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Abortion (45 Bills)
HB 2008 - Defining "the deceased" for purposes of prescribing that a deceased victim includes unborn children under first and second degree murder
HB 2028 - Providing that when any body part of an unborn child is outside the womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state
HB 2029 - Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity
HB 2035 - Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed
HB 2057 - Requiring the department of health and human resources to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations
HB 2058 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2073 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2094 - Prohibiting employees of higher education from assisting students in securing abortions
HB 2146 - Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures
HB 2237 - Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide
HB 2238 - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire
HB 2254 - Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn child
HB 2257 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2263 - Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus by using ultrasound
HB 2278 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2302 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2313 - Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus
HB 2339 - Allowing a hospital physician to decline performing an abortion when a mother's life is not in imminent danger
HB 2373 - Requiring faith-based, abstinence-only and antichoice facilities to have written policies and procedures
HB 2374 - Requiring any faith-based facility that counsels women regarding contraception, abortion or pregnancy to maintain a quality assurance program
HB 2455 - Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors
HB 2493 - Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor
HB 2516 - Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility
HB 2520 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a women suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2543 - Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion
HB 2590 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors
HB 2598 - Relating to parental notification requirements for abortions performed on unemancipated minors
HB 2610 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2611 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents
HB 2614 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2636 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2717 - Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus
HB 2797 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2846 - Relating to criminalizing abortion
HB 2878 - Abortion Complication Reporting Act
HB 2906 - Prohibiting persons who are not licensed physicians from performing an abortion
HB 2942 - Prohibiting subsidies to entities that perform abortions
HB 3106 - Relating to the care of aborted fetuses
HB 3135 - Reporting abortions that have been performed due to perceived congenital defects of fetuses and providing a civil penalty for failing to report an abortion
HB 3159 - Prohibiting moneys from any state fund or funding source to be expended for any abortion unless the abortion qualifies for federal funding under Medicaid
HB 3162 - Prohibiting coverage for abortions under insurance plans provided under the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 3177 - Banning abortions in instances where the fetus could survive if delivered and providing a criminal penalty for violations
HB 3187 - Prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Resources from being involved in aiding or assisting any person to obtain an abortion to a greater extent than is required by law
HB 3251 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion by any person who has been admitted to or who has been adjudicated to have committed medical malpractice

Actions and Suits (12 Bills)
HB 2136 - Providing limited immunity from civil damages for persons who volunteer their services to public health departments
HB 2138 - 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
HB 2262 - Making it a misdemeanor to file a frivolous lawsuit
HB 2449 - Verifying the lawful presence within the United States of any applicant for certain public benefits
HB 2463 - Providing that adultery shall be a bar to alimony in a divorce proceeding
HB 2498 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 2517 - Relating to immunity from civil liability for operators of parks and recreation districts
HB 2534 - Relating to viatical settlements
HB 2634 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 2990 - Increasing the dollar amount in controversy for magistrate courts to have jurisdiction involving civil actions
HB 3178 - Asbestos Claims Transparency Act
HB 3325 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items

Acts (63 Bills)
HB 2038 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 2039 - Establishing the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act
HB 2058 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2084 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2095 - Faculty Excellence Act
HB 2212 - Labor, Amusement Rides and Attractions Safety Act
HB 2213 - Labor, Elevator Safety Act
HB 2255 - Relating to the "Mandated Benefits Review Act"
HB 2272 - Establishing the Flexible Leave Act
HB 2343 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2363 - Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2390 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2396 - Sexually Violent Predator Act
HB 2418 - Relating to exempting certain records of the Division of Corrections and Regional Jail Authority from the Freedom of Information Act that, if released, could aid inmates in committing unlawful acts
HB 2431 - Emergency Contraception Education Act
HB 2469 - West Virginia Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2009
HB 2475 - Permitting retired state employees to transfer from Medicare to coverage through the West Virginia Public Employees Act
HB 2477 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Act
HB 2482 - Relating to the spouse and dependent insurance coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees' Insurance Act
HB 2501 - West Virginia Public Employment Relations Act
HB 2514 - Verifiable Science Act
HB 2524 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2542 - "Jason Flatt Act of 2009"
HB 2549 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2550 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2567 - Relating to filing agency rules with the Secretary of State under the Administrative Procedures Act
HB 2570 - Correctional Industries Act of 2009
HB 2604 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2631 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2646 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2652 - Repealing the Tree Fruit Industry Self-Improvement Act of 1984
HB 2659 - Broadcast Employees Freedom to Work Act
HB 2675 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act
HB 2682 - Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2684 - West Virginia Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act
HB 2685 - Amending the Uniform Principal and Income Act
HB 2702 - Relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
HB 2715 - The Economic Fairness Act of 2009
HB 2720 - Genetic Information Privacy Act
HB 2721 - Dangerous Dog Act
HB 2836 - School Innovation Zones Act
HB 2837 - Uniform Maternal Screening Act
HB 2899 - Adding Tramadol to Schedule IV of the West Virginia Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 2916 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Act
HB 2949 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 2980 - "West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act"
HB 2983 - "Consent to Health Care of Minors Act"
HB 3008 - Relating to the Model Health Plan for Uninsurable Individuals Act
HB 3021 - Medication Administration by Certified Medicine Aides Act
HB 3078 - Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act
HB 3091 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 3100 - Multilevel Marketing Act
HB 3129 - Creative Communities Development Act
HB 3131 - Green Buildings Act
HB 3176 - Surface Owners Protection Act
HB 3232 - West Virginia Commuter Rail Access Act
HB 3233 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 3268 - Long Term Care Redistribution Act
HB 3273 - West Virginia Correctional Officer Retirement System Act
HB 3276 - Amending the professional surveyors act
HB 3283 - Athletic Trainers Licensure Act
HB 3302 - Certified Legal Assistant Act
HB 3309 - Creating the West Virginia Supreme Court Public Campaign Financing Act

Advertising (7 Bills)
HB 2083 - Relating to disclosure requirements for political campaign advertisements
HB 2137 - Prohibiting out-of-state persons or business entities from soliciting business by written advertisement in this state under certain circumstances
HB 2177 - Tourism, Direct Advertising Grants Program
HB 2241 - Relating to credit card solicitation on college campuses
HB 2556 - Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 3164 - Revising current restrictions on outdoor advertising of businesses
HB 3281 - Improving the technology infrastructure of the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office

Agriculture (23 Bills)
HB 2152 - Agriculture, Schedule of Charges for Inspection Services
HB 2183 - Agriculture, Animal Disease Control
HB 2184 - Agriculture, Disposal of Dead Poultry
HB 2185 - Agriculture, Commercial Feed
HB 2343 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2358 - Including a tax checkoff option for Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp
HB 2511 - Relating to the valuation of managed timberland
HB 2541 - Including poultry among those domesticated farm animals or stock which the owner shall be liable for damages caused by those animals
HB 2561 - Providing that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor for renewal
HB 2625 - Providing for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming
HB 2652 - Repealing the Tree Fruit Industry Self-Improvement Act of 1984
HB 2690 - Updating language pertaining to indemnity for the death of diseased or infected animals
HB 2735 - Changing the membership of the State Conservation Committee
HB 2742 - Repealing outdated provisions from the WV Code relating to vinegars
HB 2843 - Relating to commercial dog breeding operations
HB 2893 - Allowing vehicles with farm-use exemption to travel fifty miles on public highways
HB 2929 - Increasing the amount of charge or fee for a recreational purpose or activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited to $500
HB 2936 - Restoring or keeping intact scenic views by coal and timber operators
HB 2957 - Requiring the county extension service to collect applicable data regarding the locations of all cemeteries within West Virginia
HB 3096 - Providing tax credits for the sale of locally grown produce
HB 3099 - Conducting a program to increase awareness and consumption of locally produced foods
HB 3112 - Relating to livestock in dire or extreme condition
HB 3254 - Requiring county commissions to adopt and implement county farmland protection programs

Air Quality (10 Bills)
HB 2159 - DEP-Air Quality, Permits
HB 2160 - DEP-Air Quality, Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources
HB 2161 - DEP-Air Quality, Control of Air Pollution from Hazardous Waste Treatment
HB 2162 - DEP-Air Quality, Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
HB 2163 - DEP, Air Quality, Mercury Budget Trading Program
HB 2193 - DEP-Air Quality, Permits for Construction and Major Modification of Major Stationary Sources of Air Pollution
HB 2194 - DEP-Air Quality, Ambient Air Quality Standards
HB 2811 - DEP-Air Quality, Control and Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides
HB 2812 - DEP-Air Quality, NOx Budget Trading Program
HB 2860 - Regulating the sequestration and storage of carbon dioxide

Alcohol (19 Bills)
HB 2100 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
HB 2103 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2122 - Allowing municipalities to regulate the hours of operation of private liquor clubs by ordinance
HB 2138 - 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
HB 2429 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver
HB 2452 - Providing that a child born addicted to a controlled substance constitutes child abuse
HB 2459 - Increasing the tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors outside corporate limits
HB 2484 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2572 - Relating to classification of retail licenses for the sale of liquor
HB 2593 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2664 - Reducing recidivism of offenders convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol
HB 2719 - Relating to the sale and distribution of craft beer
HB 2855 - Permitting the holder of a license to sell nonintoxicating liquors to determine the use or nonuse of tobacco products on the licensees' premises
HB 2877 - Increasing the monetary penalties, removing the possibility of incarceration and adding community service for a minor who misrepresents his or her age when purchasing alcohol
HB 2882 - Transferring authority over racing, boxing, charitable bingo, raffle, games and charitable lottery to the State Gaming and Alcohol Control Agency and State Gaming and Alcohol Control Commission
HB 2907 - Relating to the sales of wine
HB 2919 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 3067 - Allowing certain owners of warehouses to store and to transport quantities of alcoholic liquors, wine, beer or nonintoxicating beer which are not intended or being stored for the purpose of sale or use within the state
HB 3147 - Allowing the legal sale of liquor and wine on Sunday to be the same hours as prescribed for the sale of beer on Sunday

Animals (17 Bills)
HB 2061 - Prohibiting abusive behavior towards elephants by an owner or manager
HB 2145 - Increasing penalties for the illegal killing, taking, or possessing of certain wildlife
HB 2183 - Agriculture, Animal Disease Control
HB 2184 - Agriculture, Disposal of Dead Poultry
HB 2185 - Agriculture, Commercial Feed
HB 2233 - Veterinary Medicine, Schedule of Fees
HB 2474 - Exempting land-based finfish aquaculture facilities from certain sludge management requirements
HB 2533 - Updating the law governing the practice of veterinary medicine
HB 2541 - Including poultry among those domesticated farm animals or stock which the owner shall be liable for damages caused by those animals
HB 2585 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2623 - Allowing Class RG and RRG deer stamps to be used to hunt and take antlerless deer
HB 2651 - Repealing article regulating male breeding animals
HB 2690 - Updating language pertaining to indemnity for the death of diseased or infected animals
HB 2699 - Establishing breeding restrictions for aggressive or vicious dogs
HB 2721 - Dangerous Dog Act
HB 2843 - Relating to commercial dog breeding operations
HB 3112 - Relating to livestock in dire or extreme condition

Appropriations (3 Bills)
HB 2108 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2150 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Veterans' Affairs
HB 2406 - Relating to unlawful expenditures by a local fiscal body

Appropriations-Supplemental (6 Bills)
HB 2090 - Providing a housing supplement for members of the State Police
HB 2310 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History
HB 2385 - 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
HB 2397 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2538 - Relating to supplemental funding for the provision of alternative programs for limited English proficient students
HB 2645 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy

Associations (7 Bills)
HB 2144 - Providing State Treasury Fire Protection Fund revenue to the West Virginia State Fire Chiefs Association and the West Virginia State Fireman's Association
HB 2308 - Relating to the West Virginia Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being
HB 2323 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2331 - Allowing teachers who graduated from colleges and universities that are not accredited by associations recognized in West Virginia, to obtain a teaching certificate based on their certification in another state
HB 2472 - Establishing a West Virginia State Trooper's Association leave donation program
HB 2553 - Permitting employee and retiree organizations to obtain state employees' home addresses
HB 2558 - Exempting from taxation certain property owned by a nonprofit organization

Athletics (10 Bills)
HB 2277 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2392 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2508 - Permitting county board of education the power to employ the most qualified person to be athletic and other extracurricular coaches
HB 2589 - Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as athletic coaches
HB 2665 - Authorizing mixed martial arts competitions
HB 2749 - Permitting home school children to participate in athletic and other extracurricular activities of secondary schools
HB 2804 - Preventing a professional educator from taking a coaching position away from a current coach
HB 3064 - Providing that persons sixty-five years of age or older may be admitted to athletic and other extracurricular activities of secondary schools without payment of admission fees
HB 3152 - Athletic Trainers Registration Act
HB 3283 - Athletic Trainers Licensure Act

Attorneys (7 Bills)
HB 2047 - Providing that alleged victims of domestic violence or abuse have the right to have a person of their choosing present when they are interviewed by law-enforcement officers or the prosecuting attorney
HB 2262 - Making it a misdemeanor to file a frivolous lawsuit
HB 2361 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2405 - Relating to Public Defender Services and raising the hourly rate of compensation for panel attorneys
HB 2634 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 2758 - Requiring court appointed attorneys to disclose fees in cases where a guardian is appointed for a nonindigent protected person
HB 3296 - Relating to the worker's compensation claimant attorney fees

Audits/Auditing (6 Bills)
HB 2002 - Changing the time for periodic valuations and assessments of real and personal property
HB 2056 - Relating to electronic and paper requisition format approved by the Auditor
HB 2178 - Accountancy, Board Rules and Rules of Professional Conduct
HB 2511 - Relating to the valuation of managed timberland
HB 2512 - Relating to assessed property valuations
HB 2757 - Relating to financial audits of insurers

Banks and Banking (12 Bills)
HB 2268 - Modifying the check cashing service fee
HB 2351 - Prohibiting the placement of automated teller machines (ATM) in establishments that contain video lottery terminals
HB 2896 - Requiring banks to show good cause for calling a business loan due before maturity
HB 2937 - Allowing members of the board of banking and financial institutions to receive compensation for travel expenses
HB 2938 - Relating to the conversion of other financial institutions to state-chartered banks
HB 2996 - Requiring bank transactions involving savings and checking accounts to be posted at the time of the transaction and not the next day
HB 3082 - Relating to the gathering and reporting of foreclosure data and statistics
HB 3114 - Mandating that state-chartered banks provide loans for consumers purchasing solar energy panels
HB 3118 - Relating to branching procedures and creating a definition for "sound financial condition"
HB 3181 - Providing that the definition of "financial institution" includes regulated consumer lenders, residential mortgage lenders, brokers and servicers, licensed money services businesses and all entities under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Banking
HB 3313 - 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
HB 3332 - Allowing the Division of Banking to participate in the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry

Boards and Commissions (103 Bills)
HB 2017 - Authorizing and encouraging county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel
HB 2021 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2085 - Providing county boards of education may study the economic feasibility of exercising an option of engaging in cooperative agreements with local public or regional transit authorities to transport students
HB 2118 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2126 - Requiring that the State School Board ensure that no class size for grades seven through twelve be greater than twenty-five students to every one teacher
HB 2147 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2154 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, General Provisions
HB 2155 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2158 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, WV State Police
HB 2166 - Ethics Commission, Filing of Verified Time Records
HB 2167 - Ethics Commission, Voting
HB 2170 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2178 - Accountancy, Board Rules and Rules of Professional Conduct
HB 2187 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2189 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Teachers' Retirement System
HB 2191 - Dental Examiners, Rules for the Board
HB 2201 - Ethics Commission, Employment Exemptions
HB 2202 - Ethics Commission, Lobbying
HB 2203 - Ethics Commission, Purchase, Sale or Lease of Personal Property
HB 2204 - Ethics Commission, Interest in Public Contracts
HB 2209 - Insurance Commission, Continuing Education for Individual Insurance Producers
HB 2210 - Insurance Commission, Preneed Life Insurance Minimum Standards
HB 2228 - Tax Department, Combined Returns Pursuant to an Investigation by the Tax Commissioner
HB 2234 - Relating to increasing the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make for an individual award
HB 2243 - Creating the joint commission on technology and advanced communications
HB 2284 - Prohibiting individual county board of education members from acting on behalf of the board in an individual capacity unless authorized by law
HB 2301 - Prohibiting the demolition of a historic structure prior to a review of and the issuance of a permit by the Commissioner of the Division of Culture and History
HB 2311 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2319 - Creating a Sentencing Commission
HB 2326 - Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day
HB 2341 - Requiring the State Board of Education to create a school drug safety program
HB 2346 - Providing that the PEIA Finance Board may make optional plans available as an IRS plan or as part of the preferred provider benefits
HB 2352 - Providing nonsupervisory employees of the West Virginia State Board of Education with the same protections against summary dismissal as are applicable to employees of county boards of education
HB 2354 - Creating the Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission
HB 2369 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2388 - Expanding the membership of the Racing Commission and reorganizing the administrative functions
HB 2398 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2403 - Updating the law governing professional licensing boards in general
HB 2408 - Establishing a multi-disciplinary commission to study, make findings and recommendations regarding incarceration population and costs
HB 2423 - Relating to the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology
HB 2437 - Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board
HB 2438 - Establishing the West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau Accreditation Board and requiring accreditation standards for convention and visitors bureaus
HB 2439 - Providing for the appointment of a commission to develop and conduct a field test of comprehensive, integrated statewide standardized electronic medical records access system
HB 2444 - Creating the Legislative Oversight Commission on Long-Term Care
HB 2508 - Permitting county board of education the power to employ the most qualified person to be athletic and other extracurricular coaches
HB 2515 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2539 - Authorizing professional licensing boards to combine administrative staff functions
HB 2552 - Revising Insurance Commissioner reporting requirements to the Legislature on workers' compensation insurance rules
HB 2555 - Establishing the West Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission and Fund
HB 2559 - Directing the State Board of Education to determine what principal and teacher reports are unnecessary
HB 2580 - Directing the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction on macroeconomics
HB 2581 - Making changes to the Municipal Home Rule Board
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2640 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2641 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2658 - Requiring state offices, agencies, boards and commissions to submit annual reports electronically
HB 2732 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2741 - Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners to sign readmission orders
HB 2766 - Authorizing the Commissioner of the Division of Culture and History to distribute fairs and festivals funding
HB 2767 - Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board
HB 2801 - Updating language and making technical changes and clarifications of the West Virginia Board of Medicine
HB 2828 - Pharmacy, board of pharmacy rules regarding licensure and practice
HB 2834 - Capping the amount of a PROMISE scholarship, dissolving the PROMISE Board, and reconstituting the Financial Aid Advisory Board
HB 2838 - Creating the Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning to oversee coordination of state agencies, departments, bureaus and commissions
HB 2872 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 2912 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 2915 - Authorizing the sale of prohibited fireworks
HB 2919 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 2927 - Requiring the Legislature to approve changes in costs imposed by the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board
HB 2937 - Allowing members of the board of banking and financial institutions to receive compensation for travel expenses
HB 2961 - Adding two members to the institutional boards of governors of West Virginia University and Marshall University based upon race, gender and ethnicity
HB 2968 - Requiring the State Fire Commission to establish safety standards for liquefied petroleum gas systems
HB 2975 - Authorizing the insurance commissioner to order restitution in certain cases
HB 2976 - Requiring the State Fire Commission to promulgate rules pertaining to the State Building Code
HB 2982 - Modifying the definition of "shallow" and "deep" wells to allow a shallow well to be drilled deeper
HB 2984 - Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards
HB 3010 - Granting designated employees of the Insurance Commissioner access to certain information kept by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy
HB 3038 - Relating to the enforcement powers of the Ethics Commission
HB 3084 - Updating the code in order to achieve conformity between operations of video lottery and authorized games of chance at the historic resort hotel and the operations of video lottery and table games at the pari-mutuel racetracks
HB 3098 - Relating to the payment of travel expenses of workers' compensation claimants
HB 3099 - Conducting a program to increase awareness and consumption of locally produced foods
HB 3103 - Crediting increases in copays, coinsurance, deductibles and out of pocket maximums adopted by the PEIA Finance Board to the twenty percent aggregate employee premium payment for insurance
HB 3150 - Requiring school boards to set and maintain reliable bussing schedules for bussing students and limiting the duration of travel for the students
HB 3151 - Relating to the frequency of funding of the courtesy patrol program
HB 3154 - Requiring the West Virginia Enhanced 911 Council to propose Emergency Medical Priority Dispatch procedures
HB 3157 - Relating to allowing a county board of education to enter into lease-purchase agreements and allowing the School Building Authority to provide one-time grants to a county board of education for that purpose
HB 3168 - Creating the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, creating a library board with the power to operate said library, and providing a method of financing the operation of the library
HB 3171 - Defining that if any two or more political subdivisions establish and maintain a self-insurance pool, the operation of such pool will constitute an insurance business
HB 3175 - Adjusting the State Rail Authority's contract authority due to inflation
HB 3181 - Providing that the definition of "financial institution" includes regulated consumer lenders, residential mortgage lenders, brokers and servicers, licensed money services businesses and all entities under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Banking
HB 3183 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of minorities
HB 3189 - Adding members to the Capitol Building Commission
HB 3231 - Expanding the number of hours temporary state personnel may work in a calendar year
HB 3232 - West Virginia Commuter Rail Access Act
HB 3247 - Requiring any person licensed to prescribe drugs to check with the State Board of Pharmacy before initially prescribing certain drugs to a new patient to determine if said patient is engaging in doctor shopping
HB 3280 - Relating to higher education capital facilities
HB 3287 - Requiring blasting contractors to notify the State Fire Marshal and local property owners before blasting
HB 3292 - Extending the expiration date of the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission
HB 3293 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 3294 - Requiring the jail facilities standards commission to promulgate rules for the confinement of certain persons in local jails and private facilities
HB 3308 - Prohibiting members of the same family within a certain degree of relationship to occupy more than one seat on a board of education simultaneously
HB 3311 - Clarifying that hospitals owned or operated by nonprofit corporations, nonprofit associations or local government units have only one governing body whose meetings shall be open to the public
HB 3340 - Relating to entry into a data state compact among the Higher Education Policy Commission, Council for Community and Technical College Education and State Board of Education

Bonds (6 Bills)
HB 2040 - Relating to when a recognizance bond is released
HB 2115 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2280 - Increasing the required bond for certain businesses regulated by the Division of Motor Vehicles to fifty thousand dollars
HB 2487 - Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule
HB 2632 - Modifying the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority's power to charge tolls and issue bonds
HB 2674 - Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule

Buildings (7 Bills)
HB 2108 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2326 - Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day
HB 2527 - Requiring that all houses, dwellings and businesses located in a district where public water service is made available for the first time after July 1, 2009, be connected to the public water service
HB 2564 - Limiting the exemption given to buildings used wholly as dwelling houses for no more than two families to those buildings only when owner-occupied
HB 2643 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers
HB 2948 - Requiring the use of the LEED and Green Globes standard for new construction and renovation of state buildings
HB 3131 - Green Buildings Act

Bureaus (3 Bills)
HB 2294 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2438 - Establishing the West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau Accreditation Board and requiring accreditation standards for convention and visitors bureaus
HB 2886 - Establishing accredited convention and visitor bureaus

Capitol Complex (2 Bills)
HB 2790 - Repealing the prohibition on bringing deadly weapons upon the State Capitol Complex
HB 2945 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings

Cemeteries (1 Bills)
HB 2460 - Prohibiting mining on cemetery land

Charitable Organizations (9 Bills)
HB 2120 - Prohibiting charitable organizations from soliciting contributions on public highways
HB 2239 - Exempting nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee
HB 2276 - Income tax deduction for gifts to West Virginia charities
HB 2364 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 2830 - Pharmacy, regulation of charitable clinic pharmacies
HB 2882 - Transferring authority over racing, boxing, charitable bingo, raffle, games and charitable lottery to the State Gaming and Alcohol Control Agency and State Gaming and Alcohol Control Commission
HB 3070 - Allowing nonprofit organizations to hold up to two charitable Texas hold'em tournaments per year
HB 3290 - Reducing the federal adjusted gross income, for West Virginia personal income tax purposes, of poll workers that donate their earnings to qualified charities
HB 3325 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items

Child Welfare (51 Bills)
HB 2022 - Relating to the investigation and prosecution of cases involving child abuse and neglect
HB 2039 - Establishing the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act
HB 2059 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility, school bus stop, or other child safety zone
HB 2111 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2114 - Providing a penalty for employers failing to withhold an employee's income for child support obligations
HB 2119 - Changing the compulsory school attendance for children in the state from sixteen to eighteen years of age
HB 2134 - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders
HB 2208 - Human Services, Child Care Center Licensing
HB 2288 - Changing compulsory school attendance until age eighteen or until the student graduates
HB 2297 - Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders
HB 2300 - Excluding certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2316 - Relating to unlawful possession of deadly weapons by a minor
HB 2342 - Allowing for juveniles to be tried as adults for instances of child abuse resulting in bodily injury and child abuse which results in death
HB 2380 - Providing that attendance of college by a noncustodial parent may not be used as grounds to modify a child support order
HB 2386 - Relating to the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2396 - Sexually Violent Predator Act
HB 2399 - Providing for tuition and fee waiver for certain child survivors of domestic violence deaths
HB 2400 - Establishes the State Police as the entity which is authorized to issue administrative subpoenas to internet service providers in cases of suspected child pornography
HB 2447 - Establishing county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers
HB 2452 - Providing that a child born addicted to a controlled substance constitutes child abuse
HB 2455 - Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors
HB 2456 - Relating to child abuse and neglect
HB 2493 - Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2542 - "Jason Flatt Act of 2009"
HB 2544 - Relating to factors to be considered in granting grandparent visitation
HB 2556 - Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2569 - Creating the Juvenile Services Reimbursement Offender Fund
HB 2583 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2598 - Relating to parental notification requirements for abortions performed on unemancipated minors
HB 2611 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents
HB 2612 - Increasing penalties for failing to report child abuse
HB 2613 - Prohibiting any law enforcement or other official from interfering in the service of a warrant in child abuse investigations
HB 2636 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2666 - Changing some processes and orders when determining child custody disputes
HB 2673 - Relating to leaving children unattended or supervised in motor vehicles
HB 2693 - Including testing for illegal drugs in newborns
HB 2704 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life
HB 2705 - Including additional information on the sex offender registry
HB 2707 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children
HB 2728 - Prohibiting sex offenders from residing in certain areas and subjecting convicted sex offenders to global positional system monitoring
HB 2760 - Granting juvenile probation officers the power to arrest juveniles under his or her discretion
HB 2761 - Transferring the authority to administer the juvenile justice database
HB 2772 - Increasing penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 2783 - Creating a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated
HB 2879 - Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child
HB 2880 - Creating the crime of murder of a child by a parent who exposes the child to the manufacturing of a controlled substance
HB 2983 - "Consent to Health Care of Minors Act"
HB 2989 - Failing to provide or return a minor child for visitation
HB 3105 - Establishing drug free zones at regularly designated school bus stops
HB 3120 - 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

Citizenship (2 Bills)
HB 2495 - Establishing the consumer's right to know regarding telemarketers and requiring certain vendors to use only persons authorized to work in the United States
HB 2871 - Verifying legal employment status of workers

Civil Rights (8 Bills)
HB 2269 - Relating to approval of a student for homebound services and their rights
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2454 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation
HB 2524 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2566 - Expanding applicability of increased penalties for crimes against certain protected persons
HB 2925 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation
HB 2954 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation
HB 3031 - Protecting academic speech of professional educators

Civil Service (4 Bills)
HB 2298 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2434 - Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions
HB 2919 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 3153 - Specifying that federal civil service system retirement income derived from military retirement system pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions is treated as military retirement income for purposes of the modifications to federal adjusted gross income

Claims (6 Bills)
HB 2449 - Verifying the lawful presence within the United States of any applicant for certain public benefits
HB 2457 - Requiring group insurance companies and third party administrators to furnish claims experience to policyholders
HB 2526 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 2634 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 2970 - Relating to compensation awards to victims of crimes
HB 3178 - Asbestos Claims Transparency Act

Code Repealed (9 Bills)
HB 2032 - Removing the section of code that limits the use of certain types of vehicles on highways between sunset and sunrise
HB 2424 - Repealing the Code of West Virginia and adopting in lieu thereof the Code of the Commonwealth of Virginia
HB 2651 - Repealing article regulating male breeding animals
HB 2652 - Repealing the Tree Fruit Industry Self-Improvement Act of 1984
HB 2691 - Repealing outdated sections of West Virginia Code
HB 2742 - Repealing outdated provisions from the WV Code relating to vinegars
HB 3011 - Repealing the section of code relating to limitation on political activity of officers or employees in the administration of the Vocational Rehabilitation Program
HB 3077 - Repealing existing provisions on limited benefit plans and creating a new program under which insurance companies would submit limited benefit plans, individual and group, for approval by the commissioner
HB 3165 - Repealing article of the code granting a business license to sell drug paraphernalia

Communications (13 Bills)
HB 2004 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2056 - Relating to electronic and paper requisition format approved by the Auditor
HB 2124 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2243 - Creating the joint commission on technology and advanced communications
HB 2290 - Relating to a no telephone solicitation contact (Do Not Call) list
HB 2443 - Relating to monitoring of inmate telephone calls
HB 2548 - Relating to telephone solicitation of consumers
HB 2549 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2597 - Making 911 emergency fees available to be used for both emergency and nonemergency calls
HB 2621 - Prohibiting the use of cell phone and text-messaging devices while operating a motor vehicle except when using a hands-free device or in the case of an emergency
HB 2642 - Reverting the 911 fee on wireless telephones from three dollars to seventy-five cents
HB 2683 - Increasing the amount allocated from the wireless enhanced 911 fee to be deposited into the enhanced 911 wireless tower access assistance fund
HB 3334 - Setting forth legislative purpose and plan regarding modernizing and streamlining antiquated telecommunications regulation

Consumer Protection (14 Bills)
HB 2279 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2282 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2290 - Relating to a no telephone solicitation contact (Do Not Call) list
HB 2495 - Establishing the consumer's right to know regarding telemarketers and requiring certain vendors to use only persons authorized to work in the United States
HB 2548 - Relating to telephone solicitation of consumers
HB 2549 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2557 - Relating to the enforcement of new motor vehicle warranties
HB 2803 - Limiting fees to not more than twenty-five percent of total debt owed by a buyer who contracts with a credit service organization
HB 2853 - Prohibiting the reporting of credit scoring as a part of a credit report
HB 3065 - Requiring disclosure of higher annual percentage rate upon refinancing of a loan not secured by real estate and to provide a reasonable, tangible net benefit to the borrower in any refinancing of a loan or sale that is secured by real estate
HB 3097 - Preventing predatory lending practices
HB 3127 - Protecting computer owners and users from computer spyware
HB 3182 - Relating to the sale of membership plans by consumer lenders
HB 3332 - Allowing the Division of Banking to participate in the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry

Contracts (16 Bills)
HB 2067 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2129 - Requiring bids under state contract to disclose the location of work to be performed or risk state termination of the contract
HB 2181 - Administration, Rules and Regulations Statewide Contract
HB 2204 - Ethics Commission, Interest in Public Contracts
HB 2324 - Giving abutting landowners of public lands a right of first refusal to lease or buy public lands
HB 2349 - Providing for continuing contract status for teachers and establishing dismissal and suspension procedures
HB 2365 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to allow Class I cities to enter into one or more agreements with contract carriers by motor vehicle
HB 2427 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 2571 - Relating to privatization contracts
HB 2718 - Authorizing public school teachers to purchase one personal computer and related devices per year from the state contract for use outside the classroom
HB 2872 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 2923 - Requiring the disclosure of subcontractors within a certain time of the close of bids for public construction contracts
HB 3002 - Allowing private citizens the freedom to enter into private contracts for health care services or health care coverage or both
HB 3167 - Decreasing the student to nurse staffing ratio and eliminating a county's ability to contract out nursing services
HB 3175 - Adjusting the State Rail Authority's contract authority due to inflation
HB 3255 - Relating to residential rental security deposits

Corporations and Business Entities (50 Bills)
HB 2009 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2042 - Providing a tax credit for Ad Valorem tax paid on Manufacturing Inventory
HB 2066 - Prohibiting fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline
HB 2070 - Requiring that all worker's compensation adjusters employed by a private insurance carrier be located within the geographic borders of West Virginia
HB 2084 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2098 - Prohibiting oil and gas operators from daylighting
HB 2114 - Providing a penalty for employers failing to withhold an employee's income for child support obligations
HB 2122 - Allowing municipalities to regulate the hours of operation of private liquor clubs by ordinance
HB 2128 - Relating to minimum grab bar standards for hotel and motel rooms that are specifically designated or intended for use by handicapped or disabled guests
HB 2137 - Prohibiting out-of-state persons or business entities from soliciting business by written advertisement in this state under certain circumstances
HB 2138 - 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
HB 2192 - Dental Examiners, Formation and Approval of Dental Corporations
HB 2280 - Increasing the required bond for certain businesses regulated by the Division of Motor Vehicles to fifty thousand dollars
HB 2281 - Relating to a tax exemption on certain sales of clothing
HB 2283 - Authorizing county tax assessors to choose not to impose the property tax in a county on businesses for property that is business inventory intended for resale
HB 2307 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2322 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2358 - Including a tax checkoff option for Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp
HB 2406 - Relating to unlawful expenditures by a local fiscal body
HB 2412 - Providing certain county commissions with authority to regulate the location of businesses offering exotic entertainment
HB 2417 - Making any willful failure to provide benefits under a discount medical plan organization and discount prescription drug plan organization a felony
HB 2454 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation
HB 2459 - Increasing the tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors outside corporate limits
HB 2476 - Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2505 - Exempting the sale of the services of shredding and recycling of paper and paper products from the consumer sales tax
HB 2516 - Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility
HB 2527 - Requiring that all houses, dwellings and businesses located in a district where public water service is made available for the first time after July 1, 2009, be connected to the public water service
HB 2547 - Relating to pawnbrokers obtaining a signed statement affirming ownership from a seller or pledgor on all sale or pawn transactions
HB 2554 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2565 - Relating to industrial accidents and emergencies
HB 2571 - Relating to privatization contracts
HB 2582 - Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds
HB 2675 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act
HB 2698 - Relating to pipeline companies paying a special license fee
HB 2722 - Providing a one hundred dollar tax credit to certain businesses that are required to reprogram its cash registers because of a change in the food tax
HB 2744 - Providing a small business tax credit
HB 2751 - Exempting nonprofit corporations from paying prevailing wages in certain circumstances
HB 2785 - Requiring that every house, dwelling or business located in an area where public water services are made available for the first time, be connected
HB 2805 - Regulating the locations of businesses offering exotic entertainment
HB 2843 - Relating to commercial dog breeding operations
HB 2855 - Permitting the holder of a license to sell nonintoxicating liquors to determine the use or nonuse of tobacco products on the licensees' premises
HB 2863 - Relating to construction of state utility projects
HB 2933 - Prohibiting privatization of government services unless private companies can prove that they can perform those services more efficiently
HB 3001 - Relating to mechanic's liens filed against corporations
HB 3073 - Exempting from the excise tax on property transfers property that is transferred from an individual to a wholly-owned corporation or a wholly-owned limited liability company
HB 3125 - Providing a tax credit against income tax for the sale of stock in a corporation located within West Virginia
HB 3164 - Revising current restrictions on outdoor advertising of businesses
HB 3179 - Relating to the West Virginia Film Industry Investment Act
HB 3293 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 3328 - Relating to minority owned businesses, small businesses and women owned businesses

Corrections (35 Bills)
HB 2011 - Providing correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of actual and honorable service
HB 2023 - Providing all persons convicted of a felony are subject to DNA testing
HB 2040 - Relating to when a recognizance bond is released
HB 2051 - Providing a two thousand eight dollar salary increase for each employee of the Division of Corrections
HB 2076 - Making it unlawful to offer for sale or sell products created wholly or in part by county or regional jail inmates
HB 2222 - Authorizing the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2252 - Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees
HB 2315 - Relating to eligibility for parole
HB 2319 - Creating a Sentencing Commission
HB 2404 - Relating to inmate reimbursement for medical services provided to persons held in regional jails
HB 2407 - Relating to trustee accounts and funds, earnings and personal property of inmates
HB 2408 - Establishing a multi-disciplinary commission to study, make findings and recommendations regarding incarceration population and costs
HB 2419 - Providing inmates a reduction in sentence for completion of education and rehabilitation programs
HB 2420 - Relating to offenses by or against inmates
HB 2426 - Reducing state income tax for state correctional officer retirees
HB 2443 - Relating to monitoring of inmate telephone calls
HB 2545 - Providing arresting agency shall pay cost for the initial twenty-four hours of incarceration
HB 2546 - Requiring person incarcerated for sex offenses to register as such at the time they are incarcerated
HB 2570 - Correctional Industries Act of 2009
HB 2586 - Granting a salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2587 - Capping regional jail per diem charges at forty-eight dollars and ten cents
HB 2608 - Changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2638 - Establishing a work program for qualified inmates
HB 2641 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2654 - Relating to costs for housing inmates who are transferred to the custody of the division of corrections
HB 2701 - Relating to an escape of any person from the custody of the Division of Juvenile Services
HB 2711 - Providing that correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of service
HB 2756 - Clarifying that probation officers have the authority to arrest both probationers and persons on supervised release
HB 2782 - Authorizing a $2,008 pay raise for employees of the West Virginia Regional Jail Authority, Division of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Services
HB 2799 - Eliminating parole for persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities
HB 2819 - Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules
HB 3161 - Providing that the officers of the Division of Protective Services have the same powers of arrest and law enforcement as members of the West Virginia State Police
HB 3273 - West Virginia Correctional Officer Retirement System Act
HB 3294 - Requiring the jail facilities standards commission to promulgate rules for the confinement of certain persons in local jails and private facilities
HB 3305 - Relating to the powers and duties of probation officers

Counties (And Related Subheadings) (19 Bills)
HB 2050 - Expanding the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties; and increasing the number of members
HB 2075 - Allowing family court judges to carry concealed deadly weapons without obtaining a license
HB 2117 - Reallocating the proceeds from limited video lottery by increasing the percentages payable to counties, municipalities and retailers
HB 2147 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2286 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2296 - Empowering certain county and municipalities to deny a development activity if adequate public facilities, assets and services are not available to support the activity
HB 2311 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2326 - Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day
HB 2447 - Establishing county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers
HB 2498 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 2515 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2525 - Capping the amount paid into the Berkeley County Library Fund by the Berkeley County Court
HB 2540 - Dedicating a portion of revenue generated from certain severance taxes for the benefit of counties from which the revenue was generated
HB 2588 - Providing that only healthy beverages and healthy or nutritional snacks may be sold in the county school system
HB 3056 - Removing language that prohibits the state from using a county's General Revenue Fund for historic preservation
HB 3071 - Providing that all fire alarm systems, including all components, shall be electronically supervised
HB 3108 - Requiring the assessor of each county to prepare a new property tax ticket within three months of a deed filing
HB 3122 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to distribute 911 fees from VoIP service providers directly to the counties in proportion to the amount of 911 fees collected from VoIP service subscribers located in each county
HB 3142 - Prohibiting counties from using service fees or user fees to finance infrastructure projects

Counties -- Commissions (19 Bills)
HB 2074 - Requiring that certain records maintained by the clerk of the county commission to be preserved
HB 2260 - Authorizing governing bodies of municipalities and county commissions to transfer early in-person voting ballots to precincts in the manner absentee ballots are delivered
HB 2265 - Requiring public utilities to file with the county commission in each county in which it provides service, copies of all proposed tariffs and schedules showing all the rates, charges and tolls
HB 2267 - Providing that a county commission may establish a program for transfer of development rights without the requirement for an election
HB 2372 - Authorizing county commissions to use impact fees to fund the building and operation of libraries and to administer and provide affordable housing for individuals or families of low or moderate income
HB 2412 - Providing certain county commissions with authority to regulate the location of businesses offering exotic entertainment
HB 2462 - Authorizing county commissions to adopt and enforce noise abatement ordinances
HB 2464 - Authorizing county commissions to designate locations for early voting other than the county courthouse or annex
HB 2473 - Relating to the commissioner's rule-making authority for workers' compensation
HB 2616 - Removing extraneous language regarding the limitation of exotic entertainment by county commissions
HB 2805 - Regulating the locations of businesses offering exotic entertainment
HB 2886 - Establishing accredited convention and visitor bureaus
HB 2926 - Establishing a procedure for challenging a candidate's qualifications for elected office
HB 3111 - Requiring county commissions to hold one monthly meeting in the evening
HB 3120 - 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
HB 3169 - Providing a detailed standard of review that the county commission may apply in reviewing the findings of a fiduciary supervisor on probate matters
HB 3236 - Authorizing counties to create urban growth boundaries
HB 3254 - Requiring county commissions to adopt and implement county farmland protection programs
HB 3335 - Relating to limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms

Counties -- Courts and Officers (6 Bills)
HB 2077 - Adding a magistrate to those serving Putnam County
HB 2283 - Authorizing county tax assessors to choose not to impose the property tax in a county on businesses for property that is business inventory intended for resale
HB 2292 - Relating to requiring lien holders to notify the sheriff's office via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days after the lien has been satisfied
HB 2466 - Adding one magistrate to Wood County
HB 2677 - Increasing the number of magistrates in Jefferson County by one
HB 3034 - Giving county litter control officers the authority to issue citations for not having proof of proper disposal of garbage

Counties -- Law Enforcement (1 Bills)
HB 3244 - Authorizing a law enforcement officer to make an arrest and take the driver before a magistrate or court when the person is charged with driving with a suspended license

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (19 Bills)
HB 2046 - Enabling creditors to collect upon their judgements from debtors who often attempt to defeat such judgments
HB 2078 - Notifying persons from out-of-state who issue worthless checks in this state and who, fail to pay the check and applicable fine or fail to appear in court, that a notice of their failure will be sent to the Division of Motor Vehicles
HB 2107 - Providing a method in which males may contest allegations or presumptions of biological parentage under certain circumstances
HB 2315 - Relating to eligibility for parole
HB 2371 - Releasing the name and identification of any juvenile adjudicated or convicted of a crime to the victims
HB 2405 - Relating to Public Defender Services and raising the hourly rate of compensation for panel attorneys
HB 2464 - Authorizing county commissions to designate locations for early voting other than the county courthouse or annex
HB 2465 - Imposing certain conditions of probation of sex offenders convicted of failing to register
HB 2491 - Providing a statutory good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when evidence has been obtained during an execution of a search warrant, arrest warrant or capias
HB 2492 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2525 - Capping the amount paid into the Berkeley County Library Fund by the Berkeley County Court
HB 2544 - Relating to factors to be considered in granting grandparent visitation
HB 2590 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors
HB 2731 - Increasing the salary of family court judges
HB 2739 - Enhancing the service and enforcement of domestic violence protective orders issued by state courts
HB 2808 - Providing a procedure for removal of county, district or municipal officers
HB 3050 - Requiring disclosure by judicial officers of campaign contributions in excess of $250
HB 3269 - Creating an Intermediate Court of Appeals for each of the state's three congressional districts
HB 3315 - Prohibiting members of the media from being compelled to give testimony, or be subject to search, provided certain conditions are met

Courts -- Circuit (2 Bills)
HB 2603 - Relating to nonpartisan election of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 3185 - Authorizing an additional circuit judge to the seventeenth judicial circuit

Courts -- Magistrate (18 Bills)
HB 2060 - Requiring magistrate courts to maintain records relating to successful collection rates on judgements
HB 2077 - Adding a magistrate to those serving Putnam County
HB 2079 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked
HB 2428 - Permitting magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2466 - Adding one magistrate to Wood County
HB 2672 - Expanding the powers of the magistrate to prosecute for worthless checks beyond the strict limitations of NSF
HB 2677 - Increasing the number of magistrates in Jefferson County by one
HB 2688 - Prohibiting magistrates from imposing multiple court cost fees for the same matter
HB 2759 - Authorizing magistrate court clerks to collect a fee for preparing an abstract of judgement in civil matters
HB 2792 - Requiring the Chief Inspector of Public Offices to make financial audit reports of magistrate courts available on the Auditor's web site
HB 2806 - Removing the salary cap for secretary-clerks and case coordinators of the family court
HB 2840 - Relating to qualifications of magistrates
HB 2898 - Creating four part-time magistrate court deputy clerk positions
HB 2910 - Increasing the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county
HB 2990 - Increasing the dollar amount in controversy for magistrate courts to have jurisdiction involving civil actions
HB 3012 - Relating to electing magistrates by division
HB 3117 - Providing for a total of four part-time deputy magistrate court clerks to be employed to assist with the workload of magistrate court clerks who have often been overburdened
HB 3303 - Increasing the salaries of magistrates who serve populations of eight thousand four hundred or more

Courts -- Supreme Court (6 Bills)
HB 2305 - Revising appointment and compensation provisions of the Supreme Court Clerk and his or her staff
HB 2487 - Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule
HB 2603 - Relating to nonpartisan election of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 2674 - Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule
HB 2737 - Authorizing the Administrative Director of the Supreme Court of Appeals to hire regional or specialized probation officers
HB 2738 - Registering protective orders with the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Creditors and Debtors (12 Bills)
HB 2046 - Enabling creditors to collect upon their judgements from debtors who often attempt to defeat such judgments
HB 2240 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2241 - Relating to credit card solicitation on college campuses
HB 2282 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2364 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 2391 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses
HB 2451 - Prohibiting the use of credit scoring as a consideration in calculating auto and homeowners insurance rates
HB 2599 - Changing the PROMISE Scholarship Program to the PROMISE Forgivable Student Loan Program and establishing deferment and forgiveness conditions
HB 2777 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2803 - Limiting fees to not more than twenty-five percent of total debt owed by a buyer who contracts with a credit service organization
HB 2853 - Prohibiting the reporting of credit scoring as a part of a credit report
HB 2922 - Prohibiting credit card solicitation of students on college campuses

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (44 Bills)
HB 2015 - Creating the criminal offense of injury to a pregnant woman that results in miscarriage or stillbirth
HB 2018 - Making the destruction of a landlord's property which has been rented for residential purposes a criminal offense
HB 2115 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2124 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2130 - Prohibiting law-enforcement officers from asking crime victims if they have insurance coverage to cover losses occasioned by criminal activity
HB 2237 - Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide
HB 2252 - Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees
HB 2262 - Making it a misdemeanor to file a frivolous lawsuit
HB 2270 - Increasing certain penalties for persons convicted of domestic battery and domestic assault
HB 2293 - Creating the criminal offense of harassment of a participant of a neighborhood crime watch
HB 2347 - Requiring the preservation of biological evidence found in connection with a criminal case, and establishing penalties for violations
HB 2348 - Requiring mandatory community service upon conviction of a misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence and creating a central registry
HB 2353 - Relating to the crime victims compensation program
HB 2393 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2407 - Relating to trustee accounts and funds, earnings and personal property of inmates
HB 2420 - Relating to offenses by or against inmates
HB 2443 - Relating to monitoring of inmate telephone calls
HB 2490 - Including persons who participate in or who contribute to taking a person's identity with fraudulent intent
HB 2566 - Expanding applicability of increased penalties for crimes against certain protected persons
HB 2607 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2609 - Establishing criminal penalties for interfering with medical treatment of a railroad employee
HB 2653 - Authorizing use of citations in lieu of arrest warrants for certain offenses
HB 2695 - Providing criminal penalties for a hunter who fails to render aid to a person the hunter shoots while hunting
HB 2710 - Increasing criminal penalty to commit malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery or assault upon a child protective caseworker or a local adult protective services caseworker employee
HB 2716 - Clarifying the penalty provisions regarding battery on a police officer
HB 2754 - Requiring witnesses of violent acts or emergency situations to report the incident to law-enforcement
HB 2819 - Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2846 - Relating to criminalizing abortion
HB 2879 - Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child
HB 2880 - Creating the crime of murder of a child by a parent who exposes the child to the manufacturing of a controlled substance
HB 2881 - Relating to fees charged for worthless checks
HB 2944 - Providing for the criminal offenses of home invasion in the first, second, third and fourth degrees
HB 2958 - Increasing the fines for a trespassing conviction pursuant to certain circumstances
HB 2970 - Relating to compensation awards to victims of crimes
HB 2989 - Failing to provide or return a minor child for visitation
HB 3019 - Relating to obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer
HB 3036 - Relating to notice and publication requirements for expungement petitions
HB 3059 - Exempting federal, state, county or private investigators from prosecution for stalking due to performing lawful investigations
HB 3086 - Permitting home incarceration supervisors to carry handguns in the course of their official duties
HB 3087 - Making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace
HB 3141 - Including larceny of copper ground wires or cables from communications towers sites under crimes against property
HB 3177 - Banning abortions in instances where the fetus could survive if delivered and providing a criminal penalty for violations
HB 3184 - Establishing a criminal penalty for entry upon any property owned or leased by a public utility or a company engaged in the production or transmission of natural gas
HB 3263 - Providing that all persons have a right to be free from violence

Crimes -- Alcohol and Drugs (9 Bills)
HB 2082 - Providing criminal penalties for negligently or carelessly shooting and wounding or killing a human being while hunting under the influence of alcohol or drugs
HB 2266 - Creating a registry of convictions for operating a clandestine drug laboratory
HB 2562 - Creating the felony offense of unlawful possession of cocaine
HB 2593 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2594 - Providing that persons convicted of certain drug related crimes must participate in a substance abuse counseling program to be eligible for probation
HB 2664 - Reducing recidivism of offenders convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol
HB 2671 - Establishing criminal penalties of not less than two years nor more than ten years for the manufacture, delivery or possession of methamphetamine precursors
HB 2772 - Increasing penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 3239 - Including medical scooters within the definition of "motor vehicle" for purposes of driving under the influence

Crimes -- Felonies (15 Bills)
HB 2008 - Defining "the deceased" for purposes of prescribing that a deceased victim includes unborn children under first and second degree murder
HB 2023 - Providing all persons convicted of a felony are subject to DNA testing
HB 2052 - Prohibiting a person convicted of any felony from holding public office
HB 2121 - Making armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property or school personnel or students a felony
HB 2279 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2383 - Prohibiting any person convicted of any felony from voting in an election of state and local officials
HB 2417 - Making any willful failure to provide benefits under a discount medical plan organization and discount prescription drug plan organization a felony
HB 2440 - Relating to the insertion of language which defines acts of violence and makes its false reporting a felony
HB 2562 - Creating the felony offense of unlawful possession of cocaine
HB 2600 - Lying to a deputy sheriff or municipal police officer who is conducting an investigation of a felony, is a misdemeanor
HB 2783 - Creating a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated
HB 2802 - Providing for a death penalty and procedures and standards applicable thereto for commission of murder in the first degree
HB 2920 - Eliminating the felony conviction for a second or subsequent conviction of petit larceny
HB 2952 - Clarifying that a terroristic threat is a felony regardless of intent to actually commit the threatened act
HB 3266 - Increasing the penalty for accessory after the fact to certain crimes to a felony

Crimes -- Juveniles (6 Bills)
HB 2297 - Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders
HB 2342 - Allowing for juveniles to be tried as adults for instances of child abuse resulting in bodily injury and child abuse which results in death
HB 2371 - Releasing the name and identification of any juvenile adjudicated or convicted of a crime to the victims
HB 2569 - Creating the Juvenile Services Reimbursement Offender Fund
HB 2877 - Increasing the monetary penalties, removing the possibility of incarceration and adding community service for a minor who misrepresents his or her age when purchasing alcohol
HB 3109 - Requiring reporting of assaults, batteries and other incidents on school property

Crimes -- Sexual Offenses (12 Bills)
HB 2059 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility, school bus stop, or other child safety zone
HB 2149 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2396 - Sexually Violent Predator Act
HB 2465 - Imposing certain conditions of probation of sex offenders convicted of failing to register
HB 2546 - Requiring person incarcerated for sex offenses to register as such at the time they are incarcerated
HB 2641 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2704 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life
HB 2705 - Including additional information on the sex offender registry
HB 2707 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children
HB 2728 - Prohibiting sex offenders from residing in certain areas and subjecting convicted sex offenders to global positional system monitoring
HB 3102 - Requiring sex offenders to pay a fee which is to be deposited into the State Police Retirement Fund
HB 3304 - Relating to residency restrictions for registered sex offenders

Criminal Background Checks (1 Bills)
HB 2568 - Requiring background checks on applicants for residence in nursing homes and assisted living residences

Culture and History (6 Bills)
HB 2301 - Prohibiting the demolition of a historic structure prior to a review of and the issuance of a permit by the Commissioner of the Division of Culture and History
HB 2310 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History
HB 2312 - Authorizing the National Coal Heritage Area Authority to assist in the historical, cultural, recreational and economic development of Coalwood Way
HB 2551 - Instituting a "Celebrate Freedom Week" and requiring the instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other American historical documents
HB 2555 - Establishing the West Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission and Fund
HB 2766 - Authorizing the Commissioner of the Division of Culture and History to distribute fairs and festivals funding

Disabilities (24 Bills)
HB 2068 - Excluding federal interest income when applying the income exclusion available to those sixty-five years of age or older and to persons permanently and totally disabled
HB 2128 - Relating to minimum grab bar standards for hotel and motel rooms that are specifically designated or intended for use by handicapped or disabled guests
HB 2140 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2190 - Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Qualifications and Standards for Interpreters and Transliterators
HB 2225 - Authorizing the Department of Education and the Arts to Promulgate Legislative Rules
HB 2338 - Eliminating the six month waiting period for those in the Teachers Retirement System to receive disability retirement benefits
HB 2414 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2504 - Establishing the Silver Alert Plan, an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons
HB 2579 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2607 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2625 - Providing for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming
HB 2633 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2727 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for disabled public employee retirement annuitants
HB 2778 - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five
HB 2795 - Creating a special hunting and fishing license for persons with a life-threatening condition who are under twenty-one years of age
HB 2867 - Relating to autism spectrum disorder
HB 2868 - West Virginia Children with Autism Trust Act
HB 2888 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors
HB 2962 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2985 - Providing information on the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind to the guardian of a child with a visual or auditory impairment
HB 3107 - Issuing special registration plates allowing parking privileges for persons with mobility impairments
HB 3170 - Relating to WV Guardianship and Conservatorship Act
HB 3259 - Relating to compromise and settlement of workers' compensation claims for permanent total disability
HB 3319 - Permitting the parents of an autistic student to seek a change in the student's aide or mentor

Domestic Relations (32 Bills)
HB 2033 - Including a parenting plan with an application for a marriage license
HB 2038 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 2047 - Providing that alleged victims of domestic violence or abuse have the right to have a person of their choosing present when they are interviewed by law-enforcement officers or the prosecuting attorney
HB 2107 - Providing a method in which males may contest allegations or presumptions of biological parentage under certain circumstances
HB 2115 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2140 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2227 - Secretary of State, Administration of the Address Confidentiality Program
HB 2238 - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire
HB 2254 - Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn child
HB 2270 - Increasing certain penalties for persons convicted of domestic battery and domestic assault
HB 2300 - Excluding certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2380 - Providing that attendance of college by a noncustodial parent may not be used as grounds to modify a child support order
HB 2386 - Relating to the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2399 - Providing for tuition and fee waiver for certain child survivors of domestic violence deaths
HB 2456 - Relating to child abuse and neglect
HB 2463 - Providing that adultery shall be a bar to alimony in a divorce proceeding
HB 2532 - Creating licensure for Marriage and Family Therapists
HB 2544 - Relating to factors to be considered in granting grandparent visitation
HB 2612 - Increasing penalties for failing to report child abuse
HB 2666 - Changing some processes and orders when determining child custody disputes
HB 2678 - Providing for payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence
HB 2694 - Establishing certain requirements for modification of custodial rights for parent's or guardian's that have been deployed to the United States Armed Forces
HB 2738 - Registering protective orders with the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
HB 2739 - Enhancing the service and enforcement of domestic violence protective orders issued by state courts
HB 2762 - Relating to jurisdiction for petitions by grandparents for visitation of grandchild
HB 2796 - Using both parents' income in determining child support, calculation of adjusted gross income
HB 2966 - Requiring both parents to be equally responsible for a child's funeral expenses
HB 2971 - Clarifying domestic relations definitions
HB 3163 - Providing that the limitation on child support is tolled until the last child that is subject of an income withholding order reaches eighteen years of age
HB 3298 - Relating to court ordered investigations and prohibited use of supervised visitation
HB 3299 - Relating to requirements for self-employed persons to participate in the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement's PayConnextion program
HB 3322 - Creating and issuing certificates recognizing the termination of marriage

Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia (17 Bills)
HB 2100 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
HB 2103 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2259 - Relating to the creation and implementation of drug-free workplaces in coal mines
HB 2266 - Creating a registry of convictions for operating a clandestine drug laboratory
HB 2341 - Requiring the State Board of Education to create a school drug safety program
HB 2415 - Identifying salvia divinorum as a hallucinogen and adding it to the list of controlled substances
HB 2452 - Providing that a child born addicted to a controlled substance constitutes child abuse
HB 2496 - Establishing threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possessed by an individual
HB 2562 - Creating the felony offense of unlawful possession of cocaine
HB 2583 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2594 - Providing that persons convicted of certain drug related crimes must participate in a substance abuse counseling program to be eligible for probation
HB 2644 - Relating to prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs
HB 2647 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers
HB 2671 - Establishing criminal penalties of not less than two years nor more than ten years for the manufacture, delivery or possession of methamphetamine precursors
HB 2684 - West Virginia Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act
HB 2992 - Relating to the delivery of controlled substances on or in an educational facility or school
HB 3060 - Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics except for programs operated as community health centers and requiring all community health center methadone programs to monitor patient's pharmacy registry

Economic Development (14 Bills)
HB 2084 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2296 - Empowering certain county and municipalities to deny a development activity if adequate public facilities, assets and services are not available to support the activity
HB 2312 - Authorizing the National Coal Heritage Area Authority to assist in the historical, cultural, recreational and economic development of Coalwood Way
HB 2350 - Providing that the transfer of development rights are renewable
HB 2363 - Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2387 - Establishing in the state treasury a targeted minority economic development fund to address economic issues of minorities and minority communities
HB 2427 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 2632 - Modifying the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority's power to charge tolls and issue bonds
HB 2816 - Development Office, Brownfield Economic Development Districts
HB 2835 - Relating to the Office of Coalfield Community Development and master land use plans
HB 2972 - Requiring that not less than fifty percent of the moneys remaining in the Tourism Promotion Fund be made to West Virginia companies
HB 3113 - Relating to arts, entertainment and enterprise districts
HB 3129 - Creative Communities Development Act
HB 3321 - Relating to the frequency of funding of the courtesy patrol program

Education (And Related Subheadings) (80 Bills)
HB 2017 - Authorizing and encouraging county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel
HB 2024 - Reducing staff development programs for school personnel from eighteen hours to twelve hours
HB 2031 - Permitting firework displays on public school property provided the State Superintendent and the Fire Marshal approve the display
HB 2059 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility, school bus stop, or other child safety zone
HB 2085 - Providing county boards of education may study the economic feasibility of exercising an option of engaging in cooperative agreements with local public or regional transit authorities to transport students
HB 2093 - Providing a framework to avoid imposition of policies and practices on the public schools that distract from a thorough and efficient education
HB 2095 - Faculty Excellence Act
HB 2118 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2119 - Changing the compulsory school attendance for children in the state from sixteen to eighteen years of age
HB 2121 - Making armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property or school personnel or students a felony
HB 2126 - Requiring that the State School Board ensure that no class size for grades seven through twelve be greater than twenty-five students to every one teacher
HB 2147 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2209 - Insurance Commission, Continuing Education for Individual Insurance Producers
HB 2269 - Relating to approval of a student for homebound services and their rights
HB 2271 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2284 - Prohibiting individual county board of education members from acting on behalf of the board in an individual capacity unless authorized by law
HB 2288 - Changing compulsory school attendance until age eighteen or until the student graduates
HB 2310 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History
HB 2311 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2326 - Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day
HB 2330 - Requiring that all decisions regarding certain reductions in full-time classified personnel workforce at state institutions of higher education be made on the basis of seniority
HB 2335 - Relating to the federal "Yellow Ribbon G. I. Education Enhancement Program"
HB 2340 - Approving fee waivers for certain students and faculty and staff at institutions of higher education and providing that nonresident faculty and staff may get the exemption only up to the amount of in-state tuition
HB 2341 - Requiring the State Board of Education to create a school drug safety program
HB 2349 - Providing for continuing contract status for teachers and establishing dismissal and suspension procedures
HB 2352 - Providing nonsupervisory employees of the West Virginia State Board of Education with the same protections against summary dismissal as are applicable to employees of county boards of education
HB 2384 - Allowing the State Superintendent of Schools to designate certain geographical areas as a "School Choice Zone"
HB 2392 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2397 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2402 - Relating to the annual school calendar
HB 2419 - Providing inmates a reduction in sentence for completion of education and rehabilitation programs
HB 2470 - Exempting all schools which include grades kindergarten through twelve from paying consumer sales tax on items the school sells
HB 2481 - Giving state institutions of higher education more flexibility in the planning and operation of their schools
HB 2494 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2508 - Permitting county board of education the power to employ the most qualified person to be athletic and other extracurricular coaches
HB 2510 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2515 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2530 - Relating to further defining professional student support personnel
HB 2550 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2556 - Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2559 - Directing the State Board of Education to determine what principal and teacher reports are unnecessary
HB 2563 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2577 - Allowing a public school employee or retiree who missed work as a result of pregnancy to purchase up to one year of service credit in the teachers retirement system
HB 2588 - Providing that only healthy beverages and healthy or nutritional snacks may be sold in the county school system
HB 2599 - Changing the PROMISE Scholarship Program to the PROMISE Forgivable Student Loan Program and establishing deferment and forgiveness conditions
HB 2604 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2614 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2631 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2718 - Authorizing public school teachers to purchase one personal computer and related devices per year from the state contract for use outside the classroom
HB 2730 - Authorizing a tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas
HB 2732 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2749 - Permitting home school children to participate in athletic and other extracurricular activities of secondary schools
HB 2768 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements
HB 2804 - Preventing a professional educator from taking a coaching position away from a current coach
HB 2834 - Capping the amount of a PROMISE scholarship, dissolving the PROMISE Board, and reconstituting the Financial Aid Advisory Board
HB 2836 - School Innovation Zones Act
HB 2849 - Requiring automatic tire chains as standard equipment on all new school buses
HB 2865 - Exempting certain children from having to provide the otherwise appropriate written excuse from a physician or school nurse for a prolonged absence
HB 2872 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 2984 - Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards
HB 3006 - Relating to the hiring, termination, transfer and reassignment of teachers and school personnel
HB 3011 - Repealing the section of code relating to limitation on political activity of officers or employees in the administration of the Vocational Rehabilitation Program
HB 3026 - Providing a two-tiered personal income tax credit to parents or legal guardians who provide home or private, primary or secondary education for their children
HB 3043 - Prohibiting extended coverage upon retirement based on years of service for new higher education employees
HB 3064 - Providing that persons sixty-five years of age or older may be admitted to athletic and other extracurricular activities of secondary schools without payment of admission fees
HB 3088 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent
HB 3105 - Establishing drug free zones at regularly designated school bus stops
HB 3123 - Relating to donation and transfer of surplus personal computers and other information systems, technology and equipment for educational purposes
HB 3150 - Requiring school boards to set and maintain reliable bussing schedules for bussing students and limiting the duration of travel for the students
HB 3151 - Relating to the frequency of funding of the courtesy patrol program
HB 3157 - Relating to allowing a county board of education to enter into lease-purchase agreements and allowing the School Building Authority to provide one-time grants to a county board of education for that purpose
HB 3167 - Decreasing the student to nurse staffing ratio and eliminating a county's ability to contract out nursing services
HB 3235 - Prohibiting the use of calculators for teaching purposes in grades K through eight
HB 3295 - Relating to the West Virginia State Treasurer's Office
HB 3308 - Prohibiting members of the same family within a certain degree of relationship to occupy more than one seat on a board of education simultaneously
HB 3313 - 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
HB 3319 - Permitting the parents of an autistic student to seek a change in the student's aide or mentor
HB 3320 - The Family Education Tax Credit Act
HB 3330 - Charter Schools Act

Education -- Colleges & Universities (44 Bills)
HB 2037 - Relating to requirements for PROMISE scholarships
HB 2044 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2067 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2094 - Prohibiting employees of higher education from assisting students in securing abortions
HB 2101 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2131 - Providing West Virginia students with a partial PROMISE scholarship for schooling outside this state for the reason that no in-state institution offers a course for a major or a degree in the student's desired field
HB 2223 - Registered Professional Nurses, Policies Standards and Criteria for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges or Schools of Nursing
HB 2241 - Relating to credit card solicitation on college campuses
HB 2249 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
HB 2256 - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment of state income tax
HB 2273 - Relating to suspension of drivers license for certain offenses if committed by college students
HB 2330 - Requiring that all decisions regarding certain reductions in full-time classified personnel workforce at state institutions of higher education be made on the basis of seniority
HB 2331 - Allowing teachers who graduated from colleges and universities that are not accredited by associations recognized in West Virginia, to obtain a teaching certificate based on their certification in another state
HB 2340 - Approving fee waivers for certain students and faculty and staff at institutions of higher education and providing that nonresident faculty and staff may get the exemption only up to the amount of in-state tuition
HB 2380 - Providing that attendance of college by a noncustodial parent may not be used as grounds to modify a child support order
HB 2399 - Providing for tuition and fee waiver for certain child survivors of domestic violence deaths
HB 2453 - Providing a tax credit for scholarship donations
HB 2467 - Providing for special registration plates bearing the logo, insignia, letters or words demonstrating support for Mountain State University
HB 2481 - Giving state institutions of higher education more flexibility in the planning and operation of their schools
HB 2513 - Pay incentives for teachers who teach in their core field degree
HB 2543 - Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion
HB 2550 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2599 - Changing the PROMISE Scholarship Program to the PROMISE Forgivable Student Loan Program and establishing deferment and forgiveness conditions
HB 2639 - Allowing for more teachers to be reimbursed for approved course work
HB 2700 - Protecting academic freedom in higher education
HB 2810 - Providing salary increases for deputies with college degrees
HB 2904 - Authorizing rules for higher education
HB 2921 - Relating to tuition and fee waivers for members of the West Virginia State Police to attend a college or university
HB 2922 - Prohibiting credit card solicitation of students on college campuses
HB 2955 - Removing West Virginia University of Technology from the merger with West Virginia University
HB 2961 - Adding two members to the institutional boards of governors of West Virginia University and Marshall University based upon race, gender and ethnicity
HB 2985 - Providing information on the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind to the guardian of a child with a visual or auditory impairment
HB 3031 - Protecting academic speech of professional educators
HB 3137 - Special Needs Scholarship Program
HB 3138 - Providing paid childbirth leave for higher education personnel
HB 3173 - Setting compensation standards for classified employees who work overtime on weekends or holidays
HB 3188 - Relating to the Higher Education Merit Screening Advisory Committee
HB 3257 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists
HB 3277 - Changing West Virginia University at Parkersburg from a community and technical college and merging it with West Virginia University
HB 3280 - Relating to higher education capital facilities
HB 3282 - Relating to PROMISE Scholarship requirements
HB 3286 - The Eustace Frederick Preengineering and Technology Education Programs
HB 3338 - Integrating the operations of the Community and Technical College at West Virginia University Institute of Technology into West Virginia University Institute of Technology
HB 3340 - Relating to entry into a data state compact among the Higher Education Policy Commission, Council for Community and Technical College Education and State Board of Education

Education -- Courses, Programs & Testing (20 Bills)
HB 2020 - Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing requirement
HB 2024 - Reducing staff development programs for school personnel from eighteen hours to twelve hours
HB 2037 - Relating to requirements for PROMISE scholarships
HB 2044 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2096 - Requiring the subject of physics as a required course in all public secondary schools for graduation
HB 2131 - Providing West Virginia students with a partial PROMISE scholarship for schooling outside this state for the reason that no in-state institution offers a course for a major or a degree in the student's desired field
HB 2223 - Registered Professional Nurses, Policies Standards and Criteria for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges or Schools of Nursing
HB 2245 - Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school
HB 2249 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
HB 2329 - Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development
HB 2376 - Allowing a school service mechanic to have experience, training and certifications considered towards his or her pay rate
HB 2402 - Relating to the annual school calendar
HB 2513 - Pay incentives for teachers who teach in their core field degree
HB 2580 - Directing the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction on macroeconomics
HB 2637 - Requiring that all state high schools provide a course in archery safety for hunters
HB 2639 - Allowing for more teachers to be reimbursed for approved course work
HB 2714 - Specifying the types of topics that are to be covered in school programs on personal finance
HB 2832 - Relating to critical skills evaluations for students in grades three and eight
HB 3234 - Requiring that fetal models be displayed in public schools
HB 3260 - Requiring the accumulation of one and one-half years of instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other founding American historical documents, including the Bill of Rights, before high school graduation

