Bill Status - 2023 Regular Session
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There are 56 bill(s) regarding Municipalities
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 44 | Requiring certain municipalities pay for incarceration of inmates | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| SB 65 | Granting municipal fire marshal authority to assist law-enforcement officer | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/24/23 |
| SB 131 | Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 2, 2023) | ||
| SB 148 | Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/16/23 |
| SB 213 | Relating to responsibility for reimbursement of training cost of law-enforcement employees who leave original jurisdiction | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/10/23 |
| SB 293 | Increasing fees charged by sheriff | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/11/23 | |
| SB 474 | Requiring municipal pensions oversight board to propose legislative rules | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/20/23 |
| SB 475 | Modifying examinations for disability pensions | Signed | Effective July 1, 2023 | ||
| SB 477 | Relating to financing municipal policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds | Pending | Senate Pensions | Committee | 01/26/23 |
| SB 550 | Requiring state entities, local entities and law enforcement agencies to enforce immigration laws | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/02/23 |
| SB 556 | Allowing sheriffs to collect additional funds for performing certain tasks | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/03/23 |
| SB 591 | Allowing counties and municipalities to jointly undertake development projects | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 2, 2023) | ||
| SB 634 | Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/02/23 |
| SB 652 | Modifying Municipal Home Rule appeals | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/16/23 |
| HB 2041 | Authorize municipal courts to request the suspension of a driver’s license of a person who does not pay outstanding fees and costs | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2045 | Dividing pretrial detention jail costs between arresting authorities | Pending | House Jails and Prisons | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2119 | Local Energy Efficiency Partnership Act | Pending | House Energy | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2132 | Providing that a municipal services user fee may not be imposed on employees of the state | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2172 | Allow local governments to hold property owners more accountable for upkeep of buildings | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2240 | Requiring urban renewal authorities to submit proposed urban renewal projects to the affected local county boards of health | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2243 | Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2244 | Providing a process by which a city may hold an election to recall an ordinance | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/19/23 |
| HB 2283 | Relating to authorized expenditures of revenues from certain state funds for fire departments | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2023) | ||
| HB 2299 | To require that any municipality or county commission who intends to approve a location for a limited video lottery retailer must first announce their intention to do so and hold a public hearing before approval. | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2336 | Requiring local entities to enforce immigration laws | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2353 | To create a tax reduction savings fund for municipalities | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2386 | Ban sanctuary cities in West Virginia | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2525 | Relating to charging fees for municipal services | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/12/23 |
| HB 2576 | Municipalities may not assess a user fee when employee was not present in the municipality in the performance of his or her job | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/03/23 |
| HB 2587 | To reflect that County Sheriffs will be required to include a breakdown of the distribution of where a citizen’s taxes will be paid | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 31, 2023) | ||
| HB 2842 | Repeal municipal license and tax when state license required | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/10/23 |
| HB 2864 | To require larger municipally owned public water and wastewater utilities to pass rates to meet the same standards as utilities regulated under Chapter 24 of the Code | Pending | House Technology and Infrastructure | Committee | 01/20/23 |
| HB 2868 | Establishing the Municipal Home Rule Program | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/20/23 |
| HB 2891 | Repeal domestic animal tax | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/20/23 |
| HB 2939 | Relating to filing of lien by municipalities for collection of refuse fees | Pending | Concurrence | 03/10/23 | |
| HB 3051 | Repeal of authority granted to municipalities to levy business and occupation or privilege tax | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3075 | To clarify that municipal B and O taxes shall only apply to the owner of a contract, and not to subcontractors on a project | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/23 |
| HB 3083 | Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting certain ordinances, regulations, local policies, local resolutions, or other legal requirements | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/26/23 |
| HB 3120 | Split the jail bills among the cities, counties, and the state | Pending | House Jails and Prisons | Committee | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3127 | Requiring state entities, local entities and law enforcement agencies to cooperate with the enforcement of immigration laws | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3134 | To raise the bid thresholds for municipal projects from $25,000 to $50,000 | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/10/23 |
| HB 3170 | Prohibiting municipalities in their permitting from charging other government entities for rights of way within municipal boundaries that are at least fifteen feet above ground level at their lowest point | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/31/23 |
| HB 3206 | To establish a system to remediate fiscal emergencies of local governments, and to modernize the process for dissolution of municipal corporations in this State. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/16/23 |
| HB 3230 | Allow the mayors of class three and four towns to also serve as the chief of police | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/16/23 |
| HB 3243 | Relating to examinations for disability pensions | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 02/03/23 |
| HB 3244 | Relating to Municipal Pensions Oversight Board proposing legislative rules | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 6, 2023) | ||
| HB 3279 | Relating to municipal home rule appeals | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3321 | Limiting the imposition of municipal business and occupation taxes | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/07/23 |
| HB 3327 | Capping amount of moneys to third party vendors who collect business and occupation taxes on behalf of cities | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/07/23 |
| HB 3342 | Relating to cooperation between municipal and county economic development authorities | Pending | Senate Economic Development | Committee | 03/01/23 |
| HB 3354 | To authorize municipalities to combine operations with other municipalities and counties to provide governmental services | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2023) | ||
| HB 3361 | Relating to the allocation of federal funds to county commissions and certain municipalities | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/10/23 |
| HB 3435 | To revise the process for political subdivision to combine | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/16/23 |
| HB 3466 | Relating to increasing the services the sheriff may charge | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3490 | Relating to consolidation of local governments | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/23/23 |
| HB 3538 | Relating to limitations on the computation, imposition and collection of the business and occupation tax by municipalities | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/14/23 |