Member's Press Release
Release Date: 03/06/2019
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999
Senate
Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 – 57th Day of Session
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
RESOLUTIONS
- SR 69: Congratulating George Washington High School Patriots boys' basketball team on winning 2018 Class AAA state championship
- SR 70: Congratulating George Washington High School Patriots boys' swim team for winning 2018 State Championship
- SR 71: Congratulating George Washington High School Patriots boys' soccer team for winning 2018 Class AAA State Championship
- SR 72: Congratulating George Washington High School Patriots golf team for winning 2019 Class AAA State Championship
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- Com. Sub. for SCR 26: Thompson-Lambert Memorial Bridge
- Com. Sub. for SCR 45: US Army Corporal T-5 Albert John "Engine" Arco Memorial Bridge
- Com. Sub. for HCR 11: U. S. Army Command Sergeant Major Timothy Allen Bolyard Memorial Bridge
- Com. Sub. for HCR 26: George” Roush Memorial Bridge - (Com. amend. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HCR 32: Requesting the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to authorize raising highway speed limits, where appropriate, to 75 miles per hour on Interstate highways in West Virginia and to 70 miles per hour on West Virginia's Appalachian Corridor highways - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
- HCR 44: U. S. Marine Corps PFC Randall Carl Phelps Memorial Bridge
- HCR 48: Urging the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health to designate Alzheimer's disease and other dementias as a public health issue
THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 150: Budget Bill
- Eng. HB 2009: Creating a new category of Innovation in Education grant program
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2020: Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2083: Providing an identification card for released inmates who do not have a West Virginia identification card or driver’s license - (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 2515: Exempting the sale and installation of mobility enhancing equipment from the sales and use tax
- Eng. HB 2530: Creating a voluntary certification for recovery residences - (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2550: Creating a matching program for the Small Business Innovation and Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (original similar to SB602)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2617: Relating to the form for making offer of optional uninsured and underinsured coverage by insurers - (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 2647: Self Storage Limited License Act - (Com. title amend. pending)
SECOND READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2001: Relating to exempting social security benefits from personal income tax - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2363: Relating to the Upper Kanawha Valley Resiliency and Revitalization Program - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2420: Establishing the Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Authority - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2452: Creating the West Virginia Cybersecurity Office
- Eng. HB 2480: Relating to the regulation of an internationally active insurance group (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2579: Relating to the collection of tax and the priority of distribution of an estate or property in receivership (original similar to SB 406)
- Eng. HB 2667: Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, Division of Corrections
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2703: Relating to refunds of excise taxes collected from dealers of petroleum products - (Com. amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 2853: Establishing the West Virginia Program for Open Education Resources
- Eng. HB 2954: Defining certain terms used in insurance - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to SB 591)
- Eng. HB 2992: Relating to governmental websites - (Com. amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 3135: Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Commerce, Development Office - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 3144: North Central Appalachian Coal Severance Tax Rebate Act - (Com. amend. pending)
FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for HB 2004: Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
- HB 2209: Allowing military veterans who meet certain qualifications to qualify for examination for license as an emergency medical technician
- Com. Sub. for HB 2378: Relating generally to grounds for revocation of a teaching certificate - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2396: West Virginia Fresh Food Act - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- HB 2412: Relating to criminal acts concerning government procurement of commodities and services - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2422: Relating to the time for the observation of “Celebrate Freedom Week”
- Com. Sub. for HB 2524: Permitting a pharmacist to convert prescriptions authorizing refills under certain circumstances - (Com. amends. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2541: Requiring certain safety measures be taken at public schools - (Com. amends. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2601: Relating to the review and approval of state property leases
- Com. Sub. for HB 2661: Relating to natural gas utilities
- Com. Sub. for HB 2662: Relating to certificates or employment of school personnel - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2715: Relating to Class Q special hunting permit for disabled persons
- HB 2716: Relating to vessel lighting and equipment requirements
- HB 2739: Relating to contributions on behalf of employees to a retirement plan administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board
- Com. Sub. for HB 2768: Reducing the use of certain prescription drugs - (Com. amend. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2809: Relating to prohibited acts and penalties in the Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area
- HB 2816: Removing the terms “hearing impaired,” “hearing impairment,” and “deaf mute” from the West Virginia Code and substituting terms
- Com. Sub. for HB 2831: Finding and declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state - (Com. amends. pending)
- HB 2846: Designating a “Back the Blue” plate in support of law-enforcement personnel - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2849: Establishing different classes of pharmacy technicians - (Com. amends. pending)
- HB 2850: Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license
- HB 2926: Requiring the Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study the housing needs of veterans
- HB 2934: West Virginia Lottery Interactive Wagering Act - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2982: Amending and updating the laws relating to auctioneers - (Com. amends. pending) (original similar to SB 619)
- Com. Sub. for HB 3016: Relating to the State Aeronautics Commission
