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Monday, February 12, 2024 – 34th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 33: Designating February 12, 2024, as Corrections Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. SB 351: Expanding the definition of “small arms” for purposes of taxation
• Eng. SB 378: Prohibiting smoking in vehicle when minor 16 or under is present
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 542: Amending procedure for filling vacancies in certain county offices having more than three commissioners
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 587: Enabling State Fire Commission to propose legislative rules
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 590: Political Subdivision Labor Regulatory Limitation Act
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 614: Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 616: Modifying definition of “family or household members” as it relates to domestic violence laws

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 544: Raising threshold for bid requirement of municipal public works projects
• Com. Sub. for SB 577: Limiting landowner liability when land is used for certain purposes
• Com. Sub. for SB 578: Clarifying offense of burglary
• SB 605: Requiring electronic funds transfer of retirement contributions by participating employers
• SB 606: Relating to Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System
• SB 607: Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits
• Com. Sub. for SB 608: Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
• SB 609: Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
• SB 658: Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Administration, Public Defender Services
• Eng. HB 5153: Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 321: Limiting municipalities’ authority to restrict purchase and storage of weapons and ammunition
• Com. Sub. for SB 352: Modifying Unborn Child Protection Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 370: Updating Public Employees Grievance Board procedure that certain decisions be appealed to Intermediate Court of Appeals
• SB 530: Removing requirement for counties to draft and adopt zoning ordinances
• SB 551: Modifying requirements related to levy of service fees
• SB 620: Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program
• Com. Sub. for SB 628: Declaring certain claims as moral obligations of the State
• Com. Sub. for SB 629: Requiring builders to follow State Building Code when local inspection and enforcement not provided
• Com. Sub. for SB 632: Relating to Dangerousness Assessment Advisory Board multi-disciplinary study group
• Com. Sub. for SB 716: Relating to child support
• Eng. HB 4976: Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 5157: Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals

Scheduled Committee Meetings

1 p.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 583: Relating to employer liability and damages in civil actions involving commercial motor vehicles
• HB 5019: Relating to surrender and return of license not required for disqualifying or downgrading a driver’s license
• Senate Concurrent Resolutions

• SCR 21: US Army MSG James E. Jackson Jr. Memorial Road
• SCR 23: US Navy LT Lewis Joseph D’Antoni Memorial Road
• SCR 25: US Army SGT Wyatt K. Hinton Memorial Bridge
• Sub. for SCR 4: US Army 2LT Eston Kuhn Memorial Road
• Sub. for SCR 22: US Army and Marine Corps Major and Olympic Gold Medalist Cornelius Burdette Memorial Road
• Sub. for SCR 26: US Army PFC Clarence William (Buck) Holliday Memorial Road

2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 375: Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act
• SB 613: WV Residential Mortgage Lender, Broker and Servicer Act
• HB 4837: Clarifying the duty of banks to retain and procure records

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Com. Sub. forSB 556: Relating to DNA data maintained for law-enforcement purposes
• Com. Sub. for SB 622: Updating time period of voting inactivity for removal from voter registration
• Com. Sub. for SB 623: Requiring DMV to provide images of certain individuals to Secretary of State for voter identification purposes
• Com. Sub. for SB 624: Cancelling voter registration records for individuals no longer WV residents

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Monday, February 12, 2024

• SB 744: Prohibiting civil rights violations based on disability, gender identity or sexual orientation (Trump; Judiciary)
• SB 745: Limiting cost of prescription medications for senior citizens (Chapman; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• SB 746: Modifying composition of Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board (Woodrum; Government Organization)
• SB 747: Including corporate contributors to authorized use of certain political party funding (Woodrum; Government Organization)
• SB 748: Providing license for certified professional midwife (Rucker; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 749: WV Legal Tender Act (FN) (Rucker; Banking and Insurance then Finance)
• SB 750: Establishing Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Week in grades six through 12 (Caputo; Education) [By Request]
• SB 751: Creating online charitable raffles (Barrett; Government Organization then Judiciary)
• SB 752: Authorizing Department of Agriculture to complete certain land transfers (Hamilton; Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 753: Permitting Board of Pharmacy to promulgate certain legislative rules (Hunt, Chapman, Martin; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• SB 754: Requiring car dealerships to utilize search engines to determine if buyers have valid motor vehicle insurance (Barrett; Transportation and Infrastructure)
• SB 755: Providing safeguards for online sales of tobacco products (Barrett, Caputo; Judiciary)
• SB 756: Increasing salary of state mine inspectors (Caputo, Chapman, Jeffries, Phillips, Plymale, Queen, Smith; Finance)
• SB 757: Clarifying sheriff’s compensation for collection of taxes (Weld, Caputo, Martin, Queen; Government Organization)
• SB 758: Relating to unlawful expenditures by local fiscal bodies (Grady; Government Organization then Finance)
• SB 759: Requiring transportation companies to provide annual human trafficking awareness training to employees (Rucker, Chapman; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• SR 34: Recognizing William Schwertfeger, decorated combat veteran of US Army, on his 100th birthday (Weld)
• SR 35: Recognizing 152nd anniversary of Glenville State University (Stover)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 9, 2024 (99 – 92 Senate; 7 House)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Friday, February 9, 2024 (16)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, February 9, 2024 (12 – 7 Senate; 5 House)

• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 543: Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Signed, 02-07)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, February 9, 2024 (5 – 3 Senate; 2 House)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 24: Recognizing First Responders Honor Board’s nominees for Medal of Valor (Adopted, 02-06)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Friday, February 9, 2024 (6 – 3 Senate; 3 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)

• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Signed, 02-07)

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

Friday, February 9, 2024 – 31st Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 9 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 32: Designating February 9, 2024, as Eating Disorder Advocacy Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 441: Restricting driving in left lane of multi-lane highways in WV – (With right to amend)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 548: Clarifying appellate jurisdiction of Intermediate Court of Appeals
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 595: Amending embalmer licensing requirements
• Eng. SB 600: Revising criteria for receiving reenlistment or retention bonus
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 5045: Related to the administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act, and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage

SECOND READING

• SB 351: Expanding the definition of “small arms” for purposes of taxation
• SB 378: Prohibiting smoking in vehicle when minor 16 or under is present
• Com. Sub. for SB 542: Amending procedure for filling vacancies in certain county offices having more than three commissioners
• Com. Sub. for SB 587: Enabling State Fire Commission to propose legislative rules
• Com. Sub. for SB 590: Political Subdivision Labor Regulatory Limitation Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 614: Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety
• Com. Sub. for SB 616: Modifying definition of “family or household members” as it relates to domestic violence laws

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 544: Raising threshold for bid requirement of municipal public works projects
• Com. Sub. for SB 577: Limiting landowner liability when land is used for certain purposes
• Com. Sub. for SB 578: Clarifying offense of burglary
• SB 605: Requiring electronic funds transfer of retirement contributions by participating employers
• SB 606: Relating to Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System
• SB 607: Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits
• Com. Sub. for SB 608: Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
• SB 609: Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
• SB 658: Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Administration, Public Defender Services
• Eng. HB 5153: Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10 a.m.: Workforce (208W)

• Presentation: Goodwill Industries

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Friday, February 9, 2024

• SB 727: Revising process for county boards of education to hire support staff (Grady; Education)
• SB 728: Modifying retirement and disability benefits for dependents of State Police (FN) (Deeds; Finance)
• SB 729: Updating retirement eligibility for certain sheriffs (Deeds; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 730: Clarifying compensation for county tax collector (Deeds; Government Organization)
• SB 731: Clarifying amount of deputy sheriff annual salary increase Government Organization (Deeds; Government Organization)
• SB 732: Requiring cooperation between law-enforcement agencies and military authorities (Weld; Judiciary)
• SB 733: Authorizing replacement of Robert C. Byrd statue with statue of George Washington (Azinger, Stuart, Taylor, Woodrum; Finance)
• SB 734: Reducing statute of limitations on actions to recover on oral and written contracts (Barrett; Judiciary)
• SB 735: Prohibiting use or sale of abortifacients in WV (Rucker, Azinger, Chapman, Deeds, Hunt, Karnes, Martin, Maynard, Roberts, Stuart, Taylor; Judiciary)
• SB 736: Second Look Sentencing Act (Woodrum; Judiciary)
• SB 737: Eliminating tax exemption of state-owned real property (FN) (Smith, Rucker, Taylor; Finance)
• SB 738: Authorizing State Fire Marshal to promulgate emergency rules relating to increased fees (Trump; Government Organization)
• SB 739: Including certain mental health disorders in existing public health programs (Chapman; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 740: Prohibiting digital manipulation of sexually explicit content to include minors (Grady, Weld, Trump; Judiciary)
• SB 741: Prohibiting creation, production, distribution or possession of artificially generated child pornography (Grady, Weld, Trump; Judiciary)
• SB 742: Updating retirement eligibility for certain sheriffs (Weld, Caputo, Stover, Martin, Queen; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 743: Relating to Bureau for Medical Services’ medically supervised weight loss program (Takubo; Health and Human Resources)
• SR 33: Designating February 12, 2024, as Corrections Day (Clements)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Thursday, February 8, 2024

10 a.m.: Government Organization

• SB 530: Removing requirement for counties to draft and adopt zoning ordinances
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 551: Modifying requirements related to levy of service fees
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 629: Requiring builders to follow State Building Code when local inspection and enforcement not provided
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• HB 4976: Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

10 a.m.: Education

• SB 568: Creating multi-tiered system for school absenteeism
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

10:45 a.m.: Rules

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 321: Limiting municipalities’ authority to restrict purchase and storage of weapons and ammunition
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

• Com Sub. for SB 352: Modifying Unborn Child Protection Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 575: Assisted Reproduction Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 370: Updating Public Employees Grievance Board procedure that certain decisions be appealed to Intermediate Court of Appeals
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 581: Requiring correctional facilities to provide free feminine hygiene products
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 632: Relating to Dangerousness Assessment Advisory Board multi-disciplinary study group
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 716: Relating to child support
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 679: Regulating certain plant-based derivatives, hemp-derived cannabinoid products, and Kratom
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

3 p.m.: Finance

• SB 620: Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program
• Bill substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 628: Declaring certain claims as moral obligations of the State
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for HB 5157: Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Thursday, February 8, 2024 (94 – 88 Senate; 6 House)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Thursday, February 8, 2024 (16)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, February 8, 2024 (10 – 5 Senate; 5 House)

• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Signed, 02-07)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, February 8, 2024 (5 – 3 Senate; 2 House)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 24: Recognizing First Responders Honor Board’s nominees for Medal of Valor (Adopted, 02-06)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Thursday, February 8, 2024 (6 – 3 Senate; 3 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)

• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Signed, 02-07)

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

Thursday, February 8, 2024 – 30th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 29: Designating February 8, 2024, as Tucker County Day
• SR 30: Designating February 8, 2024, as WV Hospital Day
• SR 31: Designating February 8, 2024, as WV American Academy of Pediatrics Child Health Advocacy Day

THIRD READING

There are no bills on Third Reading for Thursday, February 8, 2024.

