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106 Bills Reported and Completed — Senate Judiciary

Bill Title Date
SB 1 Establishing WV Workplace Freedom Act 05/13/16
SB 7 Establishing wrongful conduct rule prohibiting recovery of damages in certain circumstances 05/13/16
SB 13 Increasing penalties for overtaking and passing stopped school buses 05/13/16
SB 14 Limiting successor corporation asbestos-related liabilities 05/13/16
SB 15 Adopting learned intermediary doctrine as defense to civil action due to inadequate warnings or instructions 05/13/16
SB 29 Tolling statute of limitations in certain cases 05/13/16
SB 32 Relating to withdrawal of candidates for office and filling vacancies 09/12/16
SB 39 Regulating off-road motorcycles within Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area 05/13/16
SB 43 Clarifying means of posting to prohibit hunting or trespassing 05/13/16
SB 102 Conforming to federal Law-Enforcement Officers Safety Act 03/15/16
SB 104 Classifying Marshall University Forensic Science Center as a criminal justice agency 05/13/16
SB 107 Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act 05/13/16
SB 150 Authorizing Department of Transportation promulgate legislative rules 05/13/16
SB 157 Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules 03/15/16
SB 159 Authorizing promulgation of legislative rules by miscellaneous boards and commissions 03/15/16
SB 195 Authorizing DHHR to promulgate legislative rules 05/13/16
SB 202 Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules 05/13/16
SB 262 Eliminating need for law enforcement to obtain court order prior to having access to inmate mail and phone recordings 05/13/16
SB 265 Allowing library volunteers necessary access to user records 05/13/16
SB 270 Repealing code relating to insurance policies 05/13/16
SB 271 Regulating practice of accountancy 05/13/16
SB 272 Allowing investigators from Attorney General's office to carry concealed weapons 03/15/16
SB 274 Relating to increasing civil jurisdictional amount in magistrate courts 05/13/16
SB 278 Clarifying physicians' mutual insurance company is not state or quasi-state actor 05/18/16
SB 283 Creating crime when fire is caused by operation of clandestine drug laboratory 05/13/16
SB 323 Correcting statute subsection designations regarding trespassing on property 05/13/16
SB 326 Repeal and recodify law relating to contributing to delinquency of minor child 05/13/16
SB 339 Establishing Judicial Compensation Commission 05/13/16
SB 361 Prohibiting persons who have committed crimes against elderly from performing community service involving elderly 05/13/16
SB 376 Expanding authority of Secretary of State and State Police 05/13/16
SB 379 Relating to candidate filing fees 09/12/16
SB 465 Allowing professional employer insure certain risks through pure insurance captive 05/13/16
SB 468 Allowing lender charge and receive interest on rescindable loan during rescission period 05/13/16
SB 469 Clarifying what personal funds are exempt from levy following judgment 05/13/16
SB 476 Relating to driving restrictions in school zones 05/13/16
SB 493 Allowing creation of self-settled spendthrift trusts 05/13/16
SB 504 Relating to confidentiality of juvenile records 05/13/16
SB 520 Allowing PEIA ability to recover benefits or claims obtained through fraud 05/13/16
SB 545 Relating to asbestos abatement on oil and gas pipelines 05/13/16
SB 567 Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, railroads, utilities and other industrial facilities 05/13/16
SB 578 Protecting utility workers from crimes against person 05/13/16
SB 581 Eliminating sunset provision terminating pilot domestic violence court program 05/13/16
SB 588 Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by Department of Transportation 05/13/16
SB 591 Relating to voter registration list maintenance and combined voter registration and driver licensing fund 09/12/16
SB 599 Relating generally to Uniform Unclaimed Property Act 03/15/16
SB 602 Relating to Patient Injury Compensation Fund 05/13/16
SB 614 Conforming statute with court interpretation by replacing "unconscionable" with "fraudulent" when referring to conduct 05/13/16
SB 621 Exempting taxicab companies with independent contract drivers from providing workers' compensation coverage 05/16/16
SB 625 Revising exceptions from FOIA provided for in Aboveground Storage Tank Act 05/13/16
SB 627 Permitting physician to decline prescribing controlled substance 05/13/16
SB 634 Creating William R. Laird IV Second Chance Driver's License Act 05/13/16
SB 686 Authorizing local governing authorities hold sanctioned motor vehicle races on roads, streets or airports under their jurisdiction 05/13/16
SB 691 Modifying certain air pollution standards 05/13/16
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 05/13/16