- Com. Sub. for HB 3057: Relating to the Adult Drug Court Participation Fund
- HB 3132: Relating to exempting providers that serve no more than 30 patients with office-based medication-assisted treatment
- HB 3141: Requiring capitol building commission authorization for certain renovations - (Com. amend. pending)
Scheduled Committee Meetings
9 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)
- Concurrent Resolutions (bridge and road naming)
10 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- HB 3020: Relating to sole source contracts for goods and services with nonprofit corporations affiliated with the respective education institutions
- HB 2856: Relating to the administration of the operating fund of the securities division of the Auditor’s office
- SCR 1: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study the state’s appraisal laws as they relate to Broker Price Opinions, Inspections, and evaluations and how they compare to other states’ laws
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- HB 2014: West Virginia Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets Act
- HB 2049: Relating to a prime contractor’s responsibility for wages and benefits
- HB 2164: Clarifying that appeals to the Supreme Court are a matter of right
- HB 2229: Adding violations of law upon which a public servant’s retirement plan may be forfeited
- HB 2365: Clarifying the definition of an employee for the purposes of unemployment compensation and workers’ compensation
- HB 2474: Relating to a reserving methodology for health insurance and annuity contracts
- HB 2479: Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Act
- HB 2618: Including undue influence as a factor in the definition of financial exploitation of an elderly person or protected person
- HB 2670: Relating to damages for medical monitoring
- HB 2709: Relating to hunting licenses
- HB 2779: Providing that proceeds from certain oil and gas wells to persons whose name or address are unknown are to be kept in a special fund
- HB 2866: Relating to the termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases
- HB 2933: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse resulting in injury
- HB 2968: Adding remote service unit to the definition of customer bank communications terminals
- HB 2392: Allowing the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to issue special one-day licenses for charitable events
- HB 2079: Removing certain limitations on medical cannabis grower, processor and dispensary licenses
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- Com. Sub. for HB 2673: Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund
- Com. Sub. for HB 2807: Creating an additional modification to the West Virginia adjusted gross income of shareholders of S corporations engaged in banking
- HB 3142: Relating to reducing the severance tax on thermal or steam coal
Committee Action on Bills from Tuesday, March 5, 2019
9 a.m.: Natural Resources (208W)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2540: Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2715: Relating to Class Q special hunting permit for disabled persons
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass; second reference to Health and Human Resources (second reference dispensed)
- HB 2716: Relating to vessel lighting and equipment requirements
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Originating Resolution: Requiring purchasers of roundwood to collect and maintain certain information
- Originating resolution reported to full Senate with recommendation it be adopted
9:30 a.m.: Agriculture and Rural Development(208W)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2396: West Virginia Fresh Food Act
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
10 a.m.: Military (208W)
- Eng. HB 2209: Allowing military veterans who meet certain qualifications to qualify for examination for license as an emergency medical technician
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2330: Allowing honorably discharged veterans who possess certain military ratings to qualify to take an examination for licensing as a plumber, electrician, and sprinkler fitter
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Eng. HB 2926: Requiring the Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study the housing needs of veterans
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
10 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)
- HB 2846: Designating a "Back the Blue" plate in support of law enforcement personnel
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2850: Relating to qualifications for commercial driver's license
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 3044: Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds
- Bill is laid over
- SCR 26: Thompson-Lambert Memorial Bridge; SCR 45: Army Corporal T-5 Albert John "Engine" Arco Memorial Bridge
- Committee substitute for resolutions reported to full Senate with recommendation they be adopted
- Com. Sub. for HCR 11: U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Timothy Allen Bolyard Memorial Bridge; HCR 44: U.S. Marine Corps PFC Randall Carl Phelps Memorial Bridge
- Committee substitute for resolutions reported to full Senate with recommendation they be adopted
- Com. Sub. for HCR 32: Requesting the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to authorize raising highway speed limits, where appropriate, to 75 miles per hour on Interstate highways in West Virginia and to 70 miles per hour on West Virginia's Appalachian Corridor highways
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it be adopted
1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)
- HB 2661: Relating to natural gas utilities
- Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2802: Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
- Bill not taken up
- HB 2834: Updating and modernizing the minimum spacing provisions for the drilling of horizontal deep wells
- Bill not taken up
1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)
- HCR 48: Urging the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health to designate Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias as a public health issue
- Resolution reported to full Senate with recommendation it be adopted
- SCR 41: Requesting study creating paid family and medical leave insurance program
- Resolution reported to full Senate with recommendation it be adopted; committee moves to request resolution be referred to Rules Committee
- HB 3132: Relating to exempting providers that serve no more than 30 patients with office-based medication-assisted treatment
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2768: Reducing the use of certain prescription drugs
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2524: Permitting a pharmacist to convert prescriptions authorizing refills under certain circumstances
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2849: Establishing different classes of pharmacy technicians
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2816: Removing the terms “hearing impaired,” “hearing impairment,” and “deaf mute” from the West Virginia Code and substituting terms
