Member's Press Release
Release Date: 02/18/2019
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999
Senate
Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Monday, February 18, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019 – 41st Day of Session
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
RESOLUTIONS
- SCR 36: US Army CPL Cory M. Hewitt Memorial Bridge
- SCR 37: Urging Bureau for Public Health designate Alzheimer's disease and other dementias as public health issue
- SCR 38: Urging CSX support New River Train
- SR 48: Designating February 18, 2019, as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day
- SR 49: Designating February 18, 2019, as Advanced Technology Center Day
- SR 50: Congratulating Fairmont Senior High School football team for winning 2018 Class AA state football championship
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
· Com. Sub. for SCR 25: US Army PFC Andrew "Bo" Martin Harper Memorial Bridge
· SCR 35: Designating days for displaying Honor and Remember Flag at WV Veterans Memorial
THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 259: Expanding Coyote Control Program
- Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 266: Creating Intermediate Court of Appeals and WV Appellate Review Organization Act of 2019 (original similar to HB 2366)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 295: Relating to crimes against public justice (original similar to HB 3000)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 489: Relating to Pharmacy Audit Integrity Act (original similar to HB 2806)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 502: Exempting sales of investment metal bullion and coins
- Eng. SB 545: Relating to HIV testing
- Eng. SB 550: Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2481: Permitting retail sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays after 1 p.m. - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
SECOND READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 29: Creating ten-year tax credits for businesses locating on post-coal mine sites
- Com. Sub. for SB 117: Relating to incentives for consolidating local governments
- Com. Sub. for SB 147: Shifting funding from Landfill Closure Assistance Fund to local solid waste authorities (original similar to HB 2496)
- SB 333: Exempting automobiles 25 years or older from personal property taxes
- Com. Sub. for SB 512: Regulating pawnbrokers
- SB 617: Relating to method of payment to Municipal Pensions Security Fund
- SB 618: Relating to effect on levy rate when appraisal results in tax increase
FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 310: Establishing certain requirements for dental insurance (original similar to HB 2754)
- Com. Sub. for SB 326: Reorganizing state agencies involved in emergency and disaster planning (original similar to HB 2482)
- Com. Sub. for SB 344: Relating to operation of state-owned farms (original similar to HB 2560)
- Com. Sub. for SB 360: Relating to third-party litigation financing
- SB 519: Requiring county emergency dispatchers complete course for telephonic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (original similar to HB 2880)
- Com. Sub. for SB 553: Relating to federal funds for land-grant institutions
- SB 587: Relating to PEIA reimbursement of air ambulance providers
- Com. Sub. for SB 601: Relating to mandatory supervision of adult inmates
- SB 635: Relating generally to coal mining activities
- SB 636: Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2324: Authorizing the acupuncture board to issue certificates to perform auricular acudetox therapy (Com. amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2607: Relating to the licensure of nursing homes (original similar to SB 434)
- Eng. HB 2666: Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Veterans’ Assistance (Com. amends. pending) (original similar to SB 446)
- Eng. HB 2668: Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services (Com. amend. pending)
Scheduled Committee Meetings
1 p.m.: Natural Resources (208W)
- SB 613: Requiring DNR include election of organ donation on hunting licenses
- SB 517: Allowing owner or lessee sell crop damage
- SB 572: Prohibiting county assessor from reclassifying managed timberland property
2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)
- Com. Sub. for SB 485: Defining reduction in coverage and clarifying termination for property insurance
- Com. Sub. for SB 506: Relating to guaranty associations
- SB 531: Relating generally to workers' compensation claims
- Com. Sub. for SB 583: Creating financial technology sandbox program for testing of financial products and services
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- SB 44: Appropriation Supremacy Act of 2019
- SB 305: Prohibiting waste of big game animals
- SB 415: Creating Timber Cotenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act and Unknown and Unlocatable Timber Interest Owners Act
