State Senate

Monday, February 2, 2026 – 20th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 14: Recognizing James and Lucille Pennington on receiving the 2025 West Virginia Logger of the Year award
• SR 20: Recognizing and honoring victims of Agent Orange exposure during Vietnam War
• SR 23: Designating February 2, 2026, as Future Farmers of America Day
• SR 24: Congratulating Jeff and Jim Kochenderfer as WV Outstanding Tree Farmers of Year

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 61: Prohibiting acceptance of illegal ballots cast in any election
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 167: Relating to meetings for local levying bodies
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 233: Clarifying qualifications to be licensed to administer polygraphs
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 374: Authorizing Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
• Eng. SB 403: Relating to expanding definition of "tourism attraction" (original similar to HB 4015)
• Eng. SB 427: Relating to loan form
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 506: Permitting certain use of county-owned wireless tower (original similar to HB 4624)

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 256: Authorizing DEP to promulgate legislative rules
• SB 536: Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards
• SB 556: Modifying priority of insurance coverage for drivers of certain vehicles to make consistent with federal law - (Com. title amend. pending) (original similar to HB 4877)
• Com. Sub. for SB 573: Relating to requirements for disclosures and recordkeeping by persons making mortgage loans (original similar to HB 4792)
• SB 574: Relating to bank merger by interstate branching
• SB 581: Eliminating requirement that commissioner approve joint account forms used by banking institutions (original similar to HB 4791)
• SB 582: Relating to requirements for licensure as mortgage lender or broker (original similar to HB 4790)

FIRST READING

• SB 155: Relating to adjunct teaching permits
• Com. Sub. for SB 210: Modifying oversight provisions for Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability
• Com. Sub. for SB 532: Relating to certified public accountants

Scheduled Committee Meetings

1 p.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 467: Allowing enforcement of Purple Heart parking spaces taken by non-Purple Heart recipients
• Com. Sub. for SB 620: Exempting certain physicians from specified traffic laws when responding to emergencies

1 p.m.: Workforce (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 490: Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants

2 p.m.: Pensions (451M)

• Presentation: Blair Taylor, Executive Director, Municipal Pensions Oversight Board.
• Presentation: Craig Slaughter, Executive Director, West Virginia Investment Management Board

2 p.m.: Energy (208W)

• SB 586: Modifying requirements for public water systems
• Com. Sub. for SB 48: Relating to powers and duties of PSC
• SB 685: Creating Natural Resources Anti-Commandeering Act.
• Com. Sub. for SB 686: Providing exception to waste and trespass for certain coal estates

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• SB 1: Small Business Growth Act
• SB 622: Extending mine safety technology tax credit
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Health
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia National Guard

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• SB 543: Requiring Bureau for Social Services to file legislative rule
• SB 440: Increasing penalty for transporting telecommunication devices into jails
• SB 615: Requiring persons with illegal immigration status to be turned over to ICE

** Committee times and agendas are subject to change **

Senate Bills to be Introduced Monday, February 2, 2026

• SB 696: Permitting women's wrestling in public high schools (Hamilton, Deeds, Weld; Education)
• SB 697: Relating to Access Management and Entrances to State Highways (FN) (Hamilton, Deeds; Agriculture then Finance)
• SB 698: Defining what constitutes adulteration of food or drugs (Rucker; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 699: Exempting common carriers and contract carriers of solid waste (FN) (Rucker; Transportation and Infrastructure then Finance)
• SB 700: Allowing city attorneys and municipal court clerks to file judgement liens (Morris; Judiciary)
• SB 701: Relating to authority of sheriff's commission for collection of taxes (FN) (Tarr, Rose; Government Organization then Finance)
• SB 702: Setting new maximum annual interest rate for regulated consumer lenders on certain loans (FN) (Azinger; Banking and Insurance then Finance)
• SB 703: Adopting Social Work Licensure Compact (Woodrum; Government Organization)
• SB 704: Prohibiting certain compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits (Oliverio; Military)
• SB 705: Creating offense of theft by conversion (Weld; Judiciary)
• SB 706: Modifying severance tax on newly drilled oil and natural gas wells (Jeffries; Energy, Industry and Mining then Finance)
• SB 707: Relating to crimes involving abuse or desecration of human remains (Woodrum, Barnhart, Deeds, Weld; Judiciary)
• SB 708: Creating WV River Access and Bridge Modernization Act (Woodrum, Hart; Natural Resources then Judiciary)
• SB 709: Relating to collection of special emergency ambulance service fee by county commission (FN) (Morris; Judiciary then Finance)
• SB 710: Eliminating double taxation on foreign income at state level (FN) (Morris; Finance)
• SB 711: Prohibiting discharge of concentrated highway runoff onto private property (Morris; Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary)
• SB 712: Allowing installation of cattle guards on certain public roads (Morris; Agriculture)
• SB 713: Providing 10 percent raise for all public school staff (FN) (Chapman; Education then Finance)
• SB 714: Relating generally to Board of Veterinarians (FN) (Rucker; Government Organization then Finance)
• SB 715: Requiring WV State agencies give extra consideration to hiring disabled law-enforcement officers (Willis; Judiciary)
• SR 25: Designating February 3, 2026, as Marshall University Day (Woelfel)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, January 30, 2026 (15)