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 441: Restricting driving in left lane of multi-lane highways in WV
• SB 546: Updating STEM scholarship program
• Com. Sub. for SB 548: Clarifying appellate jurisdiction of Intermediate Court of Appeals
• Com. Sub. for SB 595: Amending embalmer licensing requirements
• Com. Sub. for SB 596: Relating to administration of WV Water Pollution Control Act and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage
• SB 600: Revising criteria for receiving reenlistment or retention bonus
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 5045: Related to the administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act, and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage

FIRST READING

• SB 351: Expanding the definition of “small arms” for purposes of taxation
• SB 378: Prohibiting smoking in vehicle when minor 16 or under is present
• Com. Sub. for SB 542: Amending procedure for filling vacancies in certain county offices having more than three commissioners
• Com. Sub. for SB 587: Enabling State Fire Commission to propose legislative rules
• Com. Sub. for SB 590: Political Subdivision Labor Regulatory Limitation Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 614: Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety
• Com. Sub. for SB 616: Modifying definition of “family or household members” as it relates to domestic violence laws

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)

• SB 530: Removing requirement for counties to draft and adopt zoning ordinances
• SB 551: Modifying requirements related to levy of service fees
• Com. Sub. for SB 629: Requiring builders to follow State Building Code when local inspection and enforcement not provided
• HB 4976: Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments

10 a.m.: Education (451M)

• Presentation: Minecraft in Education by Microsoft
• SB 568: Creating multi-tiered system for school absenteeism

10:45 a.m.: Rules (219M)

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)

• Presentation: Paul Espenan, Senior Vice President, Environmental Health and Safety, DEP – Presentation on Diversified Energy

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

• Agenda TBA

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• SB 370: Updating Public Employees Grievance Board procedure that certain decisions be appealed to Intermediate Court of Appeals
• Com. Sub. for SB 581: Requiring correctional facilities to provide free feminine hygiene products
• Com. Sub. for SB 632: Relating to Dangerousness Assessment Advisory Board multi-disciplinary study group
• Com. Sub. for SB 716: Relating to child support
• SB 679: Regulating certain plant-based derivatives, hemp-derived cannabinoid products, and Kratom

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• SB 620: Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program
• SB 628: Declaring certain claims as moral obligations of the State
• Com. Sub. for HB 5157: Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Thursday, February 8, 2024

Committee Action on Bills from Wednesday, February 7, 2024

10 a.m.: Agriculture and Natural Resources

• SB 617: Exempting certain meat processes from consumers sales and service tax
• Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

1 p.m.: Economic Development

• SB 669: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts
• Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 564: Modifying tax credits for certain apprenticeship training
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

2 p.m.: Pensions

• SB 605: Requiring electronic funds transfer of retirement contributions by participating employers
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 606: Relating to Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 607: Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 608: Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 609: Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 578: Clarifying definition of burglary offense
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 577: Limiting landowner liability when land is used for recreational purposes
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Finance

• SB 658: Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Administration, Public Defender Services
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (94 – 88 Senate; 6 House)

• SB 2: Authorizing DEP to promulgate rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 17: Department of Health rule relating to public water systems operators (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 36: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 50: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules (Pending House introduction)
• SB 60: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 142: Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV (House Government Organization)
• SB 143: Creating WV Guardian Program (House Education)
• SB 144: Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Judiciary)
• SB 146: Creating adult education taskforce (House Education)
• SB 147: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
• SB 148: Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses (House Government Organization)
• SB 149: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 150: Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled (House Judiciary)
• SB 151: Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling (House Judiciary)
• SB 152: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
• SB 154: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses (House Judiciary)
• SB 155: Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 156: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (House Government Organization)
• SB 157: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature (House Judiciary)
• SB 158: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (House Judiciary)
• SB 159: Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)
• SB 160: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
• SB 162: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
• SB 163: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death (House Judiciary)
• SB 164: Relating generally to trespassing (House Judiciary)
• SB 165: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Judiciary)
• SB 166: Updating contested elections procedures (House Judiciary)
• SB 168: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 169: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 170: Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers’ compensation (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 171: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting authorization that exceeds state law regarding agriculture operations (House Government Organization)
• SB 172: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils (House Education)
• SB 173: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 175: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
• SB 176: Relating to permissible expenditures by Water Development Authority from Infrastructure Fund (House Finance)
• SB 177: Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
• SB 178: Relating to dental health care service plans (House Banking and Insurance)
• SB 179: Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions (House Judiciary)
• SB 189: Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent’s interpretations of school laws (House Education)
• SB 196: WV Rail Trails Program (House Government Organization)
• SB 217: Authorizing state and subdivisions to negotiate price for construction when all bids received exceed maximum budget (House Government Organization)
• SB 219: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 222: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 240: Increasing fees charged by sheriff (House Government Organization)
• SB 261: WV Veterans’ Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024 (House Finance)
• SB 262: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
• SB 265: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction (House Government Organization)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 280: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories (House Education)
• SB 293: Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (Senate amended House amendments and passed; pending House concurrence)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (H Second Reading, 02-08)
• SB 320: Removing requirement for wineries to serve food when serving wine (House Government Organization)
• SB 325: Relating to distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies (Pending House introduction)
• SB 331: Eliminating cap on maximum amount of money in county’s financial stabilization fund (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 354: Relating to the WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (H First Reading, 02-08)
• SB 357: Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 399: Creating crime of assault on a police dog (House Judiciary)
• SB 400: Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 402: Authorizing US Concealed Carry Association to provide concealed carry classes in WV (House Judiciary)
• SB 426: WV Recreational Trails Development Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 428: Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals (H Second Reading, 02-08)
• SB 429: WV Farm Use Vehicle Tag Placement Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 430: WV Rent-to-Own Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 436: Prohibiting intentional motor vehicle emissions that create hazards (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 438: Modifying roster requirements of authorizing entities (House Government Organization)
• SB 439: Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 445: Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel (House Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 451: Directing Prosecuting Attorneys Institute to make training available to certain new prosecuting attorneys (House Judiciary)
• SB 461: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 466: Requiring State Board of Education develop Safety While Accessing Technology education program (House Education)
• SB 474: Creating critical incident review team (House Judiciary)
• SB 475: Relating to recovery residences (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 477: Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on internet (House Judiciary)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 487: Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff (House Education)
• SB 504: Relating to felony offense of sexual intercourse, intrusion, or contact with student (House Judiciary)
• SB 507: Relating to repeal of WV EDGE (Pending House introduction)
• SB 516: Determining venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce (House Judiciary)
• SB 529: Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program (Pending House introduction)
• SB 539: Creating cold case database (House Judiciary)
• SB 540: Updating WV coordinate systems (Pending House introduction)
• SB 543: Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education (H Second Reading, 02-08)
• SB 547: Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission (Pending House introduction)
• SB 557: Relating to compensation for firefighters required to work holidays (Pending House introduction)
• SB 571: Creating WV Corridor H Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendment)
• HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendment)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Signed, 02-07)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (16)

• SCR 1: US Army PFC Leon Charles Trader Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 2: US Army PFC John Henry Trail Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 5: US Army 1LT Herschel Jarrell Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 6: US Army SSG Orland Jackson “Tom” Meikles Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 8: US Army Corporal Clemon Knapp Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 12: US Army Private Raymond Lee Perkins Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 15: Chief Edward “Eddie” Keesecker Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 10: Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property (House Government Organization)
• SCR 11: US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 14: US Army PFC William Gorman Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 18: Stanley W. and Evelyn C. See Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 19: US Army PFC Henry W. Baldwin Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 20: Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day (House Rules)
• SCR 24: Recognizing First Responders Honor Board’s nominees for Medal of Valor (Adopted, 02-06)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (8 – 4 Senate; 4 House)

• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Signed, 02-07)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (5 – 3 Senate; 2 House)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 24: Recognizing First Responders Honor Board’s nominees for Medal of Valor (Adopted, 02-06)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (6 – 3 Senate; 3 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)

• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Signed, 02-07)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Signed, 02-07)

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

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 – 29th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 325: Relating to distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies
• Eng. SB 507: Relating to repeal of WV EDGE
• Eng. SB 529: Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 540: Updating WV coordinate systems
• Eng. SB 547: Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 557: Relating to compensation for firefighters required to work holidays
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office

SECOND READING

• SB 546: Updating STEM scholarship program
• Com. Sub. for SB 596: Relating to administration of WV Water Pollution Control Act and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 441: Restricting driving in left lane of multi-lane highways in WV
• Com. Sub. for SB 548: Clarifying appellate jurisdiction of Intermediate Court of Appeals
• Com. Sub. for SB 595: Amending embalmer licensing requirements
• SB 600: Revising criteria for receiving reenlistment or retention bonus
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 5045: Related to the administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act, and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10 a.m.: Agriculture and Natural Resources (208W)

• SB 617: Exempting certain meat processes from consumers sales and service tax

1 p.m.: Economic Development (451M)

• SB 544: Raising threshold for bid requirement of municipal public works project
• SB 669: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts
• HB 5127: Including Potomac State College in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program”
• SB 564: Modifying tax credits for certain apprenticeship training

2 p.m.: Outdoor Recreation (208W)

• SB 537: Changing election to appointment of members to certain parks and recreation commissions

2 p.m.: Pensions (451M)

• SB 605: Requiring electronic funds transfer of retirement contributions by participating employers
• SB 606: Relating to Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System
• SB 607: Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits
• SB 608: Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
• SB 609: Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• SB 578: Clarifying definition of burglary offense
• Com. Sub. for SB 577: Limiting landowner liability when land is used for recreational purposes

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• SB 658: Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Administration, Public Defender Services