- SB 529: Clarifying provisions of Nonintoxicating Beer Act
- SB 547: Limiting landowner liability for recreational use of lands
- SB 585: Defining "stalking" as repeated course of conduct
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- SB 11: Relating to retirement and pension benefits of certain PERS and Teachers Retirement System members who serve in Legislature
- Com. Sun. for SB 546: Relating to health care provider taxes
Senate Bills to be Introduced Monday, February 18, 2019
- SB 637: Relating to revocation, cancellation, or suspension of business registration certificates (Blair)
- SB 638: Creating Court Reporter Act of 2019 (Weld)
- SB 639: Relating to salaries for Division of Forestry members (Sypolt)
- SB 640: Regulating sudden cardiac arrest prevention (Stollings)
- SB 641: Relating to Primary Care Support Program (Maroney, Takubo)
- SB 642: Providing options in living wills and combined medical powers of attorney and living wills (Maroney, Azinger, Rucker, Takubo)
- SB 643: Creating Company-Specific Subsidy Interstate Compact (Romano, Baldwin, Beach, Hardesty, Jeffries, Lindsay, Woelfel)
- SB 644: Clarifying authority of State Athletic Commission in regard to boxing and mixed martial arts events (Maynard, by request)
- SB 645: Relating to Health Care Choice Act (Maynard)
- SB 646: Providing automated license plate reader systems (Clements)
- SB 647: Relating to motor vehicle inspections (Baldwin)
- SB 648: Reorganizing Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training (Smith)
- SB 649: Relating to sales tax on motor vehicles (Trump)
- SB 650: Protecting consumers from price gouging after state of emergency (Tarr)
- SB 651: Relating to DNR ability to enter into certain contracts (Maynard, by request)
- SB 652: Prohibiting certain misleading pharmaceutical advertising practices (Baldwin)
- SB 653: Relating generally to practice of medical corporations (Stollings, Maroney)
- SB 654: Amending definition of "mortgage loan originator" (Azinger)
- SB 655: Relating to conservation districts generally (Trump)
- SB 656: Relating to electronic filing of tax returns (Blair)
- SB 657: Providing consumer protection regarding self-propelled farm equipment (Sypolt)
- SB 658: Relating to motor vehicle salesperson licenses (Romano)
- SB 659: Relating of wages of persons with disabilities (Jeffries, Palumbo, Plymale, Rucker, Weld, Woelfel)
- SB 660: Relating to standards for factory-built homes (Boso)
- SB 661: Requiring health care providers make available to patients estimate of standard charges for items and services provided (Maynard)
- SB 662: Permitting civil actions by social media website (Maynard)
- SB 663: Providing recourse for bidders for minor or technical error on construction contract (Romano)
* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note
* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill
Committee Action on Bills from Friday, February 15, 2019
10 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure
- SB 522: Creating special road repair fund
- Committee substitute as amended reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance
1 p.m.: Judiciary
- SB 44: Appropriation Supremacy Act of 2019
- Bill is laid over
- SB 340: Repealing obsolete provisions of code relating to WV Physicians Mutual Insurance Company
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 402: Authorizing Division of Forestry investigate and enforce timber theft violations
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 510: Relating to medical professional liability
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2083: Providing an identification card for released inmates who do not have a West Virginia identification card or driver’s license
- Strike-and-insert amendment adopted; bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 15, 2019 (112 Senate; 8 House)
- SB 1: Increasing access to career education and workforce training (House Education)
- SB 3: Establishing WV Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 4: Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program (House Government Organization)
- SB 10: Relating to Second Chance Driver's License Program (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 13: Relating to distributions from State Excess Lottery Fund (House Finance)
- SB 14: Creating WV Farm-to-School Grant Program (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SB 16: Authorizing expenditure of surplus funds by Wyoming County Commission (House Finance)
- SB 17: Relating to probation eligibility (Signed 02-11-19)
- SB 18: Relating to crimes committed on State Capitol Complex (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 19: Relating to Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SB 24: Relating generally to local boards of health (House Political Subdivisions)
- SB 26: Permitting certain employees of educational service cooperatives participate in state's teacher retirement systems (Pending House introduction)