HB 2122 Making it illegal for first responders to photograph a corpse; Jonathan's Law 05/13/16
HB 2205 Creating the crime of prohibited sexual contact by a psychotherapist 05/13/16
HB 2366 Relating generally to the solicitation of minors 05/13/16
HB 2494 Creating a provisional plea process in criminal cases 05/13/16
HB 2588 Relating to the filing of financial statements with the Secretary of State 09/08/16
HB 2605 Removing the limitation on actions against the perpetrator of sexual assault or sexual abuse upon a minor 05/13/16
HB 2665 Relating to participation in Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program 05/13/16
HB 2800 Adding law-enforcement officers' contact information and names of family members to the list of exemptions from public records requests 05/13/16
HB 2852 Relating to legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks 05/13/16
HB 4007 Relating generally to appointment of attorneys to assist the Attorney General 05/13/16
HB 4009 Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act 05/13/16
HB 4013 Requiring a person desiring to vote to present documentation identifying the voter 09/08/16
HB 4046 Relating to the promulgation of rules by the Department of Administration 05/13/16
HB 4060 Relating generally to the promulgation of administrative rules by the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety 05/13/16
HB 4080 Department of Veterans’ Assistance, rule relating to VA headstones or markers 04/01/16
HB 4145 Relating to carry or use of a handgun or deadly weapon 05/13/16
HB 4174 Exempting activity at indoor shooting ranges from the prohibition of shooting or discharging a firearm within five hundred feet of any church or dwelling house 05/13/16
HB 4176 Permitting the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to participate in the addiction treatment pilot program 05/13/16
HB 4201 Increasing the criminal penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture 05/13/16
HB 4218 Expanding the definition of “underground facility” in the One-Call System Act 05/13/16
HB 4228 Relating to transportation network companies 05/13/16
HB 4235 Relating to the publication requirements of the administration of estates 05/13/16
HB 4237 Supporting and Strengthening Families Act 05/13/16
HB 4307 Clarifying that a firearm may be carried for self defense in state parks, state forests and state recreational areas 04/01/16
HB 4309 Increasing criminal penalties for conviction of certain offenses of financial exploitation of an elderly person 05/13/16
HB 4314 Prohibiting the sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol 05/13/16
HB 4317 Limiting factors in parenting plans 05/13/16
HB 4323 Relating to the reporting of emergency incidents by well operators and pipeline operators 05/13/16
HB 4345 Repealing the West Virginia Permitting and Licensing Information Act 05/13/16
HB 4360 Increasing the criminal penalty for the unlawful practice of law 05/13/16
HB 4362 Establishing a felony offense of strangulation 05/13/16
HB 4364 Internet Privacy Protection Act 05/13/16
HB 4378 Relating to access to and receipt of certain information regarding a protected person by certain relatives of the protected person 03/15/16
HB 4411 Relating to penalty for illegally taking native brook trout 05/13/16
HB 4417 Increasing wages protected from garnishment 05/13/16
HB 4448 Clarifying that communication by a lender or debt collector which is allowed under the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act, likewise does not violate the provisions of the West Virginia Computer Crime and Abuse Act 05/13/16
HB 4502 Allowing reciprocity agreements with contiguous states to establish regulations, licensing requirements and taxes for small businesses 05/13/16
HB 4505 Allowing powerball winners to remain anonymous 04/01/16
HB 4517 Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions 05/13/16
HB 4520 Clarifying that certain hospitals have only one governing body whose meetings shall be open to the public 05/13/16
HB 4558 Relating to victim notification and designation of additional individuals to receive notice of an offender's release 05/13/16
HB 4586 Ensuring that the interest of protected persons, incarcerated persons and unknown owners are protected in condemnation actions filed by the Division of Highways 09/08/16
HB 4587 Relating to violations associated with absent voters’ ballots 09/08/16
HB 4604 Relating to violations of the Ethics Act 05/13/16
HB 4618 Relating to limitations on use of a public official's name or likeness 05/13/16
HB 4655 Prohibiting insurers, vision care plan or vision care discount plans from requiring vision care providers to provide discounts on noncovered services or materials 05/13/16
