Release Date: 02/03/2020
Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999

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Senate

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 – 28th Day of Session

 

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

• SCR 18: William "Bill" Thurman King Memorial Bridge
• SR 28: Designating February 4, 2020, as WV Homeschool Day
• SR 29: Designating February 4, 2020, as WV Alzheimer's Association Day

 

THIRD READING

 

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 240: Requiring hotels and restaurants secure manhole covers of certain grease traps
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 267: Creating offenses of conversion of leased or rented personal property
• Eng. SB 510: Making permanent land reuse agency or municipal land bank's right of first refusal on certain tax sale properties
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 511: Regulating pawnbrokers
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SJR 7: Preserving the Separation of Powers Amendment
• Eng. HB 4496: Removing the specific mandate of the Board of Risk and Insurance Management to purchase liability insurance for the Division of Corrections

 

SECOND READING

 

• Com. Sub. for SB 190: Modifying requirement that racetrack participate in WV Thoroughbred Development Fund by certain date
• SB 300: Updating certain terms in WV Corporation Net Income Tax Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 308: Creating criminal penalties for violation of orders issued for protection of victims of financial exploitation
• Com. Sub. for SB 316: Relating to oil and gas conservation commission membership
• Com. Sub. for SB 544: Authorizing pharmacists and pharmacy interns administer vaccines
• Com. Sub. for SB 551: Relating to Water and Wastewater Investment and Infrastructure Improvement Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 560: Permitting nursing home use trained individuals administer medication
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4042: Requiring agencies exempt from some or all of state purchasing requirements to adopt procedural rules
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4091: Allowing for expedited oil and gas well permitting upon payment of applicable expedited fees
• Eng. HB 4393: Relating to making suffocation and asphyxiation crimes - (Com. title amend. pending)

 

FIRST READING

 

• SB 482: Eliminating permit requirement for storing concealed handgun in vehicle on school property for persons over 21
• SB 620: Authorizing Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation approve home plans for inmates
• Com. Sub. for SB 625: Creating one-day annual license to permit charitable auction of sealed rare, antique, or vintage liquor bottles
• Com. Sub. for SB 629: Clarifying alcohol by volume percentage for certain wines

 

Scheduled Committee Meetings

 

9:30 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)

• SB 180: Relating to Second Chance Driver's License Program
• SB 266: Clarifying and updating language regarding Fairmont State Alumni license plates
• SB 589: Relating to critical needs in state water and sewer systems
• Com. Sub. for SB 607: Reporting motor vehicle crashes to owners
• SB 618: Conforming WV law to federal distance requirements for locations of salvage yards
• Com. Sub. for SB 619: Relating to motor fuel excise tax

 

10 a.m.: Military (208W)

• SB 600: Creating special revenue account designated Military Authority Fund
• HB 2338: Allowing the owner of an antique military vehicle to display alternate registration insignia
• HB 4030: Increasing limit for application for original appointment as a firefighter to 40 years of age for honorably discharged veterans

 

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)

• Agenda TBA

 

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

• SB 575: Designating local faire department as safe-surrender site to accept physical custody of certain children from lawful custodian
• HB 4419: Relating to the Controlled Substance Monitoring Database
• HB 4058: Relating to pharmacy benefit manager
• SB 605: Refining definition of ‘life-prolonging intervention’
• HB 4062: Reducing the cost of prescription drugs

 

2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)

• SB 657: Allowing designation of tourism development districts
• SB 202: Allowing one member of PSD board to be county commissioner
• SB 576: Relating to management of public records
• SB 616: Relating to employment grievance procedure for public employees
• SB 676: Permitting fees from Child Abuse Registry be used for information technology support costs
• HB 4026: Exempting businesses transporting scrap tires, waste tires, or other used tires, from certain statutory provisions

 

2 p.m.: Education (451M)

• SB 652: Authorizing School Building Authority promulgate legislative rules
• SB 131: Creating Tim Tebow Act

 

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• SB 96: Prohibiting municipalities from limiting persons' rights to possess certain weapons
• SB 97: Allowing senior judge to continue receiving per diem compensation beyond annual salary of sitting judge due to delay by Governor in filling vacancy
• SB 195: Updating powers of personal representatives of deceased person's estate
• SB 665: Requiring persons convicted of certain crimes on or after March 8, 1995, provide DNA samples
• SB 670: Amending service of process on nonresident persons or corporate entities
• HB 2086: Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
• HB 4007: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

