HOUSE RESOLUTION 3
(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Armstead)
[January 10, 2018]
“Relating to the Standing Committees of the House and creating a new Standing Committee on Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services and setting forth its duties, jurisdiction and membership.”
Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That House Rules 76, 77 and 78 be amended to read as follows:
Rule 76
“Standing Committees.
At the commencement of each Legislature, the Speaker shall appoint the standing committees established by this rule. The Speaker shall refer bills introduced, resolutions offered, and messages, petitions, memorials and other matters presented to such committee as he shall deem appropriate to consider and report thereon.
Standing committees are hereby created as follows:
1. Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
2. Committee on Banking and Insurance
3. Committee on Education
4. Committee on Energy
5. Committee on Finance
6. Committee on Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services
6. 7. Committee on
Government Organization
7. 8. Committee on Health
and Human Resources
8. 9. Committee on Industry
and Labor
9. 10. Committee on
Interstate Cooperation
10. 11. Committee on the
Judiciary
11. 12. Committee on
Pensions and Retirement
12. 13. Committee on
Political Subdivisions
13. 14. Committee on
Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
14. 15. Committee on Roads
and Transportation
15. 16. Committee on Rules
16. 17. Committee on Senior
Citizen Issues
17. 18. Committee on Small
Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
18. 19. Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs and Homeland Security
Rule 77:
“Jurisdiction of Committees
In general and without limitation, standing committees shall have functions and jurisdiction of subjects and other matters as follows:
1. Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources: (a) Agriculture generally, including agricultural production and marketing, animal industry and animal health, adulteration of seeds, commercial feeding stuffs and commercial fertilizer, processed foods, insect pests and pesticides, soil conservation, milk and milk products, meats and meat products, agricultural extension service, entomology and plant quarantine, poultry and poultry products, and human nutrition and home economics; (b) natural resources in general, including game and fish, forest and wildlife areas, parks and recreation, water resources and reclamation.
2. Committee on Banking and Insurance: (a) Banks and banking, and financial institutions generally; (b) control and regulation of all types of insurance, including organization, qualification and licensing of insurers; and (c) securities and exchanges.
3. Committee on Education: (a) Education generally; (b) boards of education, and administration and control of schools; (c) textbooks and school curricula; (d) vocational education and rehabilitation; (e) qualifications, employment and tenure of teachers; (f) libraries; and (g) public schools and institutions of higher education.
4. Committee on Energy: (a) Mining and extraction of coal and other fossil fuels; (b) extraction and distribution of natural gas; (c) energy production employment, safety, local land use and community impacts; and (d) alternative energy development and efficiency measures.
5. Committee on Finance: (a) Tax and revenue measures increasing or decreasing the revenue or fiscal liability of the State; (b) collection of taxes and other revenue; (c) annual Budget Bills and supplementary appropriation bills; (d) proposals reducing public expenditures; (e) proposals relating to the principal and interest of the public debt; and (f) claims against the State.
6. Committee on Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services: (a) Fire departments; (b) emergency medical technicians; and (c) other emergency responders.
6. 7. Committee on
Government Organization: (a) Legislation and proposals dealing with the
Executive Department of state government with respect to creation, duties and
functions; consolidation and abolition; and transfer, imposition and
elimination of functions and duties of departments, commissions, boards,
offices and agencies; and (b) measures relating to the Legislative Department,
other than apportionment of representation and redistricting for the election
of members of the two houses.
7. 8. Committee on Health and Human
Resources: (a) Public health and public welfare
generally; (b) mental health; (c) public and private hospitals and similar institutions;
(d) prevention and control of communicable and infectious diseases; (e) pure
food and drugs; (f) poison and narcotics; (g) correctional and penal
institutions; and (h) public assistance and relief.
8. 9. Committee on
Industry and Labor: (a) Employment and establishment of industry; (b) labor
standards; (c) labor statistics; (d) mediation and arbitration of labor
disputes; (e) wages and hours of labor; (f) child labor; (g) safety and welfare
of employees; (h) industry and labor generally; and (i) infrastructure.
