Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Friday, January 27, 2023

January 26, 2023
in Member Press Release

Friday, January 27, 2023 – 17th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 9 a.m.

THIRD READING

Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 202: Increasing terms of Natural Resources Commission members from four to seven years
Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 254: Relating generally to mandatory state inspection of certain motor vehicles
Eng. SB 276: Awarding service weapon of retiring State Fire Marshal
Eng. SB 283: Relating to Military Incentive Program
Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 292: Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act
Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 298: Relating to non-federally declared emergencies and non-states of emergency
Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2530: Relating to the extension of the expiration of temporary registration plates from sixty days to ninety days
Eng. HB 2533: Relating to a permanent windshield placard to be valid for the duration of the applicant’s life

SECOND READING

Com. Sub. for SB 51: Requiring impact statement in certain instances of school closing or consolidation
Com. Sub. for SB 239: Requiring Commissioner of Bureau for Behavioral Health to engage certain providers and leaders to study homeless demographic
SB 241: Relating to Patient Brokering Act
Com. Sub. for SB 243: Requiring substance use disorder inpatient providers to provide transportation to patients
Com. Sub. for SB 248: Clarifying when excess funds accumulated by boards are to be transferred to General Revenue Fund
SB 251: Displaying official motto of United States in public schools and institutions of higher education
Com. Sub. for SB 258: Eliminating ceiling on fair market value of consumer goods and permitting dealer to require security deposit
Com. Sub. for SB 270: Adding exemption to permit requirement for cremation
Com. Sub. for SB 271: Modifying approval process requirements for First Responders Honor Board
Com. Sub. for SB 282: Creating WV Guardian Program
Com. Sub. for SB 426: Banning use of certain products and platforms deemed unsafe or high risk on government systems
Com. Sub. for SB 439: Establishing design-build program for DEP

FIRST READING

Com. Sub. for SB 160: Relating to WV Rail Trails Program
Com. Sub. for SB 166: Relating to reemployment after retirement by public employees
Com. Sub. for SB 188: Creating Grid Stabilization and Security Act of 2023
Com. Sub. for SB 222: Creating taskforce to consider options for direct funding of adult education learning centers
SB 240: Requiring state board of examination or registration proceedings to be open to public inspection
Com. Sub. for SB 249: Amending Real Estate License Act
SB 306: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program
Com. Sub. for SB 335: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules
Com. Sub. for SB 356: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules
SB 428: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils
SB 443: Directing payment of estate administration fee to State Auditor
SB 444: Transferring moneys in WV Future Fund to General Revenue Fund
SB 446: Removing methanol and methanol fuel from definition of special fuel

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10 a.m.: Workforce (208W)

Presentation: Jason Green, Deputy Director, Workforce West Virginia
Presentation: Rev. Matthew Watts, HOPE Community Development Corporation
Strategies to mitigate WV’s labor shortage