- SB 27: Removing restrictions on where certain traditional lottery games may be played (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 28: Removing hotel occupancy tax limit collects for medical care and emergency services (Pending Senate concurrence; Senate refers to Rules for further consideration)
- SB 30: Eliminating tax on annuity considerations collected by life insurer (House Banking and Insurance)
- SB 36: Allowing adjustment of gross income for calculating personal income liability for certain retirees (House Pensions and Retirement)
- SB 40: Establishing Military Service Members Court program (House Judiciary)
- SB 47: Providing wind power projects be taxed at real property rate (House Government Organization)
- SB 55: Relating to driving privileges and requirements for persons under 18 (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 60: Licensing practice of athletic training (Pending House introduction)
- SB 61: Adding certain crimes for which prosecutor may apply for wiretap (Senate amends House amendment; requests House to concur)
- SB 62: Requiring participation in drug court program before discharge of certain first-time drug offenses (House Judiciary)
- SB 63: Relating to partial filling of prescriptions (House Judiciary)
- SB 66: Prohibiting certain misleading lawsuit advertising practices (Pending House introduction)
- SB 72: Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights (House Judiciary)
- SB 74: Exempting nonpaid volunteers at ski areas from workers' compensation benefits (House Banking and Insurance)
- SB 90: Transferring Safety and Treatment Program from DHHR to DMV (House Judiciary)
- SB 100: Increasing court fees to fund law-enforcement standards training and expenses (House Finance)
- SB 101: Equalizing penalties for intimidating and retaliating against certain public officers and other persons (House Judiciary)
- SB 102: Relating generally to powers and authority of courthouse security officers (House Judiciary)
- SB 103: Relating generally to Public Defender Services (House Finance)
- SB 106: Alleviating double taxation on foreign income at state level (House Finance)
- SB 119: Specifying documents not subject to discovery in certain proceedings (Signed 02-08-19)
- SB 124: Creating felony offense for actions of cruelty to animals which causes serious injury or death of animal (House Judiciary)
- SB 127: Relating to parole officers' duties to perform alcohol and drug testing of litigants (House Judiciary)
- SB 149: Exempting certain veterans from concealed weapons license fees (House Judiciary)
- SB 152: Relating generally to criminal offense expungement (House Finance)
- SB 153: Providing greater flexibility for making infrastructure project grants (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 154: Using school facilities for funeral and memorial services for certain community members (Education)
- SB 157: Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules (Government Organization)
- SB 163: Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules (House Energy)
- SB 175: Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules (House Health and Human Resources)
- SB 177: Fire Commission rule relating to State Building Code (Signed 02-14-19)
- SB 187: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules (House Finance)
- SB 190: DOH rule relating to employment procedures (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 199: Authorizing certain miscellaneous agencies and boards promulgate legislative rules (House Government Organization)
- SB 223: Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
- SB 233: Relating to age requirements for deputy sheriff (House Government Organization)
- SB 236: Providing notice of eligibility to persons to vote after completion of punishment or pardon (House Judiciary)
- SB 237: Improving ability of law enforcement to locate and return missing persons (House Judiciary)
- SB 240: Repealing certain legislative rules no longer authorized or are obsolete (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 241: Permitting county court clerks scan certain documents in electronic form (House Political Subdivisions)
- SB 243: Requiring racetrack participate in WV Thoroughbred Development Fund (House Finance)
- SB 253: Protecting consumers from automatic purchase renewal and continuous service offers (House Judiciary)
- SB 255: Relating to Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee (Signed 02-14-19)
- SB 256: Allowing certain deductions from individual personal income tax refunds (House Finance)
- SB 258: Establishing common law "veil piercing" claims not be used to impose personal liability (House Judiciary)
- SB 263: Limiting number of days legislators may be compensated during extended and extraordinary sessions if budget bill not enacted (House Finance)
- SB 264: Requiring courts to order restitution to crime victims where economically practicable (House Judiciary)
