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2nd Session of the 86th Legislature

Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 49th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  • SCR 47: Requesting study of effectiveness of current laws maintaining private roads
  • SCR 48: US Army PFC Ronald Lee Berry Memorial Bridge
  • SCR 49: Requesting DOT, DOH evaluate October 1, 2018, “Updated Oil and Gas Road Policy”
  • SR 50: Designating February 25, 2020, as Fairmont State Day
  • SR 51: Recognizing Shinnston Fire Department’s 90th anniversary

THIRD READING

  • Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 38: Requiring schools provide elective course on Hebrew Scriptures or Bible – (With right to amend)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 213: Relating to administration of trusts (original similar to HB 4933)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 246: Including family court judges in retirement system for judges
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 284: Creating WV Health Care Continuity Act
  • Com. Sub. for SB 511: Regulating pawnbrokers
  • Com. Sub. for SB 514: Creating WV FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Act
  • Com. Sub. for SB 530: Relating to taxation of aircraft
  • Com. Sub. for SB 614: Changing method of allocating funding from Safe School Funds
  • Com. Sub. for SB 635: Allowing administration of small estates
  • Com. Sub. for SB 668: Enacting Uniform Trust Decanting Act
  • Com. Sub. for SB 760: Allowing state college or university apply to HEPC for designation as administratively or financially exempt school
  • Com. Sub. for SB 772: Clarifying American Law Institute’s Restatements of Law
  • Com. Sub. for SB 793: Relating to B&O taxes imposed on certain coal-fired electric generating units
  • SB 800: Authorizing electric utilities construct and operate project within electric utility distribution system
  • SB 816: Updating North American Industry Classification System code references
  • Com. Sub. for SB 819: Relating to DOH management of Coal Resource Transportation roads
  • SB 828: Clarifying municipal B&O taxation where business activity occurs
  • SB 831: Clarifying Economic Development Authority board enter into contracts necessary to carry out duties
  • SB 839: Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals
  • Com. Sub. for SJR 9: Amendment Authorizing Legislature to Eliminate or Lower Ad Valorem Tax on Motor Vehicles and Any Other Tangible Personal Property
  • Com. Sub. for HB 2338: Allowing the owner of an antique military vehicle to display alternate registration insignia
  • HB 4411: Relating to the West Virginia Residential Mortgage Lender, Broker and Servicer Act
  • HB 4477: West Virginia Mutual to Mutual Insurance Holding Company Act – (Com. title amend. pending) (original similar to SB598)
  • HB 4661: Relating to the powers of the Public Service Commission and the regulation of natural gas utilities

