Bill Status - 1998 Regular Session

All House Bills

Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
HB 2001	Unlawful use or possession of a firearm in drug trafficking offenses	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2002	Filing of a corporate license tax return to engage in business in West Virginia	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2003	Prohibiting persons who feloniously kill another person from obtaining certain property by joint survivorship provisions	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2006	Relating to itemized statements of medicaid assistance or services	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2007	Changing property tax reappraisals from a three-year cycle to a five-year cycle	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2008	Requiring the signature of the fiduciary commissioner on any waiver of final settlement in estates subject to administration	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2009	Eliminating the blood test and three-day waiting period required for the issuance of a marriage license	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2010	Establishing a driver point reduction program for certain traffic offenses	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2014	Requiring the Division of Personnel to reinstate equity pay increases	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2017	Relating to the formula by which the fire casualty insurance premium tax is allocated to municipalities	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2024	Collection of workers' compensation premium taxes from defaulting employers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2025	Relating to delinquent payment of workers' compensation premium taxes	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2026	Restoring certain workers' compensation death benefits	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2030	Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2031	Creating a state police review board	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2033	Imposing a fine upon a railroad company for violation of public service commission rules	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2034	Full teacher retirement benefits when a member's age plus years of service equals eighty	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2035	Discounts for West Virginia residents at state parks and forests	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2036	Requiring school attendance and maintenance of satisfactory progress for privilege of operation of a motor vehicle	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2037	Requiring insurance coverage of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery for injuries received from acts of domestic violence	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2038	Distribution of awards for damages in wrongful death actions	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2039	Eliminating the seventy-five percent participation requirement currently required for group insurance policies when the policy premium is partly or wholly paid by the employee	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2041	Exempting small hospitals from certificate of need requirements	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2042	Requiring parental consent before an unemancipated minor may obtain an abortion except in certain instances	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2044	General revision of the West Virginia Medical Practice Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2052	Election of attorney general and secretary of state in nonpresidential election years	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2053	Deduction of contributions for the restoration of the C&O canal and the towpath from adjusted gross income	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2054	Tuition and fee waivers for persons enrolled at state institutions of higher education who wish to audit courses or classes	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2055	Prohibiting the sale of perishable products at full retail price after the packer's expiration date	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2056	Composition of institutional boards of advisors acting as a presidential search committee	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2057	Removing the family purpose doctrine provision from motor vehicle liability policies	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2058	Requiring businesses which use scanners at the checkout counter to post prices on the shelf	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2060	Prohibiting a debt collector from compiling and maintaining files on creditors who have instructed the debt collector not to do so	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2062	Prohibiting sale at full retail price of any damaged container or canned goods	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2063	Requiring labeling of dairy products	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2064	Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2068	Minimum standards for instruction of food service safety and sanitation	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2069	Civil service for county sheriff's process servers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2070	Individualized braille literacy assessment and appropriate educational services resulting therefrom	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2071	Misdemeanor offense of ticket scalping	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2072	Authorized expenditure by qualified nonprofit tax exempt organizations of certain net proceeds of bingo and raffle operations	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2073	Authorizing the state conservation committee to develop a program of stream maintenance	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2074	Establishing a division of forms management	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2075	West Virginia Regulatory Flexibility Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2076	Permitting courts to award attorney fees and expenses against the state in civil actions brought by the state and in proceedings for judicial review of administrative orders	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2077	Granting prior service credit to certain county employees for retirement purposes	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2078	Requiring the equipment of cranes with certain safety devices to reduce chance of injury caused by overhead power lines	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2079	Exempting hunting clubs from paying a franchise tax when the hunting club does not produce a net income or pay dividends	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2080	Admission into evidence in judicial proceedings held to determine custody of minor children of any criminal convictions for acts of violence or abuse toward children or family members	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2081	Expanding the definition of child abuse and neglect and admitting hearsay evidence	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2082	Second or subsequent offense of cruelty to animals a felony and providing for mandatory incarceration	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2083	Providing that both creation science and evolution science be taught in public schools on an equal basis	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2086	Prohibiting political contributions by corporations and providing certain exceptions	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2090	Requiring public employee insurance coverage of inpatient care for mothers and newly born infants	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2092	Reducing the blood alcohol content for DUI convictions	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2094	Tuition and fee waivers for children and spouses of full-time faculty and staff members at state institutions of higher education	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2096	Allowing persons to defend their property with deadly force without being exposed to liability	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2097	Requiring voter approval before taxes or fees can be enacted by a county for county development	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2099	Permitting the sale of certain motor vehicles on an "as is" basis	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2102	Exempting certain retirement benefits from state personal income taxes	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2105	Granting prior service credit in the West Virginia State Police to members of the teachers retirement system	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2106	Crediting a deceased teacher's surviving spouse with accumulated sick leave	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2107	Charges for setting United States Veterans' Affairs grave markers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2108	Awarding a deputy his or her service revolver upon retirement	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2109	Creating a reinsurance pool for persons unable to qualify for insurance because of illnesses or physical conditions	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2110	Ten percent across the board tax reduction for all personal and corporate taxpayers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2111	Providing a reduction in campground rental fees for certain disabled veterans	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2116	Requiring insurance coverage of reconstructive surgery following mastectomy surgery	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2117	Providing for meetings and conference rights for members of municipal police and fire departments	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2118	Removing the requirement that venue properly lies in Kanawha County in relation to certain controversies involving the state	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2124	Permitting the deduction of home mortgage interest paid for purposes of personal income tax	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2125	Extending the open firearms hunting season to seven days a week	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2129	Assessment of fees, costs and damages for filing frivolous lawsuits, pleadings and motions	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2131	Requiring advised consent for induced abortions	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2133	Making it a misdemeanor to shoot deer, turkey or bear from a vehicle	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2134	Requiring state agencies to provide information for verifying eligibility for public housing programs	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2135	Confidentiality of juvenile records and removing the prohibition against publishing the names of certain juvenile offenders	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2138	Primary elections and nominating procedures of third party candidates	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2140	Homestead exemption from debts caused by catastrophic illness	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2141	Providing safeguards for the documentation and investigation procedures of child abuse cases	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2142	Allowing duly registered voters who sign petitions to place the name of a candidate for office on the ballot to vote in primary elections	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2143	Requiring that every child removed from a home must have a medical examination prior to placement in foster care or into an institution	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2146	Preventing the recordation of fraudulent deeds and notification by the clerk of the county commission	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2151	Requiring a mandatory ten thousand dollars in medical pay coverage for certain motor vehicle insurance policies	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2152	State Payment for State Mandates Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2155	Removing the requirement that certain motorcycle operators and passengers wear helmets	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2156	Prohibiting unsupervised furlough or other release for violent or repeat offenders	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2157	Implementing a program requiring certain inmates to work toward their upkeep and offset the cost of their incarceration	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2165	Providing employer immunity from civil liability for information disclosed regarding former law-enforcement employees	Pending		CONF	03/14/98
HB 2168	Updating the controlled substance schedules and adding Carisoprodol to schedule IV	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2171	Abolishing the Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority and transferring duties	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2172	Raising the resident vendor's preference percentage and adding "services" to purchasing requirements	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2173	Repealing certain code sections relating to the Jobs Through Education Act of 1996	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2174	Phasing out the sales tax on food over a five-year period	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2178	Phasing out all health provider taxes	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2179	Validation of foreign marriages	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2180	Prohibiting smoking in taxicabs	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2181	Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice by certain employers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2182	Allowing magistrates to collect bank service charges for the holder or payee	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2185	Requiring persons who have judgments against them and their wages to notify the clerk of the court of any change of job status or employer	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2186	Tax credit for employers who provide child day care services for their employees	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2187	Removing the special application fee for special registration plates for certain disabled veterans	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2188	Providing certain retired veterans free passes to high school, college or university sporting events	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2197	Providing for a limited privilege for news media professionals and organizations to protect information and sources from disclosure	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2199	Jobs Impact Statement Act	Pending		2nd Reading	03/13/98
HB 2201	Establishing the West Virginia recreation therapy board	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2207	Entitling nurse practitioners to receive medicaid payments	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2208	Requiring the reduction of rates of special levies by the levying body in certain instances	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2211	Improving the economic condition of women and prohibiting gender discrimination	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2216	Requiring students to maintain a 1.0 minimum grade point average to avoid a driver's license suspension	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2217	Tax relief for homeowners and renters under sixty-five years of age	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2218	Patient Protection Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2219	Providing a ten percent discount on insurance policies for homes with sprinkler systems	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2220	Crediting a deceased state employee's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse or other dependents	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2223	Teacher retirement eligibility when age plus years of service equals or exceeds eighty	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2225	Establishing three degrees of negligent vehicular homicide	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2227	Allowing class four municipalities to employ radar devices for enforcing speeding laws	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2228	Prior service credit of two years for teachers with employment in another state	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2229	Personal property tax exemption on one vehicle in proportion to the amount of miles traveled for volunteer fire department members	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2231	Requiring local boards of health to monitor the sanitation of school restrooms	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2234	Reducing all personal income tax rates by five percent	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2240	Removing from a period of parole any credit for good conduct	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2241	Requiring that the drawing of blood be done only by a phlebotomist	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2242	Uniform Unclaimed Property Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2243	Uniform Anatomical Gift Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2244	Uniform Premarital Agreement Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2245	Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2247	Eliminating violent offenders from that group of criminal defendants and inmates eligible for work release	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2249	Promulgation of legislative rules allowing for facility-wide and multiunit alternate emission control strategies	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2250	Requiring drug and alcohol testing of drivers involved in accidents that result in death	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2252	Requiring executive agencies to report notices of disallowances or potential disallowances of federal funds within sixty days of receipt	Vetoed		Governor	04/02/98
