; reported to the floor

HB 2655: Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4270: Providing for the timely payment of moneys owed from oil and natural gas production
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4603: Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4009: State Settlement and Recovered Funds Accountability Act
Passed; to be reported to the floor

HB 4309: Restricting the sale and trade of dextromethorphan
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

HB 2892: Relating to allowing draw games winners to remain anonymous
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

HB 4002: Providing that all delegates shall be elected from one hundred single districts following the United States Census in 2020
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

HB 4320: Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

HB 4150: Prohibiting telecommunications and IP-enabled voice services from displaying the name or telephone number of the recipient
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

HB 4486: Relating to persons required to obtain a license to engage in the business of currency exchange
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

HB 4233: Relating generally to fraudulent transfers
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

HB 4324: Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

HB 4345: Relating to limitations on permits for growers, processors and dispensaries of medical cannabis
Reported and re-referred to Judiciary

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 (83)
- 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 (Completed legislation)
- 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 (Completed legislation)
- HB 4016: Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency (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 (Completed legislation)
- HB 4035: Creating a legislative coalition to study and report to the Legislature on palliative care (Senate requests House to concur)
- HB 4042: Redefining school zone to facilitate placement of school zone signs (Senate requests House to concur)
- 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 4183: Relating generally to standardized testing requirements for nonpublic schools (Senate requests House to concur)
- 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 4275: Relating to the law-enforcement authority of the director and officers of the division of protective services (Completed legislation)
- 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 (Completed legislation)
- 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 4400: Relating to the West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company (Completed legislation)
- 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 (Completed legislation)
- 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 (Completed legislation)
- HB 4478: Authorizing public schools to distribute excess food to students (Completed legislation)
- 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 (Completed legislation)
- HB 4509: Relating to the establishment of substance abuse treatment facilities (Completed legislation)
- 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 4546: Relating to where an application for a marriage license may be made (Completed legislation)
- 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 (131)
Actions by Governor
Bills Signed by the Governor (27)

Actions by Governor
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