HOUSE ABSTRACT
2009 REGULAR SESSION
CONTAINING
Active House Bills as of February 23, 2009
AND
BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED
*Denotes Committee Substitutes
ACTIVE HOUSE BILLS
2069.By Del. Iaquinta, Anderson, Poling, M., Crosier, Fragale, Miley and Duke - Increasing
the faculty senate allotment for classroom teachers and librarians - Introduced
02/11/09 - To Education then Finance - 2nd reference dispensed - On 2nd reading,
House Calendar 02/24/09
2221.By Del. Brown, Poling, D., Talbott, Miley, Overington and Sobonya - Physical
Therapy, General Provisions - Introduced 02/12/09 - To Government Organization
then Judiciary - To House Judiciary 02/23/09
2223.By Del. Brown, Poling, D., Talbott, Miley, Overington and Sobonya - Registered
Professional Nurses, Policies Standards and Criteria for the Evaluation and
Accreditation of Colleges or Schools of Nursing - Introduced 02/12/09 - To
Government Organization then Judiciary - To House Judiciary 02/23/09
2224.By Del. Brown, Poling, D., Talbott, Miley, Overington and Sobonya - Registered
Professional Nurses, Limited Prescriptive Authority - Introduced 02/12/09 - To
Government Organization then Judiciary - To House Judiciary 02/23/09
*2309.By Del. Morgan, Martin, Argento, Beach, Eldridge, Andes and Miller, C. - Updating
the law governing the practice of occupational therapy - Introduced 02/12/09 - To
Government Organization then Judiciary - 2nd reference dispensed - Passed House
02/23/09
*2360.By Del. Schoen and Perdue - Insuring that tobacco products are not sold in any
packaging other than the original - Introduced 02/13/09 - To Judiciary - (Original
similar to SB 290) - On 1st reading, House Calendar 02/24/09
2403.By Del. Morgan, Martin, Argento, Beach, Caputo, Eldridge and Miller, C. - Updating
the law governing professional licensing boards in general - Introduced 02/13/09 -
To Government Organization - On 1st reading, House Calendar 02/24/09
*2419.By Del. Perry, Boggs, Morgan, Ellem and Webster - Providing inmates a reduction
in sentence for completion of education and rehabilitation programs - Introduced
02/16/09 - To Judiciary - (Original same as SB 254) - Passed House 02/23/09
2499.By Del. Iaquinta, Talbott, Martin, Fragale, Barker and Miley - Requiring the
Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the
state consisting of more than twenty-five tires - Introduced 02/17/09 - To Judiciary
then Finance - To House Finance 02/23/09
*2504.By Del. Williams, Boggs, Argento, Poling, D., Pethtel, Marshall, Butcher, Ennis,
Rowan and Manypenny - Establishing the Silver Alert Plan, an alert system for
missing cognitively impaired persons - Introduced 02/17/09 - To Senior Citizen Issues
then Judiciary - To House Judiciary 02/19/09 - On 2nd reading, House Calendar
02/24/09
*2528.By Del. Morgan, Martin, Argento, Beach, Caputo, Cann, Eldridge and Andes -
Updating the regulation of the practice of forestry - Introduced 02/17/09 - To
Government Organization then Judiciary - 2nd reference dispensed - On 1st reading,
House Calendar 02/24/09
*2529.By Del. Morgan, Martin, Argento, Beach, Caputo, Cann, Eldridge and Andes - Relating
to the practice of environmental health science and public health sanitation -
Introduced 02/17/09 - To Government Organization then Judiciary - 2nd reference
dispensed - On 1st reading, House Calendar 02/24/09
*2531.By Del. Morgan, Stephens and Argento - Updating the regulation of the practice of
barbers and cosmetologists - Introduced 02/17/09 - To Government Organization then
Judiciary - 2nd reference dispensed - On 1st reading, House Calendar 02/24/09
*2532.By Del. Morgan, Stephens, Martin and Swartzmiller - Creating licensure for Marriage
and Family Therapists - Introduced 02/17/09 - To Government Organization then
Judiciary - 2nd reference dispensed - On 1st reading, House Calendar 02/24/09
*2533.By Del. Morgan, Martin, Argento, Beach, Caputo, Eldridge, Andes and Miller, C. -
Updating the law governing the practice of veterinary medicine - Introduced
02/17/09 - To Government Organization then Judiciary - 2nd reference dispensed - On
1st reading, House Calendar 02/24/09
BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED
February 23, 2009
2731.By Del. Wooton, Frazier, Fleischauer, Miley, Webster, Kominar and Varner -
Increasing the salary of family court judges - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Judiciary then
Finance
2732.By Del. Caputo, Fragale, Manchin, Longstreth, Beach, Klempa and Paxton - Requiring
county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each
county school - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Education then Finance
2733.By Del. Reynolds, Eldridge, Rodighiero, Craig, Campbell, Stephens, Stowers and
Louisos - Creating an annual sales tax holiday for purchases of guns and
ammunition - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Finance
2734.By Del. Spencer - Relating to minimum guarantees provided to members who
elected to transfer from the Teachers' Defined Contribution System to the
Teachers' Retirement System - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Pensions and Retirement
then Finance
2735.By Del. Martin, Argento, Eldridge and Shaver - Changing the membership of the
State Conservation Committee - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Agriculture then
Government Organization
2736.By Del. Rodighiero, Butcher, Eldridge, Stowers, Shaver, Crosier, Tabb, Talbott,
Louisos, Reynolds and Shook - Relating to rules governing the operation of motor
boats on lakes - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Natural Resources then Judiciary
2737.By Del. Webster, Frazier, Longstreth and Sobonya - Authorizing the Administrative
Director of the Supreme Court of Appeals to hire regional or specialized probation
officers - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Judiciary then Finance
2738.By Del. Webster, Miley, Fleischauer and Longstreth - Registering protective orders
with the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals - Introduced 02/23/09 - To
Judiciary
2739.By Del. Webster, Frazier, Fleischauer, Miley and Longstreth - Enhancing the service
and enforcement of domestic violence protective orders issued by state courts -
Introduced 02/23/09 - To Judiciary
2740.By Del. Longstreth, Kominar, Ferro, Perry, Varner and Argento - Eliminating the
authority to appoint coguardians and coconservators for mental hygiene
proceedings - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Judiciary
2741.By Del. Miley, Schoen, Kominar, Perry, Varner, Martin, Argento, Ferro and Wooton -
Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners to sign readmission orders - Introduced
02/23/09 - To Judiciary
2742.By Del. Talbott, Argento, Pethtel, Swartzmiller, Tabb, Beach, Williams, Anderson,
Evans, Schoen and Miller, C. - Repealing outdated provisions from the WV Code
relating to vinegars - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Agriculture then Judiciary
2743.By Del. Perdue, Hatfield, Marshall, Michael, Moore, Rodighiero and Border -
Establishing pilot projects for patient centered medical homes - Introduced 02/23/09
- To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2744.By Del. Perdue, Hatfield, Marshall, Michael, Moore, Rodighiero and Border -
Providing a small business tax credit - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Energy, Industry and
Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Finance
2745.By Del. Perdue, Hatfield, Marshall, Michael, Moore and Rodighiero - Relating to the
Healthy West Virginia Program - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Health and Human
Resources then Government Organization
2746.By Del. Perdue, Hatfield, Marshall, Michael, Moore and Rodighiero - Raising the
excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products - Introduced 02/23/09 - To
Health and Human Resources then Finance
2747.By Del. Perdue, Hatfield, Marshall, Michael, Moore, Rodighiero and Border - Creating
a temporary reinvestment fee for health insurers, third party administrators and
others - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Health and Human Resources then Government
Organization
2748.By Del. Perdue, Hatfield, Marshall, Michael, Moore, Rodighiero and Border - Relating
to the certificate of need process - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Health and Human
Resources then Government Organization
2749.By Del. Staggers - Permitting home school children to participate in athletic and
other extracurricular activities of secondary schools - Introduced 02/23/09 - To
Education then Finance
2750.By Del. Stephens, Klempa, Poling, D., Swartzmiller and Perry - Establishing an
Innovative Highway Projects Pilot Program - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Roads and
Transportation then Government Organization
2751.By Del. Schadler, Rowan, Evans, Azinger and Overington - Exempting nonprofit corporations from paying prevailing wages in certain circumstances - Introduced
02/23/09 - To Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business
then Judiciary
2752.By Del. Varner, Ennis, Cann, Beach, Kominar, Miley, Perdue, Ferro, Boggs, Caputo and
White - Eliminating the requirement of an applicant for a license to carry deadly
weapons to provide his or her social security number - Introduced 02/23/09 - To
Judiciary
2753.By Del. Stephens, Klempa, Poling, D., Swartzmiller and Perry - Relating to the
continuation of the Design-Build Program - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Government
Organization then Finance
2754.By Del. Swartzmiller, Manypenny, Ennis and Shaver - Requiring witnesses of violent
acts or emergency situations to report the incident to law-enforcement - Introduced
02/23/09 - To Judiciary
2755.By Del. Klempa, Poling, D. and Swartzmiller - Authorizing the Department of
Transportation to take control of an emergency scene on a highway - Introduced
02/23/09 - To Roads and Transportation then Government Organization
2756.By Del. Longstreth and Barker - Clarifying that probation officers have the authority
to arrest both probationers and persons on supervised release - Introduced 02/23/09
- To Judiciary
2757.By Del. Perry, Shook, Ashley, Schoen, Moore, Manchin, Miley, Skaff, Reynolds and
Frazier - Relating to financial audits of insurers - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Banking
and Insurance then Finance
2758.By Del. Webster, Miley, Longstreth and Fleischauer - Requiring court appointed
attorneys to disclose fees in cases where a guardian is appointed for a nonindigent
protected person - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Judiciary
2759.By Del. Wooton, Frazier, Webster, Perry, Kominar and Varner - Authorizing
magistrate court clerks to collect a fee for preparing an abstract of judgement in
civil matters - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Judiciary then Finance
2760.By Del. Wooton, Tabb, Barker, Miley and Hamilton - Granting juvenile probation
officers the power to arrest juveniles under his or her discretion - Introduced
02/23/09 - To Judiciary
2761.By Del. Miley, Wooton, Webster, Tabb, Fleischauer, Longstreth and Schoen -
Transferring the authority to administer the juvenile justice database - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Judiciary
2762.By Del. Frazier, Tabb, Fleischauer, Barker, Miley, Longstreth, Sobonya, Hamilton and
Schoen - Relating to jurisdiction for petitions by grandparents for visitation of
grandchild - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Judiciary
2763.By Del. Ashley, Boggs, Anderson and Border - Allowing for expanded employment
of certain retired state employees - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Finance
2764.By Del. Doyle, Brown, Hatfield, Marshall, Ellem, Lane, Moore, Fleischauer, Perdue,
Klempa and Poling, D. - West Virginia Public Campaign Financing Act - Introduced
02/23/09 - To Judiciary then Finance
2765.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) and Del. Armstead [By Request of the Executive] -
Updating the meaning of "federal adjusted gross income" and certain other terms
in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Finance
ALL HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS OFFERED
1.By Del. Ennis, Hamilton, Romine, Azinger and White - Increase of Terms of
Members of the Legislature Amendment - Introduced 02/11/09 - To Constitutional
Revision then Judiciary
2.By Del. Doyle - Veto Session Amendment - Introduced 02/11/09 - To Constitutional
Revision then Judiciary - (Original same as SJR2)
3.By Del. Longstreth - Homestead Exemption Increase Amendment - Introduced
02/11/09 - To Constitutional Revision then Judiciary - (Original similar to SJR 8, SJR
9 and SJR4)
4.By Del. Blair, Miller, J., Duke, Border, Canterbury, Ellem, Azinger, Evans, Romine,
Anderson and Rowan - Property Tax Assessment Homestead Limitation
Amendment - Introduced 02/11/09 - To Constitutional Revision then Finance
5.By Del. Michael, Moye, Boggs, Overington, Armstead, Sumner and Moore - The
Marriage Protection Amendment - Introduced 02/11/09 - To Constitutional Revision
then Judiciary - (Original same as SJR7)
6.By Del. Carmichael - Dedication of Funding to Natural Resources Amendment -
Introduced 02/11/09 - To Constitutional Revision then Finance - (Original same as
SJR5)
7.By Del. Armstead, Rowan, Overington and Azinger - Warrantless Searches of Homes
by Electronic Surveillance Home Searched Amendment - Introduced 02/16/09 - To
Constitutional Revision then Finance
8.By Del. Caputo, Manchin and Longstreth - Homestead Exemption Increase
Amendment - Introduced 02/16/09 - To Constitutional Revision then Judiciary -
(Original similar to SJR 4, SJR 8 and SJR 9)
9.By Del. Carmichael - Term Limitations Amendment - Introduced 02/16/09 - To