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

Committee Action on Bills from Tuesday, February 6, 2024

10 a.m.: Government Organization

• Com. Sub. for SB 522: Changing procedure for citations issued by county litter control officer
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 587: Enabling State Fire Commission to propose legislative rules
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 472: Requiring hotels and public lodging establishments to provide human trafficking awareness training for employees
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 542: Amending procedure for filling vacancies in county offices having more than three commissioners
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

10 a.m.: Education

• Com. Sub. for SB 614: Specifying requirements for appropriate elementary behavior intervention and safety
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 568: Creating multi-tiered system for school absenteeism
• Bill not taken up

• SB 521: Relating generally to payment of bus aides
• Bill not taken up

• SB 515: Prohibiting public schools from requiring students to participate in sexual orientation instruction
• Bill not taken up

10:45 a.m.: Rules (219M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 306: Equipment Right to Repair Act (Hamilton Deeds)
• Bill reported to the full Senate without recommendation; referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

• SB 378: Prohibiting smoking in vehicle when minor 16 or under is present
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 514: Lung Cancer Prevention and Education Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 572: Creating Forensic Pathology Recruitment Program
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 590: Creating Local Government Labor Regulatory Limitation Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 616: Modifying definition of family subject to provisions of domestic violence laws
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Finance

• SB 239: Clarifying when excess funds accumulated by boards are to be transferred to General Revenue Fund
• Bill removed from agenda

• SB 351: Expanding the definition of “small arms” for purposes of taxation
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, February 6, 2024 (87 – 82 Senate; 5 House)

• SB 2: Authorizing DEP to promulgate rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 17: Department of Health rule relating to public water systems operators (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 36: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 50: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules (Pending House introduction)
• SB 60: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 142: Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV (House Government Organization)
• SB 143: Creating WV Guardian Program (House Education)
• SB 144: Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Judiciary)
• SB 146: Creating adult education taskforce (House Education)
• SB 147: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
• SB 148: Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses (House Government Organization)
• SB 149: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 150: Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled (House Judiciary)
• SB 151: Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling (House Judiciary)
• SB 152: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
• SB 154: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses (House Judiciary)
• SB 155: Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 156: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (House Government Organization)
• SB 157: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature (House Judiciary)
• SB 158: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (House Judiciary)
• SB 159: Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)
• SB 160: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
• SB 162: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
• SB 163: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death (House Judiciary)
• SB 164: Relating generally to trespassing (House Judiciary)
• SB 165: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Judiciary)
• SB 166: Updating contested elections procedures (House Judiciary)
• SB 168: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 169: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 170: Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers’ compensation (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 171: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting authorization that exceeds state law regarding agriculture operations (House Government Organization)
• SB 172: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils (House Education)
• SB 173: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 175: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
• SB 176: Relating to permissible expenditures by Water Development Authority from Infrastructure Fund (House Finance)
• SB 177: Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
• SB 178: Relating to dental health care service plans (House Banking and Insurance)
• SB 179: Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions (House Judiciary)
• SB 189: Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent’s interpretations of school laws (House Education)
• SB 196: WV Rail Trails Program (House Government Organization)
• SB 217: Authorizing state and subdivisions to negotiate price for construction when all bids received exceed maximum budget (House Government Organization)
• SB 219: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 222: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 240: Increasing fees charged by sheriff (House Government Organization)
• SB 261: WV Veterans’ Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024 (House Finance)
• SB 262: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
• SB 265: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction (House Government Organization)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 280: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories (House Education)
• SB 293: Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (Passed House; pending Senate concurrence to House amendments)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (H First Reading, 02-07)
• SB 320: Removing requirement for wineries to serve food when serving wine (House Government Organization)
• SB 331: Eliminating cap on maximum amount of money in county’s financial stabilization fund (Pending House introduction)
• SB 354: Relating to the WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 357: Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 399: Creating crime of assault on a police dog (House Judiciary)
• SB 400: Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 402: Authorizing US Concealed Carry Association to provide concealed carry classes in WV (House Judiciary)
• SB 426: WV Recreational Trails Development Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 428: Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals (House Government Organization)
• SB 429: WV Farm Use Vehicle Tag Placement Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 430: WV Rent-to-Own Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 436: Prohibiting intentional motor vehicle emissions that create hazards (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 438: Modifying roster requirements of authorizing entities (House Government Organization)
• SB 439: Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 445: Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel (House Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 451: Directing Prosecuting Attorneys Institute to make training available to certain new prosecuting attorneys (House Judiciary)
• SB 461: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 466: Requiring State Board of Education develop Safety While Accessing Technology education program (House Education)
• SB 474: Creating critical incident review team (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 475: Relating to recovery residences (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 477: Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on internet (House Judiciary)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 487: Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff (House Education)
• SB 504: Relating to felony offense of sexual intercourse, intrusion, or contact with student (Pending House introduction)
• SB 516: Determining venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce (Pending House introduction)
• SB 539: Creating cold case database (House Judiciary)
• SB 543: Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education (Pending House introduction)
• SB 571: Creating WV Corridor H Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (Pending House introduction)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendment)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Tuesday, February 6, 2024 (16)

• SCR 1: US Army PFC Leon Charles Trader Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 2: US Army PFC John Henry Trail Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 5: US Army 1LT Herschel Jarrell Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 6: US Army SSG Orland Jackson “Tom” Meikles Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 8: US Army Corporal Clemon Knapp Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 12: US Army Private Raymond Lee Perkins Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 15: Chief Edward “Eddie” Keesecker Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 10: Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property (House Government Organization)
• SCR 11: US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 14: US Army PFC William Gorman Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 18: Stanley W. and Evelyn C. See Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 19: US Army PFC Henry W. Baldwin Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 20: Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day (House Rules)
• SCR 24: Recognizing First Responders Honor Board’s nominees for Medal of Valor (Adopted, 02-06)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Tuesday, February 6, 2024 (2)

• HJR 21: Amending the Constitution to prohibit persons not United States citizens from voting in any election held within this state (Pending Senate introduction)
• HCR 64: Acknowledging and supporting the State of Texas (Judiciary)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Tuesday, February 6, 2024 (8 – 4 Senate; 4 House)

• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Tuesday, February 6, 2024 (5 – 3 Senate; 2 House)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 24: Recognizing First Responders Honor Board’s nominees for Medal of Valor (Adopted, 02-06)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Tuesday, February 6, 2024 (2 – 1 Senate; 1 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

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

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 – 28th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SCR 27: Affirming power of states to repel invasions for our nation’s security
• SR 26: Designating February 6, 2024, as Preston County Day
• SR 27: Recognizing Leadership Jefferson for its service, dedication, and commitment to Jefferson County
• SR 28: Designating February 6, 2024, as Local Food and Farm Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 504: Relating to felony offense of sexual intercourse, intrusion, or contact with student
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 516: Determining venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce
• Eng. SB 543: Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 571: Creating WV Corridor H Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 325: Relating to distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies
• SB 507: Relating to repeal of WV EDGE
• SB 529: Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program
• Com. Sub. for SB 540: Updating WV coordinate systems
• SB 546: Updating STEM scholarship program
• SB 547: Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission
• Com. Sub. for SB 557: Relating to compensation for firefighters required to work holidays
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 596: Relating to administration of WV Water Pollution Control Act and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 522: Changing procedure for citations issued by county litter control officer
• Com. Sub. for SB 587: Enabling State Fire Commission to propose legislative rules
• Com. Sub. for SB 472: Requiring hotels and public lodging establishments to provide human trafficking awareness training for employees
• Com. Sub. for SB 542: Amending procedure for filling vacancies in county offices having more than three commissioners

10 a.m.: Education (451M)

• SB 614: Specifying requirements for appropriate elementary behavior intervention and safety
• SB 568: Creating multi-tiered system for school absenteeism
• SB 521: Relating generally to payment of bus aides
• SB 515: Prohibiting public schools from requiring students to participate in sexual orientation instruction

10:45 a.m.: Rules (219M)

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)

• SB 389: Relating to nonferrous metal sales and transportation to secondary recycler

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

• SB 378: Prohibiting smoking in vehicle when minor 16 or under is present
• SB 514: Lung Cancer Prevention and Education Act
• SB 572: Creating Forensic Pathology Recruitment Program

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 590: Creating Local Government Labor Regulatory Limitation Act
• SB 616: Modifying definition of family subject to provisions of domestic violence laws

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• SB 225: Establishing revocation of authority for spending by agency in support of challenge to WV law
• SB 239: Clarifying when excess funds accumulated by boards are to be transferred to General Revenue Fund
• SB 351: Expanding the definition of “small arms” for purposes of taxation

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

Committee Action on Bills from Monday, February 5, 2024

1 p.m.: Military

• SB 554: Prohibiting certain persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veteran benefits
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 595: Amending embalmer licensing requirements
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Government Organization

• SB 600: Revising criteria for receiving reenlistment or retention bonus
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

2 p.m.: Agriculture and Natural Resources

• Com. Sub. for SB 512: Clarifying non-agricultural status of solar farms
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 441: Restricting driving in left lane of multi-lane highways in WV
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 548: WV Appellate Reorganization Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Monday, February 5, 2024 (83 – 78 Senate; 5 House)

