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Senator Karnes sponsored 71 bills: |
Bill |
Title |
Status |
Committee |
Step |
Last Action |
SB 3 | Providing for sunset of administrative rules under Administrative Procedures Act | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 4 | Requiring legislative members disclose contributions and fundraising events while in session | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/16 |
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 8 | Clarifying powers of Attorney General in contingency fee arrangements or contracts with outside attorneys | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 10 | Creating Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act | PASS | Completed Legislation | 05/13/16 | |
SB 11 | WV Freedom of Conscience Protection Act | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 22 | Limiting health insurance coverage for elective abortions | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 23 | Relating to care of aborted fetuses | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 24 | Repealing code related to mandatory motor vehicle inspections | Pending | Senate Transportation and Infrastructure | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 25 | Providing selection procedure for state delegates to Article V convention | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/02/16 |
SB 26 | Requiring midwives report annually to Bureau for Public Health | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 122 | Permitting carrying of firearms in state parks, lands and trails managed by DNR | Pending | Senate Natural Resources | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 249 | Providing an exception to prohibition of possession of deadly weapon on primary or secondary education facility | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 259 | Amending Unfair Trade Practices Act | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016) | ||
SB 292 | Creating income tax credits for certain educational expenses | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/14/16 |
SB 304 | Providing insurance coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/15/16 |
SB 314 | Amending requirements for carrying concealed weapon or deadly weapon for defense purposes | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/19/16 |
SB 316 | Removing requirement home-schooled student must acquire GED to qualify for PROMISE scholarship | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/19/16 |
SB 318 | Clarifying that home schooled student may not be classified as habitually absent | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/19/16 |
SB 328 | Creating West Virginia Veterans Program Fund | Pending | House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security | Committee | 02/16/16 |
SB 333 | Taking and registering of wildlife | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2016) | ||
SB 334 | Identifying coyote as fur-bearing animal and woodchuck as game animal | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2016) | ||
SB 335 | Eliminating severance tax on timber | Pending | Senate Energy, Industry and Mining | Committee | 01/20/16 |
SB 336 | Relating to crossbow hunting | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/16 |
SB 365 | Creating Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/21/16 |
SB 387 | Shared animal ownership agreements to consume raw milk | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 23, 2016) | ||
SB 389 | Reducing certain penalties for offenses not resulting in illegal killing of bear | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/04/16 |
SB 390 | Providing for resident farm vendor's bidding preference | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/26/16 |
SB 391 | Creating additional penalty for use of firearm in furtherance of drug offense | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/26/16 |
SB 399 | Establishing personal and corporate income tax credits for farmers donating edible agricultural products | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/16 |
SB 406 | Changing age date of attending school | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/27/16 |
SB 422 | Creating Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act | Pending | Senate Interstate Cooperation | Committee | 01/28/16 |
SB 424 | Allowing fire departments assess fees | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/19/16 |
SB 434 | Allowing home-based micro-processed foods sold at farmers markets | Pending | House ANR | Committee | 02/20/16 |
SB 465 | Allowing professional employer insure certain risks through pure insurance captive | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
SB 467 | Creating new simplified and expedited certificate of need process | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/02/16 |
SB 479 | Increasing penalties for transportation of narcotics and controlled substances into state | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/02/16 |
SB 485 | Establishing regional recreation authorities and areas | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/23/16 |
SB 499 | Preventing State Board of Education from implementing common core academic standards | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/03/16 |
SB 502 | Changing qualifier for low income | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/03/16 |
SB 551 | Allowing residents to purchase senior hunting, fishing and trapping licenses at the beginning of the year they turn 65 | Pending | Senate Natural Resources | Committee | 02/08/16 |
SB 570 | Allowing local units of government lower personal property taxes | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/10/16 |
SB 571 | Prohibiting abortion coverage in qualified health care plans | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/16 |
SB 576 | Requiring payment of funds due in partition suits of oil and gas interests | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/16 |
SB 577 | Permitting surface owners purchase mineral interests | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/16 |
SB 578 | Protecting utility workers from crimes against person | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
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 619 | 2016 Regulatory Reform Act | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
SB 621 | Exempting taxicab companies with independent contract drivers from providing workers' compensation coverage | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
SB 653 | Requiring higher education course catalogs include certain information | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/20/16 |
SB 663 | Authorizing Commissioner of Highways permit DOH participate in construction or maintenance of publicly funded highway jobs | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/22/16 |
SB 667 | Protecting right to farm | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/22/16 |
SB 679 | Establishing specific valuation for timberland for ad valorem property tax purposes | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/22/16 |
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 684 | Authorizing Director of DNR lease unused or abandoned railway routes to operate tourist excursions | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/22/16 |
SB 685 | Allowing individuals twenty-one years of age operate or ride motorcycle without helmet | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/22/16 |
SB 686 | Authorizing local governing authorities hold sanctioned motor vehicle races on roads, streets or airports under their jurisdiction | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
SB 688 | Relating to county and regional solid waste facility siting plans | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/22/16 |
SB 696 | Relating to disposition of seized firearms | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/22/16 |
SB 699 | Reauthorizing amendment allowing certain food products produced in private home kitchen for sale at farmers market | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/22/16 |
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 |