Education -- Retirement (19 Bills)
HB 2041 - Exempting the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax
HB 2246 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2327 - Providing cost-of-living benefits to retired teachers funded from the severance tax collections on natural gas
HB 2338 - Eliminating the six month waiting period for those in the Teachers Retirement System to receive disability retirement benefits
HB 2345 - Exempting from state and personal income tax the benefits a retired teacher receives from the State Teachers Retirement System under certain circumstances
HB 2385 - 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
HB 2390 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2410 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2560 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2577 - Allowing a public school employee or retiree who missed work as a result of pregnancy to purchase up to one year of service credit in the teachers retirement system
HB 2703 - Relating to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2709 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2726 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons under the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2734 - Relating to minimum guarantees provided to members who elected to transfer from the Teachers' Defined Contribution System to the Teachers' Retirement System
HB 2861 - Repealing the one hundred forty day limitation that a retired school teacher may teach in public schools
HB 2870 - Extending the deadline of the buyback provision provided under the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 3092 - Providing that certain beneficiaries in the State Teachers Retirement System receive an annuity when an eligible spouse has not redeemed the accumulated contributions
HB 3242 - Changing the buyback calculation in the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System to the State Teachers Retirement System voluntary transfer
HB 3289 - Stating circumstances permitting service credit purchase by members of the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System in the State Teachers Retirement System

Education -- Salaries, Classifications, Leave (34 Bills)
HB 2001 - Providing additional state minimum salary for certain teachers
HB 2005 - Requiring schools to post and make available to the public the schedules of teachers and staff
HB 2013 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2069 - Increasing the faculty senate allotment for classroom teachers and librarians
HB 2132 - Relating to allowing bus operators for county school systems to carry-over years of experience operating buses for purposes of determining seniority
HB 2258 - Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year
HB 2271 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2272 - Establishing the Flexible Leave Act
HB 2287 - Crediting a deceased teacher's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and other dependents
HB 2331 - Allowing teachers who graduated from colleges and universities that are not accredited by associations recognized in West Virginia, to obtain a teaching certificate based on their certification in another state
HB 2349 - Providing for continuing contract status for teachers and establishing dismissal and suspension procedures
HB 2370 - Providing for increased compensation for aides and paraprofessionals with large numbers of pupils in kindergarten and grades one through six
HB 2376 - Allowing a school service mechanic to have experience, training and certifications considered towards his or her pay rate
HB 2379 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2381 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel
HB 2392 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2435 - Creating a new pay grade classification of "bus operator II"
HB 2437 - Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board
HB 2500 - Establishing school service personnel class title and pay grade for the positions of "Administrative Assistant" and "Legal Secretary"
HB 2510 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2513 - Pay incentives for teachers who teach in their core field degree
HB 2530 - Relating to further defining professional student support personnel
HB 2589 - Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as athletic coaches
HB 2670 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2967 - 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
HB 3025 - Raising the county board of education pay to that of the county commissioners
HB 3085 - Allowing male teachers to use sick leave to attend prenatal care appointments with spouse
HB 3093 - Relating to the definition of a transfer for classroom teachers
HB 3138 - Providing paid childbirth leave for higher education personnel
HB 3146 - Relating to seniority rights for school service personnel
HB 3180 - Providing a salary increase for school service personnel and rectifying certain inequities in the salary schedule and pay grades
HB 3186 - Increasing the stipend paid to mentor teachers and enforcing teacher mentor provisions
HB 3272 - Providing a five percent increase in teacher's salaries and adding pay increment categories for teachers with additional hours of graduate work
HB 3310 - Increasing the salary adjustment for those educational professions with national certifications

Education--Facilities (4 Bills)
HB 2297 - Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders
HB 2519 - Allowing fireworks displays on public school property upon approval of the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Fire Marshal
HB 2992 - Relating to the delivery of controlled substances on or in an educational facility or school
HB 3109 - Requiring reporting of assaults, batteries and other incidents on school property

Elections (34 Bills)
HB 2016 - Providing for removal and election of Public Service Commissioners
HB 2052 - Prohibiting a person convicted of any felony from holding public office
HB 2083 - Relating to disclosure requirements for political campaign advertisements
HB 2167 - Ethics Commission, Voting
HB 2260 - Authorizing governing bodies of municipalities and county commissions to transfer early in-person voting ballots to precincts in the manner absentee ballots are delivered
HB 2267 - Providing that a county commission may establish a program for transfer of development rights without the requirement for an election
HB 2334 - Providing restrictions for an elected or appointed public official relating to reemployment after retirement
HB 2383 - Prohibiting any person convicted of any felony from voting in an election of state and local officials
HB 2442 - Agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote
HB 2464 - Authorizing county commissions to designate locations for early voting other than the county courthouse or annex
HB 2575 - Providing an election to allow resident homeowners, sixty-five years old or older, to defer the payment of property tax increases to their residential property
HB 2603 - Relating to nonpartisan election of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 2657 - Requiring write-in candidates for public office to pay a filing fee
HB 2662 - Requiring election officials, poll clerks and poll workers to vote in the precincts where they are registered to vote
HB 2676 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2764 - West Virginia Public Campaign Financing Act
HB 2798 - Relating to lengthening the period for voter registration
HB 2864 - Prohibiting the use of touch screen voting machines
HB 2869 - Lengthening the time frame for the filing of post-primary and post general campaign financial statements
HB 2926 - Establishing a procedure for challenging a candidate's qualifications for elected office
HB 2947 - Requiring ballots in five percent of the relevant precincts during any contested election to be counted manually
HB 2965 - Requiring candidates for the House of Delegates and the Senate to file their announcement of candidacies with the Secretary of State
HB 2974 - Abolishing the one-vote straight ticket voting in all general and special elections within West Virginia
HB 2981 - Relating to primary elections and nominating procedures of third-party candidates
HB 2993 - Prohibiting any member of the Legislature from fund-raising during any session
HB 2997 - Requiring commissioners of the public service commission to be elected
HB 3012 - Relating to electing magistrates by division
HB 3013 - Prohibiting a cheif deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities
HB 3050 - Requiring disclosure by judicial officers of campaign contributions in excess of $250
HB 3134 - Municipal vote by mail pilot program
HB 3174 - Relating to the form of general election ballots
HB 3309 - Creating the West Virginia Supreme Court Public Campaign Financing Act
HB 3324 - Mandating that party executive committees are to submit their list of nominees to serve as election officials no later than the seventieth day before the election, and requiring five percent of the ballots be manually counted only during any recount
HB 3337 - Relating to the regulation and control of elections

Emergency Services (13 Bills)
HB 2004 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2142 - Allowing municipal police and fire pension plans to use the actuarial examination by the State in lieu of obtaining its own actuary
HB 2238 - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire
HB 2333 - Including ambulance and fire fees as part of the property tax assessment so that the fees and property taxes may be paid with the same check
HB 2565 - Relating to industrial accidents and emergencies
HB 2597 - Making 911 emergency fees available to be used for both emergency and nonemergency calls
HB 2642 - Reverting the 911 fee on wireless telephones from three dollars to seventy-five cents
HB 2683 - Increasing the amount allocated from the wireless enhanced 911 fee to be deposited into the enhanced 911 wireless tower access assistance fund
HB 2696 - Authorizing certain persons who are emergency medical technician-paramedics to apply to obtain a license to practice registered professional nursing
HB 2755 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to take control of an emergency scene on a highway
HB 2770 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
HB 2916 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Act
HB 3154 - Requiring the West Virginia Enhanced 911 Council to propose Emergency Medical Priority Dispatch procedures

Eminent Domain (3 Bills)
HB 2356 - Exempting acts resulting in the taking or damaging of private property for public use from the immunity granted to a political subdivision
HB 2448 - Relating to annexation of unincorporated territory
HB 2892 - Increasing any award of just compensation to a property owner for eminent domain takings by nongovernment entities

Energy (6 Bills)
HB 2535 - Creating a tax credit for certain solar energy systems
HB 2682 - Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2891 - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act
HB 3023 - Relating to oil and gas surface owner's bill of rights
HB 3028 - Reporting of certain geologic information obtained incidental to oil and gas drilling
HB 3081 - Coal-to-Liquid Act of 2009

Environmental Protection (39 Bills)
HB 2133 - Increasing the penalties for discarding trash on land and in streams
HB 2162 - DEP-Air Quality, Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
HB 2164 - DEP-Secretary's Office, Voluntary Remediation and Redevelopment Rule
HB 2165 - DEP-Water Resources, State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund
HB 2193 - DEP-Air Quality, Permits for Construction and Major Modification of Major Stationary Sources of Air Pollution
HB 2194 - DEP-Air Quality, Ambient Air Quality Standards
HB 2195 - DEP-Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Management System
HB 2196 - DEP-Waste Management, Assessment of Civil Administrative Penalties
HB 2197 - DEP-Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Management Fee
HB 2198 - DEP-Water Resources, Environmental Laboratories
HB 2199 - DEP-Water Resources, Dam Safety Rule
HB 2200 - DEP-Water Resources, Assessment of Civil Administrative Penalties
HB 2499 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five tires
HB 2529 - Relating to the practice of environmental health science and public health sanitation
HB 2602 - Establishing a returnable beverage container deposit program
HB 2680 - Relating to increasing the environmental protection advisory council membership to nine members
HB 2781 - Providing a tax credit to sawmills that become certified in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System
HB 2860 - Regulating the sequestration and storage of carbon dioxide
HB 2891 - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act
HB 2905 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 2936 - Restoring or keeping intact scenic views by coal and timber operators
HB 2960 - Relating to water pollution control
HB 2982 - Modifying the definition of "shallow" and "deep" wells to allow a shallow well to be drilled deeper
HB 3003 - Continuing and reimposing the special reclamation tax, providing for periodic legislative review, and removing the additional tax on clean coal
HB 3023 - Relating to oil and gas surface owner's bill of rights
HB 3028 - Reporting of certain geologic information obtained incidental to oil and gas drilling
HB 3033 - Strengthening of vehicle emission standards
HB 3037 - Establishing a returnable beverage container deposit program
HB 3042 - Changing the amount of residential solid waste that may be disposed of in a landfill free of charge
HB 3055 - Relating to environmental permitting of surface coal mining and correcting antiquated language
HB 3058 - Eliminating the use of light plastic bags
HB 3116 - Providing that the Division of Environmental Protection shall prioritize application for surface-mining permits based on those that include land use master plans
HB 3131 - Green Buildings Act
HB 3176 - Surface Owners Protection Act
HB 3265 - Relating to the electronic device takeback program
HB 3271 - Creating a tax credit for certain solar energy systems
HB 3279 - Prohibiting any permits authorizing the construction, enlargement or modification of any coal mine waste
HB 3326 - Relating to existing National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits
HB 3339 - Facilitating the complete closure of the Gwinn, otherwise known as the Midwest Services Landfill, located in Summers County

Estates and Trusts (9 Bills)
HB 2097 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2336 - Relating generally to unemployment compensation and the unemployment compensation trust fund
HB 2629 - Providing an exemption from estate taxes and the Consumers Sales and Service Tax for certain expenses of any infant who dies before reaching one year of age
HB 2656 - Relating to appraisement of estates of deceased persons
HB 3027 - Providing an excise tax on the recordation of mortgages and deeds of trust
HB 3082 - Relating to the gathering and reporting of foreclosure data and statistics
HB 3169 - Providing a detailed standard of review that the county commission may apply in reviewing the findings of a fiduciary supervisor on probate matters
HB 3246 - Providing for nonexoneration of the secured debt of a decedent unless the will specifically provides for exoneration
HB 3295 - Relating to the West Virginia State Treasurer's Office

Ethics (7 Bills)
HB 2166 - Ethics Commission, Filing of Verified Time Records
HB 2167 - Ethics Commission, Voting
HB 2201 - Ethics Commission, Employment Exemptions
HB 2202 - Ethics Commission, Lobbying
HB 2203 - Ethics Commission, Purchase, Sale or Lease of Personal Property
HB 2204 - Ethics Commission, Interest in Public Contracts
HB 3038 - Relating to the enforcement powers of the Ethics Commission

Factory-Built Homes (1 Bills)
HB 2170 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules

Fire Fighting and Prevention (28 Bills)
HB 2003 - Authorizing paid municipal fire departments to investigate suspicious or illegal fires
HB 2031 - Permitting firework displays on public school property provided the State Superintendent and the Fire Marshal approve the display
HB 2144 - Providing State Treasury Fire Protection Fund revenue to the West Virginia State Fire Chiefs Association and the West Virginia State Fireman's Association
HB 2251 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2294 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2333 - Including ambulance and fire fees as part of the property tax assessment so that the fees and property taxes may be paid with the same check
HB 2409 - Providing that fire officers may use adjacent property to prevent fire from spreading
HB 2416 - Providing worker's compensation benefits to volunteer firefighters for cardiovascular or pulmonary diseases provided certain conditions of employment have been met
HB 2421 - Requires that inoperable fire hydrants be painted black and be reported to emergency dispatch centers
HB 2519 - Allowing fireworks displays on public school property upon approval of the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Fire Marshal
HB 2595 - Providing an exemption from gross income for members of volunteer fire departments for state personal income tax purposes
HB 2615 - Providing discounted motor registration fees for members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2627 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2668 - Establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters
HB 2669 - Providing an exemption from gross income for certain members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2689 - Dedicating a new surcharge on the policyholder of any fire insurance policy to defray costs incurred by volunteer fire companies that provide benefits under a qualified Length of Service Awards Program (LOSAP)
HB 2789 - Increasing the surcharge on fire and casualty policies to benefit volunteer fire departments
HB 2817 - Fire Commission, WV State
HB 2818 - Fire Marshal, WV State
HB 2859 - Critical needs firefighters tax credit
HB 2874 - Providing a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter has developed a pulmonary disease or sustained a cardiovascular injury
HB 2930 - Including volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2969 - Requiring firefighters to have annual hazardous materials training
HB 3045 - West Virginia Volunteer Firefighter Length of Service Act
HB 3071 - Providing that all fire alarm systems, including all components, shall be electronically supervised
HB 3078 - Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act
HB 3133 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 3158 - Providing assistance to certain political subdivision activities involving municipal policemen's and firemen's pensions and relief systems and volunteer fire departments

Firearms (25 Bills)
HB 2075 - Allowing family court judges to carry concealed deadly weapons without obtaining a license
HB 2082 - Providing criminal penalties for negligently or carelessly shooting and wounding or killing a human being while hunting under the influence of alcohol or drugs
HB 2121 - Making armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property or school personnel or students a felony
HB 2298 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2299 - Limiting the purchase of handguns to one gun per month
HB 2316 - Relating to unlawful possession of deadly weapons by a minor
HB 2393 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2422 - Clarifying what constitutes "on or about the person" regarding possession of a deadly weapon
HB 2428 - Permitting magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2507 - Relating to the discharging of firearms within a certain distance of a dwelling house
HB 2628 - Restricting public access to concealed weapons permit records
HB 2695 - Providing criminal penalties for a hunter who fails to render aid to a person the hunter shoots while hunting
HB 2733 - Creating an annual sales tax holiday for purchases of guns and ammunition
HB 2752 - Eliminating the requirement of an applicant for a license to carry deadly weapons to provide his or her social security number
HB 2790 - Repealing the prohibition on bringing deadly weapons upon the State Capitol Complex
HB 2794 - Modifying restrictions relating to shooting and discharging firearms near certain areas
HB 2866 - Allowing a license to carry deadly weapons to remain valid until the applicant receives notice the application for renewal has been issued or denied
HB 3057 - Requiring all law-enforcement agencies to certify qualified law-enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms
HB 3086 - Permitting home incarceration supervisors to carry handguns in the course of their official duties
HB 3248 - Exempting members of the West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates from obtaining a license to carry concealed deadly weapons throughout their terms of service
HB 3300 - Requiring a notification be placed on drivers' license and state identification cards when granted a concealed weapons permit
HB 3314 - Relating to concealed handgun licensing
HB 3331 - Prohibiting the taking of lawfully possessed arms and ammunition during a declared state of emergency or riot
HB 3333 - Relating to the regulation of carrying firearms
HB 3335 - Relating to limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms

Food and Food Services (5 Bills)
HB 2019 - Prohibiting employees at restaurants from handling drinking vessels by touching on or near the vessel's brim
HB 2143 - Dedicating a portion of the receipts from the tax on food products to be distributed equally to each district of the Division of Highways
HB 2620 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2650 - Eliminating the sales tax on food effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2681 - Eliminating the food tax, increasing the tax on nonintoxicating beer, increasing the cigarette tax, increasing the noncigarette tobacco products tax..etc...

Freedom of Information (1 Bills)
HB 2418 - Relating to exempting certain records of the Division of Corrections and Regional Jail Authority from the Freedom of Information Act that, if released, could aid inmates in committing unlawful acts

Fuel (10 Bills)
HB 2066 - Prohibiting fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline
HB 2098 - Prohibiting oil and gas operators from daylighting
HB 2321 - Extending the alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit for ten years and making the credit retroactive from the expiration date of the initial credit
HB 2322 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2521 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2619 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 2698 - Relating to pipeline companies paying a special license fee
HB 2833 - Clarifying the taxation of natural gas and oil
HB 2968 - Requiring the State Fire Commission to establish safety standards for liquefied petroleum gas systems
HB 3237 - Making it an unfair trade practice to refuse to refill a propane gas tank

Funds (30 Bills)
HB 2044 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2058 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2144 - Providing State Treasury Fire Protection Fund revenue to the West Virginia State Fire Chiefs Association and the West Virginia State Fireman's Association
HB 2165 - DEP-Water Resources, State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund
HB 2257 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2274 - Relating to the distribution of the State Treasurer's "Road Fund"
HB 2317 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and that the revenue from these fees are to be transferred to the benefit fund of the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2327 - Providing cost-of-living benefits to retired teachers funded from the severance tax collections on natural gas
HB 2336 - Relating generally to unemployment compensation and the unemployment compensation trust fund
HB 2372 - Authorizing county commissions to use impact fees to fund the building and operation of libraries and to administer and provide affordable housing for individuals or families of low or moderate income
HB 2387 - Establishing in the state treasury a targeted minority economic development fund to address economic issues of minorities and minority communities
HB 2407 - Relating to trustee accounts and funds, earnings and personal property of inmates
HB 2506 - Prohibiting state funding for the distribution of holiday or greeting cards by elected officials, state employees, departments or agencies
HB 2525 - Capping the amount paid into the Berkeley County Library Fund by the Berkeley County Court
HB 2538 - Relating to supplemental funding for the provision of alternative programs for limited English proficient students
HB 2555 - Establishing the West Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission and Fund
HB 2569 - Creating the Juvenile Services Reimbursement Offender Fund
HB 2574 - Prohibiting certain nursing homes from using state funds for activities unrelated to the provision of health care services
HB 2582 - Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds
HB 2610 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2643 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers
HB 2676 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2683 - Increasing the amount allocated from the wireless enhanced 911 fee to be deposited into the enhanced 911 wireless tower access assistance fund
HB 2687 - Relating to infrastructure projects funded by the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund
HB 2729 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund
HB 2797 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2912 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 3056 - Removing language that prohibits the state from using a county's General Revenue Fund for historic preservation
HB 3151 - Relating to the frequency of funding of the courtesy patrol program
HB 3321 - Relating to the frequency of funding of the courtesy patrol program

Funeral Services (8 Bills)
HB 2045 - Relating to funeral and cremation expenses for indigent persons
HB 2776 - Exempting funeral procession from paying turnpike tolls
HB 2905 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 2912 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 2928 - Clarifying procedures for protection of graves and burial sites
HB 2940 - Exempting funeral establishments and authorized representatives of the deceased from any sales tax regarding goods and services
HB 2957 - Requiring the county extension service to collect applicable data regarding the locations of all cemeteries within West Virginia
HB 3051 - Providing veterans' death certificates to families and funeral directors at no cost

Gaming Activities (12 Bills)
HB 2117 - Reallocating the proceeds from limited video lottery by increasing the percentages payable to counties, municipalities and retailers
HB 2317 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and that the revenue from these fees are to be transferred to the benefit fund of the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2351 - Prohibiting the placement of automated teller machines (ATM) in establishments that contain video lottery terminals
HB 2388 - Expanding the membership of the Racing Commission and reorganizing the administrative functions
HB 2430 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2556 - Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2668 - Establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters
HB 2725 - Suspending the future issuing of new video lottery licenses
HB 2882 - Transferring authority over racing, boxing, charitable bingo, raffle, games and charitable lottery to the State Gaming and Alcohol Control Agency and State Gaming and Alcohol Control Commission
HB 3084 - Updating the code in order to achieve conformity between operations of video lottery and authorized games of chance at the historic resort hotel and the operations of video lottery and table games at the pari-mutuel racetracks
HB 3144 - Establishing the state road benefit instant lottery scratch-off game
HB 3258 - Permitting certain municipalities and counties to double their proportionate share of adjusted gross receipts from licensed racetracks with table games

Governmental Agencies (24 Bills)
HB 2050 - Expanding the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties; and increasing the number of members
HB 2151 - Administration, Purchasing Division
HB 2179 - Administration, Parking
HB 2180 - Administration, Rules and Regulations for Fair Market Price Determination
HB 2181 - Administration, Rules and Regulations Statewide Contract
HB 2182 - Administration, Rules for Qualifications for Participation
HB 2244 - Prohibiting solid waste authorities from duplicating or competing with private recycling businesses
HB 2275 - Regulating telemarketing for quasi-state agencies
HB 2461 - Creating a State Trail Authority within the West Virginia Development Office
HB 2498 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 2506 - Prohibiting state funding for the distribution of holiday or greeting cards by elected officials, state employees, departments or agencies
HB 2567 - Relating to filing agency rules with the Secretary of State under the Administrative Procedures Act
HB 2692 - Requiring the Secretary of Administration to promulgate rules for travel reimbursement equal to the federal standard mileage rate
HB 2713 - Relating to a study and investigation on issues in connection with creating a pilot program for child day care centers operated by the state
HB 2807 - West Virginia Geographical Information System
HB 2838 - Creating the Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning to oversee coordination of state agencies, departments, bureaus and commissions
HB 3046 - Clarifying provisions relating to the appointment, qualifications, powers and duties of the Director of the General Services Division
HB 3049 - Authorizing the Chief Technology Officer to receive confidential records and have access to an agencies' database
HB 3052 - Eliminating the statutorily set salary of the Director of the Division of Personnel so the pay of the director can be made competitive
HB 3053 - Changing some functions of the Division of Personnel
HB 3054 - Clarifying that the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration has the power and duty of acquiring and disposing of real property, contracting for third-party real estate services and billing spending units for costs of such services
HB 3155 - Relating to the renewal of the West Virginia Small Business Linked Deposit Program
HB 3230 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years
HB 3275 - Changing the date through which governmental entities are required to purchase workers' compensation