HB 4724 Relating to adding a requirement for the likelihood of imminent lawless action to the prerequisites for the crime of intimidation and retaliation 05/13/16
HB 4725 Relating to providing the procedures for the filling of vacancies in the offices of justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit judge, family court judge or magistrate and making certain clarifications 09/08/16
HB 4735 Relating to the definition of health care provider, and clarifying that speech-language pathologists and audiologists are two separate providers 05/13/16
HB 4738 Relating to the offense of driving in an impaired state 05/13/16
HB 4739 Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act 05/13/16
HB 4740 Permitting that current members of the National Guard or Reserves may be excused from jury duty 05/13/16

140 Bills Reported and Completed — House Judiciary

Bill Title Date
SB 1 Establishing WV Workplace Freedom Act 05/13/16
SB 6 Requiring drug screening and testing of applicants for TANF program 05/13/16
SB 7 Establishing wrongful conduct rule prohibiting recovery of damages in certain circumstances 05/13/16
SB 10 Creating Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act 05/13/16
SB 13 Increasing penalties for overtaking and passing stopped school buses 05/13/16
SB 14 Limiting successor corporation asbestos-related liabilities 05/13/16
SB 15 Adopting learned intermediary doctrine as defense to civil action due to inadequate warnings or instructions 05/13/16
SB 27 Permitting county commissions hire outside attorneys for collection of taxes through courts 05/13/16
SB 29 Tolling statute of limitations in certain cases 05/13/16
SB 32 Relating to withdrawal of candidates for office and filling vacancies 09/12/16
SB 43 Clarifying means of posting to prohibit hunting or trespassing 05/13/16
SB 102 Conforming to federal Law-Enforcement Officers Safety Act 03/15/16
SB 104 Classifying Marshall University Forensic Science Center as a criminal justice agency 05/13/16
SB 107 Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act 05/13/16
SB 150 Authorizing Department of Transportation promulgate legislative rules 05/13/16
SB 157 Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules 03/15/16
SB 159 Authorizing promulgation of legislative rules by miscellaneous boards and commissions 03/15/16
SB 195 Authorizing DHHR to promulgate legislative rules 05/13/16
SB 202 Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules 05/13/16
SB 254 Not allowing county park commissions to prohibit firearms in facilities 03/15/16
SB 259 Amending Unfair Trade Practices Act 05/13/16
SB 262 Eliminating need for law enforcement to obtain court order prior to having access to inmate mail and phone recordings 05/13/16
SB 265 Allowing library volunteers necessary access to user records 05/13/16
SB 267 Modifying removal procedure for certain county, school district and municipal officers 05/13/16
SB 270 Repealing code relating to insurance policies 05/13/16
SB 271 Regulating practice of accountancy 05/13/16
SB 272 Allowing investigators from Attorney General's office to carry concealed weapons 03/15/16
SB 274 Relating to increasing civil jurisdictional amount in magistrate courts 05/13/16
SB 278 Clarifying physicians' mutual insurance company is not state or quasi-state actor 05/18/16
SB 283 Creating crime when fire is caused by operation of clandestine drug laboratory 05/13/16
SB 298 Allowing restaurants, private clubs and wineries sell alcoholic beverages on Sundays 05/13/16
SB 323 Correcting statute subsection designations regarding trespassing on property 05/13/16
SB 326 Repeal and recodify law relating to contributing to delinquency of minor child 05/13/16
SB 329 Eliminating sunset provision for commission to study residential placement of children 05/13/16
SB 330 Requiring automobile liability insurers provide 10 days' notice of intent to cancel due to nonpayment of premium 05/13/16
SB 333 Taking and registering of wildlife 05/13/16
SB 338 Compiling and maintaining Central State Mental Health Registry 05/13/16
SB 339 Establishing Judicial Compensation Commission 05/13/16
SB 361 Prohibiting persons who have committed crimes against elderly from performing community service involving elderly 05/13/16
SB 379 Relating to candidate filing fees 09/12/16
SB 384 Requiring Bureau for Medical Services seek federal waiver for 30-day waiting period for tubal ligation 05/13/16
SB 416 Allowing terminally ill patients access to investigational products 05/13/16
SB 429 Adopting two National Association of Insurance Commissioners' models to protect enrollees and general public and permit greater oversight 05/13/16
SB 465 Allowing professional employer insure certain risks through pure insurance captive 05/13/16
SB 468 Allowing lender charge and receive interest on rescindable loan during rescission period 05/13/16
