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Senator Kessler was the Lead Sponsor for 90 bills:

Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
SB 19	Providing allocated Fire Protection Fund revenue to Fire Chiefs' and Fireman's Associations for certain expenses	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	02/11/09
SB 30	Preventing reduction of disability pensions for certain Public Employees Retirement System members	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	02/11/09
SB 64	Authorizing allocated revenues to fund volunteer firemen pensions	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	02/11/09
SB 75	Establishing alcohol use by minors as juvenile delinquent offense	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 76	Prohibiting state funding of abortions	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/11/09
SB 77	Requiring insurers provide full autism spectrum disorder coverage	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	02/11/09
SB 78	Relating to special license plates	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	04/01/09
SB 118	Preserving criminal case biological evidence	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/11/09
SB 137	Regulating all-terrain vehicles' use	Pending	Senate TRN	Committee	02/11/09
SB 234	Exempting land-based aquaculture facilities from certain sludge management requirements	Pending	Senate Agriculture	Committee	02/12/09
SB 235	Preserving biological evidence secured in certain criminal cases	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/04/09
SB 241	Creating WV Public Campaign Financing Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/12/09
SB 242	Relating to DUI offenses	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	04/02/09
SB 253	Relating to certain sexual offenses by or against inmates	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/09/09
SB 259	Clarifying certain terminology within Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 311	Creating 2012 Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/27/09
SB 318	Expanding Division of Protective Services' law-enforcement authority over state property under certain circumstances	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 332	Eliminating severance and health care provider taxes on behavioral health providers	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/24/09
SB 333	Basing school nurse ratio on total net enrollment	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/07/09
SB 340	Granting juvenile probation officers certain arrest powers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/24/09
SB 341	Transferring juvenile justice database administration to Supreme Court	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 2, 2009)
SB 344	Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners sign readmission orders	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 346	Correcting code reference related to bear tagging	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 2, 2009)
SB 347	Correcting code reference related to extended supervision for certain sex offenders	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 369	Relating to probation officers' authority	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/25/09
SB 370	Relating to community corrections program fees	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2009)
SB 377	Requiring court-appointed attorneys disclose certain fees	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/25/09
SB 378	Relating to concealed handgun license reciprocity	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	04/01/09
SB 387	Relating to mental hygiene guardians and conservators	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/26/09
SB 389	Clarifying pharmacists and pharmacies as health care providers	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	02/26/09
SB 392	Registering protective orders with Supreme Court	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/26/09
SB 393	Authorizing Supreme Court administrator hire certain probation officers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/26/09
SB 395	Relating to child visitation	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/26/09
SB 400	Relating to driving with revoked or suspended license	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/27/09
SB 405	Relating to grandparents' visitation	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2009)
SB 407	Authorizing magistrate courts collect judgment abstract fee	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/02/09
SB 416	Increasing family court judges' salaries	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/02/09
SB 423	Relating to circuit clerks' service of protective orders	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/03/09
SB 432	Relating to certain law-enforcement officers' probationary period	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	03/03/09
SB 436	Updating terminology relating to surface mining reporting requirements	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 2, 2009)
SB 438	Relating to shared parenting	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/04/09
SB 439	Permitting State Police Superintendent consult with Insurance Commissioner	Pending		Concurrence	04/11/09
SB 440	Increasing county litter control officers' authority	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 442	Requiring State Auditor perform delinquent land sales paper processing responsibilities	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/03/09
SB 445	Removing conservation supervisors' election certification requirements	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 448	Creating special hunting and fishing license for severely disabled and terminally ill youth	Pending	Senate NRS	Committee	03/04/09
SB 449	Clarifying domestic relations definitions	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/04/09
SB 451	Relating to crime victims' compensation awards	Signed	Effective July 1, 2009
SB 457	Relating to DNA data collection	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/05/09
SB 460	Including telecommunications devices as jail contraband	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/05/09
SB 470	Regulating all-terrain vehicles on Hatfield-McCoy Trail	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 478	Creating Surface Owners Protection Act	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	03/05/09
SB 482	Prohibiting mining on cemetery land	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	03/05/09
SB 486	Relating to reinstating former police chiefs to previously held positions	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	03/06/09
SB 491	Requiring handrails in handicap restrooms	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	03/06/09
SB 497	Relating to WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/20/09
SB 501	Prohibiting animal gas chamber euthanasia	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (August 27, 2009)
SB 524	Raising certain law-enforcement agencies' new hire upper age restriction	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/10/09
SB 527	Relating to Ethics Commission's enforcement powers	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/10/09
SB 554	Requiring sex offender registry fee	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/31/09
SB 591	Electing magistrates by divisions	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/24/09
SB 592	Creating behavioral health service provider tax	Pending	House Finance	Committee	04/01/09
SB 593	Relating to minor driver's licensing requirements and penalties	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/16/09
SB 609	Relating to magistrate education and workload requirements	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/17/09
SB 613	Clarifying coalbed methane notice requirements	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2009)
SB 630	Creating felony offense of unlawful entry on public utility sites	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/18/09
SB 647	Authorizing Class IV cities' early voting by mail	Pending	House Political Subdivisions	Committee	03/24/09
SB 653	Relating to great-grandparents' visitation rights	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/20/09
SB 657	Clarifying terroristic threat as felony	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/20/09
SB 669	Extending Preventative Care Pilot Program	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 8, 2009)
SB 670	Relating to court-ordered payment of certain children's medical or socially necessary services	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 671	Relating to WV Guardianship and Conservatorship Act	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	04/01/09
SB 672	Creating Mental Health Stabilization Act of 2009	Vetoed	Vetoed
SB 692	Creating Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training administrative law judge office	Pending		1st Reading	04/01/09
SB 694	Creating intrastate mutual aid system	Signed	Effective from passage - (April 11, 2009)
SB 696	Providing tax credit for certain medical providers	Pending	Senate HHR	Committee	03/23/09
SB 701	Creating WV Religious Freedom Restoration Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 719	Allowing certain police officers keep weapon after retirement	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2009)
SB 722	Clarifying filing and review of accountings of incapacitated protected persons' conservators	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 725	Providing county commissions standard of review for probate matters	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 735	Providing for decedent's nonexoneration of certain secured debt	Pending	Senate BNK	Committee	03/23/09
SB 745	Establishing commercial feed distributor permit fee to fund spay/neuter program	Pending	Senate Agriculture	Committee	03/23/09
SB 748	Defining certain consumers sales and service tax-related terms	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/23/09
SB 749	Reviewing certain driver's license DUI revocation orders	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	04/01/09
SB 750	Relating to teacher certification and shortages	Pending	Senate EDU	Committee	03/23/09
SB 751	Creating Division of Motor Vehicles' administrative law judge office	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	03/23/09
SB 760	Authorizing Supreme Court to develop pilot pretrial release programs	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2009)
SB 764	Providing race election results certification procedure	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 768	Relating to prescription drug product liability claims	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	04/02/09
SB 769	Prohibiting possession, sale, importation or distribution of dissolvable tobacco products	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	04/02/09

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