HOUSE OF DELEGATES
BILLS INTRODUCED
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
2371.By Del. Perdue, Amores and Anderson - Authorizing collaborative pharmacy practice
agreements between pharmacists and physicians and specify requirements for the agreements
- To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2372.By Del. Long, Frederick, Susman and Leach - Exempting sales of drugs to licensed
physicians which are to be consumed in the performance of a professional service from the
consumers sales and service tax (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2373.By Del. Caputo and R. Thompson - Increasing the multiplier for a retirement annuity in the
public employees retirement system - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2374.By Del. Hrutkay, Butcher, Iaquinta and Wakim - Providing service credits for service in the
West Virginia national guard and reserve for public employees retirement system and civil
service examinations - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2375.By Del. Paxton, Perry and Hamilton - Providing a salary supplement for providers of
medicaid eligible services in the public schools - To Health and Human Resources then
Finance
2376.By Del. Hatfield, Perdue, Webster, Brown and R. Thompson - Creating the genetic
information privacy act - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2377.By Del. R. Thompson and Hrutkay - Permitting the consumer advocate to act as the manager
of consumer activities in the insurance commission - To Banking and Insurance then
Government Organization
2378.By Del. Ellem, Boggs, Overington and Pino - Requiring medical facilities that provide
abortions to warn women seeking an abortion of their increased risk of breast cancer - To
Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2379.By Del. Perry and Pino - Requiring property owners to keep property adjacent to
intersections clear of obstacles for line of sight of operators of motor vehicles - To Roads and
Transportation then Judiciary
2380.By Del. Leach, Michael, Perdue and Susman - Providing for a program intended to divert
low-income residents from early institutionalization in nursing homes by providing personal
home care in their communities (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2381.By Del. Amores, Webster, Palumbo and Kominar - Authorizing patients or residents of
certain health care facilities or homes to designate nonrelatives to receive the same visitation
privileges as immediate family members - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2382.By Del. Howard, Sobonya and Sumner - Providing the option for teachers who withdrew
from the state teachers retirement system in favor of the defined contribution retirement
system the option to return to the state teachers retirement system - To Pensions and
Retirement then Finance
2383.By Del. Walters - Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn
child - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2384.By Del. Stalnaker and Ennis - Including education service personnel eligibility for the five
hundred dollar early retirement notification bonus (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then
Judiciary
2385.By Del. Webster, Palumbo and Hatfield - Adding the laser speed gun as a device for
measuring speeds - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary
2386.By Del. Hatfield, Martin and Caputo - Requiring nursing homes to publicly post staffing
information and granting rights to family councils - To Health and Human Resources then
Government Organization
2387.By Del. Leach and Amores - Requiring a vision test for renewal of a driver's license - To
Roads and Transportation then Judiciary
2388.By Del. R. Thompson, Staton, Hrutkay, Caputo and Perdue - Making the office of consumer
advocacy independent of the insurance commissioner - To Banking and Insurance then
Government Organization
2389.By Del. Border, Long, Perdue, Leach and Hatfield - Including persons diagnosed with
disability of a major body system with an accompanying degree of severity for the purpose
of determining eligibility to obtain a Class Q special resident hunting permit for disabled
persons - To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance
2390.By Del. R. Thompson and Perdue - Removing language which might reduce a public
employee's disability benefits upon reaching age 65 - To Pensions and Retirement then
Finance
2391.By Del. Perry, Crosier, Pino and Beach - Increasing retirement pensions for police and
firefighters (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2392.By Del. Border and Perdue - Requiring health benefit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information cards or technology - To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2393.By Del. Hatfield, Doyle and Amores - Creating an emergency contraception education
program within the department of health and human resources - To Health and Human
