HOUSE OF DELEGATES
BILLS INTRODUCED
Friday, January 19, 2007
2316.By Del. Carmichael, Walters and Armstead - Changing the PROMISE Scholarship Program
to the PROMISE Forgivable Student Loan Program and establishing deferment and
forgiveness conditions - To Education then Finance
2317.By Del. Barker, Hrutkay and Eldridge - Providing that utility trailer registration plates are
midsized relative to automobile registration plates and motorcycle plates - To Roads and
Transportation then Judiciary
2318.By Del. Marshall, Eldridge, Miley, Caputo, Brown and Walters - Relating to consumer
protection generally - To Judiciary
2319.By Del. Barker and Eldridge - Lying to a deputy sheriff or municipal police officer who is
conducting an investigation of a felony, is a misdemeanor - To Judiciary
2320.By Del. Pino - Clarifying that the sheriff is the appointing officer with respect to deputy
sheriffs who have resigned and thereafter seek appointment by reinstatement - To Political
Subdivisions then Judiciary
2321.By Del. Talbott - Increasing the penalties for discarding trash on land and in streams - To
Judiciary
2322.By Del. Iaquinta - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders - To Judiciary
2323.By Del. Swartzmiller - Effecting technical corrections to the deputy sheriff retirement system
(FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2324.By Del. Ennis - Allowing spouses who are employed by the same county board of education
to transfer unlimited accumulated sick leave to each other - To Education then Finance
2325.By Del. Lane - Prohibiting municipalities from imposing user fees on persons who reside
outside the municipality (FN) - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary
2326.By Del. Schadler - Authorizing medication administration by unlicensed personnel of nursing
homes - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2327.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 Education then Government Organization
2328.By Del. Perdue, Walters, Eldridge, Hatfield, Wysong and Stalnaker - Requiring licensure of
pharmacy benefit managers - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2329.By Del. Cann - Providing additional state minimum salary for certain teachers - To Education
then Finance
2330.By Del. Caputo - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players in interscholastic
athletic football events - To Education then Judiciary
2331.By Del. Ellem, Proudfoot and Hamilton - Authorizing law-enforcement officials to deputize
law-enforcement personnel employed by out-of-state jurisdictions (FN) - To Judiciary then
Finance
2332.By Del. Perry, Amores, Craig, Perdue, Campbell, Anderson, Cann and Long - Clarifying that
magistrate courts have concurrent jurisdiction with circuit courts with laws prohibiting the
use of tobacco by minors - To Judiciary
2333.By Del. Stalnaker - Making elder-care and in-home health care available to all seniors aged
sixty-five or older, on a sliding fee scale (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then
Finance
2334.By Del. Stalnaker - Preventing political subdivisions of the state from selling goods in
competition with private businesses - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary
2335.By Del. Swartzmiller and Stemple - Relating to prohibiting deputy sheriffs from engaging
in political activities - To Judiciary
2336.By Del. Marshall, Spencer, Wells, Longstreth, Sumner and Fragale - Allowing school service
personnel the opportunity to vote on giving transfer preference to employees from a merged
school - To Education then Finance
2337.By Del. Brown and Perdue - Providing requirements for the tethering of a dog - To
Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary
2338.By Del. Perry, Hartman, Crosier, Stemple, Canterbury, Campbell, Kominar, Browning and
Frederick - Requiring the State Board of Education to create a school drug safety program
(FN) - To Education then Finance
2339.By Del. Argento, Barker and Eldridge - Abolishing the requirement that a county's governing
body adopt a comprehensive plan before enacting a subdivision and land development
ordinance - To Political Subdivisions then Government Organization
2340.By Del. Argento, Eldridge, Shaver, Wysong, Swartzmiller, Wells and Stemple - Allowing
the Superintendent of the State Police to charge a one hundred dollar motor vehicle
inspection facility application fee (FN) - To Roads and Transportation then Finance
2341.By Del. Michael - Defining the term farm woodland and providing that selective commercial
harvesting of mature timber is permitted under the "Farmland Preservation Act" - To
Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance
2342.By Del. DeLong, Iaquinta, Stemple, Fragale, Doyle and Martin - Creating the West Virginia
Military Family Relief Fund (FN) - To Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security then
Finance
2343.By Del. Hamilton, Iaquinta, Azinger and Browning - Exempting one motor vehicle owned
by a resident of this state on active duty in the United States military from ad valorem taxes
for any taxable year the person is in the military (FN) - To Veterans Affairs and Homeland
