Bill Status - 2008 Regular Session

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Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
SB 1	Authorizing Attorney General to investigate and charge certain fuel price gouging	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 3	Providing mandatory review of life without parole sentence by Supreme Court	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 14	Prohibiting certain employer-sponsored political, religious or labor communications	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 16	Allowing fire departments certain expenditures for educational and training supplies	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/09/08
SB 18	Allowing paid sick leave to be used as paid family leave	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/09/08
SB 24	Providing public employees and retirees with certain advanced directives of living wills and medical powers of attorney	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 26	Increasing public employees retirement annuity multiplier	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/09/08
SB 29	Increasing certain Division of Corrections' employees salaries and increment pay	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/09/08
SB 30	Authorizing Attorney General to investigate and charge certain fuel price gouging	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 36	Setting time limitation on enforcement of certain real estate liens	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 37	Relating to sale of beverages in public schools	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/09/08
SB 40	Preventing reduction of disability pensions for certain Public Employees Retirement System members	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/07/08
SB 52	Relating to states' agreement to elect president by popular vote	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 53	Increasing exemption on retirement income for certain retirees	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/07/08
SB 54	Providing one-time supplements to annuitants at age 70	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/09/08
SB 57	Allowing county boards of education to enter into certain lease-purchase agreements	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/23/08
SB 58	Removing certain exceptions in minimum wage law	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/21/08
SB 59	Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced nurse practitioners	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/09/08
SB 68	Providing one-time option for certain Defined Contribution Retirement System members to opt in to State Teachers Retirement System	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/09/08
SB 69	Increasing state employees' annual increment pay	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/09/08
SB 76	Creating Office of Family and Foster Child Protection Ombudsman	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/09/08
SB 77	Providing supplemental benefit to certain public employee and teacher retirees	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/09/08
SB 78	Prohibiting issuance of new business registration certificate under certain circumstances	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/09/08
SB 79	Subtracting Social Security benefits from federal adjusted gross income	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/09/08
SB 80	Providing adjoining landowners notice of timbering operations	Pending	Senate NRS	Committee	01/09/08
SB 81	Prohibiting nursing services' insurers from limiting definition of scope of practice for benefit determination purposes	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/09/08
SB 82	Allowing advanced nurse practitioners sign do-not-resuscitate orders	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/09/08
SB 83	Allowing advanced nurse practitioners sign death certificates	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/09/08
SB 91	Reducing ratio of school nurses to school children	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/09/08
SB 95	Providing public employees retirement credit for armed forces service	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/09/08
SB 106	Disclosing employers in default of unemployment compensation payments	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 107	Prohibiting use of credit score in casualty insurance rates	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/09/08
SB 113	Allowing county commissions to regulate and restrict locations of video lottery establishments	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 117	Creating Small Tourism Business Development Act	Pending	Senate Economic Development	Committee	01/09/08
SB 122	Providing nonrefundable earned income tax credit for certain taxpayers	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/09/08
SB 123	Creating Infection Control Advisory Panel	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/09/08
SB 124	Prohibiting timbering operations near native brook trout streams	Pending	Senate NRS	Committee	01/09/08
SB 125	Requiring PEIA Finance Board provide retirees' medical and prescription coverage in certain circumstances	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/09/08
SB 126	Requiring state-subsidized employers remain neutral in labor disputes	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 130	Requiring health insurance plans cover smoking cessation services	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/09/08
SB 134	Providing penalties for failure to report to Alzheimer's Disease Registry	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 138	Prohibiting sale of candy- or fruit-flavored cigarettes	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 139	Creating fund to reimburse National Guard group life insurance premiums	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/13/08
SB 145	Relating to reasonable force in defense of self, real and personal property	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 148	Increasing distance beer and video lottery retailer licensees must be located from school or church	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/09/08
SB 151	Increasing basic compensation of legislators	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/10/08
