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Senator Ferns sponsored 88 bills:

Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
SB 1	Establishing WV Workplace Freedom Act	PASS	Completed Legislation		05/13/16
SB 5	Requiring voters provide photo ID when voting	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
SB 6	Requiring drug screening and testing of applicants for TANF program	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2016)
SB 10	Creating Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act	PASS	Completed Legislation		05/13/16
SB 14	Limiting successor corporation asbestos-related liabilities	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 22, 2016)
SB 47	Rewriting licensing requirements for practice of medicine and surgery and podiatry	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2016)
SB 48	Establishing Mental Health, Veteran and Service Members Court	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/19/16
SB 49	Excluding mobile x-ray services from health care provider tax	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/13/16
SB 50	Clarifying certain nonprofit-owned hospitals may have only one governing body	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/10/16
SB 51	Exempting certain employers from discriminating against tobacco users	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/13/16
SB 52	Modifying requirements for child witness to testify by closed circuit television	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
SB 68	Disallowing Health Care Authority to conduct rate review and set rates for hospitals	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2016)
SB 271	Regulating practice of accountancy	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2016)
SB 273	Setting forth required provisions regarding prior authorization of drug benefits by insurers	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	01/14/16
SB 278	Clarifying physicians' mutual insurance company is not state or quasi-state actor	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2016)
SB 279	Specifying how assessed value of any share of natural resource property is to be determined	Pending	Senate Natural Resources	Committee	01/14/16
SB 281	Requiring health care providers and facilities to notify patient when mammogram indicates dense breast tissue	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/14/16
SB 283	Creating crime when fire is caused by operation of clandestine drug laboratory	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
SB 284	Providing for approval by county commission of all health policies enacted by local boards of health	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/14/16
SB 285	Allowing adult adoptees and their descendants to access adoption records	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/14/16
SB 301	Changing amounts of prejudgment and post-judgment interest	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/15/16
SB 302	Limiting products liability actions	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/15/16
SB 304	Providing insurance coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	01/15/16
SB 312	Welfare Fraud Prevention Act	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/18/16
SB 314	Amending requirements for carrying concealed weapon or deadly weapon for defense purposes	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/19/16
SB 320	Permitting practice of telemedicine	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/17/16
SB 322	Regulating pharmacy benefits managers	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/19/16
SB 324	Allowing transportation network companies to operate in WV	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	01/19/16
SB 340	Relating to payment by Municipal Bond Commission	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/21/16
SB 358	Establishing Mining Mutual Insurance Company	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	01/21/16
SB 359	Requiring performance bonds by operators	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	01/21/16
SB 377	Relating to liability of spouses or relatives to assist in paying for indigent funeral service expenses	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/25/16
SB 383	Promoting efficient extraction of oil and gas resources	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	02/11/16
SB 395	Extending expiration date for tax rate on eligible acute-care hospitals	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/27/16
SB 404	Removing prohibition on billing persons for testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
SB 407	Increasing high-quality educational opportunities in public school system	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	01/27/16
SB 408	Relating to regulation and control of elections	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/27/16
SB 424	Allowing fire departments assess fees	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/19/16
SB 438	Requiring DHHR be present at judicial proceedings	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/24/16
SB 467	Creating new simplified and expedited certificate of need process	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/02/16
SB 475	Providing rebuttable presumptions for certain injuries and diseases for firefighters and police officers	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	02/02/16
SB 483	Marshall County and Wyoming County LSIC waiver	Signed	Effective July 1, 2016
SB 489	Establishing tax credit for physicians who locate in WV	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/03/16
SB 496	Creating 24/7 Sobriety Program administered by Attorney General	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/03/16
SB 499	Preventing State Board of Education from implementing common core academic standards	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	02/03/16
SB 508	Relating to civil claims for private nuisance	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/23/16
SB 510	Establishing Adult Drug Court Participation Fund	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/17/16
SB 528	Altering power of Higher Education Policy Commission	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	03/02/16
SB 529	Making certain sport and educational fantasy games lawful	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/19/16
SB 531	Providing for court-appointed special advocate in each judicial circuit	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/22/16
SB 535	Requiring DEP review rules and requirements in regard to federal Clean Water Act	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	02/06/16
SB 537	Requiring cabinet secretaries review all rules under their jurisdiction similar to federal rules where state rules are more stringent	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/06/16
SB 541	Requiring agencies analyze impact of proposed and existing regulations on small business	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/06/16
SB 542	Admissibility of certain evidence in civil action on use or nonuse of safety belt	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/29/16
SB 543	Requiring agencies provide additional information when submitting proposed legislative rule	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/06/16
SB 544	Requiring executive branch agencies review rules with regard to federal rules	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/08/16
SB 550	Lessening regulatory burdens on small businesses	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/08/16
SB 559	Supplemental appropriation to Greater Weirton Area Senior Center	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/09/16
SB 560	Permitting operation of unmanned aircraft system	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/10/16
SB 561	Setting rates for accident and sickness insurance	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/10/16
SB 566	Creating new tax on insurance reserves held by accident and sickness insurance carriers	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/10/16
SB 567	Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, railroads, utilities and other industrial facilities	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
SB 569	Regulation of chronic pain clinics	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	03/04/16
SB 571	Prohibiting abortion coverage in qualified health care plans	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/10/16
SB 572	Defining criteria private insurance carriers must consider in setting rates	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/10/16
SB 583	Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by Department of Administration	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/16
SB 584	Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by DEP	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/16
SB 585	Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by DHHR	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/16
SB 586	Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/16
SB 587	Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by Department of Revenue	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/16
SB 588	Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by Department of Transportation	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2016)
SB 589	Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by miscellaneous agencies and boards	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/16
SB 590	Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by Department of Commerce	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/17/16
SB 597	Relating generally to Health Care Authority	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2016)
SB 605	Continuing personal income tax adjustment to certain retirees	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/15/16
SB 616	Defining professional firefighter for purposes of workers' compensation disability and death benefits	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/16
SB 621	Exempting taxicab companies with independent contract drivers from providing workers' compensation coverage	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
SB 624	Creating felony offenses and penalties for human trafficking	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/18/16
SB 655	Reducing severance tax on coal to 4 percent	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/20/16
SB 658	Allowing licensed professionals donate time to care of indigent and needy in clinical setting	Vetoed	Vetoed
SB 670	Relating to filling vacancies in elected offices	Pending	Senate Rules	Committee	03/01/16
SB 682	Authorizing telephone public utilities provide system of centrally located cellular telephone hot spots where signals are weak or unavailable	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/22/16
SB 692	Establishing incentives for public schools to make recreational facilities available for public use	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	02/22/16
SB 700	Authorizing Berkeley County Council own or operate a drug treatment or drug rehabilitation facility	Rejected			02/29/16
SB 701	Relating generally to resort area districts	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/03/16
SB 702	Allowing title of real estate to pass to individuals entitled to sale proceeds if executor fails to do so within 5 years of closing estate	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
SB 703	Relating to deposit of overpayment of certain fees into Children's Trust Fund	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/03/16
SB 704	Dispatching of towing service for emergency towing of vehicles	Rejected			03/02/16

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