SECOND READING

  • Com. Sub. for SB 28: Allowing WV Board of Medicine investigators to carry concealed weapons
  • Com. Sub. for SB 66: Requiring State Police to follow towing services policies of county of location
  • Com. Sub. for SB 106: Making daylight saving time official time year round in WV
  • Com. Sub. for SB 120: Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells
  • Com. Sub. for SB 123: Relating generally to pyramid promotional schemes
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 160: Creating Voluntary WVU Rifle Team Check-Off Program on hunting and fishing licenses
  • Com. Sub. for SB 193: Setting forth timeframes for continuing purchases of commodities and services over $1 million
  • Com. Sub. for SB 259: Requiring mandatory incarceration prior to parole for certain persons convicted of distributing controlled substances near libraries
  • Com. Sub. for SB 269: Establishing advisory council on rare diseases
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 312: Relating to provisional licensure of social workers (original similar to HB 4128)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 329: Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 4217)
  • SB 355: Fire Commission rule relating to State Fire Code (original similar to HB 4275)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 356: Fire Commission rule relating to State Building Code (original similar to HB 4276)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 472: Providing alternative sentencing program for work release (original similar to SB 612)
  • SB 489: Moving provisions of licensing contractors to chapter 30 of code
  • Com. Sub. for SB 513: Protecting consumers against businesses using automatic renewals without consent
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 521: Relating to job creation and economic incentives
  • SB 569: Expiring funds from various accounts to DHHR, Medical Services Program Fund (original similar to HB 4487)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 570: Expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR, Medical Services Program Fund (original similar to HB 4489)
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 616: Relating to employment grievance procedure for public employees
  • Com. Sub. for SB 633: Creating Medicaid Families First Reserve Fund account (original similar to HB 4643)
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 648: Providing dental coverage for adult Medicaid recipients
  • Com. Sub. for SB 653: Increasing number of magistrates in Putnam County
  • Com. Sub. for SB 661: Replacing minimum minutes of instructional time required per day
  • SB 680: Qualifying not-for-profit private baccalaureate institutions for Advanced Career Education programs and WV Invests Grant Program
  • SB 687: Increasing compensation of elected county officials
  • Com. Sub. for SB 690: Permitting street-legal special purpose vehicles on highways
  • Com. Sub. for SB 700: Exempting physicians from specified traffic laws when responding to emergencies
  • Com. Sub. for SB 710: Establishing pilot program to evaluate telemedicine health services
  • Com. Sub. for SB 711: Relating to juvenile jurisdiction of circuit courts
  • Com. Sub. for SB 716: Requiring DHHR pay for tubal ligation without 30-day wait between consent and sterilization
  • Com. Sub. for SB 729: Relating to awards and disability under Deputy Sheriff Retirement Act
  • SB 732: Authorizing fee payment and expense reimbursement for attorneys who participate on court teams established by Supreme Court of Appeals
  • Com. Sub. for SB 738: Creating Flatwater Trail Commission
  • Com. Sub. for SB 739: Authorizing PSC protect consumers of distressed and failing water and wastewater utilities
  • Com. Sub. for SB 745: Creating exemption to state sales and use tax for rental and leasing of equipment
  • Com. Sub. for SB 749: Requiring Fatality and Mortality Review Team share data with CDC
  • SB 750: Establishing extended learning opportunities
  • Com. Sub. for SB 752: Relating generally to medical cannabis
  • SB 758: Relating to authority of Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council
  • Com. Sub. for SB 762: Creating Preserving Patient Stability Act of 2020
  • SB 775: Requiring two water bottle filling stations be included in newly built or renovated schools
  • Com. Sub. for SB 785: Establishing uniform electioneering prohibition area
  • Com. Sub. for SB 797: Authorizing governing boards of public and private hospitals employ hospital police officers
  • Com. Sub. for SB 798: Requiring dairy foods processed in state be added to list of items to be purchased by state-funded institutions
  • Com. Sub. for SB 802: Relating to public utilities generally
  • SB 805: Supplemental appropriation of moneys from Treasury to WV Commuter Rail Access Fund (original similar to HB 4963)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 810: Implementing federal Affordable Clean Energy rule
  • SB 812: Supplemental appropriation from Lottery Net Profits to Bureau of Senior Services (original similar to HB 4961)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 820: Authorizing DHHR transfer comprehensive community mental health centers and intellectual disability facilities to regional centers and facilities
  • Com. Sub. for SB 821: Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
  • Com. Sub. for SB 829: Establishing Overland Recreation Fund
  • SB 830: Eliminating special merit-based employment system for health care professionals
  • SB 832: Permitting retailers assume sales or use tax assessed on tangible personal property
  • SB 840: Creating statutory fee for modifying permits issued by DEP Office of Oil and Gas
  • SB 841: Requiring Governor to fix salaries of certain appointed officers after office is vacated
  • SB 842: Requiring Superintendent of Schools establish a Behavior Interventionist Pilot Program in two school districts for five years
  • SB 846: Requiring hospital publish notification prior to facility closure regarding patient medical records
  • SB 847: Updating controlled substance lists in schedules I and V
  • SB 848: Clarifying persons charged with DUI may not participate in Military Service Members Court
  • SB 849: Relating to military service as factor in certain insurance coverage rates
  • SB 850: Prohibiting racial discrimination based on certain hair textures and hairstyles
  • SB 851: Requiring Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction propose rule in coordination with law enforcement and certain medical boards
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4217: Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 4600: Relating to the definition of the term member regarding distributing premium tax proceeds

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10 a.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)

  • HB 4466: Certificates of Insurance Act
  • HB 4146: Relating to credit for reinsurance
  • HB 4410: Permitting directors and executive officers of a banking institution to borrow from a banking institution with which he or she is connected
  • HB 4502: Relating to insurance adjusters

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)

