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West Virginia Legislature

2nd Session of the 86th Legislature

Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Monday, March 2, 2020

Monday, March 2, 2020 – 55th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  • SR 60: Memorializing life of Katherine Johnson, WV native, NASA mathematician, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

THIRD READING

  • SB 852: Supplemental appropriation of public moneys from Treasury to Department of Education, School Building Fund (original similar to HB 4976)
  • SB 853: Supplemental appropriation of public moneys from Treasury to Department of Education, School Building Authority (original similar to HB 4975)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 3127: Relating to the Secondary School Activities Commission and participation by home schooled students
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4090: Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund
  • HB 4146: Relating to credit for reinsurance – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4365: Granting of college credit hours for learning English as a second language
  • HB 4412: Relating to education benefits to members of the West Virginia Army National Guard and West Virginia Air National Guard
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4438: Relating to the licensing of advance deposit wagering – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4450: Relating to instruction permits issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4461: Requiring the Governor to fix the salaries of certain state appointed officers after the office is vacated or after July 1
  • HB 4466: Certificates of Insurance Act – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4522: Allowing division to accept documents compliant with Real ID Act for proof of identity – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4760: Modifying video lottery retailer licensing eligibility requirements
  • HB 4790: Relating to Career Technical Education for middle school students
  • HB 4882: Authorizing limited sampling and limited sale of wine for off-premises consumption to wineries not licensed in the state
  • HB 4887: Relating to revocation, cancellation, or suspension of business registration certificates – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4929: Relating to the administrative closing of stale or unprogressed estates
  • HB 4969: Relating to providing tax credit for the donation or sale of a vehicle to certain charitable organizations

SECOND READING

  • Eng. HB 4022: Clarifying the qualifications of the Chancellor of the Higher Education Policy Commission
  • Eng. HB 4039: Providing limitations on nuisance actions against fire department and emergency medical services – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4077: Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4083: Requiring the West Virginia Parkways Authority to accept the use of credit and debit cards for paying tolls – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4137: Allowing counties to store and maintain voter registration records in a digital format
  • Eng. HB 4161: Making it illegal to scleral tattoo a person – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4198: Permitting a person to obtain a 12-month supply of contraceptive drugs – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4217: Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4252: Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4352: Removing the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure or certification in decision making (original similar to SB 503)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4398: Relating to required courses of instruction – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4434: West Virginia health care workforce sustainability study – (Com. amends. pending) (original similar to SB 558)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4464: Relating to driving privileges and requirements for persons under the age of 18 – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4478: Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4480: Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission
  • Eng. HB 4504: Relating to renewal application requirements for individuals with permanent disabilities – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4510: Prohibiting bodily intrusion by an inmate upon any person at any correctional facility – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4529: Relating to the collection of assessments and the priority of liens on property within a resort area – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4544: Relating to possession of any controlled substance on the premises of or within 200 feet of a public library – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4551: Relating to subsidized adoption – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4559: Modifying the limitations on civil actions against the perpetrator of sexual assault or sexual abuse upon a minor – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4576: Establishing a procedure for correcting errors in deeds, deeds of trust and mortgages – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4620: Redefining definition of “recovery residence”
  • Eng. HB 4647: Relating to limited video lottery permit holders
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4729: Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4773: Creating a workgroup to investigate and recommend screening protocols for adverse childhood trauma in this state – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4925: Requiring the Secondary Schools Athletic Commission to recognize preparatory athletic programs
  • Eng. HB 4955: Relating to reducing the cost of fees for state licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons and provisional state licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons

FIRST READING

  • SB 854: Expiring funds to Division of Culture and History from Auditor’s Office, Purchasing Card Administration Fund
  • SB 855: Expiring funds to State Rail Authority, WV Commuter Rail Access Fund from Auditor’s Office, Purchasing Card Administration Fund
  • HB 4409: Relating to transferring remaining funds from the Volunteer Fire Department Workers’ Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)

Scheduled Committee Meetings

9 a.m.: Pensions (451M)

  • HB 4363: Establishing the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System.

