Bill Status - 2016 Regular Session

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Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
HB 2584	Allowing a judge to excuse a potential juror from jury duty until a later date based on seasonal employment	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/27/16
HB 4684	Authorizing local units of government to adopt local energy efficiency partnership programs	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	02/23/16
HB 2433	Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special license plate for applicants who are hearing impaired	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2628	Changing the date of filing announcements of candidacies	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4667	Creating a State Animal Abuse Registry	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/22/16
HB 4392	Establishing a special fund to be used for minor road repair within the county	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/19/16
HB 4567	Establishing an industrial water extraction fee	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/16/16
HB 4598	Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team; and authorizing a Community Health Equity Initiative Demonstration Project	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/17/16
HB 4535	Extending the length of time for the special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/15/16
HB 2679	Good Jobs First Act	Pending	House SB	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2081	Including journalists as a protected profession within the definition of crimes of violence against certain categories of workers	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4023	Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products	Pending	House HHR	Committee	01/14/16
HB 4417	Increasing wages protected from garnishment	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2016)
HB 4026	Limiting terms of citizen members of the School Building Authority	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/15/16
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	01/13/16
HB 2414	Permitting a salary increase for certain kindergarten aides and early childhood classroom assistant teachers	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2801	Permitting county commissions and municipalities to designate areas of special interest which will not affect the use of property in those areas	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2016)
HB 3005	Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling	Pending	House ENG	Committee	01/13/16
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	01/13/16
HB 4404	Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/04/16
HB 4022	Providing a discount program for certain workers and students who purchase West Virginia EZ Pass transponders	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	01/14/16
HB 2903	Providing a tax credit for first time home buyers	Pending	House Finance	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4701	Providing funding of state programs through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/23/16
HB 2788	Providing school days to register and transport students to vote	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2713	Providing taxpayers repaying their own student loans a modification reducing federal adjusted gross in the amount of the interest paid	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/20/16
HB 4401	Providing that any person with a West Virginia driver’s license or an official identification card is automatically registered to vote	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/04/16
HB 4668	Raising the allowable threshold of the coal severance tax revenue fund budgeted for personal services	Vetoed	Vetoed
HB 4509	Raising the legal age for purchase of tobacco and tobacco products	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/11/16
HB 2819	Relating generally to contested cases under the Administrative Procedures Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4661	Relating to child welfare	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/22/16
HB 2611	Relating to controlling methamphetamine	Pending	House HHR	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4670	Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services to promote better student school attendance	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/22/16
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	01/13/16
HB 2787	Relating to hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4649	Relating to limitations and suits	Pending	House BNK	Committee	02/22/16
HB 4618	Relating to limitations on use of a public official's name or likeness	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 2802	Relating to public sewage services	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4637	Relating to requiring insurers of policies providing for payments on death of a named insured to review databases	Pending	House BNK	Committee	02/20/16
HB 4258	Relating to substance abuse	Pending	House DA	Committee	01/25/16
HB 4564	Relating to the taxing certain tobacco products	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/16/16
HB 2384	Removing prohibition of municipalities that are participating in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program to pass ordinances, acts, rules or regulations pertaining to municipal pension plans	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4031	Requiring agencies to respond to public comments received during the rule-making process	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/26/16
HB 4531	Requiring hospitals, or other similar institutions, to publish a cost list for the most commonly performed procedures that are billed	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/12/16
HB 4332	Requiring licensees authorized to serve alcoholic liquors or nonintoxicating beer to have certain liability insurance coverage	Pending	House BNK	Committee	01/29/16
HB 2845	Requiring persons who are in the business of purchasing precious metals and precious gems to photograph those purchases and to transmit the photographs to law-enforcement	Pending	House SB	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4459	Requiring the amount of child support to be paid is effective from the date the petition for the modification was filed	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/09/16
HB 4245	Requiring the cashier or executive officer of a banking institution to provide shareholders with the institution’s most recent year-end audited financial statement	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 19, 2016)
HB 2825	Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to review rates it pays to care providers and to increase direct care rates	Pending	House HHR	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2919	Requiring the Library Commission to survey the libraries of the state and develop a ten year plan for construction and maintenance of public libraries	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2582	Requiring the State Board of Education to cause school buses to be equipped with safety belts	Pending	House EDU	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2421	Retaining jobs for certain disabled veterans seeking or receiving treatment for active duty service-connected injury	Pending	House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security	Committee	01/13/16
HB 2785	Statewide Interoperable Radio Network Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/13/16
HB 4739	Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016)
HB 4444	West Virginia Community Homesteading Act	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	02/08/16
HB 4450	West Virginia Court Reporter Act of 2016	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/09/16
HB 4645	West Virginia Earned Income Tax Credit	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/22/16
HB 4609	West Virginia Residential Furniture and Children's Products Flame Retardants Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/18/16
HB 4457	West Virginia Student Education Incentive Act	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/09/16