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Delegate Ward sponsored 84 bills: |
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Title |
Status |
Committee |
Step |
Last Action |
HB 2185 | Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2340 | Relating to performance metrics for the West Virginia Division of Highways | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2352 | Relating to the criminal offense of desecration of graves and vandalizing cemeteries | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2353 | Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2354 | Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a statewide communications plan known as the Comprehensive Public Involvement Plan | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2374 | Requiring schools post signs displaying the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2423 | Relating to the criminal offense of therapeutic deception | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2537 | Relating to disability pensions of municipal employees | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2591 | Small Business Tax Credit | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/02/18 |
HB 2694 | Relating to the development and implementation of a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 31, 2018) | ||
HB 2716 | Imposing an indefinite moratorium on new business and occupancy or privilege taxes | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2723 | Relating to primary elections for nonpartisan offices including Justices of the Supreme Court, circuit court judges, family court judges, and magistrates | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2822 | Allowing honorably discharged veterans who possess certain military ratings to qualify to take an examination for licensing as a plumber, electrician, and sprinkler fitter | Pending | Senate Military | Committee | 01/25/18 |
HB 2843 | Permitting Class III municipalities to be included in the West Virginia Tax Increment Act | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 31, 2018) | ||
HB 2889 | Allowing military veterans with certain military ratings to qualify for examinations required of probationary police officer | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 3, 2018) | ||
HB 2902 | Requiring county school boards to provide adequate mental health and counseling services | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2985 | Relating to taxes on beer and nonintoxicating beer | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 2990 | Requiring continuous monitoring of air, noise, dust and particulates | Pending | House ENG | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 3010 | Making it a felony to knowingly expose another individual to HIV | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 3011 | Changing the determination of just compensation to be paid to the landowner when eminent domain is used for a pipeline | Pending | House ENG | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 3025 | Authorizing by ordinance a vacant building registration program | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 3031 | Creating a state program allowing high school students advance to getting a college degree or technical training while in high school | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/18 |
HB 4008 | Education Savings Account Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/12/18 |
HB 4010 | Providing no requirement to perform or host a marriage ceremony that does not conform to sincerely held religious beliefs | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/31/18 |
HB 4012 | Amending the definition of medical services, so as to exclude abortion | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/26/18 |
HB 4016 | Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2018) | ||
HB 4031 | Requiring the Division of Motor Vehicles to make available an electronic proof of motor vehicle registration | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/16/18 |
HB 4038 | Requiring training conducted on behalf of a state agency to be provided in state-owned facilities | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/17/18 |
HB 4039 | Exempting short-term license holders to submit information to the State Tax Commission once the term of the permit has expired | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/17/18 |
HB 4040 | Excluding from sewage billing any amount that is the result of a water line break | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/12/18 |
HB 4041 | Taxation With Representation Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/12/18 |
HB 4150 | Prohibiting telecommunications and IP-enabled voice services from displaying the name or telephone number of the recipient | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2018) | ||
HB 4151 | Exempting Buildings 6, 7 and 9 of the Capitol Complex from the requirement that food service facilities be operated by West Virginia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/16/18 |
HB 4158 | Relating to municipal home rule | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/10/18 | |
HB 4170 | Relating to the management and continuous inventory of vehicles owned, leased, operated, or acquired by the state and its agencies | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/17/18 |
HB 4198 | Adding one to the number of magistrates serving Monongalia County | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/18/18 |
HB 4200 | Relating generally to the state’s spending units | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/01/18 |
HB 4203 | Campus Free Speech Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/19/18 |
HB 4235 | Permitting full-time nonresident students attending an in-state college or university to purchase lifetime resident hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses | Pending | 3rd Reading | 03/10/18 | |
HB 4244 | Granting business tax credits to businesses that financially support students enrolled in the state’s community and technical colleges | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/18 |
HB 4245 | Exempting wood furniture from state sales tax under certain conditions | Pending | House SB | Committee | 01/22/18 |
HB 4268 | Co-tenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 3, 2018) | ||
