HOUSE OF DELEGATES
BILLS INTRODUCED
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
2447. By Del. Mr. Speaker (Mr. Armstead), Shott, Summers, Overington, G. Foster, Hollen and Sobonya - Renaming the Court of Claims the state Claims Commission - To the Judiciary
2448. By Del. Sobonya - Increasing the penalties for transporting controlled substances into the state (FN) - To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then the Judiciary
2449. By Del. Sobonya - Requiring the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission to adopt certain safety standards for youth lacrosse - To Education then Health and Human Resources
2450. By Del. Sobonya - Increasing mandatory minimum sentences for trafficking drugs into the state (FN) - To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then the Judiciary
2451. By Del. Sobonya - Establishing a specific valuation of managed timberland and timberland that is not managed timberland for ad valorem property tax purposes - To Finance
2452. By Del. Sobonya - Relating to the pawn of gift cards - To the Judiciary
2453. By Del. Eldridge and Butler - Expanding the list of persons the Commissioner of Agriculture may license to grow or cultivate industrial hemp - To Agriculture and Natural Resources then the Judiciary
2454. By Del. Sobonya - Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act (FN) - To Industry and Labor then the Judiciary
2455. By Del. Sobonya - Budget and Spending Transparency Act - To Government Organization then Finance
2456. By Del. Sobonya - Requiring the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to maintain a searchable, criminal database containing copies of all arrests and convictions by all the courts in the state - To the Judiciary then Finance
2457. By Del. Sobonya - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund (FN) - To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then Finance
2458. By Del. Sobonya - Exempting from food related laws or rules for certain individually produced agricultural products - To Health and Human Resources
2459. By Del. Ellington, Summers and Rohrbach - Relating to regulation of health care and the certificate of need process - To Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary
2460. By Del. Ellington, Summers, Rowan, Sobonya, Hollen and Rohrbach - Requiring insurance coverages to ensure telehealth parity (FN) - To Banking and Insurance then Health and Human Resources
2461. By Del. Cowles - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jail fees (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
2462. By Del. Cowles - Relating to the compensation of personnel employed at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind - To Education then Finance
2463. By Del. Cowles - Forfeiture Reporting Act (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
2464. By Del. Cowles - Relating to disclaimers and exclusions of warranties in consumer transactions for goods - To the Judiciary
2465. By Del. Cowles - Modifying the requirements that allow a child witness to testify by closed circuit television - To the Judiciary
2466. By Del. Sobonya - Changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
2467. By Del. Sobonya - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion - To Education then the Judiciary
2468. By Del. Sobonya - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary
2469. By Del. Sobonya - Requiring benefit access devices to benefits provided by the Department of Human Services, to have a photograph of the person to whom a device was issued - To the Judiciary
2470. By Del. Sobonya - Making it a felony to knowingly house drug traffickers (FN) - To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then the Judiciary
2471. By Del. Ellington, Summers, Rowan, Sobonya, Hollen, Rohrbach and Longstreth - Relating to insurance coverage for breast cancer screening - To Banking and Insurance then Finance
2472. By Del. Storch and Boggs - Creating a preference for certain limited video lottery current permit holders in bid process - To the Judiciary then Finance
2473. By Del. Storch - Relating to the assessment of oil and gas mineral interests (FN) - To Energy then the Judiciary
2474. By Del. Storch - Providing that rents and royalties from leases of the minerals under the state's rivers and streams shall be expended for road paving and maintenance - To Energy then Finance
2475. By Del. Storch - Authorizing the Tax Commissioner to collect tax, interest and penalties due and owing from payments to vendors and contractors from the Auditor and other state, county, district or municipal officers and agents (FN) - To Government Organization then Finance
2476. By Del. Storch and Boggs - Requiring each judicial circuit to have a court-appointed special advocate program and each county to have a special advocate for children in abuse and neglect proceedings (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
2477. By Del. Statler, Hill, Espinosa, Wagner, Higginbotham, Ward, Williams, Pyles, G. Foster, Frich and Hamrick - Developing a special hiring procedure for personnel positions in the Division of Highways - To Roads and Transportation then Government Organization
2478. By Del. Rohrbach and Cooper - Changing the age effective date of children for whom county boards of education must provide kindergarten programs (FN) - To Education then Finance
2479. By Del. Storch - Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act - To the Judiciary
2480. By Del. Phillips - Changing the way counties pay for regional jail inmates (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
2481. By Del. Hicks - Creating tax credits for new and/or existing small businesses (FN) - To Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development then Finance
2482. By Del. Westfall - Creating a period for reduced payments of traffic violations (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
2483. By Del. Eldridge and Butler - Requiring the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday - To the Judiciary
2484. By Del. Frich and Butler - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions - To Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary
2485. By Del. Frich and Butler - Decreasing the basic compensation paid to members of the Legislature and salaries paid to other state officers by five percent (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
2486. By Del. Westfall - Providing that when a party's health condition is at issue in a civil action, medical records and releases for medical information may be requested and required without court order - To the Judiciary
2487. By Del. Storch - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin (FN) - To Energy then Finance