Bill Status - 2015 Regular Session
Committee Activity
108 Bills Reported and Completed — Senate Judiciary
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 3 | Relating to real property possessor's liability for trespasser harm | 04/15/15 |
| SB 6 | Relating to medical professional liability | 04/15/15 |
| SB 12 | Relating to payment of separated employee's outstanding wages | 04/15/15 |
| SB 13 | Reinstating open and obvious doctrine for premises liability | 04/15/15 |
| SB 37 | Creating Revised Uniform Arbitration Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 140 | Amending State Administrative Procedures Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 142 | Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 170 | Authorizing Bureau of Commerce promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 175 | Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 182 | Authorizing Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 187 | Authorizing Department of Revenue promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 192 | Authorizing Department of Transportation promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 195 | Authorizing Conservation Committee promulgate legislative rule relating to financial assistance programs | 04/15/15 |
| SB 199 | Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 238 | Limiting certain county board of education liability arising from unorganized recreation | 04/15/15 |
| SB 242 | Creating criminal penalties for certain automated telephone calls during state of emergency or preparedness | 04/15/15 |
| SB 248 | Requiring certain insurance and owner information be provided following car accident | 04/15/15 |
| SB 249 | Prohibiting straight party voting in general election | 04/15/15 |
| SB 250 | Relating to Conservation Agency financial assistance applications from district supervisors | 04/15/15 |
| SB 255 | Eliminating certain boards, councils, committees, panels, task forces and commissions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 261 | Clarifying definition of "owner" of dam | 04/15/15 |
| SB 262 | Transferring CHIP and Children's Health Insurance Agency from Department of Administration to DHHR | 04/15/15 |
| SB 267 | Repealing code relating to Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning | 04/15/15 |
| SB 274 | Relating to TANF program sanctions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 280 | Allowing well work permit transfers | 04/15/15 |
| SB 283 | Relating to state banking institutions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 284 | Relating to chief law-enforcement officer's requirement to certify transfer or making of certain firearms | 04/15/15 |
| SB 292 | Relating to licenses for business of currency exchange, transportation or transmission | 04/15/15 |
| SB 294 | Eliminating certain unnecessary, inactive or redundant councils, committees and boards | 04/15/15 |
| SB 295 | Establishing appeal process for DHHR Board of Review and Bureau for Medical Services decisions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 298 | Clarifying funds within Public Employees Retirement Fund | 04/15/15 |
| SB 299 | Clarifying start date of State Police duty-related and nonduty related disability payments | 04/15/15 |
| SB 302 | Relating to state retirement plans | 04/15/15 |
| SB 304 | Relating to farmers markets | 04/15/15 |
| SB 312 | Relating to disqualification of general election nominees for failure to file campaign finance statements | 04/15/15 |
| SB 315 | Relating to civil actions filed under Consumer Protection Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 318 | Relating to payment of wages by employers | 04/15/15 |
| SB 322 | Eliminating mandatory electronic recount of ballots in recounts | 04/15/15 |
| SB 344 | Relating to duty to mitigate damages in employment claims | 04/15/15 |
| SB 347 | Creating Firearms Act of 2015 | 03/18/15 |
| SB 351 | Relating to charitable organization contribution levels requiring independent audit reports | 04/15/15 |
| SB 357 | Creating Coal Jobs and Safety Act of 2015 | 04/15/15 |
| SB 360 | Repealing code sections relating to book indexes and claims reports required by court clerks | 04/15/15 |
| SB 363 | Establishing maximum rates and service limitations for reimbursement of health care services by Court of Claims | 04/15/15 |
| SB 370 | Reorganizing Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction and certain subcommittees | 04/15/15 |
| SB 373 | Allowing wireless communication image serve as proof of motor vehicle insurance | 04/15/15 |
| SB 374 | Permitting in absentia parole hearings in certain instances | 04/15/15 |
| SB 375 | Specifying who receives parole hearing notices via regular or certified mail | 04/15/15 |
| SB 390 | Authorizing PSC approve expedited cost recovery of natural gas utility infrastructure projects | 04/15/15 |
| SB 393 | Reforming juvenile justice system | 04/15/15 |
| SB 403 | Increasing period during which recorded and refiled motor vehicle liens are valid | 04/15/15 |
| SB 411 | Creating Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act and Asbestos and Silica Claims Priorities Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 412 | Relating to Real Estate Commission complaint filings | 04/15/15 |
| SB 415 | Relating to circuit judges | 04/15/15 |
| SB 418 | Relating to trustee real estate sale under deed of trust | 04/15/15 |
| SB 421 | Relating to punitive damages in civil actions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 423 | Amending Aboveground Storage Tank Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 430 | Permitting mutual protective orders enjoining certain contact between parties to domestic relations actions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 453 | Relating to motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers | 04/15/15 |
| SB 454 | Criminalizing trademark counterfeiting | 04/15/15 |
| SB 479 | Adding additional family court judges | 04/15/15 |
| SB 489 | Imposing statute of limitations on civil actions derived from surveying of real property | 04/15/15 |
| SB 507 | Relating to monitoring inmates' electronic communications | 04/15/15 |
| SB 508 | Reorganizing Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority | 04/15/15 |