Resources then Judiciary
2394.By Del. R. M. Thompson, Perry and Frich - Providing for provisional licenses, requiring
disclosure of fees prior to closing in a mortgage loan, and changing the mortgage order
appeal and hearing schedule to make them consistent with the banking code - To Banking
and Insurance then Judiciary
2395.By Del. Beach and Stemple - Prohibiting discrimination by a county school superintendent
or school board member in the appointment, job placement or advancement of any applicant
- To Education then Judiciary
2396.By Del. Williams, Stephens and Paxton - Increasing the salary increments paid to principals
and assistant principals - To Education then Finance
2397.By Del. Barker, Hunt, Long, Marshall, Spencer, Talbott and Overington - Establishing an
integrated system of care under the Governor's Cabinet on Children and Families for children
and families with, or at risk of social, emotional and behavioral health needs - To
Government Organization then Finance
2398.By Del. Leach, Michael, Perdue and Susman - Providing for a standard form informational
list of universal accessibility features to be provided to a future buyer of any proposed
residential housing in the state - To Government Organization
2399.By Del. Amores, Mahan and Spencer - Requiring the governor's cabinet on children and
families to create a plan to encourage the establishment of family resource centers - To
Government Organization then Finance
2400.By Del. R. Thompson, Swartzmiller, Ennis and Caputo - Creating the "Job Preservation Act
of 2004" - To Government Organization
2401.By Del. Caputo and Martin - Increasing the opportunity for a more equitable body for the
hearing of grievances made by state and education employees - To Government Organization
then Finance
2402.By Del. Susman, Leach and Boggs - Providing for the appointment of a blind person as an
ad hoc nonvoting member of the state library commission to serve as an advisor - To
Government Organization
2403.By Del. Amores and Spencer - Establishment of family resource centers in needy counties - To Government Organization then Finance
2404.By Del. Leach, Michael, Varner, Anderson and Browning - Relating to the use of federal
funds for youth in the custody of the division of juvenile services - To Government
Organization then Finance
2405.By Del. Butcher and Caputo - State personal income tax exemption for certain members of
volunteer fire departments (FN) - To Finance
2406.By Del. Leach, Michael, Perdue and Susman - Limiting financial assistance from the housing
development fund to nonresidential projects - To Finance
2407.By Del. Cann and Kominar - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators
for the use of West Virginia coal (FN) - To Finance
2408.By Del. Webster, Spencer, Palumbo, Hatfield, Amores and Brown - Establishing in the state
treasury a targeted minority economic development fund to address economic issues of
minorities and minority communities - To Finance
2409.By Del. Amores, Cann, R. M. Thompson and Kominar - Providing tax relief for homeowners
and renters under the age of sixty-five (FN) - To Finance
2410.By Del. Pino, Cann and Brown - Exempting certain start-up businesses from various state,
county and municipal taxes (FN) - To Finance
2411.By Del. Michael, Campbell, Cann and Doyle - Increasing general revenues of the state by
authorizing new fees and increasing existing fees to be charged by the state police - To
Finance
2412.By Del. Perdue, Mahan and Boggs - Exempting from personal property taxation, the
equipment, inventory and raw materials of crafts people who have had their work evaluated
and accepted or juried and accepted by the West Virginia arts and crafts guild (FN) - To
Finance
2413.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss) - Administration of tax credits available under the West Virginia
Capital Company Act (FN) - To Finance
2414.By Del. Susman - Requiring the department of health and human resources to review the pay
equity adjustment it made in 1999 - To Finance
2415.By Del. Tabb, Beach, Crosier, Michael and Armstead - Creating a voluntary checkoff on
state income tax returns to donate refunds to family literacy program (FN) - To Finance
2416.By Del. Howard, Craig, Morgan, Sobonya and Leach - Increasing the penalty for driving
under the influence causing death - To Judiciary
2417.By Del. Amores and Kominar - Relating to compressed gas container safe transport - To
Judiciary
2418.By Del. Hamilton, Sobonya, Sumner, Duke, Howard, Wakim and Tansill - Requiring persons
appointed to any state board or commission or employed in state government to disclose
political contributions for a seven-year period prior to the appointment or employment - To
Judiciary
2419.By Del. Hamilton, Hrutkay, Talbott, Romine and Sobonya - Restricting public access to
concealed weapons permit records - To Judiciary
2420.By Del. Staton and Mahan - Retitling the "Clerk of the Circuit Court" as the "Clerk of the
Courts" - To Judiciary
2421.By Del. Howard and Hamilton - Regulating sexually oriented businesses to promote the
morals and general welfare of the citizens of the state - To Judiciary
2422.By Del. Sumner, Frich, Howard and Sobonya - Providing a separate offense when a person
causes death or serious bodily injury to an unborn child while attempting to cause death or
serious bodily injury to the mother - To Judiciary
2423.By Del. Amores and Brown - Increasing the compensation of family court judges (FN) - To
Judiciary then Finance
2424.By Del. Webster, Mahan, Kominar, Stemple and Michael - Prohibiting persons from
impersonating a public official by copying or imitating the markings of a public agency or
official on a motor vehicle - To Judiciary
2425.By Del. Perry, Stemple, Crosier and Beach - Providing a statutory good faith exception to
the exclusionary rule when evidence has been obtained during an execution of a search
warrant, arrest warrant or capias - To Judiciary
2426.By Del. Williams, Stemple, Cann and Varner - Notifying persons from out of state who issue
worthless checks that a notice of their failure to pay the fine will be sent to the division of
motor vehicles - To Judiciary
2427.By Del. Louisos and Sumner - Providing for the election of public service commissioners -
To Judiciary
2428.By Del. Spencer, Amores, Beane and Perdue - Providing that magistrate court may be temporarily held in various locations throughout the county - To Judiciary
2429.By Del. Spencer, Palumbo, Webster and Amores - Providing relief from property taxes for
property damaged or destroyed in a disaster (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
2430.By Del. Mahan - Removing the provision of the code that prohibits primary enforcement by
police action of the legal requirement to wear a seatbelt - To Judiciary
2431.By Del. Marshall, Houston and Beach - Establishing the offense of setting fires in a public
right of way as arson in the fifth degree - To Judiciary
2432.By Del. Walters and Wakim - Relating to the misrepresentation of age and use of false
identification to purchase alcoholic liquor, beer or tobacco products - To Judiciary
2433.By Del. Spencer and Amores - Allowing candidates for countywide office the option of filing
with the county clerk or the secretary of state - To Judiciary
2434.By Del. Frederick, H. White, R. M. Thompson and Stalnaker - Requiring the secretary of the
department of environmental protection to adopt the federal regulations governing surface
coal mining activities - To Judiciary
2435.By Del. Frederick, Long and Kominar - Creating the "West Virginia Joint Coal Owners Trust
and Conservation Act" - To Judiciary
2436.By Del. Fragale and Iaquinta - Defining "felony offense" to include a plea of guilty to a
misdemeanor as the result of bargaining down from a felony charge - To Judiciary
2437.By Del. Hrutkay, Martin and H. White - Prohibiting the reclassification of Class II real
property for a period of two years if the estate has not been settled - To Judiciary then
Finance
2438.By Del. Tabb, Doyle and Stemple - Requiring preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of
determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver - To Judiciary
2439.By Del. Staton and Amores - Clarifying that the public service commission may permit rates
to become effective prior to the end of a suspension period - To Judiciary
2440.By Del. Howard, Hamilton, Crosier and Craig - Authorizing home incarceration supervisors
to arrest persons who obstruct them in the performance of their duties - To Judiciary
2441.By Del. Beach, Perry and Stemple - Increasing the fines for trespass to structures,
conveyances and all other tangible properties - To Judiciary
2442.By Del. Amores, Doyle and Brown - Including sexual orientation and disability as a
bias-based crime civil rights violation for purposes of criminal responsibility - To Judiciary
2443.By Del. Staton, Amores, Campbell, Mahan and G. White - Relating to the request for an
applicant's e-mail address on application for voter registration - To Judiciary
2444.By Del. Palumbo, Pethtel, Stemple, Craig and Amores - Mandatory participation in the motor
vehicle alcohol test and lock program for repeat offenders - To Judiciary
2445.By Del. Sumner, Sobonya, Wakim, Frich, Schoen and Ellem - Relating generally to the
comprehensive reform of the state's tax laws (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
2446.By Del. Staton, Amores, Campbell, Mahan and G. White - Relating to checks on consumer
deposit accounts show date account was opened - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2447.By Del. Staton, Amores, Campbell, Mahan and G. White - Providing additional tests for
newborn children - To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2448.By Del. Staton, Amores, Campbell, Mahan and G. White - Relating to criminal offenses
involving the theft of mail matter - To Judiciary