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

10:15 a.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

  • HB 4494: Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative
  • HB 2321: Allowing workers’ compensation benefits for first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder
  • HB 4581: Relating to WV Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening
  • HB 4102: Relating to opioid antagonists
  • HB 4395: Removing the requirement that a veterinarian access and report to the controlled substance monitoring
  • HB 4419: Relating to the Controlled Substance Monitoring Database
  • HB 4777: Relating to the right of disposition of remains
  • HB 4354: Adding nabiximols to the permitted list of distributed and prescribed drugs
  • HB 4557: Relating to centers and institutions that provide the care and treatment of mentally ill or intellectually disabled individuals
  • HB 4108: Relating to the certificates of need for health care services
  • HB 3049: Improving dissemination of boiled water advisories to affected communities

1 p.m.: Natural Resources (208W)

  • Agenda TBA

2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)

  • HB 4502: Relating to insurance adjusters
  • HB 4406: Relating to the reproduction of checks and other records

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

  • HB 4061: Health Benefit Plan Network Access and Adequacy Act
  • HB 4361: Relating to insurance law violations
  • HB 4009: Relating to the process for involuntary hospitalization
  • HB 4958: Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs
  • HB 4088: Disposition of funds from certain oil and natural gas wells due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners
  • HB 4573: Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources
  • HB:4524: Making the entire state “wet” or permitting the sale of alcoholic liquors for off-premises consumption
  • HB 4092: Relating to foster care

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

  • Agenda TBA

Senate Resolutions to be Introduced Monday, March 2, 2020

  • SR 61: Recognizing Leadership Jefferson (Unger, Rucker)
  • SR 62: Recognizing October as National Dwarfism Month (Takubo)

Committee Action on Bills from Saturday, February 29, 2020

10 a.m.: Economic Development

  • Originating Resolution 2: Requesting that WV Geological Survey and the Office of GIS research, study and make recommendations regarding state-administered GIS for WV communities with less than 5000 inhabitants
  • Originating resolution reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it be adopted
  • HB 4019: Downstream Natural Gas Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit Act of 2020
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for HB 4421: Natural Gas Liquids Economic Development Act
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4621: WV FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Act
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4626: WV Development Achievements Transparency Act

11 a.m.: Interstate Cooperation

  • HB 4375: Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Compact
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass; second reference to Health and Human Resources

12 p.m.: Military

  • HB 4165: West Virginia Remembers Program
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4589: Conducting study for an appropriate memorial for West Virginians killed in the War on Terror
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4655: Permitting military personnel in areas where on-the-job emergency medicine is part of the training to be granted automatic EMS or EMT certification
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

1 p.m.: Government Organization

  • HB 4099: Eliminating the permit for shampoo assistants
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4417: Relating to permitting professional boards
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4714: Increasing the monetary threshold for requiring nonprofit organizations to register as a charitable organization
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4666: Relating to competitive bids for intergovernmental relations and urban mass transportation
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4859: Accounting for state funds distributed to volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4803: Relating to certification of electrical inspectors
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4396: Relating to reporting suspected governmental fraud
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4823: Developing a plan for periodic audits of the expenditure of the fees from the emergency 911 telephone system and wireless enhanced 911
  • Bill is laid over
  • HB 4865: Requiring certain boards that seek to increase a fee or seek to impose a new fee to also submit cost saving measures
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4960: Relating to exempting from licensure as an electrician
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

1 p.m.: Education

  • HB 4546: Relating to tuberculosis testing for school superintendents
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4414: Relating to the selection of language and development milestones for the deaf and hard-of-hearing children
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4691: Relating to employment in areas of critical need in public education
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4378: Relating to disciplining teachers
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

  • HB 2892: Including digital and virtual information in the definition of property that can be searched and seized by a warrant
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4158: Allowing a person to manufacture a stated amount of alcoholic liquor for personal consumption
  • Motion to report the bill, as amended to the full Senate failed; bill will not be reported
  • HB 4593: Authorizing the assignment of poll workers to serve more than one precinct under certain circumstances
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4594: Allowing poll workers to be appointed to work in precincts outside their county
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4664: Clarifying the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

3 p.m.: Finance

  • Originating Bill 9: Expiring funds to the Department of Commerce, West Virginia Development Office, Marketing and Communications Operating Fund
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for HB 4001: Creating West Virginia Impact Fund
  • Bill reported, as amended, to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for HB 4439: Clarifying the method for calculating the amount of severance tax attributable to the increase in coal production
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for HB 4892: Reducing personal income tax rates when personal income tax reduction fund is funded at a certain threshold
  • Bill is laid over
  • HB 4519: Establishing a summer youth intern pilot program within Department of Commerce
  • Bill 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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