HOUSE OF DELEGATES
BILLS INTRODUCED
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
2461.By Del. Fleischauer, Shook, Longstreth, Manchin, Burdiss, Browning, Caputo, Kessler,
Mahan, Hamilton and DeLong - Providing that all employees have the right to review and
copy the contents of their personnel files - To Political Subdivisions then Finance
2462.By Del. Poling, M. - Changing the paygrade of "sanitation plant operator" from "f" to "g"
(FN) - To Finance
2463.By Del. Anderson, Boggs and Ellem - Allowing parking fees to be charged for accessible
(handicapped) parking spaces under certain circumstances - To Roads and Transportation
then Judiciary
2464.By Del. White and Frederick - Economic Development Enterprise Zone Act of 2007 (FN)
- To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Finance
2465.By Del. Spencer and Eldridge - Creating a registry of persons convicted of operating a
clandestine drug laboratory (FN) - To Judiciary
2466.By Del. Spencer - Establishing the crime of trafficking of persons - To Judiciary
2467.By Del. Webster, Proudfoot, Stemple, Varner, Kominar, Amores, Staggers, Ellem and
Palumbo - Giving magistrates the authority to perform marriages - To Judiciary
2468.By Del. Fragale, Miley and Iaquinta - Prohibiting any person convicted of any felony from
voting in an election of state and local officials - To Judiciary
2469.By Del. Tansill and Palumbo - Increasing the criminal fines for conviction of the crime of
making a false bomb threat and providing that a minor accused of making a false bomb threat
shall be tried as an adult - To Judiciary
2470.By Del. White and Perry - Reducing from four years to one year the time that an action may
be brought for a violation of the Consumer Protection Act involving consumer credit sales
or consumer loans - To Judiciary
2471.By Del. Iaquinta, Caputo, Fragale and Evans - Creating a presumption of compensability for
cardiovascular injury or disease or pulmonary disease suffered by a professional firefighter
- To Judiciary then Finance
2472.By Del. Iaquinta, Caputo, Fragale and Evans - Relating to cardiovascular injury or disease
or pulmonary disease suffered by a firefighter - To Judiciary then Finance
2473.By Del. Ennis, Perry and Boggs - Creating an affirmative defense for certain civil and
criminal actions arising from the sale of certain alcoholic drinks and nonintoxicating beer by
licensed private clubs to persons under the age of twenty-one - To Judiciary
2474.By Del. Blair, Duke, Overington, Tabb and Doyle - Establishing a volunteer litter reporting
program - To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary
2475.By Del. Williams, Perry, Stemple and Argento - Reducing state income tax for state
correctional officer retirees (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2476.By Del. Ennis, Long and Tucker - Authorizing the commissioner of department of highways
to set certain speed limits - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary
2477.By Del. Kominar, Brown and Craig - Changing the definition of "substantial change in
circumstances" for the purposes of a modification of child support from a 15% change to
either a 15% or seventy-five dollar change, whichever is less - To Judiciary
2478.By Del. Kominar and Stalnaker - Requiring the PSC to promulgate rules which would
provide for the assessment of surcharges associated with uncollectible accounts - To
Judiciary
2479.By Del. Stalnaker and White - Making it a felony offense for stealing lottery tickets - To
Judiciary
2480.By Del. Williams, Eldridge, Paxton, Canterbury, Fragale and Lane - Requiring voter
approval prior to closure and consolidation of certain schools - To Education then Judiciary
2481.By Del. Williams, Boggs and Tabb - Allowing a registrant to transfer the registration of a
Class C vehicle to another Class C type vehicle titled in the name of the registrant (FN) - To
Roads and Transportation then Finance
2482.By Del. Boggs, Perdue, Ashley and Barker - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation
of an elderly person or incapacitated adult - To Judiciary
2483.By Del. DeLong, Mahan, Morgan, Azinger and Hamilton - Granting the public land
corporation the authority to condemn certain abandoned structures in the waters of the State
causing or contributing to flooding or erosion - To Judiciary
2484.By Del. DeLong, Mahan, Morgan, Azinger and Hamilton - Requiring manufactured housing,
