Bill Status - 2015 Regular Session

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Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
HB 2079	Creating the Seniors Helping Seniors Fund	Pending	House Senior Citizen Issues	Committee	01/15/15
HB 2134	Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/20/15
HB 2152	Prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/20/15
HB 2153	The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act	Pending	House HHR	Committee	01/20/15
HB 2154	Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	01/20/15
HB 2155	Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/20/15
HB 2164	Providing pay increases for teachers and counselors	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/21/15
HB 2198	Permitting teachers under the State Teachers Retirement System to teach college level courses without loss of benefits	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	01/21/15
HB 2232	Relating to consumer credit and protection	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/22/15
HB 2242	Requiring health insurers to reimburse ambulance service providers directly for ambulance services covered under a person's health insurance policy	Pending	House BNK	Committee	01/23/15
HB 2371	Relating to abortions performed on unemancipated minors	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/26/15
HB 2378	Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/26/15
HB 2412	Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to public and private elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/27/15
HB 2428	Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/27/15
HB 2434	Requiring any employer to retain a job for any veteran with a service-connected disability	Pending	House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security	Committee	01/27/15
HB 2435	Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	01/27/15
HB 2436	Increasing the number of child protective service workers	Pending	House HHR	Committee	01/27/15
HB 2437	Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	01/27/15
HB 2438	Increasing the educational increment for school service personnel	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/27/15
HB 2450	Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses and certified nurse-midwives	Pending	House HHR	Committee	01/28/15
HB 2451	Providing that recess periods or other such time allocated for student physical activity during the regular class day may not be reduced	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/28/15
HB 2460	Relating to the effect of adoption on grandparent visitation rights	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/28/15
HB 2463	Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled	Pending	House Finance	Committee	01/28/15
HB 2464	Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	01/28/15
HB 2484	Clarifying the statutory restrictions placed on sex offenders	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/28/15
HB 2491	Requiring the State Board of Education to conduct a study and periodically publish starting salary schedules for new hire teachers	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/28/15
HB 2513	Relating to school personnel, employment term and class titles of service personnel and definitions	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/29/15
HB 2517	Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/30/15
HB 2519	Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/30/15
HB 2522	Exempting State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	01/30/15
HB 2528	Providing scholarships for certain former coal miners	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/02/15
HB 2539	Increasing by seven the number of participants in the Home Rule Pilot Program	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/02/15
HB 2514	Creating a Bureau of Actuarial Services within the office of the Legislative Auditor	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/03/15
HB 2573	Establishing the English language to be the official language of the state	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/03/15
HB 2634	Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/06/15
HB 2151	Making the West Virginia state teacher of the year an ex officio, nonvoting member of the West Virginia Board of Education	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/09/15
HB 2685	Relating to eligible uses of prepaid tuition plans generally	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/10/15
HB 2686	Providing funds for the Tourism Promotion Fund	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/10/15
HB 2731	Increasing salaries and creating longevity pay increases for all employees of the Division of Corrections, the Regional Jail Authority and the Division of Juvenile Services	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/13/15
HB 2510	Relating to school celebrations, recognition programs and events	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/13/15
HB 2511	Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/15
HB 2775	Relating to salary increase for Veteran's Service Officer 1 and Veteran's Service Officer 2 positions	Pending	House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security	Committee	02/16/15
HB 2779	Creating the crime of trademark counterfeiting	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/15
HB 2791	Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	02/17/15
HB 2817	Providing for security of private, employer-sponsored insurance and/or retirement plans	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/19/15
HB 2830	West Virginia Freedom of Conscience Protection Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/20/15
HB 2837	Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel by one percent a year, for three years	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/20/15
HB 2850	Relating to hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/20/15
HB 2868	Making it a felony to knowingly housing drug traffickers	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/20/15
HB 2869	Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	02/20/15
HB 2874	Creating the Earned Sick Time Act	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	02/20/15
HB 2545	Relating to reimbursement of certification fee for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/23/15
HB 2883	Requiring, for safety reasons, minimum personnel of two on certain trains	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	02/23/15
HB 2971	Continuing the Office of Emergency Medical Services as an independent office within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/24/15
HB 2893	Clarifying that complimentary hotel rooms provided without charge to guests are not subject to the hotel occupancy tax	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/24/15
HB 2894	Providing tax breaks for employers assisting employees paying student loans	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/24/15
HB 2915	Relating generally to wholesale sales of liquor	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/24/15
HB 2954	Expanding the promise scholarship to technical and community college students	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/24/15
HB 2966	Relating to the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/24/15
HB 2881	West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/26/15
HB 2202	Relating to more equitable disbursement of funds to county boards	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/27/15
HB 2846	Relating to increasing salaries for teachers	PPI		Committee	02/28/15
HB 3017	Addressing sudden cardiac arrest in interscholastic athletes	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	03/04/15
HB 2429	Requiring a convicted sex offender who volunteers for an organization whose volunteers have contact with minors to inform that organization of his or her conviction	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/05/15
HB 2805	Transferring to an adult correctional facility any juvenile whose sentence runs beyond his or her eighteenth birthday	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/06/15
HB 2717	Relating to hiring of public school employees	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	03/06/15
HB 2840	Providing an alternative plan to make up lost days of instruction	Vetoed	Vetoed
HB 2160	WV Schools for the Deaf and Blind eligible for School Building Authority funding	Vetoed	Vetoed
HB 2139	Relating to employment of retired teachers as substitutes in areas of critical need and shortage for substitutes	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2015)
HB 2140	Building governance and leadership capacity of county board during period of state intervention	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 11, 2015)
HB 2381	Providing a teacher mentoring increment for classroom teachers with national board certification who teach and mentor at certain schools	Signed	Effective July 1, 2015
HB 2550	Increasing the number of unexcused absences of a student before action may be taken against the parent	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2015)
HB 2557	Clarifying that an insured driver of a motor vehicle is covered by the driver's auto insurance policy when renting or leasing a vehicle	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2015)
HB 2461	Relating to delinquency proceedings of insurers	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2015)
HB 2797	Changing the term "mentally retarded" to "intellectually disabled;" and changing the term "handicapped" to "disabled"	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2015)
HB 2867	Requiring recommendations for higher education course credit transfer	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2015)
HB 2755	Relating to service and professional employee positions at jointly established schools	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 9, 2015)
HB 2702	Redefining service personnel class titles of early childhood classroom assistant teacher	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 9, 2015)
HB 2598	Ensuring that teachers of students with disabilities receive complete information about the school's plan for accommodating the child's disabilities	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2015)
HB 2976	Expanding the eligible master's and doctoral level programs for which a Nursing Scholarship may be awarded	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2015)
HB 2884	Modifying training and development requirement for certain members of certain higher education boards	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2015)
HB 2892	Authorizing certain legislative rules regarding higher education	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2015)
HB 2968	Exempting from property tax certain properties in this state owned by nonprofit youth organizations	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2015)
HB 2902	West Virginia ABLE Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2015)
HB 2914	Providing for voluntary dissolution of resort area district	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2015)