Member's Press Release
Release Date: 02/21/2019
Contact: Jared Hunt at (304) 340-3323
House of Delegates
On the Agenda: Thursday in the House of Delegates
Here’s what’s scheduled for Thursday in the House of Delegates:
SPECIAL CALENDAR
Thursday, February 21, 2019
44th Day of the Legislative Session
House to convene at 11 a.m. On the agenda:
THIRD READING – For Passage
- Sub. for S. B. 270 - Streamlining process for utilities access to DOH rights-of-way
- Sub. for S. B. 356 - Requiring MAPS provide state and federal prosecutors information
- S.B. 358 - Exempting Purchasing Division purchases for equipment to maintain security at state facilities
- Sub. for S. B. 387 - Relating generally to extradition
- S.B. 452 - Supplemental appropriation to Second Chance Driver's License Program
- H.B. 2515 - Exempting the sale and installation of mobility enhancing equipment from the sales and use tax (Finance Committee Title Amendment Pending)
- H.B. 2667 - Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, Division of Corrections
- Sub. for H. B. 2854 - Exempting sales from the consumers sales and service tax and use tax by not for profit volunteer school support groups raising funds for schools
- Sub. for H. B. 2855 - Allowing rebate moneys to be used for the operation and maintenance of accounting and transparency systems of the State Auditor
- H.B. 2856 - Relating to the administration of the operating fund of the securities division of the Auditor’s office (Finance Committee Title Amendment Pending)
- Sub. for H. B. 2886 - Establishing requirements for a Division Motor Vehicles office or Division of Motor Vehicles Now kiosk to be present in a county
- Sub. for H. B. 2907 - Requiring a form of a certified commitment order to the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
- H.B. 2924 - Permitting the West Virginia Tourism Office to decide to contract with the Division of Highways to sell advertising space on the WV511 website
- Sub. for H. B. 2929 - Authorizing the West Virginia Tourism Office to enter into an agreement with the Division of Highways to provide staff at the welcome centers
- Sub. for H. B. 2933 - Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse resulting in injury
- B. 2954 - Defining certain terms used in insurance
- Sub. for H. B. 2982 - Amending and updating the laws relating to auctioneers
- Sub. for H. B. 3007 - Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to require background checks
- H.B. 3039 - Relating to a court’s consideration of the expression of a preference by a child in certain child custody matters
- H.B. 3083 - Adding temporary work during the legislative session as exclusion to the term employment for purposes of unemployment compensation
- H.B. 3093 - Relating to standards for factory-built homes
SECOND READING – Amendment Stage
- Sub. for S. B. 13 - Relating to distributions from State Excess Lottery Fund (Finance Committee Amendment Pending)
- S.B. 442 - Supplementing, amending, and decreasing appropriation to Insurance Commission
- S.B. 443 - Supplemental appropriation of federal moneys to DHHR divisions
- S.B. 444 - Supplemental appropriation to DHHR divisions (Finance Committee Amendment Pending)
- Sub. for H. B. 2540 - Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish
- Sub. for H. B. 2541 - Requiring certain safety measures be taken at public schools
- H.B. 2730 - Increasing the compensation of the membership of the State Police and the salaries for public school teachers and school service personnel (Finance Committee Title Amendment Pending)
- Sub. for H. B. 2807 - Creating an additional modification to the West Virginia adjusted gross income of shareholders of S corporations engaged in banking
- H.B. 2829 - Relating to the termination of severance taxes on limestone and sandstone
- H.B. 2837 - Relating to the licensing of advance deposit wagering
- Sub. for H. B. 2901 - Allowing for the establishment of a secondary location for racetrack video lottery terminals
- H.B. 2934 - Permitting interactive wagering authorized as West Virginia Lottery interactive wagering activities (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
- H.B. 2968 - Adding remote service unit to the definition of customer bank communications terminals
- H.B. 3134 - Establishing criminal penalties for negligent homicide, and increasing criminal penalties for reckless driving
FIRST READING
- Sub. for S. B. 26 - Permitting certain employees of educational service cooperatives participate in state's teacher retirement systems
- Sub. for H. B. 2229 - Adding violations of law upon which a public servant’s retirement plan may be forfeited