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Friday, January 27, 2023

SB 486: Uniform Collaborative Law Act (IB) (Woodrum, Trump; Judiciary)
SB 487: Extending additional modification reducing federal adjusted gross income (Weld, Chapman; Finance)
SB 488: Aligning state and federal accreditation rules (Rucker; Education)
SB 489: Requiring BOE provide free feminine hygiene products in grades six through 12 (Grady; Education)
SB 490: Patrol Officer Cassie Marie Johnson Memorial Act (Deeds, Hamilton, Hunt, Jeffries, Karnes, Maroney, Martin, Phillips, Stuart, Trump, Weld, Woodrum; Judiciary)
SB 491: Authorizing Treasurer’s Office to promulgate legislative rule relating to Hope Scholarship Program (Woodrum; Judiciary)
SB 492: Requiring legislators who hold current concealed carry permit to register with Capitol Police (Chapman, Azinger, Deeds, Grady, Hamilton, Hunt, Maynard, Phillips, Rucker, Smith, Stuart, Tarr, Taylor, Woodrum; Judiciary)
SB 493: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks (Weld; Military)
SB 494: Creating WV Black Lung Program (FN) (Caputo, Hamilton, Stover; Judiciary then Finance)
SB 495: Providing correctional institutions and juvenile facilities video and audio records be confidential (Trump, Caputo, Takubo; Judiciary)
SB 496: Allowing tax pass through entities to pay state and local taxes at entity level (FN) (Trump, Weld; Finance)
SB 497: Repealing common law rule against perpetuities by extending it to 1,000 years for trust (Trump, Caputo, Chapman, Takubo, Weld; Judiciary)
SB 498: Relating to employee jury service tax credit (FN) (IB) (Trump, Weld, Azinger, Caputo, Grady, Karnes, Phillips, Rucker, Smith, Stover, Takubo, Woelfel, Woodrum, Deeds, Maynard, Chapman; Judiciary then Finance)
SB 499: Expiring unappropriated funds in General Revenue from Excess Lottery Revenue Fund (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 500: Expiring unappropriated funds in General Revenue from Lottery Net Profits (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 501: Making supplementary appropriation to Department of Administration, Public Defender Services (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 502: Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Education (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 503: Supplementing and amending appropriations to DHS, WV State Police (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 504: Supplementing and amending appropriations to DHHR, Consolidated Medical Services Fund (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 505: Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Administration, Office of Secretary (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 506: Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Education, Hope Scholarship (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 507: Supplementing and amending appropriations to DHS, Division of Administrative Services (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SB 508: Clarifying reporting and disclosure requirements for grassroots lobbying expenditures (Azinger, Trump, Weld; Judiciary)
SB 509: Requiring that free feminine hygiene products be provided to female prisoners (Rucker, Chapman, Grady; Government Organization)
SB 510: Supplementing and amending appropriations to BOE, Department of Education (Blair, Woelfel; Finance) [By Request of the Executive]
SJR 9: Right to medical freedom amendment (Grady, Barrett, Chapman, Deeds, Hunt, Karnes, Martin, Maynard, Phillips, Roberts, Rucker, Tarr; Judiciary then Finance)
SR 16: Designating January 30,2023, as Future Farmers of America Day at Legislature (Smith)
SR 17: Congratulating Kevin Gregory as WV Outstanding Tree Farmer of 2022 (Hamilton)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Thursday, January 26, 2023

9 a.m.: Government Organization

Com. Sub. for SB 249: Amending Real Estate License Act
Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

SB 240: Requiring state board of examination or registration proceedings to be open to public inspection
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

9 a.m.: Education

Com. Sub. for SB 222: Creating taskforce to consider options for direct funding of adult education learning centers
Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

SB 306: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

SB 428: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

HB 2029: Repealing the creation of an all-payor claims database
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 273: Relating to allocation of child protective workers in counties based upon population of county
Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

HB 2018: Permitting the managed care case coordinator to attend the multidisciplinary team meeting
Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

SB 267: Updating law regarding prior authorizations
Bill removed from the agenda

2 p.m.: Judiciary Subcommittee A – Criminal Law

Com. Sub. for SB 120: Requiring registered sex offenders pay annual fee
Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Judiciary Committee with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 299: Creating new misdemeanor offense of unlawful entry, occupation, or retention of real property
Committee substitute reported to the full Judiciary Committee with the recommendation it do pass

2 p.m.: Judiciary Subcommittee B – Elections

Com. Sub. for SB 50: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature
Committee substitute reported to the full Judiciary Committee with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 235: Relating to voting rights of formerly incarcerated individuals
Bill laid over to next meeting

2 p.m.: Judiciary Subcommittee C – Civil Justice and Courts

Com. Sub. for SB 42: Adjusting interest rate paid in condemnation cases
Motion to report the bill to the full Judiciary Committee for consideration failed; bill will not be reported

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Thursday, January 26, 2023 (46)