Governor (2 Bills)
HB 2640 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2658 - Requiring state offices, agencies, boards and commissions to submit annual reports electronically

Governor -- Bills Requested By (25 Bills)
HB 2010 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
HB 2334 - Providing restrictions for an elected or appointed public official relating to reemployment after retirement
HB 2335 - Relating to the federal "Yellow Ribbon G. I. Education Enhancement Program"
HB 2336 - Relating generally to unemployment compensation and the unemployment compensation trust fund
HB 2337 - Authorizing the Governor to pay a nonbase building salary enhancement to eligible state employees
HB 2401 - Providing for the expiration of the alternative minimum tax
HB 2402 - Relating to the annual school calendar
HB 2405 - Relating to Public Defender Services and raising the hourly rate of compensation for panel attorneys
HB 2406 - Relating to unlawful expenditures by a local fiscal body
HB 2565 - Relating to industrial accidents and emergencies
HB 2572 - Relating to classification of retail licenses for the sale of liquor
HB 2682 - Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2765 - Updating the meaning of "federal adjusted gross income" and certain other terms in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 2832 - Relating to critical skills evaluations for students in grades three and eight
HB 2833 - Clarifying the taxation of natural gas and oil
HB 2834 - Capping the amount of a PROMISE scholarship, dissolving the PROMISE Board, and reconstituting the Financial Aid Advisory Board
HB 2835 - Relating to the Office of Coalfield Community Development and master land use plans
HB 2836 - School Innovation Zones Act
HB 2860 - Regulating the sequestration and storage of carbon dioxide
HB 2882 - Transferring authority over racing, boxing, charitable bingo, raffle, games and charitable lottery to the State Gaming and Alcohol Control Agency and State Gaming and Alcohol Control Commission
HB 2902 - Updating the meaning of "federal taxable income" used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act to conform with the Internal Revenue Code
HB 2976 - Requiring the State Fire Commission to promulgate rules pertaining to the State Building Code
HB 2977 - Relating to the procurement of engineering services
HB 3000 - Relating to a business and occupation tax on the business of the transmission of electricity through certain electric transmission lines
HB 3006 - Relating to the hiring, termination, transfer and reassignment of teachers and school personnel

Hazardous Materials (11 Bills)
HB 2034 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2161 - DEP-Air Quality, Control of Air Pollution from Hazardous Waste Treatment
HB 2195 - DEP-Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Management System
HB 2196 - DEP-Waste Management, Assessment of Civil Administrative Penalties
HB 2197 - DEP-Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Management Fee
HB 2244 - Prohibiting solid waste authorities from duplicating or competing with private recycling businesses
HB 2489 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2499 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five tires
HB 2529 - Relating to the practice of environmental health science and public health sanitation
HB 2813 - Highways, WV Division of, Transportation of Hazardous Wastes
HB 2969 - Requiring firefighters to have annual hazardous materials training

Health (And Related Subheadings) (60 Bills)
HB 2019 - Prohibiting employees at restaurants from handling drinking vessels by touching on or near the vessel's brim
HB 2022 - Relating to the investigation and prosecution of cases involving child abuse and neglect
HB 2028 - Providing that when any body part of an unborn child is outside the womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state
HB 2034 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2039 - Establishing the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act
HB 2065 - Relating to issuing a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
HB 2073 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2091 - Requiring public notice of state plan amendments prior to submission and increasing the membership of the Medicaid Advisory Board
HB 2214 - Medicine, Definition of Surgery
HB 2215 - Medicine, Licensure, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures
HB 2216 - Medicine, Regulation of Restricted License
HB 2221 - Physical Therapy, General Provisions
HB 2233 - Veterinary Medicine, Schedule of Fees
HB 2238 - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire
HB 2255 - Relating to the "Mandated Benefits Review Act"
HB 2264 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2302 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2329 - Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development
HB 2332 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2344 - Relating to medicaid monitoring and case management
HB 2354 - Creating the Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission
HB 2404 - Relating to inmate reimbursement for medical services provided to persons held in regional jails
HB 2417 - Making any willful failure to provide benefits under a discount medical plan organization and discount prescription drug plan organization a felony
HB 2431 - Emergency Contraception Education Act
HB 2439 - Providing for the appointment of a commission to develop and conduct a field test of comprehensive, integrated statewide standardized electronic medical records access system
HB 2503 - Requiring licensed tattoo artist to inform patrons, prior to performing the tattoo procedure, of the potential problems that a tattoo may cause in relation to the reading of magnetic resonance imaging
HB 2529 - Relating to the practice of environmental health science and public health sanitation
HB 2542 - "Jason Flatt Act of 2009"
HB 2583 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2590 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors
HB 2609 - Establishing criminal penalties for interfering with medical treatment of a railroad employee
HB 2693 - Including testing for illegal drugs in newborns
HB 2712 - Relating to rule making requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services
HB 2720 - Genetic Information Privacy Act
HB 2740 - Eliminating the authority to appoint coguardians and coconservators for mental hygiene proceedings
HB 2745 - Relating to the Healthy West Virginia Program
HB 2748 - Relating to the certificate of need process
HB 2773 - Increasing the monetary penalties for selling tobacco products to minors
HB 2780 - Emergency Credentialing for Health Care Providers Act
HB 2788 - Protecting incapacitated adults from abuse or neglect by a caregiver
HB 2837 - Uniform Maternal Screening Act
HB 2838 - Creating the Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning to oversee coordination of state agencies, departments, bureaus and commissions
HB 2847 - Prohibiting the use of the body of a fetus for certain purposes
HB 2878 - Abortion Complication Reporting Act
HB 2885 - Establishing a uniform credentialing form and creating a single credentialing verification organization (CVO)
HB 2908 - Raising the age of consent that a minor may refuse health treatment
HB 2916 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Act
HB 2932 - Requiring the approval of board of health rules relating to tobacco use in public or private places
HB 2942 - Prohibiting subsidies to entities that perform abortions
HB 2949 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 3004 - Permitting individual taxpayers a modification to state income tax for medical expenses exceeding two percent of their federal adjusted gross income
HB 3069 - Providing medical and nonmedical exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 3083 - Permitting blood donations by persons age sixteen with parental consent
HB 3106 - Relating to the care of aborted fetuses
HB 3135 - Reporting abortions that have been performed due to perceived congenital defects of fetuses and providing a civil penalty for failing to report an abortion
HB 3166 - Health Care Affordability Act
HB 3234 - Requiring that fetal models be displayed in public schools
HB 3262 - Relating to health care provider tax
HB 3292 - Extending the expiration date of the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission
HB 3336 - Continuing early intervention services to families with developmentally delayed infants and toddlers but eliminating the cost-free provision

Health -- Facilities (29 Bills)
HB 2035 - Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed
HB 2049 - Providing that a legally unlicensed personal care home may house up to four unrelated residents if there is at least one full-time employee working at the home
HB 2054 - 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
HB 2055 - Requiring nursing homes to publicly post staffing information and granting rights to family councils
HB 2127 - Providing for a pilot project intended to divert low-income residents from early institutionalization
HB 2146 - Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures
HB 2206 - Health, Public Water Systems
HB 2257 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2278 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2364 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 2377 - Providing for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff
HB 2447 - Establishing county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers
HB 2458 - Reinstating the sales tax exemption for comprehensive mental health care centers
HB 2516 - Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility
HB 2543 - Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion
HB 2568 - Requiring background checks on applicants for residence in nursing homes and assisted living residences
HB 2574 - Prohibiting certain nursing homes from using state funds for activities unrelated to the provision of health care services
HB 2636 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2644 - Relating to prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs
HB 2647 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers
HB 2729 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund
HB 2743 - Establishing pilot projects for patient centered medical homes
HB 2785 - Requiring that every house, dwelling or business located in an area where public water services are made available for the first time, be connected
HB 2848 - Requiring development of a program for payment of personal needs funds to Medicaid recipients in nursing homes
HB 2913 - Relating to the Statewide Independent Living Council
HB 3060 - Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics except for programs operated as community health centers and requiring all community health center methadone programs to monitor patient's pharmacy registry
HB 3124 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources and Medicaid to provide financial assistance to persons in assisted living facilities
HB 3172 - Increasing the compensation for employees of the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital and the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital
HB 3311 - Clarifying that hospitals owned or operated by nonprofit corporations, nonprofit associations or local government units have only one governing body whose meetings shall be open to the public

Health -- Insurance (21 Bills)
HB 2048 - Providing for the continuance of medical coverage for the spouse of a deceased retired public employee for any period previously purchased with accumulated leave
HB 2111 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2123 - Assigning benefits directly to providers based on the patients assignment of benefit form
HB 2332 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2425 - Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects
HB 2478 - Health Insurance for Employees
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2576 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2584 - Providing a state tax deduction for amounts paid for health insurance under certain circumstances
HB 2591 - Requiring annual adjustments of certain provider payments
HB 2605 - Requiring accident and sickness insurance providers and HMO's to cover the treatment of Lyme disease
HB 2635 - Allowing the federal adjusted gross income deduction for the amount spent for medical expenses
HB 2655 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2660 - Expanding the definition of limited health care service
HB 2679 - Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology
HB 2747 - Creating a temporary reinvestment fee for health insurers, third party administrators and others
HB 3022 - Creating a medical home health care plan for uninsured adults
HB 3035 - Reassigning the responsibility for providing notice to in-state medical providers and receiving provider elections to opt out of the small-group insurance program from PEIA to the West Virginia Health Care Authority
HB 3126 - Requiring the DHHR to annually review and adjust rates it pays to care providers
HB 3190 - 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)
HB 3250 - Excluding indigent persons from receiving health care records free of charge when represented by an organization or an attorney that is charging a fee

Health -- Personnel (39 Bills)
HB 2014 - Eliminating the severance tax and the health care provider tax on behavior health providers
HB 2029 - Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity
HB 2053 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2136 - Providing limited immunity from civil damages for persons who volunteer their services to public health departments
HB 2175 - Social Work Examiners, Fee Schedule
HB 2205 - Health, Licensure of Medical Adult Day Care Centers
HB 2207 - Health, Tuberculosis Testing, Control, Treatment and Commitment
HB 2223 - Registered Professional Nurses, Policies Standards and Criteria for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges or Schools of Nursing
HB 2224 - Registered Professional Nurses, Limited Prescriptive Authority
HB 2226 - Respiratory Care, Student Temporary Permits
HB 2248 - Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises
HB 2263 - Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus by using ultrasound
HB 2278 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2309 - Updating the law governing the practice of occupational therapy
HB 2339 - Allowing a hospital physician to decline performing an abortion when a mother's life is not in imminent danger
HB 2377 - Providing for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff
HB 2382 - Salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health
HB 2391 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses
HB 2394 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2398 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2423 - Relating to the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology
HB 2486 - Exempting from the nursing licensing provisions the care of the sick when done in connection with the practice of religious tenets of any church or religious organization
HB 2493 - Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor
HB 2520 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a women suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2532 - Creating licensure for Marriage and Family Therapists
HB 2533 - Updating the law governing the practice of veterinary medicine
HB 2630 - Issuing special license plates for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses
HB 2696 - Authorizing certain persons who are emergency medical technician-paramedics to apply to obtain a license to practice registered professional nursing
HB 2706 - Relating to exempting physicians from obtaining Medicaid preauthorization for certain medical conditions
HB 2717 - Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus
HB 2741 - Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners to sign readmission orders
HB 2770 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
HB 2906 - Prohibiting persons who are not licensed physicians from performing an abortion
HB 3021 - Medication Administration by Certified Medicine Aides Act
HB 3044 - Relating to unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery or podiatry or as a physician assistant
HB 3172 - Increasing the compensation for employees of the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital and the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital
HB 3177 - Banning abortions in instances where the fetus could survive if delivered and providing a criminal penalty for violations
HB 3187 - Prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Resources from being involved in aiding or assisting any person to obtain an abortion to a greater extent than is required by law

Holidays (7 Bills)
HB 2064 - Designating the seventh day of December, "Pearl Harbor Day," as a legal state holiday
HB 2113 - Providing overtime pay for all employees who are required to work holidays regardless if the holiday hours are in excess of a forty hour workweek
HB 2506 - Prohibiting state funding for the distribution of holiday or greeting cards by elected officials, state employees, departments or agencies
HB 2592 - Providing Good Friday as a state legal holiday
HB 3088 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent
HB 3089 - Designating December 7 of each year as "West Virginia Patriots of World War II" and making it a state holiday
HB 3291 - Adding a special memorial day to celebrate the victory of democracy in the Cold War

Human Services (33 Bills)
HB 2015 - Creating the criminal offense of injury to a pregnant woman that results in miscarriage or stillbirth
HB 2028 - Providing that when any body part of an unborn child is outside the womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state
HB 2045 - Relating to funeral and cremation expenses for indigent persons
HB 2057 - Requiring the department of health and human resources to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations
HB 2123 - Assigning benefits directly to providers based on the patients assignment of benefit form
HB 2127 - Providing for a pilot project intended to divert low-income residents from early institutionalization
HB 2208 - Human Services, Child Care Center Licensing
HB 2344 - Relating to medicaid monitoring and case management
HB 2353 - Relating to the crime victims compensation program
HB 2374 - Requiring any faith-based facility that counsels women regarding contraception, abortion or pregnancy to maintain a quality assurance program
HB 2431 - Emergency Contraception Education Act
HB 2440 - Relating to the insertion of language which defines acts of violence and makes its false reporting a felony
HB 2644 - Relating to prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs
HB 2678 - Providing for payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence
HB 2710 - Increasing criminal penalty to commit malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery or assault upon a child protective caseworker or a local adult protective services caseworker employee
HB 2712 - Relating to rule making requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services
HB 2788 - Protecting incapacitated adults from abuse or neglect by a caregiver
HB 2837 - Uniform Maternal Screening Act
HB 2848 - Requiring development of a program for payment of personal needs funds to Medicaid recipients in nursing homes
HB 2850 - Requiring recipients of state assistance to show photo identification
HB 2884 - Long-Term Care Partnership Program
HB 2888 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors
HB 2908 - Raising the age of consent that a minor may refuse health treatment
HB 2950 - Creating the Neighborhood Housing and Economic Stabilization Program for low-income minority neighborhoods
HB 3007 - Implementing random drug testing for recipients of federal-state assistance, state assistance and unemployment compensation
HB 3069 - Providing medical and nonmedical exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 3124 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources and Medicaid to provide financial assistance to persons in assisted living facilities
HB 3126 - Requiring the DHHR to annually review and adjust rates it pays to care providers
HB 3159 - Prohibiting moneys from any state fund or funding source to be expended for any abortion unless the abortion qualifies for federal funding under Medicaid
HB 3170 - Relating to WV Guardianship and Conservatorship Act
HB 3268 - Long Term Care Redistribution Act
HB 3306 - Relating to fraud and associated violations involving Medicaid
HB 3336 - Continuing early intervention services to families with developmentally delayed infants and toddlers but eliminating the cost-free provision

Infrastructure (4 Bills)
HB 2425 - Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects
HB 2427 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 2687 - Relating to infrastructure projects funded by the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund
HB 3142 - Prohibiting counties from using service fees or user fees to finance infrastructure projects

Inspections (4 Bills)
HB 2152 - Agriculture, Schedule of Charges for Inspection Services
HB 2211 - Labor, Standards for Weights and Measures Inspectors
HB 2264 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2295 - Requiring a certified person to examine underground mines after cutting and welding has been performed

Insurance -- Health (28 Bills)
HB 2111 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2148 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies provided by corporate employers to employees
HB 2210 - Insurance Commission, Preneed Life Insurance Minimum Standards
HB 2425 - Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects
HB 2478 - Health Insurance for Employees
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2576 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2584 - Providing a state tax deduction for amounts paid for health insurance under certain circumstances
HB 2605 - Requiring accident and sickness insurance providers and HMO's to cover the treatment of Lyme disease
HB 2655 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2789 - Increasing the surcharge on fire and casualty policies to benefit volunteer fire departments
HB 2821 - Insurance Commission, coordination of health benefits
HB 2822 - Insurance Commission, long-term care insurance
HB 2823 - Insurance Commission, actuarial opinion and memorandum rule
HB 2824 - Insurance Commission, Viatical Settlements
HB 2825 - Insurance Commission, discount medical plan organizations
HB 2858 - Requiring insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorder
HB 2867 - Relating to autism spectrum disorder
HB 3002 - Allowing private citizens the freedom to enter into private contracts for health care services or health care coverage or both
HB 3008 - Relating to the Model Health Plan for Uninsurable Individuals Act
HB 3018 - Relating to training of insurance producers selling long-term care products
HB 3035 - Reassigning the responsibility for providing notice to in-state medical providers and receiving provider elections to opt out of the small-group insurance program from PEIA to the West Virginia Health Care Authority
HB 3047 - Clarifying that the Director of the Public Employees Insurance Agency is authorized to enter into capitated provider arrangements for provision of primary health care services
HB 3048 - Permitting PEIA to promulgate a rule to charge fees to employers who transact business with the agency by paper
HB 3278 - Relating to the life and health insurance guaranty association
HB 3288 - Relating to mental health parity
HB 3306 - Relating to fraud and associated violations involving Medicaid
HB 3307 - Requiring managed care plan providers to reimburse limited out of network medical expenses

Insurance -- Motor Vehicles (6 Bills)
HB 2006 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2071 - Prohibiting discrimination in rates by insurance companies because of having filed claims under the uninsured and under insured coverage of an automobile policy
HB 2509 - Relating to proof of financial responsibility in motor vehicle insurance
HB 2526 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 2537 - Preventing insurers from increasing the rates for auto liability or homeowners insurance for persons over the age of sixty-five based solely on their age
HB 2895 - Determining the value of a motor vehicle in a claim

Insurance -- Public Employees (20 Bills)
HB 2116 - Increasing the multiplier for a retirement annuity in the public employees retirement system, and deleting language which allows increases in annuity payments for retired Legislators relative to salary increases
HB 2287 - Crediting a deceased teacher's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and other dependents
HB 2346 - Providing that the PEIA Finance Board may make optional plans available as an IRS plan or as part of the preferred provider benefits
HB 2482 - Relating to the spouse and dependent insurance coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees' Insurance Act
HB 2627 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2646 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2767 - Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board
HB 2897 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2927 - Requiring the Legislature to approve changes in costs imposed by the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board
HB 2930 - Including volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2956 - Prohibiting the finance board pursuant to the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act from increasing the types and levels of costs to applicable current and retired employees during the 2010 and 2011 plan years
HB 2959 - Prohibiting premium subsidies in the Public Employees Insurance Agency health plans for retirees who were hired on or after January 1, 2010
HB 3015 - Authorizing the director of the Public Employees Insurance Agency to promulgate rules for underwriting requirements for nonstate employers which participate with the agency
HB 3020 - Requiring that employers participating in the Public Employees Insurance Agency plans, provide, upon request, all reasonable documentation to the Director of the Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 3043 - Prohibiting extended coverage upon retirement based on years of service for new higher education employees
HB 3047 - Clarifying that the Director of the Public Employees Insurance Agency is authorized to enter into capitated provider arrangements for provision of primary health care services
HB 3077 - Repealing existing provisions on limited benefit plans and creating a new program under which insurance companies would submit limited benefit plans, individual and group, for approval by the commissioner
HB 3103 - Crediting increases in copays, coinsurance, deductibles and out of pocket maximums adopted by the PEIA Finance Board to the twenty percent aggregate employee premium payment for insurance
HB 3145 - Giving municipalities with less than twenty-five employees the right to buy into becoming employees pursuant to the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement Act and the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 3162 - Prohibiting coverage for abortions under insurance plans provided under the Public Employees Insurance Act

Insurance (And Related Subheadings) (28 Bills)
HB 2021 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2092 - Prohibiting inquiries reflected on a credit report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2130 - Prohibiting law-enforcement officers from asking crime victims if they have insurance coverage to cover losses occasioned by criminal activity
HB 2209 - Insurance Commission, Continuing Education for Individual Insurance Producers
HB 2210 - Insurance Commission, Preneed Life Insurance Minimum Standards
HB 2240 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2282 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2369 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2451 - Prohibiting the use of credit scoring as a consideration in calculating auto and homeowners insurance rates
HB 2457 - Requiring group insurance companies and third party administrators to furnish claims experience to policyholders
HB 2552 - Revising Insurance Commissioner reporting requirements to the Legislature on workers' compensation insurance rules
HB 2591 - Requiring annual adjustments of certain provider payments
HB 2689 - Dedicating a new surcharge on the policyholder of any fire insurance policy to defray costs incurred by volunteer fire companies that provide benefits under a qualified Length of Service Awards Program (LOSAP)
HB 2757 - Relating to financial audits of insurers
HB 2777 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2821 - Insurance Commission, coordination of health benefits
HB 2826 - Insurance Commission, Professional Employer Organizations
HB 2975 - Authorizing the insurance commissioner to order restitution in certain cases
HB 2987 - Enabling insurers authorized to sell insurance coverage in selected states to engage in the business of insurance in West Virginia
HB 3010 - Granting designated employees of the Insurance Commissioner access to certain information kept by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy
HB 3029 - Requiring a notice of availability of owner's title insurance in connection with a loan
HB 3040 - Expanding the insurance fraud unit
HB 3101 - Providing that borrowers are free to choose settlement service providers and insurers, subject to reasonable approval by lenders
HB 3171 - Defining that if any two or more political subdivisions establish and maintain a self-insurance pool, the operation of such pool will constitute an insurance business
HB 3264 - Eliminating the doctrine of "constructive exhaustion", relating to an insured's right to recover underinsured benefits
HB 3274 - Relating to escrowing fire insurance proceeds for debris removal
HB 3297 - Relating to the Office of Consumer Advocacy, and allowing the Director to participate in the review and consideration of any rate filing
HB 3323 - Clarifying that an insurance policy should be voidable from the date of its issuance if an insured fails to provide consideration for the policy

Interim Studies (6 Bills)
HB 2234 - Relating to increasing the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make for an individual award
HB 2566 - Expanding applicability of increased penalties for crimes against certain protected persons
HB 2569 - Creating the Juvenile Services Reimbursement Offender Fund
HB 2570 - Correctional Industries Act of 2009
HB 2901 - Relating to limitations on expending hotel occupancy tax proceeds
HB 3186 - Increasing the stipend paid to mentor teachers and enforcing teacher mentor provisions