| SB 510 | Amending Uniform Interstate Family Support Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 523 | Creating Alcohol and Drug Overdose Prevention and Clemency Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 532 | Relating to civil liability immunity for clinical practice plans and medical and dental school personnel | 04/15/15 |
| SB 542 | Clarifying provisions of Consumer Credit and Protection Act relating to debt collection | 04/15/15 |
| SB 574 | Relating to liquor sales by distilleries and mini-distilleries | 04/15/15 |
| SB 578 | Relating to occupational disease claims | 04/15/15 |
| SB 582 | Relating to Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs | 03/18/15 |
| HB 2002 | Predicating actions for damages upon principles of comparative fault | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2004 | Providing a procedure for the development of a state plan under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2010 | Requiring the elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judges, family court judges and magistrates be nonpartisan and by division | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2011 | Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2025 | Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2053 | Relating to the form of trust deeds | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2128 | Permitting those individuals who have been issued concealed weapons permits to keep loaded firearms in their motor vehicles on the State Capitol Complex grounds | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2138 | Adding aircraft operations on private airstrips and farms to the definition of recreational purpose | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2157 | Relating to absentee ballot fraud | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2161 | Adopting the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking | 04/01/15 |
| HB 2200 | Revising, rearranging, consolidating and recodifying the laws of the State of West Virginia relating to child welfare | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2201 | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain net metering and interconnection rules and standards | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2224 | Providing that historical reenactors are not violating the provision prohibiting unlawful military organizations | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2233 | Requiring that legislative rules be reviewed five years after initial approval by the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and the Legislative Auditor's Office | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2234 | Requiring a court to permit a party in a divorce proceeding to resume using the name he or she used prior to the marriage | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2240 | Providing that an act of domestic violence or sexual offense by strangling is an aggravated felony offense | 04/01/15 |
| HB 2266 | Relating to the publication requirements of the administration of estates | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2274 | Authorizing the Commissioner of Corrections to enter into mutual aid agreements | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2283 | Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2395 | Storm Scammer Consumer Protection Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2461 | Relating to delinquency proceedings of insurers | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2502 | Possessing deadly weapons on school buses or on the premises of educational facilities | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2527 | Creating a Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children; "Erin Merryn's Law" | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2536 | Relating to travel insurance limited lines producers | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2568 | The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2586 | Allowing for an alternative form of service of process in actions against nonresident persons by petitioners seeking domestic violence or personal safety relief | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2606 | Clarifying the potential sentence for disorderly conduct | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2607 | Relating to the violation of interfering with emergency services communications and clarifying penalties | 07/27/15 |
| HB 2608 | Cleaning up redundant language in the statute relating to misdemeanor offenses for violation of protective orders | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2627 | Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, utilities and other industrial facilities | 04/01/15 |
| HB 2636 | Exempting information contained in a concealed weapon permit application from the Freedom of Information Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2648 | Allowing authorized entities to maintain a stock of epinephrine auto-injectors to be used for emergency | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2664 | Creating "Andrea and Willy's Law"; increasing certain penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2726 | Clarifying choice of laws issues in product's liability actions | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2790 | Relating to minimum responsibility limits of car insurance | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2914 | Providing for voluntary dissolution of resort area district | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2939 | Relating to requirements for mandatory reporting of sexual offenses on school premises involving students | 04/15/15 |
113 Bills Reported and Completed — House Judiciary
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 3 | Relating to real property possessor's liability for trespasser harm | 04/15/15 |
| SB 6 | Relating to medical professional liability | 04/15/15 |
| SB 13 | Reinstating open and obvious doctrine for premises liability | 04/15/15 |