Security then Finance
2344.By Del. Stalnaker and White - Relating to equally compensating all state magistrates (FN)
- To Judiciary then Finance
2345.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) and Del. Armstead [By Request of the Executive] -
Exempting one motor vehicle owned by a state resident on active duty from ad valorem taxes
(FN) - To Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security then Finance
2346.By Del. Marshall, Hatfield, Caputo, Paxton, Shook, Martin, Tucker and Perdue - Prohibiting
certain employers from meeting and communicating with employees regarding the
employer's political, religious, or labor organizing activities - To Industry and Labor,
Economic Development and Small Business then Judiciary
2347.By Del. Doyle - Prohibiting sale at full retail price of any damaged container or canned goods
- To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary
2348.By Del. Stemple, Webster, Mahan, Varner, Cann, Pethtel, Shaver, Kominar, Argento, Beach
and Crosier - Prohibiting the seizure of lawfully carried firearms during a proclaimed state
of emergency - To Judiciary
2349.By Del. Ennis, Talbott and Blair - Continuing the Board of Registration for Sanitarians - To
Government Organization
2350.By Del. Overington, Lane, Duke, Miller, J., Andes, Sumner, Carmichael, Blair, Armstead,
Rowan and Cowles - Eliminating the sales tax on food (FN) - To Finance
2351.By Del. Stalnaker, White and Campbell - Redirecting fines for cemetery vandalism back to cemeteries to be used for damage repair - To Judiciary
2352.By Del. Doyle - Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining
and manufacturing activities and uses (FN) - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary
2353.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) and Del. Armstead [By Request of the Executive] -
Authorizing the transfer of a portion of the reserve of the Public Employees Insurance
Agency to the West Virginia Retiree Health Benefit Trust Fund - To Government
Organization then Finance
2354.By Del. Stalnaker and Campbell - Capping premium increases for Public Employees
Insurance Agency retirees at five percent (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2355.By Del. Doyle - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county
which is affected or related to the controversy - To Judiciary
2356.By Del. Doyle - Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders (FN)
- To Education then Finance
2357.By Del. Marshall, Caputo, Beach and Hatfield - Limiting the exemption given to buildings
used wholly as dwelling houses for no more than two families to those buildings only when
owner-occupied - To Government Organization then Judiciary
2358.By Del. Miley - Increasing the minimum required insurance on certain for-hire vehicles - To
Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2359.By Del. Hatfield and Mahan - Prohibiting certain nursing homes from using state funds for
activities unrelated to the provision of health care services - To Health and Human Resources
then Judiciary
2360.By Del. Miley - Increasing certain penalties for persons convicted of domestic battery and
domestic assault - To Judiciary
2361.By Del. Miley - Relating to the manufacture, sale, possession, distribution, furnishing or
giving away of nonintoxicating beer contrary to law in unlicensed establishments - To
Judiciary
2362.By Del. Michael - Repealing the Downtown Redevelopment District Act - To Judiciary
2363.By Del. Michael - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons - To
Judiciary
2364.By Del. Doyle - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act - To Judiciary
2365.By Del. Stalnaker - Allowing teachers who transfer out-of-state service credit to apply up to
seven years towards eligibility for retirement (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then
Finance
2366.By Del. Ellem and Azinger - Exempting one motor vehicle owned by a volunteer fireman
from personal property taxation (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
2367.By Del. Iaquinta, Talbott, Martin, Fragale, Barker and Miley - Requiring the Division of
Highways to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five
tires (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance
2368.By Del. Romine and Schoen - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman
seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus - To Health and Human
Resources then Judiciary
2369.By Del. Rowan and Porter - Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed
to save the life of any aborted live fetus - To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2370.By Del. Stalnaker - Requiring that a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial in misdemeanor
cases is forever waived unless requested within twenty days of initial appearance - To
Judiciary
2371.By Del. Amores, Doyle, Caputo, Brown, Lane, Ellem, Perdue, Browning, Moore, DeLong
and Fleischauer - Providing an alternative public funding option of election campaigns for
candidates for the state Senate and House of Delegates (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance