Search Bills by: | Bill Quick Search: | Bill Tracking: |
All Bills (House | Senate) All Resolutions Subject Short Title Sponsor Date Introduced Code Affected All Same As Pending In Committee Reported From Committee Passed One Chamber Fiscal Notes Completed Legislation Actions by Governor |
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 Banking and Insurance | 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 Banking and Insurance | 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 Transportation and Infrastructure | 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 Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/26/09 |
SB 389 | Clarifying pharmacists and pharmacies as health care providers | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | 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 Natural Resources | 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 Health and Human Resources | 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 Health and Human Resources | 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 Banking and Insurance | 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 Education | 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 |