• SB 2: Authorizing DEP to promulgate rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 17: Department of Health rule relating to public water systems operators (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 36: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 50: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules (Pending House introduction)
• SB 60: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 142: Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV (House Government Organization)
• SB 143: Creating WV Guardian Program (House Education)
• SB 144: Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Judiciary)
• SB 146: Creating adult education taskforce (House Education)
• SB 147: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
• SB 148: Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses (House Government Organization)
• SB 149: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 150: Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled (House Judiciary)
• SB 151: Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling (House Judiciary)
• SB 152: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
• SB 154: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses (House Judiciary)
• SB 155: Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 156: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (House Government Organization)
• SB 157: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature (House Judiciary)
• SB 158: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (House Judiciary)
• SB 159: Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)
• SB 160: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
• SB 162: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
• SB 163: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death (House Judiciary)
• SB 164: Relating generally to trespassing (House Judiciary)
• SB 165: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Judiciary)
• SB 166: Updating contested elections procedures (House Judiciary)
• SB 168: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 169: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 170: Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers’ compensation (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 171: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting authorization that exceeds state law regarding agriculture operations (House Government Organization)
• SB 172: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils (House Education)
• SB 173: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 175: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
• SB 176: Relating to permissible expenditures by Water Development Authority from Infrastructure Fund (House Finance)
• SB 177: Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
• SB 178: Relating to dental health care service plans (House Banking and Insurance)
• SB 179: Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions (House Judiciary)
• SB 189: Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent’s interpretations of school laws (House Education)
• SB 196: WV Rail Trails Program (House Government Organization)
• SB 217: Authorizing state and subdivisions to negotiate price for construction when all bids received exceed maximum budget (House Government Organization)
• SB 219: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 222: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 240: Increasing fees charged by sheriff (House Government Organization)
• SB 261: WV Veterans’ Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024 (House Finance)
• SB 262: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
• SB 265: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction (House Government Organization)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 280: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories (House Education)
• SB 293: Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (Passed House; pending Senate concurrence to House amendments)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (House Judiciary)
• SB 320: Removing requirement for wineries to serve food when serving wine (House Government Organization)
• SB 331: Eliminating cap on maximum amount of money in county’s financial stabilization fund (Pending House introduction)
• SB 354: Relating to the WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 357: Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 399: Creating crime of assault on a police dog (House Judiciary)
• SB 400: Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 402: Authorizing US Concealed Carry Association to provide concealed carry classes in WV (House Judiciary)
• SB 426: WV Recreational Trails Development Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 428: Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals (House Government Organization)
• SB 429: WV Farm Use Vehicle Tag Placement Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 430: WV Rent-to-Own Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 436: Prohibiting intentional motor vehicle emissions that create hazards (Pending House introduction)
• SB 438: Modifying roster requirements of authorizing entities (House Government Organization)
• SB 439: Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 445: Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel (House Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 451: Directing Prosecuting Attorneys Institute to make training available to certain new prosecuting attorneys (House Judiciary)
• SB 461: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 466: Requiring State Board of Education develop Safety While Accessing Technology education program (Pending House introduction)
• SB 474: Creating critical incident review team (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 475: Relating to recovery residences (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 477: Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on internet (House Judiciary)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 487: Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff (House Education)
• SB 539: Creating cold case database (Pending House introduction)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendment)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Monday, February 5, 2024 (15)

• SCR 1: US Army PFC Leon Charles Trader Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 2: US Army PFC John Henry Trail Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 5: US Army 1LT Herschel Jarrell Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 6: US Army SSG Orland Jackson “Tom” Meikles Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 8: US Army Corporal Clemon Knapp Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 12: US Army Private Raymond Lee Perkins Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 15: Chief Edward “Eddie” Keesecker Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 10: Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property (House Government Organization)
• SCR 11: US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 14: US Army PFC William Gorman Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 18: Stanley W. and Evelyn C. See Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 19: US Army PFC Henry W. Baldwin Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 20: Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day (House Rules)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Monday, February 5, 2024 (55)

• HB 4017: To modify certain election laws, early voting laws, and absentee voting laws (Judiciary)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4190: Relating to the establishment of an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons (Judiciary)
• HB 4205: Relating to changing the process of election litigation (Judiciary)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4292: Providing for enhanced damages for non-payment of royalties due from oil, natural gas, or natural gas liquids production (Energy, Industry and Mining)
• HB 4302: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Judiciary)
• HB 4350: Relating to appointment of candidates after filing period (Government Organization)
• HB 4376: Relating to surgical smoke evacuation (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4428: Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking (Judiciary)
• HB 4431: Permitting the cremation of unidentified remains (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4432: Relating to midlevel practitioners (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4433: Relating to exempting the acquisition and utilization of a mobile facility which performs mammography or low density computerized tomography (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4434: Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source (Transportation and Infrastructure)

• HB 4552: To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration (Judiciary)
• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendments)
• HB 4595: Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability (Judiciary)

• HB 4620: Removing the expiration date from the food handler card (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4666: Relating to establishing criminal penalties for human trafficking (Judiciary)
• HB 4683: Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement (Judiciary)
• HB 4697: Add protections for WV residents who reside out of state for certain time periods from non-renewal of licenses and registration (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4756: Creating a state Alzheimer’s plan task force (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4759: Relating to E-Verify, the federal employment authorization program (Government Organization)
• HB 4764: Provide one trip temporary vehicle permits to be purchased and printed online (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4766: Require Division of Highways to place signage up 30 days prior to road closure (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4768: Relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia (Education)
• HB 4769: Clarifying appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor (Education)
• HB 4776: Relating to adding elementary schools into school disciplinary measures (Education)
• HB 4783: Relating to the practice of optometry (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4793: Relating to moonshine (Government Organization)
• HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office (S Second Reading, 02-06)
• HB 4814: Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals (Education)
• HB 4817: Relating to updating the practice of nursing (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4830: To address the professional development of teachers (Education)
• HB 4832: Relating to state superintendent’s reports regarding the finances of school districts (Education)
• HB 4837: Clarifying the duty of banks to retain and procure records (Banking and Insurance)
• HB 4838: Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information (Education)
• HB 4860: Providing that a general education teacher may not be responsible for accommodation logs (Education)
• HB 4874: Relating to fatality and mortality review team (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4908: Relating to permitting the state agencies to contract with the West Virginia public health Institute (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4965: Mandating restitution to children of victims of negligent homicide or driving under the influence causing death (Judiciary)
• HB 4976: Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments (Government Organization)
• HB 4998: Modifying penalties for third offense shoplifting (Judiciary)
• HB 5006: Relating to the administration of the A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan (Pending Senate introduction)

• HB 5014: Supplementing and amending appropriations to West Virginia University General Administration Fund (Finance)
• HB 5016: Allow women to work on inmate road crews (Judiciary)
• HB 5019: Relating to surrender and return of license not required for disqualifying or downgrading a driver’s license (Pending Senate introduction)

• HB 5045: Related to the administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act, and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5096: Change the requirement for posting public notices at the state and federal level for PSDs (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5117: Relating generally to waiver of initial licensing fees for certain individuals (Government Organization)
• HB 5127: Including Potomac State College in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program” (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5157: Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5310: Remote Patient Outcome Improvement Act (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Monday, February 5, 2024 (1)

• HCR 64: Acknowledging and supporting the State of Texas (Pending Senate introduction)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Monday, February 5, 2024 (8 – 4 Senate; 4 House)

• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Monday, February 5, 2024 (4 – 2 Senate; 2 House)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted. 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted. 01-24)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Monday, February 5, 2024 (2 – 1 Senate; 1 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

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

Monday, February 5, 2024 – 27th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 25: Designating February 5, 2024, as Recovery Advocacy Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 331: Eliminating cap on maximum amount of money in county’s financial stabilization fund
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 436: Prohibiting intentional motor vehicle emissions that create hazards
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 466: Requiring State Board of Education develop Safety While Accessing Technology education program
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 539: Creating cold case database
• Eng. HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 504: Relating to felony offense of sexual intercourse, intrusion, or contact with student
• Com. Sub. for SB 516: Determining venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce
• SB 543: Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education
• Com. Sub. for SB 571: Creating WV Corridor H Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 325: Relating to distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies
• SB 507: Relating to repeal of WV EDGE
• SB 529: Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program
• Com. Sub. for SB 540: Updating surveying coordinate system
• SB 546: Updating STEM scholarship program
• SB 547: Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission
• Com. Sub. for SB 557: Updating compensation for firefighters required to work holidays
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office

Scheduled Committee Meetings

1 p.m.: Military (208W)

• SB 554: Prohibiting certain persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits
• SB 595: Amending embalmer licensing requirements
• SB 600: Revising criteria for receiving reenlistment or retention bonus

2 p.m.: Agriculture and Natural Resources (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 512: Clarifying non-agricultural status of solar farms

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 441: Restricting driving in left lane of multi-lane highways in WV
• Com. Sub. for SB 548: WV Appellate Reorganization Act

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

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 2, 2024 (78 – 74 Senate; 4 House)

• SB 2: Authorizing DEP to promulgate rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 17: Department of Health rule relating to public water systems operators (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (H Third Reading, 02-05)
• SB 36: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 50: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules (Pending House introduction)
• SB 60: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 142: Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV (House Government Organization)
• SB 143: Creating WV Guardian Program (House Education)
• SB 144: Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Judiciary)
• SB 146: Creating adult education taskforce (House Education)
• SB 147: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
• SB 148: Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses (House Government Organization)
• SB 149: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 150: Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled (House Judiciary)
• SB 151: Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling (House Judiciary)
• SB 152: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
• SB 154: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses (House Judiciary)
• SB 155: Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 156: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (House Government Organization)
• SB 157: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature (House Judiciary)
• SB 158: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (House Judiciary)
• SB 159: Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)
• SB 160: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
• SB 162: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
• SB 163: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death (House Judiciary)
• SB 164: Relating generally to trespassing (House Judiciary)
• SB 165: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Judiciary)
• SB 166: Updating contested elections procedures (House Judiciary)
• SB 168: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 169: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 170: Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers’ compensation (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 171: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting authorization that exceeds state law regarding agriculture operations (House Government Organization)
• SB 172: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils (House Education)
• SB 173: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 175: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
• SB 176: Relating to permissible expenditures by Water Development Authority from Infrastructure Fund (House Finance)
• SB 177: Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
• SB 178: Relating to dental health care service plans (House Banking and Insurance)
• SB 179: Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions (House Judiciary)
• SB 189: Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent’s interpretations of school laws (House Education)
• SB 196: WV Rail Trails Program (House Government Organization)
• SB 217: Authorizing state and subdivisions to negotiate price for construction when all bids received exceed maximum budget (House Government Organization)
• SB 219: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 222: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 240: Increasing fees charged by sheriff (House Government Organization)
• SB 261: WV Veterans’ Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024 (House Finance)
• SB 262: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
• SB 265: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction (House Government Organization)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 280: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories (House Education)
• SB 293: Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (H Third Reading, 02-05)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (House Judiciary)
• SB 320: Removing requirement for wineries to serve food when serving wine (House Government Organization)
• SB 354: Relating to the WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 357: Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 399: Creating crime of assault on a police dog (House Judiciary)
• SB 400: Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 402: Authorizing US Concealed Carry Association to provide concealed carry classes in WV (House Judiciary)
• SB 426: WV Recreational Trails Development Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 428: Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals (House Government Organization)
• SB 429: WV Farm Use Vehicle Tag Placement Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 430: WV Rent-to-Own Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 438: Modifying roster requirements of authorizing entities (House Government Organization)
• SB 439: Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 445: Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel (House Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 451: Directing Prosecuting Attorneys Institute to make training available to certain new prosecuting attorneys (House Judiciary)
• SB 461: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 474: Creating critical incident review team (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 475: Relating to recovery residences (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 477: Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on internet (House Judiciary)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 487: Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff (House Education)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Friday, February 2, 2024 (15)