- SB 267: Requiring State Board of Education adopt policy detailing level of computer science instruction (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 268: Updating meaning of federal taxable income in WV Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 269: Updating terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 270: Streamlining process for utilities access to DOH rights-of-way (House Judiciary)
- SB 272: Updating code relating to Commission on Special Investigations (Vetoed 02-11-19)
- SB 285: Relating to sale of homemade food items (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SB 291: Relating generally to survivor benefits for emergency response providers (House Finance)
- SB 296: Providing 11-month window to permit members of PERS to purchase credited service (House Pensions and Retirement)
- SB 297: Extending expiration of military members' spouses' driver's license (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 317: Authorizing three or more adjacent counties form multicounty trail network authority (Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SB 323: Establishing revenue fund and source to support Department of Agriculture's improvement to facilities (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 324: Relating to Commissioner of Agriculture employees (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 331: Using leashed dogs to track mortally wounded deer or bear (House Judiciary)
- SB 332: Relating to Class Q special hunting permit for disabled persons (House Judiciary)
- SB 339: Allowing certain persons carry pepper spray in State Capitol Complex (House Judiciary)
- SB 343: Relating to review and approval of state property leases (House Government Organization)
- SB 345: Relating to fire service equipment and training funds for VFDs (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
- SB 346: Changing rate which certain judges are paid for mileage when traveling within state (House Finance)
- SB 352: Relating to Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation acquiring and disposing of services, goods, and commodities (House Government Organization)
- SB 354: Expiring funds to balance of Auditor's Office - Chief Inspector's Fund (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 356: Requiring MAPS provide state and federal prosecutors information (House Judiciary)
- SB 357: Relating generally to Division of Administrative Services (House Government Organization)
- SB 358: Exempting Purchasing Division purchases for equipment to maintain security at state facilities (House Judiciary)
- SB 361: Relating to Public Defender Services (House Judiciary)
- SB 369: Relating to generic drug products (House Health and Human Resources)
- SB 373: Relating to financial responsibility of inmates (House Judiciary)
- SB 377: Relating to minimum wage and maximum hour standards (H Second Reading, 02-18-19)
- SB 387: Relating generally to extradition (House Judiciary)
- SB 389: Allowing developmentally disabled person purchase base hunting license (House Judiciary)
- SB 390: Requiring electric utilities submit feasibility studies of constructing and operating middle-mile broadband internet projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 392: Relating to payment of invoices received by Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation for contract work (House Government Organization)
- SB 393: Protecting right to farm (Pending House introduction)
- SB 398: Relating to compensation for senior judges (House Finance)
- SB 399: Relating to compensation for senior magistrates (House Judiciary)
- SB 405: Increasing limit on additional expenses incurred in preparing notice list for redemption (House Government Organization)
- SB 408: Determining indigency for public defender services (House Judiciary)
- SB 440: Relating to Antihazing Law (House Judiciary)
- SB 442: Supplementing, amending, and decreasing appropriation to Insurance Commission (House Finance)
- SB 443: Supplemental appropriation of federal moneys to DHHR divisions (House Finance)
- SB 444: Supplemental appropriation to DHHR divisions (House Finance)
- SB 451: Comprehensive education reform (Pending Senate concurrence)
- SB 452: Supplemental appropriation to Second Chance Driver's License Program (House Finance)
- SB 453: Relating to background checks of certain financial institutions (House Judiciary)
- SB 461: Providing for personal income tax withholding on certain lottery winnings (House Finance)
- SB 481: Relating to Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission (House Judiciary)
- SB 491: Extending effective date for voter registration in conjunction with driver licensing (House Judiciary)
- SB 496: Transferring authority to regulate milk from DHHR to Department of Agriculture (House Government Organization)
- SB 499: Amending WV tax laws to conform to changes in partnerships for federal income tax purposes (House Finance)
- SB 516: Relating to attorney fees in subsidized adoptions (Pending House introduction)