9. 10. Committee on
Interstate Cooperation: Constitute the House members of the West Virginia
Commission on Interstate Cooperation as provided by Article 1B, Chapter 29 of
the Code.
10. 11. Committee on the
Judiciary: (a) Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal generally; (b)
state and local courts and their officers; (c) crimes and their punishment; (d)
corporations; (e) collection and enforcement of property taxes; (f) forfeited,
delinquent, waste and unappropriated lands; (g) real property and estates
therein; (h) domestic relations and family law; (i) revision and codification
of the statutes of the State; (j) election laws; (k) proposals to amend the
Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the State; (l) legislation
relating to constitutional conventions; and (m) other matters of a nature not
deemed properly referable to any other standing committee.
11. 12. Committee on
Pensions and Retirement: (a) Continuing study and investigation of
retirement benefit plans of the State and political subdivisions thereof; (b)
making recommendations with particular attention to financing of the various
pension funds and financing of accrued liabilities; (c) considering all aspects
of pension planning and operation; and (d) analyzing each item of proposed
pension and retirement legislation with particular reference as to cost,
actuarial soundness and adherence to sound pension policy.
12. 13. Committee on
Political Subdivisions: (a) Counties, districts and municipalities generally;
(b) division of the State into senatorial districts and apportionment of
delegate representation in the House; and (c) division of the State into
districts for the election of representatives to Congress.
13. 14. Committee on
Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse: Issues relating to and
regarding the prevention and treatment of substance abuse.
14. 15. Committee on Roads
and Transportation: (a) Highways, public roads, railways, canals and
waterways, aeronautics, aircraft and airways; (b) motor vehicle administration
and registration; (c) licensing of motor vehicle operators and chauffeurs; (d)
traffic regulation and laws of the road; and (e) regulation of motor carriers
of passengers and property for hire.
15. 16. Committee on Rules:
(a) Rules, joint rules, order of business and parliamentary rules in general;
(b) recesses and final adjournments of the House and the Legislature; (c)
payment of money out of the contingent or other fund of the House or creating a
charge upon the same; (d) employees of and services to the House, and purchase
of furniture, supplies and office equipment; (e) election and qualification of
members of the House and state officers, privileges of members and officers of
the House, and witnesses attending the House or any committee thereof; (f)
punishment of members of the House for disorderly conduct; and punishment of
any person not a member for contempt, disrespectful behavior in the presence of
the House, obstructing its proceedings, and for any assault, threat or abuse of
a member of the House; (g) House printing; (h) House Library, statuary and
pictures, acceptance or purchase of works of art for the Capitol, purchase of
books and manuscripts for the House, erection of monuments to the memory of
individuals (i) sale of food and administration and assignment of office space
in the House wing of the Capitol; and (j) Resolutions referred to the Committee
on Rules pursuant to Rule 110.
16. 17. Committee on Senior Citizen
Issues: Proposal, revision and recodification of statutory
provisions relating to all senior citizen issues.
17. 18. Committee on
Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: (a) small
business; (b) entrepreneurship; (c) e-commerce; (d) e-government; (e) economic
development; (f) job creation; and (g) commerce generally.
18. 19. Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs and Homeland Security: (a) Veterans’ measures; (b)
education of veterans; (c) cemeteries of the State in which veterans of any war
or conflict are or may be buried; (d) measures generally affecting the health
and welfare of veterans; (e) measures relating to detection, protection
against, response to, and recovery from, terrorist attacks, internal or
external; and (f) military affairs.”
Rule 78:
“Composition of Committees
The Committee on Rules shall consist of not less than fifteen nor more than twenty-five members, which number shall include the Speaker, Majority Leader and Minority Leader; the Committee on Interstate Cooperation of seven members; the Committee on Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services of eleven members and all other standing committees shall consist of not less than fifteen nor more than twenty-five members, except that the number of members of the Committee on Pensions and Retirement shall be appointed in accordance with Joint Rule 29 or in such number as may be determined by the Speaker.”