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Actions, Suits and Liens (4 Bills)
HB 2016 - Relating to the “COVID-19 Essential Jobs Protection Act”
HB 2021 - Creation of West Virginia COVID-19 Immunity Act
HB 2055 - Establishing a procedure to name a kinship legal guardian
HB 2063 - Relating to unfair or deceptive telemarketing acts or practices
HB 2064 - Biometric Information Privacy Act
HB 2091 - Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election
HB 2112 - Prohibiting provisions within settlement agreements that prevent the disclosure of factual information related to a claim filed in a civil action
HB 2163 - Requiring disclosure of nonpublic personal information required in employment cases
HB 2185 - State Settlement and Recovered Funds Accountability Act
HB 2240 - Relating to choice of law provisions in franchise agreements
HB 2259 - Creating a cause of action for injuries suffered in a gun- free zone
HB 2350 - Establishing limits applicable to the award of damages for medical monitoring
HB 2361 - Requiring a judge to approve of contingent fee agreements
HB 2483 - Relating to preventing compensatory damage awards for medical expenses from including certain sums
HB 2495 - Relating to the filing of asbestos and silica claims
HB 2569 - Providing compensation to victims of abusive lawsuits
HB 2578 - Create the Multi-Door Courthouse Act
HB 2593 - Amending the standard of proof for awarding damages in civil litigation
HB 2635 - Repealing antiquated provisions relating to gaming activities
HB 2671 - Relating to financial exploitation of elderly persons, protected persons or incapacitated adults
HB 2675 - Relating to the interest rate for condemnation cases and creating conformity with statutory rates
HB 2716 - West Virginia Public Participation Protection Act
HB 2730 - Relating to persons filing federal bankruptcy petition to exempt certain property of the estate
HB 2762 - Exempt from this article any actions arising from the practice of elective abortion or elective abortion relates services
HB 2781 - To create the Occupational Licensing Legal Fund in the State Treasury
HB 2809 - Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages
HB 2836 - Allow the establishment of a prescriptive public easement on private property for roads or paths traversed by the public in vehicles over a period of 20 or more years
HB 2845 - Stop Social Media Censorship Act
HB 2884 - To make changes to the FOIA law to protect public utility customer databases from disclosure, with exceptions
HB 2888 - Relating to when contentions can be revived based on forensic scientific evidence that was not available at time of conviction
HB 2961 - Provide protections for employees in legal employment disputes by providing that no employee can be required as a condition of employment to agree to mandatory arbitration
HB 2997 - Adding a defense to the civil penalty imposed for a result of delivery of fuel to a state other than the destination state printed on the shipping document for fuel
HB 3031 - Authorizing civil damages for any person who was subject to an intentionally false report made to law enforcement
HB 3146 - Relating to the review of certain executive orders issued by the President of the United States
HB 3158 - To codify applicable sections of President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13798: Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty into state code.
HB 3159 - Relating to Consumer Data Privacy
HB 3234 - Ban civil asset forfeiture unless person convicted
HB 3237 - Establishing of the West Virginia Public Participation Act

Acts (41 Bills)
HB 2197 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 2199 - Creating the Intrastate Coal and Use Act

Agriculture (12 Bills)
HB 2049 - Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Fund
HB 2050 - Establishing the West Virginia Healthy Food Crop Block Grant Program
HB 2095 - Providing increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals
HB 2270 - Transferring the Office of Medical Cannabis to the Department of Agriculture
HB 2561 - Relating to cruelty to animals
HB 2633 - Creating the 2021 Farm Bill
HB 2685 - Relating to state certification of industrial hemp and medical cannabis seed
HB 2863 - Relating to the regulation of livestock branding
HB 2966 - Make it unlawful for a political subdivision or municipality to pass or enforce an ordinance that would allow feral cats to be trapped and killed
HB 2999 - Relating to property ownership by Farmland Protection Board
HB 3064 - Provide free hunting and fishing licenses for all disabled veterans
HB 3093 - Decoupling active dog racing licenses from racetrack casinos
HB 3192 - Creating the West Virginia Farm Fresh Dairy Act
HB 3219 - Decoupling horse racing from licensed racetrack casinos
HB 3224 - Establish food desert produce pilot program

Alcoholic Liquors and Beers (3 Bills)
HB 2010 - Permit licensees to continue to sell nonintoxicating beer and wine for off premises consumption without additional licenses or fees
HB 2056 - Changing the beginning time for beer and wine sales on Sunday from one p.m. to 10 a.m.
HB 2124 - Requiring licensees authorized to serve alcoholic liquors or nonintoxicating beer to have certain liability insurance coverage
HB 2200 - Allowing the issuance of special licenses for one-day charitable events for the sale, serving, and auctioning of beer, and alcoholic liquors
HB 2351 - Relating to when a municipality’s approval is not required for an event licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission
HB 2585 - Relating generally to forfeiture of contraband
HB 2612 - Allowing a bar to purchase liquor from a distillery or a mini-distillery
HB 2648 - Authorizing a temporary foreign brewers import license
HB 2833 - Allow Class A resort licensees under WV ABC to sell wine as a retail server
HB 2972 - Allowing a person to manufacture a stated amount of alcoholic liquor for personal consumption

Appropriations (18 Bills)
HB 2014 - Relating to role of the Legislature in appropriating federal funds
HB 2286 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Veterans' Assistance- Veterans Home
HB 2490 - Requiring fifty percent of all reappropriated revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue
HB 2502 - Specified percent of all “unencumbered” special revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue if there has been activity in the account for specified periods
HB 2624 - Redirecting a percentage of any surplus to state institutions of higher education to restore their state allocation funding levels
HB 2768 - Supplementing, amending and increasing an existing item of appropriation from the State Road Fund, to the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways
HB 2769 - Supplementing, amending and increasing items of existing appropriation from the State Road Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles
HB 2788 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund
HB 2789 - Supplementing and amending the appropriations to Public Defender Services
HB 2790 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of existing appropriation to Division of Highways
HB 2796 - Expiring funds from the WV Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses and making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce, Development Office
HB 2797 - Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of the State
HB 2802 - Supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Homeland Security, Division of Emergency Management
HB 2803 - Supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Commerce, Division of Forestry
HB 2804 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021
HB 2895 - Supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys to the Department of Veterans’ Assistance
HB 2896 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services
HB 2897 - Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Commerce
HB 2898 - Making a supplementary appropriation to WorkForce West Virginia – Workforce Investment Act
HB 2899 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce
HB 2900 - Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Education – State Board of Education – School Building Authority – School Construction Fund
HB 2901 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services
HB 2902 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Public Service Commission
HB 2903 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security, West Virginia State Police
HB 2920 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health – Laboratory Services Fund
HB 2940 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education, State Board of Education – State Department of Education
HB 2941 - Supplementary appropriation decreasing an existing item and adding a new item of appropriation to the Department of Revenue, Insurance Commissioner

Banking and Finance (10 Bills)
HB 2764 - Allow the Division of Financial Institutions to enter into reciprocity agreements with other jurisdictions that operate similar programs to the West Virginia Fintech Sandbox Program
HB 3012 - Creating a 529 type tax-deferred savings account for first time homebuyers
HB 3244 - To establish a state bank of West Virginia

Boards and Commissions (1 Bills)
HB 2043 - Authorizing the West Virginia Tourism Office to enter into an agreement with the Division of Highways to provide staff at the welcome centers
HB 2098 - Relating to permits issued by the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists
HB 2189 - Changing the title of the Commissioner of Culture and History to the Curator of Arts, Culture, and History, and increasing the salary
HB 2194 - Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team
HB 2224 - Relating to complaints against public agencies to obtain records through the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2332 - Terminating the State Board of Registration of Foresters
HB 2347 - Relating to licensure qualifications
HB 2480 - Relating to state boards of examination or registration
HB 2515 - Require regulatory agency heads to have one year experience in the regulated industry
HB 2621 - Mandating certification for certain members of fire departments, require certain types of training, allow specialized personnel who are not firefighters to be members of a department, and require the postings of fire department evaluations
HB 2695 - Consolidate the statutory positions of Director of the Insurance Fraud Unit and Inspector General of the former Workers’ Compensation Commission Fraud and Abuse Unit.
HB 2696 - Creating the fire service equipment and training fund
HB 2699 - Authorize the Workforce West Virginia to hire additional employees to serve at the Commissioner’s will and pleasure
HB 2726 - Allowing for the lease of air space above public roads for the safe operation of unmanned aircraft
HB 2744 - Provide for a change in compensation for the Board of Public Works beginning July 1, 2021
HB 2823 - Exempting buildings or structures utilized exclusively for agricultural purposes from the provisions of the State Building Code
HB 2914 - To remove certain ex officio, voting members from the Archives and History Commission and update formatting
HB 2916 - Creating the Semiquincentennial Commission for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America
HB 2962 - Relating generally to dental practice
HB 2968 - To allow Veterinarian Tele-Health in West Virginia
HB 2983 - Permit licensed occupational therapy assistants to work as IDDW agency staff when working under the supervision of licensed occupational therapist.
HB 3026 - Prohibit businesses from having licenses revoked for not requiring masks
HB 3034 - Sunsetting the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technicians
HB 3035 - Sunsetting the Board of Licensed Dieticians
HB 3036 - Sunsetting the Board of Sanitarians
HB 3072 - Sunset the Board of Forestry
HB 3256 - To create a state level government grant for safe houses to be implemented in the State of West Virginia

Bonds (37 Bills)
HB 2837 - Eliminate the bond required to start an independent daycare business

Claims (30 Bills)
HB 3107 - Declaring that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist is a compensable occupational disease for first responders

Compacts (1 Bills)
HB 2818 - Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases

Constitutional Amendments (1 Bills)
HB 2996 - Creating the Independent Redistricting Commission
HB 3067 - Raise the homestead exemption to 30,000

Constitutional Officers (1 Bills)
HB 2509 - Make appointment process for Congressional seats the same as that for the US Senate
HB 2580 - Mandating judgment by a mayor, any individual exercising the mayor’s functions, the police court judge, or municipal judge be obligated to the Model Rules of Judicial Conduct
HB 2729 - Permit elected officials to carry firearms in the Capitol
HB 2772 - Relating generally to transferring the duties of the Purchasing Division to the State Auditor
HB 2816 - Authorize restitution to the state for reimbursement of costs incurred for misuse of public funds
HB 2993 - Allow State Treasurer to charge a monthly penalty to certain spending units

Consumer Protection (80 Bills)
HB 2126 - Creating the West Virginia Residential Furniture and Children’s Products Flame Retardants Act
HB 2130 - Relating to the Consumer Credit and Protection Act
HB 2137 - Repealing the article on unfair trade practices
HB 2197 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 2226 - Protecting consumers from surprise bills by health care providers
HB 2322 - Conforming the state Consumer Credit and Protection Act to the federal Fair Debt Collection and Practices Act
HB 2371 - Businesses may not give change in the form of “scrip” without the customer’s consent
HB 2518 - Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract
HB 2535 - Relating to pyramid promotional schemes
HB 2551 - Relating to consumer protection of new manufactured home warranties
HB 2680 - Amending the Consumer Credit and Protection Act
HB 2715 - Creating a State Central Legal Advertising Website
HB 2731 - Provide for disclosure of potentially harmful ingredients in menstrual products
HB 2908 - Relating to disclosure of information by online marketplaces to inform consumers
HB 2925 - Relating to data disposal protection
HB 3005 - Relating to law enforcement warrant for third party information
HB 3016 - Require utility and cable companies that operate here to have call centers located in WV
HB 3273 - A bill relating to pre-need funeral solicitation
HB 3275 - Relating to resiliency, public safety and quality of broadband in WV

Corporations (1 Bills)
HB 3216 - Establish an excess compensation tax on the income of corporate executives under certain circumstances

Corrections (1 Bills)
HB 2086 - Relating to requiring a parolee or probationer found to have suffered with addiction to participate in a support service.
HB 2164 - Requiring certain municipalities to pay for the incarceration of inmates
HB 2176 - Making it a criminal offense to escape or attempt to escape from the custody of a Community Corrections program
HB 2273 - Dividing pretrial detention jail costs between arresting authorities
HB 2504 - Create a work/incarceration prison pilot program
HB 2546 - Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails
HB 2563 - Requiring certain municipalities to pay for the incarceration of inmates
HB 2567 - Relating to the financial responsibility of inmates in relation to civil awards
HB 2609 - Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested
HB 2642 - Reentry Task Force
HB 2677 - Relating to increasing the amount of money for which a purchase may be made without obtaining three bids to ten thousand dollars
HB 2976 - Allow women to work on inmate road crews
HB 3112 - Requiring Trauma-informed Employee training for employees of Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
HB 3120 - Providing for continuity of medical care for newly-incarcerated people
HB 3166 - Prohibit Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from making inmates pay co-payment for medical or dental service by a doctor or nurse
HB 3167 - Access to Rehabilitation Act
HB 3174 - Require Correctional Facilities to provide free feminine hygiene products

Counties (1 Bills)
HB 2041 - County Budget Flexibility Act
HB 2091 - Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election
HB 2095 - Providing increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals
HB 2155 - Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators
HB 2180 - Prohibiting the regulation and licensing of occupations by local government
HB 2273 - Dividing pretrial detention jail costs between arresting authorities
HB 2295 - Relating to pecuniary interests of county and district officers, teachers and school officials in contracts
HB 2302 - Establishing that shared legal and physical custody of a child in cases of divorce is presumed to be in the best interests of the child
HB 2306 - Relating to governmental websites
HB 2307 - Relating to vacancies in the office of county commissioner
HB 2319 - Prohibiting the regulation and licensing of occupations by local government
HB 2520 - Requiring the Human Rights Commission, when investigating a complaint of discrimination, to specifically include an examination of the intent of the person
HB 2592 - Require Counties and Municipalities to hold all local elections during statewide elections
HB 2597 - Prohibiting county airport authorities from making or adopting rules prohibiting possession of firearms in public
HB 2603 - Limit number of visitor bureaus that can exist in a county
HB 2659 - Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the Secondary School Activities Commission
HB 2688 - Allow county political parties to have building funds in a similar manner that state parties are allowed
HB 2860 - Requiring that open hunting season for big game begin on a Saturday
HB 2907 - Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting certain ordinances, regulations, local policies, local resolutions, or other legal requirements
HB 2910 - To modify the allowable number of magistrate judges per county
HB 2915 - Relating to public records management and preservation
HB 2934 - Allow local governments to hold property owners more accountable for upkeep of buildings
HB 2935 - Limit amount a county tax assessor can increase assessed value of antique or classic cars
HB 2989 - Requiring local entities to enforce immigration laws
HB 2990 - Requiring that any municipality or county commission intending to approve a location for a video lottery retailer must first announce their intention to do so and hold a public hearing
HB 3057 - Relating to municipal or county taxation of hotel rooms booked through a market facilitator
HB 3068 - Exempt 100% disabled combat vets from property tax on primary residence
HB 3094 - Prohibiting municipalities, counties, or other government entities from using tax payer funds to lobby for their interests
HB 3220 - Restrictions on Taxpayer funded lobbying
HB 3223 - Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time

