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2nd Session of the 86th Legislature

Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Thursday, March 5, 2020

Thursday, March 5, 2020 – 58th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  • SCR 58: Requesting study of sexual violence in WV
  • SCR 59: Rachel Hershey Smith Memorial Shelter
  • SCR 60: Requesting study on nutrition of public school students when schools are closed
  • SR 66: Recognizing March as Red Cross Month
  • SR 67: Designating March 5, 2020, as Treatment Court Day
  • SR 68: Recognizing Buckhannon-Upshur 4-H Air Rifle Club

THIRD READING

  • Com. Sub. for HB 2646: Providing a safe harbor for employers to correct underpayment or nonpayment of wages and benefits due to separated employees – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 3049: Improving dissemination of boiled water advisories to affected communities
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4001: Creating West Virginia Impact Fund – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4019: Downstream Natural Gas Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit Act of 2020
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4020: Removing authority of municipalities to require occupational licensure if licensure for the occupation is required by the state
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4088: Disposition of funds from certain oil and natural gas wells due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4094: Continuing the Foster Care Ombudsman
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4165: West Virginia Remembers Program
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4198: Permitting a person to obtain a 12-month supply of contraceptive drugs – (Com. title amend. pending) – (With right to amend)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4360: Exempting certain persons from heating, ventilating, and cooling system licensing requirements
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4361: Relating to insurance law violations – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4363: Establishing the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4378: Relating to disciplining teachers – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4406: Relating to the reproduction of checks and other records – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4410: Permitting directors and executive officers of a banking institution to borrow from a banking institution with which he or she is connected
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4421: Natural Gas Liquids Economic Development Act
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4452: Modifying the notice requirements for the redemption of delinquent properties – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4484: Relating to the Hazardous Waste Management Fund
  • HB 4499: Relating to multicounty trail network authorities – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4502: Relating to insurance adjusters – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4524: Making the entire state “wet” or permitting the sale of alcoholic liquors for off-premises consumption – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4557: Relating to centers and institutions that provide the care and treatment of mentally ill or intellectually disabled individuals
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4581: Relating to West Virginia Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening
  • HB 4618: Relating to deadly weapons for sale or hire
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4668: Creating the misdemeanor crime of trespass for entering a structure that has been condemned – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • HB 4960: Relating to exempting from licensure as an electrician

SECOND READING

  • Com. Sub. for HB 2088: Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 2419: Relating to the authorization to release a defendant or a person arrested upon his or her own recognizance – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 3098: Allowing the same business owner to brew and sell beer to also distill and sell liquor – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4003: Relating to telehealth insurance requirements – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4009: Relating to the process for involuntary hospitalization – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB4061: Health Benefit Plan Network Access and Adequacy Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4092: Relating to foster care – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • HB 4178: Requiring calls which are recorded be maintained for a period of five years – (Com. amend. pending)
  • HB 4375: Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Compact – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to SB 656)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4388: Limiting the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner’s authority to restrict advertising – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4494: Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4509: Transferring the Parole Board to the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation for purposes of administrative and other support – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4530: Authorizing daily passenger rental car companies to charge reasonable administrative fees – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4543: Relating to insurance coverage for diabetics – (Com. amends. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4558: Creating a personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters in West Virginia – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4560: Relating to deliveries by a licensed wine specialty shop – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4611: Relating to fireworks – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4619: Approving plans proposed by electric utilities to install middle-mile broadband fiber – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • HB 4715: Authorizing municipalities to take action to grant certain fire department employees limited power of arrest – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4717: Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act – (Com. amend. pending)
  • HB 4749: Providing more efficient application processes for private investigators, security guards, and firms – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • HB 4797: Authorizing municipalities to enact ordinances that allow the municipal court to place a structure, dwelling or building into receivership – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4852: Relating to the penalties for the manufacture, delivery, possession, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver methamphetamine – (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

  • HB 4161: Making it illegal to scleral tattoo a person.
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4398: Relating to required courses of instruction – (Com. title amend. pending)

