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West Virginia Legislature

2nd Session of the 86th Legislature

Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Friday, March 6, 2020

Friday, March 6, 2020 – 59th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 9:30 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  • SCR 62: Requesting study of proof of vision exam for all children enrolling in WV schools
  • SCR 63: Requesting study of current student-to-nurse and student-to-counselor ratios in public schools
  • SR 69: Recognizing WV Kids Cancer Crusaders
  • SR 70: Designating March 6, 2020, as McDowell County Day

THIRD READING

  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2088: Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2419: Relating to the authorization to release a defendant or a person arrested upon his or her own recognizance – (Amend. and title amend. pending) – (With right to amend)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 3098: Allowing the same business owner to brew and sell beer to also distill and sell liquor – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4003: Relating to telehealth insurance requirements – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4009: Relating to the process for involuntary hospitalization – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4092: Relating to foster care – (Amend. and title amend. pending) – (With right to amend)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4102: Relating to opioid antagonists
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4108: Relating generally to certificates of need for health care services
  • Eng. HB 4159: Relating to the manufacture and sale of hard cider
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4176: West Virginia Intelligence/Fusion Center Act – (Amend. and title amend. pending) – (With right to amend)
  • Eng. HB 4178: Requiring calls which are recorded be maintained for a period of five years
  • Eng. HB 4354: Adding nabiximols to the permitted list of distributed and prescribed drugs – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4362: Relating to penalties for neglect, emotional abuse or death caused by a caregiver – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4363: Establishing the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System
  • Eng. HB 4375: Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Compact – (Com. title amend. pending) (original similar to SB 656)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4377: The Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4388: Limiting the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner’s authority to restrict advertising – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4395: Removing the requirement that a veterinarian access and report to the controlled substance monitoring database – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4398: Relating to required courses of instruction – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4439: Clarifying the method for calculating the amount of severance tax attributable to the increase in coal production – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4447: Creating the shared table initiative for senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4494: Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4509: Transferring the Parole Board to the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation for purposes of administrative and other support – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4514: Permitting the use of leashed dogs to track mortally wounded deer or bear – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4523: Removing the limitation of number of apprentice hunting and trapping licenses a person may purchase
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4530: Authorizing daily passenger rental car companies to charge reasonable administrative fees – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4543: Relating to insurance coverage for diabetics
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4558: Creating a personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters in West Virginia – (Com. amend. pending) – (With right to amend)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4560: Relating to deliveries by a licensed wine specialty shop – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4573: Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4611: Relating to fireworks – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4619: Approving plans proposed by electric utilities to install middle-mile broadband fiber – (Amend. and title amend. pending) – (With right to amend)
  • Eng. HB 4665: Reducing the amount of rebate going to the Purchasing Improvement Fund
  • Eng. HB 4715: Authorizing municipalities to take action to grant certain fire department employees limited power of arrest – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4717: Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act – (Amend. pending) – (With right to amend)
  • Eng. HB 4737: Clarifying student eligibility for state-sponsored financial aid
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4747: Extending electronic submission of various applications and forms for nonprofit and charitable organizations, professionals and licensees
  • Eng. HB 4749: Providing more efficient application processes for private investigators, security guards, and firms – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4777: Relating to the right of disposition of remains
  • Eng. HB 4797: Authorizing municipalities to enact ordinances that allow the municipal court to place a structure, dwelling or building into receivership
  • Eng. HB 4804: Relating to comprehensive systems of support for teacher and leader induction and professional growth – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4823: Developing a plan for periodic audits of the expenditure of the fees from the emergency 911 telephone system and wireless enhanced 911
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4852: Relating to the penalties for the manufacture, delivery, possession, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver methamphetamine – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4946: Eliminating the requirement that municipal police civil service commissions certify a list of three individuals for every position vacancy
  • Eng. HB 4958: Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4960: Relating to exempting from licensure as an electrician

