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Delegate Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss) sponsored 105 bills: |
Bill |
Title |
Status |
Committee |
Step |
Last Action |
HB 3090 | Updating the interest provisions of the tax law to make them more fair | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4376 | Tuition reimbursement for teachers pursuing a masters degree | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/10/04 |
HB 4499 | Strengthening penalties for failure to meet child support obligations | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/04 |
HB 4034 | Simplifying the tuition and fee system at state institutions of higher education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4713 | Setting a "clear and convincing" standard for determining whether an employer acted with "deliberate intention" in causing a worker injury which would waive the employer's immunity from suit under workers' compensation provisions | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/27/04 |
HB 4038 | Requiring the head of a governmental agency to submit a statement of compliance to the legislative auditor within six months of a fiscal or performance audit | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/15/04 |
HB 4661 | Requiring the attorney general to provide legal services upon the request of state agencies | Rejected | 03/03/04 | ||
HB 4159 | Requiring state employing units to conduct background checks on prospective employees and various other employees of the state | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/29/04 |
HB 4266 | Requiring regulatory agencies of government, with exceptions, to study ways to expedite the issuance of licenses, permits and certificates | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 2558 | Requiring public utilities to have a payment agent in each county | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4556 | Requiring all inspectors inspecting the work premises of any mining concern or operation for mine safety, to sign in, in order to acknowledge their presence on the premises | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/20/04 |
HB 4057 | Repealing the corporate license fee and replacing it with an annual report and registration fee to be paid by various business entities | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4555 | Relating to the state emergency response commission generally | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/20/04 |
HB 4498 | Relating to the distribution of moneys by the school building authority | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/04 |
HB 4462 | Relating to solid waste facilities handling in excess of thirty thousand tons of solid waste per month | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/04 |
HB 4014 | Relating to preserving West Virginia's estate tax | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4401 | Relating to mechanics' liens and correcting confusing statutory language | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/11/04 |
HB 4036 | Relating to legislative appropriation of tobacco settlement funds | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/04/04 |
HB 4016 | Relating generally to the department of tax and revenue and office of secretary of tax and revenue and their powers, duties and responsibilities | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4398 | Relating generally to mine inspectors | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/11/04 |
HB 4396 | Reforming, altering and modifying the county commission of Hampshire County | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/20/04 |
HB 4032 | Reducing the allowable blood alcohol content for DUI from .10 to .08 of one percent of body weight | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 01/23/04 | |
HB 4432 | Raising the purchase card transaction limit, authorizing the auditor to select vendors, allowing attachment of pension benefits to reimburse for fraud and adding members to the advisory committee | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/12/04 |
HB 4648 | Providing that the reduced tax rate applies to underground mines producing coal from seams of less than thirty-two inches | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4482 | Providing that retiring physicians may retain their original wall license and exempts physicians holding an inactive license from the assessment fee for the Physicians' Mutual Insurance Company | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/16/04 |
HB 4400 | Providing that an insurer may not fail to renew an outstanding automobile liability or physical damage insurance policy | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/11/04 |
HB 4030 | Providing health insurance coverage to qualified persons who are otherwise unable to obtain coverage | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4007 | Providing health benefit plans to small employers that do not have such plans covering their employees | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 2719 | Providing for the use of convict labor to maintain private and not-for-profit cemeteries | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4660 | Providing for the disposition of funds or assets recovered in a legal action or settlement by or on behalf of the general public, the state or its officers, agencies or political subdivisions | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/04 |
HB 4399 | Providing for substance abuse testing of emergency medical services personnel | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/11/04 |
HB 4249 | Providing for additional internal controls and procedures for the purchase card program and renaming it the payment card program | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/02/04 |
HB 4712 | Providing autonomy and operating flexibility to certain higher education institutions | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 03/04/04 | |
HB 2723 | Providing an annual cost of living increase for certain retirees in the state teacher's retirement system | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4158 | Providing a procedure for removing property from the state's inventory of removable property | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/02/04 |
HB 4020 | Protecting personal information maintained by the state from inappropriate disclosure | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4397 | Prohibiting the practice of debarking or surgically silencing a dog by cutting its vocal chords | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/11/04 |
HB 4019 | Prohibiting the division of motor vehicles' sale of personal information for bulk distribution of surveys, marketing and solicitations | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4017 | Prohibiting retailer licensees use of gambling names and symbols in advertising, signage and directions to retail establishments offering limited video lottery games | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/02/04 |
HB 4402 | Prohibiting homeowner insurance discrimination against dog owners | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/11/04 |
HB 4021 | Preventing the disclosure of personal information of state employees and officers, and their dependents | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/02/04 |
HB 2725 | Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/26/04 |
HB 4366 | Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 02/09/04 |
HB 4127 | Permitting paid and volunteer fire departments to place automated external defibrillators on fire trucks and other fire apparatus | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/26/04 |
HB 4329 | Permitting a retired member of the state police to carry a concealed weapon for the duration of the member's life | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/06/04 |
HB 4353 | Making it a crime to permit a child to ride a horse at a public for-profit riding facility without wearing a riding helmet | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/09/04 |
HB 4373 | Making it a crime to alter a traffic-control device with an infrared or electronic device | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4483 | Loosening certification requirements on teachers from out-of-state otherwise certified to teach special education and creating an in-state generic special education teaching certification | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/16/04 |
HB 4582 | Limiting the division of labor elevator inspectors to inspection of elevators in state owned buildings | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4006 | Increasing the vendor registration fee per fiscal year with a limited waiver provided | Pending | 1st Reading | 03/12/04 | |