SECOND READING

  • 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)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 2961: Permitting the commissioner to require a water supply system be equipped with a backflow prevention assembly
  • Com. Sub. for HB 2967: Permitting a county to retain the excise taxes for the privilege of transferring title of real estate
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4069: West Virginia Student Religious Liberties Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4102: Relating to opioid antagonists – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4108: Relating generally to certificates of need for health care services – (Com. amend. pending)
  • HB 4159: Relating to the manufacture and sale of hard cider
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4176: West Virginia Intelligence/Fusion Center Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • HB 4354: Adding nabiximols to the permitted list of distributed and prescribed drugs – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4362: Relating to penalties for neglect, emotional abuse or death caused by a caregiver – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4377: The Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4395: Removing the requirement that a veterinarian access and report to the controlled substance monitoring database – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
  • 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)
  • HB 4447: Creating the shared table initiative for senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4497: Requiring an external defibrillator device at any secondary school athlete event – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • HB 4514: Permitting the use of leashed dogs to track mortally wounded deer or bear – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • HB 4523: Removing the limitation of number of apprentice hunting and trapping licenses a person may purchase
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4535: Relating to student aide class titles
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4573: Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4594: Allowing poll workers to be appointed to work in precincts outside their county – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
  • HB 4607: Authorizing the operation of mobile shops for hair, nail, cosmetology, and aesthetics services – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4634: Southern West Virginia Lake Development Study Commission Act – (Com. amend. pending)
  • HB 4664: Clarifying the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • HB 4665: Reducing the amount of rebate going to the Purchasing Improvement Fund
  • HB 4737: Clarifying student eligibility for state-sponsored financial aid
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4747: Extending electronic submission of various applications and forms for nonprofit and charitable organizations, professionals and licensees
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4748: Relating to the increase of fees that private nongovernment notary publics may charge for notarial acts
  • HB 4777: Relating to the right of disposition of remains
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4803: Relating to certification of electrical inspectors – (Amend. pending)
  • HB 4804: Relating to comprehensive systems of support for teacher and leader induction and professional growth – (Com. title amend. pending)
  • 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
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4892: Reducing personal income tax rates when personal income tax reduction fund is funded at a certain threshold
  • Com. Sub. for HB 4946: Eliminating the requirement that municipal police civil service commissions certify a list of three individuals for every position vacancy – (Com. amend. pending)
  • 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. amend. and title amend. pending)

Scheduled Committee Meetings

9 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)

  • 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
  • HB 4017: Establishing country roads accountability and transparency

9:30 a.m.: Committee on Rules (Senate President’s Conference Room)

10 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)

  • HB 4155: Relating generally to the regulation of plumbers
  • HB 4606: Listing contractor classifications on a contractor license
  • HB 4015: Relating to Broadband Enhancement and Expansion
  • HB 4587: Modernizing the Public Service Commission’s regulation of solid waste motor carriers and solid waste facilities

TBA: Judiciary (208W)

  • HB 4697: Removing the restriction that a mini-distillery use raw agricultural products originating on the same premises
  • HB 4433: Relating to deeds of trust
  • HB 4444: Establishing Medals of Valor and Medals for Bravery for emergency medical services, firefighters, and law-enforcement officers
  • HB 4648: The Parenting Fairness Act of 2020
  • Originating Senate Concurrent Resolution: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to conduct study on domestic violence rates

2 p.m.: Education (451M)

  • SCR 54: Requesting study on WV academic standards in English and math
  • HCR 102: Requiring the development of funding formulas for West Virginia’s public institutions of higher education
  • SCR 60: Requesting study on nutrition of public school students when schools are closed

** Additional afternoon committee meetings, if any, will be announced Thursday.**

Senate Resolutions to be Introduced Thursday, March 5, 2020

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

Committee Action on Bills from Wednesday, March 4, 2020

9 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)

  • HB 4017: Establishing country roads accountability and transparency
  • Bill reported to full Senate with recommendation that it do pass; reported back to Transportation and Infrastructure

3 p.m. Judiciary (208W)

  • HB 4004: Creating the West Virginia Sentencing Commission
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 2419: Relating to the authorization to release a defendant or a person arrested upon his or her own recognizance
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4715: Authorizing municipalities to take action to grant certain fire department employees limited power of arrest
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4615: West Virginia Critical Infrastructure Protection Act
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 2478: Modifying the Fair Trade Practices Act
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4474: Relating to peer-to-peer car sharing programs
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4585: Providing immunity from civil or criminal liability for making good faith reports of suspected or known instances of child abuse or neglect
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4123: Clarifying that 911 telecommunication workers are included in the definition of those individuals who perform “emergency services” during a disaster
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 4530: Authorizing daily passenger rental car companies to charge reasonable administrative fees
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • HB 2088: Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

  • Sub. for HB 4543: Relating to insurance coverage for diabetics
  • Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for HB 4558: Creating a personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters in West Virginia
  • Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for HB 4611: Relating to fireworks
  • Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for HB 4494: Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative
  • Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that it do pass
  • Sub. for HB 4092: Relating to foster care
  • Committee substitute, 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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