Constitutional Revision then Judiciary
10.By Del. Sumner and Sobonya - Clarifying that nothing in the Constitution secures
or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion - Introduced
02/17/09 - To Constitutional Revision then Judiciary - (Original similar to SJR3 and
SJR6)
11.By Del. Doyle, Rodighiero, Eldridge and Moye - Legislator Replacement Amendment
- Introduced 02/17/09 - To Constitutional Revision then Judiciary
12.By Del. Armstead, Andes, Duke, Ireland, Miller, C., Miller, J., Porter, Romine, Rowan
and Sumner - Homestead Exemption Increase Amendment - Introduced 02/17/09 -
To Constitutional Revision then Finance - (Original similar to SJR4, SJR8 and SJR9)
13.By Del. Doyle, Perdue, White, Michael, Blair and Boggs - Budget Committee to
Introduced the Budget Bill Amendment - Introduced 02/17/09 - To Constitutional
Revision then Finance
14.By Del. Rodighiero, Eldridge and Reynolds - Homestead Exemption Increase
Amendment - Introduced 02/18/09 - To Constitutional Revision then Finance -
(Original similar to SJR4, SJR8 and SJR9)
15.By Del. Miller, J., Overington, Lane, Sobonya, Blair, Porter, Schadler and Andes -
Taxpayer's Bill of Rights Amendment - Introduced 02/18/09 - To Constitutional
Revision then Finance
16.By Del. Overington, Schoen, Lane, Carmichael, Sobonya, Sumner, Walters, Canterbury,
Miller, J. and Andes - Prohibiting the Governmental Taking of Private Property for
Private Use Amendment - Introduced 02/20/09 - To Constitutional Revision then
Judiciary
ALL HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OFFERED
1.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Raising a Joint Assembly to open and publish
election returns - Introduced 01/14/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House
01/14/09 - To Senate 01/14/09 - Committee reference dispensed - Adopted by Senate
01/14/09
2.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Providing for an adjournment of the Legislature
until February 11, 2009 - Introduced 01/14/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by
House 01/14/09 - To Senate 01/14/09 - Committee reference dispensed - Adopted by
Senate 01/14/09
3.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the
Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly
therefor - Introduced 02/11/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House 02/11/09 -
To Senate 02/11/09 - Committee reference dispensed - Adopted by Senate 02/11/09
4.By Del. White and Kominar - CBM Howard W. Bannister Memorial Bridge -
Introduced 02/17/09 - To Rules
5.By Del. Mahan, Fleischauer, Brown, Eldridge, Ennis, Ashley, Rowan and Schadler -
Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to study the safety
issues of those who provide home visits to families in West Virginia - Introduced
02/17/09 - To Rules
6.By Del. Mahan, Fleischauer, Brown, Eldridge, Ennis, Ashley, Rowan and Schadler -
Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance reconstitute Select
Committee A on Children, Juveniles and Other Matters - Introduced 02/17/09 - To
Rules
7.By Del. Fleischauer, Iaquinta, Longstreth, Stephens and Azinger - Requesting the Joint
Committee on Government and Finance to continue studying the needs, challenges
and issues facing veterans - Introduced 02/19/09 - To Rules
8.By Del. Fleischauer, Iaquinta, Longstreth, Stephens and Azinger - Requesting that
public and private colleges and university submit plans to the Joint Committee on
Government and Finance on how their campuses can be made more military or
veteran friendly - Introduced 02/19/09 - To Rules
9.By Del. Beach - Urging Congress to implement the Homeowners and Bank
Protection Act - Introduced 02/20/09 - To Rules
10.By Del. Guthrie, Brown, Hatfield, Hunt, Skaff, Spencer and Wells - The "T-5 Leon
Whitlock and PFC Forrest Wilson Memorial Bridge" and the "SFC Stanley
Williams Memorial Bridge" - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Rules
11.By Del. Staggers - Requesting the Health and Human Resources Committee to
study the state of emergency medicine in West Virginia - Introduced 02/23/09 - To
Rules
12.By Del. Barker, Eldridge, Rodighiero, Butcher and Stowers - The "Serbert S. Duty
Memorial Bridge" - Introduced 02/23/09 - To Rules
ALL HOUSE RESOLUTIONS OFFERED
1.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Adopting Rules of the House of Delegates -
Introduced 01/14/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House 01/14/09
2.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Authorizing the publication of a Legislative
Manual and providing for the mailing lists for House Journals - Introduced