  • Agenda TBA

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

  • HB 4161: Making it illegal to scleral tattoo a person
  • Sub. for HB 4198: Permitting a person to obtain a 12-month supply of contraceptive drugs
  • HB 4434: WV health care workforce sustainability study
  • Sub. for HB 4581: Relating to WV Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening
  • Sub. for HB 4620: Redefining definition of “recovery residence”

2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)

  • HB 2967: Permitting a county to retain the excise taxes for the privilege of transferring title of real estate
  • HB 4137: Allowing counties to store and maintain voter registration records in a digital format
  • HB 4178: Requiring calls which are recorded be maintained for a period of five years
  • HB 4352: Removing the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure or certification in decision making
  • HB 4380: Updating the regulatory board review schedule
  • HB 4453: Expanding the eligibility requirements for private investigator and security guard licensure
  • HB 4417: Relating to permitting professional boards
  • HB 4666: Relating to competitive bids for intergovernmental relations and urban mass transportation
  • HB 4714: Increasing the monetary threshold for requiring nonprofit organizations to register as a charitable organization

2 p.m.: Education (451M)

  • HB 4022: Clarifying the qualifications of the Chancellor of the Higher Education Policy Commission
  • HB 4077: Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools
  • HB 4365: Granting of college credit hours for learning English as a second language
  • HB 4378: Relating to disciplining teachers
  • HB 4412: Relating to education benefits to members of the West Virginia Army National Guard and West Virginia Air National Guard
  • HB 4480: Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission
  • HB 4729: Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

  • SB 278: Providing various methods to deal with defendant who becomes incompetent during trial
  • SB 765: Modifying “Habitual Offender” statute
  • HB 4510: Prohibiting bodily intrusion by an inmate upon any person at any correctional facility
  • HB 4697: Removing the restriction that a mini-distillery use raw agricultural products originating on the same premises
  • HB 4039: Providing limitations on nuisance actions against fire department and emergency medical services
  • HB 4478: Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking
  • SCR 23: Requesting study of State Police’s increased duties and responsibilities

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

  • SB 843: Supplemental appropriation of funds from Treasury to DHHR Energy Assistance Fund
  • SB 844: Supplemental appropriation from Treasury to DHHR Birth-to-Three Fund
  • SB 845: Supplemental appropriation from Treasury to DHHR, Division of Human Services
  • HB 4582: Declaring certain claims against agencies of the state to be moral obligations of the state
  • HB 4437: Relating to the West Virginia Pay Card program
  • Sub. for HB 4090: Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund

Senate Bills and Resolutions to be Introduced Tuesday, February 25, 2020

  • SB 852: Supplemental appropriation of public moneys from Treasury to Department of Education, School Building Fund (Carmichael, Prezioso; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
  • SB 853: Supplemental appropriation of public moneys from Treasury to Department of Education, School Building Authority (Carmichael, Prezioso; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
  • SR 52: Designating February 26, 2020, as WV Child Care Association Celebrating Children and Families Day (Tarr)

Committee Action on Bills from Monday, February 24, 2020

9:30 a.m.: Judiciary

  • Originating Bill 3: Providing for the prohibition of the “patriot penalty”
  • Originating bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • SB 120: Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells
  • Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4513: Increasing the replacement costs required of a person causing injury or death of game or protected species
  • House bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Originating Concurrent Resolution 2: Requesting the West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Highways evaluate the October 1, 2018 “Updated Oil and Gas Road Policy”
  • Originating resolution reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it be adopted

9:30 a.m.: Finance

  • Sub. for SB 653: Increasing number of magistrates in Putnam County
  • No further action; committee substitute reported to full Senate with recommendation that it do pass on Feb. 21
  • Sub. for SB 160: Creating Voluntary WVU Rifle Team Check-Off Program on hunting and fishing licenses
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • SB 732: Authorizing fee payment and expense reimbursement for attorneys who participate on court teams established by Supreme Court of Appeals
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for SB 716: Requiring DHHR pay for tubal ligation without 30-day wait between consent and sterilization
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

  • Originating Bill 6: Prohibiting racial discrimination based on certain physical traits such as hair texture or hairstyle
  • Originating bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for Com. Sub. SB 119: Creating online voters’ guide
  • Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Originating Bill 7: Directing the Governors Committee on crime, delinquency, and correction to implement a drug treatment referral program
  • Originating bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for SB 810: Implementing federal Affordable Clean Energy rule
  • Committee substitute 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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