House Special Calendar

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to conduct a study on expanding the scope of practice for optometrists

The "PFC Ronald 'Ronnie' Dean, USMC, Memorial Bridge"

Authorizing the Administrative Director of the Supreme Court of Appeals to hire regional or specialized probation officers (Original same as S. B. 393) (White) (Regular)

Relating to the continuation of the Design-Build Program (Original same as S. B. 390) (White) (Effective From Passage)

Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board (Morgan) (Regular)

Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Act (Original same as S. B. 586) (White) (Effective From Passage)

Requiring the county extension service to collect applicable data regarding the locations of all cemeteries within West Virginia (Morgan) (Regular)

Encouraging teachers who have achieved a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certificate to renew their certifications when they expire after ten years, and continuing the salary bonus for renewed certificates (Original similar to S. B. 80) (White) (July 1, 2009)

Relating to the regulation and operation of cranes (Webster) (Regular)

Increasing the penalties for discarding trash on land and in streams (Webster) (Regular)

Identifying salvia divinorum as a hallucinogen and adding it to the list of controlled substances (Original same as S. B. 606) (Webster) (Regular)

Allowing pharmacy interns to vend pseudoephedrine and other chemical precursors of methamphetamine (Webster) (Regular)

Adding language that includes railcars and locomotives in the category of railroad property that is illegal to interfere or tamper with (Webster) (Regular)

Relating to supplemental funding for the provision of alternative programs for limited English proficient students (Original same as S. B. 269) (White) (July 1, 2009)

Providing that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor for renewal (Webster) (Regular)

Requiring licensure of pharmacy benefit managers (Webster) (Regular)

Creating a temporary reinvestment fee for health insurers, third party administrators and others (Original same as S. B. 411) (Morgan) (July 1, 2009)

West Virginia Geographical Information System (Original similar to S. B. 502) (Morgan) (Effective From Passage)

Relating to construction of state utility projects (Original same as S. B. 469 - similar to S. B. 517) (Morgan) (Effective From Passage)

Extending the deadline of the buyback provision provided under the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System to the State Teachers Retirement System (Original similar to S. B. 569) (White) (Regular)

Relating to issuance of renewal license certificate to motor vehicle dealers (Webster) (Regular)

Requiring the State Fire Commission to promulgate rules pertaining to the State Building Code (Original same as S. B. 504) (White) (Effective From Passage)

Prohibiting extended coverage upon retirement based on years of service for new higher education employees (Original same as S. B. 492) (White) (Regular)

Relating to hunting, tagging and reporting bear (Webster) (Regular)

Relating to pedestrians' right-of-way in crosswalks (Webster) (Regular)

Relating to seniority rights for school service personnel (M. Poling) (Regular)

Relating to the renewal of the West Virginia Small Business Linked Deposit Program (Webster) (Regular)

Providing a detailed standard of review that the county commission may apply in reviewing the findings of a fiduciary supervisor on probate matters (Original same as S. B. 725) (Webster) (Regular)

Clarifying the filing and review of the periodic accountings of conservators of incapacitated protected persons (Original same as S. B. 722) (Webster) (Regular)

Making it a misdemeanor to knowingly file false information with the Secretary of State (Webster) (Regular)

Authorizing municipalities to permit nonpolice officers to issue citations for littering (Webster) (Regular)

Relating to compensation for condemnation commissioners (Webster) (Regular)

Relating to mental health parity (Perry) (Regular)

Relating to the West Virginia State Treasurer's Office (White)

Continuing early intervention services to families with developmentally delayed infants and toddlers but eliminating the cost-free provision (Perdue) (Regular)

Providing a penalty for employers failing to withhold an employee's income for child support obligations (Webster) (Regular)

Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules (Webster) (Effective From Passage)

Defining "caving" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited (Webster) (Regular)

Expanding the membership of the Racing Commission and reorganizing the administrative functions (Morgan) (July 1, 2009)

