Delegate Mark Dean
(R) Mingo County
Contact Information
Email:
mark.dean
@wvhouse.gov
Capitol Phone:
304-340-3304
Capitol Office:
Room 212E, Building 1
State Capitol Complex
Charleston, WV 25305

Biography
- Date of Birth: June 18th, 1980
- Education: Bachelor’s in Education, Concord College (2003); Master’s in School Leadership, Marshall University (2005)
- Occupation: Home Health Executive
- Religion: Baptist
- Town of Birth: Logan, WV
- Affiliations: Phi Sigma Phi National Fraternity; Knight of the Golden Horseshoe; Mingo County Republican Executive Committee
District: 34 (McDowell & Mingo Counties)

Bill | Session | Title | Sponsor | Status | Committee |
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HJR15 | 2025 RS | Property taxes would end at the time that a morgage is paid off unless the property is left abandoned for more than four years | 8th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2155 | 2025 RS | To allow for local electronic repair shops to repair Apple phones | 5th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2403 | 2025 RS | Remove hormone blockers from transgender code | 8th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB2404 | 2025 RS | Provide tax credit incentive to businesses and individuals that donate to pregnancy/birth centers | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2407 | 2025 RS | To remove income tax from overtime work | 11th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2408 | 2025 RS | To Prohibit Ranked Choice Voting in WV | 8th | Pending | Subcommittee on Legal Services |
HB2424 | 2025 RS | Eliminate Governors Power for Shutdown | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2425 | 2025 RS | Relating to Constitutional Carry | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2426 | 2025 RS | Relating to illegal immigrants | 8th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2427 | 2025 RS | Relating to Capitol Carry | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2428 | 2025 RS | Protecting Due Process in Firearm Confiscation Related to Protective Orders | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2429 | 2025 RS | To require a warrant for DNR officials or officers to enter onto any private property | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2430 | 2025 RS | To create state civil liability for pharmaceutical companies for vaccine injuries from the Covid 19 vaccines | 5th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2431 | 2025 RS | Fourth Amendment Restoration Act | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2448 | 2025 RS | Prohibit the shutdown of churches or places of worship | 9th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2449 | 2025 RS | End open fields doctrine | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2450 | 2025 RS | Relating to the Second Amendment Preservation Act | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2461 | 2025 RS | Relating to prohibiting the use or sale of abortifacients | 9th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB2462 | 2025 RS | To make April 19th, Patriots Day in West Virginia | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on Education |
HB2463 | 2025 RS | To make gold, silver, and crypto currency legal tender in WV | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2464 | 2025 RS | To create the State Bank of West Virginia | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2465 | 2025 RS | To prohibit counties, towns and municipalities from using taxpayer dollars to hire lobbyists to represent them at the State level | 6th | Pending | Subcommittee on Local Governments |
HB2466 | 2025 RS | To eliminate the use of puberty blockers for any minor under the age of 18 | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB2467 | 2025 RS | To eliminate the Personal Income tax in WV | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2468 | 2025 RS | To abolish the Department of Economic Development and the cabinet board position | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on Government Organization |
HB2469 | 2025 RS | Relating to Rain Tax | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB2470 | 2025 RS | Providing that a hunting license is only required for public land | 8th | Pending | Subcommittee on Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourism |
HB2471 | 2025 RS | Eliminate all state and county subsidies or tax breaks for solar compounds or wind compounds or other renewable energy corporations | 8th | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB2479 | 2025 RS | Relating to Management and control of county authority vested in board | 11th | Signed by Governor | |
HB2518 | 2025 RS | Eliminate state taxes on tobacco, vape, alcohol products, and gambling | 4th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2552 | 2025 RS | To provide a reduction of the tax for companies who have 75% or more of their workforce as West Virginia residents | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2553 | 2025 RS | To exempt the first $20,000 of earnings from the state income tax for West Virginia residents | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2554 | 2025 RS | To require all West Virginia high school students to pass a Civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Education |
HB2631 | 2025 RS | To require all medical providers to orally explain any and all medical treatments and procedures and all possibilities for potential problems or complications or side effects to patients before proceeding with treatments. | 6th | Pending | Subcommittee on Health Care Regulation |
HB2632 | 2025 RS | To increase the pay for retired state employees by 5% over three years beginning in 2025 | 4th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2633 | 2025 RS | To clarify that dogs may be used to track wounded game on a leash, or with an electronic controlling device | 2nd | Pending | Subcommittee on Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourism |
HB2634 | 2025 RS | To double the criminal penalty for anyone found guilty of sexual assault on a minor | 9th | Pending | |
HB2635 | 2025 RS | To ensure that classroom sizes are equal without losing a teachers aide | 10th | Pending | Standing Committee on Education |
HB2673 | 2025 RS | To require a guilty verdict, before any property of any type are taken from an individual | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2688 | 2025 RS | Abolish the tax on overtime pay | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2717 | 2025 RS | To eliminate the process of vehicle inspection in West Virginia | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB2720 | 2025 RS | To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program | 9th | Pending | Subcommittee on Economic Development |
HB2728 | 2025 RS | Insurance must cover Bioidentical hormones as they do pharmaceutical one | 5th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2729 | 2025 RS | Vaccine exemption for private, parochial, charter, virtual charter, and remote public schools. | 4th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB2730 | 2025 RS | Relating to establishing a pilot program to develop a childcare program where the state, employer, and employee, contribute one-third of the total cost each | 5th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2731 | 2025 RS | Creating the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership | 5th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB2732 | 2025 RS | Permitting religious exemptions for compulsory immunizations | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB2733 | 2025 RS | Relating to the Womens Right to Know Act | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB2739 | 2025 RS | To remove the helmet law in West Virginia. | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2752 | 2025 RS | Relating to motorcycle safety | 3rd | Signed by Governor | |
