HOUSE OF DELEGATES
BILLS TO BE INTRODUCED
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
HB2638. By Del. Hornbuckle and Skaff - Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child - To Education then Finance
HB2639. By Del. Hornbuckle - Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (FN) - To the Judiciary
HB2640. By Del. Hornbuckle - Establishing a tax credit for businesses who hire, promote and develop women and minorities into executive, professional or administrative roles (FN) - To Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development then Finance
HB2641. By Del. Hornbuckle - The Young Professional Tax Credits (FN) - To Education then Finance
HB2642. By Del. Hornbuckle - Reentry Task Force (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
HB2643. By Del. Hornbuckle and Lovejoy - Making it a misdemeanor for a person to knowingly allow a felony drug offense to be committed on his or her property (FN) - To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then the Judiciary
HB2644. By Del. Skaff, Boggs and Maynard - West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Business Technology Property Valuation Act and the West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Tax Credit Act (FN) - To Finance
HB2645. By Del. Skaff, D. Jeffries and Rowe - Establishing a class of employees within the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System consisting of 911 staff (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance
HB2646. By Del. Brown, Boggs and Lovejoy - Establishing a special registration plate for recognizing and honoring families affected by Alzheimer’s disease - To Technology and Infrastructure then Government Organization
HB2647. By Del. Walker, Fleischauer and Hansen - Prohibiting the use of polystyrene containers - To Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary
HB2648. By Del. Hornbuckle and Lovejoy - Authorizing a temporary foreign brewers import license (FN) - To the Judiciary
HB2649. By Del. Hornbuckle - Modifying the tax on soft drinks to only cover sugary drinks (FN) - To Finance
HB2650. By Del. Hornbuckle, Rohrbach and Lovejoy - Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Education
HB2651. By Del. Hornbuckle and Lovejoy - Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Education
HB2652. By Del. Hornbuckle, Paynter and Walker - Modifying the school calendar - To Education
HB2653. By Del. Walker, Skaff and Hansen - Providing a tax exemption for income from a qualified retirement plan used to pay for long-term care (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Finance
HB2654. By Del. Walker and Hansen - Relating to rulemaking for healthcare plans - To Banking and Insurance then Education then Finance
HB2655. By Del. Walker, Skaff, Zukoff and Hansen - Expanding felony hate crime protections to individuals on the basis of perceived or actual sexual orientation - To the Judiciary then Finance
HB2656. By Del. Walker, Zukoff and Hansen - Exempting from personal property taxation, vehicles of certain volunteer firefighters (FN) - To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Finance
HB2657. By Del. Walker and Hansen - Relating to the Antihazing Law - To Education
HB2658. By Del. Hornbuckle - Mountaineer Games Sports League (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Government Organization
HB2659. By Del. Hornbuckle - Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the Secondary School Activities Commission (FN) - To Education then the Judiciary
HB2660. By Del. Hornbuckle - Creating a policy on vaccine preventable diseases - To Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary
HB2661. By Del. Hornbuckle, Anderson, Rohrbach and Lovejoy - Declaring November 14 every year, a special Memorial Day in remembrance of the Marshall University airplane crash - To Government Organization
HB2662. By Del. Hornbuckle, Hansen, Lovejoy and Walker - Prohibiting certain devices which enhance a diesel-powered vehicle’s capacity to emit soot - To Technology and Infrastructure then the Judiciary
HB2663. By Del. Hornbuckle, Rowan and Lovejoy - Relating to insurance coverage for breast cancer screening - To Banking and Insurance then Health and Human Resources
HB2664. By Del. Hornbuckle, Zukoff, Lovejoy and Rowe - Screening for adverse childhood experiences (FN) - To Banking and Insurance then Health and Human Resources
HB2665. By Del. Hornbuckle and Higginbotham - Be Exceptional Starting Today Act (FN) - To the Judiciary then Finance
HB2666. By Del. Holstein, Pritt, Wamsley, Kimble, Barnhart and Keaton - Clarifying who may absentee vote - To the Judiciary