01/14/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House 01/14/09
3.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Authorizing the printing and distribution of Acts
of the Legislature and Journals of the House - Introduced 01/14/09 - Reference
dispensed - Adopted by House 01/14/09
4.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Authorizing the Committee on Rules to arrange
a Special Calendar - Introduced 01/14/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House
01/14/09
5.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Authorizing the appointment of employees for
this, the First Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature, two thousand nine
- Introduced 01/14/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House 01/14/09
6.By Del. Poling, M. and Paxton - Recognizing the West Virginia Civics Literacy
Council and Civic Literacy Day - Introduced 02/12/09 - Reference dispensed -
Adopted by House 02/12/09
7.By Del. Schadler, Evans and Rowan - Recognizing the considerable contributions of
Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln and native of West Virginia -
Introduced 02/12/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House 02/12/09
8.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Creating a Select Committee on Federal Stimulus
Utilization - Introduced 02/13/09 - To Rules - To House Rules 02/13/09 - Adopted by
House 02/17/09
9.By Del. Iaquinta, Longstreth, Swartzmiller, Moye, Boggs, Azinger, Porter, Ireland and Ashley - Encouraging West Virginia educators to participate in future "Take a
Veteran to School" initiatives - Introduced 02/16/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted
by House 02/16/09
10.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson), Del. Morgan, Craig, Miller, C., Reynolds, Sobonya,
Stephens and Perdue - Designating February 18, 2009, as "Marshall University
Day" - Introduced 02/18/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House 02/18/09
11.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson), Del. Ashley, Beach, Boggs, Brown, Caputo, Doyle,
Ferro, Fleischauer, Frazier, Guthrie, Hall, Hatfield, Kominar, Louisos, Mahan, Marshall,
Martin, Michael, Moore, Morgan, Pethtel, Phillips, Skaff, Spencer, Staggers, Varner,
Walker, Wells and Wooton - Designating February 20, 2009, as "Civil Rights
Pioneer J. R. Clifford Day" - Introduced 02/20/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted
by House 02/20/09
12.By Del. Frazier and Porter - Recognizing the City of Princeton's Centennial -
Introduced 02/23/09 - Reference dispensed - Adopted by House 02/23/09
HOUSE BILLS PASSED HOUSE AND COMMUNICATED TO SENATE
*2305.By Del. Webster, Wells, Ferro, Miley, Frazier, Schoen, Lane, Wooton, Hunt and Barker
- Revising appointment and compensation provisions of the Supreme Court Clerk
and his or her staff - Introduced 02/12/09 - To Judiciary - Passed House 02/18/09 - To
Senate 02/19/09 - To Judiciary then Finance
*2306.By Del. Webster, Michael, Mahan and Kominar - Relating to impersonation of a
public official or employee - Introduced 02/12/09 - To Judiciary - Passed House
02/18/09 - To Senate 02/19/09 - To Judiciary
*2309.By Del. Morgan, Martin, Argento, Beach, Eldridge, Andes and Miller, C. - Updating
the law governing the practice of occupational therapy - Introduced 02/12/09 - To
Government Organization then Judiciary - 2nd reference dispensed - Passed House
02/23/09
*2419.By Del. Perry, Boggs, Morgan, Ellem and Webster - Providing inmates a reduction
in sentence for completion of education and rehabilitation programs - Introduced
02/16/09 - To Judiciary - (Original same as SB 254) - Passed House 02/23/09
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY BOTH HOUSES
1.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Raising a Joint Assembly to open and publish election returns - Adopted 01/14/09
2.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Providing for an adjournment of the Legislature
until February 11, 2009 - Adopted 01/14/09
3.By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Thompson) - Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the
Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly
therefor - Adopted 02/11/09
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY BOTH HOUSES
1.By Sen. Tomblin (Mr. President), Chafin and Caruth - Adopting joint rules of Senate
and House of Delegates - Adopted 01/14/09
2.By Sen. Tomblin (Mr. President), Helmick and Caruth - Relating to payment of
supplies, services, printing and other expenses - Adopted 01/14/09