House of Delegates

Here’s what’s scheduled Monday in the House of Delegates:

SPECIAL CALENDAR

Monday, February 24, 2020

48^th Day of the Legislative Session

House to convene at 11 a.m. On the agenda:

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• Com. Sub. for H. C. R. 75 - Naming the highest peak on Wolf Creek Mountain in Monroe County, Boone’s Peak

THIRD READING – For Passage

• Com. Sub. for S. B. 657 - Allowing designation of tourism development districts
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 3127 - Relating to the Secondary School Activities Commission and participation by home schooled students
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4009 - Relating to the process for involuntary hospitalization
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4252 - Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules [Amendment Pending]
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4388 - Limiting the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner's authority to restrict advertising
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4530 - Authorizing daily passenger rental car companies to charge reasonable administrative fees
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4626 - West Virginia Development Achievements Transparency Act
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4668 - Creating the misdemeanor crime of trespass for entering a structure that has been condemned
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4748 - Relating to the increase of fees that private nongovernment notary publics may charge for notarial acts

SECOND READING – Amendment Stage

• Com. Sub. for S. B. 502 - Relating to methamphetamine criminal penalty
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 2088 - Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 2149 - Relating to the Farm-To-Food Bank Tax Credit
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 2646 - Providing a safe harbor for employers to correct underpayment or nonpayment of wages and benefits due to separated employees
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4019 - Downstream Natural Gas Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit Act of 2020
• H. B. 4354 - Adding nabiximols to the permitted list of distributed and prescribed drugs
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4360 - Exempting certain persons from heating, ventilating, and cooling system licensing requirements
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4377 - The Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act
• H. B. 4396 - Relating to reporting suspected governmental fraud
• H. B. 4409 - Relating to transferring remaining funds from the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4421 - Natural Gas Liquids Economic Development Act
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4433 - Relating to deeds of trust
• H. B. 4447 - Creating the shared table initiative for senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4464 - Relating to driving privileges and requirements for persons under the age of 18
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4558 - Creating a personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters in West Virginia
• H. B. 4606 - Listing contractor classifications on a contractor license
• H. B. 4715 - Authorizing municipalities to take action to grant certain fire department employees limited power of arrest
• H. B. 4760 - Modifying video lottery retailer licensing eligibility requirements
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4780 - Permitting a school-based decision-making council to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible
• H. B. 4797 - Authorizing municipalities to enact ordinances that allow the municipal court to place a structure, dwelling or building into receivership
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4803 - Relating to certification of electrical inspectors
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4823 - Developing a plan for periodic audits of the expenditure of the fees from the emergency 911 telephone system and wireless enhanced 911
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4853 - Relating to a customer constructing a connection or other infrastructure necessary for the customer to connect to the public utility
• H. B. 4859 - Accounting for state funds distributed to volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments
• H. B. 4872 - Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse
• H. B. 4882 - Authorizing limited sampling and limited sale of wine for off-premises consumption to wineries not licensed in the state
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4886 - Requiring the PSC and the DOH to submit reports concerning activity on the Coal Resource Transportation Road System
• H. B. 4887 - Relating to revocation, cancellation, or suspension of business registration certificates
• H. B. 4959 - Relating to clarifying the ability of the Economic Development Authority Board of Directors to enter into any contracts necessary to carry out its duties
• H. B. 4960 - Relating to exempting from licensure as an electrician

