Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Friday, March 4, 2022

March 4, 2022
in Member Press Release

Friday, March 4, 2022 – 52nd Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 9 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

SR 48: Congratulating George Washington High School Patriots girls’ swim team for winning 2022 State Championship
SR 49: Memorializing Honorable Naomi “Sue” Cline, wife, mother, realtor, former member of WV Senate, and dedicated public servant

THIRD READING

Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 250: Budget Bill

SECOND READING

Eng. HB 2817: Donated Drug Repository Program – (Com. amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4065: Allowing the Division of Natural Resources to teach hunter’s safety courses in school – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4282: Relating to establishing next generation 911 services in this state
Eng. HB 4286: Relating to exempting persons employed as attorneys from the civil service system
Eng. HB 4291: Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4324: To update collaborative pharmacy practice agreements – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4345: Relating to motor vehicle registration cards by establishing electronic or mobile registration cards
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4380: Relating to transportation of athletic teams – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4426: Repeal article 33-25G-1 et seq. creating provider sponsored networks
Eng. HB 4462: Relating to Deferred Retirement Option Plan evaluations (original similar to SB 532)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4489: Require counties to post open positions on statewide job bank – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Eng. HB 4517: Relating to the repealing requirements to display video ratings
Eng. HB 4535: Repeal section relating to school attendance and satisfactory academic progress as conditions of licensing for privilege of operation of motor vehicle – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4631: Establishing a bone marrow and peripheral blood stem donation awareness program
Eng. HB 4649: Transferring the operations of the West Virginia Children’s Health Insurance Program to the Bureau for Medical Services – (Com. amends. pending)

FIRST READING

Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2177: Permitting the issuance of a state issued identification card without a photo on the card under certain conditions – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 3223: Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4003: Relating generally to commercial benefit of substances removed from waters of the state by the treatment of mine drainage – (Com. amend. pending) (original similar to SB 458)
Eng. HB 4019: Relating to deadlines for public charter schools
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4141: Authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Corrections to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Law Enforcement Training and Certification Standards – (Com. title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4242: Authorizing the Division of Labor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Child Labor
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4295: To transfer the State Office of the National Flood Insurance Program from the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner to the Division of Emergency Management – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4406: To establish the West Virginia Military Hall of Fame – (Com. amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB4418: Relating to the Small Business Supplier Certification Assistance Program
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4420: To modify definitions of school bus operators.
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4430: Relating to definitions of base salary and overtime for police and firemen pensions
Eng. HB 4438: Applying current requirements for certain voting systems to be independent and non-networked to all voting systems that seek certification in West Virginia. – (Com. title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4479: Establishing the Coalfield Communities Grant Facilitation Commission – (Com. amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4499: Relating to making the procurement process more efficient by modifying and updating outdated processes and requirements – (Com. title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4562: Relating generally to the suspension and dismissal of school personnel by board and the appeals process – (Com. title amend. pending)
Eng. HB 4578: Relating to authorizing the Superintendent of the State Police to administer the Handle with Care program
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4583: Clarifying the definition of incapacity so that incarceration in the penal system or detention outside of the United States may not be inferred as resulting in a lack of capacity to execute a power of attorney – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4596: Relating generally to additional persons qualifying for the provisions of the Law-Enforcement Officers Safety Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
Eng. HB 4604: Relating to abolishing the Workforce Development Initiative Program Advisory Council – (Com. title amend. pending)
Eng. HB 4647: Relating to the Board of Funeral Service Examiners – (Com. amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4675: Relating to autonomous delivery vehicles
Eng. HB 4758: Relating to developing and maintaining a database to track reclamation liabilities in the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Special Reclamation Program
Eng. HB 4769: Eliminate the requirement to send recommended decisions by certified mail
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4785: Relating to judicial vacancies – (Com. title amend. pending)
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4797: To create an EV Infrastructure Deployment Plan for West Virginia that describes how our state intends to use its share of NEVI Formula Program funds

Scheduled Committee Meetings

11 a.m.: Judiciary (208W)