 

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 517: Creating State Parks and Recreation Endowment Fund
• SB 545: Authorizing transfer of moneys from Insurance Commission Fund to Workers' Compensation Old Fund
• SB 573: Supplementing, amending, and increasing appropriations of public moneys for claims against state
• Com. Sub. for SB 275: Creating Intermediate Court of Appeals

 

Senate Bills to be Introduced Tuesday, February 4, 2020

 

• SB 689: Enacting Requiring Accountable Pharmaceutical Transparency, Oversight, and Reporting Act (FN) (Maroney, Takubo, Palumbo, Roberts, Rucker, Stollings, Weld; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 690: Relating to overland recreation (FN) (Maynard; Government Organization then Finance)
• SB 691: Limiting programs adopted by State Board of Education (Rucker; Education)
• SB 692: Clarifying persons indicted or charged jointly for felony offense can move to have separate trial (Trump; Judiciary)
• SB 693: Creating personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters (FN) (Lindsay; Finance)
• SB 694: Relating to penalties for neglect, emotional abuse, or death by caregiver (FN) (Rucker, Azinger, Clements, Maroney, Maynard; Judiciary)
• SB 695: Relating to maintenance and repair of roads and highways (FN) (Smith, Sypolt; Transportation and Infrastructure then Finance)
• SB 696: Relating to Pay Transparency Act of 2020 (Hamilton; Workforce then Judiciary)
• SB 697: Requiring State Police be compensated for time spent on standby (Pitsenbarger, Baldwin, Boley, Clements, Cline, Facemire, Hamilton, Hardesty, Ihlenfeld, Jeffries, Lindsay, Mann, Palumbo, Prezioso, Smith, Swope, Sypolt, Takubo, Trump; Government Organization then Finance)
• SB 698: Relating to retirees employed as substitute bus drivers (FN) (Lindsay; Pensions then Education)
• SCR 19: USMC LCpl Fred Michael Kerns Memorial Bridge (Hamilton, Pitsenbarger)
• SR 30: Designating February 5, 2020, as Tucker County Day (Smith, Sypolt)
• SR 31: Designating February 5, 2020, as Cancer Survivorship Day (Stollings)

 

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

 

Committee Action on Bills from Monday, February 3, 2020

 

2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance

• SB 279: Requiring dental insurance plans honor assignment made in writing by person covered
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

 

• SB 284: Creating WV Health Care Continuity Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Health and Human Resources

 

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• SB 136: Prohibiting certain misleading lawsuit advertising practices
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

 

• SB 208: Protecting consumers from unfair pricing practices during state of emergency
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

 

• SB 678: Waiving fines and fees for completing Getting Over Addicted Lifestyles Successfully Program
• Bill reported as amended to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

 

3 p.m.: Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 138: Incentives for consolidating local governments
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

 

• Com. Sub. for SB 142: Expanding Coyote Control Program through voluntary assessment on breeding cows
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

 

• SB 203: Allowing certain deductions from personal income tax refunds
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

 

• Com. Sub. for SB 522: Relating to compensation awards to crime victims
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

 

• SB 615: Declaring certain claims against state as moral obligations of state
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

 

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Monday, February 3, 2020 (49 Senate; 3 House)

 

• SB 8: Exempting certain armed forces veterans from payment of fees for license to carry deadly weapon (House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security)
• 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 51: Specifying forms of grandparent visitation (House Senior, Children and Family Issues)
• SB 94: Providing persons with physical disabilities ability to vote by electronic absentee ballot (Signed, 02-03)
• SB 114: Providing continued eligibility for developmental disability services to dependents of military members (House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security)
• 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 144: Creating misdemeanor penalty for making materially false statement in course of misdemeanor investigation (House Judiciary)
• SB 170: Alleviating double taxation on foreign income at state level (House Finance)
• SB 175: Requiring certain agencies maintain website which contains specific information (House Government Organization)
• SB 191: Creating felony offense of aggravated cruelty to animals (House Judiciary)
• SB 201: Relating generally to criminal offenses of stalking and harassment (House Judiciary)
• SB 207: Creating Prosecuting Attorney's Detectives Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 209: Relating to annexation by minor boundary adjustment (House Political Subdivisions)
• 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 241: Requiring State Board of Education develop method for student transportation costs as stand-alone consideration (House Education)
• SB 261: Creating criminal penalties for introducing ransomware into computer with intent to extort (House Judiciary)
• SB 281: Removing residency requirement for persons applying for reappointment to municipal police dept (Pending House introduction)
• SB 289: Creating Green Alert Plan (House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security)
• SB 297: Requiring Board of Education create home economics course (House Education)
• SB 303: Enacting Students' Right to Know Act (House Education)
• SB 307: Correcting code citation relating to certain tax liens (House Government Organization)
• SB 310: Updating certain terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act (House Finance)
• SB 311: Relating to court-ordered community service (H Second Reading, 02-04)
• SB 321: Relating to collection of tax and priority of distribution of estate or property in receivership (House Judiciary)
• SB 322: Relating to prequalifications for state contract vendors (House Government Organization)

