Bill Status - 2019 Regular Session

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Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
SB 1	Increasing access to career education and workforce training	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2019)
SB 2	WV Appellate Reorganization Act of 2019	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/19
SB 3	Establishing WV Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 5, 2019)
SB 4	Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2019)
SB 6	Creating tax credits for certain educational expenses incurred by teachers	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/09/19
SB 7	Relating to public school transfer and enrollment policies	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/09/19
SB 8	Dissolving Information Services and Communications Division	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/09/19
SB 12	Exempting DNR police officers' pension benefits from state income tax	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/09/19
SB 14	Creating WV Farm-to-School Grant Program	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/27/19
SB 15	Establishing Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Authority	Pending	Senate Economic Development	Committee	01/09/19
SB 16	Authorizing expenditure of surplus funds by Wyoming County Commission	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2019)
SB 18	Relating to crimes committed on State Capitol Complex	Signed	Effective from passage - (February 13, 2019)
SB 19	Relating to Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/28/19
SB 20	Providing wind power projects be taxed at real property rate	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/09/19
SB 21	Establishing Katherine Johnson Academy	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/09/19
SB 23	Creating five-year sunset on all tax credits established in chapter 11 of code	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/09/19
SB 25	Authorizing certain higher education governing boards to eliminate faculty tenure	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/09/19
SB 30	Eliminating tax on annuity considerations collected by life insurer	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2019)
SB 32	Providing special license plate for realtors	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/09/19
SB 33	Increasing penalties for certain crimes against law-enforcement officers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/19
SB 34	Authorizing DOH or local authorities to establish minimum speed limits in certain areas	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/09/19
SB 73	Increasing vehicle weight limits on certain highways	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/09/19
SB 74	Exempting nonpaid volunteers at ski areas from workers' compensation benefits	Pending	House BNK	Committee	02/15/19
SB 76	Creating emergency text system for children	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/09/19
SB 77	Requiring vehicles with hydraulically operated beds be equipped with warning device when bed is in upward position	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/09/19
SB 78	Specifying forms of grandparent visitation	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/19
SB 232	Enhancing penalties for failing to use caution when approaching emergency vehicles	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/10/19
SB 233	Relating to age requirements for deputy sheriff	Pending		3rd Reading	03/09/19
SB 234	Requiring schools provide elective course on religion	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/10/19
SB 235	Creating felony for attempting to kill another person	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/19
SB 237	Improving ability of law enforcement to locate and return missing persons	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 3, 2019)
SB 238	Increasing certain penalties for illegally passing stopped school bus	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2019)
SB 240	Repealing certain legislative rules no longer authorized or are obsolete	Signed	Effective from passage - (February 11, 2019)
SB 241	Permitting county court clerks scan certain documents in electronic form	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2019)
SB 242	Requiring deeds contain notarized acknowledgement of grantee accepting deed	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/19
SB 245	Creating felony offense of aggravated cruelty to animals	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/19
SB 246	Adding language in estate appraisement showing nonprobate assets cannot be sold by personal representative	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/19
SB 248	Creating Prosecuting Attorney's Detectives Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/27/19
SB 256	Allowing certain deductions from individual personal income tax refunds	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/01/19
SB 257	Expiring funds from Department of Revenue, Insurance Commissioner Fund and supplementing DHHR, Consolidated Medical Services Fund	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/11/19
SB 259	Expanding Coyote Control Program	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/28/19
SB 264	Requiring courts to order restitution to crime victims where economically practicable	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2019)
SB 265	Establishing Advanced Career Education programs	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/11/19
SB 274	Changing procedure for volunteer fire departments to report on spending state funds	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/11/19
SB 279	Authorizing lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for foster or adoptive children	Pending	Senate NRS	Committee	01/11/19
SB 280	Eliminating social security taxes for certain taxpayers	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/11/19
SB 283	Making misdemeanor to impede or obstruct law-enforcement officer in investigation	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/11/19
SB 284	Requiring photo identification on voter registration cards	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/11/19
SB 285	Relating to sale of homemade food items	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2019)
SB 286	Including certain education programs operated by private schools in recognition by DOE	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/14/19
SB 287	Requiring DHHR terminate parental rights when child removed from care due to abuse or neglect	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/14/19
SB 288	Exempting moneys in WV Emergency Medical Services Retirement Fund from state or municipal tax	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/14/19
SB 293	Clarifying director of multicounty vocational technical school as principal	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/14/19
SB 294	Allowing vehicles used by transportation directors and transportation supervisors use red flashing warning lights	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/14/19
SB 295	Relating to crimes against public justice	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2019)
SB 297	Extending expiration of military members' spouses' driver's license	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/02/19
SB 298	Relating to lawful method for developmentally disabled person to purchase a base hunting license	Pending	Senate NRS	Committee	01/14/19
SB 299	Selecting language milestones for deaf and hard-of-hearing children	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/14/19
SB 300	Relating to adoption records	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/19/19
