Member's Press Release
Release Date: 02/04/2019
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999
Senate
Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Monday, February 4, 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019 – 27th Day of Session
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 100: Increasing court fees to fund law-enforcement standards training and expenses
- Eng. SB 324: Relating to Commissioner of Agriculture employees (original similar to HB 2528, HB 2624)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 357: Relating generally to Division of Administrative Services
- Eng. SB 358: Exempting Purchasing Division purchases for equipment to maintain security at state facilities (original similar to HB 2695)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 361: Relating to Public Defender Services
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 369: Relating to generic drug products (original similar to HB 2811)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 373: Relating to financial responsibility of inmates (original similar to HB 2764)
- Eng. SB 377: Relating to minimum wage and maximum hour standards
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 389: Allowing developmentally disabled person purchase base hunting license (original similar to HB 2791)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 398: Relating to compensation for senior judges
- Eng. SB 399: Relating to compensation for senior magistrates
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 451: Comprehensive education reform
SECOND READING
- Eng. HB 2462: Issuing a certificate to correctional employees to carry firearms - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 154: Using school facilities for funeral and memorial services for certain community members
- Com. Sub. for SB 157: Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 2231)
- Com. Sub. for SB 175: Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 2243)
- SB 267: Requiring State Board of Education adopt policy detailing level of computer science instruction (original similar to HB 2415)
- SB 343: Relating to review and approval of state property leases (original similar to HB 2601)
- Com. Sub. for SB 387: Relating generally to extradition (original similar to HB 2757)
- Com. Sub. for SB 392: Relating to payment of invoices received by Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation for contract work
Scheduled Committee Meetings
1 p.m.: Natural Resources (208W)
- SB 402: Authorizing Division of Forestry investigate and enforce timber theft violations
- SB 404: Altering sediment control during commercial timber harvesting operations
- SB 416: Permitting resident landowner hunt and kill bears located on landowners' property through use of bait
- SB 279: Authorizing lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for foster or adoptive children
- SB 305: Prohibiting waste of big game animals
2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)
- SB 74: Exempting nonpaid volunteers at ski areas from workers' compensation benefits
- SB 340: Repealing obsolete provisions of WV Medical Professional Liability Insurance Joint Underwriting Association
- SB 407: Relating to abandonment and indication of ownership in property held by financial institution
- SB 453: Relating to background checks of certain financial institutions
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- SB 237: Improving ability of law enforcement to locate and return missing persons
- SB 261: Relating to number of magistrates serving each county
- SB 356: Authorizing Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to release certain information to county prosecutors and US Attorney
- SB 317: Authorizing three or more adjacent counties form multicounty trail network authority
- SJR 5: Clarification of the Judiciary's Role in Impeachment Proceedings Amendment
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
Senate Bills to be Introduced Monday, February 4, 2019
- SB 512: Regulating pawnbrokers (Jeffries, Weld; Judiciary)
- SB 513: Requiring completion of personal finance class to graduate high school (FN) (Cline; Education)
- SB 514: Relating to victims of domestic violence (Sypolt; Judiciary)
- SB 515: Requiring licensed program provide specific services to domestic violence victims (Sypolt; Judiciary)
- SB 516: Relating to attorney fees in subsidized adoptions (Boso; Judiciary)
- SB 517: Allowing owner or lessee sell crop damage permit (Sypolt; Natural Resources)
- SB 518: Restricting sale and trade of dextromethorphan (Maroney, Plymale, Stollings, Tarr; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
- SB 519: Requiring county emergency dispatchers complete course for telephonic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (FN) (Maroney, Plymale, Stollings; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
- SB 520: Requiring entities report drug overdoses (Maroney, Plymale, Stollings, Tarr; Health and Human Resources)
- SCR 22: Urging Congress call convention for purpose of proposing amendment restoring free and fair elections (Beach, Baldwin, Clements, Cline, Maynard, Plymale, Rucker, Smith, Woelfel)
- SCR 23: Jeffrey Alan Clovis Memorial Bridge (Beach)
- SCR 24: Hazel Dickens Memorial Bridge (Swope)
* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note
* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill
Committee Action on Bills from Friday, February 1, 2019
9:30 a.m.: Judiciary
- SB 127: Relating to parole officers' duties to perform alcohol and drug testing of litigants
- Committee Substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 261: Relating to number of magistrates serving each county
- Bill has been laid over
- SB 163: DEP rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
- Committee Substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- SB 167: DEP rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards
- Committee Substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 1, 2019 (48 Senate; 1 House)
- SB 1: Increasing access to career education and workforce training (House Education)
