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West Virginia Legislature

2nd Session of the 86th Legislature

On the Agenda: Wednesday in the House of Delegates

Here’s what’s scheduled Wednesday in the House of Delegates (note earlier floor session time):

SPECIAL CALENDAR

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

50th Day of the Legislative Session

House to convene at 9 a.m. On the agenda:

THIRD READING – For Passage

  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 554 – Relating to termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases  
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 571 – Expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to various accounts
  • S. B. 725 – Supplemental appropriation to various Department of Education accounts
  • S. B. 778 – Supplemental appropriation expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR
  • S. B. 779 – Supplemental appropriation expiring funds in State Excess Lottery Revenue to Department of Veterans’ Assistance
  • S. B. 780 – Supplemental appropriation by decreasing and adding new appropriation out of Treasury to DMAPS
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 2478 – Modifying the Fair Trade Practices Act
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 2897 – Relating to driving restrictions in school zones
  • H. B. 4159 – Relating to the manufacture and sale of hard cider
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4176 – West Virginia Intelligence/Fusion Center Act
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4362 – Relating to penalties for neglect, emotional abuse or death caused by a caregiver
  • H. B. 4402 – Relating to designation of early voting locations
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4439 – Clarifying the method for calculating the amount of severance tax attributable to the increase in coal production
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4461 – Requiring the Governor to fix the salaries of certain state appointed officers after the office is vacated or after July 1
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4494 – Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4497 – Requiring an external defibrillator device at any secondary school athlete event
  • H. B. 4524 – Making the entire state “wet” or permitting the sale of alcoholic liquors for off-premises consumption
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4535 – Relating to student aide class titles
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4560 – Relating to deliveries by a licensed wine specialty shop
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4573 – Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4574 – Establishing Just Transition support for coal and timber related jobs
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4587 – Modernizing the Public Service Commission’s regulation of solid waste motor carriers and solid waste facilities
  • H. B. 4602 – Increasing the penalty for DUI causing death when a child is present
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4619 – Approving plans proposed by electric utilities to install middle-mile broadband fiber
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4639 – Changing frequency of mandatory state inspections of motor vehicles
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4648 – The Parenting Fairness Act of 2020
  • H. B. 4665 – Reducing the amount of rebate going to the Purchasing Improvement Fund
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4693 – Expanding the scope of the Veterans to Agriculture Program
  • H. B. 4705 – Including three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4717 – Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4746 – Establishing a registry of persons with a communication disability
  • H. B. 4804 – Relating to comprehensive systems of support for teacher and leader induction and professional growth
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4852 – Relating to the penalties for the manufacture, delivery, possession, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver methamphetamine Com. Sub. for H. B. 4892 – Reducing personal income tax rates when personal income tax reduction fund is funded at a certain threshold
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4905 – Ban-the-Box Act
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4925 – Requiring the Secondary Schools Athletic Commission to recognize private, parochial, or church schools
  • H. B. 4929 – Relating to the administrative closing of stale or unprogressed estates
  • Com. Sub. for H. B. 4946 – Eliminating the requirement that municipal police civil service commissions certify a list of three individuals for every position vacancy
  • H. B. 4953 – Providing the PSC with authority to order the acquisition of failing utilities and a variety of tools to assist distressed and failing utilities
  • H. B. 4958 – Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs
  • H. B. 4966 – Relating generally to updating the North American Industry Classification System code references
  • H. B. 4969 – Relating to providing tax credit for the donation or sale of a vehicle to certain charitable organizations
  • H. B. 4970 – Relating to military service as a factor in certain insurance coverage rates (Shott) (Regular)
  • H. B. 4971 – Relating to a closing hospital [Amendment Pending] [Right to Amend]

SECOND READING – Amendment Stage

  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 586 – Reorganizing and re-designating Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety as Department of Homeland Security
  • S. B. 727 – Relating to disbursement of funds for highway road repair
  • S. B. 734 – Clarifying powers and duties of DOH in acquiring property for state road purposes

FIRST READING

  • S. B. 202 – Allowing one member of PSD board to be county commissioner
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 225 – Empowering municipalities to enact Adopt-A-Street programs
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 240 – Requiring hotels and restaurants secure manhole covers of certain grease traps (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 241 – Requiring State Board of Education develop method for student transportation costs as stand-alone consideration (Education Committee Title Amendment Pending)
  • S. B. 281 – Removing residency requirement for persons applying for reappointment to municipal police dept
  • S. B. 307 – Correcting code citation relating to certain tax liens
  • S. B. 509 – Relating to custodial allocation actions independent of divorce
  • S. B. 523 – Extending deadline for municipalities to offer Social Security coverage to certain municipal retirement system members (Pensions and Retirement Amendment Pending)
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 529 – Establishing limitations on claims and benefits against state (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
  • S. B. 552 – Requiring contracts of $25,000 or more be competitively bid (Government Organization Committee Amendment Pending)
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 576 – Relating to management of public records
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 583 – Creating program to further development of renewable energy resources (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
  • S. B. 652 – Authorizing School Building Authority promulgate legislative rules
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 686 – Exempting contract and common carrier laws for certain vehicles
  • S. B. 703 – Increasing earning limit for employees who accept separation incentive
  • Com. Sub. for S. B. 706 – Clarifying duties of law-enforcement training and certification subcommittee
  • S. B. 712 – Correcting name of Forensic Analysis Laboratory
  • S. B. 781 – Relating to reports regarding collaborative agreements between community and technical colleges and federally registered apprenticeship programs

Committee Meetings Scheduled:

Committee on Rules

8:30 a.m. – Behind Chamber

Citation Presentations Scheduled in House Chamber:

  • None.

From the Activity Calendar:

Higher Education Day

Upper House and Upper Senate Rotundas

*** Agendas and meeting times subject to change. ***

Contact: Jared Hunt at (304) 340-3323

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