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for S. B. 554 - Relating to termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases (Energy Committee Amendment Pending)
• Com. Sub. for S. B. 571 - Expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to various accounts (Finance Committee Amendment Pending)
• S. B. 572 - Expiring funds from General Revenue and Lottery Net Profits to various accounts
• S. B. 725 - Supplemental appropriation to various Department of Education accounts
• S. B. 778 - Supplemental appropriation expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR
• S. B. 779 - Supplemental appropriation expiring funds in State Excess Lottery Revenue to Department of Veterans' Assistance
• S. B. 780 - Supplemental appropriation by decreasing and adding new appropriation out of Treasury to DMAPS
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 2478 - Modifying the Fair Trade Practices Act
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 2897 - Relating to driving restrictions in school zones
• H. B. 4159 - Relating to the manufacture and sale of hard cider
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4176 - West Virginia Intelligence/Fusion Center Act
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4362 - Relating to penalties for neglect, emotional abuse or death caused by a caregiver
• H. B. 4402 - Relating to designation of early voting locations
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4439 - Clarifying the method for calculating the amount of severance tax attributable to the increase in coal production
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4461 - Requiring the Governor to fix the salaries of certain state appointed officers after the office is vacated or after July 1
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4494 - Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4497 - Requiring an external defibrillator device at any secondary school athlete event
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4535 - Relating to student aide class titles
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4560 - Relating to deliveries by a licensed wine specialty shop
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4573 - Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4574 - Establishing Just Transition Support for Coal-Related Jobs
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4587 - Modernizing the Public Service Commission's regulation of solid waste motor carriers and solid waste facilities
• H. B. 4602 - Increasing the penalty for DUI causing death when a child is present
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4619 - Approving plans proposed by electric utilities to install middle-mile broadband fiber
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4639 - Changing frequency of mandatory state inspections of motor vehicles
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4648 - The Parenting Fairness Act of 2020
• H. B. 4665 - Reducing the amount of rebate going to the Purchasing Improvement Fund
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4693 - Expanding the scope of the Veterans to Agriculture Program
• H. B. 4705 - Including three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4717 - Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4746 - Establishing a registry of persons with a communication disability
• H. B. 4804 - Relating to comprehensive systems of support for teacher and leader induction and professional growth
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4892 - Reducing personal income tax rates when personal income tax reduction fund is funded at a certain threshold
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4905 - Ban-the-Box Act
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4925 - Requiring the Secondary Schools Athletic Commission to recognize private, parochial, or church schools
• H. B. 4929 - Relating to the administrative closing of stale or unprogressed estates
• Com. Sub. for H. B. 4946 - Eliminating the requirement that municipal police civil service commissions certify a list of three individuals for every position vacancy
• H. B. 4953 - Providing the PSC with authority to order the acquisition of failing utilities and a variety of tools to assist distressed and failing utilities
• H. B. 4958 - Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs
• H. B. 4966 - Relating generally to updating the North American Industry Classification System code references
• H. B. 4969 - Relating to providing tax credit for the donation or sale of a vehicle to certain charitable organizations
• H. B. 4970 - Relating to military service as a factor in certain insurance coverage rates
• H. B. 4971 - Relating to a closing hospital

Public Hearing:

Committee on Education

9:00 a.m. - House Chamber

Com. Sub. for H. B. 4780, Permitting a school-based decision-making council to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible.

Committee Meetings Scheduled:

Agriculture and Natural Resources

9:00 a.m. - Room 410 M

Agriculture:

• S. C. R. 1, Designating dogs adopted from animal shelters and rescues as WV official state dog. (2^nd reference to Rules)
• Com. Sub. for S. B. 142, Expanding Coyote Control Program through voluntary assessment on breeding cows. (2^nd reference to Finance)
• S. B. 490, Relating to criminal offenses against agricultural facilities. (2^nd reference to Judiciary)

Natural Resources:

• S. B. 468, Relating to eligibility for license or permit application.
• Com. Sub. for S. B. 550, Permitting leashed dogs track mortally wounded deer or bear.

Political Subdivisions

10:00 a.m. - Room 410 M

• Com. Sub. For Senate Bill 96, Prohibiting municipalities from limiting persons' rights to possess certain weapons

Committee on Rules

10:30 a.m. - Behind Chamber

Committee on Government Organization

4:00 p.m. - Room 215 E

(***Agenda to be posted.***)

Citation Presentations Scheduled in House Chamber:

• 9:30 a.m. – UC, WVU & Marshall Schools of Pharmacy

From the Activity Calendar:

West Virginians for Life Rally

North Steps

Chiropractic Day

Upper Senate Rotunda

Pharmacy Day

Upper House and remaining Upper Senate Rotunda

*** Agendas and meeting times subject to change. ***