SB 469 Clarifying what personal funds are exempt from levy following judgment 05/13/16
SB 476 Relating to driving restrictions in school zones 05/13/16
SB 484 Relating to reemployment rights of military personnel 09/12/16
SB 493 Allowing creation of self-settled spendthrift trusts 05/13/16
SB 504 Relating to confidentiality of juvenile records 05/13/16
SB 516 Relating to registration for selective service 05/13/16
SB 520 Allowing PEIA ability to recover benefits or claims obtained through fraud 05/13/16
SB 545 Relating to asbestos abatement on oil and gas pipelines 05/13/16
SB 567 Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, railroads, utilities and other industrial facilities 05/13/16
SB 578 Protecting utility workers from crimes against person 05/13/16
SB 581 Eliminating sunset provision terminating pilot domestic violence court program 05/13/16
SB 588 Repealing certain obsolete legislative rules by Department of Transportation 05/13/16
SB 591 Relating to voter registration list maintenance and combined voter registration and driver licensing fund 09/12/16
SB 597 Relating generally to Health Care Authority 05/13/16
SB 599 Relating generally to Uniform Unclaimed Property Act 03/15/16
SB 601 Relating to exception from jurisdiction of PSC for materials recovery facilities or mixed waste processing facilities 05/13/16
SB 602 Relating to Patient Injury Compensation Fund 05/13/16
SB 613 Defining total capital for purposes of calculating state-chartered bank's lending limit 05/13/16
SB 614 Conforming statute with court interpretation by replacing "unconscionable" with "fraudulent" when referring to conduct 05/13/16
SB 619 2016 Regulatory Reform Act 05/13/16
SB 621 Exempting taxicab companies with independent contract drivers from providing workers' compensation coverage 05/16/16
SB 625 Revising exceptions from FOIA provided for in Aboveground Storage Tank Act 05/13/16
SB 627 Permitting physician to decline prescribing controlled substance 05/13/16
SB 634 Creating William R. Laird IV Second Chance Driver's License Act 05/13/16
SB 686 Authorizing local governing authorities hold sanctioned motor vehicle races on roads, streets or airports under their jurisdiction 05/13/16
SB 691 Modifying certain air pollution standards 05/13/16
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 05/13/16
HB 2122 Making it illegal for first responders to photograph a corpse; Jonathan's Law 05/13/16
HB 2205 Creating the crime of prohibited sexual contact by a psychotherapist 05/13/16
HB 2366 Relating generally to the solicitation of minors 05/13/16
HB 2494 Creating a provisional plea process in criminal cases 05/13/16
HB 2588 Relating to the filing of financial statements with the Secretary of State 09/08/16
HB 2605 Removing the limitation on actions against the perpetrator of sexual assault or sexual abuse upon a minor 05/13/16
HB 2665 Relating to participation in Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program 05/13/16
HB 2796 Providing paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency 03/15/16
HB 2800 Adding law-enforcement officers' contact information and names of family members to the list of exemptions from public records requests 05/13/16
HB 2801 Permitting county commissions and municipalities to designate areas of special interest which will not affect the use of property in those areas 05/13/16
HB 2826 Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to approve points of access to and from state highways to real property used or to be used for commercial, industrial or mercantile purposes; "Sarah Nott's Law" 05/13/16
HB 2852 Relating to legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks 05/13/16
HB 2904 Requiring the clerk of a county commission to maintain a county ordinance book 05/13/16
HB 3019 Requiring official business and records of the state and its political subdivisions be conducted in English 05/13/16
HB 4007 Relating generally to appointment of attorneys to assist the Attorney General 05/13/16
HB 4013 Requiring a person desiring to vote to present documentation identifying the voter 09/08/16
HB 4046 Relating to the promulgation of rules by the Department of Administration 05/13/16
HB 4060 Relating generally to the promulgation of administrative rules by the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety 05/13/16
HB 4080 Department of Veterans’ Assistance, rule relating to VA headstones or markers 04/01/16
HB 4145 Relating to carry or use of a handgun or deadly weapon 05/13/16
HB 4163 Providing the authority and procedure for municipalities to give notice to, and publish the names of, entities delinquent in paying business and occupation taxes 05/13/16
HB 4174 Exempting activity at indoor shooting ranges from the prohibition of shooting or discharging a firearm within five hundred feet of any church or dwelling house 05/13/16
