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2nd Session of the 86th Legislature

Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Saturday, February 25, 2023

Saturday, February 25, 2023 – 46th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 10 a.m.

THIRD READING

  • Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 268: Relating to PEIA
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 423: Increasing salary for certain state employees
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 462: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 469: Providing funding for CPR instruction to high school students
  • Eng. SB 544: Increasing power purchase agreement cap
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 558: Prohibiting law-enforcement agencies from posting booking photographs of certain criminal defendants on social media
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 561: Relating to administration of WV Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Fund Act – (With right to amend)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 585: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting any authorization that exceeds state law regarding agricultural operations
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 613: Relating generally to certificates of need – (With right to amend)
  • Eng. SB 619: Allowing teachers in public schools to teach intelligent design
  • Eng. SB 625: Requiring certain transcripts to be accepted as record of student’s performance for placement in micro school programs
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 665: Amending licensure requirements for massage therapist
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 676: Requiring report on Medicaid fees and managed care provider reimbursements compared to PEIA, Medicare, and surrounding states
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2993: Relating to rural emergency hospital licensure
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 3113: Requiring high school students to complete course of study in personal finance
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 3317: Relating to removing specific continuing education requirements

SECOND READING

  • Com. Sub. for SB 150: Budget Bill
  • Com. Sub. for SB 267: Updating law regarding prior authorizations
  • SB 438: Return to WV Tax Credit Act
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 522: Allocating percentage of county excise taxes for funding improvements to election administration
  • Com. Sub. for SB 534: Relating to nonintoxicating beer, nonintoxicating craft beer, cider, wine, and liquor license requirements
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 576: Creating Securities Restitution Assistance Fund for victims of securities violations
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB590: Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
  • Com. Sub. for SB 628: Revising provisions related to public charter schools
  • Com. Sub. for SB 667: Requiring periodic performance audits of WV Secondary Schools Athletic Commission
  • Com. Sub. for SB 677: Clarifying role and responsibilities of State Resiliency Officer
  • SB 679: Requiring Office of Inspector General to promulgate rules concerning location of forensic group homes
  • Com. Sub. for SB 688: Allowing BOE to hire retired teachers to assist with tutoring
  • SB 733: Relating to wildlife licenses and stamps
  • SB 735: Clarifying department responsible for administration of certain programs
  • SB 737: Emergency Medical Services Act
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2062: Establish rules and regulations for e-bikes in West Virginia that more closely comport to federal law
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2820: To provide HOPE Scholarship recipients with the ability to play sports – (Com. amends. pending)
  • Eng. HB 3307: Establishing the West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
  • Eng. HB 3428: Relating to the West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

FIRST READING

  • Com. Sub. for SB 62: Establishing secondary location for racetrack video lottery terminals
  • Com. Sub. for SB 220: Industrial Hemp Development Act
  • Com. Sub. for SB 422: Requiring public schools to publish curriculum online at beginning of each new school year
  • Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 440: Authorizing DOH pay current obligations from State Road Fund
  • Com. Sub. for SB476: Exempting managed care contracts from purchasing requirements
  • Com. Sub. for SB 541: Providing for election reforms
  • Com. Sub. for SB 546: Adding and removing certain compounds from controlled substance list
  • Com. Sub. for SB 547: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses
  • Com. Sub. for SB 572: Reforming cause of action for public nuisance
  • Com. Sub. for SB 573: Relating to child support guidelines and Support Enforcement Commission
  • Com. Sub. for SB634: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction
  • Com. Sub. for SB 650: Allowing physician assistants to own practice
  • Com. Sub. for SB 660: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death
  • Com. Sub. for SB 666: Placing cap on maximum penalty that may be imposed for first-degree robbery
  • Com. Sub. for SB 681: Clarifying that juvenile competency determination process extends to status offenders
  • SB 732: Prohibiting insurer from imposing copayment for certain services
  • SB 734: Requiring adoption of cloud computing services by state agencies
  • SB 736: Establishing three-year nontraditional school week pilot project
  • Eng. HB 3218: Relating to requiring suicide prevention resources be printed on student identification cards
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 3308: Authorizing PSC consider and issue financing orders to certain utilities to permit the recovery of certain costs through securitization via consumer rate relief bonds