County Officials (9 Bills)
HB 2048 - Relating to Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2295 - Relating to pecuniary interests of county and district officers, teachers and school officials in contracts
HB 2297 - Limiting the maximum number of appointees to certain county and municipal bodies
HB 2307 - Relating to vacancies in the office of county commissioner
HB 2869 - To remove any mandatory mask mandate in West Virginia
HB 2990 - Requiring that any municipality or county commission intending to approve a location for a video lottery retailer must first announce their intention to do so and hold a public hearing
HB 3143 - Prohibit county clerk from charging or prohibiting person from taking pictures of public documents
HB 3253 - Relating to late fees for property taxes

Courts (2 Bills)
HB 2023 - Relating generally to West Virginia Appellate Reorganization Act of 2021
HB 2055 - Establishing a procedure to name a kinship legal guardian
HB 2258 - Establishing an intravenous drug user treatment and commitment process
HB 2485 - Public Participation Protection Act
HB 2527 - Requiring bail bondsman and bail bond enforcer subject to random drug testing
HB 2539 - Directing the Supreme Court of Appeals to create a pilot domestic violence court in Kanawha County
HB 2591 - Allowing drug courts to establish their own process for accrediting community drug recovery programs in certain cases
HB 2678 - Providing for a limitation on when a hearing or trial may be deemed finally adjudicated when relevant forensic scientific evidence was not able to be presented at the time of trial
HB 2689 - Granting convicted criminals the right to a retrial if scientific methods used to convict are later determined to be outdated or false
HB 2758 - Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to regulate professional bondsmen
HB 2883 - To ensure that the WV Judiciary remains neutral and detached in matters related to allocation of custodial responsibility and decision-making responsibility of children
HB 2910 - To modify the allowable number of magistrate judges per county
HB 3071 - Add one additional Magistrate for Putnam County
HB 3083 - To require a run-off election in certain circumstances
HB 3144 - Repeal section relating to circuit courts having limited jurisdiction to hear divorce cases
HB 3155 - Provide for a raise for private investigators hired by public defender offices or court appointed panel attorneys
HB 3163 - Second Look Sentencing Act

Crime (33 Bills)
HB 2017 - Rewriting the Criminal Code
HB 2060 - Reducing the criminal penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana or paraphernal
HB 2063 - Relating to unfair or deceptive telemarketing acts or practices
HB 2073 - Making it a felony to knowingly expose another individual to HIV
HB 2095 - Providing increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals
HB 2114 - Prohibiting civil rights violations based on disability, gender identity or sexual orientation
HB 2138 - Defend the Guard Act
HB 2165 - Relating to crimes against property
HB 2171 - Vulnerable Child Protection Act
HB 2175 - Removing the permit requirement for a person over 21 to possess a concealed handgun in a motor vehicle on school property
HB 2176 - Making it a criminal offense to escape or attempt to escape from the custody of a Community Corrections program
HB 2184 - Increasing the penalties for exposure of governmental representatives to fentanyl or any other harmful drug
HB 2218 - Creating an enhanced penalty for certain aggravated serious traffic offenses
HB 2220 - Providing that the sale and purchase of copper as scrap metal may not be completed with the payment of cash
HB 2236 - Relating to unlawful panhandling and solicitation
HB 2239 - Restricting the performance of abortions and acquiring, providing, receiving, otherwise transferring, or using fetal body parts
HB 2253 - Relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets
HB 2257 - Relating to extended supervision for certain drug offenders
HB 2262 - Relating to the controlled substance monitoring database
HB 2275 - Eliminate the restriction to carry a firearm on the state capitol complex grounds.
HB 2295 - Relating to pecuniary interests of county and district officers, teachers and school officials in contracts
HB 2310 - Relating to death penalty for first degree murder
HB 2328 - Relating to criminal trespass
HB 2335 - Increasing the minimum criminal penalty for a driver who, in an impaired state, causes the death of a minor
HB 2339 - Applying a stiffer penalty than simple assault or battery for assaults on officials at sporting events
HB 2360 - Increase criminal penalty for killing police/corrections officer in the line of duty.
HB 2364 - Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer
HB 2365 - Relating to accessories to a crime
HB 2376 - Allow concealed carry on and in capitol grounds
HB 2377 - Apply death penalty for first degree murder of law enforcement officer or first responder
HB 2379 - Make criminal invasion of privacy a felony
HB 2380 - Banning convicted sex offenders from driving taxis, ride share, limousines, and buses
HB 2524 - Modifying the definition of child abuse or neglect to exclude accidental injury
HB 2550 - Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis
HB 2552 - Removing the one-time limit on the expungement of certain criminal convictions
HB 2558 - Creating a domestic violence registry
HB 2571 - Relating to the theft of consumer identity protections
HB 2643 - Making it a misdemeanor for a person to knowingly allow a felony drug offense to be committed on his or her property
HB 2655 - Expanding felony hate crime protections to individuals on the basis of perceived or actual sexual orientation
HB 2684 - Creating a duty to disclose by owners of property that knew or should have known that crystal methamphetamine production was occurring
HB 2689 - Granting convicted criminals the right to a retrial if scientific methods used to convict are later determined to be outdated or false
HB 2738 - Bias Motivated Intimidation of Responders Prosecution Act
HB 2747 - Transferring the Parole Board to the Office of Administrative Hearings
HB 2766 - Creating a felony crime relating to drug delivery resulting in death
HB 2793 - Permit out of state residents to obtain West Virginia concealed carry permits
HB 2826 - Define hate crime and make a felony
HB 2827 - Create an Anti-Bestiality law
HB 2830 - Relating generally to sex trafficking
HB 2850 - Establish a Corporate Crime division in the State Police
HB 2859 - Relating to reasonable force in defense of self, real and personal property
HB 2863 - Relating to the regulation of livestock branding
HB 2869 - To remove any mandatory mask mandate in West Virginia
HB 2888 - Relating to when contentions can be revived based on forensic scientific evidence that was not available at time of conviction
HB 2894 - Relating to the criminal offense of desecration of graves and vandalizing cemeteries
HB 2912 - Relating to cannabis and cannabis product sales, growth, and consumption in this state
HB 2919 - Protect privacy of those who store firearms in WV
HB 3000 - To allow circuit court judges with at least six years of service to conceal carry if they so desire
HB 3015 - Creating crime of “high in public”
HB 3029 - Relating to Seatbelt Admissibility
HB 3038 - Set the age for consent of marriage at 18 years of age
HB 3060 - Revise animal cruelty laws relating to chaining and tethering
HB 3095 - To create the "Protection of Property from Warrantless Searches Act”
HB 3101 - Preserve the constitutional right of West Virginian’s to be free from unlawful automotive searches
HB 3106 - To change the hearing requirement for misdemeanors to 10 days
HB 3108 - Establish the WV Constitution and the WV Code as the primary law in WV
HB 3113 - Removing certain drugs from schedule 1
HB 3119 - Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring
HB 3121 - Providing for collection of data regarding police encounters that are not traffic stops
HB 3148 - To create a renewable 2 year state level grant for foster parent screening
HB 3158 - To codify applicable sections of President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13798: Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty into state code.
HB 3161 - Relating to online privacy protection for minors
HB 3163 - Second Look Sentencing Act
HB 3164 - Relating generally to kidnapping
HB 3169 - To provide a new criminal offense of sexual extortion and sexual extortion by a person holding a position of trust, supervisory authority, or disciplinary power over another person
HB 3173 - Relating to the addition of the word stalking
HB 3188 - Making expungement of records for certain defendants found not guilty or have had charges dismissed to occur without petitioning the court
HB 3196 - Ensuring those citizens qualified for an expungement receive the expungement they are entitled
HB 3254 - Authorizing members of development authorities to accept federally authorized reimbursement for services which the members rendered on a voluntary basis
HB 3264 - Provide for crime of impersonating non-public persons on social media
HB 3280 - Relating to assault with bodily fluids

Domestic Relations (124 Bills)
HB 2088 - Relating to requiring a court to verify certain conditions are met before a child who has been removed from a home may be returned to that home.
HB 2255 - Allowing deductions to determine adjusted gross income for student loan payments or mortgage payments in determining child support
HB 2274 - Relating to abolishing spousal support
HB 2312 - Ensuring that legal or biological parents have equal access to any and all copies of birth registry forms
HB 2510 - The Parenting Fairness Act of 2021
HB 2566 - Creating a statutory right to petition circuit and family courts for sibling visitation
HB 2883 - To ensure that the WV Judiciary remains neutral and detached in matters related to allocation of custodial responsibility and decision-making responsibility of children
HB 2931 - Relating to standardizing the criteria for awarding spousal support
HB 2952 - Ensure that persons appointed as guardians ad litem in divorce and child custody and parenting cases are properly trained in certified courses of instruction with curricula grounded in the social science bases for determining the best interests of the child
HB 3018 - Providing for expungement of domestic violence pretrial diversions
HB 3025 - An affirmative defense to violation of a parenting plan is a de facto parenting plan
HB 3038 - Set the age for consent of marriage at 18 years of age
HB 3054 - Expanding definition of who may apply for grandparent visitation
HB 3099 - Relating to grandparents' rights to visit grandchildren
HB 3261 - Relating to adoption attorneys
HB 3262 - Allowing for child support arrears agreements that the Family Court must accept

Economic Development (19 Bills)
HB 2019 - Elevating Economic Development and Tourism Departments
HB 2069 - Economic and Community Development Task Force
HB 2243 - West Virginia Saving Money and Reducing Time Prize Program
HB 2305 - Creating a tax credit for hiring an ex-felon
HB 2375 - Relating to the State purchasing property around the Mount Storm merchant power plant
HB 2514 - Relating to the Rural Industrial Site Development Act
HB 2533 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 2544 - Creating the West Virginia Small Business Jumpstart Act
HB 2548 - Requiring urban renewal authorities to submit proposed urban renewal projects to the affected local county boards of health
HB 2644 - West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Business Technology Property Valuation Act and the West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Tax Credit Act
HB 2665 - Be Exceptional Starting Today Act
HB 2706 - Authorizing and permitting the Economic Development Authority to make working capital loans from a revolving loan fund capitalized with federal grant funds including those federal grant funds received from the United States Economic Development Administration
HB 2750 - Transferring certain property to the Economic Development Office
HB 2969 - To clarify the procedures for the sale and operation of a municipally owned toll bridge by a private toll transportation facility
HB 2971 - Requiring the Department of Commerce to conduct a feasibility study for potential lakes to be built in West Virginia
HB 3004 - To create the “Fair Food Delivery Act”
HB 3007 - Create Pilot Program for Remote Workers
HB 3070 - Reducing federal taxable income subject to the corporate net income tax for businesses relocating from China to West Virginia
HB 3117 - Establish technology/remote work tax deduction from state income tax
HB 3168 - Creating small business and minority populations economic and workforce development taskforce
HB 3198 - Establishing a program to facilitate the recovery of areas of the state that have been impacted by the reduction of coal production and consumption
HB 3203 - WV Small Business COVID Relief Act
HB 3210 - Department of Commerce to assist qualified tourism projects
HB 3241 - Big Creek Cape Coalwood Commission

Education (3 Bills)
HB 2066 - Providing school days for registering eligible students to vote and to provide transportation to voting places
HB 2206 - Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state
HB 2210 - Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax

Education (Higher) (8 Bills)
HB 2033 - Establishing matrix necessary for an institution of higher education to become exempt from the Higher Education Policy Commission
HB 2061 - Katherine Johnson College Award Program
HB 2084 - Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes.
HB 2110 - Relating to senior citizens attending college classes at state institutions without receiving college credit
HB 2140 - Redirecting excise tax revenue on bottled soft drinks from West Virginia University schools to the Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 2233 - Coordinating a plan to provide the first two years of post-secondary education for free
HB 2279 - Establishing a higher education scholarship program for foster children
HB 2308 - Creating the Business PROMISE+ Scholarship
HB 2315 - Relating to PROMISE Scholarship Program requirements
HB 2484 - Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions
HB 2486 - Qualifying not-for-profit private baccalaureate institutions for the Advanced Career Education Programs and the WV Invests Grant Program
HB 2487 - Creating a Campus Mentors pilot program
HB 2529 - Prohibiting West Virginia institutions of higher education from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing
HB 2583 - Authorizing student athletes to be compensated for use of their name, image or likeness
HB 2586 - Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
HB 2604 - Expand 529 savings plans to include vocational and trade schools
HB 2657 - Relating to the Antihazing Law
HB 2658 - Mountaineer Games Sports League
HB 2734 - Require all athletes to perform in sport of the sex they were born
HB 2746 - Establishing the behavioral health workforce education initiative at the Higher Education Policy Commission
HB 2771 - Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver
HB 2805 - Making Pierpont Community and Technical College a division of Fairmont State University known as the Pierpont College of Community and Technical Education
HB 2832 - Protecting political ideas and speech in the hiring process at schools and universities
HB 2870 - Requiring county boards of education to make vocational classes available to private school students of the appropriate grades as space is available.
HB 2923 - Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutions
HB 2978 - Gun carry allowed on college campuses
HB 3019 - Creating the Campus Free Expression Act
HB 3022 - The Campus Self Defense Act
HB 3150 - To cap the cost of in-state tuition for West Virginia universities and colleges who receive in state funding
HB 3157 - The Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act
HB 3225 - Hunger-Free Campus Act

