Bill Status - 2016 Regular Session

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Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
HB 2129	Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2230	Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes	Pending	House Finance	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2422	Removing the requirement that home schooled students have to acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for the promise scholarship	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2444	Providing for the assignment of economic development office representatives to serve as Small Business Allies as facilitators to assist small business entities and individuals	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016)
HB 2468	No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act	Pending	House HHR	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2473	Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jail fees	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2554	Relating to protection of utility workers from crimes against the person	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2643	Establishing the West Virginia Right to Work Law	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2665	Relating to participation in Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 2803	Relating to the sale of alcohol by licensed manufacturers	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2804	Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays by private licensees	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2823	Eliminating the street and interurban and electric railways tax	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2016)
HB 2842	Establishing a four year pilot program to have social workers in public schools, from prekindergarten through the elementary school	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2978	Relating to inspection of vehicles and providing that defects in windshields and windows that do not obscure vision are not unsafe conditions	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	01/13/16
HB 3000	Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit	Pending	House Finance	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4001	Relating to candidates or candidate committees for legislative office disclosing contributions	Pending		RECD	03/12/16
HB 4011	Providing for the authorization and oversight of public charter schools	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/20/16
HB 4027	Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/15/16
HB 4145	Relating to carry or use of a handgun or deadly weapon	PASS	Completed Legislation		05/13/16
HB 4164	Requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to conduct drivers tests as a pilot program, at certain high schools	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	01/20/16
HB 4165	Authorizing the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue certain vital records in the custody of the State Registrar	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	01/20/16
HB 4168	Creating a special motor vehicle collector license plate	Vetoed	Vetoed
HB 4170	Removing restrictions for hunting or trapping on private lands on Sundays	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/27/16
HB 4174	Exempting activity at indoor shooting ranges from the prohibition of shooting or discharging a firearm within five hundred feet of any church or dwelling house	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 4175	Relating generally to home schooling	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 23, 2016)
HB 4194	Requiring each public high school to offer a course in computer science	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/21/16
HB 4215	Removing the requirement that a home schooled student must acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for a PROMISE scholarship	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/21/16
HB 4228	Relating to transportation network companies	Signed	Effective July 1, 2016
HB 4251	Increasing the criminal penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/25/16
HB 4266	Relating to transportation network companies	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	01/25/16
HB 4291	Increasing penalties for teachers who commit sexual offenses against children	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	02/18/16
HB 4297	Increasing penalties for destruction or theft of election campaign advertising	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/27/16
HB 4300	Relating to changes in distribution of net terminal income, excess net terminal income and excess lottery fund	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/15/16
HB 4301	Relating to a framework for initiating comprehensive transformation of school leadership	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016)
HB 4316	Relating to reimbursement of certification fee for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016)
HB 4328	Relating to the “Equal Pay Act of 2016”	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	01/29/16
HB 4347	Providing pregnant women priority to substance abuse treatment	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 4349	Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/02/16
HB 4350	Creating a domestic violence registry	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/02/16
HB 4362	Establishing a felony offense of strangulation	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 3, 2016)
HB 4379	Allowing a voluntary donation of refunds for overpayment of fees to the Secretary of State’s office to the West Virginia Children’s Trust Fund	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/03/16
HB 4388	Relating to stroke centers	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 4410	Establishing an arborists program for inmates	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/05/16
HB 4451	Relating to public service districts	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	02/09/16
HB 4454	Welfare Fraud Prevention Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/09/16
HB 4455	Prohibiting sex offender registrants from having Halloween related contact with children	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/09/16
HB 4507	Providing an employer may grant preference in hiring to a veteran or disabled veteran	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 4512	Relating to registration for selective service	Pending	House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security	Committee	02/11/16
HB 4534	Allowing sale and serving of alcoholic liquors at 11:00 a.m. on Sundays	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/15/16
HB 4541	Limiting the authority of municipalities to regulate the purchasing, possessing, transferring, owning, carrying, transporting, selling and storing of knives	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	02/16/16
HB 4558	Relating to victim notification and designation of additional individuals to receive notice of an offender's release	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 4560	Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/16/16
HB 4561	Creating a special hiring process for West Virginia Division of Highways employees	Vetoed	Vetoed
HB 4562	Relating to performance metrics for the West Virginia Division of Highways	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/16/16
HB 4563	Reauthorizing the Neighborhood Investment Program Act	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/20/16
HB 4571	Creating a one-day special license for charitable events to sell nonintoxicating beer	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/16/16
HB 4584	Prohibiting shifting future development costs onto existing public service district customers	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/17/16
HB 4601	Providing that the court allocate time equally between parents, unless equal custody is not consistent with the best interest of the child	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/16
HB 4604	Relating to violations of the Ethics Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 4605	Prohibiting contracting with a state agency unless business entity submits disclosure of interested parties	Pending		RECD	03/12/16
HB 4606	Relating to the recusal of certain public officials from voting for appropriation of moneys to nonprofit entities	Pending	Senate Rules	Committee	03/12/16
HB 4620	Prohibiting the production, manufacture or possession of fentanyl	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/26/16
HB 4622	Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays by private licensees	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/19/16
HB 4666	Ban-the-Box Act	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	02/22/16
HB 4711	Allowing a mother breastfeeding a child to be excused from jury duty	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/23/16
HB 4726	Relating to coal mining generally	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016)