Public Comments

I am in full support of SB927!

Please move bill SB 927 ahead without any changes.

As a medical cannabis card holder for West Virginia I publicly support this bill. I would like options because I can not use many of the products available to WV patients due to having asthma and there are very limited products available in my county. Please pass this for patients who need better options other than the flower or vapes, thank you.

I strongly support protecting bees and the beekeepers who care for them. Bees are essential to our food supply, local farms, and healthy ecosystems. Science-based, consistent protections are critical to keeping pollinators strong and agriculture thriving.

Protecting bees means protecting our food, our farmers, and our future.

Please support bill 927

Support for HB 5353

Policy Suggestions to Strengthen HB 5353

1. Strong Fee Transparency Requirements

2. Consumer Education and Fraud Prevention

3. Avoid Overly Restrictive Access Limits

4. Maintain a Balanced Approach to Innovation

Additional Policy Recommendations

5. Suggested Amendment: Clear Fee Disclosure Language

6. Suggested Amendment: Fraud Warning Requirements

7. Policy Precedent from Other States

• mandatory fee disclosures
• transaction transparency requirements
• anti‑fraud warnings and consumer education
• licensing through existing money transmission frameworks

Conclusion

• I am in favor of Senate Bill 927. Bees are so crucial to our environment in many ways.  Pollination is essential for many plants to produce fruit and seeds and to also the continuation of plant life.  Honey is also a valuable resource for antioxidant, wound healing, soothing sore throats, and improving heart health.

Public Comment on HB 5060

Support for HB 5060

Policy Considerations and Suggestions

1. Ensure Consumer Protection Without Blocking Access

2. Encourage Regulatory Clarity for Businesses

3. Recognize the Broader Digital Infrastructure Opportunity

4. Maintain Flexibility as Technology Evolves

Conclusion

Honey Bees are beneficial to everyone.

• To Standing Committee on the Judiciary

Need help government assistance pay some debt off

West Virginia needs to be one of the first to protect the bees . Start banning weed killers . Bees are life for humans . With out bees we are in major trouble . We need to start making insensitive for people to start bee keeping . Maybe even. A tax credit for every hive up to 5 .  Honey bees keep us feed , we need to protect the them !

Senate Bill 927 needs to pass!  Beekeepers are a diverse group of people, democrats, republicans, and Independents and most importantly motivated voters. Beekeepers are farms and their bees provide the essence of life to the plants we eat and the beautiful flowers the decorate our landscapes and homes.

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Oppose SB 392

I rise in opposition to House Bill 5687.

For more than a century, West Virginia’s economy has been built around the extraction of our natural resources. Coal companies have generated enormous wealth from these mountains. But too often, that wealth did not stay in the communities where it was created. Profits flowed to corporate headquarters and distant investors while the people of West Virginia were left to deal with the long-term consequences.

Those consequences are still with us today: damaged landscapes, polluted streams, struggling communities, and an economy that was never allowed to fully diversify.

House Bill 5687 would once again cut taxes for the coal industry. Supporters may claim this will increase production or bring back coal jobs, but the reality is that market forces, automation, and changes in the global energy economy—not state tax policy—drive coal production today. A tax cut will not reverse those trends.

What this bill will do is remove hundreds of millions of dollars from the state budget over time.

That revenue should be used to strengthen the public services that West Virginians depend on—maintaining our roads and bridges, investing in public schools, ensuring safe drinking water, protecting our natural resources, and supporting the communities that powered this country for generations.

West Virginians are tired of being treated as disposable while our resources are extracted and the wealth leaves the state. If companies profit from our mountains, then they should also contribute to repairing the damage and supporting the communities that made those profits possible.

This legislature should be working to rebuild West Virginia’s economy and invest in its people—not continuing a cycle where the state weakens its own revenue base while expecting communities to make do with less.

For those reasons, I urge you to reject House Bill 5687.

West Virginia currently ranks 49th in the nation in median household income. That fact alone should frame this entire conversation.

Senate Bill 392 proposes a 10% reduction in the state income tax. For the average West Virginia household, that reduction would amount to less than $30 a month. That is the reality of what this policy delivers to most families.

At the same time, the bill removes roughly $250 million in revenue from the state budget.

That $250 million matters far more than a $30 monthly tax cut.

West Virginians are not asking the government for symbolic gestures. They are asking for the basic services that the government is supposed to provide under the social contract between citizens and the state.

We should be using that revenue to fix our roads and bridges, maintain clean and reliable water systems, strengthen our public schools, and protect the natural resources that define this state. Those investments are what actually improve the quality of life for the people who live here.

Instead, we continue to see partisan politics driving policy decisions that weaken the state’s ability to meet those responsibilities. Every time we cut the revenue that funds public services, we make it harder to address the very problems that people across West Virginia raise every day.

West Virginia is not New Jersey, and we should stop trying to import political talking points and ideological experiments that do not reflect the realities of our state.

Our state ranks near the bottom in income, population growth, and economic opportunity. The solution to those problems is not to continue ravaging the limited revenue we have available to invest in our communities.

If we want West Virginia to grow and thrive, we must invest in the things that make communities livable and competitive: education, infrastructure, public health, and environmental stewardship.

Those are not partisan priorities. They are the government's basic responsibilities.

For those reasons, I urge the legislature to reject SB 392 and focus instead on strengthening the foundations that West Virginians rely on every day.

Thank you for your time.

Please vote to invest these dollars in public services that help children, families, and workers thrive.  We do not need tax cuts that will only help the wealthiest among us, and will cut funding from important programs for families in West Virginia.