| SB 37 | Creating Revised Uniform Arbitration Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 88 | Creating WV Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 140 | Amending State Administrative Procedures Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 142 | Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 170 | Authorizing Bureau of Commerce promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 175 | Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 182 | Authorizing Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 187 | Authorizing Department of Revenue promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 192 | Authorizing Department of Transportation promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 195 | Authorizing Conservation Committee promulgate legislative rule relating to financial assistance programs | 04/15/15 |
| SB 199 | Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| SB 234 | Relating to operation and regulation of certain water and sewer utilities owned by political subdivisions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 238 | Limiting certain county board of education liability arising from unorganized recreation | 04/15/15 |
| SB 242 | Creating criminal penalties for certain automated telephone calls during state of emergency or preparedness | 04/15/15 |
| SB 248 | Requiring certain insurance and owner information be provided following car accident | 04/15/15 |
| SB 249 | Prohibiting straight party voting in general election | 04/15/15 |
| SB 250 | Relating to Conservation Agency financial assistance applications from district supervisors | 04/15/15 |
| SB 261 | Clarifying definition of "owner" of dam | 04/15/15 |
| SB 267 | Repealing code relating to Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning | 04/15/15 |
| SB 273 | Relating to brewer, resident brewer, brewpub, Class A and B retail dealer, private club and Class A and B retail licensee licensing and operations | 04/15/15 |
| SB 274 | Relating to TANF program sanctions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 277 | Requiring issuance of certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth | 04/15/15 |
| SB 284 | Relating to chief law-enforcement officer's requirement to certify transfer or making of certain firearms | 04/15/15 |
| SB 286 | Relating to compulsory immunizations of students; exemptions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 295 | Establishing appeal process for DHHR Board of Review and Bureau for Medical Services decisions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 312 | Relating to disqualification of general election nominees for failure to file campaign finance statements | 04/15/15 |
| SB 315 | Relating to civil actions filed under Consumer Protection Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 318 | Relating to payment of wages by employers | 04/15/15 |
| SB 322 | Eliminating mandatory electronic recount of ballots in recounts | 04/15/15 |
| SB 335 | Creating Access to Opioid Antagonists Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 344 | Relating to duty to mitigate damages in employment claims | 04/15/15 |
| SB 347 | Creating Firearms Act of 2015 | 03/18/15 |
| SB 357 | Creating Coal Jobs and Safety Act of 2015 | 04/15/15 |
| SB 360 | Repealing code sections relating to book indexes and claims reports required by court clerks | 04/15/15 |
| SB 363 | Establishing maximum rates and service limitations for reimbursement of health care services by Court of Claims | 04/15/15 |
| SB 370 | Reorganizing Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction and certain subcommittees | 04/15/15 |
| SB 373 | Allowing wireless communication image serve as proof of motor vehicle insurance | 04/15/15 |
| SB 374 | Permitting in absentia parole hearings in certain instances | 04/15/15 |
| SB 375 | Specifying who receives parole hearing notices via regular or certified mail | 04/15/15 |
| SB 390 | Authorizing PSC approve expedited cost recovery of natural gas utility infrastructure projects | 04/15/15 |
| SB 393 | Reforming juvenile justice system | 04/15/15 |
| SB 403 | Increasing period during which recorded and refiled motor vehicle liens are valid | 04/15/15 |
| SB 409 | Establishing Fair and Open Competition in Governmental Construction Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 411 | Creating Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act and Asbestos and Silica Claims Priorities Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 412 | Relating to Real Estate Commission complaint filings | 04/15/15 |
| SB 415 | Relating to circuit judges | 04/15/15 |
| SB 418 | Relating to trustee real estate sale under deed of trust | 04/15/15 |
| SB 421 | Relating to punitive damages in civil actions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 423 | Amending Aboveground Storage Tank Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 430 | Permitting mutual protective orders enjoining certain contact between parties to domestic relations actions | 04/15/15 |
| SB 453 | Relating to motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers | 04/15/15 |
| SB 454 | Criminalizing trademark counterfeiting | 04/15/15 |
| SB 479 | Adding additional family court judges | 04/15/15 |
| SB 489 | Imposing statute of limitations on civil actions derived from surveying of real property | 04/15/15 |
| SB 507 | Relating to monitoring inmates' electronic communications | 04/15/15 |
| SB 510 | Amending Uniform Interstate Family Support Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 523 | Creating Alcohol and Drug Overdose Prevention and Clemency Act | 04/15/15 |
| SB 532 | Relating to civil liability immunity for clinical practice plans and medical and dental school personnel | 04/15/15 |
| SB 542 | Clarifying provisions of Consumer Credit and Protection Act relating to debt collection | 04/15/15 |
| SB 574 | Relating to liquor sales by distilleries and mini-distilleries | 04/15/15 |
| SB 578 | Relating to occupational disease claims | 04/15/15 |
| SB 582 | Relating to Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs | 03/18/15 |