Education (K12) (13 Bills)
HB 2001 - Relating generally to creating the West Virginia Jumpstart Savings Program
HB 2012 - Relating to public charter schools
HB 2013 - Relating to the Hope Scholarship Program
HB 2039 - Expunging records of unsubstantiated complaints made by the Department of Health and Human Resources against teachers
HB 2040 - Adopting and implementing a “Heat and Humidity Practice Policy” for all interscholastic athletic events
HB 2057 - Establishing the Summer Feeding for All initiative
HB 2066 - Providing school days for registering eligible students to vote and to provide transportation to voting places
HB 2070 - Relating to mandatory drug testing for state legislators and teachers
HB 2071 - Eliminating the requirement that schools be closed on election days
HB 2079 - Providing equitable distribution to county boards of education of reimbursement costs of special needs students
HB 2080 - “Bank Time” used in reaching 180 instructional requirement
HB 2089 - Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses
HB 2092 - Requiring each high school student to complete a full credit course of study in personal finance
HB 2097 - Relating to calculating net enrollment for home-school students enrolled in one virtual school course in the public school system
HB 2109 - Relating to vocational and technical education programs
HB 2118 - Providing school days to register and transport eligible students to vote
HB 2125 - Creating a School Consolidation Task Force
HB 2141 - Relating to participation in school sports
HB 2143 - Declaring a shortage of qualified bus operators and allowing retired bus operators to accept employment
HB 2144 - Modifying the definitions and pay grades of certain school cafeteria personnel
HB 2145 - Relating to student aide class titles
HB 2152 - Requiring test in civics to graduate high school or obtain GED
HB 2155 - Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators
HB 2157 - Forbidding displays relating to sexuality in public school facilities and forbidding the teaching of sexuality in public schools
HB 2160 - Issuing identification documents to homeless individuals residing at homeless shelters
HB 2161 - Relating to the removal of standardized testing in public schools
HB 2245 - Relating to the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission
HB 2246 - Prohibiting manufacturing plants from locating within two air miles of an existing public school
HB 2247 - Requiring the authority to obtain approval from county board of education for agreements that involve tax revenues expended for public schools
HB 2267 - Establishing an optional bus operator in residence program for school districts
HB 2268 - Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals
HB 2271 - Requiring compulsory immunization of public school children
HB 2304 - Changing the school aid formula allowances for instructional technology and for AP and dual credit courses
HB 2314 - Relating to teacher salary enhancement
HB 2320 - Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools
HB 2321 - Education Savings Account Act
HB 2345 - Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse
HB 2357 - Requiring all schools to instruct students on the Holocaust and other genocides
HB 2362 - Implementing trauma-informed practices in schools
HB 2364 - Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer
HB 2367 - Creating the Homeschool Credential Recognition Act
HB 2381 - Authorizing the suspension or dismissal of school personnel who retaliate against a student or parent who has made a complaint
HB 2501 - Suspend School Aid Funding Formula implementation until budget year 2024
HB 2506 - Establish a max ratio of the number employees of the Dept of Education to the number of students
HB 2541 - Requiring seat belts on every new school bus
HB 2543 - Relating to calculation of the school aid formula based on net enrollment
HB 2546 - Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails
HB 2555 - Relating to required courses of instruction
HB 2564 - Requiring free feminine hygiene products in grades 6 through 12
HB 2576 - Creating the Virtual Public Schools Act
HB 2577 - Create the Statewide Online Education Act
HB 2584 - Prohibiting the home schooling of children in certain circumstances
HB 2623 - Providing a tax credit to encourage new teachers to remain in the state
HB 2638 - Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child
HB 2650 - Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services
HB 2651 - Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion
HB 2652 - Modifying the school calendar
HB 2659 - Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the Secondary School Activities Commission
HB 2676 - Relating to participation in athletic events exclusively for males and females
HB 2690 - To provide that out of school suspensions be considered “excused” absences
HB 2702 - To require all public high school students to complete and submit a free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) prior to graduation
HB 2704 - Creating the “Civic Minded Mountaineer Scholarship.”
HB 2712 - Modifying the school calendar to begin not earlier than September 1 and end no later than June 7
HB 2728 - Require all vaccinations for school attendance be included in the West Virginia code
HB 2734 - Require all athletes to perform in sport of the sex they were born
HB 2748 - Modifying the school calendar to begin not earlier than September 1 and end no later than June 1
HB 2755 - Requiring the State Board of Education to provide for the routine education of all professional educators
HB 2785 - Relating to public school enrollment for students from out of state
HB 2806 - To allow parents to retain their child without losing a year of sports eligibility
HB 2815 - Requiring air conditioning on all school buses
HB 2824 - Relating to public school education assessment of students for dyslexia and dyscalculia
HB 2832 - Protecting political ideas and speech in the hiring process at schools and universities
HB 2852 - Relating to distribution of the allowance for increased enrollment
HB 2870 - Requiring county boards of education to make vocational classes available to private school students of the appropriate grades as space is available.
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
HB 2887 - COVID liability protections for schools
HB 2917 - Require anyone participating in high school or middle school sports to play per their biological birth gender
HB 2930 - Require the School Improvement Council appoint two members to a Selection Committee
HB 2937 - Requiring a vote on school closure or consolidation in certain circumstances
HB 2939 - Clarify “out-of-school” time programs.
HB 2949 - Providing supplemental education through learning pods
HB 2973 - To modify the teacher retirement system so that Tier 2 teachers may use annual/sick leave towards retirement
HB 2994 - Relating to the special community development school pilot program
HB 2995 - Create two readily identifiable pathways to better prepare high school students for their chosen career path
HB 3006 - Creating a homeless education coordinator for county schools
HB 3009 - Relating to the publication of county board financial statements
HB 3017 - Remove homeschool testing and portfolio requirements
HB 3048 - Allow a school district to develop or adopt a program in which the subject of nutrition and exercise education is taught
HB 3073 - Relating to West Virginia Emergency School Food Act
HB 3074 - Relating to information on organ and tissue donations
HB 3087 - Allow teachers to retire earlier from public school system to teach in a public charter school
HB 3096 - Requiring county boards of education to publish its sponsored programs and the number of students permitted to participate
HB 3102 - Requiring Director of transportation to have experience in transportation department
HB 3103 - Educational Employee Tax Credit
HB 3109 - Salary increase for teachers and school service personnel
HB 3110 - Student Suicide Prevention - ID Cards
HB 3111 - Supporting Students Who Are Parents Act
HB 3114 - Direct West Virginia State Board of Education to require proof of vision examination before child is enrolled in public or private school
HB 3125 - Mandating that teachers receive supplemental pay for compelled teaching outside of established schedule
HB 3126 - Public School Protection Act
HB 3156 - To ban The Prevalent and Intrusive Chinese Communist Parties Confucius institutions in West Virginia
HB 3177 - Removing expired, outdated, inoperative and antiquated provisions and report requirements in education
HB 3187 - Prohibit parents from being restricted from monitoring virtual public education classrooms
HB 3199 - To establish gender guidelines for public school restrooms
HB 3202 - To allow public high schools to have full time athletic trainers
HB 3207 - Protecting teacher work schedules
HB 3217 - Student Rescue Act
HB 3221 - To modify the state special education appropriation to counties for special education students who are wards of the state and who require out of state placement
HB 3232 - To establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia
HB 3236 - Relating to pay for Board of Education members
HB 3252 - Establish the Commission on American History Enrichment
HB 3258 - Requiring party affiliation on school board elections
HB 3266 - Providing for termination of extracurricular contact upon retirement
HB 3271 - Providing that the WVSSAC promulgate rules relating to the right to broadcast interscholastic athletic events
HB 3282 - Establish caps on the numbers of students per classroom at all grade levels
HB 3284 - To differentiate the roles of public high school teachers
HB 3285 - To provide for the HSTA scholarships

Elected Officials (25 Bills)
HB 2610 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists

Elections (105 Bills)
HB 2066 - Providing school days for registering eligible students to vote and to provide transportation to voting places
HB 2107 - West Virginia Native American Tribes Unique Recognition, Authentication and Listing Act
HB 2118 - Providing school days to register and transport eligible students to vote
HB 2119 - Relating to electioneering or distributing literature at early voting locations
HB 2120 - Ensuring health insurance coverage for residents with preexisting conditions
HB 2122 - Implementing The Agreement Among the States to Elect the President and Vice President by National Popular Vote
HB 2147 - Providing that the Division of Motor Vehicles identification cards be issued at no cost
HB 2215 - Allowing a group of affiliated voters to become a recognized political party under certain criteria
HB 2248 - Prohibiting payroll deductions to electioneering organizations
HB 2352 - Providing for political party platforms to be placed on ballots for certain primary elections
HB 2354 - Relating to political party committees
HB 2372 - Allow pre-candidacy papers to be filed the day after the general election
HB 2525 - Requiring all local special elections to be held on the days and hours of general, primary or state-wide elections
HB 2572 - Requiring elections to increase levies have to coincide with a primary or a general election
HB 2592 - Require Counties and Municipalities to hold all local elections during statewide elections
HB 2602 - Require special elections to be held same day as primary or general election
HB 2607 - Require all registered voters to produce a photo ID to vote in all public office elections
HB 2625 - Permitting election day registration of voters
HB 2666 - Clarifying who may absentee vote
HB 2814 - Election Security, Access, and Modernization Act of 2021
HB 2841 - Campaign Finance Reform
HB 2864 - Remove felonies from reason to disqualify from voting
HB 2913 - Social Media Integrity and Anti-Corruption in Elections Act
HB 2921 - Permitting anyone over 65 to vote absentee
HB 2922 - Adding Security expenses to campaign finance expense
HB 2927 - Adding Caregiving expenses to campaign finance expense
HB 2928 - The purpose of this bill is to permit registered voters to vote an absentee ballot by mail in all circumstances
HB 2929 - Allowing the Secretary of State’s office to transmit electronically the total ballots cast, counted, and rejected
HB 2937 - Requiring a vote on school closure or consolidation in certain circumstances
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
HB 3083 - To require a run-off election in certain circumstances
HB 3136 - Repeal code relating to wagering or betting on elections
HB 3154 - To restrict what charities candidates may contribute to with excess campaign cash
HB 3160 - Creating online voters' guide
HB 3215 - Amending the requirements to become an elected prosecutor
HB 3233 - Prohibit electronic ballots
HB 3257 - Faithless Elector law
HB 3258 - Requiring party affiliation on school board elections

Energy (36 Bills)
HB 2132 - Relating to horizontal well control standards
HB 2227 - Prohibiting blasting within 625 feet of an occupied dwelling
HB 2244 - Relating to a tax rebate for facilities or processes that result in additional employment and an additional demand for electrical power
HB 2287 - Providing for solar energy production on formerly mined land
HB 2342 - Establishing and implementing a program to require bonding sufficient to reclaim abandoned wind generation facilities and solar generation facilities
HB 2589 - Create the Orphan Well Prevention Act of 2021
HB 2667 - To create a cost saving program for state buildings regarding energy efficiency
HB 2713 - WV 2021 Plan for Securing WV Coal Supplies
HB 2959 - Relating to the financing of environmental pollution control equipment for coal-fired power plants
HB 3062 - Relating generally to coal fired energy plants and wind power
HB 3084 - Providing commercial discrimination of producers of coal, gas, oil, carbon-based energy, and other products in the State of West Virginia
HB 3147 - Increasing the tax on the privilege of severing natural gas and oil
HB 3214 - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues to the oil and gas producing counties
HB 3239 - Promoting the long term development of a more diversified energy generation and production portfolio in this state

Environment (27 Bills)
HB 2074 - Implementing the recommendations of the studies required by the Natural Gas and Horizontal Well Control Act
HB 2102 - Relating to required notices for air quality permits prior to the permit being granted
HB 2105 - West Virginia Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Control Act
HB 2234 - Requiring public hearing for applicant for air quality permit relating to facility of certain investment value
HB 2316 - Allowing access to the Department of Environmental Protection’s electronic submission system
HB 2533 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 2562 - Relating to litter control
HB 2589 - Create the Orphan Well Prevention Act of 2021
HB 2598 - Altering the definition of an above ground storage tank
HB 2599 - Establish fee Retailers to Pay Wholesalers for purchase of plastic bags
HB 2630 - Requiring DEP to reimburse fines paid by towns, villages and communities in certain instances
HB 2647 - Prohibiting the use of polystyrene containers
HB 2654 - Relating to rulemaking for healthcare plans
HB 2662 - Prohibiting certain devices which enhance a diesel-powered vehicle’s capacity to emit soot
HB 2725 - Relating to funding for the DEP Office of Oil and Gas
HB 2756 - Allowing increased civil administrative penalties to be promulgated by legislative rules of by the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 2757 - Clean Drinking Water Act of 2020
HB 2825 - Shifting funding from the Landfill Closure Assistance Fund to local solid waste authorities
HB 2975 - Relating to Well Location Restrictions
HB 2980 - Amend Groundwater Protection Act to cover Karst Terrain
HB 3082 - Stabilizing funding sources for the DEP Division of Air Quality
HB 3206 - Provide a safe process for organic waste composting
HB 3235 - To establish the Vegetable Garden Protection Act
HB 3269 - To require the Department of Environmental Protection to assume responsibility of cost and permitting of dams that are deemed to be under state control

Environmental Protection (17 Bills)
HB 2199 - Creating the Intrastate Coal and Use Act

Estates and Trusts (44 Bills)
HB 3050 - Relating to the intestate share of a decedent’s surviving spouse

Ethics (21 Bills)
HB 2295 - Relating to pecuniary interests of county and district officers, teachers and school officials in contracts
HB 2610 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2944 - Providing for the registration of lobbyist interns
HB 2964 - Prohibit road signs that include public official’s name and likeness
HB 3154 - To restrict what charities candidates may contribute to with excess campaign cash
HB 3220 - Restrictions on Taxpayer funded lobbying