HB 2254	Making owners and lessees of coal liable for workers' compensation taxes when a contract miner defaults on obligations	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2255	Allowing professional firefighters to run for office except in the municipality where they work	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2256	Providing a tax credit for parents or guardians who provide their children with home or private schooling	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2257	Requiring utilities to charge the lowest rates available to emergency service providers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2258	Providing an early retirement incentive for eligible public employees	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2266	Creating a panel to review proposed legislation and existing law regarding mandated health benefits	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2270	Allowing municipalities to self-insure together and promulgation of rules by the Commissioner of Insurance	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2271	Making the state convict road force mandatory	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2273	Relating to testimony of a child witness by use of live, closed-circuit television	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2274	Exempting recycled tires from the prohibition on the sale of prison-made goods	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2278	Providing disincentives to frivolous or malicious inmate litigation	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2283	Abolishing the requirement of filing certain plans with municipalities or county commissions by the commissioner of highways	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2285	Providing recovery of bank service charges after a warrant is filed in magistrate court	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2299	Public retirees permitted to authorize monthly deductions to pay retiree association dues	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2300	Prohibiting health maintenance organizations from placing restrictions on communications between health care providers and patients	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2301	Misdemeanor offense for the manufacture, possession, use or distribution of jackrocks	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2302	Redefining the requirements for the content of an order for election to increase levies	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2305	Creating an independent Board of Tax and Revenue Appeals	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2306	Granting homestead exemption benefits to disabled veterans under the age of sixty-five	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2307	West Virginia Jobs Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2308	Authorizing the establishment of police lines, perimeters and barricades in emergency situations	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2309	Providing the death penalty for first degree murder	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2310	Prohibiting auto insurers from developing premium rates by territories and requiring the same to be developed statewide	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2382	Equalizing the pay scales of magistrates	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2383	Procedures for special levy elections conducted by local levying bodies	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2384	Benefits for certain substitute teachers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2385	Eviction proceedings of persons who commit illegal activities on rented property	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2387	Permitting the recording of ballots on a computer disc	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2388	Requiring that newborn infants be tested for hearing impairments	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2392	Standardizing and regulating the screening, training and driver testing for visually challenged persons	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2393	Safety requirements for the sale and storage of fireworks	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2394	Requiring certain establishments to post signs warning of the danger of alcohol consumption during pregnancy	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2395	Increasing the penalties for the sale or gifts of tobacco products to minors	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2398	Compensation of county board of health members	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2399	Requiring restaurants to place paper place mats under a customers plate and silverware	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2401	Requirements for budgeting additional tax on severance, extraction and production of coal	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2403	Definition of "exclusivity" under the article relating to certificate of need	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2409	Faculty status for professional librarians	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2410	Granting four hours of paid leave for the purpose of attending conferences for each child of a school employee	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2411	Making it unlawful to create certain loud noises	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2412	Changing the pay period for state employees from twice a month to every two weeks	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2413	Permitting retiring public employees to apply a percentage of their annual and sick leave to insurance coverage and a percentage toward service credit	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2415	Creating the deputy sheriff's retirement system	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2416	Reduction of insurance premiums for school bus operators and drivers' education instructors	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2419	Directing the Parkways Authority to build entrance and exit ramps on the West Virginia Turnpike at mile marker fifty-two	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2420	Pay increases for school service personnel	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2423	Increasing benefits for certain retired state troopers	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 2430	Permitting plan selection by teachers who are retired because of disabilities	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2431	Women's Access to Health Care Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2433	Giving teachers credit toward retirement for maternity leave	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2434	Authorizing county boards of education to employ school crossing guards	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2438	Procedures concerning debarment of vendors who contract to supply goods or services to the state	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2439	Raising the minimum sentence of a person convicted of a second or subsequent offense of felony	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 2443	Providing restitution to crime victims by juvenile offenders or the parents of the offenders	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2445	Cost-of-living increase for certain retired teachers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2448	Creating the misdemeanor offense of "scalping" noncollectible toys	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2449	Requiring inmates convicted of a felony involving violence to serve at least eighty percent of his or her maximum sentence	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2450	Enhanced penalties for crimes against the elderly	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2453	Establishing civil service for the county sheriff's tax staff	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2456	Freedom of Choice Health Care Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2460	Personal Assistance Services Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2461	Prohibiting the state from paying magistrates to attend law school	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2470	Authorizing the retirement of certain teachers with terminal or psychological illnesses	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2472	Allowing governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations to be eligible for licensure to fit and dispense hearing aids	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2475	Prohibiting the manufacture, distribution or possession of certain controlled or counterfeit substances near a park or housing project	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2478	Seniority rights for multicounty vocational center employees	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2480	Tanning Facility Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2481	Prohibiting violations of civil rights because of disability or sexual orientation	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2482	Protecting free gas rights from the requirements of plugging abandoned wells with certain exceptions	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2483	Limiting increase of taxation on Class II real property	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2487	Requiring school bus drivers to present complaints to county transportation supervisors rather than magistrates	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2488	Implementing a religious education program in the public schools	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2489	Establishing tort reform measures	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2491	Allowing public employees to pay back retirement benefits in one lump sum after returning to employment with the state	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2492	Criminal penalty for willful violation of school employee rights	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2493	Provisions for appeal by the state in criminal proceedings	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2495	Requiring a divorced member to prove there is no qualified domestic relations order in effect as a condition to elect certain retirement annuity options	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 2503	Providing additional relief for a taxpayer from an erroneous assessment	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2505	Adding "sexual orientation" to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2506	Establishing a procedure for collective bargaining by public school employees	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2512	Providing funding for the costs of certain bus operator salaries and fringe benefits	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2513	Exempting from property taxation certain subdivision streets	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2517	Seniority rights for autism mentors, paraprofessionals and sign language specialists	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2518	Establishing mandatory remedial summer school programs	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2520	Permitting a physical therapist holding a temporary permit to practice under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2521	Providing an incentive for nurse aides to report to work as scheduled	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2523	Making the crime of impersonating a state policeman or deputy sheriff a felony	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2525	Alternating requests or dispatches of tow truck services among all available towing services	Pending		Committee	02/04/98
HB 2526	Restricting the manner in which the division of motor vehicles can request a reexamination of a licensed operator or chauffeur	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 2530	Allowing property owners to use a bulldozer to clear the owners' stream beds	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2531	Distributing a certain amount of racetrack video lottery income to each municipality in which the terminals are located	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2534	Requiring restaurant food handlers to wear protective gloves	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2536	Requiring poll workers who work outside their voting precinct to vote by absentee ballot	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2537	Prohibiting posting of notification of sobriety checkpoints	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2538	Allowing former members of the state police to receive service credit under the public employees retirement system	Pending		Committee	02/04/98
HB 2547	Requiring a completed background check of an applicant before a license to carry a deadly weapon may be issued	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2549	Providing for jury sentencing of a person convicted of certain criminal offenses following a jury trial	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2550	Permitting automobile insurance companies to include the amount due and the due date in cancellation notices without rendering such notices void	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2556	Allowing school service personnel to donate unused leave days to other employees due to an emergency situation	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2557	Permitting unclaimed moneys held by the general receiver to be kept within each respective county's general fund	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2558	Providing that an insured individual's motor vehicle coverage is primary when a claim arises from the operation of a vehicle owned by a certain person, firm or corporation	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2560	Including persons convicted under state criminal statutes under the section which authorizes putting offenders to work in community service programs	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2561	Providing that magistrates be elected on a nonpartisan ballot and providing that terms of magistrates be staggered	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2562	Increasing salaries of principals and assistant principals and providing salary reduction procedures	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2567	Requiring boards of education to give preference to resident vendors and vendors employing state residents	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2568	Requiring certain health insurance policy language	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2569	Allowing real estate brokers to hire unlicensed persons to perform certain routine office procedures	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2570	Removing the privilege tax on vehicles sold to automobile rental businesses and to impose in lieu thereof a daily tax	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 2578	Establishing an alternative homestead exemption for persons under the age of sixty-five	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2585	Requiring law masters to follow certain time requirements when giving notice extending temporary emergency protective orders	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2586	Increasing the pay for bus operators with fifteen or more years of service	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2587	Providing a business franchise tax credit for expenditures to upgrade county or state roads	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2591	Making the twenty thousand dollar homestead exemption applicable to every property owner regardless of age or disability	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2592	Requiring mines who employ more than fifty miners to maintain a separate mine rescue team and limiting the number of mines that a mine rescue team is responsible for serving	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2599	Providing limited protection to health care providers declining to order certain diagnostic procedures and treatment options	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2604	Telemarketing Regulation and Fraud Prevention Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2605	Good Samaritan Food Donation Act	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2606	Providing a tax credit for new mining operations	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2607	Eliminating the requirement that students practice optometry in this state to avoid repaying financial aid	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2608	Distribution of revenues of video lottery net terminal income to the thoroughbred development fund	Pending		Committee	03/10/98
HB 2611	Relating to seniority and posting of higher education classified job vacancies	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2612	Allowing a court to order convicts to pay the cost of their imprisonment and food	Pending		Committee	03/03/98
HB 2613	Making the state convict road force mandatory	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2618	Relating to insurance demolition proceeds	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2622	Making the larceny of equipment from a fire department a felony	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2624	Allowing teachers to make contributions to the retirement fund for periods in which they were off work and receiving temporary total disability benefits	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 2625	Prohibiting parking in front of wheelchair ramps	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2626	Enabling indigent persons to obtain free copies of certain medical records to support social security claims	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2627	Allowing a tax credit for new mining operations	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2628	Prohibiting stopping, standing or parking along highway right-of-ways	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2630	Penalties for driving a motor vehicle when the privilege to do so has been lawfully suspended or revoked	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2631	Relating to taxes on income, receipts or expenditures for goods or services of horse or dog racing owners, trainers or jockeys	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2632	Providing for the sale or donation of unclaimed stolen property	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2634	Incremental salary increase for higher education employees and additional pay for working a shift other than day shift	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2635	Renaming the state teachers retirement system and the teachers retirement board	Pending		Committee	02/04/98