| HB 2001 | Repealing portions of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2002 | Predicating actions for damages upon principles of comparative fault | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2004 | Providing a procedure for the development of a state plan under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2010 | Requiring the elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judges, family court judges and magistrates be nonpartisan and by division | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2011 | Relating to disbursements from the Workers' Compensation Fund where an injury is self inflicted or intentionally caused by the employer | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2025 | Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2053 | Relating to the form of trust deeds | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2099 | Extending the time of meetings of local levying bodies when meetings are delayed | 06/03/15 |
| HB 2128 | Permitting those individuals who have been issued concealed weapons permits to keep loaded firearms in their motor vehicles on the State Capitol Complex grounds | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2138 | Adding aircraft operations on private airstrips and farms to the definition of recreational purpose | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2148 | Conforming the motor vehicle law of this state to the requirements of section 1405(a) of the federal Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-first Century | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2157 | Relating to absentee ballot fraud | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2161 | Adopting the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking | 04/01/15 |
| HB 2200 | Revising, rearranging, consolidating and recodifying the laws of the State of West Virginia relating to child welfare | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2201 | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain net metering and interconnection rules and standards | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2224 | Providing that historical reenactors are not violating the provision prohibiting unlawful military organizations | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2233 | Requiring that legislative rules be reviewed five years after initial approval by the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and the Legislative Auditor's Office | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2234 | Requiring a court to permit a party in a divorce proceeding to resume using the name he or she used prior to the marriage | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2240 | Providing that an act of domestic violence or sexual offense by strangling is an aggravated felony offense | 04/01/15 |
| HB 2266 | Relating to the publication requirements of the administration of estates | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2274 | Authorizing the Commissioner of Corrections to enter into mutual aid agreements | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2283 | Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2377 | Authorizing State Board of Education to approve certain alternatives with respect to instructional time | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2395 | Storm Scammer Consumer Protection Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2457 | Prohibiting the use of the name or likeness of elected or appointed officials on publicly-owned vehicles | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2461 | Relating to delinquency proceedings of insurers | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2496 | Adopting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2502 | Possessing deadly weapons on school buses or on the premises of educational facilities | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2536 | Relating to travel insurance limited lines producers | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2550 | Increasing the number of unexcused absences of a student before action may be taken against the parent | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2557 | Clarifying that an insured driver of a motor vehicle is covered by the driver's auto insurance policy when renting or leasing a vehicle | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2568 | The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2586 | Allowing for an alternative form of service of process in actions against nonresident persons by petitioners seeking domestic violence or personal safety relief | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2595 | Relating to certificates of need for the development of health facilities in this state | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2606 | Clarifying the potential sentence for disorderly conduct | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2607 | Relating to the violation of interfering with emergency services communications and clarifying penalties | 07/27/15 |
| HB 2608 | Cleaning up redundant language in the statute relating to misdemeanor offenses for violation of protective orders | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2625 | Continuing the current hazardous waste management fee | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2627 | Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, utilities and other industrial facilities | 04/01/15 |
| HB 2636 | Exempting information contained in a concealed weapon permit application from the Freedom of Information Act | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2648 | Allowing authorized entities to maintain a stock of epinephrine auto-injectors to be used for emergency | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2664 | Creating "Andrea and Willy's Law"; increasing certain penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2726 | Clarifying choice of laws issues in product's liability actions | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2790 | Relating to minimum responsibility limits of car insurance | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2797 | Changing the term "mentally retarded" to "intellectually disabled;" and changing the term "handicapped" to "disabled" | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2810 | Implementing the West Virginia Property Rescue Initiative to reduce the number of properties posing a threat to public health and safety | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2931 | Adding drugs to the classification of schedule I drugs | 04/15/15 |
| HB 2939 | Relating to requirements for mandatory reporting of sexual offenses on school premises involving students | 04/15/15 |