Finance and Administration (1 Bills)
HB 2198 - Prohibiting employees of the state who have convictions for driving under the influence from driving or operating state owned vehicle
HB 2225 - Authorizing local units of government to adopt local energy efficiency partnership programs
HB 2269 - Creating a state-wide email address directory
HB 2331 - Requiring contractors performing work for government contracts on computers use software to verify the hours
HB 2338 - Adding pasteurized milk and other dairy foods produced or processed in West Virginia to the list of items required to be purchased by all state-funded institutions
HB 2528 - Requiring purchases to be made at lowest retail price available at level of quality sought by the spending unit
HB 2573 - Relating generally to the transparency and accountability of state grants to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse
HB 2600 - Require all public contracts be publicly advertised
HB 2613 - Providing that the Jobs Investment Trust Board be part of the Department of Commerce
HB 2661 - Declaring November 14 every year, a special Memorial Day in remembrance of the Marshall University airplane crash
HB 2709 - Providing that the aggregate liability of a surety on a consumer protection bond under the West Virginia Fintech Regulatory Sandbox Program does not exceed the principal sum of the bond
HB 2745 - Exempting the Division of Emergency Management from the Purchasing Division for purposes of examination and approving contracts of the Division of Emergency Management
HB 2763 - Creating WV Cyber Incident Reporting
HB 2786 - Relating to Powers and Duties of the Chief Technology Officer
HB 2787 - Authorizing the Director of the Division of Purchasing to increase or Decrease the dollar limit of agency-delegated procurements based upon inspection
HB 2822 - Requiring state purchases of certain items to be made from authorized dealers in this state
HB 2933 - Anti-Discrimination Against Israel Act
HB 2936 - To permit the Board of Treasury Investments to compensate appointed members for each meeting attended and to eliminate certain outdated and contradictory investment restrictions.
HB 3008 - Prohibit the removal of a state government facility in a small community without an impact study
HB 3059 - Making contract consummation with state more efficient
HB 3135 - Make gold and silver legal tender in WV
HB 3148 - To create a renewable 2 year state level grant for foster parent screening
HB 3154 - To restrict what charities candidates may contribute to with excess campaign cash
HB 3209 - Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public
HB 3256 - To create a state level government grant for safe houses to be implemented in the State of West Virginia

Firearms (24 Bills)
HB 2197 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act

Governmental Agencies (16 Bills)
HB 2610 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists

Governor -- Bills Requested By (6 Bills)
HB 2018 - Relating generally to economic development loans and loan insurance issued by state
HB 2022 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
HB 2025 - Provide liquor, wine, and beer licensees with some new concepts developed during the State of Emergency utilizing new technology to provide greater freedom to operate in a safe and responsible manner
HB 2026 - Relating to the modernization of the collection of income taxes by adopting uniform provisions relating to the mobile workforce
HB 2027 - Relating to personal income tax reduction
HB 2359 - Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act
HB 2768 - Supplementing, amending and increasing an existing item of appropriation from the State Road Fund, to the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways
HB 2769 - Supplementing, amending and increasing items of existing appropriation from the State Road Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles
HB 2788 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund
HB 2789 - Supplementing and amending the appropriations to Public Defender Services
HB 2790 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of existing appropriation to Division of Highways
HB 2802 - Supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Homeland Security, Division of Emergency Management
HB 2803 - Supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Commerce, Division of Forestry
HB 2804 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021
HB 2895 - Supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys to the Department of Veterans’ Assistance
HB 2896 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services
HB 2897 - Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Commerce
HB 2898 - Making a supplementary appropriation to WorkForce West Virginia – Workforce Investment Act
HB 2899 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce
HB 2900 - Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Education – State Board of Education – School Building Authority – School Construction Fund
HB 2901 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services
HB 2902 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Public Service Commission
HB 2903 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security, West Virginia State Police
HB 2920 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health – Laboratory Services Fund
HB 2940 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education, State Board of Education – State Department of Education
HB 2941 - Supplementary appropriation decreasing an existing item and adding a new item of appropriation to the Department of Revenue, Insurance Commissioner
HB 3286 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Human Services – Child Care and Development
HB 3287 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security
HB 3288 - Supplementing and amending appropriations by decreasing and increasing existing items of appropriation in the DHHR
HB 3289 - Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce, Geological and Economic Survey
HB 3290 - Supplemental appropriation decreasing existing items of appropriation and adding new items of appropriation in the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 3291 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security, Division of Administrative Services
HB 3292 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health
HB 3295 - Making a supplemental appropriation to Division of Human Services and Division of Health Central Office
HB 3296 - Decreasing and increasing appropriations to the Executive, Governor’s office
HB 3297 - Making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Veterans' Assistance - Veterans Home
HB 3298 - Making a supplemental appropriation to Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of Education, Senior Services and Civil Contingent Fund
HB 3313 - Making supplemental appropriation to the Division of Motor Vehicles
HB 3314 - Making supplemental appropriation to West Virginia State Police
HB 3315 - Making supplemental appropriation to Division of Environmental Protection - Oil and Gas Reclamation Fund
HB 3317 - Making supplementary appropriation to West Virginia Commuter Rail Access Fund

Hazardous Materials (27 Bills)
HB 2131 - Clarifying that the county or regional solid waste authority that may impose and collect an additional solid waste assessment fee is the county or region where the waste originates

Health (42 Bills)
HB 2004 - Permit a licensed health care professional from another state to practice in this state through telehealth when registered with the appropriate West Virginia board
HB 2005 - Relating to health care costs
HB 2015 - Requiring rules of local boards of health to be approved by the county commission except in cases of a public health emergency
HB 2024 - Expand use of telemedicine to all medical personnel
HB 2034 - Establishing a comprehensive addiction recovery center certification and grant program in this state
HB 2054 - Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement
HB 2077 - Eliminating the certificate of need program
HB 2078 - Nondiscrimination in Involuntary Denial of Treatment Act
HB 2083 - Relating to age verification requirements for delivery sales of tobacco
HB 2085 - Relating to tobacco usage restrictions
HB 2087 - Relating to requiring the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to inspect office-based medication-assisted treatment programs at least every 24 months.
HB 2093 - Relating to exemptions for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Foster Homes
HB 2106 - Modifying legislative rules for vital statistics relating to death certificates
HB 2169 - Life at Conception Act of 2021
HB 2173 - Health Care Transparency Act
HB 2182 - Relating to the Ryan Brown Fund
HB 2183 - Relating to posting of information regarding the WV Tobacco Quitline
HB 2186 - Relating to tobacco usage restrictions
HB 2219 - Relating to requiring pharmacist to check the Controlled Substance Monitoring Database.
HB 2228 - Assessing the health impact of any new air or water rule, or modification of an existing air or water rule, proposed by the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 2239 - Restricting the performance of abortions and acquiring, providing, receiving, otherwise transferring, or using fetal body parts
HB 2264 - Hospital exemptions from certificate of need
HB 2272 - Informed Consent Protection Act
HB 2278 - Creating a Children’s Health Insurance Program buy-in program for children of families above 300 percent of the federal poverty level
HB 2280 - Involuntary drug and alcohol treatment
HB 2284 - Creating a state-administered wholesale drug importation program
HB 2289 - Relating to compulsory immunizations
HB 2291 - Relating to legalizing cannabis production, sales and adult consumption
HB 2311 - Requiring prescriptions be made by electronic means
HB 2346 - Relating to the Medical Cannabis Act
HB 2349 - Authorizing a medical power of attorney representative to sign a binding arbitration agreement
HB 2356 - Relating to the use of medical cannabis
HB 2368 - Mylissa Smith’s Law, creating patient visitation privileges
HB 2489 - The Genealogical Record Integrity Act of 2020
HB 2500 - Create an act for Statewide Uniformity for Auxiliary Container Regulations
HB 2517 - Removing marijuana as a tested substance from the screening requirements
HB 2534 - Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons
HB 2550 - Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis
HB 2611 - Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team
HB 2614 - Creating the Office of Quality Assurance and Evaluation for child welfare programs within the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2615 - Relating to the program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance
HB 2616 - Amend the reporting to the Governor and the Legislature to have information continuously available on the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification’s website
HB 2619 - Update the code to reflect that the Health Care Authority is now part of the organizational structure of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2634 - Coverage for the treatment of chronic pain
HB 2639 - Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
HB 2651 - Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion
HB 2658 - Mountaineer Games Sports League
HB 2659 - Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the Secondary School Activities Commission
HB 2660 - Creating a policy on vaccine preventable diseases
HB 2664 - Screening for adverse childhood experiences
HB 2672 - Relating to posting of safety information in hospitals
HB 2679 - Relating to cause of action for the spread of a communicable disease
HB 2692 - To allow for coverage of addiction telehealth services to out-of-state providers
HB 2700 - Informing water customers of boiled water advisories
HB 2705 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to food establishments
HB 2728 - Require all vaccinations for school attendance be included in the West Virginia code
HB 2731 - Provide for disclosure of potentially harmful ingredients in menstrual products
HB 2752 - Prohibiting discrimination in access to organ transplants based on physical or mental disability
HB 2754 - Prohibiting smoking in an enclosed motor vehicle when a child under the age of eight is present
HB 2783 - Permitting a licensed physician to grant a medical exemption from the required immunizations for a child to enter a school or a state-regulated child care center
HB 2798 - Relating to requiring the Health Department to mandate mucopolysaccharidosis type 1 (MPS1) test for newborn babies, to be known as Embie’s Law
HB 2813 - Relating to employees of local boards of health
HB 2817 - Donated Drug Repository Program
HB 2818 - Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases
HB 2820 - Relating to oversight of syringe exchange programs by the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2835 - Requiring the construction, development, acquisition or other establishment of an alcohol or drug treatment facility and drug and alcohol treatment services to obtain a certificate of need
HB 2839 - Establish Recovery Can’t Wait Program
HB 2869 - To remove any mandatory mask mandate in West Virginia
HB 2876 - Modify the five-year waiting period and 100-person minimum for an association health plan, and to allow new flexibility granted under federal rules
HB 2877 - Expand direct health care agreements beyond primary care to include more medical care services
HB 2880 - Modifying the definition of telemedicine and telehealth by individuals with a disability and individuals with a sensory impairment
HB 2881 - Removing Hepatitis B from the list of required vaccinations
HB 2927 - Adding Caregiving expenses to campaign finance expense
HB 2954 - Abortion permitted only in certain instances
HB 2967 - Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities
HB 2968 - To allow Veterinarian Tele-Health in West Virginia
HB 2982 - Relating to the Second Chances at Life Act of 2021
HB 2983 - Permit licensed occupational therapy assistants to work as IDDW agency staff when working under the supervision of licensed occupational therapist.
HB 2992 - To create the “Tobacco Cessation Initiative Program Special Revenue Account”
HB 3024 - Prohibit abortions based on down syndrome
HB 3032 - Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual’s mental or physical disability in access to organ transplantation
HB 3033 - Youth Mental Health Protection Act
HB 3038 - Set the age for consent of marriage at 18 years of age
HB 3043 - Relating to transport of persons accused of being mentally ill to mental health relating hearings
HB 3044 - Expanding types of cancers as rebuttable presumption for injuries, diseases for professional firefighters
HB 3074 - Relating to information on organ and tissue donations
HB 3091 - Requiring Compliance with Generally Accepted Standards of Care
HB 3092 - Creating Emergency Healthy Families and Workplaces Act
HB 3114 - Direct West Virginia State Board of Education to require proof of vision examination before child is enrolled in public or private school
HB 3138 - To update the requirements of the state director of health to quarantine and enforce regulations in a specific place
HB 3145 - Providing certain exemptions from recovery residence standards for group housing facilities of 50 beds or more
HB 3170 - Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs
HB 3182 - Require insurance companies pay for telemedicine and in-person treatment and evaluation at the same rates
HB 3184 - Including workers’ compensation providers in the insurance prior authorization process
HB 3193 - Relating to obtaining an appropriate gender marker for state documents
HB 3205 - Relating to medical marijuana
HB 3227 - To provide a means to classify when medications should be continued or stopped for patients
HB 3228 - To require a new written, phoned, or e-mail prescription order within 72 hours of a prescription change
HB 3229 - To require all prescribers of medication to include their purpose for prescribing the medication to the patient
HB 3238 - Establish Food Waste Task Force
HB 3248 - Eliminating the food handler examination and card
HB 3259 - Prohibit state funding for any organization that performs abortions
HB 3265 - Require an ultrasound prior to abortion
HB 3276 - Creating parity for mental health services
HB 3277 - To amend the existing health insurance clean claims law to include workers' compensation providers

Human Rights (47 Bills)
HB 2062 - Creating a Small Business and Minority Populations Economic and Workforce Development Taskforce
HB 2068 - Establishing a special memorial day to be known as Juneteenth honoring human rights and the end of slavery in the United States
HB 2128 - Family Protection Act
HB 2159 - Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms
HB 2169 - Life at Conception Act of 2021
HB 2202 - Creating the West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act
HB 2230 - The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act
HB 2231 - Prohibiting confidential settlement terms of a contested case involving sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or sexual assault in a state administrative proceeding
HB 2368 - Mylissa Smith’s Law, creating patient visitation privileges
HB 2520 - Requiring the Human Rights Commission, when investigating a complaint of discrimination, to specifically include an examination of the intent of the person
HB 2537 - Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms
HB 2538 - Adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act
HB 2545 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2594 - Creating the Unborn Infants Wrongful Death Act
HB 2595 - Prohibit “divisive concepts” from schools, state agencies and any groups receiving state funding
HB 2693 - Eliminating the Human Rights Commission
HB 2694 - Create the 2nd Amendment Preservation Act
HB 2697 - Relating to unlawful discriminatory practices in categories covered by the Human Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act
HB 2698 - Making it illegal to discriminate based on hair texture or hair style
HB 2739 - Make WV a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary State
HB 2752 - Prohibiting discrimination in access to organ transplants based on physical or mental disability
HB 2872 - Relating to statute of limitations for discrimination
HB 2878 - Establishing a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African-Americans
HB 2998 - Relating to unlawful discriminatory practices covered by Human Rights Act and Fair Housing Act
HB 3003 - Relating to the definition of employer for sexual harassment purposes
HB 3023 - Places of worship may not be shut down by state of emergency
HB 3028 - Right to travel bill
HB 3047 - Make WV a Second Amendment Sanctuary State
HB 3141 - Designating February 3 as “Freedom Day,” to memorialize the February 3, 1865 Act by the Legislature that abolished slavery in West Virginia
HB 3197 - Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines

Human Services (27 Bills)
HB 2067 - Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services
HB 2127 - Relating to the state’s Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Intellectual/Developmental Disability Waiver
HB 2146 - Providing a tax credit for families who have foster children
HB 2149 - Allowing a personal income tax deduction for a foster care child
HB 2193 - Creating a litigation practice license for social workers
HB 2241 - Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Program
HB 2261 - Placing a moratorium on new patients admitted to state facilities
HB 2290 - Initiating a State Employment First Policy to facilitate integrated employment of disabled persons
HB 2355 - Establishing a tax deduction against corporation net income tax for retail food distributors that donate to school “backpack programs”
HB 2542 - Relating to wages of persons with disabilities
HB 2560 - Requiring the Public Employees Agency and other health insurance providers to provide mental health parity
HB 2664 - Screening for adverse childhood experiences
HB 2753 - Provide programs to educate senior citizens
HB 2817 - Donated Drug Repository Program
HB 2911 - Relating to eligibility verification for applicants for public assistance
HB 2967 - Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities
HB 3020 - Require photo identification on all EBT cards
HB 3049 - Increase nutrition rates for Senior services
HB 3111 - Supporting Students Who Are Parents Act
HB 3112 - Requiring Trauma-informed Employee training for employees of Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
HB 3120 - Providing for continuity of medical care for newly-incarcerated people
HB 3170 - Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs
HB 3201 - Creating the Food Infrastructure Grant
HB 3212 - Establish a system to fund and provide childcare for workers in “essential positions.”
HB 3221 - To modify the state special education appropriation to counties for special education students who are wards of the state and who require out of state placement
HB 3278 - Create Intergenerational Poverty Task Force
HB 3279 - Incentivizing the Sale of Healthy, Local Produce

Infrastructure (15 Bills)
HB 2168 - Relating to the transfer of certain revenues derived from lottery activities generally, restoring distribution to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund to 2013 rates and decreasing the funds available for grants therefrom

Insurance (6 Bills)
HB 2103 - Establishing an insurance program for health and medical insurance coverage to be offered in counties with limited insurance providers
HB 2120 - Ensuring health insurance coverage for residents with preexisting conditions
HB 2124 - Requiring licensees authorized to serve alcoholic liquors or nonintoxicating beer to have certain liability insurance coverage
HB 2134 - Providing that state retirees’ insurance benefits be restored to the benefit levels that existed in 2015
HB 2148 - Imposing a general data mining service tax on commercial data operators
HB 2153 - Permitting former members of the Legislature to remain eligible for insurance plans at full cost to the member and at no cost to the state
HB 2166 - Reducing the cost of prescription drugs
HB 2170 - Relating to insurance unfair trade practices
HB 2221 - Relating to the establishment of an insurance innovation process
HB 2252 - Requiring Medicaid and insurance coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders
HB 2263 - Update the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers
HB 2266 - Relating to expanding certain insurance coverages for pregnant women
HB 2281 - Modifying the method of calculation of the employer and employee contribution percentages for public employee insurance premiums
HB 2337 - Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies
HB 2531 - Prohibiting use of a person’s credit history in certain insurance transactions
HB 2557 - Increasing access to contraceptive drugs, devices, and procedures
HB 2560 - Requiring the Public Employees Agency and other health insurance providers to provide mental health parity
HB 2663 - Relating to insurance coverage for breast cancer screening
HB 2681 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to transfer moneys from the Insurance Commission Fund into the Workers’ Compensation Old Fund to reduce any deficit balance of the Old Fund
HB 2682 - Relating to the issuance of license suspensions to insurance producers and insurance adjusters who have failed to meet continuing education requirements
HB 2708 - Relating generally to required health insurance coverage for diabetics
HB 2718 - Better protect citizens in the event of a car accident with an uninsured motorist
HB 2758 - Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to regulate professional bondsmen
HB 2776 - Creating the Air Ambulance Patient Protection Act
HB 2807 - Relating to pharmaceutical rebates
HB 2843 - Require medical malpractice insurers to establish a separate insurance pool for doctors who conduct abortions
HB 2846 - A bill dedicating 25% of insurance tax revenue to the PEIA Rainy Day Fund
HB 2875 - Relating to changes to provider contracts related to health benefit plans and Medicaid managed care plans
HB 2965 - Requiring PEIA, Medicaid and other health insurance providers to cover treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders
HB 3001 - Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program
HB 3037 - Hearing Enhancement Aid Reimbursement Act (HEAR)
HB 3085 - Consolidating positions of Inspector General of Workers' Compensation Commission’s Fraud and Abuse Unit and the position of Director of the Insurance Fraud Unit
HB 3186 - Relating to PEIA inpatient rates

Juveniles (1 Bills)
HB 2088 - Relating to requiring a court to verify certain conditions are met before a child who has been removed from a home may be returned to that home.
HB 2094 - Relating to the juvenile restorative justice programs
HB 2196 - Providing a tax credit for families who have foster children
HB 2260 - Relating to procurement of child placing services
HB 2317 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human resources to pay the attorney fees of an adoptive parent in a subsidized adoption
HB 2335 - Increasing the minimum criminal penalty for a driver who, in an impaired state, causes the death of a minor
HB 2363 - Relating to “Best Interests of the Child Protection Act of 2021”
HB 2553 - Relating to the juvenile justice reform oversight committee
HB 2566 - Creating a statutory right to petition circuit and family courts for sibling visitation
HB 2620 - Relating to a departmental study of the child protective services and foster care workforce
HB 2651 - Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion
HB 2687 - To prohibit minors from dropping out of high school unless they are emancipated
HB 2885 - Requiring DHHR, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, to notify the parents upon the death of a child in foster care
HB 2894 - Relating to the criminal offense of desecration of graves and vandalizing cemeteries
HB 3038 - Set the age for consent of marriage at 18 years of age
HB 3148 - To create a renewable 2 year state level grant for foster parent screening
HB 3189 - Establishing requirements for confining juveniles in juvenile facilities
HB 3204 - Relating to custodial interrogation of a child

Labor (24 Bills)
HB 2007 - Provide for occupational licenses or other authorization to practice by recognition for qualified applicants from other states
HB 2008 - Amending requirements for licensure relating to elevator mechanics, crane operators, HVAC, electricians, and plumbers
HB 2009 - Relating to limitations on the use of wages and agency shop fees by employers and labor organizations for political activities
HB 2020 - Relating to the West Virginia Employment Law Worker Classification Act
HB 2133 - Repealing the Workplace Freedom Act of 2016 and restoring the prior provisions of the Labor-Management Relations Act
HB 2151 - Listing contractor classifications on a contractor license
HB 2156 - Relating generally to the payment of salary or wages under the Parental Leave Act
HB 2293 - Reestablishing prevailing wages for certain state government contracts
HB 2294 - Removing the requirement for contractors to file payroll information on public improvement construction projects
HB 2296 - West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 2305 - Creating a tax credit for hiring an ex-felon
HB 2313 - Reducing the number of hours of experience needed to qualify as a journeyman sprinkler fitter
HB 2318 - Repealing the West Virginia Jobs Act
HB 2481 - Removing and modifying certain requirements for employers relating to wages for construction of public improvements
HB 2516 - Altering the definition of a specialty contractor under the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 2517 - Removing marijuana as a tested substance from the screening requirements
HB 2519 - Repealing provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products
HB 2574 - Prohibit employers from requiring employees and prospective employees to have devices implanted or otherwise incorporated into their bodies as a condition of employment
HB 2749 - Reestablishing prevailing wages for certain state government contracts
HB 2840 - Increase state minimum wage
HB 2848 - Reinstate WV Prevailing Wage Law
HB 2849 - Repeal Right-to-Work legislation
HB 2873 - Allowing waiver of repayment of overpaid unemployment insurance
HB 2879 - Relating to anti-discrimination protections for independent contractors
HB 2889 - Relating to West Virginia Employment Law Worker Classification Act
HB 3041 - Relating to the minimum wage
HB 3056 - Increasing the state minimum wage
HB 3090 - Ban-the-Box Act
HB 3098 - Prohibit at-will employment and mandate that employees may only be dismissed for cause after completing a probationary period
HB 3115 - Guarantee Earned Sick Days for every worker
HB 3117 - Establish technology/remote work tax deduction from state income tax
HB 3118 - Prohibiting certain noncompete or conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts
HB 3123 - Family Leave Program: Provide paid time off for workers to care for a family member
HB 3124 - Permit collective bargaining for public employees
HB 3212 - Establish a system to fund and provide childcare for workers in “essential positions.”
HB 3247 - Creating the Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan Fair Pay Act
HB 3272 - Establish a Fair Workweek for West Virginia, that accounts for predictability pay, split-shift pay, on-call pay, and an advance-notice provision

Law Enforcement (31 Bills)
HB 2229 - Requiring persons who are in the business of purchasing precious metals and precious gems to photograph those purchases and to transmit the photographs to law-enforcement

Legal Gaming (1 Bills)
HB 2047 - Changing the licensing requirement for certain casino employees
HB 2136 - Granting counties and municipalities a portion of the net terminal income from racetrack video lottery
HB 2253 - Relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets
HB 2507 - Remove the limitations on advertising and promotional activities by limited video lottery retailers
HB 2627 - Continuing the licensed racetrack modernization fund
HB 2628 - Relating to the removal of the prohibition on having ATMs in the area where racetrack video lottery machines are located
HB 2801 - To change the due date of the Racetrack Table Game renewal license fee
HB 2938 - Reallocate a certain amount of net terminal income from racetrack video lottery distributed to the thoroughbred and greyhound development funds at the licensed racetracks of origin.
HB 2990 - Requiring that any municipality or county commission intending to approve a location for a video lottery retailer must first announce their intention to do so and hold a public hearing

Legislature (18 Bills)
HB 2014 - Relating to role of the Legislature in appropriating federal funds
HB 2070 - Relating to mandatory drug testing for state legislators and teachers
HB 2099 - Redistricting of the Senate into 16 two-member senatorial districts and redistricting the House into 96 single member districts
HB 2135 - Providing that political party caucus meetings are not exempt from open proceedings requirements
HB 2288 - Limiting pay of members of the Legislature when a budget bill has not been passed
HB 2330 - Relating to the Public Service Commission
HB 2549 - Creating the Independent Redistricting Commission of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance
HB 2587 - Relating to drug testing of legislators
HB 2610 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2729 - Permit elected officials to carry firearms in the Capitol
HB 2797 - Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of the State
HB 2932 - Protections for Charitable Organizations
HB 3063 - To provide a review and veto process of executive orders by the President.
HB 3094 - Prohibiting municipalities, counties, or other government entities from using tax payer funds to lobby for their interests
HB 3183 - Require a lobbyist immediately notify clients in writing about a potential conflict of interest
HB 3241 - Big Creek Cape Coalwood Commission
HB 3274 - To prohibit credited time for legislative pensions

Legislature--Rule Making (1 Bills)
HB 2366 - Requiring agencies who have approved a proposed rule that affects fees or other special revenues to provide to the committee a fiscal note
HB 2382 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to ambient air quality standards
HB 2383 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources
HB 2384 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from combustion of solid waste
HB 2385 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from municipal solid waste landfills
HB 2386 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to acid rain provisions and permits
HB 2387 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 2388 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal-fired electric utility generating units
HB 2389 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards
HB 2390 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hazardous waste management system
HB 2391 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to voluntary remediation and redevelopment rule
HB 2392 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate a legislative rule relating to tourism development districts
HB 2393 - Authorizing the Division of Labor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to high pressure steam boiler and forced flow steam generator requirements
HB 2394 - Authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety, and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to rule governing the submission and approval of a comprehensive mine safety program for coal mining operations in the State of West Virginia
HB 2395 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Cabwaylingo State Forest trail system two year pilot program permitting ATV’s and ORV’s
HB 2396 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to defining the terms used in all hunting and trapping
HB 2397 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to deer hunting rule
HB 2398 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special migratory game bird hunting
HB 2399 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special waterfowl hunting
HB 2400 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2401 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to examination and issuance of driver’s license
HB 2402 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to denial, suspension, revocation, disqualification, restriction, non-renewal, cancellation, administrative appeals and reinstatement of driving privileges
HB 2403 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to compulsory motor vehicle liability insurance
HB 2404 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special purpose vehicles
HB 2405 - Authorizing the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to private club licensing
HB 2406 - Authorizing the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to distilleries, mini-distilleries, and micro-distilleries
HB 2407 - Authorizing the Division of Financial Institutions to promulgate a legislative rule relating to rule pertaining to the fintech regulatory sandbox
HB 2408 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fingerprinting requirements for applicants for insurance producer and insurance adjuster license
HB 2409 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to insurance adjusters
HB 2410 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to credit for reinsurance
HB 2411 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education for individual insurance producers and individual insurance adjusters
HB 2412 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to mental health parity
HB 2413 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to health benefit plan network access and adequacy
HB 2414 - Authorizing the Municipal Pensions Oversight Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to exempt purchasing
HB 2415 - Authorizing the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to thoroughbred racing
HB 2416 - Authorizing the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to greyhound racing
HB 2417 - Authorizing the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to advance deposit account wagering
HB 2418 - Authorizing the Lottery Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia lottery interactive wagering rule
HB 2419 - Authorizing the State Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to tax credit for providing vehicles to low-income workers
HB 2420 - Authorizing the State Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to downstream natural gas manufacturing investment tax credit
HB 2421 - Authorizing the State Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to high-wage growth business tax credit
HB 2422 - Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to purchasing
HB 2423 - Authorizing the State Board of Risk and Insurance Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to mine subsidence insurance
HB 2424 - Authorizing the State Board of Risk and Insurance Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to public entities insurance program
HB 2425 - Authorizing the State Board of Risk and Insurance Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to procedures for providing written notification of claims of potential liability to the state or its employees
HB 2426 - Authorizing the Division of Rehabilitation Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Ron Yost Personal Assistance Services Act Board
HB 2427 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2428 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure
HB 2429 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to nursing home licensure
HB 2430 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to lead abatement licensing
HB 2431 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency medical services
HB 2432 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to client rights at state-operated mental health facilities
HB 2433 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel
HB 2434 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to public health standards for businesses remaining open during the COVID-19 outbreak
HB 2435 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to diabetes self-management education
HB 2436 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia clearance for access, registry, and employment screening
HB 2437 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to recovery residence certification and accreditation program
HB 2438 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to child placing agencies licensure
HB 2439 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to minimum licensing requirements for residential child care and treatment facilities for children and transitioning adults and vulnerable and transitioning youth group homes and programs in West Virginia
HB 2440 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to procedure to contest the substantiation of child abuse or neglect
HB 2441 - Authorizing the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to exemption from certificate of need
HB 2442 - Authorizing the Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards for the certification and continuing education of municipal, county, and other public sector building code officials, building code inspectors, and plans examiners
HB 2443 - Authorizing the Fire Marshal to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards for the certification and continuing education municipal, county, and other public sector building code officials, building code inspectors, and plans examiners
HB 2444 - Authorizing the State Emergency Response Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency planning and community right to know
HB 2445 - Authorizing the State Emergency Response Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency planning grant program
HB 2446 - Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to animal disease control
HB 2447 - Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia Seed Law
HB 2448 - Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to inspection of meat and poultry
HB 2449 - Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to poultry litter and manure movement into primary poultry breeder rearing areas
HB 2450 - Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to seed certification program
HB 2451 - Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to WV exempted dairy farms and milk and milk products processing rules
HB 2452 - Authorizing the Auditor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards for requisitions for payment issued by State Officers on the Auditor
HB 2453 - Authorizing the Board of Funeral Service Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to funeral director, embalmer, apprentice, courtesy card holders and funeral establishment requirements
HB 2454 - Authorizing the Board of Funeral Service Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to crematory requirements
HB 2455 - Authorizing the Board of Funeral Service Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fee schedule
HB 2456 - Authorizing the Board of Hearing Aid Dealers to promulgate a legislative rule relating to rule governing the West Virginia Board of Hearing Aid Dealers
HB 2457 - Authorizing the Board of Landscape Architects to promulgate a legislative rule relating to registration of landscape architects
HB 2458 - Authorizing the Board of Landscape Architects to promulgate a legislative rule relating to application for waiver of initial licensing fees for certain individuals
HB 2459 - Authorizing the Livestock Care Standards Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to livestock care standards
HB 2460 - Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to registration to practice during declared state of emergency
HB 2461 - Authorizing the Board of Occupational Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to telehealth practice; requirements, definitions
HB 2462 - Authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing procedures for osteopathic physicians
HB 2463 - Authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency temporary permits to practice during states of emergency or states of preparedness
HB 2464 - Authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure and practice of pharmacy
HB 2465 - Authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 2467 - Authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure of wholesale drug distributors, third party logistics providers, and manufacturers
HB 2468 - Authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to controlled substances monitoring program
HB 2469 - Authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to board of pharmacy rules for immunizations administered by pharmacists and pharmacy interns
HB 2470 - Authorizing the Board of Physical Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to general provisions for physical therapist and physical therapist assistants
HB 2471 - Authorizing the Board of Physical Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for physical therapist and physical therapist assistants
HB 2472 - Authorizing the Board of Physical Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to general provisions for athletic trainers
HB 2473 - Authorizing the Board of Physical Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for athletic trainers
HB 2474 - Authorizing the Board of Professional Surveyors to promulgate a legislative rule relating to examination and licensing of professional surveyors in West Virginia
HB 2475 - Authorizing the Real Estate Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing real estate brokers, associate brokers, and salespersons and the conduct of brokerage business
HB 2476 - Authorizing the Board of Respiratory Care to promulgate a legislative rule relating to criteria for licensure
HB 2477 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to loan and grant programs under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) for the purchase of voting equipment, election systems, software, services and upgrades
HB 2478 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to guidelines and standards for electronic notarization
HB 2479 - Authorizing the Bureau of Senior Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to shared table initiative for senior citizens
HB 2513 - Relating generally to repealing certain rules