- H.B. 2519 - The Campus Self Defense Act
- Sub. for H. B. 2550 - Creating a matching program for the Small Business Innovation and Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program
- H.B. 2598 - Relating to submitting a certifying statement attesting to status as a charitable or public service organization
- Sub. for H. B. 2617 - Relating to the form for making offer of optional uninsured and underinsured coverage by insurers
- Sub. for H. B. 2690 - Relating to guaranty associations
- Sub. for H. B. 2694 - Relating to the state’s ability to regulate hemp
- Sub. for H. B. 2718 - Requiring purchasers of roundwood to collect and maintain certain information
- Sub. for H. B. 2770 - Fairness in Cost-Sharing Calculation Act
- Sub. for H. B. 2802 - Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
- H.B. 2816 - Removing the terms “hearing impaired,” “hearing impairment,” and “deaf mute” from the West Virginia Code and substituting terms
- H.B. 2827 - Removing the residency requirements for hiring deputy assessors
- H.B. 2828 - Relating to Qualified Opportunity Zones
- Sub. for H. B. 2830 - Establishing Next Generation 911 services in this state
- H.B. 2926 - Requiring the Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study the housing needs of veterans
- Sub. for H. B. 2991 - Relating to the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund
- Sub. for H. B. 3024 - West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program
- H.B. 3045 - Exempting certain complimentary hotel rooms from hotel occupancy tax
- H.B. 3132 - Relating to exempting providers that serve no more than 30 patients with office-based medication-assisted treatment
- Sub. for H. B. 3133 - Relating to requiring a parolee or probationer found to have suffered with addiction to participate in a support service
- H.B. 3135 - Expiring the funds to the balance of the Department of Commerce, Development Office
Committee Meetings Scheduled:
Committee on Finance
9:00 a.m. - Room 460M
- H.B. 2519, The Campus Self Defense Act.
- H.B. (originating), Cannabis Block Chain Technology
- H.B. 2976, Economic Diversification Act of 2019.
- H.B. 3021, Relating to the disposition of permit fees, registration fees and civil penalties imposed against thoroughbred horse racing licensees.
- H.B. 2945, Relating to vendors paying a single annual fee for a permit issued by a local health department.
- H.B. 3095, Establishing a minimum monthly retirement annuity for certain retirants.
- H.B. 2595, Establishing the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System.
- H.B. 3070, Relating to the accrued benefit of retirees in the West Virginia State Police Retirement System.
Committee on the Judiciary
9:00 a.m. - Room 418M
- H.B. 2378, Relating generally to grounds for revocation of a teaching certificate,
- H.B. 2662, Relating to certificates or employment of school personnel,
- H.B. 2179, Allowing nonmembers of a political party to request that party’s partisan ballot at a primary election,
- Originating bill, Relating to increasing the salary of constitutional officers
- H.B. 2670, Relating to damages for medical monitoring,
- H.B. 2943, Relating to deliveries by wine specialty shop,
- H.B. 2014, West Virginia Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets Act,
- H.B. 2866, Relating to the termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases,
- H.B. 2049, Relating to a prime contractor’s responsibility for wages and benefits,
- H.B. 3073, Authorizing a court administrator to make determinations of financial eligibility for public defender services
Committee on Education
9:00 a.m. - Room 432M
- H.B. 2433, Modifying the school calendar to begin not earlier than Labor Day and end prior to Memorial Day.
- H.B. Originating, relating to executive sessions.
- S.B. 1, Increasing access to career education and workforce training
Committee on Rules
10:45 a.m. - Behind Chamber
Committee on Health & Human Resources
2:00 p.m. - Room 215E
- SB 489 - Relating to Pharmacy Audit Integrity Act
- SB 518 - Restricting sale and trade of dextromethorphan
- HB 2953 - Permitting a critical access hospital to become a community outpatient medical center
- HB 3019 - Health Care Transparency Act (2nd reference to Judiciary)
- SB 545 - Relating to HIV testing
Citation Presentations Scheduled in House Chamber:
- 10:00 a.m. – Taiwan Citation, Delegate Higginbotham
- 10:10 a.m. – Hundred High School, Delegate Pethtel
From the Activity Calendar:
History Day
Upper House and Upper Senate Rotundas
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