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Senator Kessler (Mr. President) sponsored 136 bills:

Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
SB 4	Declaring child's right to nurse	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/02/12
SB 5	Creating Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/11/12
SB 6	Relating to use of epinephrine in emergency situations	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/18/12
SB 14	Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/11/12
SB 45	Requiring prescription for drugs containing certain precursors of methamphetamine	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/11/12
SB 47	Establishing offense of unlawful use of wireless communication device while operating motor vehicle	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	01/11/12
SB 56	Requiring insurance coverage of spouses and dependents for pregnancy and contraceptive services	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/11/12
SB 81	Compensating State Police for call-back time; housing stipend	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/11/12
SB 106	Providing higher education employees' eligibility for Legislature	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/18/12
SB 149	Relating to disposition of forfeited or abandoned firearms in state custody	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 153	Increasing tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 154	Requiring corporations disclose expenditures for political activities	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/11/12
SB 155	Preventing disability pension reduction for certain PERS members	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/11/12
SB 157	Dedicating portion of oil and gas severance tax to counties and municipalities of origin	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/22/12
SB 158	Requiring handrails in handicap restrooms	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/11/12
SB 160	Budget Bill	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 161	Relating to mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 168	Increasing compensation of certain county officials	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/02/12
SB 173	Providing workers' compensation benefits for mental illness under certain circumstances	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/13/12
SB 174	Relating to interstate compact for election of president by national popular vote	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/13/12
SB 175	Providing for issuance of special volunteer medical license to active medical and osteopathic physicians	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/18/12
SB 176	Including funding for high school athletics as priority in expenditure of surplus excess lottery revenue funds	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/13/12
SB 181	Requiring fire insurance premium invoices indicate additional cost due to lack of local fire service	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/13/12
SB 182	Creating West Virginia Future Fund	Pending	Senate Economic Development	Committee	01/13/12
SB 183	Increasing penalties for assault and battery on athletic official	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/25/12
SB 184	Creating Spay Neuter Assistance Fund	Pending	Senate Agriculture	Committee	01/13/12
SB 191	Relating to personal safety orders	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2012)
SB 192	Relating to filing of civil petition for expungement of criminal records under certain circumstances	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/16/12
SB 193	Creating Governor's Commission on Improving Outcomes for At-Risk Youth	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/16/12
SB 194	Requiring health insurers cover maternity and contraceptive services for dependents	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/20/12
SB 197	Providing for issuance of alternative program teacher certificate and teacher-in-residence permits	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/16/12
SB 198	Requiring Medicaid dental coverage for mothers of newborns	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/25/12
SB 203	Establishing tax credit for certain physicians providing services in free health clinics	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/17/12
SB 206	Designating certain property as qualified capital addition to manufacturing facilities	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/23/12
SB 207	Extending moratorium on timber severance and business privilege tax	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/16/12
SB 208	Repealing Telecommunications Tax Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/14/12
SB 209	Updating terms in Personal Income Tax Act	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 210	Updating terms in Corporation Net Income Tax Act	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 211	Creating traffic offenses for texting or using handheld wireless communication device while driving	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 221	Creating Jason Flatt Act of 2012	Signed	Effective July 1, 2012
SB 340	Relating to interscholastic athletes' concussions and head injuries	Pending		CONF	03/10/12
SB 342	Relating generally to criminal justice system	Pending		3rd Reading	03/10/12
SB 343	Providing volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments' grace period to meet eligibility for certain funds allocation	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 20, 2012)
SB 346	Creating Larry Border Act	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/24/12
SB 352	Creating criminal offense for custodian's failure to report missing child	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/19/12
SB 353	Relating generally to possession of firearms	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 356	Creating dental practitioner tax credit for certain indigent care	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/20/12
SB 358	Prohibiting possession of certain multiple controlled substances obtained from more than one practitioner	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/20/12
SB 359	Requiring seller of precious metals and gems present photo ID to dealers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/20/12
SB 370	Relating to transport and storage of firearms in private vehicles	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/20/12
SB 371	Providing school system under declared state of emergency participate as collaborative innovation zone	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 372	Relating to performance evaluations for professional education personnel; instituting teacher mentoring system	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/20/12
SB 373	Providing State Police collect fee for advanced training	Signed	Effective July 1, 2012
SB 376	Establishing procedures for inclusion of Address Confidentiality Program participants on special absentee voting lists	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/23/12
SB 379	Authorizing Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses designate certain treatment and recovery programs for licensees and applicants	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 381	Creating WV Buy American Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/12
SB 383	Increasing supplemental pay for State Police in lieu of overtime pay	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/23/12
SB 384	Creating nurse educator tax credit	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/23/12
SB 385	Expanding definition of "computer" in commission of certain crimes	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 31, 2012)
SB 386	Clarifying entities included in water's-edge group for income tax purposes	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2012)
SB 388	Tolling statute of limitations against tortfeasors upon claim filing	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/23/12
SB 389	Establishing minimum number of State Police troopers; salary increase	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/23/12
SB 390	Relating generally to state revenue funds	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/16/12
SB 395	Subjecting Workers' Compensation Board of Managers' rules to legislative review	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/24/12
SB 401	Relating to insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/24/12
SB 404	Relating to issuance of barrister's teaching certificate	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/14/12
SB 406	Regulating commercial dog breeding operations	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/22/12
SB 409	Substituting community service for jail confinement for certain persons convicted of alcohol-related crimes	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/14/12