HB 2636	Reduction of payments to health maintenance organizations by PEIA and relating to enrollment periods, shopper's guides and surveys	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2638	Providing funds to transport school children to promote educational and cultural enrichment	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2643	Amending the Medical Practice Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2644	Imposing a fee on prison and jail inmates for medical services	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2645	Prohibiting the appointment by county commissioners of family members to boards, commissions or other government offices	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2646	Prohibiting certain elected officials from being situated within fifteen feet of the counting of votes in an election	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2647	Prohibiting county commissioners who are candidates in an election from serving on the board of canvassers or participating in the canvassing of returns	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2649	Increasing the maximum number of years to which an additional levy applies and providing that levy elections take place during general elections	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2650	Limiting the power of counties and municipalities from passing ordinances relating to weapons and ammunition	Vetoed		Governor	04/02/98
HB 2651	Allowing probation officers to carry firearms	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 2652	Eliminating the fifty percent threshold for permanent total disability, restoring 104 weeks of death benefits to surviving spouses and continuing workers' compensation benefits for the life of the claimant	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2656	Creating the position of certified animal euthanasia technician	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2661	Requiring secondary notice of nonpayment of insurance premiums before termination	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2662	Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining and manufacturing activities and uses	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2664	Authorizing the parkways, economic development and tourism authority to construct industrial sites along its corridor	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2672	Changing purchasing requirements and procedures for the state railroad authority	Pending		Committee	03/02/98
HB 2673	Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2675	Reimbursement to counties for costs incurred for incarceration in county or regional jails	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2679	Clarification of increased enrollment funding and granting boards of education authority to select accounting firms to perform annual audits	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2682	Exempting magistrates from obtaining a concealed weapons permit	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2684	Prohibiting interfering with or verbally abusing a school employee engaged in the discharge of his or her duties	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2690	Creating a felony for committing a violent crime while wearing body armor	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2693	Providing a fifteen percent discount to automobile insureds who have not filed a claim for five years or longer	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2694	Providing for the collection of taxes on real estate sold at a sheriff's sale	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2696	Expiration of certain administrative bodies created by order of the governor	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2698	Removing the former Spencer State Hospital as a potential site for a private prison facility	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2699	Creating a tax exemption for voluntary fire, rescue or emergency medical services personnel	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2700	Prohibiting employers from charging accumulated sick or annual leave against an employee who has missed work due to being on call as a firefighter, EMT or paramedic	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2703	Allowing certain owners of animals to use the services of persons who are not commercial or custom slaughterers	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2705	Prohibiting vehicles transporting hazardous materials from parking within one thousand feet of educational or health care facilities	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2708	Changing the time at which primary elections are held from May to April	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2711	Authorizing authority to assess penalties for violating the safe drinking water act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2714	Relating generally to the Health Care Cost Review Authority and certificates of need	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2716	Giving the board of directors of the state college system additional authority over private institutions of higher education, correspondence, business, occupational and trade schools	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2718	Authorizing county boards of education to perform annual independent audits	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 2719	Defining proper methods and rights relative to posting land and providing criminal penalties	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2720	Requiring the county commission of the county in which an indigent individual resides to pay the expenses of a commitment hearing	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2723	Exempting certain counties and medical facilities from certificate of need requirements and mandatory rate setting	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2724	Requiring businesses selling alcoholic liquor, beer or tobacco products to post signs warning of the penalty for use of false identification	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2725	Establishing a minimum speed of fifty-five miles per hour for driving in the left hand or passing lane on interstate highways	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2726	Establishing the misdemeanor offense of unauthorized use of a dumpster or solid waste container and services	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2729	Revising the school aid formula	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2731	Allowing all counties to become eligible for infrastructure fund grants	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2732	Designating English as the official state language	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2735	Clarifying that the division of environmental protection's in-house counsel are exempt from classified service coverage	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2736	Providing that an enforcement agency may apply for and receive title and registration for an abandoned automobile	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2737	Providing for a mandatory five percent resident vendors' preference in bidding for state contracts	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2739	Salary and increment increases for professional school personnel	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2745	Establishing the Birth Score Program to detect children at high risk for postneonatal mortality, debilitating conditions and developmental delays	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2746	Exempting private school and home-schooled students from jobs through education criteria and prohibiting discrimination in college admissions and scholarships or aid	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2750	Determining the amount of employee and employer contributions to retirement plans selected by the governing boards of higher education	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2751	Extending throughout the year state park campsite discounts for disabled persons	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2755	Retirement system service credit for certain teachers on educational leave of absence	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2757	Providing that certain advanced nurse practitioners may serve in lieu of an HMO subscriber's primary care physician	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2759	Addressing the problem of poor indoor air quality in West Virginia schools	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2760	Creating an office of actuarial services	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 2761	Removing the requirement that reclamation related liabilities have to exceed the accrued amount in the reclamation fund before the fund tax is collected and removal of the five thousand dollar per acre limit for bonding	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2763	Prohibiting insurance companies from discriminating on rates charged for drivers under the age of eighteen years	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2765	Authorizing one gaming facility to be located in an historic resort hotel upon approval of county voters	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2772	Requiring probation for persons between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one who commit felony property crimes	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2773	Prohibiting partial-birth abortions unless the mother's life is in jeopardy	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2777	Eliminating the compensation programs performance council and the position of commissioner of the bureau of employment programs and reinstating the position of commissioner of employment security	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2778	Making the jobs through education curriculum voluntary	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2780	Allowing landowners to paint blaze orange bands around trees to designate their land as posted land on which hunting is prohibited	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2781	Changing the crime of obstructing emergency medical service personnel from a misdemeanor to a felony	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2784	Relating generally to noncoal mineral extraction	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2785	Relating to lighting equipment used by funeral hearses	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2788	Including school-based health care providers in the definition of primary care physician for children subscribers of HMO's	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2789	Relating to distribution, labeling and sales of wine in West Virginia	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2791	Transferring jurisdiction of the cable television advisory board to the public service commission	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2792	Preventing counties from assessing a fire service fee when a municipality has already enacted such a fee	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2794	Clarifying that certain estate tax liens are divested	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2797	Requiring the left lane of certain highways be used for passing only	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2798	Adding the suspension of driver's license as a penalty for vandalism of public property	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2800	Enactment of the southern dairy compact	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2801	Job Opportunity Program and Personal Assistance Services Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2805	Increasing the civil jurisdiction of magistrate court from five thousand to ten thousand dollars	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2806	Requiring a nonresident reciprocal income tax	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2807	Providing that possession of deadly weapons is a basis for placement of a student with a disability in an alternative education setting	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2808	Requiring that insurance demolition proceeds be placed in escrow	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2809	Limiting the liability of forest firefighters	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2812	Providing fire departments first priority for distribution of surplus property	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 2813	Relating to ballots in counties electing more than three county commissioners	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2814	Voluntary Small Employer Purchasing Pool Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2817	Relating generally to the prevention and treatment of domestic and family violence	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2819	Removing standardized testing for grades K, one and two	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2820	Special method for valuation of certain computer property	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2822	Civil Justice Reform Act of 1997	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2823	Special reporting requirements for agencies of state government to disclose anticipated or future expenditures or obligations within thirty days of the end of each fiscal year	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2825	Access to services of commercial solid waste facilities and setting forth considerations in granting a certificate of need	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2827	Golden Rule Financing and Tax Incentives Disclosure Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2829	Required reporting of employment for construction projects financed in whole or in part by public funds	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2831	Legal services to be provided and available to noncustodial parent	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2833	Making it a felony for the wrongful taking of timber valued at one thousand dollars or more	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2835	Taxation of for-profit subsidiaries or affiliates of a not-for-profit hospital	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2840	Authorizing an action for the late return of a rented video cassette	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2843	Allowing home schooled students to participate in public school activities	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2849	Authorizing a preneed cremation agreement	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2851	Expanding automobile parking fraud provisions and increasing fines	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2852	Extending the exemption from registration fees for certain vehicles	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2856	Prohibiting certain business licensees from selling or serving for consumption on the premises any beer bottled in a glass container	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2857	Requiring background checks on jobs through education mentors	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2858	Creating the felony offense of murder by abuse or neglect of a child	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2859	Relating to the Technology-Related Assistance Loan Fund for Individuals with Disabilities Act	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2862	Requiring a local police agency to pay a percentage of the cost of training a state police academy recruit	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2864	Procedures to prevent the filing and prosecution of frivolous lawsuits	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2865	Recodification of the laws of the state pertaining to marriage	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2871	Tax credit for new farming or agricultural processing operations	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 2872	Clarifying that certain pest control operators are not subject to contractor licensure	Pending		2nd Reading	03/14/98
HB 2879	Disciplinary actions against licensed contractors	Pending		Committee	01/12/98
HB 2880	Modifying the definition of direct advertising	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 2882	Relating generally to gasoline and special fuel excise taxes and exemptions	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2895	Authorizing the commissioner of corrections to establish policies for the operation of mental health units at correctional facilities	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 2913	Regulation of traditional cheese products	Pending		3rd Reading	03/14/98
HB 4001	Designating the Friday following Thanksgiving Day a state holiday to be known as "Robert C. Byrd Day"	Pending		Committee	01/14/98
HB 4002	Allowing the state auditor to deduct salary overpayments from the paychecks of state officials and employees	Pending		Committee	01/14/98
HB 4003	Establishing a state program for acquisition and maintenance of orphan roads and bridges	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4004	Providing an ad valorem property taxation rate and method for managed timberland	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/03/98
HB 4005	Limiting the liability of authorized forest firefighters	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4006	Construction and maintenance of juvenile detention and correction facilities by the regional jail authority	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4007	Relating to the West Virginia corporate headquarters relocation tax credit	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4008	Increasing the criminal penalty for engaging in sexual misconduct with a child	Pending		Committee	01/14/98
HB 4009	Removing county road supervisors from positions exempted from coverage under the classified service	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4010	Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the Treasury in accordance with Article VI, Section 51 of the Constitution	Tabled		3rd Reading	03/13/98
HB 4011	Bringing the Sex Offender Registration Act into compliance with federal requirements	Pending		Committee	01/28/98
HB 4012	Providing for castration of certain sex offenders	Pending		Committee	01/15/98
HB 4013	Relating generally to possession of a dangerous weapon	Pending		Committee	01/15/98
HB 4014	Prohibiting the use of state funds to cause the death of an individual by assisted suicide, euthanasia or mercy killing	Pending		Committee	01/15/98
HB 4015	Prohibiting awards of child support for certain children after they reach the age of eighteen years	Pending		Committee	01/15/98
HB 4016	Increasing the number of principal supervisors who may be appointed by the state police superintendent	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4017	Relating to municipal court judges and procedures	Pending		Committee	01/15/98
HB 4018	Exempting certain yard waste from the prohibition against yard waste in landfills	Pending		Committee	01/15/98