Local and Special Laws (3 Bills)
HB 2580 - Mandating judgment by a mayor, any individual exercising the mayor’s functions, the police court judge, or municipal judge be obligated to the Model Rules of Judicial Conduct

Magistrates (30 Bills)
HB 3071 - Add one additional Magistrate for Putnam County
HB 3151 - To phase out magisterial districts in West Virginia by 2024

Military and Veterans (15 Bills)
HB 2093 - Relating to exemptions for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Foster Homes
HB 2138 - Defend the Guard Act
HB 2174 - West Virginia Monument and Memorial Protection Act of 2021
HB 2286 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Veterans' Assistance- Veterans Home
HB 2303 - Moving authority for the West Virginia veterans service decoration and West Virginia Service Cross to the Division of Veterans Affairs
HB 2309 - Prescribing methods of support for families of veterans to attend funeral services
HB 2497 - Eliminate permit needed to hunt trap or fish for veterans who suffer PTSD
HB 2606 - Award military veterans with a “Veterans” license plate
HB 2670 - Creating a special license plate for aviation
HB 2874 - Extend the current veteran’s business fee waivers to active duty military members and spouses
HB 2981 - Providing veterans with suicide prevention assistance
HB 3061 - Relating to fees for Veteran License Plates
HB 3064 - Provide free hunting and fishing licenses for all disabled veterans
HB 3065 - Eliminate personal property taxes for certain veterans
HB 3066 - Expand military retirement pay state income tax exemption
HB 3068 - Exempt 100% disabled combat vets from property tax on primary residence
HB 3069 - Enhance cooperation between civilian law enforcement and military authorities.
HB 3077 - Permit the use of establish federal marketplace programs for the purchases of supplies
HB 3226 - To waive the adoption fee of animals for veterans

Mines and Minerals (17 Bills)
HB 2199 - Creating the Intrastate Coal and Use Act

Motor Vehicles (37 Bills)
HB 2032 - Issuing specialty motor vehicle registration plates for businesses owning a fleet of 25 or more vehicles
HB 2038 - Revising requirements relating to the issuance and renewal of handicap vehicle placards
HB 2053 - Authorizing the DMV to issue certain vital records in the custody of the state registrar
HB 2072 - Providing special license plate to support adoption
HB 2075 - Removing the registration fee for a vehicle operating on a combination of electricity and petrochemical fuels
HB 2076 - Removing all costs and fees from a Silver Star registration plate
HB 2147 - Providing that the Division of Motor Vehicles identification cards be issued at no cost
HB 2162 - Relating to qualifications for a commercial driver’s license permit
HB 2195 - Relating to motor vehicle crash reports
HB 2198 - Prohibiting employees of the state who have convictions for driving under the influence from driving or operating state owned vehicle
HB 2204 - Providing for a special “Don’t Tread On Me” license plate
HB 2218 - Creating an enhanced penalty for certain aggravated serious traffic offenses
HB 2222 - Prohibiting vehicles from driving slow in the left lane
HB 2223 - Repealing section of code authorizing additional registration fees for alternative fuel vehicles
HB 2250 - Relating generally to the issuance of driver licenses
HB 2299 - Clarifying that a vehicle may not be backed into a public street or highway unless it does not interfere with other traffic
HB 2323 - Authorizing a special vehicle registration plate for “2nd Amendment” enthusiasts
HB 2335 - Increasing the minimum criminal penalty for a driver who, in an impaired state, causes the death of a minor
HB 2343 - Require an emergency contact be placed on driver’s license
HB 2374 - Requiring payment of taxes on an owned mobile home to renew motor vehicle registration tags
HB 2488 - Relating to an occupational limited license
HB 2492 - Increasing the penalty for DUI causing death when a child is present
HB 2494 - Create license plate for autism awareness
HB 2606 - Award military veterans with a “Veterans” license plate
HB 2646 - Establishing a special registration plate for recognizing and honoring families affected by Alzheimer’s disease
HB 2701 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Rehabilitation Services to approve acceptable training programs required for low vision individuals to obtain a Class G drivers license
HB 2719 - Relating to the Division of Motor Vehicles use of electronic means and other alternate means to provide notice
HB 2721 - Providing electronic notice of school attendance and satisfactory progress to the Division of Motor Vehicles in lieu of requiring each student to provide a paper notice
HB 2727 - Providing a special license plate for homeland security individuals
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
HB 2733 - Relating to the establishment of a Combat Action Badge and Combat Action Ribbon special registration plates
HB 2737 - Repeal code relating to inspection of vehicles
HB 2740 - Distracted Driving Act
HB 2741 - Relating to expansion of the alcohol test and lock program to offenders with a drug related offense
HB 2742 - Providing explicit authority to process an online driver’s license or identification renewal or reissuance when the applicant needs to update the address
HB 2765 - Relating to allowing emergency management and operations’ vehicles operated by airports to use red flashing warning lights
HB 2774 - Requiring that a state employee with a commercial driver’s license have a current medical evaluation certification
HB 2904 - Relating to unlawfully using electronic communication devices while driving
HB 2950 - Provide the Division of Motor Vehicles authority to develop an “Antique Fleet” program so that multiple antique motor vehicles may utilize a single registration plate
HB 2969 - To clarify the procedures for the sale and operation of a municipally owned toll bridge by a private toll transportation facility
HB 3042 - Reciprocity for inspection stickers on new cars purchased in neighboring states
HB 3061 - Relating to fees for Veteran License Plates
HB 3086 - Exempting motor vehicles from personal property tax
HB 3101 - Preserve the constitutional right of West Virginian’s to be free from unlawful automotive searches
HB 3142 - Relating to electric bicycles
HB 3193 - Relating to obtaining an appropriate gender marker for state documents
HB 3195 - To repeal the extra $200 fee for electric vehicle registration and $100 for hybrid vehicle registration

Municipalities (2 Bills)
HB 2091 - Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election
HB 2164 - Requiring certain municipalities to pay for the incarceration of inmates
HB 2180 - Prohibiting the regulation and licensing of occupations by local government
HB 2190 - Authorizing ordinances allowing the municipal court to place a structure, dwelling or building into receivership under certain circumstances
HB 2232 - Providing a process by which a city may hold an election to recall an ordinance
HB 2256 - Providing that a municipal services user fee may not be imposed on employees of the state
HB 2273 - Dividing pretrial detention jail costs between arresting authorities
HB 2302 - Establishing that shared legal and physical custody of a child in cases of divorce is presumed to be in the best interests of the child
HB 2306 - Relating to governmental websites
HB 2319 - Prohibiting the regulation and licensing of occupations by local government
HB 2324 - Relating to charging fees for municipal services
HB 2482 - Clarifying that municipalities may enact ordinances for rates, fees, and charges based upon actual use of services
HB 2512 - Relating to operate a home based business
HB 2526 - Defining the term minor boundary adjustment
HB 2548 - Requiring urban renewal authorities to submit proposed urban renewal projects to the affected local county boards of health
HB 2563 - Requiring certain municipalities to pay for the incarceration of inmates
HB 2592 - Require Counties and Municipalities to hold all local elections during statewide elections
HB 2686 - Establish a system to remediate fiscal emergencies of local governments
HB 2751 - Modernize the process for dissolution of municipal corporations in this State
HB 2780 - Repeal municipal license and tax when state license required
HB 2782 - Repeal domestic animal tax
HB 2784 - Relating to Municipal pension benefit calculations
HB 2812 - Local Energy Efficiency Partnership Act
HB 2842 - Preventing cities from banning utility companies in city limits
HB 2866 - Establishing the Municipal Home Rule Program
HB 2907 - Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting certain ordinances, regulations, local policies, local resolutions, or other legal requirements
HB 2934 - Allow local governments to hold property owners more accountable for upkeep of buildings
HB 2951 - Repeal of authority granted to municipalities to levy business and occupation or privilege tax
HB 2953 - To clarify that counties can hire fire fighters as paid staff and to modify the existing procedures to include a procedure of public hearing to commission a vote
HB 2989 - Requiring local entities to enforce immigration laws
HB 2990 - Requiring that any municipality or county commission intending to approve a location for a video lottery retailer must first announce their intention to do so and hold a public hearing
HB 3057 - Relating to municipal or county taxation of hotel rooms booked through a market facilitator
HB 3094 - Prohibiting municipalities, counties, or other government entities from using tax payer funds to lobby for their interests
HB 3137 - To accelerate the conversion of the transfer tax on the privilege of transferring real property from a state excise tax to a county excise tax
HB 3223 - Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time
HB 3235 - To establish the Vegetable Garden Protection Act

Natural Resources (14 Bills)
HB 2035 - Permitting the resident lineal descendants of landowners to hunt, trap or fish on that resident landowner’s property without a license
HB 2059 - Establishing a system for issuing permits for persons to provide rehabilitation of orphaned, sick and injured wildlife
HB 2129 - Establishing an industrial water extraction fee
HB 2205 - Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
HB 2227 - Prohibiting blasting within 625 feet of an occupied dwelling
HB 2229 - Requiring persons who are in the business of purchasing precious metals and precious gems to photograph those purchases and to transmit the photographs to law-enforcement
HB 2237 - Allowing free camping at state parks for certain resident veterans
HB 2493 - Providing valuation limitations for coal property taxation and clarifying the penalties for non-filers
HB 2497 - Eliminate permit needed to hunt trap or fish for veterans who suffer PTSD
HB 2511 - Relating generally to hunting and fishing
HB 2568 - Relating to rules for hunting antlered deer
HB 2581 - Providing for the valuation of natural resources property and an alternate method of appeal of proposed valuation of natural resources property
HB 2601 - Allow a person to verify proof of hunting or fishing license electronically by their telephone
HB 2629 - Expanding the scope of hunting, fishing, and trapping benefits provided to former members of the United States Armed forces
HB 2631 - Provide for WVDNR officers to be able to work “off duty”
HB 2773 - Permitting DNR to issue up to 100 permits for boats greater than 10 horsepower on Upper Mud River Lake
HB 2775 - Relating to the beginning and expiration of hunting and fishing licenses
HB 2853 - Provide for the unitization of interests in drilling units in connection with shallow horizontal oil or gas wells
HB 2867 - To establish Natural Resources Commission appointment criteria and allow for reimbursement of expenses related to discharge of official duties
HB 3051 - Standardize gas and oil contracts
HB 3140 - Allowing disabled persons to operate small electric vehicles on the Greenbrier Trail
HB 3171 - To provide a fifty percent reduction in fees and charges relating to state parks for West Virginia veterans
HB 3185 - To allow all licensed hunters in the 4 trophy counties to automatically qualify to use a crossbow, after age 65
HB 3241 - Big Creek Cape Coalwood Commission