SB 4: Creating Adopt-A-Trail volunteer programs for public land under DNR jurisdiction (House Economic Development and Tourism)
SB 10: Campus Self-Defense Act (House Judiciary)
SB 21: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (Pending House introduction)
SB 59: Requiring work search activities to qualify for unemployment benefits (Pending House introduction)
SB 65: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
SB 74: Providing for substantial deference to State Superintendent’s interpretations of school laws (House Judiciary)
SB 83: Authorizing tactical medical professionals to carry firearms (H First Reading, 01-27)
SB 89: Requiring hospitals to staff qualified personnel to perform sexual assault forensic exams (House Health and Human Resources)
SB 115: Providing procedure for WV to select delegates to Article V Convention (House Judiciary)
SB 121: Creating Student Journalist Press Freedom Protection Act (House Education)
SB 124: Authorizing child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention program and in-service training in child sexual abuse prevention (House Education)
SB 126: Reorganizing DHHR (House Health and Human Resources)
SB 127: Relating to reimbursement of hospital inpatient rates by PEIA (House Banking and Insurance)
SB 128: Clarifying authority of Governor and Legislature to proclaim and declare state of emergency and preparedness (Passed House; pending Senate concurrence to House amendments)
SB 129: Limiting gubernatorial authority to spend certain federal funds without appropriation of the Legislature (House Government Organization)
SB 130: Anti-Racism Act of 2023 (House Education)
SB 131: Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
SB 132: Clarifying criminal offense of harassment (H First Reading, 01-27)
SB 133: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
SB 134: Protecting consumers against businesses using automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
SB 135: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
SB 136: Requiring persons convicted of certain offenses to undergo psychological or psychiatric testing and have treatment plan to be eligible for probation (House Judiciary)
SB 137: Clarifying offenses of kidnapping and unlawful restraint (House Judiciary)
SB 138: Clarifying secondary sources are not law and public policy of WV in certain instances (House Judiciary)
SB 139: Requiring each county BOE to ensure all its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Education)
SB 140: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
SB 141: Adding Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation employees working at certain institutions to WV Emergency Responders Survivor Benefits Act (House Jails and Prisons)
SB 142: Modifying procedures to settle estates of decedents (House Judiciary)
SB 143: Relating to Adopt-A-Stream Program (H Third Reading, 01-27)
SB 145: Allowing county BOE participating in operation of multicounty vocational center to withdraw (House Education)
SB 146: Modifying regulations of peer-to-peer car sharing program (House Banking and Insurance)
SB 147: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Substance Abuse)
SB 148: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
SB 149: Exempting certain organizations from property taxation (House Finance)
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 192: Relating to Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act (House Judiciary)
SB 200: Allowing leashed dogs to track wounded elk, turkey, bear, and wild boar when hunting (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)

SB 207: Relating to state allocation of funding to regional councils (House Economic Development and Tourism)
SB 208: Relating to criminal justice training for all law-enforcement and correction officers regarding individuals with autism spectrum disorders (Pending House introduction)
SB 231: Transferring administration of WV Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Matching Funds Program to Department of Economic Development (H Third Reading, 01-27)
SB 244: Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public (House Government Organization)
SB 245: Making rules and regulations promulgated by PSC subject to legislative rule-making review procedures (House Government Organization)
SB 246: Revising membership of Broadband Enhancement Council (House Technology and Infrastructure)
SB 262: Allowing students to transfer schools and retain athletic eligibility (House Education)
SB 264: Prohibiting persons who have been convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)

House Bills Pending in the Senate as of Thursday, January 26, 2023 (16)

HB 2018: Permitting the managed care case coordinator to attend the multidisciplinary team meeting (Health and Human Resources)
HB 2029: Repealing the creation of an all-payor claims database (Health and Human Resources)
HB 2113: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Pending Senate introduction)
HB 2310: Provide the Division of Motor Vehicles authority to develop an “Antique Fleet” program so that multiple antique motor vehicles may utilize a single registration plate (Transportation and Infrastructure)
HB 2412: Declaring November 14 every year, a special Memorial Day in remembrance of the Marshall University airplane crash (Government Organization)
HB 2506: Creating a title clearinghouse for non-resident businesses (Finance)
HB 2526: Relating to reducing the personal income tax (Finance)
HB 2530: Relating to the extension of the expiration of temporary registration plates from sixty days to ninety days (S Third Reading, 01-27)
HB 2531: Requiring cooperation between the rail company and the Division of Highways when construction or maintenance activities are conducted by the company (Pending Senate introduction)
HB 2533: Relating to a permanent windshield placard to be valid for the duration of the applicant’s life (S Third Reading, 01-27)

HB 2564: Repeal of administrative hearing procedures for DUI offenses (Judiciary)
HB 2602: Reestablishing certain specialized school service personnel classifications (Education)
HB 2754: Relating to immunizations performed in a pharmacy (Health and Human Resources)
HB 2757: Relating to expanding institutional eligibility for the WV Invests Grant Program (Education)
HB 2776: Updating meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Finance)
HB 2777: Updating federal taxable income and other terms in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Finance)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, January 26, 2023 (2 – 2 Senate)

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)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Thursday, January 26, 2023 (2 – 2 Senate)

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)

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