SB 301	Exempting certain wood furniture from state sales tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/14/19
SB 302	Relating to surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/14/19
SB 303	Exempting Social Security benefits from personal income tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/15/19
SB 304	Establishing Southern WV Lake Development Study Commission	Pending	Senate Economic Development	Committee	01/15/19
SB 305	Prohibiting waste of big game animals	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/08/19
SB 308	Awarding service weapons to special natural resources police officers upon retirement	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/15/19
SB 311	Requiring first-time driver's license applicants view video on dangers of secondhand smoke	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/15/19
SB 315	Establishing Blue Alert program to aid law-enforcement officers missing in line of duty	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/15/19
SB 317	Authorizing three or more adjacent counties form multicounty trail network authority	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2019)
SB 318	Transferring Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to Attorney General's office	Signed	Effect October 1, 2019
SB 323	Establishing revenue fund and source to support Department of Agriculture's improvement to facilities	Signed	Effective from passage - (February 13, 2019)
SB 324	Relating to Commissioner of Agriculture employees	Signed	Effective from passage - (February 7, 2019)
SB 328	Requiring teaching of agricultural science education course	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/16/19
SB 329	Relating to agricultural education in high schools	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2019)
SB 330	Requiring contact information be listed on agency's online directory and website	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 4, 2019)
SB 331	Using leashed dogs to track mortally wounded deer or bear	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/19
SB 332	Relating to Class Q special hunting permit for disabled persons	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/19
SB 334	Requiring Secretary of State establish searchable database for WV corporations and sole proprietorships	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/16/19
SB 337	Allowing certain correctional employees carry firearms	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/16/19
SB 338	Exempting pepper spray from dangerous weapons	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/17/19
SB 339	Allowing certain persons carry pepper spray in State Capitol Complex	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/15/19
SB 344	Relating to operation of state-owned farms	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 5, 2019)
SB 347	Limiting civil penalty for persons convicted of littering	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/18/19
SB 348	Relating to tobacco usage restrictions	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/28/19
SB 350	Defining terms to assure correctional officers are considered law-enforcement officers	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/18/19
SB 351	Relating to lobbying by state boards and commissions	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/18/19
SB 352	Relating to Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation acquiring and disposing of services, goods, and commodities	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 9, 2019)
SB 353	Increasing salaries of magistrates, supreme court justices, circuit court judges and family court judges	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/22/19
SB 355	Removing authority of municipalities to restrict firearm possession	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/21/19
SB 356	Requiring MAPS provide state and federal prosecutors information	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 22, 2019)
SB 357	Relating generally to Division of Administrative Services	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2019)
SB 358	Exempting Purchasing Division purchases for equipment to maintain security at state facilities	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 22, 2019)
SB 364	Creating shared table initiative for senior citizens	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/21/19
SB 366	Authorizing Division of Protective Services issue electronic key cards to qualified applicants to enter State Capitol	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/21/19
SB 374	Eliminating liability of owners of active mine lands, abandoned mine lands or railway lines	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/21/19
SB 378	Relating to special obligation notes to finance construction completing I-73 and I-74	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/21/19
SB 379	Permitting county board of education to include faith-based electives in drug prevention programs	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/28/19
SB 380	Empowering municipalities to enact Adopt-A-Street programs	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/21/19
SB 382	Exempting senior citizens from personal income tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/21/19
SB 383	Creating WV Healthy Food Crop Block Grant Program	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/25/19
SB 385	Establishing and funding Department of Agriculture Capital Improvements Fund	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/21/19
SB 389	Allowing developmentally disabled person purchase base hunting license	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/19
SB 390	Requiring electric utilities submit feasibility studies of constructing and operating middle-mile broadband internet projects	Pending	House T&I	Committee	02/04/19
SB 393	Protecting right to farm	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 3, 2019)
SB 396	Waiving occupational licensing fees for low-income individuals and military families	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2019)
SB 397	Relating to autocycles	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/23/19
SB 401	Exempting Social Security benefits from personal income tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/23/19
SB 402	Authorizing Division of Forestry investigate and enforce timber theft violations	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2019)
SB 410	Creating WV Monument and Memorial Protection Act of 2019	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/24/19
SB 414	Creating Protect Our Right to Unite Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/28/19
SB 415	Creating Timber Cotenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act and Unknown and Unlocatable Timber Interest Owners Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/25/19
SB 417	Requiring minors in possession of marijuana and their parents attend classes teaching dangers of marijuana	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/24/19
SB 420	Allowing county commissions impose amusement tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/24/19
SB 421	Relating to annual legislative review of economic development tax credit	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2019)
SB 426	Creating Road Maintenance Program	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/25/19
SB 428	Requiring Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation assist inmates obtain various documents and provide instruction in basic life skills	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/25/19
SB 430	Authorizing DHHR propose rules for completing or updating source water protection plans	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/25/19
