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Senator Kessler sponsored 197 bills:

Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
SB 19	Providing allocated Fire Protection Fund revenue to Fire Chiefs' and Fireman's Associations for certain expenses	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	02/11/09
SB 29	Allowing paid sick leave to be used as paid family leave	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/11/09
SB 30	Preventing reduction of disability pensions for certain Public Employees Retirement System members	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	02/11/09
SB 32	Granting municipal courts jurisdiction over juveniles violating tobacco use laws	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/11/09
SB 57	Relating to certain school coaches' requirements	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/26/09
SB 64	Authorizing allocated revenues to fund volunteer firemen pensions	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	02/11/09
SB 69	Increasing benefits of certain retired teachers	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	02/11/09
SB 75	Establishing alcohol use by minors as juvenile delinquent offense	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 76	Prohibiting state funding of abortions	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/11/09
SB 77	Requiring insurers provide full autism spectrum disorder coverage	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	02/11/09
SB 78	Relating to special license plates	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	04/01/09
SB 102	Providing certain ventilator patients Medicaid coverage	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/11/09
SB 115	Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicle when child under 14 is present	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	02/11/09
SB 118	Preserving criminal case biological evidence	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/11/09
SB 134	Relating to unlawful discriminatory practices generally	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/11/09
SB 137	Regulating all-terrain vehicles' use	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	02/11/09
SB 234	Exempting land-based aquaculture facilities from certain sludge management requirements	Pending	Senate Agriculture	Committee	02/12/09
SB 235	Preserving biological evidence secured in certain criminal cases	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/04/09
SB 238	Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/16/09
SB 239	Allowing majority vote for certain metro government approval	Signed	Effective from passage - (May 28, 2009)
SB 241	Creating WV Public Campaign Financing Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/12/09
SB 242	Relating to DUI offenses	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	04/02/09
SB 251	Authorizing issuance of revenue bonds for public projects	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/02/09
SB 253	Relating to certain sexual offenses by or against inmates	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/09/09
SB 254	Providing reduction in certain inmate sentences for completing education and rehabilitation programs	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/13/09
SB 255	Allowing Commissioner of Corrections deposit certain interest or other moneys into inmate benefit fund	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/16/09
SB 259	Clarifying certain terminology within Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 265	Authorizing tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/25/09
SB 266	Increasing tax credit for nonfamily adoptions	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/23/09
SB 283	Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	02/18/09
SB 284	Relating to Viatical Settlements Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2009)
SB 286	Expanding prepaid limited health service organizations services	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	04/03/09
SB 289	Creating WV Innovation and Development Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/02/09
SB 292	Creating tax credit for spaying or neutering pets	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/18/09
SB 293	Creating felony offense of unauthorized practice of certain health care professions	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 294	Defining criminal offense of incapacitated person's abuse or neglect	Pending	House Senior Citizen Issues	Committee	03/09/09
SB 300	Authorizing counties and municipalities enter into energy-savings contracts	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/19/09
SB 301	Creating Green Buildings Act	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	02/19/09
SB 303	Providing certain retired teachers state income tax exemption	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/19/09
SB 306	Increasing pipeline companies' special license fees to Public Service Commission	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 307	Creating Maternal Screening Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2009)
SB 309	Relating to motor vehicle towing	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	02/19/09
SB 311	Creating 2012 Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/27/09
SB 312	Requiring smoke-free medical facilities	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/20/09
SB 313	Expanding number of hours temporary state personnel may work	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/20/09
SB 316	Relating to Smart 529 college savings plan	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	02/20/09
SB 318	Expanding Division of Protective Services' law-enforcement authority over state property under certain circumstances	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 319	Relating to certain volunteer firefighters' benefits	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/20/09
SB 321	Modifying certificate of need process	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 2, 2009)
SB 332	Eliminating severance and health care provider taxes on behavioral health providers	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/24/09
SB 333	Basing school nurse ratio on total net enrollment	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/07/09
SB 336	Changing failure to wear seatbelt to primary offense	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	03/27/09
SB 338	Creating additional seventeenth judicial circuit court judge	Signed	Effective July 1, 2009
SB 340	Granting juvenile probation officers certain arrest powers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/24/09
SB 341	Transferring juvenile justice database administration to Supreme Court	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 2, 2009)
SB 343	Relating to Management of Pain Act	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/24/09
SB 344	Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners sign readmission orders	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 346	Correcting code reference related to bear tagging	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 2, 2009)
SB 347	Correcting code reference related to extended supervision for certain sex offenders	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 369	Relating to probation officers' authority	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/25/09
SB 370	Relating to community corrections program fees	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2009)
SB 371	Creating Energy Efficient Building Act	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	02/25/09
SB 374	Creating Oil and Gas Surface Owner's Bill of Rights	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	02/25/09
SB 377	Requiring court-appointed attorneys disclose certain fees	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/25/09