- SB 3: Establishing WV Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 4: Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program (Pending House introduction)
- SB 10: Relating to Second Chance Driver's License Program (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 17: Relating to probation eligibility (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 18: Relating to crimes committed on State Capitol Complex (House Judiciary)
- SB 24: Relating generally to local boards of health (House Political Subdivisions)
- SB 27: Removing restrictions on where certain traditional lottery games may be played (Pending Senate concurrence)
- SB 28: Removing hotel occupancy tax limit collects for medical care and emergency services (Pending Senate concurrence; Senate refers to Rules for further consideration)
- SB 36: Allowing adjustment of gross income for calculating personal income liability for certain retirees (House Pensions and Retirement)
- SB 55: Relating to driving privileges and requirements for persons under 18 (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 61: Adding certain crimes for which prosecutor may apply for wiretap (House Judiciary)
- SB 62: Requiring participation in drug court program before discharge of certain first-time drug offenses (House Judiciary)
- SB 63: Relating to partial filling of prescriptions (House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse)
- SB 72: Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights (House Judiciary)
- SB 101: Equalizing penalties for intimidating and retaliating against certain public officers and other persons (House Judiciary)
- SB 102: Relating generally to powers and authority of courthouse security officers (Pending House introduction)
- SB 103: Relating generally to Public Defender Services (Pending House introduction)
- SB 106: Alleviating double taxation on foreign income at state level (House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development)
- SB 119: Specifying documents not subject to discovery in certain proceedings (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 124: Creating felony offense for actions of cruelty to animals which causes serious injury or death of animal (House Judiciary)
- SB 149: Exempting certain veterans from concealed weapons license fees (House Judiciary)
- SB 152: Relating generally to criminal offense expungement (House Judiciary)
- SB 177: Fire Commission rule relating to State Building Code (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 187: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules (House Finance)
- SB 190: DOH rule relating to employment procedures (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SB 199: Authorizing certain miscellaneous agencies and boards promulgate legislative rules (House Government Organization)
- SB 223: Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules (House Energy)
- SB 233: Relating to age requirements for deputy sheriff (Pending House introduction)
- SB 236: Providing notice of eligibility to persons to vote after completion of punishment or pardon (House Judiciary)
- SB 240: Repealing certain legislative rules no longer authorized or are obsolete (House Judiciary)
- SB 241: Permitting county court clerks scan certain documents in electronic form (House Political Subdivisions)
- SB 243: Requiring racetrack participate in WV Thoroughbred Development Fund (House Finance)
- SB 253: Protecting consumers from automatic purchase renewal and continuous service offers (House Judiciary)
- SB 255: Relating to Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 256: Allowing certain deductions from individual personal income tax refunds (House Finance)
- SB 258: Establishing common law "veil piercing" claims not be used to impose personal liability (House Judiciary)
- SB 264: Requiring courts to order restitution to crime victims where economically practicable (Pending House introduction)
- SB 268: Updating meaning of federal taxable income in WV Corporation Net Income Tax Act (H Second Reading, 02-04-19)
- SB 269: Updating terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act (H Second Reading, 02-04-19)
- SB 270: Streamlining process for utilities access to DOH rights-of-way (Pending House introduction)
- SB 272: Updating code relating to Commission on Special Investigations (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 297: Extending expiration of military members' spouses' driver's license (Pending House introduction)
- SB 331: Using leashed dogs to track mortally wounded deer or bear (Pending House introduction)
- SB 332: Relating to Class Q special hunting permit for disabled persons (Pending House introduction)
- SB 354: Expiring funds to balance of Auditor's Office - Chief Inspector's Fund (House Finance)
- SB 390: Requiring electric utilities submit feasibility studies of constructing and operating middle-mile broadband internet projects (Pending House introduction)
- Eng. HB 2351: Relating to regulating prior authorizations (Pending House concurrence)
Resolutions that have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 1, 2019 (4)
- SCR 4: US Marine Corps Lt. Col. Dennis Ray Blankenship Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 9: US Army PFC Winten L. Wayts Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 11: Urging Congress pass fully funded long-term surface transportation and infrastructure measures (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 12: US Army CPL Lee Roy Young Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
Bills and Resolutions that have Completed Legislation as of Friday, February 1, 2019 (5)
- SB 17: Relating to probation eligibility (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 119: Specifying documents not subject to discovery in certain proceedings (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 177: Fire Commission rule relating to State Building Code (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 255: Relating to Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
- SB 272: Updating code relating to Commission on Special Investigations (Completed; Awaiting action by Governor)
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