HB 2300: Including Family Court Judges in the Judges’ Retirement System
HB 4296: To revise outdated provisions within Chapter 23 of the West Virginia Code, which pertains to workers’ compensation
HB 4712: Require the prompt enrollment in payment plans for costs, fines, forfeitures, restitution, or penalties in circuit court and magistrate court
HB 4419: Allowing candidate committees and campaign committees to make contributions to affiliated state party executive committees
HB 4331: West Virginia’s Urban Mass Transportation Authority Act
HB 2631: Provide for WVDNR officers to be able to work “off duty”
HB 4778: Permit banks to transact business with any one or more fiduciaries on multiple fiduciary accounts

Time TBA: Agriculture and Rural Development (208W)

Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4050: Defining terms related to livestock trespassing
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4441: Creating a Class M air rifle stamp
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4570: To allow veterinary telehealth in West Virginia with out of state providers
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4644: Prohibiting the restriction, regulation, use or administration of lawn care and pest care products

** Committee times and agendas are subject to change **

Senate Bills to be Introduced Friday, March 4, 2022

SB 731: Making supplementary appropriation to Department of Tourism, Tourism Workforce Development Fund [By Request of the Executive] (Blair, Baldwin; Finance)
SB 732: Making supplementary appropriation to Hospital Finance Authority, Hospital Finance Authority Fund [By Request of the Executive] (Blair, Baldwin; Finance)
SB 733: Supplementing and amending appropriation to Executive, Governor’s Office [By Request of the Executive] (Blair, Baldwin; Finance)
SR 50: Designating March 7, 2022, as WV Library Day at Legislature (Lindsay)

Committee Action on Bills from Thursday, March 3, 2022

10 a.m.: Education

HB 4420: To modify definitions of school bus operators
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4019: Relating to deadlines for public charter schools
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4562: Relating generally to the suspension and dismissal of school personnel by board and the appeals process
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4604: Relating to abolishing the Workforce Development Initiative Program Advisory Council
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4008: Relating to Higher Education Policy Commission funding formula
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

12:30 p.m.: Rules

SR 35: Congratulating Tug Valley High School Lady Panthers for winning 2021 Class A State Championship in Girls Basketball
Resolution reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it be adopted

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

HB 4257: Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4344: Relating to foster care
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4113: Public Health definitions and powers of secretary and commissioner
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

SB 559: Creating Oral Health and Cancer Rights Act (Resolution)
Originating resolution reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it be adopted

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining

Originating Resolution 2: Urging Biden Administration to support domestic energy
Originating resolution, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it be adopted

Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4003: Relating generally to commercial benefit of substances removed from waters of the state by treatment of mine drainage
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4098: Relating to geothermal energy development
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

Eng. HB 4758: Relating to developing and maintaining a database to track reclamation liabilities in the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection special reclamation program
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

2 p.m.: Government Organization

HB 4295: To transfer the State Office of the National Flood Insurance Program from the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner to the Division of Emergency Management
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4499: Relating to making the procurement process more efficient by modifying and updating outdated processes and requirements
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4647: Relating to the Board of Funeral Service Examiners
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4262: Relating to licensure for polygraph examiners
Bill tabled by committee

HB 4769: Eliminate the requirement to send recommended decisions by certified mail
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 3223: Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Finance

Com. Sub. for HB 4451: Eliminating the requirement that otherwise qualified investment assets be located or installed at or within 2 miles of a preexisting manufacturing facility
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for HB 2096: Reinstating the film investment tax credit
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4396: Reducing federal adjusted gross income relating to tolls for travel on West Virginia toll roads paid electronically
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for HB 4410: Specifying allocation, apportionment and treatment of income of flow-through entities
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for HB 4461: Relating to the consolidation of all administrative fees collected by the agency into the existing “Tax Administration Services Fund”
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for HB 4484: Declaring certain claims against agencies of the state to be moral obligations of the state
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for HB 4567: Relating to business and occupation or privilege tax
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

HB 4311: Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity
Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 4297: To facilitate the sharing of information between the Department of Health and Human Resources and the State Auditor’s office in order to investigate reports of financial abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 2838: Authorize the ordering of restitution to the state for reimbursement of costs incurred for misuse of public funds, and to create the State Auditor’s Public Integrity and Fraud Fund for use of said funds
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Resolutions Adopted by the Senate as of Thursday, March 3, 2022 (53 – 32 Senate; 21 House)