fuel oil and propane tanks and other items to be properly secured when in flood plain - To Judiciary
2485.By Del. DeLong, Mahan, Morgan, Pino, Azinger and Hamilton - Relating to flood plain
management and flood debris generally - To Judiciary
2486.By Del. Kominar, Brown and Craig - Including education related child care expenses in the
child support calculation, and eliminating the 25% reduction to the child support adjustment
- To Judiciary
2487.By Del. Hatfield, Martin, Perdue, Marshall and Long - Ensuring Patient Safety Act - To
Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2488.By Del. Miley and Fragale - Providing felony penalties for certain persons convicted of
fleeing a law-enforcement officer - To Judiciary
2489.By Del. Caputo, Fragale and Longstreth - Allowing the State Superintendent of Schools to
designate certain geographical areas as a "School Choice Zone" - To Education then Finance
2490.By Del. Palumbo, Wells, Hatfield, Brown, Walters and Stemple - Permitting county sheriffs
who issue licenses to carry concealed weapons to deny such licenses to applicants who have
been convicted of a misdemeanor sexual offense - To Judiciary
2491.By Del. Caputo and Martin - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of
municipal fire departments - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary
2492.By Del. Frederick, Porter and Long - Defining "fill material" in the Water Pollution Control
Act - To Judiciary
2493.By Del. Hamilton, Sobonya, Ellem, Porter, Poling, M. and Stalnaker - Relating to motor
vehicle inspections and eliminating the headlight adjustment provisions of the inspection fee
- To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary
2494.By Del. Brown, Hrutkay and Doyle - Removing the confidentiality privilege in
communications to clergy when the communication involves sexual abuse of a minor child,
unless the communication was made as a recognized, privileged confession - To Judiciary
2495.By Del. Brown, Martin, Hrutkay and Doyle - Preventing the taking of either checks, similar
instruments or authorizations for electronic account debits in order to guarantee loans or cash
advances by payday lenders or others - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2496.By Del. Caputo, Talbott and Hatfield - Requiring contractors awarded state public works
construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works
construction project - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Government Organization
2497.By Del. Palumbo - Relating to the creation of the Judicial Compensation Commission - To
Judiciary
2498.By Del. Azinger and Craig - Enhancing the penalty for indecent exposure where the victim
is a child under the age of fourteen - To Judiciary
2499.By Del. Cann, Stalnaker, Perdue and Perry - Increasing the earned income exclusion from
ten thousand dollars to twenty-two thousand dollars (FN) - To Finance
2500.By Del. Marshall, Hatfield, Tucker, Miley, Poling, M. and Moore - Exempting from the sales
and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with
physical disabilities (FN) - To Roads and Transportation then Finance
2501.By Del. Marshall, Hatfield, Tucker, Fragale, Miley and Poling, M. - Enabling a consumer to
direct a consumer reporting agency to place a "security freeze" on his or her credit report -
To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary
2502.By Del. Marshall, Hrutkay, Hatfield, Long, Moore, Brown, Longstreth, Perry, Wells and
Spencer - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement
System; and providing a one-time supplement for annuitants and survivor beneficiaries after
being retired five consecutive years (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2503.By Del. Boggs, Stemple and Tansill - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue
an identification card to West Virginia residents who already possess a valid driver's license
- To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary
2504.By Del. Boggs and Williams - Relating to salvage certificates for certain wrecked vehicles
(FN) - To Roads and Transportation then Finance
2505.By Del. White and Kominar - Relating to the sale of home and automobile membership plans
by consumer lenders - To Judiciary
2506.By Del. Brown and Caputo - Relating to medically ineffective cardiopulmonary resuscitation
for terminally ill patients - To Judiciary
2507.By Del. DeLong and Perdue - Creating a registry containing names of employees from any