HB2667. By Del. Riley, Hansen, Queen, Hanna, Skaff, Steele, Hardy and Clark - To create a cost saving program for state buildings regarding energy efficiency (FN) - To Energy and Manufacturing then Finance
HB2668. By Del. Criss [By Request of the Division of Highways] - Removing obsolete provisions regarding DOH standards for studded tires and chains - To Technology and Infrastructure then Government Organization
HB2669. By Del. Walker, Fleischauer, Hansen and Rowe - Establishing tax credits for lead abatement in child occupied residences (FN) - To Finance
HB2670. By Del. Capito - Creating a special license plate for aviation - To Technology and Infrastructure then Finance
HB2671. By Del. Rowan, Sypolt, Martin, Mandt, Queen, Hanna, Zukoff, Pinson, Rohrbach, Smith and J. Kelly - Relating to financial exploitation of elderly persons, protected persons or incapacitated adults (FN) - To Senior, Children, and Family Issues then the Judiciary
HB2672. By Del. Tully and Summers - Relating to posting of safety information in hospitals - To Health and Human Resources
HB2673. By Del. Criss [By Request of the Division of Highways] - Exempting Division of Highways from Purchasing Division procedures (FN) - To Government Organization
HB2674. By Del. Tully and Summers - Relating to the administration of anesthetics - To Health and Human Resources
HB2675. By Del. Criss [By Request of the WV Department of Transportation] - Relating to costs and interest in eminent domain condemnation proceedings (FN) - To the Judiciary
HB2676. By Del. Westfall - Relating to participation in athletic events exclusively for males and females - To Education
HB2677. By Del. Steele, Diserio, D. Jeffries, Lovejoy, Maynard, Barrett, Skaff, Fluharty and D. Kelly [By Request of the Homeland Security & Emergency Management] - Relating to increasing the amount of money for which a purchase may be made without obtaining three bids to ten thousand dollars - To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Finance
HB2678. By Del. Steele - Providing for a limitation on when a hearing or trial may be deemed finally adjudicated when relevant forensic scientific evidence was not able to be presented at the time of trial - To the Judiciary
HB2679. By Del. Steele, Foster, J. Pack and Graves - Relating to cause of action for the spread of a communicable disease - To the Judiciary
HB2680. By Del. Westfall and Hott [By Request of the Development Office] - Amending the Consumer Credit and Protection Act - To Banking and Insurance then the Judiciary
HB2681. By Del. Westfall and Hott - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to transfer moneys from the Insurance Commission Fund into the Workers’ Compensation Old Fund to reduce any deficit balance of the Old Fund - To Banking and Insurance then Finance
HB2682. By Del. Westfall and Hott [By Request of the Insurance Commission] - Relating to the issuance of license suspensions to insurance producers and insurance adjusters who have failed to meet continuing education requirements. - To Banking and Insurance then the Judiciary
HB2683. By Del. Steele, Diserio, Maynard, Hanna, Barrett, D. Jeffries, Fluharty and Skaff [By Request of the STATE RESILIENCY OFFICE] - Clarifying that the office is responsible to plan for emergency and disaster response, recovery, and resiliency - To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Government Organization
HB2684. By Del. Walker and Fleischauer - Creating a duty to disclose by owners of property that knew or should have known that crystal methamphetamine production was occurring - To Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary
HB2685. By Del. Walker - Relating to state certification of industrial hemp and medical cannabis seed - To Agriculture and Natural Resources then the Judiciary
HB2686. By Del. Westfall and Hott [By Request of the State of WV Auditor] - Establish a system to remediate fiscal emergencies of local governments (FN) - To Political Subdivisions then Finance
HB2687. By Del. Higginbotham, Rohrbach, G. Ward and Thompson - To prohibit minors from dropping out of high school unless they are emancipated - To Education
HB2688. By Del. Higginbotham - Allow county political parties to have building funds in a similar manner that state parties are allowed - To the Judiciary
HB2689. By Del. Higginbotham - Granting convicted criminals the right to a retrial if scientific methods used to convict are later determined to be outdated or false - To the Judiciary