Internet (5 Bills)
HB 2400 - Establishes the State Police as the entity which is authorized to issue administrative subpoenas to internet service providers in cases of suspected child pornography
HB 2439 - Providing for the appointment of a commission to develop and conduct a field test of comprehensive, integrated statewide standardized electronic medical records access system
HB 2658 - Requiring state offices, agencies, boards and commissions to submit annual reports electronically
HB 2679 - Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology
HB 3019 - Relating to obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer

Labor (30 Bills)
HB 2021 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2129 - Requiring bids under state contract to disclose the location of work to be performed or risk state termination of the contract
HB 2168 - Labor, Packaging and Labeling
HB 2169 - Labor, Method of Sale of Commodities
HB 2170 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2171 - Labor, Weights and Measures Calibration Fees
HB 2211 - Labor, Standards for Weights and Measures Inspectors
HB 2212 - Labor, Amusement Rides and Attractions Safety Act
HB 2213 - Labor, Elevator Safety Act
HB 2236 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2247 - Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek
HB 2355 - Removing certain exceptions in the definitions of employer and employee covered by the West Virginia minimum wage law
HB 2411 - Requiring that workplace fatalities be reported to the Division of Labor
HB 2640 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2751 - Exempting nonprofit corporations from paying prevailing wages in certain circumstances
HB 2768 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements
HB 2771 - Relating to the West Virginia Alcohol and Drug-Free Workplace Act
HB 2784 - Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements
HB 2827 - Labor, supervision of elevator mechanics and apprentices
HB 2871 - Verifying legal employment status of workers
HB 2883 - West Virginia Right to Work Law
HB 2909 - Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws
HB 3009 - Changing the definition of "construction" to only include projects whose total costs are more than $200,000 in the prevailing wage law
HB 3032 - Providing that all employees have a right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file
HB 3061 - Increasing the spending limits on contracts involving the expenditure by a public service district for construction work or for the purchase of equipment and improvements, without seeking competitive bids
HB 3066 - Clarifying the supervision requirements for elevator apprentices under elevator safety
HB 3076 - Relating to the regulation and operation of cranes
HB 3136 - Providing a modification to taxable income of up to $10, 000 for payment to a taxpayer from an employer as a result of a reduction in force for the taxable year 2009
HB 3156 - Establishing the West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program
HB 3301 - Amending the Division of Labor rule verifying the legal employment status of workers

Languages (4 Bills)
HB 2106 - Making English the official language of West Virginia
HB 2190 - Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Qualifications and Standards for Interpreters and Transliterators
HB 2538 - Relating to supplemental funding for the provision of alternative programs for limited English proficient students
HB 3014 - Requiring all governmental documents to be printed in English

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (24 Bills)
HB 2047 - Providing that alleged victims of domestic violence or abuse have the right to have a person of their choosing present when they are interviewed by law-enforcement officers or the prosecuting attorney
HB 2088 - Providing for the temporary detention of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officers where probable cause appears to exist
HB 2130 - Prohibiting law-enforcement officers from asking crime victims if they have insurance coverage to cover losses occasioned by criminal activity
HB 2135 - Providing for reexamination of drivers holding valid drivers licenses who are observed by police officers violating traffic laws or who appear to have caused accidents as the result of negligence or inadequate driving skill
HB 2347 - Requiring the preservation of biological evidence found in connection with a criminal case, and establishing penalties for violations
HB 2366 - Relating to fleeing form a law-enforcement officer
HB 2393 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2491 - Providing a statutory good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when evidence has been obtained during an execution of a search warrant, arrest warrant or capias
HB 2496 - Establishing threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possessed by an individual
HB 2522 - Authorizing the law-enforcement agency responsible for a forfeited motor vehicle to trade the motor vehicle for a new vehicle in certain circumstances
HB 2545 - Providing arresting agency shall pay cost for the initial twenty-four hours of incarceration
HB 2613 - Prohibiting any law enforcement or other official from interfering in the service of a warrant in child abuse investigations
HB 2653 - Authorizing use of citations in lieu of arrest warrants for certain offenses
HB 2716 - Clarifying the penalty provisions regarding battery on a police officer
HB 2754 - Requiring witnesses of violent acts or emergency situations to report the incident to law-enforcement
HB 2810 - Providing salary increases for deputies with college degrees
HB 2842 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate
HB 2911 - Establishing a state law-enforcement association members annual leave program
HB 3057 - Requiring all law-enforcement agencies to certify qualified law-enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms
HB 3133 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 3158 - Providing assistance to certain political subdivision activities involving municipal policemen's and firemen's pensions and relief systems and volunteer fire departments
HB 3160 - Authorizing the Director of the Division of Protective Services to assess, charge and collect fees from state spending units and private entities for law-enforcement services provided during extraordinary events
HB 3244 - Authorizing a law enforcement officer to make an arrest and take the driver before a magistrate or court when the person is charged with driving with a suspended license
HB 3267 - Providing procedures to protect motor vehicle operators with regard to searches of their motor vehicles by law-enforcement officers

Law Enforcement -- County/Municipal (8 Bills)
HB 2142 - Allowing municipal police and fire pension plans to use the actuarial examination by the State in lieu of obtaining its own actuary
HB 2187 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2292 - Relating to requiring lien holders to notify the sheriff's office via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days after the lien has been satisfied
HB 2413 - Changing the upper age restriction for new police hires in municipalities
HB 2600 - Lying to a deputy sheriff or municipal police officer who is conducting an investigation of a felony, is a misdemeanor
HB 2702 - Relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
HB 3013 - Prohibiting a cheif deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities
HB 3148 - Permitting a county sheriff when acting as a conservator to retain five percent of the protected person's estate, up to $250 per year

Law Enforcement -- State Police (14 Bills)
HB 2090 - Providing a housing supplement for members of the State Police
HB 2158 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, WV State Police
HB 2294 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2400 - Establishes the State Police as the entity which is authorized to issue administrative subpoenas to internet service providers in cases of suspected child pornography
HB 2434 - Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions
HB 2472 - Establishing a West Virginia State Trooper's Association leave donation program
HB 2523 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police
HB 2600 - Lying to a deputy sheriff or municipal police officer who is conducting an investigation of a felony, is a misdemeanor
HB 2601 - Allowing the Superintendent of the State Police to charge a one hundred dollar motor vehicle inspection facility application fee
HB 2617 - Waving tuition and fees for members of the WV State Police
HB 2618 - Compensating state troopers for call-back time
HB 2914 - Relating to West Virginia State Police receiving on-call and off-duty pay
HB 2921 - Relating to tuition and fee waivers for members of the West Virginia State Police to attend a college or university
HB 3102 - Requiring sex offenders to pay a fee which is to be deposited into the State Police Retirement Fund

Legislature (12 Bills)
HB 2105 - Relating to prohibiting legislators from enrolling in the state retirement system
HB 2116 - Increasing the multiplier for a retirement annuity in the public employees retirement system, and deleting language which allows increases in annuity payments for retired Legislators relative to salary increases
HB 2306 - Relating to impersonation of a public official or employee
HB 2444 - Creating the Legislative Oversight Commission on Long-Term Care
HB 2506 - Prohibiting state funding for the distribution of holiday or greeting cards by elected officials, state employees, departments or agencies
HB 2552 - Revising Insurance Commissioner reporting requirements to the Legislature on workers' compensation insurance rules
HB 2933 - Prohibiting privatization of government services unless private companies can prove that they can perform those services more efficiently
HB 2993 - Prohibiting any member of the Legislature from fund-raising during any session
HB 3090 - Requiring a seventy-two hour waiting period before the Legislature votes on the state budget for final passage
HB 3091 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 3189 - Adding members to the Capitol Building Commission
HB 3248 - Exempting members of the West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates from obtaining a license to carry concealed deadly weapons throughout their terms of service

Legislature--Rule Making (105 Bills)
HB 2151 - Administration, Purchasing Division
HB 2152 - Agriculture, Schedule of Charges for Inspection Services
HB 2153 - Architects, Fees for Registration
HB 2154 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, General Provisions
HB 2155 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2156 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Refund, Reinstatement, Retroactive Service, and Loan Interest Factors
HB 2157 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Service Credit for Accrued and Unused Sick and Annual Leave
HB 2158 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, WV State Police
HB 2159 - DEP-Air Quality, Permits
HB 2160 - DEP-Air Quality, Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources
HB 2161 - DEP-Air Quality, Control of Air Pollution from Hazardous Waste Treatment
HB 2162 - DEP-Air Quality, Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
HB 2163 - DEP, Air Quality, Mercury Budget Trading Program
HB 2164 - DEP-Secretary's Office, Voluntary Remediation and Redevelopment Rule
HB 2165 - DEP-Water Resources, State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund
HB 2166 - Ethics Commission, Filing of Verified Time Records
HB 2167 - Ethics Commission, Voting
HB 2168 - Labor, Packaging and Labeling
HB 2169 - Labor, Method of Sale of Commodities
HB 2170 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2171 - Labor, Weights and Measures Calibration Fees
HB 2172 - Natural Resources, Boating Rules
HB 2173 - Natural Resources, Deer Hunting Rules
HB 2174 - Natural Resources, Lifetime Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Licenses
HB 2175 - Social Work Examiners, Fee Schedule
HB 2176 - Tax Department, Repeal of Valuation of Intangible Personal Property
HB 2177 - Tourism, Direct Advertising Grants Program
HB 2178 - Accountancy, Board Rules and Rules of Professional Conduct
HB 2179 - Administration, Parking
HB 2180 - Administration, Rules and Regulations for Fair Market Price Determination
HB 2181 - Administration, Rules and Regulations Statewide Contract
HB 2182 - Administration, Rules for Qualifications for Participation
HB 2183 - Agriculture, Animal Disease Control
HB 2184 - Agriculture, Disposal of Dead Poultry
HB 2185 - Agriculture, Commercial Feed
HB 2186 - Architects, Registration
HB 2187 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2188 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Benefit Determination and Appeal
HB 2189 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Teachers' Retirement System
HB 2190 - Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Qualifications and Standards for Interpreters and Transliterators
HB 2191 - Dental Examiners, Rules for the Board
HB 2192 - Dental Examiners, Formation and Approval of Dental Corporations
HB 2193 - DEP-Air Quality, Permits for Construction and Major Modification of Major Stationary Sources of Air Pollution
HB 2194 - DEP-Air Quality, Ambient Air Quality Standards
HB 2195 - DEP-Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Management System
HB 2196 - DEP-Waste Management, Assessment of Civil Administrative Penalties
HB 2197 - DEP-Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Management Fee
HB 2198 - DEP-Water Resources, Environmental Laboratories
HB 2199 - DEP-Water Resources, Dam Safety Rule
HB 2200 - DEP-Water Resources, Assessment of Civil Administrative Penalties
HB 2201 - Ethics Commission, Employment Exemptions
HB 2202 - Ethics Commission, Lobbying
HB 2203 - Ethics Commission, Purchase, Sale or Lease of Personal Property
HB 2204 - Ethics Commission, Interest in Public Contracts
HB 2205 - Health, Licensure of Medical Adult Day Care Centers
HB 2206 - Health, Public Water Systems
HB 2207 - Health, Tuberculosis Testing, Control, Treatment and Commitment
HB 2208 - Human Services, Child Care Center Licensing
HB 2209 - Insurance Commission, Continuing Education for Individual Insurance Producers
HB 2210 - Insurance Commission, Preneed Life Insurance Minimum Standards
HB 2211 - Labor, Standards for Weights and Measures Inspectors
HB 2212 - Labor, Amusement Rides and Attractions Safety Act
HB 2213 - Labor, Elevator Safety Act
HB 2214 - Medicine, Definition of Surgery
HB 2215 - Medicine, Licensure, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures
HB 2216 - Medicine, Regulation of Restricted License
HB 2217 - Motor Vehicles, Denial, Suspension, Revocation, Restriction or Nonrenewal of Driving Privileges
HB 2218 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2219 - Natural Resources, Hunting, Trapping and Fishing License and Stamp Fees
HB 2220 - Personnel, Reimbursement of Compensation Paid to State Employees
HB 2221 - Physical Therapy, General Provisions
HB 2222 - Authorizing the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2223 - Registered Professional Nurses, Policies Standards and Criteria for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges or Schools of Nursing
HB 2224 - Registered Professional Nurses, Limited Prescriptive Authority
HB 2225 - Authorizing the Department of Education and the Arts to Promulgate Legislative Rules
HB 2226 - Respiratory Care, Student Temporary Permits
HB 2227 - Secretary of State, Administration of the Address Confidentiality Program
HB 2228 - Tax Department, Combined Returns Pursuant to an Investigation by the Tax Commissioner
HB 2229 - Tax Department, Film Industry Investment Tax Credit
HB 2230 - Tax Department, Electronic Filing of Payment of Special District Excise Tax
HB 2231 - Tax Department, Withholding or Denial of Personal Income Tax Refunds
HB 2232 - Tax Department, Exchange of Information Agreement
HB 2233 - Veterinary Medicine, Schedule of Fees
HB 2811 - DEP-Air Quality, Control and Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides
HB 2812 - DEP-Air Quality, NOx Budget Trading Program
HB 2813 - Highways, WV Division of, Transportation of Hazardous Wastes
HB 2814 - DEP-Mining and Reclamation
HB 2815 - DEP-Water Resources, WV/NPDES Rules for Coal Mining Facilities
HB 2816 - Development Office, Brownfield Economic Development Districts
HB 2817 - Fire Commission, WV State
HB 2818 - Fire Marshal, WV State
HB 2819 - Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2820 - Highways, use of state road rights of way
HB 2821 - Insurance Commission, coordination of health benefits
HB 2822 - Insurance Commission, long-term care insurance
HB 2823 - Insurance Commission, actuarial opinion and memorandum rule
HB 2824 - Insurance Commission, Viatical Settlements
HB 2825 - Insurance Commission, discount medical plan organizations
HB 2826 - Insurance Commission, Professional Employer Organizations
HB 2827 - Labor, supervision of elevator mechanics and apprentices
HB 2828 - Pharmacy, board of pharmacy rules regarding licensure and practice
HB 2829 - Pharmacy, rules regarding immunizations
HB 2830 - Pharmacy, regulation of charitable clinic pharmacies
HB 2831 - Treasurer's Office, selection of state depositories
HB 3301 - Amending the Division of Labor rule verifying the legal employment status of workers

Levies (2 Bills)
HB 2147 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 3284 - Allowing local governments to levy a sales tax on food and beverages

Liability (10 Bills)
HB 2043 - Relating to notification of cancellation or nonrenewal of an insured's automobile liability insurance contract or policy
HB 2101 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2359 - Defining "spelunking" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited
HB 2517 - Relating to immunity from civil liability for operators of parks and recreation districts
HB 2537 - Preventing insurers from increasing the rates for auto liability or homeowners insurance for persons over the age of sixty-five based solely on their age
HB 2541 - Including poultry among those domesticated farm animals or stock which the owner shall be liable for damages caused by those animals
HB 2585 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2929 - Increasing the amount of charge or fee for a recreational purpose or activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited to $500
HB 3155 - Relating to the renewal of the West Virginia Small Business Linked Deposit Program
HB 3325 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items

Libraries (4 Bills)
HB 2372 - Authorizing county commissions to use impact fees to fund the building and operation of libraries and to administer and provide affordable housing for individuals or families of low or moderate income
HB 2525 - Capping the amount paid into the Berkeley County Library Fund by the Berkeley County Court
HB 2732 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 3168 - Creating the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, creating a library board with the power to operate said library, and providing a method of financing the operation of the library

Licenses (27 Bills)
HB 2033 - Including a parenting plan with an application for a marriage license
HB 2079 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked
HB 2135 - Providing for reexamination of drivers holding valid drivers licenses who are observed by police officers violating traffic laws or who appear to have caused accidents as the result of negligence or inadequate driving skill
HB 2141 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2174 - Natural Resources, Lifetime Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Licenses
HB 2186 - Architects, Registration
HB 2205 - Health, Licensure of Medical Adult Day Care Centers
HB 2208 - Human Services, Child Care Center Licensing
HB 2215 - Medicine, Licensure, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures
HB 2216 - Medicine, Regulation of Restricted License
HB 2217 - Motor Vehicles, Denial, Suspension, Revocation, Restriction or Nonrenewal of Driving Privileges
HB 2219 - Natural Resources, Hunting, Trapping and Fishing License and Stamp Fees
HB 2226 - Respiratory Care, Student Temporary Permits
HB 2273 - Relating to suspension of drivers license for certain offenses if committed by college students
HB 2307 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2362 - Creating multi-year hunting, fishing and trapping licenses
HB 2378 - Relating to the removal of the exemption for government employees performing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license
HB 2403 - Updating the law governing professional licensing boards in general
HB 2479 - Relating to the licensing of private investigators and security guards
HB 2486 - Exempting from the nursing licensing provisions the care of the sick when done in connection with the practice of religious tenets of any church or religious organization
HB 2532 - Creating licensure for Marriage and Family Therapists
HB 2539 - Authorizing professional licensing boards to combine administrative staff functions
HB 2572 - Relating to classification of retail licenses for the sale of liquor
HB 2626 - Requiring licensure of pharmacy benefit managers
HB 2698 - Relating to pipeline companies paying a special license fee
HB 2725 - Suspending the future issuing of new video lottery licenses
HB 2866 - Allowing a license to carry deadly weapons to remain valid until the applicant receives notice the application for renewal has been issued or denied

Liens (7 Bills)
HB 2292 - Relating to requiring lien holders to notify the sheriff's office via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days after the lien has been satisfied
HB 2774 - Allowing any party in a bankruptcy proceeding to compel the bankruptcy trustee to disclose certain information
HB 3001 - Relating to mechanic's liens filed against corporations
HB 3005 - Providing a limitation on the lien created for municipal assessments
HB 3082 - Relating to the gathering and reporting of foreclosure data and statistics
HB 3094 - Prohibiting the publication of the consideration paid for the sale of real estate or the amount of any lien on the real property subject to the sale
HB 3163 - Providing that the limitation on child support is tolled until the last child that is subject of an income withholding order reaches eighteen years of age

Local Bills (1 Bills)
HB 3168 - Creating the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, creating a library board with the power to operate said library, and providing a method of financing the operation of the library

Malpractice (1 Bills)
HB 3251 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion by any person who has been admitted to or who has been adjudicated to have committed medical malpractice

Military Affairs (22 Bills)
HB 2064 - Designating the seventh day of December, "Pearl Harbor Day," as a legal state holiday
HB 2104 - Providing benefits for those who have served in the military service
HB 2110 - Creating a special registration plate for the American Veteran's Organization (AMVETS)
HB 2140 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2150 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Veterans' Affairs
HB 2235 - Income tax exemption for veterans who locate in West Virginia following separation from service
HB 2332 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2335 - Relating to the federal "Yellow Ribbon G. I. Education Enhancement Program"
HB 2414 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2432 - Exempting certain recipients of military medals of valor from special registration plate fees
HB 2434 - Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions
HB 2436 - Relating to the definition of "eligible veteran" for certain state training and employment preference benefits
HB 2468 - Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate
HB 2480 - Exempting all military income from personal income taxes
HB 2694 - Establishing certain requirements for modification of custodial rights for parent's or guardian's that have been deployed to the United States Armed Forces
HB 2924 - Relating to qualified military service for public employees retirement benefits
HB 2943 - Exempting veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component from having to obtain a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 2963 - Permitting the period of service by veterans of the conflicts in Granada, Lebanon and the Panama Canal be allowed as military service credit for persons who are eligible for public employees retirement benefits
HB 3051 - Providing veterans' death certificates to families and funeral directors at no cost
HB 3104 - Allowing members of the West Virginia National Guard or its reserves to obtain free hunting and fishing licenses
HB 3153 - Specifying that federal civil service system retirement income derived from military retirement system pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions is treated as military retirement income for purposes of the modifications to federal adjusted gross income
HB 3245 - Providing that nay service in the United States Armed Forces up to two years is credited service toward retirement for members of the Public Employees Retirement System

Mines and Minerals (22 Bills)
HB 2081 - Requiring the superintendent or owner of a mine to sign the fire boss record book daily
HB 2103 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2125 - Providing that personnel carriers used to transport miners must be maintained at the working section
HB 2236 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2259 - Relating to the creation and implementation of drug-free workplaces in coal mines
HB 2264 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2285 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
HB 2295 - Requiring a certified person to examine underground mines after cutting and welding has been performed
HB 2314 - Relating to a severance tax imposed on surface mining activities
HB 2369 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2375 - Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining and manufacturing activities and uses
HB 2441 - Strengthening the protections for whistleblowers of unsafe working conditions in mines
HB 2460 - Prohibiting mining on cemetery land
HB 2489 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2640 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2814 - DEP-Mining and Reclamation
HB 2815 - DEP-Water Resources, WV/NPDES Rules for Coal Mining Facilities
HB 2905 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 3055 - Relating to environmental permitting of surface coal mining and correcting antiquated language
HB 3116 - Providing that the Division of Environmental Protection shall prioritize application for surface-mining permits based on those that include land use master plans
HB 3279 - Prohibiting any permits authorizing the construction, enlargement or modification of any coal mine waste
HB 3318 - Creating a full-time administrative law judge for the office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training

Minimum Wage (1 Bills)
HB 2355 - Removing certain exceptions in the definitions of employer and employee covered by the West Virginia minimum wage law

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (19 Bills)
HB 2032 - Removing the section of code that limits the use of certain types of vehicles on highways between sunset and sunrise
HB 2149 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2218 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2365 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to allow Class I cities to enter into one or more agreements with contract carriers by motor vehicle
HB 2389 - Requiring that motor vehicle insurance certificate may be issued only for the time period for which the insured pays for coverage
HB 2429 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver
HB 2435 - Creating a new pay grade classification of "bus operator II"
HB 2450 - Permitting private owners of vehicles to install an interlock system on their vehicle
HB 2494 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2522 - Authorizing the law-enforcement agency responsible for a forfeited motor vehicle to trade the motor vehicle for a new vehicle in certain circumstances
HB 2526 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2667 - Permitting motor vehicle dealers to sell certain motor vehicles on an "as is" basis without a warranty
HB 2673 - Relating to leaving children unattended or supervised in motor vehicles
HB 2697 - Relating to common carriers by motor vehicles in the business of towing
HB 2862 - Relating to towing companies notifying the DMV of abandoned vehicles
HB 3016 - Constructing speed bumps on one-lane roads and providing that the state is not liable for any damages to motor vehicles resulting from the speed bumps
HB 3240 - Giving the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles authority to approve all-terrain vehicle rider safety awareness courses
HB 3267 - Providing procedures to protect motor vehicle operators with regard to searches of their motor vehicles by law-enforcement officers

Motor Vehicles -- Driving Under Influence (4 Bills)
HB 2348 - Requiring mandatory community service upon conviction of a misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence and creating a central registry
HB 2429 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver
HB 2593 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2664 - Reducing recidivism of offenders convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol

Motor Vehicles -- Insurance (8 Bills)
HB 2006 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2043 - Relating to notification of cancellation or nonrenewal of an insured's automobile liability insurance contract or policy
HB 2071 - Prohibiting discrimination in rates by insurance companies because of having filed claims under the uninsured and under insured coverage of an automobile policy
HB 2389 - Requiring that motor vehicle insurance certificate may be issued only for the time period for which the insured pays for coverage
HB 2451 - Prohibiting the use of credit scoring as a consideration in calculating auto and homeowners insurance rates
HB 2509 - Relating to proof of financial responsibility in motor vehicle insurance
HB 2537 - Preventing insurers from increasing the rates for auto liability or homeowners insurance for persons over the age of sixty-five based solely on their age
HB 2585 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway

Motor Vehicles -- Licenses, Registration & Inspection (28 Bills)
HB 2110 - Creating a special registration plate for the American Veteran's Organization (AMVETS)
HB 2132 - Relating to allowing bus operators for county school systems to carry-over years of experience operating buses for purposes of determining seniority
HB 2135 - Providing for reexamination of drivers holding valid drivers licenses who are observed by police officers violating traffic laws or who appear to have caused accidents as the result of negligence or inadequate driving skill
HB 2141 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2239 - Exempting nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee
HB 2273 - Relating to suspension of drivers license for certain offenses if committed by college students
HB 2318 - Exempting motorcycles from the requirement of annual registration
HB 2394 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2432 - Exempting certain recipients of military medals of valor from special registration plate fees
HB 2446 - Providing that utility trailer registration plates are midsized relative to automobile registration plates and motorcycle plates
HB 2467 - Providing for special registration plates bearing the logo, insignia, letters or words demonstrating support for Mountain State University
HB 2468 - Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate
HB 2488 - Relating to registration and operation of mini trucks
HB 2502 - Creating and issuing special registration plates bearing the inscription "In God We Trust"
HB 2601 - Allowing the Superintendent of the State Police to charge a one hundred dollar motor vehicle inspection facility application fee
HB 2615 - Providing discounted motor registration fees for members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2630 - Issuing special license plates for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses
HB 2842 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate
HB 2856 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a "Choose Life" license plate
HB 2876 - Reinstating the license of a person within thirty days upon receiving the applicable proof of compliance
HB 2939 - Providing for the issuance of a special "Disabled Veteran" license plate for motorcycles
HB 2941 - Providing for the issuance of a special "In God We Trust" license plate
HB 2953 - Providing for the issuance of a special "Animal Friendly" license plate
HB 2964 - Relating to issuance of renewal license certificate to motor vehicle dealers
HB 2973 - Providing for the issuance of special registration plates bearing the logo, symbol, insignia, letters or words demonstrating association with or support for the Friends of Coal organization
HB 3107 - Issuing special registration plates allowing parking privileges for persons with mobility impairments
HB 3244 - Authorizing a law enforcement officer to make an arrest and take the driver before a magistrate or court when the person is charged with driving with a suspended license
HB 3300 - Requiring a notification be placed on drivers' license and state identification cards when granted a concealed weapons permit

Motor Vehicles -- Regulations (29 Bills)
HB 2006 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2079 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked
HB 2149 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2172 - Natural Resources, Boating Rules
HB 2217 - Motor Vehicles, Denial, Suspension, Revocation, Restriction or Nonrenewal of Driving Privileges
HB 2253 - Making the offense of failure to wear safety belts a primary offense
HB 2280 - Increasing the required bond for certain businesses regulated by the Division of Motor Vehicles to fifty thousand dollars
HB 2357 - Providing for a Public Service Commission investigation for traffic accidents involving a motor carrier regulated by the Public Service Commission
HB 2450 - Permitting private owners of vehicles to install an interlock system on their vehicle
HB 2488 - Relating to registration and operation of mini trucks
HB 2557 - Relating to the enforcement of new motor vehicle warranties
HB 2596 - Explaining all warranties for the sale of used cars including the requirements for "as is" sales
HB 2621 - Prohibiting the use of cell phone and text-messaging devices while operating a motor vehicle except when using a hands-free device or in the case of an emergency
HB 2736 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motor boats on lakes
HB 2779 - Relating to the regulation and operation of low-speed vehicles
HB 2786 - Authorizing Class I and II municipalities to regulate taxies and taxi stands
HB 2849 - Requiring automatic tire chains as standard equipment on all new school buses
HB 2875 - Exempting Changeable Message Signs from the rulemaking authority of the Department of Motor Vehicles
HB 2903 - Prohibiting the use of white strobe lights on motor vehicles
HB 2946 - Permitting running lamps on motorcycles, motor-driven cycles and mopeds
HB 2951 - Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging children
HB 2991 - Requiring additional lighting and reflector equipment of certain vehicles
HB 2995 - Prohibiting text messaging by use of a cell phone or personal digital assistant while driving
HB 3033 - Strengthening of vehicle emission standards
HB 3132 - Relating to pedestrians' right-of-way in crosswalks
HB 3239 - Including medical scooters within the definition of "motor vehicle" for purposes of driving under the influence
HB 3249 - Preventing vehicles from driving more than seventy-five feet in a center lane designated for left turns
HB 3252 - Relating to additional lighting and reflector equipment required on certain vehicles
HB 3261 - Providing definitions for autocycle and motorcycle

Motor Vehicles -- Taxation (8 Bills)
HB 2007 - Reducing the federal adjusted gross income for motor fuel expenses incurred in commuting to and from one's occupation
HB 2218 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2321 - Extending the alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit for ten years and making the credit retroactive from the expiration date of the initial credit
HB 2633 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2775 - Exempting antique cars from taxation and fees
HB 3072 - Providing a full tax deduction for the purchase of a new automobile and providing an exemption from the sales tax in the tax year 2009
HB 3095 - Exempting antique motor vehicles from personal property taxes
HB 3243 - Relating to consumers sales and service tax on motor vehicles

Municipalities (29 Bills)
HB 2003 - Authorizing paid municipal fire departments to investigate suspicious or illegal fires
HB 2117 - Reallocating the proceeds from limited video lottery by increasing the percentages payable to counties, municipalities and retailers
HB 2122 - Allowing municipalities to regulate the hours of operation of private liquor clubs by ordinance
HB 2251 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2260 - Authorizing governing bodies of municipalities and county commissions to transfer early in-person voting ballots to precincts in the manner absentee ballots are delivered
HB 2286 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2296 - Empowering certain county and municipalities to deny a development activity if adequate public facilities, assets and services are not available to support the activity
HB 2307 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2325 - Extending the deadline for submission of the written plan for participation in the pilot program for increased powers for municipal self government
HB 2413 - Changing the upper age restriction for new police hires in municipalities
HB 2447 - Establishing county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers
HB 2581 - Making changes to the Municipal Home Rule Board
HB 2663 - Expanding the power of municipal parking authority officers
HB 2723 - Authorizing liens by municipalities and requiring administrative procedures for the assessment and collection of delinquent municipal fees
HB 2786 - Authorizing Class I and II municipalities to regulate taxies and taxi stands
HB 2808 - Providing a procedure for removal of county, district or municipal officers
HB 2845 - Relating to the annexation of land by a municipality
HB 2909 - Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws
HB 2986 - Imposing a tax of $50 on the transfer of real estate valued at $25,000 or more within the incorporated limits of any municipality
HB 3005 - Providing a limitation on the lien created for municipal assessments
HB 3045 - West Virginia Volunteer Firefighter Length of Service Act
HB 3133 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 3145 - Giving municipalities with less than twenty-five employees the right to buy into becoming employees pursuant to the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement Act and the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 3158 - Providing assistance to certain political subdivision activities involving municipal policemen's and firemen's pensions and relief systems and volunteer fire departments
HB 3241 - Requiring municipalities that impose user fees to impose the fee on all persons residing within the municipality
HB 3253 - Providing misdemeanor criminal penalty for failing to comply with law regarding sale, lease or disposition of municipal property
HB 3258 - Permitting certain municipalities and counties to double their proportionate share of adjusted gross receipts from licensed racetracks with table games
HB 3312 - Requiring that any new or increased municipal taxes or fees must have a defined purpose
HB 3335 - Relating to limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms

Natural Resources (31 Bills)
HB 2062 - Giving the owners of newly constructed homes a ten-year grace period before a connection to a newly installed sewer line is mandatory
HB 2082 - Providing criminal penalties for negligently or carelessly shooting and wounding or killing a human being while hunting under the influence of alcohol or drugs
HB 2133 - Increasing the penalties for discarding trash on land and in streams
HB 2139 - Establishing a volunteer litter reporting program
HB 2145 - Increasing penalties for the illegal killing, taking, or possessing of certain wildlife
HB 2172 - Natural Resources, Boating Rules
HB 2173 - Natural Resources, Deer Hunting Rules
HB 2174 - Natural Resources, Lifetime Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Licenses
HB 2219 - Natural Resources, Hunting, Trapping and Fishing License and Stamp Fees
HB 2261 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions form state income tax
HB 2343 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2362 - Creating multi-year hunting, fishing and trapping licenses
HB 2461 - Creating a State Trail Authority within the West Virginia Development Office
HB 2471 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2511 - Relating to the valuation of managed timberland
HB 2514 - Verifiable Science Act
HB 2528 - Updating the regulation of the practice of forestry
HB 2602 - Establishing a returnable beverage container deposit program
HB 2623 - Allowing Class RG and RRG deer stamps to be used to hunt and take antlerless deer
HB 2637 - Requiring that all state high schools provide a course in archery safety for hunters
HB 2695 - Providing criminal penalties for a hunter who fails to render aid to a person the hunter shoots while hunting
HB 2794 - Modifying restrictions relating to shooting and discharging firearms near certain areas
HB 2795 - Creating a special hunting and fishing license for persons with a life-threatening condition who are under twenty-one years of age
HB 2935 - Allowing bona fide nonresident landowners or their children, or parents, to hunt, fish or trap on their own land without obtaining a license
HB 2943 - Exempting veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component from having to obtain a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 3062 - Providing that the amount of required acreage for bird hunting preserves may be one hundred acres for privately owned commercial shooting preserves
HB 3063 - Relating to hunting, tagging and reporting bear
HB 3068 - Establishing that spring gobbler hunting season begins on the second Monday of April every year
HB 3104 - Allowing members of the West Virginia National Guard or its reserves to obtain free hunting and fishing licenses
HB 3110 - Renaming conservation officers to be natural resources police officers
HB 3333 - Relating to the regulation of carrying firearms

Organ Donors (1 Bills)
HB 2320 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors

Parks and Recreation (10 Bills)
HB 2080 - Providing a ten percent discount to residents at state parks and forests
HB 2174 - Natural Resources, Lifetime Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Licenses
HB 2286 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2359 - Defining "spelunking" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited
HB 2368 - Making the senior citizens discount on campground rental fees at state parks available year-round
HB 2461 - Creating a State Trail Authority within the West Virginia Development Office
HB 2517 - Relating to immunity from civil liability for operators of parks and recreation districts
HB 2579 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2632 - Modifying the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority's power to charge tolls and issue bonds

Pornography (5 Bills)
HB 2291 - Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene materials
HB 2400 - Establishes the State Police as the entity which is authorized to issue administrative subpoenas to internet service providers in cases of suspected child pornography
HB 2412 - Providing certain county commissions with authority to regulate the location of businesses offering exotic entertainment
HB 2616 - Removing extraneous language regarding the limitation of exotic entertainment by county commissions
HB 2675 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act

Prescriptions and Medications (13 Bills)
HB 2053 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2054 - 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
HB 2224 - Registered Professional Nurses, Limited Prescriptive Authority
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2417 - Making any willful failure to provide benefits under a discount medical plan organization and discount prescription drug plan organization a felony
HB 2485 - Allowing pharmacy interns to vend pseudoephedrine and other chemical precursors of methamphetamine
HB 2626 - Requiring licensure of pharmacy benefit managers
HB 2648 - Protecting the privacy of a person's prescription information
HB 2899 - Adding Tramadol to Schedule IV of the West Virginia Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 2979 - Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications
HB 3079 - 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
HB 3238 - Requiring brand pharmaceuticals manufacturers and pharmacies to allow patients to return unused prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines for safe disposal
HB 3247 - Requiring any person licensed to prescribe drugs to check with the State Board of Pharmacy before initially prescribing certain drugs to a new patient to determine if said patient is engaging in doctor shopping

Professions and Occupations (70 Bills)
HB 2053 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2061 - Prohibiting abusive behavior towards elephants by an owner or manager
HB 2098 - Prohibiting oil and gas operators from daylighting
HB 2112 - Creating an apprenticeship program for barbers and cosmetologists
HB 2153 - Architects, Fees for Registration
HB 2175 - Social Work Examiners, Fee Schedule
HB 2178 - Accountancy, Board Rules and Rules of Professional Conduct
HB 2186 - Architects, Registration
HB 2191 - Dental Examiners, Rules for the Board
HB 2192 - Dental Examiners, Formation and Approval of Dental Corporations
HB 2201 - Ethics Commission, Employment Exemptions
HB 2202 - Ethics Commission, Lobbying
HB 2221 - Physical Therapy, General Provisions
HB 2223 - Registered Professional Nurses, Policies Standards and Criteria for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges or Schools of Nursing
HB 2236 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2242 - Creating sales and use tax exemptions for purchases of design and engineering services and materials and equipment directly used in construction of new or replacement amusement rides
HB 2244 - Prohibiting solid waste authorities from duplicating or competing with private recycling businesses
HB 2247 - Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek
HB 2248 - Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises
HB 2249 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
HB 2275 - Regulating telemarketing for quasi-state agencies
HB 2300 - Excluding certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2304 - Exempting from personal property taxation, the equipment, inventory and raw materials of crafts people who have had their work evaluated and accepted or juried and accepted by the West Virginia arts and crafts guild
HB 2309 - Updating the law governing the practice of occupational therapy
HB 2361 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2363 - Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2378 - Relating to the removal of the exemption for government employees performing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license
HB 2394 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2403 - Updating the law governing professional licensing boards in general
HB 2411 - Requiring that workplace fatalities be reported to the Division of Labor
HB 2425 - Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects
HB 2430 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2479 - Relating to the licensing of private investigators and security guards
HB 2485 - Allowing pharmacy interns to vend pseudoephedrine and other chemical precursors of methamphetamine
HB 2503 - Requiring licensed tattoo artist to inform patrons, prior to performing the tattoo procedure, of the potential problems that a tattoo may cause in relation to the reading of magnetic resonance imaging
HB 2510 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2531 - Updating the regulation of the practice of barbers and cosmetologists
HB 2532 - Creating licensure for Marriage and Family Therapists
HB 2547 - Relating to pawnbrokers obtaining a signed statement affirming ownership from a seller or pledgor on all sale or pawn transactions
HB 2616 - Removing extraneous language regarding the limitation of exotic entertainment by county commissions
HB 2626 - Requiring licensure of pharmacy benefit managers
HB 2659 - Broadcast Employees Freedom to Work Act
HB 2667 - Permitting motor vehicle dealers to sell certain motor vehicles on an "as is" basis without a warranty
HB 2686 - Requiring ten minute rest periods for employees during each four hours of work
HB 2697 - Relating to common carriers by motor vehicles in the business of towing
HB 2801 - Updating language and making technical changes and clarifications of the West Virginia Board of Medicine
HB 2829 - Pharmacy, rules regarding immunizations
HB 2830 - Pharmacy, regulation of charitable clinic pharmacies
HB 2839 - Relating to the management of pain by physicians
HB 2857 - Prohibiting elected state officials from becoming a lobbyist for two years after their term of office expires
HB 2865 - Exempting certain children from having to provide the otherwise appropriate written excuse from a physician or school nurse for a prolonged absence
HB 2901 - Relating to limitations on expending hotel occupancy tax proceeds
HB 2977 - Relating to the procurement of engineering services
HB 2978 - Relating to the practice of optometry
HB 2979 - Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications
HB 3030 - Relating to special railroad police
HB 3041 - Clarifying provisions relating to posting of job openings
HB 3044 - Relating to unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery or podiatry or as a physician assistant
HB 3059 - Exempting federal, state, county or private investigators from prosecution for stalking due to performing lawful investigations
HB 3152 - Athletic Trainers Registration Act
HB 3238 - Requiring brand pharmaceuticals manufacturers and pharmacies to allow patients to return unused prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines for safe disposal
HB 3247 - Requiring any person licensed to prescribe drugs to check with the State Board of Pharmacy before initially prescribing certain drugs to a new patient to determine if said patient is engaging in doctor shopping
HB 3257 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists
HB 3276 - Amending the professional surveyors act
HB 3285 - Restricting the sale of drug paraphernalia to licensed pharmacies
HB 3302 - Certified Legal Assistant Act
HB 3315 - Prohibiting members of the media from being compelled to give testimony, or be subject to search, provided certain conditions are met
HB 3327 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation paid to lobbyists for all lobbying activities

Public Employees (46 Bills)
HB 2013 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2089 - Allowing certain public employees to pay back retirement benefits
HB 2108 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2111 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2113 - Providing overtime pay for all employees who are required to work holidays regardless if the holiday hours are in excess of a forty hour workweek
HB 2132 - Relating to allowing bus operators for county school systems to carry-over years of experience operating buses for purposes of determining seniority
HB 2157 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Service Credit for Accrued and Unused Sick and Annual Leave
HB 2188 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Benefit Determination and Appeal
HB 2220 - Personnel, Reimbursement of Compensation Paid to State Employees
HB 2234 - Relating to increasing the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make for an individual award
HB 2250 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2271 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2298 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2306 - Relating to impersonation of a public official or employee
HB 2323 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2330 - Requiring that all decisions regarding certain reductions in full-time classified personnel workforce at state institutions of higher education be made on the basis of seniority
HB 2334 - Providing restrictions for an elected or appointed public official relating to reemployment after retirement
HB 2337 - Authorizing the Governor to pay a nonbase building salary enhancement to eligible state employees
HB 2355 - Removing certain exceptions in the definitions of employer and employee covered by the West Virginia minimum wage law
HB 2367 - Raising the state salary level to at least one hundred twenty-five percent above the Federal Poverty Guidelines
HB 2378 - Relating to the removal of the exemption for government employees performing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license
HB 2382 - Salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health
HB 2433 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2435 - Creating a new pay grade classification of "bus operator II"
HB 2436 - Relating to the definition of "eligible veteran" for certain state training and employment preference benefits
HB 2475 - Permitting retired state employees to transfer from Medicare to coverage through the West Virginia Public Employees Act
HB 2478 - Health Insurance for Employees
HB 2482 - Relating to the spouse and dependent insurance coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees' Insurance Act
HB 2501 - West Virginia Public Employment Relations Act
HB 2506 - Prohibiting state funding for the distribution of holiday or greeting cards by elected officials, state employees, departments or agencies
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2553 - Permitting employee and retiree organizations to obtain state employees' home addresses
HB 2563 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2620 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2646 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2655 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2676 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2686 - Requiring ten minute rest periods for employees during each four hours of work
HB 2708 - Exempting certain income received by retired federal employees from the personal income tax
HB 2710 - Increasing criminal penalty to commit malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery or assault upon a child protective caseworker or a local adult protective services caseworker employee
HB 2727 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for disabled public employee retirement annuitants
HB 2857 - Prohibiting elected state officials from becoming a lobbyist for two years after their term of office expires
HB 2897 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2945 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings
HB 3043 - Prohibiting extended coverage upon retirement based on years of service for new higher education employees
HB 3231 - Expanding the number of hours temporary state personnel may work in a calendar year

Public Service Commission (19 Bills)
HB 2016 - Providing for removal and election of Public Service Commissioners
HB 2063 - Relating to water utility rates
HB 2099 - Exempting wrecker services from regulation by the Public Service Commission
HB 2328 - Increasing the Public Service Commission appointees and requiring that there be one appointee from each congressional district and two at-large appointments
HB 2357 - Providing for a Public Service Commission investigation for traffic accidents involving a motor carrier regulated by the Public Service Commission
HB 2365 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to allow Class I cities to enter into one or more agreements with contract carriers by motor vehicle
HB 2787 - Removing the requirement of the Public Service Commission to serve recommended decisions by certified mail and allowing a service by electronic transmission
HB 2852 - Eliminating charges by public utilities for meter reading and minimum bill fees
HB 2863 - Relating to construction of state utility projects
HB 2887 - Stopping accelerated rate recovery because of adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities
HB 2980 - "West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act"
HB 2997 - Requiring commissioners of the public service commission to be elected
HB 3000 - Relating to a business and occupation tax on the business of the transmission of electricity through certain electric transmission lines
HB 3039 - Providing reduced rates for low-income residential customers of privately owned water utilities
HB 3115 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for secondary containment systems
HB 3122 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to distribute 911 fees from VoIP service providers directly to the counties in proportion to the amount of 911 fees collected from VoIP service subscribers located in each county
HB 3128 - Relating to the use of reported income tax expenses in setting the rates of certain public utilities
HB 3329 - Including additional information in the report submitted to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance by the Public Service Commission
HB 3334 - Setting forth legislative purpose and plan regarding modernizing and streamlining antiquated telecommunications regulation

Public Service Districts (3 Bills)
HB 3061 - Increasing the spending limits on contracts involving the expenditure by a public service district for construction work or for the purchase of equipment and improvements, without seeking competitive bids
HB 3121 - Increasing the salary of public service district board members
HB 3149 - Changing the board members of public service districts terms from six years to three years

Railroads (5 Bills)
HB 2445 - Updating safety rules and regulations pertaining to walkways along railtracks
HB 2536 - Adding language that includes railcars and locomotives in the category of railroad property that is illegal to interfere or tamper with
HB 2609 - Establishing criminal penalties for interfering with medical treatment of a railroad employee
HB 2917 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 3030 - Relating to special railroad police

