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Delegate Higginbotham sponsored 80 bills:

Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
HB 2009	Relating to limitations on the use of wages and agency shop fees by employers and labor organizations for political activities	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 17, 2021)
HB 2012	Relating to public charter schools	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 1, 2021)
HB 2013	Relating to the Hope Scholarship Program	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 15, 2021)
HB 2016	Relating to the “COVID-19 Essential Jobs Protection Act”	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/10/21
HB 2017	Rewriting the Criminal Code	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	04/08/21
HB 2029	Relating to teacher preparation clinical experience programs	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2021)
HB 2030	Establishing a nursing program at Concord University	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/19/21
HB 2304	Changing the school aid formula allowances for instructional technology and for AP and dual credit courses	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2305	Creating a tax credit for hiring an ex-felon	Pending	House SB	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2306	Relating to governmental websites	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2307	Relating to vacancies in the office of county commissioner	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2308	Creating the Business PROMISE+ Scholarship	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/22/21
HB 2309	Prescribing methods of support for families of veterans to attend funeral services	Pending	House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2321	Education Savings Account Act	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2322	Conforming the state Consumer Credit and Protection Act to the federal Fair Debt Collection and Practices Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2323	Authorizing a special vehicle registration plate for “2nd Amendment” enthusiasts	Pending	House T&I	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2346	Relating to the Medical Cannabis Act	Pending	House Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2348	Allowing certain deductions to be made from individual personal income tax refunds to the Make-A-Wish Foundation	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2350	Establishing limits applicable to the award of damages for medical monitoring	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2351	Relating to when a municipality’s approval is not required for an event licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	03/18/21
HB 2352	Providing for political party platforms to be placed on ballots for certain primary elections	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2353	Establishing a tax credit for families who suffer the loss of a stillborn child	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2354	Relating to political party committees	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2355	Establishing a tax deduction against corporation net income tax for retail food distributors that donate to school “backpack programs”	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2356	Relating to the use of medical cannabis	Pending	House Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2357	Requiring all schools to instruct students on the Holocaust and other genocides	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/12/21
HB 2362	Implementing trauma-informed practices in schools	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/26/21
HB 2381	Authorizing the suspension or dismissal of school personnel who retaliate against a student or parent who has made a complaint	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/13/21
HB 2483	Relating to preventing compensatory damage awards for medical expenses from including certain sums	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/15/21
HB 2485	Public Participation Protection Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/15/21
HB 2486	Qualifying not-for-profit private baccalaureate institutions for the Advanced Career Education Programs and the WV Invests Grant Program	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/15/21
HB 2487	Creating a Campus Mentors pilot program	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/15/21
HB 2536	Relating to expressions of legislative intent regarding equivalent instruction time	Pending		2nd Reading	04/10/21
HB 2546	Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/16/21
HB 2569	Providing compensation to victims of abusive lawsuits	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/21
HB 2582	Relating to creating a third set of conditions for the professional teaching certificate	Pending		1st Reading	04/10/21
HB 2613	Providing that the Jobs Investment Trust Board be part of the Department of Commerce	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/19/21
HB 2623	Providing a tax credit to encourage new teachers to remain in the state	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/19/21
HB 2665	Be Exceptional Starting Today Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/23/21
HB 2687	To prohibit minors from dropping out of high school unless they are emancipated	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/23/21
HB 2688	Allow county political parties to have building funds in a similar manner that state parties are allowed	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2021)
HB 2689	Granting convicted criminals the right to a retrial if scientific methods used to convict are later determined to be outdated or false	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/23/21
HB 2690	To provide that out of school suspensions be considered “excused” absences	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/23/21
HB 2691	Tax emption for border cities and counties for gas tax	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	02/23/21
HB 2692	To allow for coverage of addiction telehealth services to out-of-state providers	Pending	House Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/23/21
HB 2702	To require all public high school students to complete and submit a free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) prior to graduation	Rejected			03/25/21
HB 2732	Establishing a penalty for any vehicle that is not a plug-in hybrid vehicle or plug-in electric vehicle for utilizing a parking space that is designated for charging an electric vehicle	Pending	House T&I	Committee	02/24/21
HB 2755	Requiring the State Board of Education to provide for the routine education of all professional educators	Pending	House Education	Committee	02/24/21
HB 2791	Relating to enrollment and costs of homeschooled or private school students at vocational schools	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 4, 2021)
HB 2805	Making Pierpont Community and Technical College a division of Fairmont State University known as the Pierpont College of Community and Technical Education	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/12/21
HB 2834	Adding the Curator of the West Virginia Division of Arts, Culture and History as an ex officio voting member of the commission	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2021)
HB 2837	Eliminate the bond required to start an independent daycare business	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	03/02/21
HB 2842	Preventing cities from banning utility companies in city limits	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2021)
HB 2853	Provide for the unitization of interests in drilling units in connection with shallow horizontal oil or gas wells	Pending	House ENG	Committee	03/02/21
HB 2885	Requiring DHHR, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, to notify the parents upon the death of a child in foster care	Pending	House Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/03/21
HB 2886	Replacing minimum minutes of instructional time required per day with a flexible requirement based upon the completion of classroom or other equivalent work	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/03/21
HB 2887	COVID liability protections for schools	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/03/21
HB 2888	Relating to when contentions can be revived based on forensic scientific evidence that was not available at time of conviction	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 1, 2021)
HB 2906	Relating to the School Building Authority’s allocation of money	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2021)
HB 2944	Providing for the registration of lobbyist interns	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/05/21
HB 2945	To move back the deadline for a candidate to make a party switch to run in the GOP primary to 6 months before the filing date	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/05/21
HB 2947	Regarding recording of police interrogations	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/05/21
HB 2949	Providing supplemental education through learning pods	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/05/21
HB 2971	Requiring the Department of Commerce to conduct a feasibility study for potential lakes to be built in West Virginia	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	03/08/21
HB 2973	To modify the teacher retirement system so that Tier 2 teachers may use annual/sick leave towards retirement	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	03/08/21
HB 2974	To implement a Property Tax Poverty Exemption - School Excess Levy	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/08/21
HB 2989	Requiring local entities to enforce immigration laws	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/09/21
HB 2998	Relating to unlawful discriminatory practices covered by Human Rights Act and Fair Housing Act	Pending	House WD	Committee	03/09/21
HB 3009	Relating to the publication of county board financial statements	Pending		2nd Reading	04/10/21
HB 3033	Youth Mental Health Protection Act	Pending	House Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/10/21
HB 3038	Set the age for consent of marriage at 18 years of age	Pending	House Senior Citizen Issues	Committee	03/10/21
HB 3070	Reducing federal taxable income subject to the corporate net income tax for businesses relocating from China to West Virginia	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/11/21
HB 3071	Add one additional Magistrate for Putnam County	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/11/21
HB 3074	Relating to information on organ and tissue donations	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	04/01/21
HB 3087	Allow teachers to retire earlier from public school system to teach in a public charter school	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/12/21
HB 3110	Student Suicide Prevention - ID Cards	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/12/21
HB 3114	Direct West Virginia State Board of Education to require proof of vision examination before child is enrolled in public or private school	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/12/21
HB 3177	Removing expired, outdated, inoperative and antiquated provisions and report requirements in education	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2021)
HB 3196	Ensuring those citizens qualified for an expungement receive the expungement they are entitled	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/16/21
HB 3305	Relating to required course of study	Pending		2nd Reading	04/10/21

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