HB 4284 | Setting minimum periods in which a governing body must make available to the public and news media the agenda for its meetings | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/24/18 |
HB 4287 | Relating to pharmacy benefit managers | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/26/18 |
HB 4299 | Providing a $2,000 salary increase to West Virginia State Troopers | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/25/18 |
HB 4301 | Requiring all state agencies to develop a plan to evaluate a transition to cloud based data storage | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/25/18 |
HB 4314 | Providing that paralegals and analysts who have been certified by a national association and who have been employed by the Legislature for two years are certified paralegals | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/26/18 |
HB 4322 | Relating to workers' compensation insurance | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4323 | Relating to non-renewal of any certificate, license, registration, to any person who is delinquent in the payment of state or local taxes | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/07/18 |
HB 4363 | Creating a tax credit for a manufacturer or power generating facility in West Virginia that purchases and uses coal, oil or gas | Pending | House ENG | Committee | 01/30/18 |
HB 4369 | Making the Division of Corrections and the Division of Health subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act | Pending | House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 01/31/18 |
HB 4370 | Requiring the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to maintain a searchable, criminal database | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/31/18 |
HB 4371 | Prohibiting school employees from counseling, referring, transporting, or assisting any student to obtain an abortion | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/31/18 |
HB 4372 | Requiring the Board of Pharmacy to make appropriate referrals of reports of suspicious orders of controlled substances | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/31/18 |
HB 4374 | Providing a mechanism for the independent evaluation of revenue estimates by West Virginia and Marshall Universities’ business colleges | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/31/18 |
HB 4375 | Relating generally to benefits provided by the Department of Health and Human Resources | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/31/18 |
HB 4393 | Increasing penalty for wearing a mask while committing a crime | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/01/18 |
HB 4419 | Relating to securing the borders against persons who may be in the country unlawfully | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/18 |
HB 4421 | Repealing the section of code relating to individual gaming restrictions | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/18 |
HB 4431 | Establishing the Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Authority | Pending | RECD | 03/10/18 | |
HB 4436 | Clarifying when a minor between the ages of 16 and 18 may be employed by or elected as a member of a volunteer fire department | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 3, 2018) | ||
HB 4454 | Relating to the assignment of certain benefits in dental care insurance coverage | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/07/18 |
HB 4458 | Citizen and State Accountability Act | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/15/18 |
HB 4470 | Exempting all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles used as farm equipment from the sales tax | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4471 | Establishing a one percent tax on food for five years | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/08/18 |
HB 4472 | West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/18 |
HB 4473 | Relating to use of state funds for advertising to promote a public official or government office | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2018) | ||
HB 4490 | Relating to oil and gas permits not to be on flat well royalty leases | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/01/18 |
HB 4494 | Authorizing certain motor vehicle manufacturers to operate as new car dealers | Pending | 1st Reading | 03/10/18 | |
HB 4497 | Exempting spouses of active military personnel from fees associated with occupational or professional licensing | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/18 |
HB 4498 | Relating to charges for municipal services | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/12/18 |
HB 4503 | West Virginia New Markets Jobs Act | Pending | House SB | Committee | 02/12/18 |
HB 4506 | Requiring agencies of the state, county or municipality that issue citations to furnish a copy of the rule or law to the person accused | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/18 |
HB 4515 | Relating to elections of judges | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4517 | Relating to assessment value of wind turbines | Pending | House ENG | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4541 | Reinstating the film tax credits | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4553 | Requiring applicants for new and renewed drivers’ licenses to be asked if they desire to be organ donors | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4554 | Prohibiting counties, municipalities, and cities from passing any sanctuary ordinances, policies, and procedures | Pending | House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4555 | Refugee Information Act | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/15/18 |
HB 4566 | Relating to property exempt from taxation for military and veterans who have been honorably discharged | Pending | House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4576 | Relating to insurance unfair trade practices | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4579 | Relating generally to financing political campaigns for elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4584 | Prohibiting retailers from selling or leasing products that make content accessible on the Internet | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/18 |
HB 4597 | Relating to the procedure to determine if an occupation or profession should be regulated | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/19/18 |