Member's Press Release
Release Date: 02/20/2019
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999
Senate
Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 – 43rd Day of Session
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
RESOLUTIONS
- SR 52: Recognizing WV State Police on its 100th Anniversary
- SR 53: Recognizing recent increase in black lung cases in WV
- SR 54: Recognizing WV Freedom Festival on its 20th Anniversary
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- SCR 39: Requesting creation of Joint Select Committee on Requirements Governing Water Quality Standards
- SCR 40: US Army CPL Roy E. Clark Memorial Bridge
- SCR 41: Requesting study implementation, costs and benefits of creating paid family and medical leave insurance program
THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 310: Establishing certain requirements for dental insurance (original similar to HB 2754)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 344: Relating to operation of state-owned farms (original similar to HB 2560)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 360: Relating to third-party litigation financing
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 512: Regulating pawnbrokers
- Eng. SB 519: Requiring county emergency dispatchers complete course for telephonic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (original similar to HB 2880)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 553: Relating to federal funds for land-grant institutions
- Eng. SB 587: Relating to PEIA reimbursement of air ambulance providers
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 601: Relating to mandatory supervision of adult inmates
- Eng. SB 636: Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission
- 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)
SECOND READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 340: Repealing obsolete provisions of code relating to WV Physicians Mutual Insurance Company
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 402: Authorizing Division of Forestry investigate and enforce timber theft violations (original similar to HB 2717)
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 510: Relating to medical professional liability
- SB 635: Relating generally to coal mining activities
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2083: Providing an identification card for released inmates who do not have a West Virginia identification card or driver’s license (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2324: Authorizing the acupuncture board to issue certificates to perform auricular acudetox therapy (Com. amend. pending)
FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 613: Requiring DNR include election of organ donation on hunting licenses
Scheduled Committee Meetings
9 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)
- SB 543: Relating generally to automobile warranties and inspections
- SB 538: Relating to WV Highway Design-Build Pilot Program
- Com. Sub. for SCR 6: US Army SP4 Darrell Gregory Triplett Memorial Bridge
10 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- SB 467: Clarifying PSC jurisdiction over water and sewer utilities
- SB 400: Allowing Board of Dentistry create specialty licenses
- SB 432: Enacting Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact
- SB 660: Relating to standards for factory-built homes
- SB 464: Modifying licensing requirements for telemedicine and surgery or podiatry
1 p.m.: Economic Development (208W)
- SB 602: Creating matching program for Small Business Innovation and Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program
- Originating Bill 1: Creating WV Motorsports Entertainment Complex Investment Act
- Originating Bill 2: Creating WV Motorsports Committee
- Originating Bill 3: Creating Local Unincorporated Municipality Board
2 p.m.: Agriculture and Rural Development (208W)
- SB 627: Relating generally to Rural Rehabilitation Loan Program
- SB 629: Regulating to hemp production
2 p.m.: Pensions (451M)
- HB 2743: Eliminating reference to municipal policemen’s pension and relief funds and firemen’s pension and relief funds in section restricting investment
- SB 472: Exempting retirement income of certain uniformed services members from state income tax
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- SB 238: Increasing fines for passing stopped school bus
- SB 511: Creating alternating wine proprietorships
- SB 547: Limiting landowner liability for recreational use of lands
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- SB 456: Authorizing railroads and commercial watercraft claim refundable exemption from motor fuel excise tax
- SB 612: Allowing establishment of secondary location for simulcast video lottery terminals
- SB 656: Relating to electronic filing of tax returns
Committee Action on Bills from Monday, February 18, 2019
10 a.m.: Military (208W)
- SB 596: Adjusting voluntary contribution amounts on certain DMV forms
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Eng. HB 2036: Permitting vehicles displaying disabled veterans' special registration plates to park in places where persons with mobility impairments may park
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Eng. HB 2821: Updating provisions for command, clerical and other pay
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SCR 35: Designating days for displaying Honor and Remember Flag at WV Veterans Memorial
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
10 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)
- SB 493: Correcting terminology referring to racing vehicles illegally on street
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 543: Relating generally to automobile warranties and inspections
- Bill is laid over (on Wednesday’s agenda)
1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)
- Originating Bill 2: Expedited horizontal oil and gas well permitting fees
- Originating bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)
- SB 593: Permitting critical access hospital become community outpatient medical center
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 564: Expanding comprehensive coverage for pregnant women through Medicaid
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance
- SB 80: Establishing tax credit for practicing physicians locating in WV
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance
- SB 641: Relating to Primary Care Support Program
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 537: Creating workgroup to review hospice need standards
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- SB 396: Waiving occupational licensing fees for low-income individuals, military families, and young workers
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance
- SB 569: Relating to interagency procurement of commodities and services
- Motion to report bill to full Senate failed
- SB 570: Allowing contracts without bids for construction, demolition, or rehabilitation resulting from declared state of emergency
- Bill is laid over
- SB 404: Relating generally to sediment control during commercial timber harvesting operations
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 441: Relating to higher education campus police officers
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2612: Proposing rules related to the completion or updating of source water protection plans
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 330: Requiring contact information be listed on agency's online directory and website
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 467: Clarifying PSC jurisdiction over water and sewer utilities
- Bill is laid over
- SB 464: Modifying licensing requirements for telemedicine and surgery or podiatry
- Motion to report bill to full Senate failed
2 p.m.: Education (451M)
- SB 624: Relating to administering ACT or SAT tests to 11th grade students
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- SB 415: Creating Timber Cotenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act and Unknown and Unlocatable Timber Interest Owners Act
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 529: Clarifying provisions of Nonintoxicating Beer Act
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 585: Defining "stalking" as repeated course of conduct
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2740: Barring a parent from inheriting from a child in certain instances
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2746: Relating to administration of estates
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2759: Providing for the ancillary administration of West Virginia real estate owned by nonresidents by affidavit and without administration
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
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
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Com. Sub. for SB 86: Requiring county boards provide free feminine hygiene products in grades six to 12
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Com. Sub. for SB 383: Creating WV Healthy Food Crop Block Grant Program
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 456: Authorizing railroads and commercial watercraft claim refundable exemption from motor fuel excise tax
- Bill is laid over (on Wednesday’s agenda)
- Com. Sub. for SB 546: Relating to health care provider taxes
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (124 Senate; 9 House)
Passed Senate
Bills Rejected by the Senate as of Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (1)
- SB 618: Relating to effect on levy rate when appraisal results in tax increase
Resolutions that have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (12)
- 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)
- 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)
- SCR 25: US Army PFC Andrew "Bo" Martin Harper Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)\
- SCR 38: Urging CSX support New River Train (Referred to Senate Rules committee)
- SJR 5: Clarification of the Judiciary's Role in Impeachment Proceedings Amendment (House Finance)
Bills that Have Been Signed by the Governor as of Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (10)
Signed
Bills that Have Been Vetoed by the Governor as of Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (1)
- SB 272: Updating code relating to Commission on Special Investigations (Vetoed 02-11-19)
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