HB 4176 Permitting the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to participate in the addiction treatment pilot program 05/13/16
HB 4201 Increasing the criminal penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture 05/13/16
HB 4218 Expanding the definition of “underground facility” in the One-Call System Act 05/13/16
HB 4225 Relating to patriotic displays at public buildings 05/13/16
HB 4235 Relating to the publication requirements of the administration of estates 05/13/16
HB 4237 Supporting and Strengthening Families Act 05/13/16
HB 4244 Eliminating the need for a public hearing when no objection is filed on an application from an out of state state-chartered credit union to establish a branch in West Virginia 05/13/16
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 05/13/16
HB 4261 Prohibiting the sale or transfer of student data to vendors and other profit making entities 05/13/16
HB 4279 Relating to disposition of seized firearms 05/13/16
HB 4307 Clarifying that a firearm may be carried for self defense in state parks, state forests and state recreational areas 04/01/16
HB 4309 Increasing criminal penalties for conviction of certain offenses of financial exploitation of an elderly person 05/13/16
HB 4314 Prohibiting the sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol 05/13/16
HB 4317 Limiting factors in parenting plans 05/13/16
HB 4324 Authorizing information sharing by Workforce West Virginia 05/13/16
HB 4330 Relating to make unlawful to take a fish, water animal or other aquatic organism from state waters to stock a commercial pond or lake 05/13/16
HB 4345 Repealing the West Virginia Permitting and Licensing Information Act 05/13/16
HB 4346 Relating to bear hunting and offenses and penalties 05/13/16
HB 4360 Increasing the criminal penalty for the unlawful practice of law 05/13/16
HB 4362 Establishing a felony offense of strangulation 05/13/16
HB 4364 Internet Privacy Protection Act 05/13/16
HB 4365 Relating to the certificate of need process 05/13/16
HB 4378 Relating to access to and receipt of certain information regarding a protected person by certain relatives of the protected person 03/15/16
HB 4411 Relating to penalty for illegally taking native brook trout 05/13/16
HB 4417 Increasing wages protected from garnishment 05/13/16
HB 4448 Clarifying that communication by a lender or debt collector which is allowed under the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act, likewise does not violate the provisions of the West Virginia Computer Crime and Abuse Act 05/13/16
HB 4463 Permitting the practice of telemedicine 05/13/16
HB 4502 Allowing reciprocity agreements with contiguous states to establish regulations, licensing requirements and taxes for small businesses 05/13/16
HB 4505 Allowing powerball winners to remain anonymous 04/01/16
HB 4507 Providing an employer may grant preference in hiring to a veteran or disabled veteran 09/08/16
HB 4517 Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions 05/13/16
HB 4520 Clarifying that certain hospitals have only one governing body whose meetings shall be open to the public 05/13/16
HB 4537 Relating to the regulation of chronic pain clinics 05/13/16
HB 4558 Relating to victim notification and designation of additional individuals to receive notice of an offender's release 05/13/16
HB 4586 Ensuring that the interest of protected persons, incarcerated persons and unknown owners are protected in condemnation actions filed by the Division of Highways 09/08/16
HB 4587 Relating to violations associated with absent voters’ ballots 09/08/16
HB 4604 Relating to violations of the Ethics Act 05/13/16
HB 4618 Relating to limitations on use of a public official's name or likeness 05/13/16
HB 4673 Providing for a crime for the theft, damage or release of deer from private game farms 05/13/16
HB 4724 Relating to adding a requirement for the likelihood of imminent lawless action to the prerequisites for the crime of intimidation and retaliation 05/13/16
HB 4725 Relating to providing the procedures for the filling of vacancies in the offices of justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit judge, family court judge or magistrate and making certain clarifications 09/08/16
HB 4734 Relating to mine subsidence insurance 05/13/16
HB 4735 Relating to the definition of health care provider, and clarifying that speech-language pathologists and audiologists are two separate providers 05/13/16
HB 4738 Relating to the offense of driving in an impaired state 05/13/16
HB 4739 Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act 05/13/16
HB 4740 Permitting that current members of the National Guard or Reserves may be excused from jury duty 05/13/16