HB 4019	Requiring persons who have judgments against them and their wages to notify the court of any change of job status or employer	Pending		Committee	01/15/98
HB 4020	Retiree option of applying a percentage of accrued annual and sick leave to insurance coverage and a percentage to extended service credit	Pending		Committee	01/16/98
HB 4021	Public access to licensing boards	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4022	Application procedure for creating professional or occupational licensing boards	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/04/98
HB 4023	Licensing of bail bondsmen	Pending		Committee	01/16/98
HB 4024	Establishing the West Virginia Birth Score Program	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4025	Special license plate for members of the American Red Cross	Pending		Committee	01/16/98
HB 4026	Injured Consumers Bill of Legal Rights and Civil Justice Reform Act	Pending		Committee	01/19/98
HB 4027	Relating to Class Q hunting permits	Pending		Committee	01/19/98
HB 4028	Relating generally to solid waste management	Tabled		3rd Reading	02/03/98
HB 4029	Including chief deputy sheriff within the definition of chief executive of a law-enforcement agency	Pending		Committee	01/19/98
HB 4030	Modifying changes made to the statute of limitations on deeds of trusts	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4031	Requiring the office of county commissioner on ballot labels be listed by magisterial district in certain counties	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4032	Requiring an election to adopt a zoning ordinance proposed by a county commission	Pending		Committee	01/20/98
HB 4033	Proceedings related to child abuse or neglect	Pending		Committee	01/20/98
HB 4034	Regulations and licensing for persons engaged in lead abatement projects	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4035	Modifying the law relating to licensing massage therapists	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4036	Authorizing the supreme court of appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule	Pending		Committee	01/20/98
HB 4037	Removing the twenty year limitation in determining incremental salary increases for state employees	Pending		Committee	01/20/98
HB 4038	Making a technical correction in legislation which provides state chartered banks authority and parity with national banks in marketing and sale of insurance and annuities	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4039	Permitting mobile branch banks	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4040	Clarifying certain trust and fiduciary recordkeeping requirements for banks	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4041	Requiring insurance coverage of breast reconstruction following mastectomy surgery	Pending		Committee	01/20/98
HB 4042	Duties of the Fire Marshal	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4043	Changing the definition of emergency services so as to be consistent with federal requirements	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4044	Providing public employees retirement with full pension rights when contributing service equals or exceeds thirty years	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 4045	Increasing the maximum height a motor vehicle frame is allowed to be from the ground and allowing tires to extend three inches beyond the edge of the fender	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 4046	Providing a stable method of financing the operation of the Jackson County public library	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4047	Establishing a commuter pass for college students who use the turnpike in commuting to school	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 4048	Providing that the final average salary includes the last month of earnings for the calculation of retirement benefits for public employees	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4049	Relating to venue of civil actions	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 4050	Regulations and safety standards for body piercing	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 4051	Providing for enrollment in a job search or attainment program sponsored by the job corps as a condition of eligibility to the West Virginia works program	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 4052	Allowing victims or their representatives to attend court proceedings involving certain juveniles	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4053	Expanding the protection for landowners who suffer from wildlife damage to include Christmas tree farms and grasslands and requiring deer population control	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4054	Raising the maximum gross weight limit for farm trucks	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 4055	Allowing county boards of education, county commissions and municipalities to pay their bills by electronic or wire transfers	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4056	Prohibiting the disclosure of the names of lottery winners	Pending		Committee	01/21/98
HB 4057	Authorizing the regional jail and correctional facility authority to construct new facilities or renovate existing facilities for the incarceration of juveniles	Pending		Committee	03/03/98
HB 4058	Limiting actions against certain health professionals prescribing or administering controlled substances in the management of intractable pain	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4059	Providing a free lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license for permanently disabled residents	Pending		Committee	01/22/98
HB 4060	Modernizing statutory language relating to appellate procedure	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4061	Authorizing specialized motorcycle license plates for veterans	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4062	Lawful possession of wildlife	BL		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4063	Relating to terminating employment of county board of education employees who test positive for illegal drugs	Pending		Concurrence	03/14/98
HB 4064	Relating to disposition of juvenile delinquents and notice of hearing to the state medicaid agency	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4065	Providing that the state board of education is responsible for providing education to juveniles in secure predispositional detention centers	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4066	Providing a speed limit, applicable to semitractor trailers, of five miles per hour slower than the existing speed limit on all highways	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4067	Prohibiting certain elected officials from being reimbursed for out-of-state travel	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4068	Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Fund Act	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4069	Updating the meaning of certain terms used in the Corporation Net Income Tax Act	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4070	Updating the meaning of certain terms used in the Personal Income Tax Act	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4071	Increasing the amount of awards that victims may receive from the court of claims and modifying certain procedures	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4072	Providing for jury trials in certain administrative proceedings involving contested cases	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4073	Amending the West Virginia Medical Practice Act	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4074	Eliminating the acquisition of property rights in real estate by adverse possession	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4075	Eliminating per diem charges assessed against counties for the incarceration of county inmates	Pending		Committee	01/23/98
HB 4076	Increasing the number of years subject to salary increments for teachers	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4077	Allowing senior citizens aged sixty and over to use telescopic sights on a muzzle-loading firearm for deer hunting	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4078	Assessment of a motor vehicle awarded to a spouse in a final divorce order	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4079	Allowing members of the public employees retirement system who choose deferred retirement to use personal leave for the payment of insurance premiums	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4080	Authorizing dog wardens to issue citations for violations of leash laws	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4081	Employment of school cooks, custodians and secretaries	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4082	Relating generally to physician assistants	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4083	Authorizing a preneed cremation agreement	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4084	Authorizing teen court programs as an optional proceeding for certain juveniles	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4085	Providing a cost-of-living benefit for certain retired public employees	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4086	Prohibiting the operation of all-terrain vehicles on publicly maintained streets or highways	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4087	Relating to the teachers' defined contribution retirement system	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4088	Payment of unused vacation time, personal leave and sick leave for certain adult probation officers	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4089	Permitting hunting on Sunday after twelve noon	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4090	Eliminating additional pay for school bus drivers who perform extra duty assignments during regular working hours	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4091	Relating to division of natural resources rules relating to hunting or fishing violations, seized property and qualifications of conservation officers	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4092	Exempting from property taxes property used by fraternities and sororities as residential accommodations	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4093	Creating a new felony offense of disarming or attempting to disarm a law-enforcement officer	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4094	Providing nondiscriminatory treatment of out-of-state banks in acting as county depositories	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4095	Modernizing the licensure and regulation of the sale of checks and money orders	Pending		Committee	01/26/98
HB 4096	Permitting the commissioner of banking to require certain criminal background checks	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4097	Providing a cost-of-living allowance to certain retired teachers	Pending		Committee	01/27/98
HB 4098	Penalties for assault against correctional employees, humane officers, emergency medical technicians and firefighters	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4099	Prohibiting funding for abortions with certain exceptions	Pending		Committee	01/27/98
HB 4100	Increasing the penalty for false reports concerning bombs or explosives	Pending		Committee	01/27/98
HB 4101	Authorizing state banks to file quarterly reports by electronic transmission	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4102	Relating to the long-term care ombudsman program	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4103	Removing the requirement that muzzle-loading firearms have iron sights only	Pending		Committee	01/28/98
HB 4104	Making Christmas Eve a state holiday	Pending		Committee	01/28/98
HB 4105	Crane Operator Certification Act	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4106	Relating to shooting ranges and limitations on nuisance actions	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4107	Increasing from twenty to thirty the allowable years of service used in calculating salary increments for state employees and including employees of higher education governing boards	Pending		Committee	01/28/98
HB 4108	Relating to clean up and remediation of oil spills on hospital grounds	Pending		Committee	01/28/98
HB 4109	Penalties for driving on a suspended license or revoked license	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4110	Increasing retirement service credit for teachers who serve as an officer with a statewide teaching association	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4111	Requiring verification of an approved septic or sewage disposal system before connection of public utilities	Pending		Committee	01/28/98
HB 4112	Creating the felony offense of disseminating indecent material to minors	Pending		Committee	01/28/98
HB 4113	Making technical changes relating to simulcasting of horse and dog races and pari-mutuel wagering on simulcast races	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4114	Continuing the Women's Commission	Signed		Governor	03/05/98
HB 4115	Continuing the Meat Inspection Division of the Department of Agriculture	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4116	Continuing the Investment Management Board	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4117	State personal income tax exemption for certain members of volunteer fire departments	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4118	Amending the West Virginia Guardianship and Conservatorship Act	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4119	Providing a procedure for protecting the safety of convenience food store employees and the community	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4120	Requiring persons transporting compressed gas containers to secure the containers	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4121	Changing the name of the arts and humanities section to the arts section	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4122	Requiring that genuine crash parts used for the repair of motor vehicles be unused genuine crash parts	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4123	Repealing the family law master system	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4124	Election of family law masters	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4125	Reentry into the teachers retirement system for certain employees	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4126	Property Tax Limitation Act of 1998	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4127	Authorizing the New River Parkway Authority to develop a land management system	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4128	Reorganizing the state's recruitment and retention efforts for health care providers	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4129	Requiring administrative employees of the state department of education, RESA and county boards of education to substitute teach in certain schools	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4130	Mandating that the West Virginia University and Marshall University football teams play each other annually	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4131	Requiring state department of education employees receive the same salary as comparable county board of education employees	Pending		Committee	01/29/98
HB 4132	DEP, acid rain provisions and permits	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4133	DEP, dam control	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4134	DEP, certification of gas wells	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4135	DEP, emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4136	Rulemaking, Bureau of Environment	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4137	DEP, hazardous waste management	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4138	Division of Health, drinking water treatment revolving fund	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4139	Insurance commissioner, accident and sickness insurance policies	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4140	DNR, prohibitions when hunting and fishing	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4141	DNR, special boating	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4142	DNR, special fishing	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4143	State Police, modified vehicle inspections	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4144	Rulemaking, Department of Administration	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4145	Agriculture, fish processing	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4146	Agriculture, inspection of meat and poultry	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4147	Board of Architects, rules relating to the board	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4148	Auditor, standards for voluntary payroll deductions	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4149	Auditor, transaction fee and rate structure	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4150	Division of Banking, charges in connection with a consumer credit sale	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4151	Division of Banking, sale of insurance products by state-chartered banks	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4152	Board of examiners in counseling	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4153	Board of dental examiners, professional limited liability companies	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4154	DEP, abandoned wells	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4155	DEP, coalbed methane wells	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4156	DEP, future use and inactive status for oil and gas wells	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4157	DEP, water pollution control	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4158	DEP, oil and gas operations--solid waste	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4159	DEP, control of emissions from municipal solid waste landfills	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4160	DEP, air pollution from hazardous waste facilities	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4161	DEP, surface mining reclamation	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4162	Environmental quality board, groundwater standards	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4163	Fire commission, state building code	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4164	Fire commission, state fire code	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4165	Governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction, training standards	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4166	Governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction, law enforcement response to domestic violence	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4167	Division of Health, asbestos abatement licensing	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4168	Division of Health, breast and cervical cancer diagnostic and treatment fund	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4169	Division of Health, clinical laboratory technician licensure	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4170	Division of Health, sewage systems	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4171	Human Rights Commission, definition of employer	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4172	Insurance commissioner, rule relating to AIDS	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4173	Insurance commissioner, group accident and sickness insurance minimum policy coverage standards	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4174	Insurance commissioner, accident and sickness insurance, portability and marketing requirements	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4175	Insurance commissioner, guaranteed issue of individual accident and sickness insurance	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4176	Insurance commissioner, individual accident and sickness insurance minimum standards	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4177	Rulemaking, Department of Tax and Revenue	Pending		CONF	03/14/98
HB 4178	Division of Labor, Occupational Health and Safety Act	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4179	Board of Medicine, licensing, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education and physician assistants	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4180	Board of miner training, education and certification, safety training for surface coal miners	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4181	DMV, suspension, revocation or nonrenewal of driving privileges	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4182	DNR, contracted extraordinary law-enforcement services	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4183	DNR, falconry	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4184	DNR, general hunting	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4185	DNR, special boating rule for Jennings Randolph Lake	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4186	DNR, special migratory bird hunting	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4187	DNR, special waterfowl hunting	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4188	DNR, wild turkeys	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4189	Occupational Therapy, administrative board rules	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4190	Examiners in Optometry, expanded prescriptive authority	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4191	Personnel, administrative rules	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4192	Radiologic technology, continuing education	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4193	Electronic records fees, Secretary of State	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4194	Secretary of State, corporations, other business entity filing	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4195	Social Work Examiners, licensure	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4196	Soil Conservation Committee, regulations	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4197	State Police, administrative rules	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4198	State Police, cadet selection	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4199	State Police, handguns	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4200	Rulemaking, Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4201	State Police, grievance procedure	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4202	Tax Division, charitable raffles	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4203	Tax Division, bingo	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4204	Tax Division, property tax valuation	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4205	Tax Division, oil and natural gas	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4206	Tax Division, coal property	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4207	Tax Division, natural resources property	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4208	Tax Division, wood manufacturing	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4209	Treasurer's Office, imprest funds	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4210	Treasurer's Office, deposit of moneys	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4211	Treasurer's Office, processing payments	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4212	Treasurer's Office, debt capacity	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4213	Treasurer's Office, reporting state debt	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4214	Treasurer's Office, selection of depositories	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4215	Treasurer's Office, selection of depositories, receipt accounts	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4216	DEP, oil and gas wells	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4217	Environmental Quality Board, water quality standards	Pending		Committee	01/30/98
HB 4218	Psychologists, fees	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4219	Radiologic technologists, fees	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4220	Providing standard notice requirements for insurance contracts	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4221	Charging inmates for health care and treatment services	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4222	Relating to increasing compensation of school service personnel	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4223	Removing the requirement of standardized testing of children in kindergarten through grade one	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4224	Requiring schools to give prior written informed consent to parents before providing school psychiatric or psychological services	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4225	Relating generally to grandparent visitation	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4226	Increasing the penalty for disorderly conduct	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4227	Incorporating federal tax limitations on maximum compensation taken into account for determining retirement benefits and contributions	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4228	Prohibiting rules intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions prior to ratification of the United Nations Framework Convention on Global Climate Change Treaty	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4229	Removing Welch Natural Gas Cooperative from PSC rate making and fee imposition authority	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4230	Including the Legislature and the former departments of corrections and health within coverage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4231	Implementing universal mandatory solid waste collection service statewide	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4232	Providing a pay raise for members of the state police	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4233	Authorizing the division of motor vehicles to issue titles for salvage or reconstructed vehicles	Tabled		3rd Reading	02/20/98
HB 4234	Creating the felony offense of taking the identity of another person for unlawful purposes	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4235	Relating to grandparent visitation rights	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4236	Requiring certain buildings built and maintained with public funds to use at least twenty-five percent steel framing	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4237	Permitting a person with a suspended license to continue to drive commercially when the suspension is on a motor vehicle used solely for noncommercial purposes	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4238	Claims for compensation of innocent victims of crime	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4239	Relating to the appointment of a sheriff as the administrator of an estate	Pending		Committee	02/02/98
HB 4240	Relating generally to cable television service	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4241	Increasing the bidding threshold for the board of municipal public works	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4242	Updating West Virginia's public housing law	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4243	Relating generally to parking for handicapped persons	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4244	Exempting benefits from military retirement from state personal income tax	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4245	Allowing parents, guardians and custodians access to school records of their children	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4246	Civil service coverage for regional jail and correctional facility authority employees	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4247	Relating generally to driver's license testing and procedures	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4248	Bringing state law into compliance with the Federal Fair Housing Amendments Act	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4249	Allowing hunting on Sundays with a special license	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4250	Requiring professional firefighters to complete apprenticeship before being eligible for promotion	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4251	Promulgating legislative rules allowing for facility-wide and multiunit alternate emission control strategies	Pending		Committee	02/03/98
HB 4252	Providing payment for claims against the state	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4253	Exempting propane gas for off road use from the excise tax on gasoline or special fuel	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4254	Relating to emergency closing of court	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4255	Continuing the State Lottery Commission	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4256	Continuing the Board of Examiners of Land Surveyors	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4257	Continuing the Board of Risk and Insurance Management	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4258	Continuing the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4259	Relating generally to the regulation of limited benefits insurance policies	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4260	Establishing a special volunteer medical license	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4261	Placing limits upon integrated classroom size and providing personnel to assist with integrated instruction	Pending		Committee	02/04/98
HB 4262	Regulation of on-campus parking at state colleges and universities	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4263	Exempting limousines or specialized limousine services from PSC regulation	Pending		Committee	02/04/98
HB 4264	Granting magistrate clerks, deputy clerks and assistants the same salary increase granted public employees	Pending		Committee	02/04/98
HB 4265	Repealing the provider tax on dental services	Pending		Committee	02/04/98
HB 4266	Relating to restructuring the Jail Facilities Standards Commission	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4267	Regulation of telemarketing activities for consumer protection	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4268	Allowing school service personnel to recapture previously earned seniority upon reemployment	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4269	Requiring HMOs, PEIA insurance coverages and group health coverages to provide equal payment coverage for prescription drugs	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4270	Providing a personal income tax credit for long-term health care insurance premiums	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4271	Providing a seven and one half percent salary increase for all state employees	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4272	Including employees of "911" systems in the civil service system	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4273	Regulation of pawnbrokers	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4274	Increasing the per diem compensation and expenses of judges of the court of claims	Pending		Committee	03/10/98
HB 4275	Creating the West Virginia transportation oversight committee	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4276	Permitting retired members of police departments to serve on the board of trustees of the policemen's pension and relief fund	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4277	PSC jurisdiction in permitting retail customers to obtain direct access to competitive markets for their power supply	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4278	Standards for instruction and use of braille in education programs for visually impaired students	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4279	Increasing fees for inspection stickers and exempting from inspection vehicles with fifty thousand miles or less	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4280	Allocation of proceeds collected from solid waste assessment fees	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4281	Phasing out certain health provider taxes	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4282	Imposing a felony penalty for assault and battery upon any correctional employee	Pending		Committee	02/05/98
HB 4283	Proposing rules adopting the national association of insurance commissioners' model proposal of annuity evaluation mortality tables	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4284	Creating councils for the delivery of staff development programs for professional education	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4285	Allowing a secured lender to procure insurance covering collateral	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4286	Granting priority to veterans for federal and state employment and training programs	Pending		Committee	03/06/98
HB 4287	Procedures and fees for use of yellow flashing warning lights on certain vehicles	Pending		Committee	02/06/98
HB 4288	Allocation of fees collected for permits of approval to open or reopen underground mines	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4289	Removing spending authority of the director of the office of miners health, safety and training and requiring certain funds be deposited with the state treasurer	Pending		Committee	02/06/98
HB 4290	Changing the business registration tax and registration period	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4291	Penalties for DUI for persons holding a commercial driver's license and who are convicted of an offense while operating a noncommercial vehicle	Pending		Committee	02/06/98
HB 4292	Claims against the states and its agencies	Pending		Committee	02/06/98
HB 4293	Authorizing the use of electronic signatures for certain governmental transactions	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4294	Children's Health Insurance Program Act	Pending		Committee	02/06/98
HB 4295	Relating to grandparent visitation when the parent's parental right is terminated due to a felony conviction	Pending		Committee	02/06/98
HB 4296	Allowing individuals from other states to carry a concealed weapon in this state and authorizing reciprocity agreements with other states concerning concealed weapons	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4297	Requiring county and municipal boards of health to adopt resolutions and hold public hearings prior to making rules	Pending		Committee	02/06/98
HB 4298	Giving the state, rather than counties or municipalities, sole responsibility for the regulation of tobacco and tobacco products	Pending		Committee	02/06/98
HB 4299	Creating a children's health insurance program and program board and authorizing the employment of an executive director	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4300	Organizing the state's recruitment and retention efforts for health care providers	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4301	Permitting emergency medical service attendants to choose whether lost time is subtracted from regular pay or annual leave	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4302	Relating generally to school service personnel salaries, benefits, seniority, etc.	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4303	Increasing the minimum amount before an addition to tax may be imposed as a penalty for underestimating individual quarterly tax payments	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4304	Relating generally to school personnel seniority, student-teacher ratio, workers' compensation, etc.	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4305	Increasing the rate of reimbursement to county boards of education for student transportation costs	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4306	Implementing certain recommendations of the commission on educational quality and equity	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4307	Allowing county and municipal development authorities to sell, lease or dispose of property by either private treaty or public auction	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4308	Tax credits for companies engaged in new steel manufacturing operations	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4309	Preventing the merger of trusts in which the trustee is also a beneficiary of the trust	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4310	Relating to settlement of a deceased's estate	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4311	Establishing a ninety-day time period for filing an appraisement of a decedent's estate	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4312	Relating to the recording of a memorandum of trust with the clerk of the county commission and specifying requirements	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4313	Enabling a caller to access a live operator at the beginning of a call by a means that is easily understood	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4314	Changing procedures in the education and public employees grievance process	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4315	Allowing the formation of provider sponsored organizations to offer coordinated care plans	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4316	Requiring dogs to be controlled by leashes while on the grounds of state parks	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4317	Retirement benefits for members of police and fire departments upon attaining twenty-five years of service regardless of age	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4318	Deleting the requirement that the attorney general have knowledge of and give consent to settlements negotiated by the state board of insurance	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4319	Providing retirement service credit for certain employees of the West Virginia University extension service	Pending		Committee	02/09/98