SB 414	Expanding definition of "medical services applicant" under Volunteer for Nonprofit Youth Organizations Act	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 415	Authorizing school bus drivers operate leased buses in another county under certain circumstances	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	01/25/12
SB 423	Relating to reimbursement for providing patient health care records	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	01/25/12
SB 430	Conforming code provisions to Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 436	Facilitating collaboration between public school and higher education systems to promote seamless curricula	Signed		Governor	04/10/12
SB 437	Relating generally to substance abuse	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 442	Providing for phase-in of certain real property assessment increases	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/27/12
SB 443	Increasing state tax exemption for PERS, TRS and military retirement income	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/21/12
SB 448	Relating generally to mine safety	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/30/12
SB 449	Creating Uniform Power of Attorney Act	Pending	Senate INT	Committee	01/30/12
SB 453	Requiring insurance liability coverage disclosure to claimant upon request	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	01/30/12
SB 455	Allowing DEP zone requirement waiver by affected water intake owners	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	01/30/12
SB 456	Creating misdemeanor for child neglect creating bodily injury risk	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/30/12
SB 457	Continuing Rural Health Initiative; other provisions	RQST		CONF	03/10/12
SB 467	Increasing number of magistrates	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/31/12
SB 468	Allowing Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority issue bonds	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/22/12
SB 469	Relating generally to other post-employment benefits	Signed	Effective from passage - (February 10, 2012)
SB 471	Authorizing Supreme Court establish mental hygiene commissioners' compensation	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 472	Increasing compensation cap of family court secretary-clerks and case coordinators	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/09/12
SB 474	Exempting Supreme Court justices and retired justices from concealed weapon licensure requirement	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/01/12
SB 477	Regulating possession of exotic animals	Vetoed	Vetoed
SB 478	Creating apprentice hunting and trapping license	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 479	Creating Spay Neuter Program and Fund	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/01/12
SB 481	Increasing compensation of attorneys appointed in child abuse and neglect proceedings	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/16/12
SB 482	Reinstating certain former fire chiefs and appointing deputy chiefs	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/02/12
SB 483	Equalizing compensation of magistrates, assistants, court clerks and deputy clerks	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/02/12
SB 484	Relating generally to child welfare	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2012)
SB 485	Creating Fiscal and Policy Division under Joint Committee on Government and Finance	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/14/12
SB 486	Relating generally to Judges' Retirement System	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/14/12
SB 487	Creating Coalbed Methane Gas Distribution Fund	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 10, 2012)
SB 489	Limiting health insurance coverage for elective abortions to supplemental policies	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/08/12
SB 502	Requiring real party identification in first-party claims for uninsured and underinsured motorist civil litigation	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/02/12
SB 505	Providing third-party damages' collection from insurance company engaged in unfair trade practices	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	02/02/12
SB 507	Relating to voluntary and involuntary hospitalization of mentally ill persons	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 514	Deeming retail establishments with roll-your-own cigarette machines manufacturers	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/28/12
SB 520	Providing state income tax exemption for certain graduates of higher education institutions	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/06/12
SB 522	Creating WVU Shale Research, Education, Policy and Economic Development Center; other provisions	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/22/12
SB 528	Relating to scrap metal dealers and scrap metal	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 537	Creating WV Sustainable Wealth Fund	Pending	Senate Economic Development	Committee	02/08/12
SB 539	Relating generally to WV Tourism Development Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/15/12
SB 547	Relating to certain criminal conviction expungement	Vetoed	Vetoed
SB 549	Substituting community service for jail confinement for certain persons convicted of alcohol-related crimes	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/09/12
SB 553	Providing personal income tax deduction for spaying or neutering	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/09/12
SB 559	Relating to rebuttable presumption for firefighters' disability and death benefits for certain cancers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/10/12
SB 562	Establishing DEP procedure for biologic component compliance of narrative water quality standard	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 565	Allowing National Guard firefighters continue as civilian Air National Guard firefighters	Pending	Senate Military	Committee	02/10/12
SB 570	Requiring DEP maintain Office of Internal Auditing	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/10/12
SB 571	Licensing wine sales at professional baseball stadiums	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/10/12
SB 572	Replacing "advanced nurse practitioner" with "advanced practice registered nurse"	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 577	Adding additional circuit court judge	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/21/12
SB 579	Increasing special reclamation tax on clean coal mined	Signed	Effective July 1, 2012
SB 581	Creating Provider Sponsored Network Act	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	02/14/12
SB 584	Authorizing PSC issue consumer rate relief bonds for recovery of electric utilities' expanded net energy costs	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/14/12
SB 589	Creating Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/14/12
SB 591	Imposing penalty on fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation benefits	Pending	Senate Labor	Committee	02/15/12
SB 608	Authorizing use of search warrant to draw blood from DUI suspect	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/29/12
SB 611	Developing special community-based pilot demonstration project to improve at-risk youth outcomes	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 625	Reducing capital improvement original cost and new investment cost requirements for qualified capital additions to manufacturing facilities	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/22/12
SB 627	Increasing salaries of certain State Police forensic lab employees and certain civilian employees	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/12
SB 628	Allowing fund-raising for state executive party headquarters	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2012)
SB 630	Directing Commissioner of Highways study alternative revenue sources for funding roads and highways	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	02/17/12
SB 631	Permitting Monongalia County Commission levy special district excise tax	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/17/12
SB 635	Relating generally to broadband middle mile infrastructure	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/27/12
SB 649	Relating to nonintoxicating beer distributor licensees	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/08/12
SB 650	Making supplementary appropriation from General Revenue to DHHR, Division of Human Services	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 657	Establishing Fund for Civil Legal Services for Low-Income Persons	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/20/12
SB 665	Requiring presentence reports consider financial costs	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/20/12
SB 669	Making supplementary appropriation of federal funds to various accounts	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/20/12

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