SB 431	Reporting procedures of abuse and neglect of adults and children	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/25/19
SB 439	Creating five-year tax credits for persons engaged in industrial hemp manufacturing	Pending	Senate Economic Development	Committee	01/25/19
SB 451	Comprehensive education reform	Pending		Concurrence	02/19/19
SB 453	Relating to background checks of certain financial institutions	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 30, 2019)
SB 454	Providing exemptions from mandatory immunizations	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/29/19
SB 457	Exempting sales by nonprofit and volunteer school support organizations from consumers sales and service tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/29/19
SB 460	Recognizing technical training acquired in public schools counts toward occupational certificate or license	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/29/19
SB 462	Updating officer liability provisions for sales tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/29/19
SB 464	Modifying licensing requirements for telemedicine and surgery or podiatry	Rejected			02/27/19
SB 465	Exempting nonpaid volunteers at VFD or emergency services organization from Workers Compensation benefits	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	02/12/19
SB 466	Modifying road classifications DOH uses in maintaining digital road map	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/29/19
SB 467	Clarifying PSC jurisdiction over water and sewer utilities	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/28/19
SB 473	Creating Taxation with Representation Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/30/19
SB 478	Supplemental appropriation to Fire Commission	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/30/19
SB 479	Requiring each state institution of higher education adopt and submit written sexual assault policy to WV HEPC	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/30/19
SB 486	Making daylight saving time official year round	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/31/19
SB 499	Amending WV tax laws to conform to changes in partnerships for federal income tax purposes	Signed	Effective July 1, 2019
SB 500	Creating Sewer and Water Infrastructure Replacement and Rehabilitation Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/13/19
SB 501	Increasing compensation for county boards of education members	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/01/19
SB 503	Allowing out-of-state residents ride motorcycle without helmet if allowed in state of residence	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	02/01/19
SB 507	Relating to ethical standards for elected and appointed officials	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/01/19
SB 513	Requiring completion of personal finance class to graduate high school	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/04/19
SB 521	Requiring approved agricultural education program be offered in high schools	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/05/19
SB 522	Creating Special Road Repair Fund	Vetoed	Vetoed
SB 526	Authorizing certain officers carry firearm in official duties	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/05/19
SB 533	Changing determination of just compensation to landowner when eminent domain used for pipeline	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	02/06/19
SB 536	Updating election law language	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/06/19
SB 537	Creating workgroup to review hospice need standards	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2019)
SB 538	Relating to WV Highway Design-Build Pilot Program	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 9, 2019)
SB 539	Relating to accrued benefit of retirees in WV State Police Retirement System Plan B	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2019)
SB 540	Requiring State Police visit homes of registered sex offenders at regular intervals	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/06/19
SB 541	Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/21/19
SB 544	Increasing salaries for members of WV State Police over three-year period	Signed	Effective July 1, 2019
SB 547	Limiting landowner liability for recreational use of lands	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/26/19
SB 548	Relating to administration of medication in nursing homes	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/07/19
SB 550	Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 9, 2019)
SB 556	Limiting liability of employers of persons whose criminal records are expunged	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/08/19
SB 557	Allowing municipalities to contract projects without bidding	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/08/19
SB 562	Relating to State Aeronautics Commission	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/08/19
SB 567	Permitting WV Board of Medicine investigators carry concealed weapon	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/11/19
SB 568	Authorizing Commissioner of Agriculture to require background checks as condition of employment	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/11/19
SB 572	Prohibiting county assessor from reclassifying managed timberland property	Pending	Senate NRS	Committee	02/11/19
SB 590	Permitting guided bear hunts by licensed outfitters and guides	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/18/19
SB 592	Providing for collection of hotel occupancy tax by marketplace facilitators	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/26/19
SB 595	Allowing retired teachers be employed by certain higher education entities	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/13/19
SB 596	Adjusting voluntary contribution amounts on certain DMV forms	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2019)
SB 598	Supplementary appropriation to Fire Commission	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/13/19
SB 605	Permitting Secondary School Activities Commission discipline schools for not following protocol for concussions and head injuries	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2019)
SB 606	Enacting Fetal Heartbeat Act	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/14/19
SB 607	Requiring county boards of education provide camera in classrooms for exceptional needs students	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/14/19
SB 611	Transferring Division of Forestry from Department of Commerce to Department of Agriculture	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/14/19
SB 621	Supplemental appropriation to Higher Education Policy Commission	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/15/19
SB 624	Allowing county boards of education use alternative assessment provided in Every Student Succeeds Act	Vetoed	Vetoed
SB 629	Regulating hemp production	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/21/19
SB 631	Relating to certain diseases for which rebuttable presumption of injury exists for firefighters	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	02/15/19
SB 632	Improving student safety	Signed	Effective July 1, 2019
SB 636	Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 4, 2019)
SB 670	Relating to WV College Prepaid Tuition and Savings Program	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2019)
SB 672	Authorizing School Building Authority to promulgate legislative rules	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 7, 2019)
SB 673	Relating to public higher education accountability and planning	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 9, 2019)
SB 675	Requiring DEP create and implement Adopt-A-Stream Program	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 6, 2019)
SB 676	Relating to off-road vehicle recreation	Vetoed	Vetoed