SB 154	Creating life insurance reimbursement fund for National Guard members	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/10/08
SB 156	Providing tuition waivers for children and spouses of certain National Guard and active duty military personnel	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/21/08
SB 162	Creating DUI court program alternatives	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/08
SB 163	Establishing Criminal Justice Policy Council	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/08
SB 166	Providing whistle-blower protection for reporting unsafe mine conditions	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/08
SB 169	Relating to predatory lending practices	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/10/08
SB 172	Authorizing allocated revenues to fund volunteer firemen pensions	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/18/08
SB 176	Authorizing municipalities to provide free parking for certain veterans	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/10/08
SB 177	Providing criminal penalty for parental controlled substance activity with child present	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/08
SB 181	Providing funding for programs discouraging tobacco use	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/10/08
SB 189	Exempting senior citizens from home heating fuels' sales tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/10/08
SB 190	Relating to DUI laws	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/08
SB 194	Providing electronic instructional materials to certain students	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/26/08
SB 196	Requiring certain colorectal screening and third-party reimbursement	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/10/08
SB 197	Requiring county residence on driver's license	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/10/08
SB 199	Rescinding student financial assistance due to certain alcohol violations	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/10/08
SB 203	Updating trust deed foreclosure process	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/10/08
SB 206	Providing allocated Fire Protection Fund revenue to Fire Chief's and Fireman's Associations for certain expenses	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/11/08
SB 210	Exempting military retirement pensions from state income tax	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/11/08
SB 211	Providing state income tax exemptions to retirees	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/11/08
SB 212	Requiring vision screening for driver's license renewal	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/06/08
SB 214	Authorizing State Police to enforce immigration laws	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/11/08
SB 219	Relating to county development fees	Pending	Senate Economic Development	Committee	01/15/08
SB 221	Creating Uniform Maternal Screening Act	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/16/08
SB 222	Permitting only healthy beverages and snacks in schools	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/16/08
SB 226	Relating to Public Employees Retirement System	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/16/08
SB 227	Relating to State Teachers Retirement System	Vetoed		Governor	03/16/08
SB 232	Modifying private clubs' closing time	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/16/08
SB 234	Creating Maternal Mortality Review Team	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 235	Creating Office for Oral Health	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/29/08
SB 236	Eliminating obsolete election language	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 237	Repealing county officers' annual report requirement of certain expenditures	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 240	Creating WV Public Campaign Financing Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/17/08
SB 241	Requiring consumers' notification of information security breach	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/17/08
SB 242	Allowing point deduction for certain licensees attending defensive driving class	Vetoed		Governor	03/16/08
SB 247	Divesting state money from companies doing business in countries sponsoring terrorist activities	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/17/08
SB 248	Providing state will not participate in Real ID Act of 2005	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/28/08
SB 255	Absolving landowner's liability for hunter's injuries	Pending	Senate NRS	Committee	01/18/08
SB 256	Allowing suspended licensees' limited driving privileges	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/18/08
SB 257	Repealing outdated penitentiary code provisions	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 258	Repealing outdated code provisions relating to Huttonsville Correctional Center	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 259	Limiting regional jail per diem incarceration rate for partial days	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/30/08
SB 260	Authorizing Supreme Court to establish uniform bail schedule	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/18/08
SB 262	Repealing outdated code provisions relating to Denmar State Hospital	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 263	Updating certain code provisions relating to Division of Corrections	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 266	Exempting correctional officer retirees' retirement income from gross income	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/18/08
SB 267	Providing retention salary increases for Division of Corrections' and Division of Juvenile Services' employees	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/18/08
SB 268	Allowing certain emergency vehicles' use of red flashing lights	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/18/08
SB 269	Authorizing certain tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/15/08
SB 270	Eliminating provisions requiring circuit clerks handle and disburse inmate moneys	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 271	Establishing grievance procedure for State Police	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 272	Clarifying "telemarketing solicitation" definition	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 273	Clarifying statutory references	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/24/08