SECOND READING

  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2478: Modifying the Fair Trade Practices Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2961: Permitting the commissioner to require a water supply system be equipped with a backflow prevention assembly
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2967: Permitting a county to retain the excise taxes for the privilege of transferring title of real estate
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4004: Creating the West Virginia Sentencing Commission – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4015: Relating to Broadband Enhancement and Expansion – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4017: Establishing country roads accountability and transparency – (Com. amends. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4061: Health Benefit Plan Network Access and Adequacy Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4123: Clarifying that 911 telecommunication workers are included in the definition of those individuals who perform “emergency services” during a disaster – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4155: Relating generally to the regulation of plumbers – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4422: The Patient Brokering Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4433: Relating to deeds of trust – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4444: Establishing Medals of Valor and Medals for Bravery for emergency medical services, firefighters, and law-enforcement officers – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4474: Relating to peer-to-peer car sharing programs – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4585: Providing immunity from civil or criminal liability for making good faith reports of suspected or known instances of child abuse or neglect
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4587: Modernizing the Public Service Commission’s regulation of solid waste motor carriers and solid waste facilities – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4606: Listing contractor classifications on a contractor license
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4615: West Virginia Critical Infrastructure Protection Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4645: Establishing the Office of Regulatory and Fiscal Affairs under the Joint Committee on Government and Finance – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4648: The Parenting Fairness Act of 2020 – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4693: Expanding the scope of the Veterans to Agriculture Program – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4697: Removing the restriction that a mini-distillery use raw agricultural products originating on the same premises – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Bills on Senate Rules Committee Calendar

* Bills on the Rules Committee Calendar may be added or removed by majority vote of the Senate Committee on Rules *

THIRD READING

  • Eng. HB 4161: Making it illegal to scleral tattoo a person
  • Eng. HB 4499: Relating to multicounty trail network authorities – (Com. title amend. pending)

SECOND READING

  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2775: Requiring each high school student to complete a full credit course of study in personal finance – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4069: West Virginia Student Religious Liberties Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4497: Requiring an external defibrillator device at any secondary school athlete event – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4535: Relating to student aide class titles
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4594: Allowing poll workers to be appointed to work in precincts outside their county – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4607: Authorizing the operation of mobile shops for hair, nail, cosmetology, and aesthetics services – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4634: Southern West Virginia Lake Development Study Commission Act – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4664: Clarifying the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4748: Relating to the increase of fees that private nongovernment notary publics may charge for notarial acts
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4803: Relating to certification of electrical inspectors – (Amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4892: Reducing personal income tax rates when personal income tax reduction fund is funded at a certain threshold

Scheduled Committee Meetings

9 a.m.: Committee on Rules (Senate President’s Conference Room)

Senate Resolutions to be Introduced Friday, March 6, 2020

  • SR 71: Memorializing life of Karl Cameron “Butch” Lilly, III, former Assistant Clerk of WV Senate (Azinger, Boley, Carmichael, Baldwin, Beach, Blair, Clements, Cline, Facemire, Hamilton, Hardesty, Ihlenfeld, Jeffries, Lindsay, Mann, Maroney, Maynard, Palumbo, Pitsenbarger, Plymale, Prezioso, Roberts, Romano, Rucker, Smith, Stollings, Swope, Sypolt, Takubo, Tarr, Trump, Unger, Weld, Woelfel
  • SR 72: Urging Congress safeguard pharmaceutical supply chains
  • SR 73: Memorializing life of Dorothy Vaughan, NASA mathematician and computer programmer (Beach)

Committee Action on Bills from Thursday, March 5, 2020

9 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure

  • SCR 15: Kaylee Grace Whetzel Memorial Bridge; HCR 53: U.S. Army Air Corps T SGT Ralph H. Ray Memorial Bridge; HCR 105: U.S. Air force Colonel Rishel C. Walker Memorial Bridge
  • Concurrent resolutions reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that they each be adopted
  • HB 4017: Establishing country roads accountability and transparency
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

10 a.m.: Government Organization

  • HB 4155: Relating generally to the regulation of plumbers
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4606: Listing contractor classifications on a contractor license
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4015: Relating to Broadband Enhancement and Expansion
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4587: Modernizing the Public Service Commission’s regulation of solid waste motor carriers and solid waste facilities
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4693: Expanding the scope of the Veterans to Agriculture Program
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

4 p.m.: Judiciary

  • HB 4697: Removing the restriction that a mini-distillery use raw agricultural products originating on the same premises
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4433: Relating to deeds of trust
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4444: Establishing Medals of Valor and Medals for Bravery for emergency medical services, firefighters, and law-enforcement officers
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4648: The Parenting Fairness Act of 2020
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Originating Senate Concurrent Resolution 3: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to conduct study on domestic violence rates
  • Originating concurrent resolution reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it be adopted
  • Originating Senate Concurrent Resolution 4: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance conduct a study concerning potential implementation of a Deferred Retirement Option Plan for troopers and employees of the West Virginia State Police
  • Originating concurrent resolution, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it be adopted

4 p.m.: Finance

  • Com. Sub. to HB 4123: Clarifying that 911 telecommunication workers are included in the definition of those individuals who perform “emergency services” during a disaster
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4645: Establishing the Office of Regulatory and Fiscal Affairs under the Joint Committee on Government and Finance
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

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

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

Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999

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