Bill Status - 2017 Regular Session

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Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
HB 3100	Increasing penalties for public school employees that embezzle public funds	Pending	House EDU	Committee	03/14/17
HB 3070	Permitting parents to petition the court for visitation on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/14/17
HB 3069	Permitting persons who voluntarily enroll in a drug rehabilitation program to be included in an existing pilot program	Pending	House HHR	Committee	03/14/17
HB 3059	Providing for the voluntary valuation of water and sewer systems for ratemaking purposes	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	03/14/17
HB 3047	Extending the time that teachers may pay into the State Teachers Retirement System	Pending	House EDU	Committee	03/14/17
HB 3020	Relating to criminal penalties for the offenses of hunting, trapping or fishing on the lands of another person	Pending		Concurrence	04/08/17
HB 2981	Limiting the number of days members of the Legislature may receive compensation during an extended and extraordinary session	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/13/17
HB 2953	Establishing the Southern West Virginia Lake Development Study Commission	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	03/13/17
HB 2949	Exempting specified Division of Natural Resources’ contracts for some replacement, repair or design for repairs to facilities from review and approval requirements	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 4, 2017)
HB 2947	Relating to salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/13/17
HB 2922	Reducing the cost of the fee for a state license to carry a concealed weapon	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/10/17
HB 2920	Providing mandatory minimum sentences for trafficking drugs into the state and for other drug offenses	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/10/17
HB 2917	Changing the Unborn Victims of Violence Act to the Unborn Victims of Abuse Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/10/17
HB 2909	Abolishing the office environmental advocate within the Department of Environmental Protection	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	03/10/17
HB 2902	Requiring county school boards to provide adequate mental health and counseling services	Pending	House EDU	Committee	03/09/17
HB 2895	Restoring employees’ rights associated with agreeing to be represented by a labor organization	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	03/09/17
HB 2891	Including electronic communications to and from inmates with the types of communications that the Division of Corrections currently monitors and may record	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/09/17
HB 2848	Livable Home Tax Credit	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/20/17
HB 2789	Exempting all monetary benefits derived from retirement income from personal income tax obligations for individuals moving into the state	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	03/03/17
HB 2783	Authorizing the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration to develop policies and procedures for the leasing, at no cost, of unoccupied buildings	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	03/03/17
HB 2780	Clarifying existing language for those first responders who die as a direct result of their duties	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/02/17
HB 2772	Requiring welders working in the State of West Virginia to meet certain certification requirements	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2762	Increasing the number of employees of the State Police Forensic Laboratory	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2752	Relating to abuse and neglect of livestock	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/07/17
HB 2730	West Virginia Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/28/17
HB 2708	Relating to a lawful method for a developmentally disabled person to purchase a base hunting license	Pending		RECD	04/08/17
HB 2700	Exempting industrial hemp from being a Schedule I drug	Pending	House HHR	Committee	02/24/17
HB 2696	Relating to crossbow hunting	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/07/17
HB 2695	Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/24/17
HB 2693	Relating to state ownership of wildlife	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/07/17
HB 2666	Providing for security of private, employer-sponsored insurance and/or retirement plans	Pending	House BNK	Committee	02/22/17
HB 2663	Increasing the compensation for natural resources police officers	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2662	Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2661	Permitting recreational gold mining	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/22/17
HB 2660	Increasing criminal incarceration penalties for the transportation of controlled substances into the state	Pending	House DA	Committee	02/22/17
HB 2645	Creating a felony for failure to render aid by a culpable person in presence of a drug overdose	Pending	House DA	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2643	Creating a felony murder offense in the second degree for delivery of a controlled substance that causes death	Pending	House DA	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2641	Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/01/17
HB 2634	Prohibiting a court from giving a jury an instruction commonly known as the “Allen Charge” to break a deadlock	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2632	Allowing children in the custody of the state in any foster home, group home or other facility or residence to hunt and fish without a license	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2622	Creating and maintaining a centralized state vehicle inventory system	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2621	Providing for a scratch-off game to fund a drug treatment facility on post-mine land in Mingo and Logan Counties	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2614	Prohibiting health care practitioners from knowingly and in bad faith prescribing or administering drugs	Pending	House DA	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2598	Requiring that senior status circuit judges only fill vacancies in districts or counties in which they were not previously elected	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/21/17
HB 2570	Creating tax credits for new and/or existing small businesses	Pending	House SB	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2568	Making the Holy Bible the official state book of West Virginia	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2565	Increasing the penalties for transporting controlled substances into the state	Pending	House DA	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2564	Authorizing a special registration plate for elk	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2560	Providing a free lunch to all employees in a school building	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2559	Relating to concealed carry on higher education campuses	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2558	Transferring to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2551	Requiring the West Virginia Department of Education to create a Bible literacy course in public schools	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2547	Relating to grandparent’s rights	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/20/17
HB 2525	Relieving the county superintendent of schools of the duty of nominating personnel to be employed by the county board	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/16/17
HB 2510	Permitting certain surface owners to purchase gas at market rates	Pending	House ENG	Committee	02/16/17
HB 2483	Requiring the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/30/17
HB 2453	Expanding the list of persons the Commissioner of Agriculture may license to grow or cultivate industrial hemp	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 4, 2017)
HB 2442	Requiring a test that is identical to the civics portion of the naturalization test in order to graduate from high school or obtain a General Educational Development (GED) diploma	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/14/17
HB 2402	Relating to abandoned antique vehicles	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017)
HB 2390	Providing death penalty for first degree murder	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2367	Establishing a criminal offense of organized retail crime	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017)
HB 2365	Relating to outdoor advertising regulated by the Commissioner of Highways	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2364	Prohibiting electioneering within or near early voting locations during early voting periods	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017)
HB 2361	Relating to the surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies	Pending	House BNK	Committee	02/13/17
HB 2337	Requiring each public high school to offer a course in computer science	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/10/17
HB 2336	Reducing the number of pupils per school nurses	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/10/17
HB 2317	Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	02/09/17
HB 2303	Increasing criminal penalties for littering	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017)
HB 2209	Limiting the authority of municipalities to regulate the purchasing, possessing, transferring, owning, carrying, transporting, selling and storing of knives	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/15/17
HB 2180	Authorizing the issuance of special "In God We Trust" motor vehicle registration plates	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 3, 2017)
HB 2179	Issuing a special registration plate for persons who are residents of this state and who have a family member diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2172	Providing that school nutrition plans include take home meals for low income students	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2171	Permitting contractors to perform work on a construction project without having a contractor’s license under certain circumstances	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2167	Creating a Silver Alert program for senior citizens	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 13, 2017)
HB 2160	Providing that paid county or municipal fire departments and duly incorporated volunteer fire departments pay reduced workers' compensation premiums when not actively engaged in fire fighting	Pending	House BNK	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2158	Prohibiting drilling units from being established without consent of all owners	Pending	House ENG	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2152	Removing restrictions for hunting or trapping on private lands on Sundays	Pending	House ANRS	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2110	Increasing the amount of retirement income to be excluded from the gross income of individuals receiving retirement benefits under the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System	Pending	House Pensions and Retirement	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2108	Requiring school bus aides, who are trained in preventing bullying and providing a safe environment for students while being transported on a school bus, to be present on school buses	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2105	Establishing the state parks instant lottery scratch-off game	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2104	Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer and worship	Pending	House EDU	Committee	02/08/17
HB 2103	Making changes to the definition of contractor for purposes of the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act	Pending	House Government Organization	Committee	02/15/17
HB 2101	Relating to the juvenile justice reform oversight committee	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/08/17