Requiring group insurance companies and third party administrators to furnish claims experience to policyholders (Webster) (Regular)

Requiring twenty consecutive minutes for meal breaks and fifteen minute rest periods for employees during each four hours of work (Webster) (Regular)

Providing criminal penalties for a hunter who fails to render aid to a person the hunter shoots while hunting (Webster) (Regular)

Authorizing municipalities to provide administrative procedures for the assessment and collection of delinquent municipal fees (Webster) (Regular)

Providing a tax credit to sawmills that become certified in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System (White) (Regular)

Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules (Webster) (Effective From Passage)

Relating to critical skills evaluations for students in grades three and eight (Original same as S. B. 386) (White) (July 1, 2009)

Regulating the sequestration and storage of carbon dioxide (Original same as S. B. 396) (White) (Regular)

Creating and maintaining the West Virginia Autistic Children's Trust Fund, and creating a tax credit for contributing to a qualified autistic children's trust fund (White) (Regular)

Establishing tax credits for personal and commercial users of the West Virginia Turnpike (White) (Regular)

Relating to qualified military service for public employees retirement benefits (White) (Regular)

Adding two members to the institutional boards of governors of West Virginia University and Marshall University based upon race, gender and ethnicity (Original similar to S. B. 611) (White) (Regular)

Relating to primary elections and nominating procedures of third-party candidates (Webster) (Regular)

Imposing a tax of up to $100 per $100,000 on the transfer of real estate within the incorporated limits of any municipality (Webster) (Regular)

Relating to a business and occupation tax on the business of the transmission of electricity through certain electric transmission lines (Original same as S. B. 505) (White) (Regular)

Exempting from the consumers sales and service tax and use tax any sales of donated clothing or clothing accessories (Original same as S. B. 710) (White) (Regular)

Creating a medical home health care plan for uninsured adults (White) (Regular)

Relating to notice and publication requirements for expungement petitions (Webster) (Regular)

Providing veterans' death certificates to families and funeral directors at no cost (White) (Regular)

Requiring all law-enforcement agencies to certify qualified law-enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms (Original similar to S. B. 305) (Webster) (Regular)

Changing the definition of "health care provider" and "drug" for the purpose of consumers sales tax, and exempting from the consumers sales tax drugs purchased by veterinarians to be dispensed by prescription for the treatment of animals (Original similar to S. B. 748 and S. B. 749) (White) (Regular)

Relating to the payment of travel expenses of workers' compensation claimants (Webster) (Regular)

Increasing the WV Prosecuting Attorneys Institute's executive council's elected members from five to seven and permitting the appointment of special prosecutors in juvenile delinquency, child abuse or neglect proceedings (Original similar to S. B. 577) (Webster) (Regular)

Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer (White) (Regular)

Municipal vote by mail pilot program (Webster) (Regular)

Allowing the purchase of service credit for those emergency services officers who transferred into the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System from the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) (White) (Regular)

Establishing a funding mechanism for state aid for local health departments (Original similar to S. B. 731) (White)

Giving the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles authority to approve all-terrain vehicle rider safety awareness courses (Webster) (Regular)

Changing the date through which governmental entities are required to purchase workers' compensation (Original same as S. B. 702) (White) (Regular)

Amending the professional surveyors act (Original same as S. B. 531)

Relating to the life and health insurance guaranty association (Original same as S. B. 689) (Webster) (Regular)

Improving the technology infrastructure of the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office (Original same as S. B. 693) (White) (Effective From Passage)

Relating to the powers and duties of probation officers (Original similar to S. B. 369) (Webster) (Regular)

Allowing depositories and banks to meet the security requirement necessary to be a depository for boards of education by providing a letter of credit from a federal home loan bank (White) (Regular)

Relating to concealed handgun licensing (Webster) (Regular)

Relating to the regulation and control of elections (Webster) (Regular)

Facilitating the complete closure of the Gwinn, otherwise known as the EPA Services Landfill, located in Summers County (Webster) (Regular)