SB 378	Relating to concealed handgun license reciprocity	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	04/01/09
SB 379	Clarifying pharmacists and pharmacies as health care providers	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/31/09
SB 380	Providing earned income tax credit to certain parents	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/25/09
SB 385	Providing one-time supplements to certain public employee and teacher annuitants	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	02/26/09
SB 387	Relating to mental hygiene guardians and conservators	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/26/09
SB 389	Clarifying pharmacists and pharmacies as health care providers	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/26/09
SB 392	Registering protective orders with Supreme Court	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/26/09
SB 393	Authorizing Supreme Court administrator hire certain probation officers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/26/09
SB 395	Relating to child visitation	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/26/09
SB 400	Relating to driving with revoked or suspended license	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/27/09
SB 405	Relating to grandparents' visitation	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2009)
SB 406	Requiring Department of Health and Human Resources provide list of certain contaminated properties	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/02/09
SB 407	Authorizing magistrate courts collect judgment abstract fee	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/02/09
SB 408	Relating to model health plan for uninsurable individuals	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 8, 2009)
SB 411	Creating temporary health information technology reinvestment fee	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/02/09
SB 413	Creating temporary tax credit for certain small group employers	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/02/09
SB 414	Creating Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (August 26, 2009)
SB 416	Increasing family court judges' salaries	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/02/09
SB 420	Raising excise tax on tobacco products	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/03/09
SB 423	Relating to circuit clerks' service of protective orders	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/03/09
SB 432	Relating to certain law-enforcement officers' probationary period	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	03/03/09
SB 436	Updating terminology relating to surface mining reporting requirements	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 2, 2009)
SB 438	Relating to shared parenting	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/04/09
SB 439	Permitting State Police Superintendent consult with Insurance Commissioner	Pending		Concurrence	04/11/09
SB 440	Increasing county litter control officers' authority	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 442	Requiring State Auditor perform delinquent land sales paper processing responsibilities	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/03/09
SB 445	Removing conservation supervisors' election certification requirements	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 448	Creating special hunting and fishing license for severely disabled and terminally ill youth	Pending	Senate Natural Resources	Committee	03/04/09
SB 449	Clarifying domestic relations definitions	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/04/09
SB 451	Relating to crime victims' compensation awards	Signed	Effective July 1, 2009
SB 453	Relating to Public Service Commission service of decisions	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 2, 2009)
SB 454	Reporting certain geological information obtained incidental to oil and gas drilling	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/12/09
SB 456	Creating Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 457	Relating to DNA data collection	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/05/09
SB 458	Relating to retired teachers	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	03/05/09
SB 460	Including telecommunications devices as jail contraband	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/05/09
SB 462	Relating to voter registration	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/05/09
SB 468	Requiring redemption property purchaser pay in certified funds	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2009)
SB 470	Regulating all-terrain vehicles on Hatfield-McCoy Trail	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 478	Creating Surface Owners Protection Act	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	03/05/09
SB 482	Prohibiting mining on cemetery land	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	03/05/09
SB 485	Requiring certain students undergo dental examination	Pending	House Health and Human Resources	Committee	04/01/09
SB 486	Relating to reinstating former police chiefs to previously held positions	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	03/06/09
SB 491	Requiring handrails in handicap restrooms	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/06/09
SB 497	Relating to WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/20/09
SB 498	Relating to early childhood education	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 501	Prohibiting animal gas chamber euthanasia	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (August 27, 2009)
SB 507	Relating to Clean Coal Technology Council's powers and duties	Vetoed	Vetoed
SB 515	Creating Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 516	Creating Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/09/09
SB 524	Raising certain law-enforcement agencies' new hire upper age restriction	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/10/09
SB 527	Relating to Ethics Commission's enforcement powers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/10/09
SB 532	Creating WV SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act	Signed	Effective July 1, 2009
SB 533	Updating terms in consumers sales and service tax	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 538	Providing low-income workers refundable tax credit	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/11/09
SB 545	Relating to volunteer firefighters' rebuttable presumptions for workers' compensation claims	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/11/09
SB 549	Creating Creative Communities Development Pilot Program	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/20/09
SB 552	Relating to affordable health insurance plan proposals	Signed	Effective from passage - (April 11, 2009)
SB 554	Requiring sex offender registry fee	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/31/09
SB 563	Relating to surface coal mining environmental permits	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	03/12/09
SB 570	Requiring Board of Optometry promulgate rules limiting practice	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/12/09
SB 575	Relating to gaming operations at historic resort hotel	Signed	Effective from passage - (April 10, 2009)
SB 577	Relating to Prosecuting Attorneys Institute	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/25/09
SB 581	Permitting certain minor blood donations with parental consent	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/25/09
SB 589	Dedicating portion of severance taxes for counties and municipalities	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	03/16/09
SB 591	Electing magistrates by divisions	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/24/09
SB 592	Creating behavioral health service provider tax	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/01/09
SB 593	Relating to minor driver's licensing requirements and penalties	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/16/09