• SB 323: Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules (Completed; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 339: Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 357: Authorizing Department of Revenue promulgate legislative rules (H Second Reading, 02-04)

• SB 364: Authorizing Department of Transportation promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 449: Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 468: Relating to eligibility for license or permit application (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 470: Relating to use of crossbow to hunt (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 487: Providing exception that all DNR payments be deposited within 24 hours (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 500: Relating to Class Y special crossbow hunting permit (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 501: Adding protection, operation of North Bend Rail Trail, Greenbrier River Trail, and Elk River Trail to Parks and Recreation Section of DNR (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 509: Relating to custodial allocation actions independent of divorce (House Judiciary)
• SB 523: Extending deadline for municipalities to offer Social Security coverage to certain municipal retirement system members (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 529: Establishing limitations on claims and benefits against state (House Judiciary)

• SB 532: Distributing assets remaining in municipal policemen's or firemen's pension and relief fund on death of last retiree or beneficiary (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 534: Removing workers' compensation exclusion for temporary legislative employees (Pending House introduction)
• SB 547: Relating to employer testing, notice, termination, and forfeiture of unemployment compensation (Pending House introduction)
• SB 550: Permitting leashed dogs track mortally wounded deer or bear (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 552: Requiring contracts of $25,000 or more be competitively bid (Pending House introduction)
• SB 642: Correcting incorrect code citation in WV Consumer Credit and Protection Act (House Judiciary)

• HB 2696: Creating an additional index system for state-owned lands (Completed; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4103: Relating to office of drug control policy (Passed; pending House concurrence)

• HB 4130: Relating to competitive bidding for government construction contracts arising out of declared states of emergency (Completed; awaiting action by the Governor)

 

Resolutions Adopted by the Senate as of Monday, February 3, 2020 (5)

 

• 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 3: US Army MSG Richard A. "Dick" Smoot Memorial Bridge (House Transportation and Infrastructure)
• SCR 4: Urging Congress call convention to propose amendment on congressional term limits (House Judiciary)
• SCR 10: Requesting study of current WV laws relating to anti-bullying measures in schools (House Education)

 

House Bills Pending in Senate as of Monday, February 3, 2020 (57)

 

• HB 2086: Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act (Judiciary)
• HB 2338: Allowing the owner of an antique military vehicle to display alternate registration insignia (Military then Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 2419: Relating to the authorization to release a defendant or a person arrested upon his or her own recognizance (Judiciary)
• HB 2497: Relating to the whistle-blower law (Judiciary)
• HB 2602: Including possession of known stolen property in the offense of receiving or transferring stolen property (Judiciary)
• HB 2679: Relating to state issued identification cards (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 2696: Creating an additional index system for state-owned lands (Completed; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2877: Relating to charging a fee for parking in an accessible parking space bearing the international symbol of access (Transportation and Infrastructure then Finance)
• HB 2922: Relating to requirements to obtain a final order of discharge and dismissal for possession of opiates or opioids (Judiciary)
• HB 2924: Permitting the West Virginia Tourism Office to decide to contract with the Division of Highways to sell advertising space on the WV511 website (Government Organization)
• HB 3039: Relating to a court’s consideration of the expression of a preference by a child in certain child custody matters (Judiciary)
• HB 3049: Improving dissemination of boiled water advisories to affected communities (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4002: Creating a felony crime relating to drug delivery resulting in death (Judiciary)
• HB 4004: Creating the West Virginia Sentencing Commission (Judiciary)
• HB 4007: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (Judiciary)
• HB 4010: Changing the licensing requirement for certain casino employees (Finance)
• HB 4011: Reorganizing various boards and authorities for the licensing and oversight of trades, occupations, and professions (Government Organization then Judiciary)
• HB 4017: Establishing country roads accountability and transparency (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4020: Removing authority of municipalities to require occupational licensure if licensure for the occupation is required by the state (Judiciary)
• HB 4022: Clarifying the qualifications of the Chancellor of the Higher Education Policy Commission (Education)
• HB 4026: Exempting businesses transporting scrap tires, waste tires, or other used tires, from certain statutory provisions (Government Organization)
• HB 4030: Increasing limit for application for original appointment as a firefighter to 40 years of age for honorably discharged veterans (Military)
• HB 4042: Requiring agencies exempt from some or all of state purchasing requirements to adopt procedural rules (S Second Reading, 02-02)
• HB 4058: Relating to pharmacy benefit managers (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4062: Reducing the cost of prescription drugs (Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• HB 4077: Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools (Education then Finance)
• HB 4089: Requiring cursive writing to be taught (Education)
• HB 4091: Allowing for expedited oil and gas well permitting upon payment of applicable expedited fees (S Second Reading, 02-04)
• HB 4094: Continuing the Foster Care Ombudsman (Select Committee on Children and Families then Finance)
• HB 4103: Relating to office of drug control policy (Passed; pending House concurrence)