HB2774 | 2025 RS | Coach Protection Act | 4th | Pending | Standing Committee on Education |
HB2778 | 2025 RS | To remove the taxation on burials, funerals and cremation | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2780 | 2025 RS | Providing any employee working 20 hours or more per week in a licensed child care center or certified family child care (FCC) home is eligible for a child care subsidy, regardless of their household income | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2793 | 2025 RS | Relating to regulating billboards displaying messages about the availability of abortions in states bordering West Virginia | 8th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2794 | 2025 RS | Life at Conception Act of 2025 | 11th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2795 | 2025 RS | Relating to protecting and advancing the substantial public policies of this state | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on Government Organization |
HB2798 | 2025 RS | Relating to the establishment of a trades based elective course for public high school students | 2nd | Pending | Subcommittee on Higher Education |
HB2799 | 2025 RS | Prohibiting the termination of employment of an employee who defends themselves from an attack inside workplace | 7th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2815 | 2025 RS | Raise the Penalties for Murder and attempted Murder | 8th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB2836 | 2025 RS | Relating to wild animal rehabilitation permits | 11th | Signed by Governor | |
HB2876 | 2025 RS | Increase the number of Natural Resources Commission members | 2nd | REJ | |
HB2922 | 2025 RS | Safer Communities Act | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2939 | 2025 RS | Remote Schools Support Act | 5th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB2975 | 2025 RS | Changes to the practice of optometry | Lead | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB3018 | 2025 RS | Banning state participation in Kyoto protocols and Paris Accord | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB3019 | 2025 RS | To require parental notification of certain immunization-related items by public school districts any time school-related immunization notifications or letters are sent to parents | 6th | Pending | Standing Committee on Education |
HB3021 | 2025 RS | Supporting Responsible Competition Between West Virginia Electrical Utilities | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB3086 | 2025 RS | Establishing minimum student enrollment for school aid formula | 11th | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB3101 | 2025 RS | To change the beginning of the school year to the Tuesday after Labor Day and the end of the school year to the Friday before Memorial Day. | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Education |
HB3103 | 2025 RS | Encouraging retired persons to move into West Virginia | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB3104 | 2025 RS | Allow anyone with a masters degree to sit for WV Bar exam and become licensed attorney | Lead | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB3105 | 2025 RS | Matching the Deputy Sheriffs retirement to corrections at 20 years of service | Lead | Pending | Subcommittee on Investments |
HB3106 | 2025 RS | To increase the Deputy Sheriff retirement multiplier from 2.75 to 3.0 | Lead | Pending | Subcommittee on Investments |
HB3107 | 2025 RS | Creating WV Black Lung Program | Lead | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB3108 | 2025 RS | Allowing for a paid commission for sheriffs | Lead | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB3109 | 2025 RS | Relating to the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board | Lead | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB3110 | 2025 RS | Allotting counties $5,000 per deputy position to only be used for deputy pay raises | Lead | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB3111 | 2025 RS | To provide pay increases to members of the judiciary | Lead | Pending | |
HB3130 | 2025 RS | To increase the protections for the welfare of domestic animals | 4th | Pending | Subcommittee on Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourism |
HB3132 | 2025 RS | To change the requirements of dog breeding operations | 8th | Pending | Subcommittee on Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourism |
HB3137 | 2025 RS | Relating to establishing economic incentives for data centers to locate within the state | 11th | Pending | Subcommittee on Energy and Manufacturing |
HB3170 | 2025 RS | Approved sewage systems for rental property | 7th | Pending | Subcommittee on Environment, Infrastructure, and Technology |
HB3184 | 2025 RS | Local Government Freedom Act | 2nd | Pending | Subcommittee on Local Governments |
HB3185 | 2025 RS | Taxpayer Protection Act | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB3186 | 2025 RS | WV building and constructions trades code enforcement West Virginia First | 2nd | Pending | Subcommittee on Government Administration |
HB3194 | 2025 RS | To provide a pay increase for the West Virginia Capitol Police and support staff of Capitol police | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB3219 | 2025 RS | Permitting certain nonviolent offenders to be able to carry firearms. | 5th | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB3261 | 2025 RS | Relating generally to the administration of anesthetics by CRNA | 8th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB3280 | 2025 RS | Authorize the Department of Human Services to transfer state facilities to regional mental health centers or intellectual disability facilities | 5th | Pending | Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources |
HB3288 | 2025 RS | Providing that 5% of hunting permits for elk go to state veterans or armed service members | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Government Organization |
HB3289 | 2025 RS | Relating to expungement of certain criminal convictions | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on the Judiciary |
HB3302 | 2025 RS | Relating to state contracts regarding homeless | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Government Organization |
HB3309 | 2025 RS | Authorizing sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of sixty-two with eight or more years of services | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |
HB3310 | 2025 RS | To require all utility companies to absorb the costs of maintenance, upgrades, and repairs for their pipes, cables, utility poles, electrical lines, and other necessities without increasing rates or costs to consumers/customers. | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB3313 | 2025 RS | Providing more opportunities for high school students in community colleges | 9th | Signed by Governor | |
HB3409 | 2025 RS | Changing the expiration date on Hunting and Fishing licenses to one year after purchase | 4th | Pending | Standing Committee on Government Organization |
HB3415 | 2025 RS | New and existing Orphan Well Prevention Act | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB3416 | 2025 RS | New oil and Gas Well Plugging Assurance Act | 3rd | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB3421 | 2025 RS | To secure West Virginia baseload coal generation and ratepayer protection | 4th | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB3466 | 2025 RS | Installing emergency alert stations at rest areas | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Energy and Public Works |
HB3468 | 2025 RS | Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments | 2nd | Pending | Standing Committee on Finance |