Professions and Occupations (24 Bills)
HB 2006 - Relating to the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 2007 - Provide for occupational licenses or other authorization to practice by recognition for qualified applicants from other states
HB 2036 - Removing the requirement that real estate brokers, associate brokers and salespeople maintain a main office
HB 2151 - Listing contractor classifications on a contractor license
HB 2154 - Requiring all boards to be located in the same area and office space
HB 2180 - Prohibiting the regulation and licensing of occupations by local government
HB 2251 - Reorganizing various boards and authorities for the licensing and oversight of trades, occupations, and professions
HB 2265 - Relating to collaborative pharmacy practice and updating rulemaking authority
HB 2296 - West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 2311 - Requiring prescriptions be made by electronic means
HB 2319 - Prohibiting the regulation and licensing of occupations by local government
HB 2325 - Removing the requirement of continuing education for barbers and cosmetologists
HB 2326 - Exempting from licensure as an electrician a person who installs low voltage electrical wiring
HB 2333 - Restricting the authority of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to regulate the use of commonly available, retail beauty products
HB 2334 - Requiring certain boards that seek to increase a fee or seek to impose a new fee to also submit cost saving measures
HB 2344 - Modify statute relating to Registered Veterinary Technicians
HB 2373 - Home Based Business Fairness Act
HB 2491 - Expanding the eligibility requirements for private investigator and security guard licensure
HB 2575 - Increasing the age limit to 40 for people to test for career fire departments
HB 2579 - Create the Volunteer Immunity and Charitable Organization Liability Limit Act
HB 2656 - Exempting from personal property taxation, vehicles of certain volunteer firefighters
HB 2674 - Relating to the administration of anesthetics
HB 2703 - Clarify that a temporary permit to practice medicine conveys the same authority unto the holder as a license
HB 2707 - Relating to prescriptive authority for advanced practice registered nurses
HB 2770 - Including home confinement officers in definition of law-enforcement officers
HB 2781 - To create the Occupational Licensing Legal Fund in the State Treasury
HB 2800 - To allow another round of “buy in” to the old public employees retirement plan for those that didn’t last time
HB 2821 - Providing adequate opportunities for state employees to obtain continuing education credits for professional licenses and registrations
HB 2831 - Nursing Program Expansion Pilot Program
HB 2891 - Creating minimum statutory standards for law-enforcement officers
HB 2909 - Updating the criteria used when assessing an application for a new license or other government regulation relating to occupational and professional regulation
HB 2944 - Providing for the registration of lobbyist interns
HB 2968 - To allow Veterinarian Tele-Health in West Virginia
HB 3004 - To create the “Fair Food Delivery Act”
HB 3044 - Expanding types of cancers as rebuttable presumption for injuries, diseases for professional firefighters
HB 3045 - Relating to firefighter disability claims
HB 3052 - Creating the Interstate Mobility and Universal-Recognition Occupational Licensing Act (the Freedom to Travel Act)
HB 3053 - Relating to requirements for a registered veterinary nurse
HB 3190 - Allow anyone with a master’s degree to sit for WV Bar exam and become licensed attorney
HB 3232 - To establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia
HB 3256 - To create a state level government grant for safe houses to be implemented in the State of West Virginia
HB 3273 - A bill relating to pre-need funeral solicitation

Public Safety (1 Bills)
HB 2003 - Relating to the authority and obligations of the Governor and Legislature when in declared states of preparedness and emergency
HB 2045 - Providing limitations on nuisance actions against fire department and emergency medical services
HB 2046 - West Virginia Emergency Responder Service Tax Credit Act
HB 2126 - Creating the West Virginia Residential Furniture and Children’s Products Flame Retardants Act
HB 2159 - Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms
HB 2178 - Facilitating Business Rapid Response to State Declared Disasters Act of 2021
HB 2179 - West Virginia Civil Authority Act
HB 2195 - Relating to motor vehicle crash reports
HB 2201 - Repealing the section of code relating to unlawful military organizations
HB 2213 - Relating to the hunting of coyotes
HB 2216 - Right to keep and bear arms
HB 2273 - Dividing pretrial detention jail costs between arresting authorities
HB 2276 - Authorizing the Governor to seek the return of fugitives
HB 2277 - Establishing an intravenous drug user treatment and commitment process
HB 2285 - Relating to Capitol Complex Security Access
HB 2313 - Reducing the number of hours of experience needed to qualify as a journeyman sprinkler fitter
HB 2340 - Require compensation for state police officers when required to be on standby so they can be called back to work if necessary
HB 2380 - Banning convicted sex offenders from driving taxis, ride share, limousines, and buses
HB 2537 - Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms
HB 2559 - Prohibiting the private ownership or operation of a prison
HB 2683 - Clarifying that the office is responsible to plan for emergency and disaster response, recovery, and resiliency
HB 2711 - Permitting persons who are twenty-one years of age or older to operate or be a passenger on a motorcycle without a helmet
HB 2722 - Prohibiting the use of class B fire-fighting foam for testing purposes if the foam contains a certain class of fluorinated organic chemicals
HB 2767 - Creating a law-enforcement transparency board
HB 2779 - Allow contracted work by state troopers to be counted toward their retirement instead of overtime
HB 2795 - Relating to criminal justice training regarding autistic persons
HB 2828 - Firearm Protection Act
HB 2850 - Establish a Corporate Crime division in the State Police
HB 2882 - Relating to repealing a ban on construction of nuclear power plants
HB 2892 - Relating to the West Virginia State Guard and the organization thereof
HB 2947 - Regarding recording of police interrogations
HB 2956 - Permit licensed food trucks to operate on the State Capitol Complex during periods in which the Capitol Complex Cafeteria is not operational
HB 2977 - Allow guns to be carried on capitol grounds
HB 2978 - Gun carry allowed on college campuses
HB 3000 - To allow circuit court judges with at least six years of service to conceal carry if they so desire
HB 3040 - Ensure the health, safety, and welfare of homeless citizens of this state
HB 3089 - Make utility workers essential employees during a state of emergency
HB 3095 - To create the "Protection of Property from Warrantless Searches Act”
HB 3112 - Requiring Trauma-informed Employee training for employees of Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
HB 3153 - Eliminate the WV Fusion Center
HB 3172 - Require every hospital to have someone available to perform forensic exams
HB 3176 - Requiring sharps containers in all state buildings and facilities where the public is allowed
HB 3211 - State Police Review Board
HB 3263 - Relating to creating the refugee information act

Public Service Commission (19 Bills)
HB 2044 - Establishing Next Generation 911 services in this state
HB 2090 - Relating to a customer constructing a connection or other infrastructure necessary for the customer to connect to the public utility
HB 2158 - Relating to the Public Service Commission
HB 2329 - Relating to net metering
HB 2330 - Relating to the Public Service Commission
HB 2370 - Provide that Public Service Districts cannot charge sewer rates for filling a swimming pool
HB 2554 - Relating to notice of discontinuance of service by a utility
HB 2556 - Providing an exemption from regulation by the Public Service Commission for motor vehicles used exclusively in the transportation of roll-off solid waste containers
HB 2588 - Creating the WV Energy Efficiency Jobs Creation Act
HB 2605 - Require that a public service district board that represents more than one community have at least one member from each community
HB 2713 - WV 2021 Plan for Securing WV Coal Supplies
HB 2717 - Assure West Virginians proper access to water and sewage service at reasonable rates
HB 2792 - Relating to the expansion of direct access to natural gas service for new customers
HB 2811 - Relating to the manner in which actual investment of capital and costs and a natural gas utility’s expedited cost recovery are calculated
HB 2812 - Local Energy Efficiency Partnership Act
HB 2890 - To clarify the regulatory authority of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia over luxury limousine services
HB 2969 - To clarify the procedures for the sale and operation of a municipally owned toll bridge by a private toll transportation facility
HB 3181 - Relating to Public Service Commission and Public Service districts
HB 3222 - Assure West Virginians proper access to water and sewage service at reasonable rates
HB 3250 - Restricting Public Service Commission from promulgating certain rules
HB 3281 - To put cable television network providers under the purview of the PSC for any rate increases or reductions of channels available to customers

Real and Personal Property (1 Bills)
HB 2037 - Providing protections, under certain circumstances, to owners of livestock and other domestic animals
HB 2104 - Relating to compensation paid to landowners when interest in property taken by eminent domain is for a nongovernmental entity
HB 2113 - Relating to paving contracts
HB 2130 - Relating to the Consumer Credit and Protection Act
HB 2205 - Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
HB 2505 - Allow temporary advertising signage within three weeks of an advertised event
HB 2548 - Requiring urban renewal authorities to submit proposed urban renewal projects to the affected local county boards of health
HB 2551 - Relating to consumer protection of new manufactured home warranties
HB 2675 - Relating to the interest rate for condemnation cases and creating conformity with statutory rates
HB 2960 - Eliminating the requirement that the Treasurer publish a full list of unclaimed property in newspapers, and instead require online database
HB 2999 - Relating to property ownership by Farmland Protection Board
HB 3086 - Exempting motor vehicles from personal property tax
HB 3223 - Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time
HB 3245 - The Protection of All Property from Warrantless Searches Act
HB 3249 - Reducing to one year the deadline for right to set aside deed

Records and Papers (1 Bills)
HB 2147 - Providing that the Division of Motor Vehicles identification cards be issued at no cost
HB 2160 - Issuing identification documents to homeless individuals residing at homeless shelters
HB 2177 - Permitting the issuance of a state issued identification card without a photo on the card under certain conditions
HB 2518 - Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract
HB 2884 - To make changes to the FOIA law to protect public utility customer databases from disclosure, with exceptions
HB 2943 - To unseal adoption records after 21 years of age for adoptees for a one time fee of $30 and issuance of an original birth certificate for the common birth certificate fee.
HB 3159 - Relating to Consumer Data Privacy

Resolutions (1 Bills)
HB 2062 - Creating a Small Business and Minority Populations Economic and Workforce Development Taskforce

Resolutions (Naming) (2 Bills)
HB 2155 - Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators
HB 2963 - Establish a website for publicly-available archive of all bridge and road naming resolutions

Retirement (7 Bills)
HB 2048 - Relating to Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2300 - Including Family Court Judges in the Judges' Retirement System
HB 2596 - Increase the State Police Retirement Benefit multiplier
HB 2636 - Establishing a 911 Emergency Services Retirement System
HB 2645 - Establishing a class of employees within the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System consisting of 911 staff
HB 2799 - Providing EMS workers a retirement benefits tax exemption
HB 2800 - To allow another round of “buy in” to the old public employees retirement plan for those that didn’t last time
HB 2829 - Providing for the amortization of annual funding deficiencies for municipal police or firefighter pension and relief funds
HB 2854 - Relating to the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 2855 - Relating to the Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System
HB 2862 - Relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
HB 2868 - To provide a mechanism to allow for the contributions paid by a member into a retirement plan to be returned to the member’s heirs
HB 2970 - Raising retirement rate for Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement System
HB 2973 - To modify the teacher retirement system so that Tier 2 teachers may use annual/sick leave towards retirement
HB 3139 - To allow for full-time paid employees of a Volunteer Fire Company to participate in the West Virginia Public Employee Retirement System.
HB 3191 - Requiring employers to send certain notifications when retirants are hired as temporary, part-time employees
HB 3208 - Relating to establishing a minimum monthly retirement annuity for certain retirants with 25 or more years of credited service
HB 3274 - To prohibit credited time for legislative pensions

Roads and Transportation (2 Bills)
HB 2002 - Relating to Broadband
HB 2111 - Including emergency response vehicles in the single fee program for EZ Pass transponders
HB 2116 - Verifying legal employment status of contractors and vendor’s employees for certain road and bridge contracts
HB 2150 - Relating to driving restrictions in school zones
HB 2191 - Requiring paving contracts for state highways to have special requirements to prevent potholes
HB 2203 - Ending tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike effective July 1, 2021
HB 2242 - Relating to special license plates for vehicles titled in the name of the Division of Public Transit
HB 2298 - Requiring a warning light to be erected on certain roads to warn of a traffic light ahead
HB 2498 - Ensure State Road Construction Account funds are in addition to general highways funds provided to the DOT districts
HB 2503 - Requiring legislative approval of additional parkways bonds and removing tolls once bonds paid
HB 2505 - Allow temporary advertising signage within three weeks of an advertised event
HB 2521 - Limiting supervision of laying of lines on state rights-of-way
HB 2522 - Requiring that patching repair of hard surfaced roads, highways and streets be by use of mechanical rollers
HB 2532 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts
HB 2570 - Pothole app and map
HB 2632 - Permitting Commissioner of Highways to make transfers of money within the State Road Fund
HB 2668 - Removing obsolete provisions regarding DOH standards for studded tires and chains
HB 2673 - Exempting Division of Highways from Purchasing Division procedures
HB 2675 - Relating to the interest rate for condemnation cases and creating conformity with statutory rates
HB 2720 - Creating a Merit-Based Personnel System within DOT
HB 2761 - Authorizing the Division of Highways to assess local impacts to roadways for activities permitted by the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 2836 - Allow the establishment of a prescriptive public easement on private property for roads or paths traversed by the public in vehicles over a period of 20 or more years
HB 2856 - Relating to performance metrics for the West Virginia Division of Highways
HB 2857 - Prohibiting the placement of the name or likeness of public officials on state road signs
HB 2858 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts
HB 2955 - Removing the residency requirement for the Commissioner of the Division of Highways
HB 2963 - Establish a website for publicly-available archive of all bridge and road naming resolutions
HB 3002 - Update road abandonment process
HB 3046 - Reduce the number of board members of the Parkways Authority and to appoint board members who are from the counties that are contiguous to the Turnpike.
HB 3075 - Transferring funds remaining in the Racetrack Modernization Fund to the State Road Fund and closing the Racetrack Modernization Fund
HB 3076 - Eliminating courtesy patrol programs
HB 3104 - Eliminating specific statutory restrictions on outdoor advertisement
HB 3200 - Relating to maintenance and repair of roads and highways
HB 3223 - Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time
HB 3230 - Prohibiting dangerous materials being placed on highways
HB 3242 - Exempting law enforcement and emergency vehicles from paying turnpike tolls
HB 3251 - Exempting school buses with students on board from paying turnpike tolls

Rule Making Authority (27 Bills)
HB 2851 - Relating to sunset provisions of legislative rules
HB 2932 - Protections for Charitable Organizations

Rules (1 Bills)
HB 2617 - An Act to Establish a Cap on Government Red Tape

Safety (3 Bills)
HB 2227 - Prohibiting blasting within 625 feet of an occupied dwelling

