Member's Press Release
Release Date: 01/22/2020
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999
Senate
Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Thursday, January 23, 2020
Thursday, January 23, 2020 – 16th Day of Session
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- SCR 3: US Army MSG Richard A. "Dick" Smoot Memorial Bridge
- SCR 8: US Army 1st Lieutenant Harold H. Frazier Memorial Bridge
- SR 12: Designating January 23, 2020, as Human Resources Day
THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 192: Relating to WV Secondary School Activities Commission audits
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 297: Requiring Board of Education create home economics course
SECOND READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 144: Creating misdemeanor penalty for making materially false statement in course of misdemeanor investigation
- Com. Sub. for SB 311: Relating to court-ordered community service
- SB 321: Relating to collection of tax and priority of distribution of estate or property in receivership
FIRST READING
- SB 8: Exempting certain armed forces veterans from payment of fees for license to carry deadly weapon
- SB 114: Providing continued eligibility for developmental disability services to dependents of military members
- SB 289: Creating Green Alert Plan
- Com. Sub. for SB 303: Enacting Students' Right to Know Act
- Com. Sub. for SB 357: Authorizing Department of Revenue promulgate legislative rules
- Com. Sub. for SB 364: Authorizing Department of Transportation promulgate legislative rules
- SB 468: Relating to eligibility for license or permit application
- Com. Sub. for SB 470: Relating to use of crossbow to hunt
- Com. Sub. for SB 487: Providing exception that all DNR payments be deposited within 24 hours
- Com. Sub. for SB 500: Relating to Class Y special crossbow hunting permit
- Com. Sub. for SB 501: Adding protection, operation of North Bend Rail Trail, Greenbrier River Trail, and Elk River Trail to Parks and Recreation Section of DNR
- SB 509: Relating to custodial allocation actions independent of divorce
Scheduled Committee Meetings
10 a.m.: Select Committee on Children and Families (208W)
- Com. Sub. for SB 230: Requiring State Board of Education provide instruction to personnel on student suicide prevention
- Com. Sub. SB 236: Relating to online privacy protection of children
1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)
- Originating Bill: Requiring notice to downstream water systems of a pollutant discharge
1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)
- SB 269: Establishing advisory council on rare diseases
- SB 291: Requiring PEIA and health insurance providers provide mental health parity
- HB 4103: Relating to office of drug control policy
- HB 4007: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
- SB 560: Permitting nursing home use trained individuals administer medication
2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- HB 2696: Creating an additional index system for state-owned lands
- HB 4020: Removing authority of municipalities to require occupational licensure if licensure for the occupation is required by the state
- HB 4130: Relating to competitive bidding for government construction contracts arising out of declared states of emergency
- SB 209: Repealing annexation by minor boundary adjustment
- SB 175: Requiring certain agencies maintain website which contains specific information
2 p.m.: Education (451M)
- SB 241: Requiring State Board of Education develop method for student transportation costs as stand-alone consideration
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- SB 136: Prohibiting certain misleading lawsuit advertising practices
- SB 261: Creating criminal penalties for introducing ransomware into computer with intent to extort
- Originating Bill: Relating to correcting an incorrect code citation
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
- Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Veteran's Affairs
Senate Bills to be Introduced Thursday, January 23, 2020
- SB 598: Creating WV Mutual to Mutual Insurance Holding Company Act (Azinger)
- SB 599: Clarifying when claimant may file cause of action without screening certificate of merit (Azinger)
- SB 600: Creating special revenue account designated Military Authority Fund (Weld)
- SB 601: Adding reporting requirements to financial disclosures (Prezioso, Baldwin, Ihlenfeld, Jeffries, Lindsay, Palumbo, Romano, Stollings, Woelfel)
- SB 602: Relating to judicial branch members' salaries and pensions (Trump)
- SB 603: Relating to prohibition on short-term duration health insurance (Prezioso, Baldwin, Beach, Ihlenfeld, Jeffries, Lindsay, Plymale, Romano, Stollings)
- SB 604: Creating cabinet position of State Surgeon General (Prezioso)
- SB 605: Redefining definition of 'life-prolonging intervention' (Tarr, Azinger, Boley, Clements, Cline, Hamilton, Maynard, Roberts, Smith, Swope, Sypolt)
- SB 606: Relating to relative placement for foster care and guardianship (Trump)