SCR 1: US Army PFC Billy Keith Ford Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
SCR 3: USMC CAPT Dempsey Stowers Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
SCR 4: US Army SP4 Warner Ray Osborne Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
SCR 5: US Marine Corps CPL James “Bud” Cox Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
SCR 6: Holden 22 Coal Miners Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-28)

SCR 9: Haynie Family Veterans Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
SCR 10: US Air Force TSGT Franklin A. Bradford Bridge (Pending House introduction)
SCR 11: Dennis E. Davis Veterans Nursing Home (H Unfinished Business, 03-04)
SCR 13: US Army PFC Joseph Stanley McKinney Memorial Bridge (H Unfinished Business, 03-04)
SCR 14: US Army SSGT Elson M Kuhn Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
SCR 15: US Army PVT Shirley E. Bailey Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-28)

SCR 17: US Air Force SSGT Logan A. Young Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-28)
SCR 19: US Army PVT Thomas D. Beckett, Sr., Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
SCR 21: Putnam County Veterans Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-28)
SCR 22: US Army PFC Clifford O. Eckard Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
SCR 23: USMC CPL Guy Maywood Edwards Memorial Bridge (H Unfinished Business, 03-04)
SCR 26: US Army TEC5 William “Bill” Thurman King Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
SCR 27: US Army TSGT Harold William Schmidle Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-28)
SCR 28: US Army PVT Garland Lee Loudermilk Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
SCR 29: Nitro WW I Memorial Bridge (House Rules)
SCR 34: USMC SGTMAJ Herman H. Brawner Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-28)
SCR 36: USMC CPL Harry Edward Dean, Jr., Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
SCR 37: Harrison County Veterans Memorial Bridge (House Rules)
SCR 38: Cox Brothers’ Veteran Memorial Bridge (House Rules)
SCR 44: Clarifying 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (House Rules)
SCR 45: US Army CPL John D. Doyle, Sr. Memorial Road (House Rules)
SCR 46: Supporting North Central WV aviation and aerospace industries (Adopted, 02-28)
SCR 48: US Army PFC Ronald Lee Berry Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
SCR 49: Establishing Honor Guard in each National Guard unit (Pending House introduction)
SCR 52: Requesting study on establishing accredited school of veterinary medicine in WV (House Rules)
SCR 53: Requesting Office of Miners’ Health, Safety, and Training study need for health, safety, and training division in energy producing facilities (House Energy and Manufacturing)
SCR 54: Requesting study of tolling statute of limitations on civil actions for Consumer Credit and Protection Act (House Judiciary)
HJR 102: Clarifying that the policy-making and rule-making authority of the State Board of Education is subject to legislative review, approval, amendment, or rejection (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 15: Thomas Brothers Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 16: World War II Veterans Toothman Brothers Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 23: Requesting the Division of Highways to place at least 10 additional signs along highways entering West Virginia honoring fallen veterans and Gold Star Families (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 27: Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor (Adopted, 01-27)
HCR 28: Cpt. Billy Jake Smith Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-24)
HCR 30: U.S. Army Pvt. Dallis H. Johnson WWII Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-25)
HCR 34: U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class Byrne Lee Singleton Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 37: U.S. Army Corporal Charles William “Bill” Knight Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 40: USMC Cpl Guy Maywood Edwards Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 45: U.S. Army SP4 Dennis Harvey Roberts Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 46: U.S. Navy Seaman Donald Homer Wheeler Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 47: U.S. Army CPL Billy Earl Duty Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 59: Warrant Officer James G. Bosley Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 02-25)

HCR 63: U.S. Army MSGT Donald Lewis Coen Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 65: U.S. Army Major Jesse A. Jennings Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 72: U.S. Army SP5 Dana V. Perkins Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 73: Halstead Brothers WWII Veterans Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 76: U. S. Navy BM1 Farris Burton Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)
HCR 79: A resolution to designate February 21st as the official start day to National FFA Week in West Virginia (Adopted, 02-22)
HCR 81: U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Milford Arnold Cunningham Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 03-03)

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Thursday, March 3, 2022 (254 – 230 Senate; 24 House)

Bills and Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, March 3, 2022 (39 – 17 Senate; 22 House)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Thursday, March 3, 2022 (25 – 12 Senate; 13 House)

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