HB2690. By Del. Higginbotham - To provide that out of school suspensions be considered “excused” absences - To Education
HB2691. By Del. Higginbotham - Tax emption for border cities and counties for gas tax (FN) - To Political Subdivisions then Finance
HB2692. By Del. Higginbotham, J. Pack, Rohrbach and Ellington - To allow for coverage of addiction telehealth services to out-of-state providers - To Health and Human Resources
HB2693. By Del. Steele, Foster, J. Pack and L. Pack - Eliminating the Human Rights Commission - To Government Organization
HB2694. By Del. Steele, Foster, Summers, J. Pack, Phillips, D. Jeffries, Clark, Sypolt, Maynard, Graves and Howell - Create the 2nd Amendment Preservation Act - To the Judiciary
HB2695. By Del. Westfall and Hott [By Request of the Insurance Commission] - Consolidate the statutory positions of Director of the Insurance Fraud Unit and Inspector General of the former Workers’ Compensation Commission Fraud and Abuse Unit. (FN) - To Banking and Insurance then Government Organization
HB2696. By Del. Steele, Statler, Skaff, Fluharty, Maynard, Barrett, Lovejoy, Diserio, Garcia and D. Kelly - Creating the fire service equipment and training fund (FN) - To Finance
HB2697. By Del. Walker, Barrett and Rowe - Relating to unlawful discriminatory practices in categories covered by the Human Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act - To Workforce Development then the Judiciary
HB2698. By Del. Walker, Hansen and Evans - Making it illegal to discriminate based on hair texture or hair style - To Government Organization then the Judiciary
HB2699. By Del. Capito - Authorize the Workforce West Virginia to hire additional employees to serve at the Commissioner’s will and pleasure - To Government Organization then Finance
HB2700. By Del. J. Pack - Informing water customers of boiled water advisories - To Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary
HB2701. By Del. Capito - Relating to authorizing the Division of Rehabilitation Services to approve acceptable training programs required for low vision individuals to obtain a Class G drivers license - To Government Organization
HB2702. By Del. Capito - To require all public high school students to complete and submit a free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) prior to graduation (FN) - To Education
HB2703. By Del. Rohrbach and J. Pack - Clarify that a temporary permit to practice medicine conveys the same authority unto the holder as a license - To Health and Human Resources
HB2704. By Del. Holstein - Creating the “Civic Minded Mountaineer Scholarship.” - To Education then Finance
HB2705. By Del. J. Pack - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to food establishments - To Government Organization
HB2706. By Del. Capito - Authorizing and permitting the Economic Development Authority to make working capital loans from a revolving loan fund capitalized with federal grant funds including those federal grant funds received from the United States Economic Development Administration - To Finance
HB2707. By Del. Tully and Summers - Relating to prescriptive authority for advanced practice registered nurses - To Health and Human Resources
HB2708. By Del. Rohrbach, Fleischauer and Griffith - Relating generally to required health insurance coverage for diabetics - To Health and Human Resources then Finance
HB2709. By Del. Capito - Providing that the aggregate liability of a surety on a consumer protection bond under the West Virginia Fintech Regulatory Sandbox Program does not exceed the principal sum of the bond - To the Judiciary
HB2710. By Del. J. Kelly - Providing counties the power to establish a county sales tax under certain circumstances (FN) - To Political Subdivisions then Finance
HB2711. By Del. J. Kelly - Permitting persons who are twenty-one years of age or older to operate or be a passenger on a motorcycle without a helmet - To Technology and Infrastructure then the Judiciary
HB2712. By Del. J. Kelly - Modifying the school calendar to begin not earlier than September 1 and end no later than June 7 - To Education
HB2713. By Del. Criss and Evans - WV 2021 Plan for Securing WV Coal Supplies (FN) - To Energy and Manufacturing then the Judiciary
HB2714. By Del. Hornbuckle, Hansen and Lovejoy - Collecting a tax from manufacturers and distributors of opium and opiate drugs to be used for funding addiction and prevention (FN) - To Health and Human Resources then Finance
HB2715. By Del. Foster - Creating a State Central Legal Advertising Website (FN) - To the Judiciary
HB2716. By Del. Espinosa - West Virginia Public Participation Protection Act - To the Judiciary