HB 4031 | Increasing the salaries of supreme court of justices, circuit court judges and family court judges | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/04/04 |
HB 4100 | Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4673 | Including within those joint family liabilities of the husband and wife the services provided by healthcare providers | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/27/04 |
HB 4352 | Including certain commercial hunting, fishing and wildlife watching activities within the definition of recreational purposes for which landowner liability is limited | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/27/04 |
HB 4139 | Imposing sales or use tax rather than title privilege tax on sale or use of all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles and other motorized recreational vehicles | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4759 | Imposing an alternative minimum personal income tax for each taxable year on the West Virginia taxable income of every individual meeting certain criteria | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/13/04 |
HB 4035 | Granting greater flexibility to state institutions of higher education in the areas of management, finance, purchasing and personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4629 | Extending the tuition waiver benefits to also include the spouse and children of emergency medical service personnel and members of the national guard who have died in the line of duty | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/26/04 |
HB 4002 | Extending the ability to appropriate money from the PEIA reserve fund to the bureau of medical services | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 2720 | Exempting veterans organizations from the consumers sales and service tax | Pending | House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4026 | Establishing the water resources management act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4024 | Establishing the "Public-Private Transportation Facilities Act" | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4023 | Establishing bus transportation schedules | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4004 | Establishing an insurance fraud unit within the office of the insurance commissioner | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4027 | Establishing a voluntary environmental excellence program | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4029 | Establishing a program to report emissions of greenhouse gases | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4431 | Establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/04 |
HB 4001 | Ensuring safer schools and empowering teachers by automating student suspension and expulsion data | Signed | Governor | 07/15/04 | |
HB 4292 | Enacting the emergency medical services retirement act | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 02/04/04 |
HB 2672 | Enacting a retirement system for Emergency Medical Services Retirement Act | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 2722 | Easements created for ingress and egress that are not described by metes and bounds shall be sufficient for the passage of emergency vehicles | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4059 | Distributing net terminal income of racetrack video lottery terminals from reduced distributions to the tourism development fund | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 03/04/04 | |
HB 4557 | Deleting the specified year of the funding appropriated to provide the pay equity adjustment | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/02/04 |
HB 4028 | Creating the West Virginia tourism development act | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4715 | Creating the crime of embezzlement by misuse of a power of attorney | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/27/04 |
HB 4433 | Creating the crime of abuse and neglect of an elderly person and the crime of misuse or misappropriation of the funds or assets of an elderly person | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4328 | Creating an indigent defense commission to advise the executive director on policies and procedures of public defender services | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/06/04 |
HB 4711 | Creating a West Virginia tourism authority | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/27/04 |
HB 4015 | Creating a tax amnesty program to be administered by the tax commissioner for a two month period during calendar year 2004 | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4025 | Creating a statewide task force on graduate studies and a distinguished graduate student fellowship program at West Virginia University and Marshall University | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4005 | Creating a special revenue fund for the operation of the education and state employees grievance board | Tabled | 2nd Reading | 03/04/04 | |
HB 4013 | Creating a sales tax holiday for back-to-school purchases | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4009 | Creating a position for a state Americans with disabilities coordinator within the department of administration | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4047 | Creating a high growth business investment tax credit to encourage investment by state citizens and businesses in certain companies started by fellow West Virginians | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4022 | Creating "The All-Terrain Vehicle Safety Regulation Act" | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4000 | Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 03/13/04 | |
HB 4011 | Bringing the West Virginia personal income tax act into conformity with the federal income tax | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4012 | Bringing the West Virginia corporation net income tax act into conformity with federal income tax | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 2809 | Barring third-party claims against insurers for violation of the Unfair Trade Practices Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/25/04 |
HB 4010 | Authorizing the transfer of unappropriated surplus net profit from the state lottery fund to the state excess lottery fund | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4033 | Authorizing the issuance of new parkway revenue bonds | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4018 | Authorizing the issuance of grant waivers to sparsely populated counties for relief from the ratio limitations on state funding of professional educators | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 03/04/04 |
HB 4354 | Authorizing county commissions to adopt ordinances to reduce false alarms | Vetoed | Governor | 03/21/04 | |
HB 2361 | Authorizing county boards of education to provide for the use of sick leave days by a surviving spouse in certain circumstances | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4377 | Assessing a penalty on those physicians who fail to pay the special assessment | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4265 | Amending the definition of "resident" for purposes of obtaining Class A hunting and trapping licenses | Pending | House A&N | Committee | 02/03/04 |
HB 4264 | Allowing, under some circumstances, the cannibalization and the disposal as waste of state property | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/03/04 |
HB 4058 | Allowing the sale of unused strategic research and development tax credits | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/04 |
HB 4481 | Allowing teachers holding K-8 endorsements to teach seventh and eighth grade classes | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/16/04 |
HB 3054 | Allowing properly qualified chiropractors to engage in rehabilitative therapy | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/14/04 |
HB 4602 | Allowing members of the state police to engage in certain political activities while out of uniform and off duty | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/25/04 |
HB 4484 | Allowing a limited license to practice medicine and surgery without examination to an individual appointed to a West Virginia medical school faculty who holds a valid license to practice medicine and surgery from another country | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 4003 | Adjusting the age for members of the West Virginia state police retirement system | Pending | Senate Pensions | Committee | 03/04/04 |
HB 4008 | Abolishing the insurance and retirement division and creating a new employee and insurance services division | Signed | Governor | 04/13/04 | |
HB 2872 | Abolishing joint liability and establishing principle of comparative fault | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/04 |