HB 4320	Eliminating the exemption from the Freedom of Information Act for certain material, data and writings concerning economic development	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4321	Requiring medicaid providers to publicly disclose staffing and performance data	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4322	Allowing certain unemployed, uninsured persons to purchase insurance through PEIA and allowing certain corporate employers to receive coverage	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4323	Imposing campaign spending limits for political offices and prohibiting persons from naming or referring to candidates in certain advertising without consent	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4324	Election of the entire judiciary on a nonpartisan basis and providing that candidates cannot solicit contributions from lawyers	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4325	Relating generally to the authority of county commissions to adopt ordinances, etc	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4326	Tax credits for companies engaged in new aluminum manufacturing operations	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4327	Tobacco Products Excise Tax Act	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4328	Disposition of court costs collected in magistrate courts	Pending		Committee	03/10/98
HB 4329	Raising state minimum pay scale pay grades for school service personnel	Pending		Committee	02/10/98
HB 4330	Repealing section requiring examination of offices of court clerks	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4331	Providing that bonding of deputy sheriffs not be required when liability insurance is in place	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4332	Rewriting the agricultural and forest seed law	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4333	Prohibiting the transportation of unrestrained animals in the back of an open motor vehicle	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4334	Extending the time for the Marion County county commission to meet as a levying body for the purpose of extending an additional levy for parks and recreation development	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4335	Requiring the licensing of clinical exercise physiologists	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4336	Expanding the counties covered by the Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority and increasing the number of members	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4337	Expanding the charitable or public service organizations authorized to conduct bingo and raffles and expanding purposes for which proceeds may be expended	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4338	Relating generally to standards and certification of accountants	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4339	Authorizing county commissions to adopt and enforce noise abatement ordinances	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4340	Changing the percentage allocations of annual license fund income to certain DNR sections and programs	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4341	Requiring diagnostic test results be reported to a patient within twenty-four hours of the time the physician receives the results	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4342	Authorizing municipal law-enforcement officers to transport and present mentally incompetent persons to mental health care facilities	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4343	Creation of the council to oversee expenditures in fine arts	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4344	Creating the economic fairness act and encouraging economic development in counties with high unemployment	Pending		Committee	02/11/98
HB 4345	Continuing the State Soil Conservation Committee	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4346	Continuing the Commission for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4347	Continuing the Racing Commission	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4348	Continuing the parks section and the parks functions of the Division of Natural Resources	Tabled		3rd Reading	02/17/98
HB 4349	Continuing the Division of Personnel	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4350	Supplemental appropriation to the Governor's Office, publication of papers and transition expenses	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4351	Supplemental appropriation to the Governor's Office, custodial fund	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4352	Supplemental appropriation to the Governor's Office, governor's cabinet on children and families	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4353	Supplemental appropriation to the Auditor's Office, payroll system acquisition	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4354	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Administration, Division of Finance	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4355	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Administration, Division of Purchasing	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4356	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Administration, Division of Purchasing	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4357	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Administration, public defender services	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4358	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Natural Resources, personal services	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4359	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Culture and History, unclassified	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4360	Supplemental appropriation to the State Department of Education, increased enrollment	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4361	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, unclassified	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4362	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, child welfare system	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4363	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, early intervention and family support services	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4364	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, social services	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4365	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, office of the secretary	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4366	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, Mountaineer Challenge Academy	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4367	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, Fire Commission	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4368	Supplemental appropriation to the Military Affairs and Public Safety, Division of Corrections	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4369	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, Colin Anderson Correctional Center	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4370	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, payments to counties and regional jails	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4371	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, State Police	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4372	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Tax and Revenue, personal services	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4373	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Tax and Revenue, Tax Division	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4374	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Tax and Revenue, office of hearings and appeals	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4375	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Tax and Revenue, Tax Division, unclassified	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4376	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Tax and Revenue, Year 2000 Compliance	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4377	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, drinking water treatment	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4378	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, Division of Juvenile Services	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4379	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, Division of Juvenile Services	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4380	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Administration, Division of Purchasing, personal services	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4381	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Personnel, human resource information system	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4382	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, child support enforcement	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4383	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, child support enforcement access and visitation program	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4384	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, State Police, surplus transfer account	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4385	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Labor, collection of occupational injury and illness data	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4386	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, social services	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4387	Supplemental appropriation to the Human Rights Commission, EEOC and HUD programs	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4388	Supplemental appropriation to the State Police, law enforcement improvements	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4389	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Transportation, West Virginia Regional Transpark	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4390	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Agriculture, State Soil Conservation Committee	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4391	Supplemental appropriation to the Governor's Office, governor's cabinet on children and families	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4392	Supplemental appropriation to the Governor's Office, commission for national and community service	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4393	Supplemental appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, drinking water treatment	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4394	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Health, safe drinking water information system	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4395	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, family and children's tracking system	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4396	Supplemental appropriation to the Development Office, small cities block grant program	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4397	Eliminating the state armory board	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4398	Relating to a funding plan for continuing public school construction	Pending		Committee	03/02/98
HB 4399	Relating to retirement annuities for persons who retired on disability retirement	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4400	Preventing the reduction of annuities of certain persons under disability retirement	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4401	Establishment of family resource centers in needy counties	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4402	Managed Care Consumer Protection Act	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4403	Providing a tax credit to parents or guardians who provide private, primary or secondary education for their children	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4404	Elder Offense Registration Act	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4405	Exempting special dyed kerosene from the gasoline and special fuel excise tax	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4406	Penalties for failure to fully report property for ad valorem taxation and extending the deadline for reporting	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4407	Relating to corporation net income tax and allocation and apportionment of net income of a corporate partner's distributive share	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4408	Relating generally to ad valorem property taxes and expanding an existing administrative practice	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4409	Relating to corporation net income tax adjustments and making a technical correction to the allowance for certain governmental obligations secured by residential property	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4410	Making technical corrections concerning adjustments to taxable income for foreign source income of corporations	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4411	Clarifying the sixty-day filing period for charitable bingo and raffles and making technical corrections	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4412	Including a checkoff box on income tax forms for a contribution to prevent the euthanization of healthy dogs and cats	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4413	Clarifying that the advice and consent of county commissions as it relates to the hiring of employees of other elected officials relates only to budgetary considerations	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4414	Removing the requirement that an applicant for initial mine rescue training be under fifty years of age	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4415	Imposing criminal penalties for certain telephone solicitation practices	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4416	Relating to violations of protective orders as the result of violent criminal acts or stalking	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4417	Including an appendix for an agreement of alternative child support arrangement	Pending		Committee	02/12/98
HB 4418	Relating generally to privately-owned shooting preserves	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4419	Providing a county referendum to allow voters to decide the issue of Sunday hunting	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4420	Allowing schools to close on days of public mourning for the death of a current or former United States President	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4421	Requiring the state to purchase electric power from North Branch Power Plant	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4422	Raising the state personal income tax exemption	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4423	Exempting from taxation antique motor vehicles and motorcycles	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4424	Supplemental appropriation to the State Department of Education, computer basic skills	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4425	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Human Services, health care provider tax	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4426	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Miners' Health, Safety and Training, test fees fund	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4427	Requiring a vision test for renewal of a driver's license	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4428	Eliminating administrative hearings before the Human Rights Commission and placing complaints within the jurisdiction of the circuit courts	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4429	Providing consumer protection regarding assistive devices for disabled persons	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4430	Requiring labor organizations to establish seperate funds for political purposes, etc	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4431	Increasing the pay grade for aides employed in kindergarten classes	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4432	Salary increase for aides employed in certain kindergarten classes	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4433	Requiring that a dog be vaccinated for rabies prior to registration	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4434	Adding first degree murder and obstruction of justice to offenses for which a prosecuting attorney may apply for permission to wiretap	Pending		Committee	03/02/98
HB 4435	Increasing the pay of supreme court justices, circuit judges, magistrates, magistrate court clerks and assistants in certain counties	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4436	Creating a new registration plate for classic motor vehicles and motorcycles and use of such vehicles for general transportation	Pending		Committee	03/13/98
HB 4437	Dedicating certain natural gas tax revenue to the county in which the gas was extracted	Pending		Committee	02/13/98
HB 4438	Establishing the Reading Excellence Accelerates Deserving Students (READS) summer school program	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4439	Permitting county commissions to purchase liability insurance for nonprofit organizations	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4440	Establishing the crime of interfering with or misleading a law-enforcement officer	Pending		Committee	03/02/98
HB 4441	Limiting the expansion of the state capitol complex in the east end of Charleston	Pending		Committee	02/16/98
HB 4442	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Culture and History, Library Commission and the Educational Broadcasting Authority	Pending		Committee	02/16/98
HB 4443	Modifying the membership and powers of the jobs investment trust board	Pending		2nd Reading	03/12/98
HB 4444	Clarifying and providing technical cleanup of language concerning responsibilities of the state treasurer, etc	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4445	Exempting certain sales by motor vehicle dealers from the consumers sales tax	Pending		Committee	02/16/98
HB 4446	Supplemental appropriation to the Bureau of Senior Services	Pending		Committee	02/16/98
HB 4447	Facilitating the procurement and distribution of funds for infrastructure development	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4448	Operation of the enhanced emergency telephone systems serving Cabell and Kanawha counties	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4449	Liability for certain persons who render emergency medical care involving the use of an automatic external defibrillator	Pending		2nd Reading	03/13/98
HB 4450	Payment of jail costs by the state for time served in regional jails	Pending		Committee	02/16/98
HB 4451	Eliminating several categories of vehicle classes made obsolete by deregulation of the trucking industry, etc	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4452	Providing family law masters access to records and information concerning a child or juvenile	Pending		Committee	02/16/98
HB 4453	Certification and registration requirements for business entities, etc	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4454	West Virginia Egg Marketing Law of 1998	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4455	Requiring funeral directors to notify county clerks of deaths	Pending		Committee	02/17/98
HB 4456	Appointment of a special nonresident prosecutor in certain cases against elected or appointed public officials	Pending		Committee	02/17/98
HB 4457	Exempting dogs used as guide or support dogs by disabled persons from the head tax on dogs	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4458	Eliminating the twenty year restriction on incremental salary increases for state employees	Pending		Committee	02/17/98
HB 4459	Relating to participation in elections, campaigns or activities by certain public employees	Pending		Committee	02/17/98
HB 4460	Regulation of quarries and reclamation of minerals by the division of environmental protection	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4461	Exempting funds in individual retirement accounts from levy and attachment by creditors	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4462	Changing the composition of the state fire commission	Pending		Committee	02/17/98
HB 4463	Authorization to award damages to landlords for damages caused by evicted tenants	Pending		Committee	02/17/98
HB 4464	Adding the definition of cider for wine sales and imposing a liter tax on cider	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4465	Monitoring incoming and outgoing mail of inmates in correctional institutions	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4466	Raising the monetary threshold for grand larceny	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4467	Raising the maximum penalty for third degree sexual assault and first degree sexual abuse	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4468	Changing the name or adding to the list of correctional institutions under the control of the commissioner of the division of corrections	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/05/98
HB 4469	Prohibiting the recognition of same sex marriages from other states or territories	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4470	Eliminating landlord liability for delinquent accounts of tenants for water services	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4471	Permitting certain acute care hospitals to convert acute care beds to skilled nursing beds	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4472	Relating to the wildlife endowment fund and creating the Ohio River management fund advisory board	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4473	Allowing members of public bodies to participate in a meeting by video-teleconference when a medical condition prevents the member from attending	Vetoed		Governor	04/02/98
HB 4474	Increasing the amount of money that can be borrowed from the revenue shortfall reserve fund	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4475	Transferring certain jurisdiction and employees from the department of transportation to the public service commission	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4476	Allowing household employers to file payroll tax forms with payments due on an annual basis to coincide with payment of personal income tax	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4477	Allowing certain beer and liquor advertisements on the exterior of private clubs and beer establishments	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4478	Providing a procedure when there is a proposed settlement for the policy limits to the underinsured motorist carrier	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4479	Relating to reporting motor vehicle accidents to law-enforcement officials	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4480	Creating a legislative oversight commission on public employees insurance accountability	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4481	Deleting the requirement that the PEIA finance board develop an annual financial plan to meet financial requirements, etc	Pending		Committee	02/18/98
HB 4482	Imposing special excise taxes on smokeless tobacco products and dedicating proceeds to the Children's Health Insurance Program	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4483	Allowing the secretary of the department of health and human resources to designate by rule the diseases which are sexually transmitted, etc	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4484	Providing that an employee has the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4485	Requiring insurance coverage for the treatment of serious mental illness	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4486	Requiring animal owners to post bonds for costs when an animal is seized as abandoned, neglected or cruelly treated	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4487	Granting waivers to sparsely populated counties for relief from the ratio limitations on state funding of professional educators	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4488	Creating a new class of schools called private postsecondary education institutions	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4489	Initiating a procedure for initiative and referendum	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4490	Exempting certain nonprofit organizations from motor vehicle title and registration taxes	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4491	Providing a pay increase for classified state employees for three consecutive years	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4492	Establishing a rebuttable presumption of responsibility for any damage resulting from blasting	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4493	Increasing the annual leave carryover for state employees	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4494	Increasing salary of school service personnel	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4495	Increasing the salaries of teachers	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4496	Ensuring good indoor air quality in schools	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4497	Exempting from civil liability drivers who transport intoxicated persons	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4498	Creating separate criminal offenses involving the scene of an accident that resulted in the death or injury of any person	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4499	Setting forth factors to be considered by courts in determining child custody in divorces	Pending		Committee	02/19/98
HB 4500	Making it unlawful to hunt while under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs	Pending		CONF	03/14/98
HB 4501	Removing the requirement that a resident hunter, trapper or fisherman sixty-five years or older carry a division identification card	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4502	Definition of "bag limit" and "game fish"	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4503	Authorizing treating physicians to determine bona fide medical emergencies for HIV-related testing for medical diagnostic purposes	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4504	Regulation of preneed crematory company contracts	Pending		Committee	03/06/98
HB 4505	Amending provisions relating to the award and distribution of grant moneys from the school building authority	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4506	Permitting certain state employees to earn merit pay raises	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4507	Reform of the procedures for obtaining administrative and judicial review of property tax assessments	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4508	Regional Water and Wastewater Authority Act	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4509	Requiring water companies to provide water for emergency flow testing and to maintain fire hydrants at no cost to the consumer or fire department	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4510	Requiring the installation of fire hydrants in all upgrades and new installations of water mains	Pending		Committee	03/12/98
HB 4511	Public Employment Relations Act	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4512	Requiring the television broadcasting of certain county commission meetings	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4513	Creating the consumer protection enforcement fund	Pending		Committee	03/10/98
HB 4514	Requiring the commissioner of labor to base the determination of prevailing wage rates on certain statistics and providing county commissions authority to review the determination	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4515	Giving deputy sheriffs who are required to work during holidays the same coverage as is authorized for municipal police officers, firefighters and correctional officers	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4516	Eliminating the consumer sales tax on food by a six-year phaseout	Pending		Committee	02/20/98
HB 4517	Restoring the authority of the public energy authority to initiate, acquire, construct, finance or issue bonds for electric power projects and transmission facilities	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/12/98
HB 4518	Implementing findings and recommendations regarding imposition of municipal business and occupation taxes on health maintenance organizations	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4519	Relating to uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance coverage	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4520	Permitting movement of policies between companies within the same insurance group	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4521	Requiring boards of education to employ two substitute bus operators for curriculum related field trips	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4522	Exempting state teachers and military retirement incomes from state income tax	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4523	Providing additional compensation for school employees required to attend certain activities on nonschool days	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4524	Allowing volunteer fire department members a one thousand dollar exemption from gross income for state income tax purposes	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4525	Eliminating by a three-year phaseout the consumers sales tax on food and food products	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4526	Clarifying when the time begins to run following the suspension of a driver's license for driving under the influence	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4527	Providing that all persons affected by a minor boundary adjustment have a voice in the annexation	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4528	Requiring the custodial parent in a domestic relations case to account for the expenditure of child support received	Pending		Committee	02/23/98
HB 4529	Requiring notice from creditors to cosignors of failure of consumer to make scheduled payments	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4530	Establishing parent education classes for parents involved in certain actions	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4531	Defining when municipalities may lower the twenty-five mile per hour speed limit in residential areas	Tabled		3rd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4532	Waiving the prohibition against establishment of a salvage yard in proximity to a residential community by petition and countywide referendum	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4533	Allowing county road supervisors to run for and hold political office	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4534	Establishing "Operation Native Talent" for West Virginians seeking employment and job opportunities	Pending		Committee	03/11/98
HB 4535	Permitting certain public offices to satisfy financial examination requirements by having a review rather than an audit	Vetoed		Governor	04/08/98
HB 4536	Establishing a pilot project to permit Sunday hunting	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4537	Allowing public employees retirement system members to purchase prior credited service and clarifying service credit for certain legislative employees	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4538	Providing supplemental benefits for teachers who retired prior to July 1, 1988	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4539	Eliminating the consumers sales tax on food	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4540	Prohibiting the intermingling of campaign contributions	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4541	Prohibiting the practice of baiting wildlife for hunting purposes	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4542	Increasing retirement benefits for public employees	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4543	Expanding venue for certain lawsuits involving state officials	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4544	Relating to funding and projects of the infrastructure and jobs development council	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4545	Relating to revisions to the Human Rights Act	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4546	Continuing authority of the commissioner of the bureau of employment programs to administer the workers' compensation program	Pending		Committee	03/02/98
HB 4547	Changing the experience increment for classified employees from thirty-six dollars to fifty dollars	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4548	Exempting the Legislature from any fees associated with the use or nonuse of the state purchasing card program	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4549	Allocating gasoline and special fuel excise taxes to the division of natural resources for use in maintaining highway safety	Pending		Committee	02/24/98
HB 4550	Requiring certain operators of motorboats to obtain a certificate of boating safety education training and raising registration fees of motorboats	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4551	Changing the qualifications for licensing and registration of foresters	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4552	Exempting certain natural gas and oil production from severance taxes	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4553	Creation and regulation of prepaid limited health service organizations	Pending		Committee	03/06/98
HB 4554	Establishing the boundary line between Jefferson County, West Virginia, and Loudoun County, Virginia	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4555	Providing for the deferring of tax implementation and collections for both personal and real property for new businesses	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4556	Relating to judicial review of juvenile proceedings	Tabled		3rd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4557	Clarifying language relating to funds to be used to implement provisions relating to the child placement alternatives corporation	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4558	Relating to transferring responsibility for the Kanawha Home for Children to the division of juvenile services	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4559	Relating to consent to medical treatment of any juvenile in the custody of the division of juvenile services	Tabled		3rd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4560	Including facilities that provide care for unwed mothers and their children in the definition of "child welfare agency" and responsibility for the infant of an unmarried child, etc.	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4561	Relating to juvenile proceedings generally	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4562	Covenant Marriage Act	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4563	Authorizing the sale of the property known as the former Thomas Jefferson Junior High School	Pending		Committee	03/06/98
HB 4564	Recreating the coal and energy research bureau	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4565	Transfer of service credit to the public employees retirement system from the teachers' defined contribution retirement system	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4566	Providing authority to revoke eligibility for medicaid benefits for misuse of benefits	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4567	Definition of state medicaid agency and continuing and defining the purpose of the advisory council for the medicaid services fund	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4568	Limiting the hours of operation and prohibiting the possession of deadly weapons in private liquor clubs	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4569	Clarifying that only property which was acquired for use as a highway be offered to abutting landowners prior to sale	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4570	Requiring written consent of a municipality before a property owner can restrict access to utility lines	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4571	Requirements of nonresidents severing West Virginia timber and requiring certain recordkeeping by purchasers of timber, logs or wood products	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4572	Clarifying legislative intent as to qualification of managed timberland and effect of certification	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4573	Requiring the tax commissioner to develop a simple or short form for the payment of timber severance tax	Pending		Committee	02/25/98
HB 4574	Relating generally to oil and gas conservation commission	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4575	Requiring the department of health and human resources to obtain and compile management information and to conduct performance audits	Pending		Committee	03/03/98
HB 4576	Continuing the office of judges of the workers' compensation system	Pending		Committee	03/06/98