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2674: Creating a student loan repayment program for a mental health provider
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- HB 3024: West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2739: Relating to contributions on behalf of employees to a retirement plan administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance
- HB 2363: Relating to the Upper Kanawha Valley Resiliency and Revitalization Program
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 3141: Requiring capitol building commission authorization for certain renovations
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 3016: Relating to the State Aeronautics Commission
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2601: Relating to the review and approval of state property leases
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2982: Amending and updating the laws relating to auctioneers
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 3020: Relating to sole source contracts for goods and services with nonprofit corporations affiliated with the respective education institutions
- Bill is laid over
- HB 2856: Relating to the administration of the operating fund of the securities division of the Auditor’s office
- Bill is laid over
2 p.m.: Education (451M)
- HB 2378: Relating generally to grounds for revocation of a teaching certificate
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2662: Relating to certificates or employment of school personnel
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2422: Relating to the time for the observation of Celebrate Freedom Week
- Bill to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2541: Requiring certain safety measures be taken at public schools
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2004: Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Originating Resolution 1: Higher education study resolution
- Originating resolution reported to full Senate with recommendation it be adopted; committee moves to request resolution be referred to Rules Committee
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- HB 2190: Modifying bail requirements
- Committee reconsidered motions; bill is laid over
- HB 2486: Using records of criminal conviction to disqualify a person from receiving a license for a profession or occupation
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2503: Relating to court actions
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2694: Relating to the state’s ability to regulate hemp
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2761: Modernizing the self-service storage lien law
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2837: Relating to the licensing of advance deposit wagering
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2934: West Virginia Lottery Interactive Wagering Act
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 3057: Relating to the Adult Drug Court Participation Fund
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 3143: Relating to requirements for consumer loans in West Virginia
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2519: The Campus Self Defense Act
- Motion to report bill to full Senate failed
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- HB 2828: Relating to Qualified Opportunity Zones
- Bill reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Com. Sub. for HB 2831: Finding and declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- HB 2853: Establishing the West Virginia Program for Open Education Resources
- Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
- Com. Sub. for HB 2010: Relating to foster care
- Committee substitute reported as amended to full Senate with recommendation it do pass
Senate Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (224)
Bills Rejected by the Senate as of Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (2)
- SB 464: Modifying licensing requirements for telemedicine and surgery or podiatry
- SB 618: Relating to effect on levy rate when appraisal results in tax increase
Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (23 S; 1 H)
- SCR 4: US Marine Corps Lt. Col. Dennis Ray Blankenship Memorial Road (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 5: Home of Coach Bob Bolen Mountain State University 2004 NAIA Champions sign (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 6: US Army SP4 Darrell Gregory Triplett Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 7: Urging Congress provide exceptions to weight limits on interstate (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 9: US Army PFC Winten L. Wayts Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- 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 Rules Committee)
- SCR 16: US Army SP4 Wilbur Allen Smith Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 17: Sardis District Veterans Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 20: US Air Force SSGT Ryan David Hammond Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 23: Jeffrey Alan Clovis Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 24: Hazel Dickens Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 25: US Army PFC Andrew "Bo" Martin Harper Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 27: Requesting study supply or shortage of drivers with CDLs (House Technology and Infrastructure)
- SCR 28: US Army SP5 James Henry Caruthers Memorial Road (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 34: US Army SPC Julian Lee Berisford Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 35: Designating days for displaying Honor and Remember Flag at WV Veterans Memorial (Adopted 03-01-19)
- SCR 36: US Army CPL Cory M. Hewitt Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 38: Urging CSX support New River Train (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 39: Requesting creation of Joint Select Committee on Requirements Governing Water Quality Standards (House Judiciary)
- SCR 40: US Army CPL Roy E. Clark Memorial Bridge (House Rules Committee)
- SCR 48: Requesting study of eliminating use of subminimum wage for people with intellectual, developmental, or other disabilities (Judiciary)
- SJR 5: Clarification of the Judiciary's Role in Impeachment Proceedings Amendment (House Finance)
- HCR 19: U.S. Marine Sgt. Stephen E. Drummond Memorial Bridge (Adopted 02-28-19)
Bills and Resolutions that Completed Legislation as of Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (98 – 51 S; 47 H)
Senate and House Resolutions Adopted as of Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (1 S; 1 H)
- HCR 19: U.S. Marine Sgt. Stephen E. Drummond Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-28-19)
- SCR 35: Designating days for displaying Honor and Remember Flag at WV Veterans Memorial (Adopted 03-01-19)
Bills that Have Been Signed by the Governor as of Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (29)
Bills that Have Been Vetoed by the Governor as of Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (1)
- SB 61: Adding certain crimes for which prosecutor may apply for wiretap (Vetoed 03-01-19; Amended and repassed 03-05-19)
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