SB 594	Requiring monthly fund installments to Courtesy Patrol	Signed	Effective July 1, 2009
SB 595	Relating to assignment of child support obligations	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 8, 2009)
SB 596	Requiring Public Service Commission update railroad walkways safety regulations	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/16/09
SB 598	Relating to mini-trucks' registration and operation	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	03/16/09
SB 600	Relating to coal reclamation tax	Signed	Effective July 1, 2009
SB 604	Raising mental health refusal age of consent	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/16/09
SB 605	Providing tax credit for certain coal mine safety equipment purchase	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/25/09
SB 606	Including salvia divinorum as hallucinogenic controlled substance	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/16/09
SB 607	Creating Commuter Rail Access Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/23/09
SB 608	Providing tax credit for certain solar energy systems	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/19/09
SB 609	Relating to magistrate education and workload requirements	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/17/09
SB 613	Clarifying coalbed methane notice requirements	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 621	Allowing private property owner to prohibit concealed weapons	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/31/09
SB 622	Creating State Labor Relations Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/17/09
SB 626	Relating to insured's right to recover underinsured benefits	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	03/18/09
SB 628	Creating Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/18/09
SB 630	Creating felony offense of unlawful entry on public utility sites	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/18/09
SB 637	Prohibiting texting while driving	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/25/09
SB 644	Relating to removing certain continuing education requirement for insurers	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	03/19/09
SB 647	Authorizing Class IV cities' early voting by mail	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	03/24/09
SB 648	Requiring manual vote counting in certain counties	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	03/26/09
SB 650	Increasing penalties for certain accessory after the fact crimes	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/26/09
SB 653	Relating to great-grandparents' visitation rights	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/20/09
SB 657	Clarifying terroristic threat as felony	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/20/09
SB 664	Expanding nurse practitioners' prescriptive authority	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/23/09
SB 665	Relating to setting certain public utilities' rates	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 666	Relating to community enhancement districts	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	03/31/09
SB 669	Extending Preventative Care Pilot Program	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 8, 2009)
SB 670	Relating to court-ordered payment of certain children's medical or socially necessary services	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 671	Relating to WV Guardianship and Conservatorship Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	04/01/09
SB 672	Creating Mental Health Stabilization Act of 2009	Vetoed	Vetoed
SB 673	Defining lottery "promotional credits"	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 677	Requiring certain corporations provide members' and managers' names upon request	Pending		3rd Reading	04/01/09
SB 678	Creating High-Technology Business Property Valuation Act	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/02/09
SB 679	Increasing penalties for certain accessory after the fact crimes	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 687	Relating to Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission	Signed	Effective from passage - (April 10, 2009)
SB 692	Creating Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training administrative law judge office	Pending		1st Reading	04/01/09
SB 693	Authorizing processing fee to be used for Secretary of State's technology projects	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/31/09
SB 694	Creating intrastate mutual aid system	Signed	Effective from passage - (April 11, 2009)
SB 695	Relating to payment for certain state employees' unused sick leave	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 696	Providing tax credit for certain medical providers	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/23/09
SB 701	Creating WV Religious Freedom Restoration Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 702	Changing workers' compensation purchase date deadline for governmental entities	Pending		3rd Reading	04/11/09
SB 706	Creating State Police leave donation program	Signed	Effective July 1, 2009
SB 708	Relating to certain domestic violence victims' funeral arrangements	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 715	Establishing Chesapeake Bay Restoration Initiative	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (August 27, 2009)
SB 719	Allowing certain police officers keep weapon after retirement	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2009)
SB 722	Clarifying filing and review of accountings of incapacitated protected persons' conservators	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 723	Increasing PROMISE Scholarship funding	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	03/23/09
SB 724	Relating to health care provider tax	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 725	Providing county commissions standard of review for probate matters	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 735	Providing for decedent's nonexoneration of certain secured debt	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	03/23/09
SB 745	Establishing commercial feed distributor permit fee to fund spay/neuter program	Pending	Senate Agriculture	Committee	03/23/09
SB 748	Defining certain consumers sales and service tax-related terms	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/23/09
SB 749	Reviewing certain driver's license DUI revocation orders	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	04/01/09
SB 750	Relating to teacher certification and shortages	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	03/23/09
SB 751	Creating Division of Motor Vehicles' administrative law judge office	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 760	Authorizing Supreme Court to develop pilot pretrial release programs	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2009)
SB 761	Relating to illegal entries upon certain property	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2009)
SB 762	Relating to volunteer firefighters' Length of Service Awards Program	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/02/09
SB 763	Clarifying Racing Commission's authority over certain thoroughbred race horses' registration	Pending		3rd Reading	04/11/09
SB 764	Providing race election results certification procedure	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 766	Relating to certain sewer and water infrastructure projects' engineering services	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	04/01/09
SB 768	Relating to prescription drug product liability claims	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	04/02/09
SB 769	Prohibiting possession, sale, importation or distribution of dissolvable tobacco products	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	04/02/09

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