- SCR 9: US Army SSG Nick P. Markos Memorial Bridge (Weld)
- SR 13: Designating January 24, 2020, as Women's and Girls' Day (Palumbo)
- SR 14: Designating January 24, 2020, as Corrections Day (Clements, Azinger, Beach, Boley, Cline, Facemire, Hamilton, Hardesty, Ihlenfeld, Mann, Maroney, Maynard, Palumbo, Pitsenbarger, Prezioso, Roberts, Smith, Swope, Sypolt, Takubo, Tarr, Weld, Woelfel)
- SR 15: Recognizing contributions of American Civil Liberties Union on its centennial anniversary (Lindsay)
* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note
* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill
Committee Action on Bills from Wednesday, January 22, 2020
1 p.m.: Economic Development (208W)
- SB 260: Collecting of personal information by retail establishments for certain purposes
- Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Finance
- SB 521: Creating Tax and Economic Incentives Review Committee
- Bill is laid over to a future committee meeting
- SB 505: Relating to urban renewal acquisition of property
- Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Government Organization
- SB 510: Making permanent land reuse agency or municipal land bank's right of first refusal on certain tax sale properties
- Bill is laid over to a future committee meeting
2 p.m. Agriculture (208W)
- Com. Sub. for SB 142: Expanding Coyote Control Program through voluntary assessment on breeding cows
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Finance
- Com. Sub. for SB 490: Relating to protection of animal and crop facilities
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Judiciary
- SB 491: Relating to Seed Certification Program
- Committee substitute reported to full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Government Organization
2 p.m.: Pensions (451M)
- SB 186: Relating to certain pension benefits exempt from state taxation
- Bill is laid over to a future committee meeting
- SB 319: Exempting moneys in WV EMS Retirement Fund from state or municipal tax
- Bill is laid over to a future committee meeting
- SB 523: Extending deadline for municipalities to offer Social Security coverage to certain municipal retirement system members
- Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
- SB 532: Distributing assets remaining in municipal policemen's or firemen's pension and relief fund on death of last retiree or beneficiary
- Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- SB 51: Specifying forms of grandparent visitation
- Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
- SB 191: Creating felony offense of aggravated cruelty to animals
- Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
- SB 522: Relating to compensation awards to crime victims
- Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Finance
- SB 529: Establishing limitations on claims and benefits against state
- Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Wednesday, January 22, 2020 (15)
- SB 16: Creating Protect Our Right to Unite Act (House Judiciary)
- SB 35: Limiting civil penalty for littering conviction to $2,000 (House Judiciary)
- SB 42: Permitting faith-based electives in classroom drug prevention programs (House Education)
- SB 46: Defining "pepper spray" and exempting from definition of "deadly weapons" (House Judiciary)
- SB 94: Providing persons with physical disabilities ability to vote by electronic absentee ballot (Second Reading, 01-23)
- SB 125: Prohibiting victim from being subjected to certain physical examinations for sexual offenses (House Judiciary)
- SB 140: Changing rate at which certain judges are paid for mileage when traveling within state (House Finance)
- SB 170: Alleviating double taxation on foreign income at state level (House Finance)
- SB 207: Creating Prosecuting Attorney's Detectives Act (House Judiciary)
- SB 217: Requiring DHHR collaborate with Workforce Development Board and WV Division of Personnel for job placement (House Health and Human Resources)
- SB 225: Empowering municipalities to enact Adopt-A-Street programs (House Government Organization)
- SB 307: Correcting code citation relating to certain tax liens (Pending House introduction)
- SB 310: Updating certain terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act (House Finance)
- SB 322: Relating to prequalifications for state contract vendors (Pending House introduction)
- SB 323: Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
Resolutions Adopted by the Senate as of Wednesday, January 22, 2020 (3)
- SCR 1: Designating dogs adopted from animal shelters and rescues as WV official state dog (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
- SCR 2: Requesting Frederick County, Virginia, consider becoming part of State of West Virginia (House Rules)
- SCR 4: Urging Congress call convention to propose amendment on congressional term limits (Pending House introduction)
Committee times and agendas are subject to change. Follow @WVSenClerk on Twitter for updates.
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