Scheduled Committee Meetings

Following Floor Session (TBA): Judiciary (208W)

  • Com. Sub. for SB 470: Making adoption records accessible for medical purposes
  • Com. Sub. for SB 726: Preventing compensatory damage awards for outstanding medical expenses
  • Com. Sub. for SB 92: Providing compensation to victims of abusive lawsuits

Following Floor Session (TBA): Finance (451M)

  • Com. Sub. for 2526: Relating to reducing the personal income tax

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

Committee Action on Bills from Friday, February 24, 2023

9 a.m.: Agriculture and Natural Resources

  • Originating Bill: Right to Repair Act
  • Originating bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

10 a.m.: Judiciary

  • Com. Sub. for SB 581: Amending provisions of 2023 Farm Bill
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass
  • Com. Sub. for SB 633: Requiring prompt appearances for persons detained on capiases
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass
  • Com. Sub. for SB 123: Creating enhanced penalties for fleeing officer
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

10 a.m.: Finance

  • SB 150: Budget Bill
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass
  • HB 3340: To revise the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

15 minutes following Floor Session: Judiciary

  • Com. Sub. for SB 647: Changing time on child abuse registry for certain persons
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass
  • SB 197: Creating Paid Parental Leave Pilot Program
  • Motion to report the bill to the full Senate failed; bill will not be reported
  • Com. Sub. for SB 540: Creating misdemeanor offense of willfully urinating or defecating in public
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 24, 2023 (208 – 186 Senate; 22 House)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, February 24, 2023 (35 – 14 Senate; 21 House)

  • SB 4: Creating Adopt-A-Trail volunteer programs for public land under DNR jurisdiction (Signed, 02-17)
  • SB 10: Campus Self-Defense Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 83: Authorizing tactical medical professionals to carry firearms (Signed, 02-09)
  • SB 89: Requiring hospitals to staff qualified personnel to perform sexual assault forensic exams (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 128: Clarifying authority of Governor and Legislature to proclaim and declare state of emergency and preparedness (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 132: Clarifying criminal offense of harassment (Signed, 02-06)
  • SB 143: Relating to Adopt-A-Stream Program (Signed, 02-06)
  • SB 161: Authorizing DNR to manage and dispose of property (Signed, 01-24)
  • SB 162: Authorizing director of DNR to lease state-owned pore spaces in certain areas for carbon sequestration (Signed, 01-24)
  • SB 207: Relating to state allocation of funding to regional councils (Signed, 02-09)
  • SB 231: Transferring administration of WV Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Matching Funds Program to Department of Economic Development (Signed, 02-06)
  • SB 239: Requiring Commissioner of Bureau for Behavioral Health to engage certain providers and leaders to study homeless demographic (Signed, 02-24)
  • SB 241: Relating to Patient Brokering Act (Signed, 02-17)
  • SB 275: Adding State Fire Marshals to statute included with law enforcement and first responders that receive information on school safety requirements (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2006: Relating to reorganizing the Department of Health and Human Resources (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 2018: Permitting the managed care case coordinator to attend the multidisciplinary team meeting (Signed, 02-13)
  • HB 2029: Repealing the creation of an all-payer claims database (Signed, 02-13)
  • HB 2412: Declaring November 14 every year, a special Memorial Day in remembrance of the Marshall University airplane crash (Signed, 02-22)
  • HB 2506: Creating a title clearinghouse for non-resident businesses (Signed, 02-13)
  • HB 2530: Relating to the extension of the expiration of temporary registration plates from sixty days to ninety days (Signed, 02-15)
  • HB 2533: Relating to a permanent windshield placard to be valid for the duration of the applicant’s life (Signed, 02-15)
  • HB 2564: Repeal of administrative hearing procedures for DUI offenses (Signed, 02-14)
  • HB 2596: To modify when a nonresident student’s transfer may be denied (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 2602: Reestablishing certain specialized school service personnel classifications (Signed, 02-22)
  • HB 2776: Updating meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-14)
  • HB 2777: Updating federal taxable income and other terms in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-14)
  • HB 2800: All relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2835: Repeal outdated provisions of code relating to the West Virginia graduate college and Marshall University (Signed, 02-17)
  • HB 2845: Relating to removing expired provisions from the code (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 2882: Making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Economic Development (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 3055: To create a vocational math class for students interested in careers in the trades (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 3061: Relating to updating the authority of the Foster Care Ombudsman (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 3122: Permitting certain types of rifles using an encapsulated propellant charge that loads from the breech (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 3164: To extend the termination date of the West Virginia Advisory Council on Rare Diseases due to a delay in beginning its duties (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 3272: Relating to the operation of private trust companies in West Virginia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, February 24, 2023 (3 – 1 Senate; 2 House)