agency under the authority of the department of health and human resources who have
committed acts of abuse, neglect or misappropriation of property - To Government
Organization then Judiciary
2508.By Del. Swartzmiller and Mahan - Requiring that a letter of explanation from the Department of Health and Human Resources be provided to parents whose children are contacted at
school for purposes of investigating reports of abuse or neglect - To Government
Organization then Judiciary
2509.By Del. Schoen and Caputo - Relating to the definition of gross income for purposes of
determining child support - To Judiciary
2510.By Del. Webster, Spencer, Palumbo, Hatfield and Brown - Establishing in the state treasury
a targeted minority economic development fund to address economic issues of minorities and
minority communities - To Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business
then Finance
2511.By Del. Iaquinta, Argento, Barker, Fragale and Azinger - Providing a mechanism whereby
unused, unexpired nonnarcotic drugs previously owned by a deceased nursing home patient
or resident may be donated to free health care clinics in the state (FN) - To Health and
Human Resources then Finance
2512.By Del. Palumbo, Mahan, Brown, Carmichael, Frederick, Ellem and Doyle - Making the
offense of failure to wear safety belts a primary offense - To Roads and Transportation then
Judiciary
2513.By Del. DeLong, Martin, Hrutkay and Paxton - Relating to 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
2514.By Del. Ennis, Stemple and Varner - Waiving the requirement that a training course in
handling and firing handguns must be completed prior to the issuance of a concealed
weapons permit for veterans who served during a period of armed conflict - To Judiciary
2515.By Del. DeLong, Walters, Hatfield and Caputo - Creating an insurance advocacy unit in the
office of the Attorney General (FN) - To Banking and Insurance then Finance
2516.By Del. Moore, Kominar, Perry, Barker, Carmichael and Ashley - Providing that the Division
of Banking shall use the same time period for examination of state-chartered banks as the
time periods used by the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System - To Banking and Insurance
then Finance
2517.By Del. Moore, Kominar, Perry, Barker, Carmichael and Ashley - Providing that the Board
of Banking and Financial Institutions have the authority to approve acquisitions of
out-of-state banks by WV state banks - To Banking and Insurance then Finance
2518.By Del. Moore, Kominar, Perry, Barker, Carmichael and Ashley - Providing per diem payment to members of the Board of Banking and Financial Institutions in an amount equal
to the amount paid to members of the Legislature for interim duties (FN) - To Government
Organization then Finance
2519.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) and Del. Armstead [By Request of the Executive] -
Relating to legislative appropriation of tobacco settlement funds - To Finance
2520.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) and Del. Armstead [By Request of the Executive] -
Increasing the rate of hotel occupancy tax (FN) - To Government Organization then Finance
2521.By Del. Spencer, Craig, Stemple, Browning, Stephens, Duke and Canterbury - Requiring
employers to provide information for contributions to the Teachers Retirement System (FN)
- To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2522.By Del. Spencer, Stemple, Duke, Canterbury, Browning, Craig and Stephens - Authorizing
the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board to offer tax-free distributions from
governmental retirement plans to pay premiums for health and long-term care insurance for
public safety officers - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2523.By Del. Spencer, Duke, Canterbury, Browning, Craig, Stephens and Stemple - Relating to
when the Consolidated Public Retirement Board shall pay annuities (FN) - To Pensions and
Retirement then Finance
2524.By Del. Spencer, Stemple, Duke, Canterbury, Browning and Stephens - Removing the
requirement that a no longer disabled employee must return to his or her former job (FN) -
To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
2525.By Del. Swartzmiller, Beach, Hrutkay, Klempa, Pethtel, Ennis, Iaquinta, Hutchins, Perry,
Shook and DeLong - Extending the termination of the West Virginia statewide addressing
and mapping board - To Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security then Government
Organization