HOUSE OF DELEGATES
BILLS INTRODUCED
Friday, February 24, 2006
4753.By Del. Amores, Staton and Trump - Relating to regulation and procedures for the cleanup
of clandestine drug laboratories - To Judiciary
4754.By Del. Caputo, Tucker and Butcher - Providing that personnel carriers used to transport
miners must be maintained at the working section - To Judiciary
4755.By Del. Caputo, Tucker and Butcher - Providing that a former director of the WVU School
of Mines may be selected to serve on the Mine Inspectors' Examining Board - To
Government Organization
4756.By Del. Barker, Eldridge, Louisos and Hrutkay - Exempting certain owners of one hundred
acres or less of real property from valuation and assessment as natural resources property -
To Judiciary then Finance
4757.By Del. Perdue, R. Thompson, Miley, Kominar, Varner and Leach - Providing subpoena
power to the board of review in the Department of Health and Human Resources - To
Government Organization
4758.By Del. Amores, Mahan, Schadler and Hrutkay - Allowing the state law enforcement agency
to destroy a handgun used in the commission of a homicide - To Judiciary
4759.By Del. Ellem - Prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer loan agreements by
regulated consumer lenders in the state - To Judiciary
4760.By Del. Ellem - Providing a penalty for employers failing to withhold an employee's income
for child support obligations - To Judiciary
4761.By Del. Boggs and Michael - Granting the PSC authority and responsibilities under the
Single State Registration System with regard to motor carriers operating in interstate
commerce - To Judiciary
4762.By Del. Moore - Creating the Big Creek Cape Coalwood Commission - To Government
Organization
4763.By Del. Boggs, Azinger, Butcher, Evans, Stalnaker, Susman and R. M. Thompson - Creating
a Transportation Coordinating Council with the Department of Health and Human Resources
- To Government Organization then Finance
4764.By Del. Miley and Fragale - Prohibiting the prescription of the drug oxycontin unless directly
administered by a licensed physician - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
4765.By Del. R. M. Thompson - establishing annual reporting requirements for regulated
consumer lenders - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
4766.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss), Del. Michael and Stalnaker - Providing that mental hygiene
commissioners are employees under the Public Employees Retirement System (FN) - To
Pensions and Retirement then Finance
4767.By Del. Frederick, Michael, Carmichael and Hall - Requiring the Attorney General to comply
with certain requirements when entering into contracts for legal services - To Finance
4768.By Del. Boggs (By Request) - Regulation of intrastate driving hours of for-hire carriers - To
Roads and Transportation then Judiciary
4769.By Del. Boggs (By Request) - Relating to the payment of privately held public utilities on
state funded highway construction projects - To Roads and Transportation then Finance
4770.By Del. Beane, Ellem, Azinger, Border and Anderson - Providing for the compensation of
members of municipal fire departments and members of police departments - To Finance
4771.By Del. Azinger - Providing a method in which males may contest allegations or
presumptions of biological parentage under certain circumstances - To Judiciary
4772.By Del. Azinger - Reducing the term of office of family court judges to four years - To
Judiciary
4773.By Del. Doyle, Tabb and Wysong - Providing additional funding for county Farmland
Preservation Protection Programs (FN) - To Finance
4774.By Del. Amores, Schadler and Mahan - Allowing the Secretary of State's Office to amend
it rule to allow for the sale of the code of state rules - To Judiciary
4775.By Del. Wysong, Tabb and Doyle - Allowing law-enforcement officers from other states
authorized to carry a weapon in the performance of their duties to carry a weapon in West
Virginia without a license - To Judiciary
4776.By Del. Leach, Perdue, Susman and Border - Providing immunity from civil damages to a
worker, contractor, engineer or architect, who in good faith, provides services for materials,
without remuneration, to build or install basic universal design features in accordance with
applicable codes and state and federal laws - To Judiciary
4777.By Del. Talbott, Amores and R. Thompson - Prohibiting out-of-state persons or business
entities from soliciting business by written advertisement in this sate under certain
circumstances - To Judiciary
4778.By Del. Cann, Webster, Staton, Perdue, Amores and Craig - Authorizing counties and
municipalities to enact ordinances regulating the locations of limited video lottery machines
- To Government Organization then Judiciary
4779.By Del. Moore - Prohibiting the exposure of any game that has been gutted or cleaned from
the public's view when possible - To Judiciary
4780.By Del. Spencer - Changing the compulsory school attendance for children in the state from
sixteen to eighteen years of age - To Education
4781.By Del. Varner, Kominar, Cann, Craig, Williams, Talbott, Pino, Stemple, Amores and
Michael - Including inventories of vehicles held as rental cars in the special method for
appraising dealer vehicle inventory - To Judiciary
4782.By Del. Williams - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services
in the public schools and the financing thereof (FN) - To Education then Finance
4783.By Del. Long, Moore, Tabb, Hrutkay and Ellem - Allowing municipal courts the option to
participate in county teen court program, with the approval of the municipality - To Judiciary
4784.By Del. Campbell - Eliminating the severance tax and the health care provider tax on
behavior health providers (FN) - To Finance
4785.By Del. Marshall, Stephens, Louisos, Poling, Spencer, Wysong, Wells, Longstreth, Sumner
and Fragale - Allowing school service personnel the opportunity to vote on giving transfer
preference to employees from a merged school - To Education then Finance
4786.By Del. Beane and Ennis - Changing the method of calculating the taxable wage base for
unemployment compensation (FN) - To Finance
4787.By Del. Barker, Argento, Manchin and Fragale - Permitting employee organizations to obtain
state employees' home addresses in certain circumstances - To Judiciary
4788.By Del. Beane and Ennis - Providing for the recouping part of the cost of cleaning up illegal
solid waste dumps by the Solid Waste Management Board - To Government Organization
4789.By Del. Doyle and DeLong - Expanding the membership of the Racing Commission and
reorganizing the administrative functions (FN) - To Government Organization then Finance
4790.By Del. Hatfield - Prescribing and modifying the duties of the Secretary of the Department
of Health and Human Resources in child welfare placement - To Government Organization
4791.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss), Del. Swartzmiller, Browning, Hartman, Boggs, Varner,
Williams, Beane, Michael and Beach - Giving counties plenary power to impose, administer,
collect and enforce payment of voter approved service fees - To Finance
4792.By Del. Amores, H. White, Azinger and Moore - Authorizing the purchasing of certain
services from a bank or trust company or an affiliate of a bank or trust company - To
Judiciary
4793.By Del. Browning and Staton - Authorizing the Tourism Commission the use of the tourism
promotion fund to support the 2006 Washington D.C. advertising campaign - To Finance
4794.By Del. Beane and Ennis - Allowing the commissioner of the bureau of employment
programs the authority to revoke a business registration certificate of an employer in default
(FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
4795.By Del. Beane and Ennis - Requiring the board of examiners in counseling to do background
checks on licensees through the FBI - To Government Organization
4796.By Del. Palumbo and Morgan - Decreasing the consumer sales tax on food to one percent
(FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
4797.By Del. Border and Armstead - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification
Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
(FN) - To Finance
4798.By Del. Miley and Fragale - Prohibiting registered sex offenders from entering schools
without permission - To Education
4799.By Del. Frederick and Craig - Establishing a mandatory drug and alcohol testing program for
coal miners - To Judiciary
4800.By Del. Overington - Clarifying public library board service areas as determined by the
Library Commission - To Government Organization
4801.By Del. Trump and Staton - Relating to unfair trade practices of residential real estate
developers - To Judiciary
4802.By Del. Overington, Blair and Trump - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded
construction projects - To Judiciary
4803.By Del. Hall - Allowing individuals to reduce their federal adjusted gross income for
nonreimbursable employee expenses - To Finance
4804.By Del. Frederick - Relating to drilling gas wells near active coal mines - To Judiciary
4805.By Del. Boggs - Creating a new public transportation system license plate to replace the mix
of municipal, county and state plates - To Roads and Transportation then Finance
4806.By Del. Blair, Wakim and Trump - Requiring that motor vehicle insurance certificate may
be issued only for the time period for which the insured pays for coverage - To Judiciary
4807.By Del. Sobonya, Schadler, Howard, Stephens, Perdue, Leach, Border, Martin, Morgan,
Sumner and Stevens - Exempting physicians from obtaining medicaid preauthorization
before dispensing or prescribing medications for treatments of cancer (FN) - To Finance
4808.By Del. Fragale, Iaquinta, Eldridge, Stalnaker and Miley - Requiring that the State School
Board ensure that no class size for grades seven through twelve be greater than twenty-five
students to every one teacher - To Education then Finance
4809.By Del. Beane, Pino, Talbott, Williams, Beach, Paxton and Leggett - Providing for the
inclusion of certain proficiency tests as a part of the standardized testing required of private,
parochial or church schools - To Education
4810.By Del. R. Thompson and Perdue - Increasing the time period after which a governing body
of a utility may shut off and discontinue water services - To Judiciary
4811.By Del. Eldridge - Providing for the option of an orchiectomy for male child molesters upon
second offense conviction - To Judiciary
4812.By Del. Tansill and Trump - Establishing a requirement that voters identify themselves prior
to casting a vote - To Judiciary
4813.By Del. Yost - Defining limited use residence elevators in public places - To Government
Organization
4814.By Del. Manchin, Caputo and Longstreth - Providing for a five percent cap on any increase
in one year for periodic valuations and assessments or real and personal property - To
Judiciary then Finance
4815.By Del. Blair, Wakim, Duke, Overington and Roberts - Providing that approved member
requests for budget digest funds shall be distributed equally - To Finance
4816.By Del. Doyle - Conforming West Virginia's consumers sales and use tax law to requirements of Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (FN) - To Finance
4817.By Del. Cann - Authorizing Harrison County court to use unexpended funds to acquire a new
fire fighter's school building - To Judiciary
4818.By Del. Overington and Blair - Prohibiting county farmland preservation boards from
purchasing land without the permission of the county commission - To Government
Organization
4819.By Del. Marshall, Eldridge, Miley, Manchin, Caputo, DeLong, Webster, Brown and Walters
- Relating to consumer protection generally - To Judiciary
4820.By Del. Stemple, Swartzmiller and Crosier - Regulating the possession and sale of exotic
animals - To Judiciary
4821.By Del. Campbell, Williams, Cann and Perry - Providing all public retirees a one-time
increase of six percent (FN) - To Finance
4822.By Del. Miley and Fragale - Providing felony penalties for certain persons convicted of
fleeing a law-enforcement officer - To Judiciary
4823.By Del. Miley - Requiring that insurance rates be rolled back by specific percentages - To
Banking and Insurance then Finance
4824.By Del. Miley - Requiring that rate filings contain data for informational purposes - To
Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
4825.By Del. Campbell, Williams, Stalnaker, Cann and Perry - Providing all public employees a
six percent pay raise - To Finance
4826.By Del. Caputo - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing
a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools - To Education
4827.By Del. Miley - Prohibiting the number of inquiries reflected in a credit report from
adversely affecting an application for insurance - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
4828.By Del. Miley - Making the Office of Consumer Advocacy independent of the Insurance
Commission - To Government Organization
4829.By Del. Stephens - Authorizing home incarceration supervisors to arrest persons who
obstruct them in the performance of their duties - To Judiciary
4830.By Del. Beane and Ennis - Relating to the required number of continuing education hour for osteopathic physician assistants - To Government Organization
4831.By Del. Azinger - Exempting from the consumers sales and service tax any sales of
medicines by a physician in the treatment of a patient in his or her office - To Finance
4832.By Del. Sobonya, Lane, Howard, Hamilton, Stephens, Eldridge, Moore and Sumner -
Prohibiting the allocation of moneys from the Tourism Promotion Fund to racetracks that
have gaming machines on the premises - To Judiciary then Finance
4833.By Del. Spencer - Relating to the information to be contained in the commission at-risk
registry of deaf and hearing impaired children - To Government Organization
4834.By Del. Spencer - Creating the West Virginia Meth Free Act - To Judiciary
4835.By Del. Lane, Overington, Walters, Sobonya, Blair, Sumner, Trump, Armstead and
Carmichael - Requiring the Joint Committee on Government and Finance approve any
proposed settlement involving the Office of the Attorney General - To Judiciary then Finance
4836.By Del. Kominar, Craig, H. White and Stalnaker - Providing authorization for private
citizens to file certain criminal complaints directly with the magistrate court - To Judiciary
4837.By Del. R. M. Thompson, Beach, Hamilton, Hrutkay, Iaquinta, Morgan, Perry, G. White and
H. White - Raising the fees for licensing money-service businesses (FN) - To Finance
4838.By Del. Kominar - Relating to calculating child support under the extended shared parenting
plan - To Judiciary
4839.By Del. Swartzmiller - Clarifying the definition of final average salary for Deputy Sheriff
Retirement System (FN) - To Government Organization then Finance
4840.By Del. Swartzmiller - Eliminating any reduction in the benefit of a deputy sheriff who is
disabled on the job - To Finance
4841.By Del. Lane - Repealing the section regarding a head tax on dogs - To Judiciary
4842.By Del. Proudfoot, Amores, Craig and Trump - Updating the terms of the West Virginia
Skiing Responsibility Act - To Judiciary
4843.By Del. Staton and Browning - Transferring control of the McDowell County Corrections
Facility to the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority - To Judiciary
4844.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss) and Del. Stalnaker - Service credit for certain temporary
legislative employees - To Finance
4845.By Del. Hunt - Including oral or written inquiry of a patient about possession, ownership or
storage of firearms as a reason for invoking disciplinary proceedings against physicians,
podiatrists, and osteopathic physicians and surgeons - To Government Organization
4851.By Del. Stemple, Varner and Kominar - Contacts to allow the payment of capital costs of
expansions or new construction of public utility facilities in exchange for reservations of
capacity in these new facilities - To Government Organization
4852.By Del. Stemple, Varner and Kominar - Permitting those who have business interest before
a planning commission to serve on a planning commission without conflict of interest when
recusal occurs - To Government Organization
4853.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss) (By Request) - Increasing the cap on the inventory form fee - To
Judiciary