  • SCR 7: Amending Joint Rules of Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 02-14)
  • HCR 13: Make 2nd week of February of every year a week of recognition of the Boy Scouts of America (Adopted, 02-17)
  • HCR 29: Amending Joint Rule 13 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House that clarifies that when two or more bills amending the same statute are passed in the same session, the last passed controls (Adopted, 02-16)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Friday, February 24, 2023 (25 – 11 Senate; 14 House)

  • SB 4: Creating Adopt-A-Trail volunteer programs for public land under DNR jurisdiction (Signed, 02-17)
  • SB 83: Authorizing tactical medical professionals to carry firearms (Signed, 02-09)
  • SB 132: Clarifying criminal offense of harassment (Signed, 02-06)
  • SB 143: Relating to Adopt-A-Stream Program (Signed, 02-06)
  • SB 161: Authorizing DNR to manage and dispose of property (Signed, 01-24)
  • SB 162: Authorizing director of DNR to lease state-owned pore spaces in certain areas for carbon sequestration (Signed, 01-24)
  • SB 207: Relating to state allocation of funding to regional councils (Signed, 02-09)
  • SB 231: Transferring administration of WV Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Matching Funds Program to Department of Economic Development (Signed, 02-06)
  • SB 239: Requiring Commissioner of Bureau for Behavioral Health to engage certain providers and leaders to study homeless demographic (Signed, 02-24)
  • SB 241: Relating to Patient Brokering Act (Signed, 02-17)
  • SB 275: Adding State Fire Marshals to statute included with law enforcement and first responders that receive information on school safety requirements (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2018: Permitting the managed care case coordinator to attend the multidisciplinary team meeting (Signed, 02-13)
  • HB 2029: Repealing the creation of an all-payer claims database (Signed, 02-13)
  • HB 2412: Declaring November 14 every year, a special Memorial Day in remembrance of the Marshall University airplane crash (Signed, 02-22)
  • HB 2506: Creating a title clearinghouse for non-resident businesses (Signed, 02-13)
  • HB 2530: Relating to the extension of the expiration of temporary registration plates from sixty days to ninety days (Signed, 02-15)
  • HB 2533: Relating to a permanent windshield placard to be valid for the duration of the applicant’s life (Signed, 02-15)
  • HB 2564: Repeal of administrative hearing procedures for DUI offenses (Signed, 02-14)
  • HB 2602: Reestablishing certain specialized school service personnel classifications (Signed, 02-22)
  • HB 2776: Updating meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-14)
  • HB 2777: Updating federal taxable income and other terms in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-14)
  • HB 2800: All relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2835: Repeal outdated provisions of code relating to the West Virginia graduate college and Marshall University (Signed, 02-17)
  • HB 2882: Making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Economic Development (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 3061: Relating to updating the authority of the Foster Care Ombudsman (Signed, 02-24)

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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