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Delegate Argento sponsored 97 bills: |
Bill |
Title |
Status |
Committee |
Step |
Last Action |
HB 2623 | Allowing Class RG and RRG deer stamps to be used to hunt and take antlerless deer | Pending | House Natural Resources | Committee | 02/18/09 |
HB 3205 | Allowing individuals to utilize any portion of their federal civil service retirement pension based on credit for military service | Pending | House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security | Committee | 03/18/09 |
HB 2601 | Allowing the Superintendent of the State Police to charge a one hundred dollar motor vehicle inspection facility application fee | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/12/09 |
HB 2723 | Authorizing liens by municipalities and requiring administrative procedures for the assessment and collection of delinquent municipal fees | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009) | ||
HB 2741 | Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners to sign readmission orders | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/23/09 |
HB 2539 | Authorizing professional licensing boards to combine administrative staff functions | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009) | ||
HB 3049 | Authorizing the Chief Technology Officer to receive confidential records and have access to an agencies' database | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/10/09 |
HB 2915 | Authorizing the sale of prohibited fireworks | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/09 |
HB 3206 | Authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to sign National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permits | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/24/09 |
HB 2659 | Broadcast Employees Freedom to Work Act | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 02/19/09 |
HB 2343 | Captive Cervid Farming Act | Pending | House Natural Resources | Committee | 02/13/09 |
HB 3053 | Changing some functions of the Division of Personnel | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/10/09 |
HB 2735 | Changing the membership of the State Conservation Committee | Pending | House Agriculture | Committee | 02/23/09 |
HB 3041 | Clarifying provisions relating to posting of job openings | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/10/09 |
HB 3054 | Clarifying that the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration has the power and duty of acquiring and disposing of real property, contracting for third-party real estate services and billing spending units for costs of such services | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/10/09 |
HB 3066 | Clarifying the supervision requirements for elevator apprentices under elevator safety | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2009) | ||
HB 3003 | Continuing and reimposing the special reclamation tax, providing for periodic legislative review, and removing the additional tax on clean coal | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/09/09 |
HB 2461 | Creating a State Trail Authority within the West Virginia Development Office | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/16/09 |
HB 2859 | Critical needs firefighters tax credit | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/26/09 |
HB 2740 | Eliminating the authority to appoint coguardians and coconservators for mental hygiene proceedings | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/23/09 |
HB 2338 | Eliminating the six month waiting period for those in the Teachers Retirement System to receive disability retirement benefits | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 02/13/09 |
HB 2780 | Emergency Credentialing for Health Care Providers Act | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/24/09 |
HB 3195 | Establishing a funding mechanism for state aid for local health departments | Signed | Effective from passage - (April 11, 2009) | ||
HB 2668 | Establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/19/09 |
HB 2911 | Establishing a state law-enforcement association members annual leave program | Pending | 1st Reading | 04/11/09 | |
HB 2472 | Establishing a West Virginia State Trooper's Association leave donation program | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/16/09 |
HB 2699 | Establishing breeding restrictions for aggressive or vicious dogs | Pending | House Agriculture | Committee | 02/20/09 |
HB 2671 | Establishing criminal penalties of not less than two years nor more than ten years for the manufacture, delivery or possession of methamphetamine precursors | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/19/09 |
HB 2504 | Establishing the Silver Alert Plan, an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2009) | ||
HB 2606 | Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/18/09 |
HB 2474 | Exempting land-based finfish aquaculture facilities from certain sludge management requirements | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2009) | ||
HB 2889 | Exempting the first $30,000 of a taxpayer's severance wages from state income tax for year 2009 only | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/02/09 |
HB 2841 | Extending the time for the city council of Richwood to meet as a levying body | Signed | Effective from passage - (April 10, 2009) | ||
HB 2490 | Including persons who participate in or who contribute to taking a person's identity with fraudulent intent | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/09 |
HB 2541 | Including poultry among those domesticated farm animals or stock which the owner shall be liable for damages caused by those animals | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2009) | ||
HB 2471 | Increasing compensation for conservation officers | Pending | House Natural Resources | Committee | 02/16/09 |
HB 2929 | Increasing the amount of charge or fee for a recreational purpose or activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited to $500 | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/09 |
HB 2879 | Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/27/09 |
HB 2877 | Increasing the monetary penalties, removing the possibility of incarceration and adding community service for a minor who misrepresents his or her age when purchasing alcohol | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009) | ||
HB 2789 | Increasing the surcharge on fire and casualty policies to benefit volunteer fire departments | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/24/09 |
HB 2475 | Permitting retired state employees to transfer from Medicare to coverage through the West Virginia Public Employees Act | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 02/16/09 |
HB 2574 | Prohibiting certain nursing homes from using state funds for activities unrelated to the provision of health care services | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/18/09 |
HB 2995 | Prohibiting text messaging by use of a cell phone or personal digital assistant while driving | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/09/09 |
HB 2054 | Providing a mechanism whereby unused, unexpired nonnarcotic drugs previously owned by a deceased nursing home patient or resident may be donated to free health care clinics in the state | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/11/09 |
HB 2874 | Providing a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter has developed a pulmonary disease or sustained a cardiovascular injury | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/27/09 |
HB 2051 | Providing a two thousand eight dollar salary increase for each employee of the Division of Corrections | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/11/09 |