• SCR 1: US Army PFC Leon Charles Trader Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 2: US Army PFC John Henry Trail Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 5: US Army 1LT Herschel Jarrell Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 6: US Army SSG Orland Jackson “Tom” Meikles Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 8: US Army Corporal Clemon Knapp Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 12: US Army Private Raymond Lee Perkins Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 15: Chief Edward “Eddie” Keesecker Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 10: Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property (House Government Organization)
• SCR 11: US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 14: US Army PFC William Gorman Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 18: Stanley W. and Evelyn C. See Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 19: US Army PFC Henry W. Baldwin Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 20: Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day (House Rules)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Friday, February 2, 2024 (50)

• HB 4017: To modify certain election laws, early voting laws, and absentee voting laws (Judiciary)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4190: Relating to the establishment of an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons (Judiciary)
• HB 4205: Relating to changing the process of election litigation (Judiciary)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4292: Providing for enhanced damages for non-payment of royalties due from oil, natural gas, or natural gas liquids production (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4302: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Judiciary)
• HB 4350: Relating to appointment of candidates after filing period (Government Organization)
• HB 4376: Relating to surgical smoke evacuation (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4428: Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking (Judiciary)
• HB 4431: Permitting the cremation of unidentified remains (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4432: Relating to midlevel practitioners (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4433: Relating to exempting the acquisition and utilization of a mobile facility which performs mammography or low density computerized tomography (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4434: Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4552: To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration (Judiciary)

• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (S Third Reading, 02-05)
• HB 4595: Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability (Judiciary)

• HB 4620: Removing the expiration date from the food handler card (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4666: Relating to establishing criminal penalties for human trafficking (Judiciary)
• HB 4683: Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement (Judiciary)
• HB 4697: Add protections for WV residents who reside out of state for certain time periods from non-renewal of licenses and registration (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4756: Creating a state Alzheimer’s plan task force (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4759: Relating to E-Verify, the federal employment authorization program (Government Organization)
• HB 4764: Provide one trip temporary vehicle permits to be purchased and printed online (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4766: Require Division of Highways to place signage up 30 days prior to road closure (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4768: Relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia (Education)
• HB 4769: Clarifying appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor (Education)
• HB 4776: Relating to adding elementary schools into school disciplinary measures (Education)
• HB 4783: Relating to the practice of optometry (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4793: Relating to moonshine (Government Organization)
• HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office (S First Reading, 02-05)
• HB 4814: Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals (Education)
• HB 4817: Relating to updating the practice of nursing (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4830: To address the professional development of teachers (Education)
• HB 4832: Relating to state superintendent’s reports regarding the finances of school districts (Education)
• HB 4837: Clarifying the duty of banks to retain and procure records (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4838: Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information (Education)
• HB 4860: Providing that a general education teacher may not be responsible for accommodation logs (Education)
• HB 4874: Relating to fatality and mortality review team (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4908: Relating to permitting the state agencies to contract with the West Virginia public health Institute (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4965: Mandating restitution to children of victims of negligent homicide or driving under the influence causing death (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4976: Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments (Government Organization)
• HB 4998: Modifying penalties for third offense shoplifting (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5014: Supplementing and amending appropriations to West Virginia University General Administration Fund (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5016: Allow women to work on inmate road crews (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5096: Change the requirement for posting public notices at the state and federal level for PSDs (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5117: Relating generally to waiver of initial licensing fees for certain individuals (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5157: Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Friday, February 2, 2024 (1)

• HCR 64: Acknowledging and supporting the State of Texas (Pending Senate introduction)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, February 2, 2024 (7 – 3 Senate; 4 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, February 2, 2024 (4 – 2 Senate; 2 House)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted. 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted. 01-24)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Friday, February 2, 2024 (2 – 1 Senate; 1 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Signed, 02-02)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

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

Friday, February 2, 2024 – 24th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 9 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SCR 26: US Army PFC Clarence William (Buck) Holliday Memorial Road
• SR 23: Designating February 2, 2024, as American Heart Association Day
• SR 24: Recognizing February 2, 2024, as WV Home School Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 50: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 436: Prohibiting intentional motor vehicle emissions that create hazards
• Eng. HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 331: Eliminating cap on maximum amount of money in county’s financial stabilization fund
• Com. Sub. for SB 466: Requiring State Board of Education develop Safety While Accessing Technology education program
• Com. Sub. for SB 539: Creating cold case database
• Eng. HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 504: Relating to felony offense of sexual intercourse, intrusion, or contact with student
• Com. Sub. for SB 516: Determining venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce
• SB 543: Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education
• Com. Sub. for SB 571: Creating WV Corridor H Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10 a.m.: Workforce (208W)

• Com. Sub. SB 562: Expanding employment and training requirements necessary for SNAP Benefits

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Friday, February 2, 2024

• SB 618: Creating Carbon Exchange Program (Woodrum; Government Organization then Finance)
• SB 619: Modifying levy rates resulting from increased valuation yield (Woodrum; Finance)
• SB 620: Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program (Rucker; Finance)
• SB 621: Removing discretion of court to issue written investigation for proceedings (Azinger; Judiciary)
• SB 622: Updating time period of voting inactivity for removal from voter registration (Tarr, Woodrum; Judiciary)
• SB 623: Requiring DMV to provide images of certain individuals to Secretary of State for voter identification purposes (Tarr, Woodrum; Judiciary)
• SB 624: Cancelling voter registration records for individuals no longer WV residents (Tarr, Woodrum; Judiciary)
• SB 625: Prohibiting acceptance of illegal ballots cast in any election (Tarr, Woodrum; Judiciary)
• SB 626: Neighborhood Assistance and Rejuvenation Compact Act (FN) (Tarr, Takubo; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 627: Prohibiting ranked choice voting in elections (Tarr, Woodrum; Judiciary)
• SB 628: Declaring certain claims as moral obligations of the State (Tarr, Plymale; Finance)
• SR 25: Designating February 5, 2024, as Recovery Advocacy Day (Takubo)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Thursday, February 1, 2024

10 a.m.: Government Organization

• Com. Sub. for SB 540: Updating surveying coordinate system
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 557: Updating compensation for firefighters required to work holidays
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 541: Facilitating creation of home-based businesses
• Bill not taken up

10 a.m.: Education

• SB 547: Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 563: Updating Center for Nursing to Office of Nursing Education and Workforce Development
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Health and Human Resources

• SB 507: Relating to repeal of WV EDGE
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 546: Updating STEM scholarship program
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 529: Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining

• Com. Sub. for SB 596: Relating to administration of WV Water Pollution Control Act and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

• Com. Sub. for SB 444: Clarifying health insurance coverage for certain emergency services
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 453: Requiring pricing and payment transparency from pharmacy benefits managers contracting with PEIA
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; added second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for HB 4595: Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 325: Relating to distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies
• Committee substitute for the committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Thursday, February 1, 2024 (75 – 73 Senate; 2 House)

• SB 2: Authorizing DEP to promulgate rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 17: Department of Health rule relating to public water systems operators (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (H Second Reading, 02-02)
• SB 36: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 60: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 142: Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV (House Government Organization)
• SB 143: Creating WV Guardian Program (House Education)
• SB 144: Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Judiciary)
• SB 146: Creating adult education taskforce (House Education)
• SB 147: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
• SB 148: Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses (House Government Organization)
• SB 149: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 150: Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled (House Judiciary)
• SB 151: Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling (House Judiciary)
• SB 152: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
• SB 154: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses (House Judiciary)
• SB 155: Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 156: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (House Government Organization)
• SB 157: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature (House Judiciary)
• SB 158: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (House Judiciary)
• SB 159: Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)
• SB 160: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
• SB 162: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
• SB 163: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death (House Judiciary)
• SB 164: Relating generally to trespassing (House Judiciary)
• SB 165: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Judiciary)
• SB 166: Updating contested elections procedures (House Judiciary)
• SB 168: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 169: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 170: Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers’ compensation (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 171: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting authorization that exceeds state law regarding agriculture operations (House Government Organization)
• SB 172: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils (House Education)
• SB 173: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 175: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
• SB 176: Relating to permissible expenditures by Water Development Authority from Infrastructure Fund (House Finance)
• SB 177: Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
• SB 178: Relating to dental health care service plans (House Banking and Insurance)
• SB 179: Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions (House Judiciary)
• SB 189: Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent’s interpretations of school laws (House Education)
• SB 196: WV Rail Trails Program (House Government Organization)
• SB 217: Authorizing state and subdivisions to negotiate price for construction when all bids received exceed maximum budget (House Government Organization)
• SB 219: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 222: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 240: Increasing fees charged by sheriff (House Government Organization)
• SB 261: WV Veterans’ Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024 (House Finance)
• SB 262: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
• SB 265: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction (House Government Organization)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 280: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories (House Education)
• SB 293: Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (H Second Reading, 02-02)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (Pending House introduction)
• SB 320: Removing requirement for wineries to serve food when serving wine (Pending House introduction)
• SB 354: Relating to the WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 357: Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 399: Creating crime of assault on a police dog (House Judiciary)
• SB 400: Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 402: Authorizing US Concealed Carry Association to provide concealed carry classes in WV (House Judiciary)
• SB 426: WV Recreational Trails Development Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 428: Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals (House Government Organization)
• SB 429: WV Farm Use Vehicle Tag Placement Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 430: WV Rent-to-Own Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 438: Modifying roster requirements of authorizing entities (House Government Organization)
• SB 439: Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 445: Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel (House Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 451: Directing Prosecuting Attorneys Institute to make training available to certain new prosecuting attorneys (House Judiciary)
• SB 461: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 474: Creating critical incident review team (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 475: Relating to recovery residences (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 477: Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on internet (House Judiciary)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 487: Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff (House Education)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Thursday, February 1, 2024 (15)