• SB 4: Relating to crimes against public justice (House Judiciary)
• SB 15: Protecting coal and gas minerals from carbon capture practices (House Energy and Public Works)
• SB 55: Establishing criminal offense for obstructing or hindering home incarceration supervisor or social services worker (House Judiciary)
• SB 66: Modifying classes of state of preparedness declared by Governor or Legislature (House Government Organization)
• SB 84: Prohibiting law enforcement from placing surveillance cameras on private property (House Judiciary)
• SB 137: Modifying parole eligibility for crime of second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter (House Judiciary)
• SB 207: Clarifying sheriff's compensation for collection of taxes (House Judiciary)
• SB 208: Exempting certain military records from public release (Pending House introduction)

• SB 281: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 309: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Government Organization)

• SB 388: Requiring public elementary or secondary school make Aitken Bible available to certain classrooms (House Education then House Judiciary)
• SB 390: Altering conditions for flood resiliency disbursements (House Government Organization then House Finance)
• SB 400: Updating personal income tax definitions and provision of law relating to gaming and gambling losses (House Finance)
• SB 443: Granting municipal fire marshals authority to assist in lawful execution of law-enforcement officer's official duties (House Government Organization then House Judiciary)
• SB 445: Adding Potomac State College as eligible institution for participation in Learn and Earn Program (House Education)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Friday, January 30, 2026 (2 – 1 Senate; 1 House)

• SCR 1: Requesting DOH name certain transportation infrastructure (Adopted, 1-29)
• HCR 3: House Infrastructure Naming Resolution (Adopted, 01-29)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Friday, January 30, 2026 (24)

• HB 4002: Establishing the West Virginia Collaboratory (Education)
• HB 4005: Skills to work (Government Organization)
• HB 4007: Relating to industrial access roads (Economic Development then Finance)
• HB 4008: Relating to Business Ready Sites Program (Economic Development)
• HB 4022: CPS Allocation (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4028: Relating to sales tax on construction materials (Finance)
• HB 4081: To create the Higher Education Health and Aid Grant (Education then Finance)
• HB 4169: Relating to mental health examination requirements (Judiciary)
• HB 4196: To offer long-acting reversible contraception to patients receiving methadone and suboxone at the treatment facility for the methadone and suboxone (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4215: Department of Health Rules Bundle (Judiciary)
• HB 4335: Relating to Medicaid providers (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4352: Prohibiting cameras and recording devices in bedrooms and bathrooms of foster children (Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• HB 4354: Relating to necessity allowance (Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• HB 4364: Relating to concurrent juvenile jurisdiction on military installations (Military then Judiciary)

• HB 4393: Requiring the development and implementation of statewide prevention plan (Finance)
• HB 4410: Relating to special stops required for on-track equipment (Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary)
• HB 4415: Creating crime of attempting to smuggle contraband into federal correctional institutions within the state (Pending Senate introduction)

• HB 4422: To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall (Education)
• HB 4433: Prohibiting Human Smuggling and Trafficking (Judiciary)

• HB 4437: To allow Gold Star parents to receive one free Gold Star vehicle registration for personal use (Transportation and Infrastructure)

• HB 4574: Relating to providing for condition-based emergency funding for a financially distressed county (Education then Finance)
• HB 4575: Making Supplemental Appropriation to State Board of Education (Finance)

• HB 4610: Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act (Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• HB 4626: Relating to the establishment of a grant program to fund the United States Food and Drug Administration’s drug development trials with ibogaine (Health and Human Resources then Finance)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Friday, January 30, 2026 (3)

• HCR 1: Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor (Adopted, 01-14)
• HCR 2: Amending Rule 31 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 01-14)
• HCR 3: House Infrastructure Naming Resolution (Adopted, 01-29)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, January 30, 2026 (4 – 1 Senate; 3 House)

• SCR 1: Requesting DOH name certain transportation infrastructure (Adopted, 01-29)
• HCR 1: Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor (Adopted, 01-14)
• HCR 2: Amending Rule 31 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 01-14)
• HCR 3: House Infrastructure Naming Resolution (Adopted, 01-29)

Committee times and agendas are subject to change. Follow @WVSenClerk on Twitter for updates.

All Senate Committee meetings and floor sessions are available for both live streaming and to watch again in our archives. The link to the Senate’s archived video page can be found here:http://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00289/Harmony/en/View/UpcomingEvents.