- SB 518: Restricting sale and trade of dextromethorphan (Pending House introduction)
- SB 563: Prohibiting sexual assault victim be subjected to certain physical examinations (Pending House introduction)
- SB 590: Permitting guided bear hunts by licensed outfitters and guides (Pending House introduction)
- SB 542: Relating to registration fees for military-related special registration plates (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- HB 2191: Relating generally to limited video lottery (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- HB 2307: Relating to creating a provisional license for practicing barbering and cosmetology (Passed; Communicated to House)
- HB 2446: Blue Alert Plan (Completed; Pending action by Governor)
- HB 2351: Relating to regulating prior authorizations (House requests Conference Committee – appoints Ellington, R-Mercer; Hollen, R-Wood, Staggers, D-Fayette; Senate appoints Maroney, Takubo, Stollings)
- HB 2459: Exercising authority to exempt individuals domiciled within the state from certain restrictions contained in federal law (Pending House concurrence)
- HB 2462: Issuing a certificate to correctional employees to carry firearms (Completed; Awaiting action by governor)
- HB 2492: Relating to mandatory reporting procedures of abuse and neglect of adults and children (Pending House concurrence)
- HB 2521: Relating to permitting fur-bearer parts (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
Resolutions that have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 15, 2019 (10)
- SCR 4: US Marine Corps Lt. Col. Dennis Ray Blankenship Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 5: Home of Coach Bob Bolen Mountain State University 2004 NAIA Champions sign (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SJR 5: Clarification of the Judiciary's Role in Impeachment Proceedings Amendment (House Finance)
- SCR 7: Urging Congress provide exceptions to weight limits on interstate (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 9: US Army PFC Winten L. Wayts Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 11: Urging Congress pass fully funded long-term surface transportation and infrastructure measures (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 12: US Army CPL Lee Roy Young Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 16: US Army SP4 Wilbur Allen Smith Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 20: US Air Force SSGT Ryan David Hammond Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 23: Jeffrey Alan Clovis Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
Bills and Resolutions that have Completed Legislation as of Friday, February 15, 2019 (18 total – 14 S; 4 H)
- SB 17: Relating to probation eligibility (Signed 02-11-19)
- SB 18: Relating to crimes committed on State Capitol Complex (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 27: Removing restrictions on where certain traditional lottery games may be played (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 119: Specifying documents not subject to discovery in certain proceedings (Signed 02-08-19)
- SB 177: Fire Commission rule relating to State Building Code (Signed 02-14-19)
- SB 240: Repealing certain legislative rules no longer authorized or are obsolete (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 255: Relating to Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee (Signed 02-14-19)
- SB 267: Requiring State Board of Education adopt policy detailing level of computer science instruction (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 268: Updating meaning of federal taxable income in WV Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 269: Updating terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 272: Updating code relating to Commission on Special Investigations (Vetoed 02-11-19)
- SB 323: Establishing revenue fund and source to support Department of Agriculture's improvement to facilities (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 324: Relating to Commissioner of Agriculture employees (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 354: Expiring funds to balance of Auditor's Office - Chief Inspector's Fund (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- HB 2191: Relating generally to limited video lottery (Completed; Awaiting action by the Governor)
- HB 2446: Blue Alert Plan (Completed; Pending action by Governor)
- HB 2462: Issuing a certificate to correctional employees to carry firearms (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- HB 2521: Relating to permitting fur-bearer parts (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
Bills that Have Been Signed by the Governor as of Friday, February 15, 2019 (4)
- SB 119: Specifying documents not subject to discovery in certain proceedings (Signed 02-08-19)
- SB 17: Relating to probation eligibility (Signed 02-11-19)
- SB 177: Fire Commission rule relating to State Building Code (Signed 02-14-19)
- SB 255
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