Salaries (38 Bills)
HB 2121 - Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan Fair Pay Act of 2020
HB 2565 - Increasing the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price index
HB 2871 - Providing for the compensation of the Cannabis Commissioner
HB 3105 - Increasing salary of Secretary of WV Library Commission

Senior Citizens (2 Bills)
HB 2188 - Establishing reimbursement rates for congregate and in-home meals
HB 3049 - Increase nutrition rates for Senior services
HB 3270 - To exempt the first $35,000 of retirement income for senior citizens in West Virginia who are 60 years and older from state income taxation

State Personnel (99 Bills)
HB 2011 - Eliminating any time requirements for part time personnel to work during a working year
HB 2039 - Expunging records of unsubstantiated complaints made by the Department of Health and Human Resources against teachers
HB 2117 - Providing certain employees of the Highways increases in annual pay
HB 2134 - Providing that state retirees’ insurance benefits be restored to the benefit levels that existed in 2015
HB 2140 - Redirecting excise tax revenue on bottled soft drinks from West Virginia University schools to the Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 2142 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees
HB 2198 - Prohibiting employees of the state who have convictions for driving under the influence from driving or operating state owned vehicle
HB 2224 - Relating to complaints against public agencies to obtain records through the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2235 - Relating to net neutrality for state government
HB 2281 - Modifying the method of calculation of the employer and employee contribution percentages for public employee insurance premiums
HB 2508 - Require all interim appointments to possess the qualifications required by law
HB 2720 - Creating a Merit-Based Personnel System within DOT
HB 2724 - Requesting funding for a raise for State Police
HB 2744 - Provide for a change in compensation for the Board of Public Works beginning July 1, 2021
HB 2834 - Adding the Curator of the West Virginia Division of Arts, Culture and History as an ex officio voting member of the commission
HB 2865 - Create a Police Officer’s Bill of Rights
HB 2948 - Mandating coverage for medical care of State Police officers injured in the line of duty
HB 2956 - Permit licensed food trucks to operate on the State Capitol Complex during periods in which the Capitol Complex Cafeteria is not operational
HB 3027 - End qualified immunity
HB 3055 - To create the “Council on Efficient Government Act”
HB 3105 - Increasing salary of Secretary of WV Library Commission
HB 3109 - Salary increase for teachers and school service personnel
HB 3124 - Permit collective bargaining for public employees
HB 3178 - Suspend state government pay if business is shut down due to a pandemic
HB 3243 - Relating to deputies transferring to another department within the civil service system
HB 3246 - Protecting Everyone’s Constitutional Rights Act
HB 3255 - Creating the Anti-Abuse of Power Act

Taxation (38 Bills)
HB 2001 - Relating generally to creating the West Virginia Jumpstart Savings Program
HB 2027 - Relating to personal income tax reduction
HB 2031 - West Virginia Development Achievements Transparency Act
HB 2042 - Exempting sales of small arms and small arms ammunition from state sales and use taxes
HB 2046 - West Virginia Emergency Responder Service Tax Credit Act
HB 2065 - Allowing low income senior citizens to receive certain tax credits without filing a state income tax return
HB 2081 - Relating to withholding tax on income of nonresidents from natural resources royalty payments
HB 2082 - Changing the persons responsible for the taxes on soft drinks and soft drink syrups
HB 2096 - Reinstating the film investment tax credit
HB 2101 - Reinstating the film tax credits
HB 2108 - Taxation With Representation Act
HB 2115 - Economic Diversification Act of 2021
HB 2123 - Reducing personal income tax rates when personal income tax reduction fund is funded at a certain threshold
HB 2129 - Establishing an industrial water extraction fee
HB 2139 - Permitting residential customers to deduct up to 50 percent of their electric utility payments from their federal adjusted gross income
HB 2140 - Redirecting excise tax revenue on bottled soft drinks from West Virginia University schools to the Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 2146 - Providing a tax credit for families who have foster children
HB 2149 - Allowing a personal income tax deduction for a foster care child
HB 2172 - College Graduate Tax Credit
HB 2178 - Facilitating Business Rapid Response to State Declared Disasters Act of 2021
HB 2181 - Allowing a personal income tax deduction for a stillborn child
HB 2187 - West Virginia Earned Income Tax Credit
HB 2192 - Creating a tax credit for improving facades in historic districts
HB 2196 - Providing a tax credit for families who have foster children
HB 2207 - Save the Hospitals Act
HB 2208 - Exempting social security benefits from personal income tax
HB 2209 - Exempting firefighters and volunteer firefighters from payment of income and real and personal property taxes
HB 2210 - Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax
HB 2211 - Abolishing the Personal Income Tax
HB 2212 - Continuing personal income tax adjustment to gross income of certain retirees receiving pensions from defined pension plans
HB 2214 - Home Instruction Tax Relief Act
HB 2217 - Exempting law-enforcement officers from payment of income and personal property taxes
HB 2238 - Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school
HB 2242 - Relating to special license plates for vehicles titled in the name of the Division of Public Transit
HB 2244 - Relating to a tax rebate for facilities or processes that result in additional employment and an additional demand for electrical power
HB 2254 - Establishing different rates of taxation for tobacco products for certain border counties
HB 2282 - Establishing a tax on the production of natural gas to fund the public employees insurance program
HB 2283 - Creating a healthy living tax credit against the personal income tax
HB 2301 - Repealing the soft drink tax
HB 2341 - Reducing federal adjusted gross income for interest paid on student loans
HB 2348 - Allowing certain deductions to be made from individual personal income tax refunds to the Make-A-Wish Foundation
HB 2353 - Establishing a tax credit for families who suffer the loss of a stillborn child
HB 2355 - Establishing a tax deduction against corporation net income tax for retail food distributors that donate to school “backpack programs”
HB 2358 - Updating meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 2369 - Provide that you can make monthly payments on property taxes
HB 2374 - Requiring payment of taxes on an owned mobile home to renew motor vehicle registration tags
HB 2482 - Clarifying that municipalities may enact ordinances for rates, fees, and charges based upon actual use of services
HB 2493 - Providing valuation limitations for coal property taxation and clarifying the penalties for non-filers
HB 2496 - Relating to assessments of real property
HB 2499 - Tax reduction for arms and ammo manufacturing
HB 2523 - Relating to gasoline and fuel excise tax
HB 2533 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 2540 - Providing tax credits to provide vehicles to certain persons
HB 2547 - Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit
HB 2581 - Providing for the valuation of natural resources property and an alternate method of appeal of proposed valuation of natural resources property
HB 2608 - Relating to property taxes dedicated to volunteer fire departments
HB 2618 - Relating to Good Samaritan Food Donation Act
HB 2622 - College Graduate Tax Credit
HB 2623 - Providing a tax credit to encourage new teachers to remain in the state
HB 2637 - West Virginia Residential Incentive Tax Credit Act
HB 2640 - Establishing a tax credit for businesses who hire, promote and develop women and minorities into executive, professional or administrative roles
HB 2641 - The Young Professional Tax Credits
HB 2644 - West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Business Technology Property Valuation Act and the West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Tax Credit Act
HB 2648 - Authorizing a temporary foreign brewers import license
HB 2649 - Modifying the tax on soft drinks to only cover sugary drinks
HB 2653 - Providing a tax exemption for income from a qualified retirement plan used to pay for long-term care
HB 2667 - To create a cost saving program for state buildings regarding energy efficiency
HB 2669 - Establishing tax credits for lead abatement in child occupied residences
HB 2691 - Tax emption for border cities and counties for gas tax
HB 2710 - Providing counties the power to establish a county sales tax under certain circumstances
HB 2714 - Collecting a tax from manufacturers and distributors of opium and opiate drugs to be used for funding addiction and prevention
HB 2723 - Relating to providing taxpayers a deduction for interest paid on qualified education loans to the extent such amount is not allowable as a deduction when arriving at a taxpayer’s federal adjusted gross income
HB 2735 - Tax credits for living and deceased organ donors
HB 2736 - Provide a sales tax exemption for firearms and firearm ammunition for WV residents
HB 2760 - Relating to economic development incentive tax credits
HB 2772 - Relating generally to transferring the duties of the Purchasing Division to the State Auditor
HB 2777 - Repeal municipal amusement tax
HB 2778 - Create the Education Tax Credit
HB 2780 - Repeal municipal license and tax when state license required
HB 2782 - Repeal domestic animal tax
HB 2794 - To extend the Neighborhood Investment Program Act to July 1, 2026
HB 2799 - Providing EMS workers a retirement benefits tax exemption
HB 2808 - Remove salt from list and definition of “mineral” for severance tax purposes
HB 2810 - Relating to the removal of the severance tax on oil and gas produced from low producing oil and natural gas wells
HB 2819 - Exempting from the sales tax all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles used as farm equipment
HB 2844 - Expanding the Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit
HB 2846 - A bill dedicating 25% of insurance tax revenue to the PEIA Rainy Day Fund
HB 2847 - Add hotel occupancy tax to taxes eligible for PILOT agreements under the Tax Increment Financing Act
HB 2893 - Relating to Economic Opportunity Tax Credit limits
HB 2935 - Limit amount a county tax assessor can increase assessed value of antique or classic cars
HB 2942 - Providing tax credits for hiring those in recovery for substance abuse
HB 2974 - To implement a Property Tax Poverty Exemption - School Excess Levy
HB 2979 - Creating a tax credit for a manufacturer or power generating facility in West Virginia that purchases and uses coal, oil or gas
HB 2984 - To revise the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act to authorize a county commission or municipal levying body to modify the termination times of certain districts
HB 2985 - Relating to instituting suit to set aside a sheriff sale deed to tender to the circuit clerk of the court funds for redemption
HB 2986 - Establishing an alternative method for qualified persons to properties sold by tax sales
HB 2987 - Allowing the purchaser to perform service on one or more persons entitled to notice of redemption from a sheriff sale
HB 2988 - Establishing causes for revocation, cancellation, or suspension of a business registration certificate
HB 2991 - Relating to sheriff’s commission for collection of taxes
HB 3010 - To extend the special valuation method for cellular towers to towers owned by persons not subject to regulation by the Board of Public Works
HB 3013 - Provide a state income tax credit for nurses to encourage recruitment and commitment to the profession in this state
HB 3014 - Relating to limitations on claiming state tax credits and rebates and providing rulemaking authority
HB 3021 - To clarify that incomplete claims for refund are not filed and will not start interest accruing
HB 3039 - Exempting certain hygiene products from sales tax
HB 3057 - Relating to municipal or county taxation of hotel rooms booked through a market facilitator
HB 3065 - Eliminate personal property taxes for certain veterans
HB 3066 - Expand military retirement pay state income tax exemption
HB 3088 - Relating to assessment value of wind turbines
HB 3100 - To make exempt from sales tax the purchase of plastic and pewter models used in hobbies such as tabletop strategy or role playing gaming
HB 3116 - Establish an Earned Income Tax Credit
HB 3117 - Establish technology/remote work tax deduction from state income tax
HB 3137 - To accelerate the conversion of the transfer tax on the privilege of transferring real property from a state excise tax to a county excise tax
HB 3165 - Creating personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters
HB 3179 - Limit property tax increases on certain individuals
HB 3180 - Require all tax assessments be done on a periodic schedule
HB 3194 - Relating to Delinquent Property Tax sales
HB 3213 - Assessing a impact fee on internet sales originating or ending in the state
HB 3214 - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues to the oil and gas producing counties
HB 3216 - Establish an excess compensation tax on the income of corporate executives under certain circumstances
HB 3240 - Establishing an Earned Income Tax Credit
HB 3260 - To extend the Neighborhood Investment Program Act to July 1, 2026 and to increase the allowable tax credit
HB 3267 - Relating to inventory tax reduction
HB 3270 - To exempt the first $35,000 of retirement income for senior citizens in West Virginia who are 60 years and older from state income taxation
HB 3283 - Amending the Hotel Motel Tax

Unemployment Compensation (1 Bills)
HB 2530 - Clarifying the definition of an employee for the purposes of unemployment compensation and workers' compensation
HB 2743 - Related to the Unemployment Insurance Program Integrity Act and enacting the unemployment compensation indexing system
HB 2924 - Relating to unemployment compensation

Uniform Laws (17 Bills)
HB 3011 - Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act

Utilities (1 Bills)
HB 2100 - Relating to payment for the construction of any expanded or upgraded public service district facilities in certain circumstances
HB 2249 - Permitting customers and developers to enter into solar power purchase agreements
HB 2329 - Relating to net metering
HB 2330 - Relating to the Public Service Commission
HB 2884 - To make changes to the FOIA law to protect public utility customer databases from disclosure, with exceptions
HB 2926 - Relating to the Disconnection of Residential Utility during a State of Emergency
HB 3107 - Declaring that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist is a compensable occupational disease for first responders
HB 3122 - Relating to the establishment and operation of regional water, wastewater and stormwater authorities
HB 3127 - Relating to Public Utilities Audit
HB 3152 - Exempt interest payments on deposits held less than 18 months
HB 3162 - Permitting third-party ownership of renewable and alternative energy generating facilities
HB 3231 - Public Utilities not required to pay interest on security deposits
HB 3268 - To require independent, third party audits every 3 years of all public utilities in West Virginia who have over 2,000 customers

Workers Compensation (117 Bills)
HB 2051 - Allowing workers’ compensation benefits for first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder
HB 2052 - Relating to occupational pneumoconiosis claims
HB 2292 - Including three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters
HB 2327 - Repealing the law which makes prime contractors liable for the failure of subcontractors to make proper payments for workers’ compensation
HB 2681 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to transfer moneys from the Insurance Commission Fund into the Workers’ Compensation Old Fund to reduce any deficit balance of the Old Fund
HB 2861 - Relating to medical evaluation reports for workers compensation
HB 3044 - Expanding types of cancers as rebuttable presumption for injuries, diseases for professional firefighters
HB 3045 - Relating to firefighter disability claims
HB 3085 - Consolidating positions of Inspector General of Workers' Compensation Commission’s Fraud and Abuse Unit and the position of Director of the Insurance Fraud Unit
HB 3184 - Including workers’ compensation providers in the insurance prior authorization process
HB 3218 - Remove “deliberate intent” exception from workers' comp
HB 3277 - To amend the existing health insurance clean claims law to include workers' compensation providers

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