HB 2669 | Providing an exemption from gross income for certain members of volunteer fire departments | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/19/09 |
HB 2595 | Providing an exemption from gross income for members of volunteer fire departments for state personal income tax purposes | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/18/09 |
HB 2412 | Providing certain county commissions with authority to regulate the location of businesses offering exotic entertainment | Pending | Concurrence | 04/11/09 | |
HB 3119 | Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants of the Public Employees' Retirement and Teachers' Retirement Systems at the time they reach the age of seventy | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 03/13/09 |
HB 2452 | Providing that a child born addicted to a controlled substance constitutes child abuse | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/16/09 |
HB 3062 | Providing that the amount of required acreage for bird hunting preserves may be one hundred acres for privately owned commercial shooting preserves | Pending | House Natural Resources | Committee | 03/11/09 |
HB 2416 | Providing worker's compensation benefits to volunteer firefighters for cardiovascular or pulmonary diseases provided certain conditions of employment have been met | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/16/09 |
HB 2908 | Raising the age of consent that a minor may refuse health treatment | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/17/09 |
HB 2426 | Reducing state income tax for state correctional officer retirees | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 02/16/09 |
HB 2701 | Relating to an escape of any person from the custody of the Division of Juvenile Services | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (August 25, 2009) | ||
HB 2697 | Relating to common carriers by motor vehicles in the business of towing | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 02/20/09 |
HB 2649 | Relating to confidential records | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/18/09 |
HB 3012 | Relating to electing magistrates by division | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/10/09 |
HB 2056 | Relating to electronic and paper requisition format approved by the Auditor | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/11/09 |
HB 3055 | Relating to environmental permitting of surface coal mining and correcting antiquated language | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/10/09 |
HB 3063 | Relating to hunting, tagging and reporting bear | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2009) | ||
HB 3023 | Relating to oil and gas surface owner's bill of rights | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 03/10/09 |
HB 2547 | Relating to pawnbrokers obtaining a signed statement affirming ownership from a seller or pledgor on all sale or pawn transactions | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/26/09 |
HB 2698 | Relating to pipeline companies paying a special license fee | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 02/20/09 |
HB 2292 | Relating to requiring lien holders to notify the sheriff's office via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days after the lien has been satisfied | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/09 |
HB 2529 | Relating to the practice of environmental health science and public health sanitation | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/27/09 |
HB 2378 | Relating to the removal of the exemption for government employees performing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 02/13/09 |
HB 2907 | Relating to the sales of wine | Pending | House Agriculture | Committee | 03/03/09 |
HB 3203 | Relating to violent crimes against the elderly | Pending | House Senior Citizen Issues | Committee | 03/18/09 |
HB 2651 | Repealing article regulating male breeding animals | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2009) | ||
HB 2742 | Repealing outdated provisions from the WV Code relating to vinegars | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2009) | ||
HB 2691 | Repealing outdated sections of West Virginia Code | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/18/09 |
HB 2652 | Repealing the Tree Fruit Industry Self-Improvement Act of 1984 | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2009) | ||
HB 2421 | Requires that inoperable fire hydrants be painted black and be reported to emergency dispatch centers | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2009) | ||
HB 3014 | Requiring all governmental documents to be printed in English | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/10/09 |
HB 2129 | Requiring bids under state contract to disclose the location of work to be performed or risk state termination of the contract | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/11/09 |
HB 2966 | Requiring both parents to be equally responsible for a child's funeral expenses | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/05/09 |
HB 2248 | Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/12/09 |
HB 3102 | Requiring sex offenders to pay a fee which is to be deposited into the State Police Retirement Fund | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 03/12/09 |
HB 2637 | Requiring that all state high schools provide a course in archery safety for hunters | Pending | House Natural Resources | Committee | 02/18/09 |
HB 2957 | Requiring the county extension service to collect applicable data regarding the locations of all cemeteries within West Virginia | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 03/31/09 |
HB 2923 | Requiring the disclosure of subcontractors within a certain time of the close of bids for public construction contracts | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 03/03/09 |
HB 2341 | Requiring the State Board of Education to create a school drug safety program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/13/09 |
HB 2948 | Requiring the use of the LEED and Green Globes standard for new construction and renovation of state buildings | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/24/09 |
HB 2657 | Requiring write-in candidates for public office to pay a filing fee | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/19/09 |
HB 2441 | Strengthening the protections for whistleblowers of unsafe working conditions in mines | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 02/16/09 |
HB 2690 | Updating language pertaining to indemnity for the death of diseased or infected animals | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009) | ||
HB 2403 | Updating the law governing professional licensing boards in general | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/27/09 |
HB 2309 | Updating the law governing the practice of occupational therapy | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009) | ||
HB 2533 | Updating the law governing the practice of veterinary medicine | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/27/09 |
HB 2531 | Updating the regulation of the practice of barbers and cosmetologists | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009) | ||
HB 2528 | Updating the regulation of the practice of forestry | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009) | ||
HB 2871 | Verifying legal employment status of workers | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 02/27/09 |
HB 2631 | West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/09 |
HB 2604 | West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/09 |
HB 2469 | West Virginia Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2009 | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 02/16/09 |