SB 274	Providing certain animal cruelty protections	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/21/08
SB 277	Authorizing Supreme Court to appoint senior status magistrate assistants	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/21/08
SB 286	Providing adult and child protective services workers personal immunity from civil liability	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 298	Updating definitions relating to child abuse and neglect	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/14/08
SB 299	Creating Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	01/22/08
SB 300	Disallowing accelerated rate recovery for adverse effects of transmission facilities' construction	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/22/08
SB 302	Relating to legislative exempt rule-making requirements of Department of Health and Human Resources	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/23/08
SB 303	Prohibiting employer-mandated political or religious meetings	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/23/08
SB 304	Requiring Insurance Commissioner report workers' compensation rules, policies and guidelines to Legislature	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/23/08
SB 305	Clarifying procedures for seizing neglected or abused animals	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 306	Authorizing Supreme Court and Division of Corrections probation officers' access to certain Board of Pharmacy information	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/23/08
SB 308	Preserving criminal case biological evidence	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/23/08
SB 313	Prohibiting text messaging while driving	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/23/08
SB 315	Allowing certain county commissions regulate location of businesses selling sexually oriented material	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/23/08
SB 321	Increasing benefits of certain retired state personnel	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/23/08
SB 322	Increasing benefits of certain retired teachers	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/23/08
SB 325	Relating to state employee deferred compensation plan	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 327	Expending moneys for certain veterans' grave markers	Pending	Senate Military	Committee	01/24/08
SB 329	Granting certain school psychologists' and nurses' salary supplement	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/24/08
SB 333	Altering composition and responsibilities of Municipal Home Rule Board	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/24/08
SB 334	Creating senior status family court judges panel	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/29/08
SB 335	Authorizing Supreme Court to appoint senior status magistrate assistants	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/29/08
SB 336	Matching witness' pay rate to jurors' pay rate	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/25/08
SB 340	Requiring consumers' notification of information security breach	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 341	Creating Revised Anatomical Gift Act	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/24/08
SB 459	Authorizing rules of School Building Authority and Higher Education Policy Commission	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 461	Increasing minimum retirement annuity for certain public employee and teacher retirees	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/28/08
SB 465	Eliminating Business Franchise Tax	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/26/08
SB 466	Authorizing Water Development Authority to administer Dam Safety Rehabilitation Revolving Fund Loan Program	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 467	Reauthorizing Dam Safety Rehabilitation Revolving Fund	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 477	Increasing conservation officers' salaries and length of service	Vetoed		Governor	03/16/08
SB 480	Awarding National Board for Professional Teaching Standards salary bonus to certain teachers	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/29/08
SB 482	Creating Oil and Gas Surface Owner's Bill of Rights	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	01/29/08
SB 487	Authorizing counties and municipalities to enter into energy-saving contracts	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/29/08
SB 498	Extending Neighborhood Investment Program Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/06/08
SB 505	Creating Veterans Cemetery Fund from lottery proceeds	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 507	Clarifying voting procedures	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 509	Requiring Bureau for Medical Services notify Legislature of Medicaid policy changes	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/31/08
SB 514	Permitting electronic mail absentee voting	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 515	Absolving landowner's liability for hunter's injuries	Pending	Senate NRS	Committee	01/31/08
SB 528	Providing Defined Contribution Retirement System members one-time option to transfer to State Teachers Retirement System	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/31/08
SB 530	Providing loan forgiveness program for nurses	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/20/08
SB 532	Allowing two-year motorcycle registration period	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	02/01/08
SB 534	Creating Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Firefighter Protection Act	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/29/08
SB 535	Modifying certain penalties for DUI	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 544	Establishing electronic health information data-sharing pilot program	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/01/08
SB 547	Providing one-time supplement for certain public employee and teacher annuitants and survivor beneficiaries	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	02/01/08
SB 548	Requiring U. S. and state flags purchased with public funds be manufactured in U. S.	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/01/08
SB 549	Requiring health care insurance for public improvement projects' workers	Pending	Senate Labor	Committee	02/01/08
SB 550	Exempting certain amount of state pensions and Social Security benefits from state income tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/04/08
SB 556	Relating to towing unlawfully parked vehicles	Pending		2nd Reading	03/08/08
SB 558	Relating to electronic commerce	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/20/08
SB 559	Increasing certain Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund allocations	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/28/08
SB 566	Creating felony offense for animal fighting ventures involvement	Pending	Senate Agriculture	Committee	02/04/08
SB 567	Regulating all-terrain vehicles	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/27/08
SB 568	Creating Green Buildings Act	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/05/08
SB 569	Relating to compulsory school attendance directors	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/05/08
SB 571	Relating to certain firefighters' workers' compensation benefits	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 572	Issuing driver's license to persons using bioptic telescopic lenses	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	02/05/08
SB 575	Creating Discount Medical Plan Organizations and Discount Prescription Drug Plan Organizations Act	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/05/08
SB 576	Exempting military retirement pensions from income tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/05/08
SB 588	Preventing excess spoil or overburden near certain streams	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	02/06/08
SB 589	Relating to towing providers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/06/08
SB 592	Providing one-time supplement for certain annuitants and survivor beneficiaries	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	02/06/08
SB 594	Establishing Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Students and School Personnel	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	03/06/08
SB 595	Establishing education goals and objectives for 2020	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 598	Providing circulating registered nurse during surgery	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/07/08
SB 600	Adding certain terms to Human Rights Act and Fair Housing Act	Pending		1st Reading	03/08/08
SB 604	Creating expectant mother parking permit	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	02/07/08
SB 608	Adding certain terms to Human Rights Act and Fair Housing Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/07/08
SB 618	Relating to Public Employees Insurance Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/08/08
SB 619	Defining certain external defibrillators' user terms	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 620	Creating Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2008	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/08/08
SB 622	Creating Voluntary Rural and Outdoor Heritage Conservation Act	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 627	Designating terroristic threat as felony	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/20/08
SB 629	Creating Religious Freedom Restoration Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/11/08
SB 634	Creating Military Authority Act	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 637	Requiring CPR and first aid training in secondary school curriculum	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/11/08
SB 641	Creating Water Resources Protection and Management Act	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 643	Creating Public-Private Transportation Facilities Act of 2008	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	02/12/08
SB 652	Relating to private investments in Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/27/08
SB 655	Providing certain coverage to state employees' pregnant dependents	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	02/13/08
SB 658	Relating to Stop Domestic Violence, Sesquicentennial and "In God We Trust" license plates	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/27/08
SB 662	Requiring hospitals report charity policies to Board of Health	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/13/08
SB 666	Permitting fraternal organizations certain use of charitable raffle proceeds	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/28/08
SB 682	Creating Community and Technical College Capital Improvement Fund	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 693	Creating senior resident lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/28/08
SB 708	Changing Division of Veterans' Affairs to Department of Veterans' Assistance	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/20/08
SB 709	Creating Volunteer Firefighter Length of Service Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/20/08
SB 723	Defining "caving"	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/18/08
SB 733	Creating Electronic Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Act	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	02/18/08
SB 734	Creating Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/18/08
SB 737	Limiting certain companies' use of eminent domain for electric transmission lines	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/18/08
SB 748	Authorizing salary increase for certain state hospital workers	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/18/08
SB 766	Increasing certain state employee's incremental salary	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/18/08
SB 768	Designating Pearl Harbor Day as legal state holiday	Pending	Senate Military	Committee	02/18/08
SB 778	Relating to veterans' benefits	Signed		Governor	04/08/08
SB 785	Establishing alcohol use by minor as juvenile delinquent offense	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/27/08
SB 787	Authorizing mini-trucks' registration	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/28/08
SB 788	Requiring DUI convicts serve mandatory community service and creating a registry of such persons	Pending		2nd Reading	03/09/08