• SCR 1: US Army PFC Leon Charles Trader Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 2: US Army PFC John Henry Trail Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 5: US Army 1LT Herschel Jarrell Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 6: US Army SSG Orland Jackson “Tom” Meikles Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 8: US Army Corporal Clemon Knapp Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 12: US Army Private Raymond Lee Perkins Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 15: Chief Edward “Eddie” Keesecker Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 10: Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property (House Government Organization)
• SCR 11: US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 14: US Army PFC William Gorman Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 18: Stanley W. and Evelyn C. See Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 19: US Army PFC Henry W. Baldwin Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 20: Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day (House Rules)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Thursday, February 1, 2024 (42)

• HB 4017: To modify certain election laws, early voting laws, and absentee voting laws (Judiciary)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (S Third Reading, 02-02)
• HB 4190: Relating to the establishment of an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons (Judiciary)
• HB 4205: Relating to changing the process of election litigation (Judiciary)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4302: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Judiciary)
• HB 4350: Relating to appointment of candidates after filing period (Government Organization)
• HB 4376: Relating to surgical smoke evacuation (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4428: Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking (Judiciary)
• HB 4431: Permitting the cremation of unidentified remains (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4432: Relating to midlevel practitioners (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4433: Relating to exempting the acquisition and utilization of a mobile facility which performs mammography or low density computerized tomography (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4434: Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4552: To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration (Judiciary)

• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (S Second Reading, 02-02)
• HB 4595: Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4620: Removing the expiration date from the food handler card (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4666: Relating to establishing criminal penalties for human trafficking (Judiciary)
• HB 4683: Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement (Judiciary)
• HB 4697: Add protections for WV residents who reside out of state for certain time periods from non-renewal of licenses and registration (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4756: Creating a state Alzheimer’s plan task force (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4759: Relating to E-Verify, the federal employment authorization program (Government Organization)
• HB 4764: Provide one trip temporary vehicle permits to be purchased and printed online (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4766: Require Division of Highways to place signage up 30 days prior to road closure (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4768: Relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia (Education)
• HB 4769: Clarifying appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor (Education)
• HB 4776: Relating to adding elementary schools into school disciplinary measures (Education)
• HB 4783: Relating to the practice of optometry (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4793: Relating to moonshine (Government Organization)
• HB 4801: Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4814: Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals (Education)
• HB 4817: Relating to updating the practice of nursing (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4830: To address the professional development of teachers (Education)
• HB 4832: Relating to state superintendent’s reports regarding the finances of school districts (Education)
• HB 4837: Clarifying the duty of banks to retain and procure records (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4838: Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information (Education)
• HB 4860: Providing that a general education teacher may not be responsible for accommodation logs (Education)
• HB 4874: Relating to fatality and mortality review team (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4908: Relating to permitting the state agencies to contract with the West Virginia public health Institute (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4976: Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments (Government Organization)
• HB 5332: Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public (Pending Senate introduction)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, February 1, 2024 (5 – 3 Senate; 2 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, February 1, 2024 (4)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted. 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted. 01-24)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Thursday, February 1, 2024 (1 – 1 House)

• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

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

Thursday, February 1, 2024 – 23rd Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SCR 23: US Navy LT Lewis Joseph D’Antoni Memorial Road
• SCR 24: Recognizing First Responders Honor Board’s nominees of Medal of Honor
• SCR 25: US Army SGT Wyatt K. Hinton Memorial Bridge
• SR 20: Recognizing essential role of CASA for abused and neglected children
• SR 21: Designating February 1, 2024, as National Unclaimed Property Day
• SR 22: Designating February 1, 2024, as Sexual Violence Awareness Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 320: Removing requirement for wineries to serve food when serving wine

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 50: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules
• Com. Sub. for SB 436: Prohibiting intentional motor vehicle emissions that create hazards
• Com. Sub. for SB 455: Relating generally to banking and contractual authority of State Treasurer’s Office
• Eng. HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 331: Eliminating cap on maximum amount of money in county’s financial stabilization fund
• Com. Sub. for SB 466: Requiring State Board of Education develop Safety While Accessing Technology education program
• Com. Sub. for SB 539: Creating cold case database
• Eng. HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 540: Updating surveying coordinate system
• Com. Sub. for SB 557: Updating compensation for firefighters required to work holidays
• Com. Sub. for SB 541: Facilitating creation of home-based businesses

10 a.m.: Education (451M)

• SB 547: Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission
• Com. Sub. for SB 563: Updating Center for Nursing to Office of Nursing Education and Workforce Development
• SB 507: Relating to repeal of WV EDGE
• SB 546: Updating STEM scholarship program
• SB 529: Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 596: Relating to administration of WV Water Pollution Control Act and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

• SB 444: Clarifying health insurance coverage for certain emergency services
• SB 453: Requiring pricing and payment transparency from pharmacy benefits managers contracting with PEIA
• HB 4595: Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 325: Relating to distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Budget Presentation: Marshall University
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia University

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Thursday, February 1, 2024

• SB 614: Specifying requirements for appropriate elementary behavior intervention and safety (Grady; Education)
• SB 615: Limiting statutory and common law actions for certain electric generating facilities (Trump, Smith, Swope; Judiciary)
• SB 616: Modifying definition of family subject to provisions of domestic violence laws (Trump; Judiciary)
• SB 617: Exempting certain meat processes from consumers sales and service tax (Smith, Woodrum, Deeds, Hamilton; Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance)
• SCR 26: US Army PFC First Class Clarence William “Buck” Holliday Memorial Road (Deeds)
• SR 23: Designating February 2, 2024, as American Heart Association Day (Rucker, Takubo)
• SR 24: Recognizing February 2, 2024, as WV Home School Day (Takubo, Rucker)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Wednesday, January 31, 2024

1 p.m.: Committee on School Choice

• SB 598: Relating to Hope Scholarship Program and micro schools
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

1 p.m.: Economic Development

• SB 543: Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 544: Raising threshold for bid requirement of municipal public works projects
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 571: Creating WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority Commission
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

2 p.m.: Outdoor Recreation

• SB 538: Creating exception for public nuisance
• Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 577: Limiting landowner liability when land is used for recreational purposes
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 504: Modifying felony offense of sexual misconduct of school employee or volunteer
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 516: Determining venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (74 – 72 Senate; 2 House)

• SB 2: Authorizing DEP to promulgate rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 17: Department of Health rule relating to public water systems operators (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (H First Reading, 02-01)
• SB 36: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 60: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 142: Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV (House Government Organization)
• SB 143: Creating WV Guardian Program (House Education)
• SB 144: Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Judiciary)
• SB 146: Creating adult education taskforce (House Education)
• SB 147: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
• SB 148: Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses (House Government Organization)
• SB 149: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 150: Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled (House Judiciary)
• SB 151: Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling (House Judiciary)
• SB 152: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
• SB 154: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses (House Judiciary)
• SB 155: Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 156: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (House Government Organization)
• SB 157: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature (House Judiciary)
• SB 158: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (House Judiciary)
• SB 159: Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)
• SB 160: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
• SB 162: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
• SB 163: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death (House Judiciary)
• SB 164: Relating generally to trespassing (House Judiciary)
• SB 165: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Judiciary)
• SB 166: Updating contested elections procedures (House Judiciary)
• SB 168: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 169: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 170: Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers’ compensation (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 171: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting authorization that exceeds state law regarding agriculture operations (House Government Organization)
• SB 172: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils (House Education)
• SB 173: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 175: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
• SB 176: Relating to permissible expenditures by Water Development Authority from Infrastructure Fund (House Finance)
• SB 177: Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
• SB 178: Relating to dental health care service plans (House Banking and Insurance)
• SB 179: Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions (House Judiciary)
• SB 189: Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent’s interpretations of school laws (House Education)
• SB 196: WV Rail Trails Program (House Government Organization)
• SB 217: Authorizing state and subdivisions to negotiate price for construction when all bids received exceed maximum budget (House Government Organization)
• SB 219: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 222: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 240: Increasing fees charged by sheriff (House Government Organization)
• SB 261: WV Veterans’ Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024 (House Finance)
• SB 262: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
• SB 265: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction (Pending House introduction)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 280: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories (House Education)
• SB 293: Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (H First Reading, 02-01)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (Pending House introduction)
• SB 354: Relating to the WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 357: Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 399: Creating crime of assault on a police dog (House Judiciary)
• SB 400: Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 402: Authorizing US Concealed Carry Association to provide concealed carry classes in WV (Pending House introduction)
• SB 426: WV Recreational Trails Development Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 428: Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals (House Government Organization)
• SB 429: WV Farm Use Vehicle Tag Placement Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 430: WV Rent-to-Own Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 438: Modifying roster requirements of authorizing entities (House Government Organization)
• SB 439: Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 445: Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel (House Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 451: Directing Prosecuting Attorneys Institute to make training available to certain new prosecuting attorneys (House Judiciary)
• SB 461: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts (Pending House introduction)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 474: Creating critical incident review team (Pending House introduction)
• SB 475: Relating to recovery residences (Pending House introduction)
• SB 477: Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on internet (Pending House introduction)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 487: Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff (Pending House introduction)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (15)

• SCR 1: US Army PFC Leon Charles Trader Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 2: US Army PFC John Henry Trail Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 5: US Army 1LT Herschel Jarrell Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 6: US Army SSG Orland Jackson “Tom” Meikles Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 8: US Army Corporal Clemon Knapp Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 12: US Army Private Raymond Lee Perkins Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 15: Chief Edward “Eddie” Keesecker Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 10: Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property (House Government Organization)
• SCR 11: US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
• SCR 14: US Army PFC William Gorman Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 18: Stanley W. and Evelyn C. See Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
• SCR 19: US Army PFC Henry W. Baldwin Memorial Bridge (Pending House introduction)
• SCR 20: Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day (House Rules)’

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (39)

• HB 4017: To modify certain election laws, early voting laws, and absentee voting laws (Judiciary)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (S Second Reading, 02-01)
• HB 4190: Relating to the establishment of an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons (Judiciary)
• HB 4205: Relating to changing the process of election litigation (Judiciary)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4302: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Judiciary)
• HB 4350: Relating to appointment of candidates after filing period (Government Organization)
• HB 4376: Relating to surgical smoke evacuation (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4428: Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking (Judiciary)
• HB 4431: Permitting the cremation of unidentified remains (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4432: Relating to midlevel practitioners (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4433: Relating to exempting the acquisition and utilization of a mobile facility which performs mammography or low density computerized tomography (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4434: Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4552: To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration (Judiciary)

• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (S First Reading, 02-01)
• HB 4595: Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4620: Removing the expiration date from the food handler card (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4666: Relating to establishing criminal penalties for human trafficking (Judiciary)
• HB 4683: Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement (Judiciary)
• HB 4697: Add protections for WV residents who reside out of state for certain time periods from non-renewal of licenses and registration (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4756: Creating a state Alzheimer’s plan task force (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4759: Relating to E-Verify, the federal employment authorization program (Government Organization)
• HB 4764: Provide one trip temporary vehicle permits to be purchased and printed online (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4766: Require Division of Highways to place signage up 30 days prior to road closure (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4768: Relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia (Education)
• HB 4769: Clarifying appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor (Education)
• HB 4776: Relating to adding elementary schools into school disciplinary measures (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4783: Relating to the practice of optometry (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4793: Relating to moonshine (Government Organization)
• HB 4814: Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals (Education)
• HB 4817: Relating to updating the practice of nursing (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4830: To address the professional development of teachers (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4832: Relating to state superintendent’s reports regarding the finances of school districts (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4838: Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4860: Providing that a general education teacher may not be responsible for accommodation logs (Education)
• HB 4874: Relating to fatality and mortality review team (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4908: Relating to permitting the state agencies to contract with the West Virginia public health Institute (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4976: Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments (Government Organization)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (5 – 3 Senate; 2 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (4)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted. 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted. 01-24)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (1 – 1 House)

• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

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

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 – 22nd Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• Com. Sub. for SCR 11: US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge
• Com. Sub. for SCR 14: US Army PFC William Gorman Memorial Bridge
• SCR 18: Stanley W. and Evelyn C. See Memorial Bridge
• SCR 19: US Army PFC Henry W. Baldwin Memorial Bridge
• SCR 21: US Army MSG James E. Jackson Jr. Memorial Road
• SCR 22: US Army and Marine Corps Major and Olympic Gold Medalist Cornelius Burdette Memorial Road
• SR 19: Designating January 31, 2024, as Marshall University Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. SB 265: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction
• Eng.SB 402: Authorizing US Concealed Carry Association to provide concealed carry classes in WV
• Eng. SB 461: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 474: Creating critical incident review team
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 475: Relating to recovery residences
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 477: Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on internet
• Eng. SB 487: Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff
• Eng. HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 320: Removing requirement for wineries to serve food when serving wine

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 50: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules
• SB 306: Equipment Right to Repair Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 436: Prohibiting intentional motor vehicle emissions that create hazards
• Com. Sub. for SB 455: Relating generally to banking and contractual authority of State Treasurer’s Office
• Eng. HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles

Scheduled Committee Meetings

10:45 a.m.: Senate Rules Committee (219M)

1 p.m.: Committee on School Choice (208W)

• SB 531: Allowing charter schools to charge Hope Scholarship students for classes
• SB 598: Relating to Hope Scholarship Program and micro schools

1 p.m.: Economic Development (451M)

• SB 543: Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education
• SB 544: Raising threshold for bid requirement of municipal public works projects
• SB 571: Creating WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority Commission

2 p.m.: Outdoor Recreation (208W)

• SB 538: Creating exception for public nuisance
• SB 577: Limiting landowner liability when land is used for recreational purposes

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 504: Modifying felony offense of sexual misconduct of school employee or volunteer
• SB 516: Determining venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce

3p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and Community and Technical Colleges
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Health Facilities

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Wednesday, January 31, 2024

• SB 603: Solid Waste Management Act (Woodrum; Government Organization)
• SB 604: West Virginia Short Line Railroad Modernization Act (FN) (Jeffries, Barrett, Clements, Deeds, Hunt, Maynard, Nelson, Oliverio, Phillips, Queen, Roberts, Smith, Stuart, Swope, Takubo, Taylor, Weld, Woodrum; Economic Development then Finance)
• SB 605: Requiring electronic funds transfer of retirement contributions by participating employers (Nelson; Pensions)
• SB 606: Relating to Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System (Nelson; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 607: Clarifying MPFRS surviving spouse benefits (FN) (Nelson; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 608: Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act (Nelson; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 609: Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act (Nelson; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 610: Clarifying authority of WV Water Development Authority in certain circumstances (Tarr; Government Organization)
• SB 611: Allowing prosecuting attorney vehicles to have flashing red warning lights (Taylor, Weld; Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary)
• SB 612: Establishing criminal offense for crimes against public justice workers (Rucker; Judiciary)
• SB 613: WV Residential Mortgage Lender, Broker and Servicer Act (Azinger; Banking and Insurance)
• SCR 23: US Navy Lieutenant Lewis Joseph D’Antoni Memorial Road (Plymale; Transportation and Infrastructure)
• SCR 24: Recognizing First Responders Honor Board’s nominees of Medal of Honor (Deeds; Government Organization)
• SCR 25: US Army Sgt Wyatt K. Hinton Memorial Bridge (Woodrum; Transportation and Infrastructure)
• SR 20: Recognizing essential role of CASA for abused and neglected children (Rucker)
• SR 21: Designating February 1, 2024, as National Unclaimed Property Day (Weld)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Tuesday, January 30, 2024

10 a.m.: Government Organization

• Com. Sub. for SB 251: Creating Closed Captioning Act
• Bill referred to subcommittee – Senators Barrett (R-Berkeley), Queen (R-Harrison), and Hunt (R-Kanawha) appointed

• Com. Sub. for SB 331: Eliminating cap on maximum amount of money in county’s financial stabilization fund
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

10 a.m.: Education

• Com. Sub. for SB 466: Requiring development of safety while accessing technology education program
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 529: Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program
• Bill laid over to a future meeting

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care
• Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 539: Creating cold case database
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, January 30, 2024 (66 – 65 Senate; 1 House)

• SB 2: Authorizing DEP to promulgate rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 17: Department of Health rule relating to public water systems operators (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 36: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 60: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 142: Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV (House Government Organization)
• SB 143: Creating WV Guardian Program (House Education)
• SB 144: Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Judiciary)
• SB 146: Creating adult education taskforce (House Education)
• SB 147: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
• SB 148: Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses (House Government Organization)
• SB 149: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 150: Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled (House Judiciary)
• SB 151: Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling (House Judiciary)
• SB 152: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
• SB 154: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses (House Judiciary)
• SB 155: Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 156: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (House Government Organization)
• SB 157: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature (House Judiciary)
• SB 158: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (House Judiciary)
• SB 159: Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)
• SB 160: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
• SB 162: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
• SB 163: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death (House Judiciary)
• SB 164: Relating generally to trespassing (House Judiciary)
• SB 165: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Judiciary)
• SB 166: Updating contested elections procedures (House Judiciary)
• SB 168: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 169: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 170: Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers’ compensation (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 171: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting authorization that exceeds state law regarding agriculture operations (House Government Organization)
• SB 172: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils (House Education)
• SB 173: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 175: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
• SB 176: Relating to permissible expenditures by Water Development Authority from Infrastructure Fund (House Finance)
• SB 177: Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
• SB 178: Relating to dental health care service plans (House Banking and Insurance)
• SB 179: Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions (House Judiciary)
• SB 189: Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent’s interpretations of school laws (Pending House introduction)
• SB 196: WV Rail Trails Program (House Government Organization)
• SB 217: Authorizing state and subdivisions to negotiate price for construction when all bids received exceed maximum budget (House Government Organization)
• SB 219: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 222: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks (House Agriculture and Natural Resources)
• SB 240: Increasing fees charged by sheriff (House Government Organization)
• SB 261: WV Veterans’ Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024 (House Finance)
• SB 262: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 280: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories (House Education)
• SB 293: Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (Pending House introduction)
• SB 354: Relating to the WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 357: Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 399: Creating crime of assault on a police dog (House Judiciary)
• SB 400: Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 426: WV Recreational Trails Development Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 428: Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals (House Government Organization)
• SB 429: WV Farm Use Vehicle Tag Placement Act (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 430: WV Rent-to-Own Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 438: Modifying roster requirements of authorizing entities (House Government Organization)
• SB 439: Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 445: Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel (House Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 451: Directing Prosecuting Attorneys Institute to make training available to certain new prosecuting attorneys (Pending House introduction)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Tuesday, January 30, 2024 (11)

• SCR 1: US Army PFC Leon Charles Trader Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 2: US Army PFC John Henry Trail Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 5: US Army 1LT Herschel Jarrell Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 6: US Army SSG Orland Jackson “Tom” Meikles Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 8: US Army Corporal Clemon Knapp Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 12: US Army Private Raymond Lee Perkins Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 15: Chief Edward “Eddie” Keesecker Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 10: Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property (House Government Organization)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 20: Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day (Pending House introduction)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Tuesday, January 30, 2024 (33)

• HB 4017: To modify certain election laws, early voting laws, and absentee voting laws (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (S First Reading, 01-31)
• HB 4190: Relating to the establishment of an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons (Judiciary)
• HB 4205: Relating to changing the process of election litigation (Judiciary)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (S Third Reading, 01-31)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4302: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Judiciary)
• HB 4350: Relating to appointment of candidates after filing period (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4428: Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking (Judiciary)
• HB 4431: Permitting the cremation of unidentified remains (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4432: Relating to midlevel practitioners (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4433: Relating to exempting the acquisition and utilization of a mobile facility which performs mammography or low density computerized tomography (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4434: Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4552: To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration (Judiciary)

• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4595: Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4620: Removing the expiration date from the food handler card (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4666: Relating to establishing criminal penalties for human trafficking (Judiciary)
• HB 4683: Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement (Judiciary)
• HB 4697: Add protections for WV residents who reside out of state for certain time periods from non-renewal of licenses and registration (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4756: Creating a state Alzheimer’s plan task force (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4759: Relating to E-Verify, the federal employment authorization program (Government Organization)
• HB 4764: Provide one trip temporary vehicle permits to be purchased and printed online (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4766: Require Division of Highways to place signage up 30 days prior to road closure (Transportation and Infrastructure)
• HB 4768: Relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia (Education)
• HB 4769: Clarifying appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor (Education)
• HB 4783: Relating to the practice of optometry (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4793: Relating to moonshine (Government Organization)
• HB 4814: Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals (Education)
• HB 4860: Providing that a general education teacher may not be responsible for accommodation logs (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4874: Relating to fatality and mortality review team (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4908: Relating to permitting the state agencies to contract with the West Virginia public health Institute (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4976: Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments (Pending Senate introduction)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Tuesday, January 30, 2024 (4 – 3 Senate; 1 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Tuesday, January 30, 2024 (4)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Tuesday, January 30, 2024 (1 – 1 House)

• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

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

Monday, January 29, 2024 – 20th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• Com. Sub. for SR 6: Honoring life of Edith Levy, Holocaust survivor
• SR 13: Recognizing Myles Lumber Company as WV Outstanding Tree Farmer for 2023
• SR 14: Designating January 29, 2024, as Future Farmers of America Day
• SR 15: Designating January 29, 2024, as Fairmont State University Day
• SR 17: Recognizing Riley Gaines as ambassador for Independent Women’s Forum and advocate for women’s equality in sports

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 36: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 196: WV Rail Trails Program
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 222: Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 261: WV Veterans’ Home Loan Mortgage Program of 2024
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 445: Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel

SECOND READING

• SB 189: Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent’s interpretations of school laws
• Com. Sub. for SB 451: Directing Prosecuting Attorneys Institute to make training available to certain new prosecuting attorneys
• SB 461: Relating to county economic opportunity development districts

FIRST READING

• SB 265: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction
• SB 402: Authorizing US Concealed Carry Association to provide concealed carry classes in WV
• Com. Sub. for SB 474: Creating critical incident review team
• Com. Sub. for SB 475: Relating to recovery residences
• Com. Sub. for SB 477: Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on internet
• SB 487: Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff
• Eng. HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act

Scheduled Committee Meetings

1 p.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 436: Relating to prohibition of certain additives to diesel fuel
• Com. Sub. for SB 441: Regulating driving in left lane on four lane interstate highways in WV
• Senate Concurrent Resolutions

• SCR 18: Stanley W. and Evelyn C. See Memorial Bridge
• SCR 19: US Army PFC Henry W. Baldwin Memorial Bridge
• Sub. for SCR 11: US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge
• Sub. for SCR 14: US Army PFC William Gorman Memorial Bridge

2 p.m.: Agriculture and Natural Resources (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 397: Exempting high tunnels and greenhouses from personal property taxes

2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 455: Relating generally to banking authority of State Treasurer’s Office
• Com. Sub. for SB 470: Uniform Special Deposits Act

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 50: Revenue Bundle
• Includes SB 50, Insurance Commissioner rule relating to AIDS regulations; SB 51, Insurance Commissioner rule relating to health benefit plan network access and adequacy; SB 52, Insurance Commissioner rule relating to bail bondsmen in criminal cases; SB 53, Racing Commission rule relating to thoroughbred racing; SB 54, Tax Department rule relating to aircraft operated under fractional ownership program; SB 55, Tax Department rule relating to citizen tax credit for property taxes paid; SB 56, Tax Department rule relating to income tax paid at entity level by electing pass-through entities; SB 57; Tax Department rule relating to income tax credits for property taxes paid; SB 58, Tax Department rule relating to administration of tax on purchases of wine and liquor inside and outside of municipalities; SB 59, Tax Department rule relating to privilege tax on sales of hemp-derived cannabinoid and kratom products
• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Health
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Human Services

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Monday, January 29, 2024

• SB 581: Requiring correctional facilities to provide free feminine hygiene products (Woelfel, Plymale, Caputo; Judiciary then Finance)
• SB 582: Creating Prohibition on Cell Cultured Animal Products Act (Stuart, Deeds, Phillips, Smith, Taylor; Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary)
• SB 583: Relating to employer liability and damages in civil actions involving commercial motor vehicles (Stuart, Azinger, Deeds, Martin, Phillips, Rucker, Smith, Tarr, Taylor; Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary)
• SB 584: Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program (Oliverio, Martin; Education then Finance)
• SB 585: Using legal cannabis sales profits to offset employee contributions to PEIA (Caputo; Banking and Insurance then Finance)
• SB 586: Establishing insulin safety net program (Caputo; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 587: Enabling State Fire Commission to propose legislative rules (Trump; Government Organization)
• SB 588: Requiring CPS to give parents written copy of their rights in certain circumstances (Chapman, Maynard, Rucker; Judiciary)
• SB 589: Permitting campus police officers to participate in Deputy Sheriffs Retirement System (FN) (Oliverio, Plymale, Caputo, Woelfel; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 590: Creating Local Government Labor Regulatory Limitation Act (Swope; Judiciary)
• SB 591: Relating generally to Purchasing Division (Oliverio, Plymale, Caputo, Woelfel; Government Organization)
• SCR 20: Proclaiming fourth Saturday of November to be annually designated as Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Remembrance Day (Weld)
• SR 18: Designating January 30, 2024, as West Virginia University Day (Clements, Maroney, Caputo, Oliverio, Taylor, Smith)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Friday, January 26, 2024

10 a.m.: Workforce

• SB 493: Relating to use of criminal records as disqualification from authorization to practice particular profession
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, January 26, 2024 (59 – 58 Senate; 1 House)

• SB 2: Authorizing DEP to promulgate rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 17: Department of Health rule relating to public water systems operators (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 31: Department of Human Services rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 60: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Judiciary)
• SB 142: Clarifying deadline to file annual report for companies authorized to do business in WV (House Government Organization)
• SB 143: Creating WV Guardian Program (House Education)
• SB 144: Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website (House Judiciary)
• SB 146: Creating adult education taskforce (House Education)
• SB 147: Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon (House Judiciary)
• SB 148: Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses (House Government Organization)
• SB 149: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 150: Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled (House Judiciary)
• SB 151: Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling (House Judiciary)
• SB 152: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
• SB 154: Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses (House Judiciary)
• SB 155: Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 156: Requiring certain documents that contain wage records be considered confidential (Pending House introduction)
• SB 157: Requiring one-year residency within district or county to fill vacancy in Legislature (House Judiciary)
• SB 158: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (House Judiciary)
• SB 159: Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education (House Judiciary)
• SB 160: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
• SB 162: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
• SB 163: Establishing aggravated felony offense of reckless driving resulting in death (House Judiciary)
• SB 164: Relating generally to trespassing (House Judiciary)
• SB 165: Creating pilot program for recovery residences in Cabell County (House Judiciary)
• SB 166: Updating contested elections procedures (House Judiciary)
• SB 168: Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer (House Political Subdivisions)
• SB 169: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 170: Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers’ compensation (House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services)
• SB 171: Prohibiting county commissions from adopting authorization that exceeds state law regarding agriculture operations (House Government Organization)
• SB 172: Revising requirements of local school improvement councils (House Education)
• SB 173: Modifying certain guidelines for motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 175: Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion (House Judiciary)
• SB 176: Relating to permissible expenditures by Water Development Authority from Infrastructure Fund (House Finance)
• SB 177: Protecting consumers against automatic renewals without consent (House Judiciary)
• SB 178: Relating to dental health care service plans (House Banking and Insurance)
• SB 179: Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions (House Judiciary)
• SB 217: Authorizing state and subdivisions to negotiate price for construction when all bids received exceed maximum budget (House Government Organization)
• SB 219: Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 240: Increasing fees charged by sheriff (House Government Organization)
• SB 262: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 280: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories (Pending House introduction)
• SB 293: Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 300: Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 318: Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated (Pending House introduction)
• SB 354: Relating to the WV Advanced Energy and Economic Corridor Authority (House Economic Development and Tourism)
• SB 357: Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 399: Creating crime of assault on a police dog (House Judiciary)
• SB 400: Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SB 426: WV Recreational Trails Development Act (Pending House introduction)
• SB 428: Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals (House Government Organization)
• SB 429: WV Farm Use Vehicle Tag Placement Act (Pending House introduction)
• SB 430: WV Rent-to-Own Act (House Government Organization)
• SB 438: Modifying roster requirements of authorizing entities (House Government Organization)
• SB 439: Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances (House Pensions and Retirement)
• SB 462: Updating definitions of certain terms used in Personal Income Tax Act (H Third Reading, 01-29)
• SB 483: Amending Corporation Net Income Tax Act (H Third Reading, 01-29)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Friday, January 26, 2024 (10)

• SCR 1: US Army PFC Leon Charles Trader Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 2: US Army PFC John Henry Trail Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 5: US Army 1LT Herschel Jarrell Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 6: US Army SSG Orland Jackson “Tom” Meikles Memorial Road (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 8: US Army Corporal Clemon Knapp Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 12: US Army Private Raymond Lee Perkins Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 15: Chief Edward “Eddie” Keesecker Memorial Bridge (House Technology and Infrastructure)
• SCR 10: Urging WV congressional delegation support legislation authorizing county governments to sell FEMA property (House Government Organization)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted, 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted, 01-24)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Friday, January 26, 2024 (23)

• HB 4026: Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles (Judiciary)
• HB 4190: Relating to the establishment of an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons (Judiciary)
• HB 4205: Relating to changing the process of election litigation (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4252: Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act (S First Reading, 01-29)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)
• HB 4302: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Judiciary)
• HB 4428: Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking (Judiciary)
• HB 4431: Permitting the cremation of unidentified remains (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4432: Relating to midlevel practitioners (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4433: Relating to exempting the acquisition and utilization of a mobile facility which performs mammography or low density computerized tomography (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4552: To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration (Judiciary)

• HB 4594: Relating to extending managed care (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4595: Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4620: Removing the expiration date from the food handler card (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4666: Relating to establishing criminal penalties for human trafficking (Judiciary)
• HB 4683: Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement (Judiciary)
• HB 4756: Creating a state Alzheimer’s plan task force (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4759: Relating to E-Verify, the federal employment authorization program (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4768: Relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia (Education)
• HB 4769: Clarifying appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor (Education)
• HB 4793: Relating to moonshine (Government Organization)
• HB 4814: Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4874: Relating to fatality and mortality review team (Health and Human Resources)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, January 26, 2024 (2 – 1 Senate; 1 House)

• SB 269: Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Friday, January 26, 2024 (4)

• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-10)
• HCR 13: Commemorating the life of Marilyn Kay Parsons (Adopted, 01-11)
• SCR 16: Urging US Congress enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure (Adopted. 01-24)
• SCR 17: Reaffirming support of WV Legislature for State of Israel and Jewish people (Adopted. 01-24)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Friday, January 26, 2024 (1 – 1 House)

• HB 4274: Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources (Signed, 01-26)

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