• HB 4108: Relating generally to certificates of need for health care services (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4119: Establishing the crime of torture (Judiciary)
• HB 4129: Relating to adoption (Children and Families)
• HB 4130: Relating to competitive bidding for government construction contracts arising out of declared states of emergency (Completed; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4141: Requiring the Department of Administration to publish its comprehensive annual financial report by the end of December (Government Organization)
• HB 4146: Relating to credit for reinsurance (Banking and Insurance)
• HB 4149: Relating to insurance (Banking and Insurance)
• HB 4166: Prohibiting certain sex offenders from being in a supervisory position over children (Judiciary)
• HB 4179: Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact (Judiciary)
• HB 4275: Authorizing Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety promulgate legislative rules relating to the Fire Commission (Judiciary)
• HB 4353: Creating a rational nexus requirement between prior criminal conduct and initial licensure decision making (Government Organization)
• HB 4359: Increasing the filing fees for insurers (Banking and Insurance)
• HB 4365: Granting of college credit hours for learning English as a second language (Education)
• HB 4381: Relating to lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for adopted children (Natural Resources)
• HB 4393: Relating to making suffocation and asphyxiation crimes (S Second Reading, 02-04)
• HB 4411: Relating to the West Virginia Residential Mortgage Lender, Broker and Servicer Act (Banking and Insurance)
• HB 4417: Relating to permitting professional boards (Government Organization)

• HB 4419: Relating to the Controlled Substance Monitoring Database (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4470: Relating to persons 18 years of age or older in the custody of the Bureau of Juvenile Services (Judiciary)
• HB 4476: Providing for the timely and efficient collection, submission, testing, retention, and disposition of forensic evidence in sexual assault cases (Judiciary)
• HB 4480: Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission (Education)
• HB 4484: Relating to the Hazardous Waste Management Fund (Pending Senate introduction)

• SB 4496: Removing the specific mandate of the Board of Risk and Insurance Management to purchase liability insurance for the Division of Corrections (S Third Reading, 02-04)
• HB 4501: Relating to the ability to refuse offenders for commitment to a jail (Judiciary)

• HB 4510: Prohibiting bodily intrusion by an inmate upon any person at any correctional facility (Judiciary)

• HB 4600: Relating to the definition of the term member regarding distributing premium tax proceeds (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4601: Relating to distribution of premium tax proceeds to municipal policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds (Pending Senate introduction)

 

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Monday, February 3, 2020 (4 – 2 Senate; 2 House)

 

• SB 94: Providing persons with physical disabilities ability to vote by electronic absentee ballot (Signed, 02-03)
• SB 323: Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules (Completed; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2696: Creating an additional index system for state-owned lands (Completed; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4130: Relating to competitive bidding for government construction contracts arising out of declared states of emergency (Completed; awaiting action by the Governor)

 

Bills that Have Been Signed By the Governor as of Monday, February 3, 2020 (1)

 

• SB 94: Providing persons with physical disabilities ability to vote by electronic absentee ballot (Signed, 02-03)

 

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