HB 4577	Requiring preneed cemetery contracts to itemize charges on contracts	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4578	Establishing a market-based air emission banking and trading program	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4579	Transferring county solid waste authorities to regional councils	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4580	Making the commission of a felony or misdemeanor with the use of a motor vehicle and firearm a seperate criminal offense	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4581	Prohibiting block scheduling at middle schools, junior high schools and high schools	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4582	Creating the institute for increased postsecondary education participation	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4583	Industrial Park Shell Building and Jobs Act	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4584	Providing a supplemental benefit every three years to annuitants of the public employees retirement system	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4585	Permitting new motor vehicle dealers to issue with new motor vehicles state inspection stickers valid for three years or fifty thousand miles	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4586	Relating to special charges for municipal services and specifying fee limitations	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4587	Creating a new article relating to patient protection	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4588	Ron Yost Personal Assistance Services Act	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4589	Changing the percentage requirements needed from sixty percent to a simple majority for county commissions to undertake certain projects	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4590	Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage laws	Pending		Committee	02/26/98
HB 4591	Modernizing the licensure and regulation of the sale and issuance of checks and money orders	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4592	Negligent homicide while boating	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4593	Certain advanced nurse practitioners entitled to receive medicaid payments	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4594	Voiding provisions for development of an electronic portfolio by the State Board of Education	Pending		RECD	03/13/98
HB 4595	Creating an emergency medical services licensure fund	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4596	Appointment of a special prosecutor from the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys' Institute	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4597	Revision and clarification of the open governmental proceedings law	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4598	Small Tourism Business Development Act	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4599	Appointment of milk inspectors	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4600	Limited insurance license for private passenger vehicle rental companies	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4601	Revision of the statutes governing the practice of chiropractic	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4602	Equalizing magistrate salaries with the salary of the clerk of the circuit court	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4603	Sentencing alternative for violations of the ban on tobacco products for students over the age of eighteen years	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4604	Requiring mental hygiene commissioners to receive annually one week of training relative to mental illness	Pending		Committee	03/03/98
HB 4605	Certain fees for osteopaths to be set by the Board of Osteopathy	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4606	Providing that a photocopy of a lost, but not revoked, will or codicil shall be valid when properly verified	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4607	Increasing the rate of pay for nonteaching support personnel employed by the Division of Rehabilitative Services	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4608	Changing the time limitation to acquire property by adverse possession	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4609	Establishment of pilot supervised visitation programs by the Department of Health and Human Resources	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4610	West Virginia Family Education Rights and Privacy Act	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4611	Increasing the multiplier and providing supplemental benefits for certain annuitants under PERS	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4612	Exempting military retirement income from taxation	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4613	Changing definitions for residential board and care homes	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4614	Clearly delineating liability of subcontractors for the payment of wages and benefits	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4615	West Virginia Small Business Tax Credit Act	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4616	State Capitol Complex boundary limits	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4617	Incremental decrease in the tax assessed on dental and physicians' services	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4618	Board of Examiners in Counseling permitted to establish fee schedule by legislative rule	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4619	Small business investment and jobs expansion tax credit	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4620	Tax exemption for real estate transfers between grandparent and grandchild and exempting conversions to limited liability companies from corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships or trusts	Pending		Committee	03/06/98
HB 4621	Directing the Secretary of State to propose legislative rules regarding the provision upon request of ballots in Braille for use by blind persons	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4622	Authorizing county commissions to enact ordinances against disturbance of the peace	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4623	Continuation of tax credit for qualified historic rehabilitated buildings investment	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4624	Exempting renovations made on historic buildings from the State Building Code	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4625	Providing a definition of electronic data processing for sales tax purposes and making certain technical corrections	Pending		Concurrence	03/14/98
HB 4626	Bringing state law into conformity with the federal Safe Water Act	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4627	Raising the bond requirement for operators of oil and gas wells	Pending		Committee	03/02/98
HB 4628	Eliminating exclusion of federal alimony deduction from West Virginia source income for nonresidents	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4629	Authorizing the Tax Commissioner to implement electronic funds transfer procedures for payment of taxes	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4630	Implementing the U. S. Corps of Engineers permit system for water quality	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4631	Authorizing the Commissioner of Highways to increase gross weight limitations on certain roads in the City of Weirton	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4632	Creation of an additional permitted job classification of video lottery floor attendant	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4633	Dedicating tax proceeds from fuel tax on barges and other commercial watercraft to the West Virginia Public Port Authority	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4634	Requiring spousal consent for election of straight life annuity under any retirement system administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board	Vetoed		Governor	04/09/98
HB 4635	Graduated elimination of the sales tax on food	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4636	Designating one racing day at horse and dog racetracks as "state college and university day"	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4637	Imposing a mandatory life sentence without probation or parole for conviction on death caused by arson-related crime	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4638	Limiting bank ATM transaction fees	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4639	Clarifying changes relating to court approval of the compromise of actions involving infants and insane persons	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4640	Establishing a statute of limitations for commencement of civil and criminal enforcement proceeding under environmental statutes	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4641	Clarifying provisions of Solicitations of Charitable Funds Act	Pending		Committee	03/03/98
HB 4642	Relating to the leasing of space by the regional jail correctional facility authority to the division of corrections	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4643	Prison Industries Act of 1998	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4644	Removing requirement that a public convenience and necessity must exist to operate buses, taxis or limousine services	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4645	Creating rights of way or easements for the production or distribution of natural gas	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4646	Giving independent insurance agents rights and protection with regard to termination and cancellation of contracts	Pending		Committee	03/06/98
HB 4647	Prohibiting all terrain vehicles on highways unless they are licensed	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4648	Relating to the definition of gross income when determining child support obligations	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4649	Criteria for issuance of a motor vehicle dealer license and use of dealer plates	Pending		Committee	03/13/98
HB 4650	Removing the physical contact requirement under the uninsured motorist statute	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4651	Removing the authority of the child advocate to collect alimony payment	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4652	Permitting the sealing of criminal records relating to drug offenses	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4653	Wild Game Breeders and Dealers Licensing Act	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4654	Conforming West Virginia's child support enforcement legislation to federal requirements	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4655	Prohibiting public funds from being expended to any organization which lobbies	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4656	Notification to adjacent landowners of land surveys	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4657	Relating to the posting of land for notice against trespass or unauthorized hunting, trapping or fishing	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4658	Salary increase for sanitarian employees	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4659	Relating to restrictive driver's licenses for persons with certain vision problems	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4660	Creating the offense of car jacking	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4661	Pecuniary interest of school officers and teachers in contracts	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4662	Establishing uniform automobile insurance premium rates	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4663	Providing that zoning authorities may permit transferable development rights to be transferred between parties	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4664	Awarding service revolver to special conservation officers upon retirement	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4665	Bimonthly deductions for PEIA insurance and negotiation of fees with health care provider groups	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4666	Removing liability of landowner for injuries to persons hunting, trapping or fishing on the landowner's land	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4667	Establishing a pilot program to develop proper social and behavioral skills in certain students	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4668	Unlawful actions by athlete agents	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4669	Relating to retail liquor licenses	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4670	Insurance discounts on certain policies based on volunteer fire department fees	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4671	Tax credits for companies engaged in new consumer-ready textile manufacturing	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4672	Enacting a patient protection act	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4673	Relating to additional drivers on automobile insurance policies	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4674	Keeping motor vehicle license suspensions and revocations for two years only	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4675	Compensation for loss or damage caused by wildlife	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4676	Joint and several liability for workers' compensation premium tax	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4677	Establishing that certain state environmental requirements be no more stringent than federal requirements	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4678	Tax credit for employers who provide child day care or private preschool services	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4679	Phasing out health care provider taxes within three years	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4680	The Cost of Doing Illegal Drug Business in West Virginia Act	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4681	Penalties for fraudulent use of another person's telephone, telephone number or account	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4682	Relating to classified higher education employees who are involuntarily transferred to a position in nonclassified status	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4683	Creating the Safe Road Bond Trust Fund	Pending		Committee	02/27/98
HB 4684	Public Defender System	Pending		Committee	03/09/98
HB 4685	Remedies for visitation violations	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4686	Exempting labor used in the manufacture and installation of modular dwellings from the consumer's use and sales tax	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4687	Technical changes and corrections to corporation net income tax laws	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4688	Relating to retention, preservation and destruction of records of the Secretary of State	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4689	Licensure and regulation of electricians	Pending		Committee	03/04/98
HB 4690	Continuing the State Fire Commission	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4691	Purchases and warranties relating to information systems and software purchased by the state and the year-2000 compliance	Pending		Committee	03/11/98
HB 4692	Relating to reducing certain maximum tax credits available for qualified West Virginia capital companies	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4693	Creating an Environmental Compliance Implementation Program	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4694	Authorizing receipt and retainment of interest on public employees insurance program funds	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4695	Relating to division of environmental protection permit fees and expending interest on funds in the water quality management fund	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4696	Dedication of surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies to volunteer fire departments, distribution of such proceeds, etc	Pending		Committee	03/06/98
HB 4697	Air Quality in New Schools Act	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4698	Changing termination dates pursuant to the West Virginia sunset law	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4699	Creating a pilot program to evaluate the efficacy of requiring the hiring of workers from the local labor market in publicly funded construction projects	Vetoed		Governor	04/09/98
HB 4700	Providing a mechanism for distributing funds to legal service organizations	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4701	Prohibiting the sale of the organs of a legally killed black bear	Pending		Concurrence	03/14/98
HB 4702	Providing for investing one hundred fifty million dollars from PERS in the state's regional jail and correctional facility system	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4703	Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the amount of twenty million dollars from the income tax refund reserve fund, etc.	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4704	Office of oil and gas technical rules modification	Tabled		3rd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4705	Abolishing the University of West Virginia Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the State College System and creating a single higher education governing board	Pending	Senate Introduction		03/13/98
HB 4706	Relating to the appointment of the executive secretary of the consolidated public retirement board by the governor	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4707	Transfer of funds for child care services, job training and transportation services for needy families	Tabled		2nd Reading	03/10/98
HB 4708	Extending the time of the city of Richwood to meet as a levying body for the purpose of holding an election on imposing an additional levy for street maintenance and police and fire protection	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4709	Authorizing the state to acquire a parcel of land known as Beaver Creek Country Club to be used as a public park and recreation area	Pending		3rd Reading	03/16/98
HB 4710	Prohibiting unfunded mandates relating to education	Pending		Committee	03/05/98
HB 4711	Modifying the definition of coalbed methane well	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4712	Authorization for health care provider negotiations and contracting	Pending		Concurrence	03/14/98
HB 4713	Relating generally to assessment of taxes and levies for interstate public service motor vehicles	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4714	Supplemental appropriation to the Division of Health, abstinence education program	Signed		Governor	04/22/98
HB 4715	Supplemental appropriation to the Bureau of Commerce, Division of Labor	Signed		Governor	04/22/98