Real Property (40 Bills)
HB 2002 - Changing the time for periodic valuations and assessments of real and personal property
HB 2012 - Relating to assessments of real property
HB 2018 - Making the destruction of a landlord's property which has been rented for residential purposes a criminal offense
HB 2030 - Providing a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence
HB 2031 - Permitting firework displays on public school property provided the State Superintendent and the Fire Marshal approve the display
HB 2062 - Giving the owners of newly constructed homes a ten-year grace period before a connection to a newly installed sewer line is mandatory
HB 2102 - Changing the qualifier for low income for a senior citizens' homestead tax credit
HB 2203 - Ethics Commission, Purchase, Sale or Lease of Personal Property
HB 2250 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2324 - Giving abutting landowners of public lands a right of first refusal to lease or buy public lands
HB 2350 - Providing that the transfer of development rights are renewable
HB 2356 - Exempting acts resulting in the taking or damaging of private property for public use from the immunity granted to a political subdivision
HB 2359 - Defining "spelunking" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited
HB 2372 - Authorizing county commissions to use impact fees to fund the building and operation of libraries and to administer and provide affordable housing for individuals or families of low or moderate income
HB 2379 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2407 - Relating to trustee accounts and funds, earnings and personal property of inmates
HB 2448 - Relating to annexation of unincorporated territory
HB 2507 - Relating to the discharging of firearms within a certain distance of a dwelling house
HB 2512 - Relating to assessed property valuations
HB 2527 - Requiring that all houses, dwellings and businesses located in a district where public water service is made available for the first time after July 1, 2009, be connected to the public water service
HB 2536 - Adding language that includes railcars and locomotives in the category of railroad property that is illegal to interfere or tamper with
HB 2558 - Exempting from taxation certain property owned by a nonprofit organization
HB 2561 - Providing that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor for renewal
HB 2564 - Limiting the exemption given to buildings used wholly as dwelling houses for no more than two families to those buildings only when owner-occupied
HB 2573 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2575 - Providing an election to allow resident homeowners, sixty-five years old or older, to defer the payment of property tax increases to their residential property
HB 2578 - Providing a ten percent cap on any increase in assessment of real and personal property in any one year
HB 2845 - Relating to the annexation of land by a municipality
HB 2928 - Clarifying procedures for protection of graves and burial sites
HB 2935 - Allowing bona fide nonresident landowners or their children, or parents, to hunt, fish or trap on their own land without obtaining a license
HB 2988 - Providing for the validity of a transfer of after-acquired property
HB 3042 - Changing the amount of residential solid waste that may be disposed of in a landfill free of charge
HB 3054 - Clarifying that the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration has the power and duty of acquiring and disposing of real property, contracting for third-party real estate services and billing spending units for costs of such services
HB 3065 - Requiring disclosure of higher annual percentage rate upon refinancing of a loan not secured by real estate and to provide a reasonable, tangible net benefit to the borrower in any refinancing of a loan or sale that is secured by real estate
HB 3094 - Prohibiting the publication of the consideration paid for the sale of real estate or the amount of any lien on the real property subject to the sale
HB 3139 - Increasing the amount for a title examination when a person redeems real property
HB 3148 - Permitting a county sheriff when acting as a conservator to retain five percent of the protected person's estate, up to $250 per year
HB 3176 - Surface Owners Protection Act
HB 3253 - Providing misdemeanor criminal penalty for failing to comply with law regarding sale, lease or disposition of municipal property
HB 3255 - Relating to residential rental security deposits

Regulation of Trade (21 Bills)
HB 2098 - Prohibiting oil and gas operators from daylighting
HB 2122 - Allowing municipalities to regulate the hours of operation of private liquor clubs by ordinance
HB 2180 - Administration, Rules and Regulations for Fair Market Price Determination
HB 2193 - DEP-Air Quality, Permits for Construction and Major Modification of Major Stationary Sources of Air Pollution
HB 2290 - Relating to a no telephone solicitation contact (Do Not Call) list
HB 2484 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2547 - Relating to pawnbrokers obtaining a signed statement affirming ownership from a seller or pledgor on all sale or pawn transactions
HB 2596 - Explaining all warranties for the sale of used cars including the requirements for "as is" sales
HB 2882 - Transferring authority over racing, boxing, charitable bingo, raffle, games and charitable lottery to the State Gaming and Alcohol Control Agency and State Gaming and Alcohol Control Commission
HB 2907 - Relating to the sales of wine
HB 2918 - Banning the sale of "Barbie" dolls and other dolls that influence girls to be beautiful
HB 3067 - Allowing certain owners of warehouses to store and to transport quantities of alcoholic liquors, wine, beer or nonintoxicating beer which are not intended or being stored for the purpose of sale or use within the state
HB 3076 - Relating to the regulation and operation of cranes
HB 3078 - Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act
HB 3100 - Multilevel Marketing Act
HB 3147 - Allowing the legal sale of liquor and wine on Sunday to be the same hours as prescribed for the sale of beer on Sunday
HB 3165 - Repealing article of the code granting a business license to sell drug paraphernalia
HB 3237 - Making it an unfair trade practice to refuse to refill a propane gas tank
HB 3285 - Restricting the sale of drug paraphernalia to licensed pharmacies
HB 3287 - Requiring blasting contractors to notify the State Fire Marshal and local property owners before blasting
HB 3335 - Relating to limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms

Regulations (24 Bills)
HB 2027 - Creating an excise tax on methadone
HB 2049 - Providing that a legally unlicensed personal care home may house up to four unrelated residents if there is at least one full-time employee working at the home
HB 2055 - Requiring nursing homes to publicly post staffing information and granting rights to family councils
HB 2062 - Giving the owners of newly constructed homes a ten-year grace period before a connection to a newly installed sewer line is mandatory
HB 2073 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2092 - Prohibiting inquiries reflected on a credit report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2094 - Prohibiting employees of higher education from assisting students in securing abortions
HB 2099 - Exempting wrecker services from regulation by the Public Service Commission
HB 2106 - Making English the official language of West Virginia
HB 2125 - Providing that personnel carriers used to transport miners must be maintained at the working section
HB 2173 - Natural Resources, Deer Hunting Rules
HB 2245 - Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school
HB 2275 - Regulating telemarketing for quasi-state agencies
HB 2288 - Changing compulsory school attendance until age eighteen or until the student graduates
HB 2289 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2299 - Limiting the purchase of handguns to one gun per month
HB 2351 - Prohibiting the placement of automated teller machines (ATM) in establishments that contain video lottery terminals
HB 2360 - Insuring that tobacco products are not sold in any packaging other than the original
HB 2445 - Updating safety rules and regulations pertaining to walkways along railtracks
HB 2462 - Authorizing county commissions to adopt and enforce noise abatement ordinances
HB 2528 - Updating the regulation of the practice of forestry
HB 2531 - Updating the regulation of the practice of barbers and cosmetologists
HB 2588 - Providing that only healthy beverages and healthy or nutritional snacks may be sold in the county school system
HB 2675 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act

Rehabilitation Clinic (6 Bills)
HB 2027 - Creating an excise tax on methadone
HB 2100 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
HB 2225 - Authorizing the Department of Education and the Arts to Promulgate Legislative Rules
HB 2419 - Providing inmates a reduction in sentence for completion of education and rehabilitation programs
HB 2594 - Providing that persons convicted of certain drug related crimes must participate in a substance abuse counseling program to be eligible for probation
HB 2647 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers

Religious Organizations (10 Bills)
HB 2020 - Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing requirement
HB 2373 - Requiring faith-based, abstinence-only and antichoice facilities to have written policies and procedures
HB 2374 - Requiring any faith-based facility that counsels women regarding contraception, abortion or pregnancy to maintain a quality assurance program
HB 2477 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Act
HB 2484 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2486 - Exempting from the nursing licensing provisions the care of the sick when done in connection with the practice of religious tenets of any church or religious organization
HB 2524 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2619 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 2809 - Exempting all gallons of gasoline and propane gas for any church, religious sect, society or denomination from the excise tax
HB 3233 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (9 Bills)
HB 2087 - Changing the definition of final average salary to thirty-six consecutive months for calculating retirement
HB 2109 - Increasing the West Virginia retirement income exemption from taxation on persons age sixty-five years of age or older or surviving spouse of such persons
HB 2156 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Refund, Reinstatement, Retroactive Service, and Loan Interest Factors
HB 2157 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Service Credit for Accrued and Unused Sick and Annual Leave
HB 2158 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, WV State Police
HB 2187 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2553 - Permitting employee and retiree organizations to obtain state employees' home addresses
HB 2778 - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five
HB 3156 - Establishing the West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program

Retirement -- Education Personnel (23 Bills)
HB 2041 - Exempting the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax
HB 2189 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Teachers' Retirement System
HB 2246 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2317 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and that the revenue from these fees are to be transferred to the benefit fund of the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2327 - Providing cost-of-living benefits to retired teachers funded from the severance tax collections on natural gas
HB 2338 - Eliminating the six month waiting period for those in the Teachers Retirement System to receive disability retirement benefits
HB 2345 - Exempting from state and personal income tax the benefits a retired teacher receives from the State Teachers Retirement System under certain circumstances
HB 2385 - 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
HB 2390 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2410 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2560 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2577 - Allowing a public school employee or retiree who missed work as a result of pregnancy to purchase up to one year of service credit in the teachers retirement system
HB 2670 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2703 - Relating to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2709 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2726 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons under the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2734 - Relating to minimum guarantees provided to members who elected to transfer from the Teachers' Defined Contribution System to the Teachers' Retirement System
HB 2791 - Relating to any income derived from the West Virginia Teachers Retirement System and any other income received by active public school teacher or service personnel being subtracted from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2861 - Repealing the one hundred forty day limitation that a retired school teacher may teach in public schools
HB 2870 - Extending the deadline of the buyback provision provided under the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 3092 - Providing that certain beneficiaries in the State Teachers Retirement System receive an annuity when an eligible spouse has not redeemed the accumulated contributions
HB 3119 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants of the Public Employees' Retirement and Teachers' Retirement Systems at the time they reach the age of seventy
HB 3289 - Stating circumstances permitting service credit purchase by members of the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System in the State Teachers Retirement System

Retirement -- Public Employees (36 Bills)
HB 2011 - Providing correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of actual and honorable service
HB 2048 - Providing for the continuance of medical coverage for the spouse of a deceased retired public employee for any period previously purchased with accumulated leave
HB 2089 - Allowing certain public employees to pay back retirement benefits
HB 2105 - Relating to prohibiting legislators from enrolling in the state retirement system
HB 2116 - Increasing the multiplier for a retirement annuity in the public employees retirement system, and deleting language which allows increases in annuity payments for retired Legislators relative to salary increases
HB 2142 - Allowing municipal police and fire pension plans to use the actuarial examination by the State in lieu of obtaining its own actuary
HB 2154 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, General Provisions
HB 2155 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2156 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Refund, Reinstatement, Retroactive Service, and Loan Interest Factors
HB 2188 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Benefit Determination and Appeal
HB 2261 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions form state income tax
HB 2323 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2334 - Providing restrictions for an elected or appointed public official relating to reemployment after retirement
HB 2398 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2410 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2426 - Reducing state income tax for state correctional officer retirees
HB 2475 - Permitting retired state employees to transfer from Medicare to coverage through the West Virginia Public Employees Act
HB 2560 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2622 - Relating to the reduction of state income taxes for certain state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2702 - Relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
HB 2711 - Providing that correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of service
HB 2727 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for disabled public employee retirement annuitants
HB 2763 - Allowing for expanded employment of certain retired state employees
HB 2770 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
HB 2793 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
HB 2924 - Relating to qualified military service for public employees retirement benefits
HB 2956 - Prohibiting the finance board pursuant to the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act from increasing the types and levels of costs to applicable current and retired employees during the 2010 and 2011 plan years
HB 2959 - Prohibiting premium subsidies in the Public Employees Insurance Agency health plans for retirees who were hired on or after January 1, 2010
HB 2963 - Permitting the period of service by veterans of the conflicts in Granada, Lebanon and the Panama Canal be allowed as military service credit for persons who are eligible for public employees retirement benefits
HB 3119 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants of the Public Employees' Retirement and Teachers' Retirement Systems at the time they reach the age of seventy
HB 3145 - Giving municipalities with less than twenty-five employees the right to buy into becoming employees pursuant to the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement Act and the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 3153 - Specifying that federal civil service system retirement income derived from military retirement system pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions is treated as military retirement income for purposes of the modifications to federal adjusted gross income
HB 3158 - Providing assistance to certain political subdivision activities involving municipal policemen's and firemen's pensions and relief systems and volunteer fire departments
HB 3190 - 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)
HB 3245 - Providing that nay service in the United States Armed Forces up to two years is credited service toward retirement for members of the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 3273 - West Virginia Correctional Officer Retirement System Act

Roads and Highways (28 Bills)
HB 2025 - Including bicycle and pedestrian ways in consideration in the planning and development of state roads
HB 2032 - Removing the section of code that limits the use of certain types of vehicles on highways between sunset and sunrise
HB 2050 - Expanding the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties; and increasing the number of members
HB 2108 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2120 - Prohibiting charitable organizations from soliciting contributions on public highways
HB 2274 - Relating to the distribution of the State Treasurer's "Road Fund"
HB 2494 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2585 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2643 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers
HB 2661 - Including roads that serve more than one family in the state road system
HB 2750 - Establishing an Innovative Highway Projects Pilot Program
HB 2753 - Relating to the continuation of the Design-Build Program
HB 2755 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to take control of an emergency scene on a highway
HB 2769 - Eliminating the requirement that the Division of Highways post signs indicating the type of surveillance equipment used to determine speed
HB 2776 - Exempting funeral procession from paying turnpike tolls
HB 2779 - Relating to the regulation and operation of low-speed vehicles
HB 2800 - Updating the requirements for a new subdivision to access a road in the State Highway System
HB 2813 - Highways, WV Division of, Transportation of Hazardous Wastes
HB 2820 - Highways, use of state road rights of way
HB 2862 - Relating to towing companies notifying the DMV of abandoned vehicles
HB 2893 - Allowing vehicles with farm-use exemption to travel fifty miles on public highways
HB 2900 - Creating the West Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank
HB 2917 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 2951 - Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging children
HB 3016 - Constructing speed bumps on one-lane roads and providing that the state is not liable for any damages to motor vehicles resulting from the speed bumps
HB 3144 - Establishing the state road benefit instant lottery scratch-off game
HB 3249 - Preventing vehicles from driving more than seventy-five feet in a center lane designated for left turns

Rule Making Authority (2 Bills)
HB 2473 - Relating to the commissioner's rule-making authority for workers' compensation
HB 2712 - Relating to rule making requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services

Safety (40 Bills)
HB 2025 - Including bicycle and pedestrian ways in consideration in the planning and development of state roads
HB 2034 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2059 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility, school bus stop, or other child safety zone
HB 2118 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2134 - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders
HB 2170 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2199 - DEP-Water Resources, Dam Safety Rule
HB 2212 - Labor, Amusement Rides and Attractions Safety Act
HB 2213 - Labor, Elevator Safety Act
HB 2253 - Making the offense of failure to wear safety belts a primary offense
HB 2264 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2277 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2285 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
HB 2293 - Creating the criminal offense of harassment of a participant of a neighborhood crime watch
HB 2341 - Requiring the State Board of Education to create a school drug safety program
HB 2353 - Relating to the crime victims compensation program
HB 2409 - Providing that fire officers may use adjacent property to prevent fire from spreading
HB 2411 - Requiring that workplace fatalities be reported to the Division of Labor
HB 2421 - Requires that inoperable fire hydrants be painted black and be reported to emergency dispatch centers
HB 2441 - Strengthening the protections for whistleblowers of unsafe working conditions in mines
HB 2445 - Updating safety rules and regulations pertaining to walkways along railtracks
HB 2450 - Permitting private owners of vehicles to install an interlock system on their vehicle
HB 2489 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2492 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2504 - Establishing the Silver Alert Plan, an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons
HB 2565 - Relating to industrial accidents and emergencies
HB 2637 - Requiring that all state high schools provide a course in archery safety for hunters
HB 2699 - Establishing breeding restrictions for aggressive or vicious dogs
HB 2724 - Silver Alert Plan
HB 2911 - Establishing a state law-enforcement association members annual leave program
HB 2917 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 2968 - Requiring the State Fire Commission to establish safety standards for liquefied petroleum gas systems
HB 3066 - Clarifying the supervision requirements for elevator apprentices under elevator safety
HB 3160 - Authorizing the Director of the Division of Protective Services to assess, charge and collect fees from state spending units and private entities for law-enforcement services provided during extraordinary events
HB 3161 - Providing that the officers of the Division of Protective Services have the same powers of arrest and law enforcement as members of the West Virginia State Police
HB 3240 - Giving the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles authority to approve all-terrain vehicle rider safety awareness courses
HB 3256 - West Virginia Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being
HB 3304 - Relating to residency restrictions for registered sex offenders
HB 3318 - Creating a full-time administrative law judge for the office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training
HB 3331 - Prohibiting the taking of lawfully possessed arms and ammunition during a declared state of emergency or riot

Salaries (48 Bills)
HB 2001 - Providing additional state minimum salary for certain teachers
HB 2013 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2051 - Providing a two thousand eight dollar salary increase for each employee of the Division of Corrections
HB 2069 - Increasing the faculty senate allotment for classroom teachers and librarians
HB 2087 - Changing the definition of final average salary to thirty-six consecutive months for calculating retirement
HB 2113 - Providing overtime pay for all employees who are required to work holidays regardless if the holiday hours are in excess of a forty hour workweek
HB 2116 - Increasing the multiplier for a retirement annuity in the public employees retirement system, and deleting language which allows increases in annuity payments for retired Legislators relative to salary increases
HB 2220 - Personnel, Reimbursement of Compensation Paid to State Employees
HB 2246 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2248 - Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises
HB 2249 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
HB 2250 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2258 - Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year
HB 2289 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2300 - Excluding certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2305 - Revising appointment and compensation provisions of the Supreme Court Clerk and his or her staff
HB 2320 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors
HB 2337 - Authorizing the Governor to pay a nonbase building salary enhancement to eligible state employees
HB 2355 - Removing certain exceptions in the definitions of employer and employee covered by the West Virginia minimum wage law
HB 2367 - Raising the state salary level to at least one hundred twenty-five percent above the Federal Poverty Guidelines
HB 2370 - Providing for increased compensation for aides and paraprofessionals with large numbers of pupils in kindergarten and grades one through six
HB 2379 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2381 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel
HB 2382 - Salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health
HB 2386 - Relating to the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2395 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2397 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2405 - Relating to Public Defender Services and raising the hourly rate of compensation for panel attorneys
HB 2433 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2434 - Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions
HB 2471 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2500 - Establishing school service personnel class title and pay grade for the positions of "Administrative Assistant" and "Legal Secretary"
HB 2523 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police
HB 2586 - Granting a salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2587 - Capping regional jail per diem charges at forty-eight dollars and ten cents
HB 2618 - Compensating state troopers for call-back time
HB 2620 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2669 - Providing an exemption from gross income for certain members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2670 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2685 - Amending the Uniform Principal and Income Act
HB 2731 - Increasing the salary of family court judges
HB 2782 - Authorizing a $2,008 pay raise for employees of the West Virginia Regional Jail Authority, Division of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Services
HB 2784 - Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements
HB 2806 - Removing the salary cap for secretary-clerks and case coordinators of the family court
HB 2914 - Relating to West Virginia State Police receiving on-call and off-duty pay
HB 3121 - Increasing the salary of public service district board members
HB 3172 - Increasing the compensation for employees of the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital and the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital
HB 3303 - Increasing the salaries of magistrates who serve populations of eight thousand four hundred or more

Secretary of State (6 Bills)
HB 2227 - Secretary of State, Administration of the Address Confidentiality Program
HB 2567 - Relating to filing agency rules with the Secretary of State under the Administrative Procedures Act
HB 2965 - Requiring candidates for the House of Delegates and the Senate to file their announcement of candidacies with the Secretary of State
HB 3074 - Allowing the Secretary of State to notify people with delinquent taxes by certified mail
HB 3075 - Requiring the Secretary of State to handle the administrative duties regarding the Silver Haired Legislature
HB 3281 - Improving the technology infrastructure of the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office

Senior Citizens (17 Bills)
HB 2004 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2036 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2068 - Excluding federal interest income when applying the income exclusion available to those sixty-five years of age or older and to persons permanently and totally disabled
HB 2102 - Changing the qualifier for low income for a senior citizens' homestead tax credit
HB 2109 - Increasing the West Virginia retirement income exemption from taxation on persons age sixty-five years of age or older or surviving spouse of such persons
HB 2368 - Making the senior citizens discount on campground rental fees at state parks available year-round
HB 2444 - Creating the Legislative Oversight Commission on Long-Term Care
HB 2537 - Preventing insurers from increasing the rates for auto liability or homeowners insurance for persons over the age of sixty-five based solely on their age
HB 2575 - Providing an election to allow resident homeowners, sixty-five years old or older, to defer the payment of property tax increases to their residential property
HB 2579 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2607 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2625 - Providing for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming
HB 2645 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy
HB 2724 - Silver Alert Plan
HB 2788 - Protecting incapacitated adults from abuse or neglect by a caregiver
HB 2884 - Long-Term Care Partnership Program
HB 2913 - Relating to the Statewide Independent Living Council

Social Security (4 Bills)
HB 2036 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2395 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2483 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax
HB 2624 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income to determine West Virginia adjusted gross income for purposes of personal income tax

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (27 Bills)
HB 2067 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2097 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2176 - Tax Department, Repeal of Valuation of Intangible Personal Property
HB 2228 - Tax Department, Combined Returns Pursuant to an Investigation by the Tax Commissioner
HB 2229 - Tax Department, Film Industry Investment Tax Credit
HB 2230 - Tax Department, Electronic Filing of Payment of Special District Excise Tax
HB 2231 - Tax Department, Withholding or Denial of Personal Income Tax Refunds
HB 2232 - Tax Department, Exchange of Information Agreement
HB 2358 - Including a tax checkoff option for Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp
HB 2401 - Providing for the expiration of the alternative minimum tax
HB 2453 - Providing a tax credit for scholarship donations
HB 2469 - West Virginia Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2009
HB 2554 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2584 - Providing a state tax deduction for amounts paid for health insurance under certain circumstances
HB 2715 - The Economic Fairness Act of 2009
HB 2730 - Authorizing a tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas
HB 2915 - Authorizing the sale of prohibited fireworks
HB 3024 - Relating to taxation
HB 3039 - Providing reduced rates for low-income residential customers of privately owned water utilities
HB 3074 - Allowing the Secretary of State to notify people with delinquent taxes by certified mail
HB 3080 - General revisions to taxation
HB 3113 - Relating to arts, entertainment and enterprise districts
HB 3166 - Health Care Affordability Act
HB 3262 - Relating to health care provider tax
HB 3271 - Creating a tax credit for certain solar energy systems
HB 3312 - Requiring that any new or increased municipal taxes or fees must have a defined purpose
HB 3320 - The Family Education Tax Credit Act

Taxation -- Consumers Sales Tax (25 Bills)
HB 2014 - Eliminating the severance tax and the health care provider tax on behavior health providers
HB 2143 - Dedicating a portion of the receipts from the tax on food products to be distributed equally to each district of the Division of Highways
HB 2230 - Tax Department, Electronic Filing of Payment of Special District Excise Tax
HB 2242 - Creating sales and use tax exemptions for purchases of design and engineering services and materials and equipment directly used in construction of new or replacement amusement rides
HB 2281 - Relating to a tax exemption on certain sales of clothing
HB 2291 - Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene materials
HB 2458 - Reinstating the sales tax exemption for comprehensive mental health care centers
HB 2459 - Increasing the tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors outside corporate limits
HB 2470 - Exempting all schools which include grades kindergarten through twelve from paying consumer sales tax on items the school sells
HB 2505 - Exempting the sale of the services of shredding and recycling of paper and paper products from the consumer sales tax
HB 2521 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2629 - Providing an exemption from estate taxes and the Consumers Sales and Service Tax for certain expenses of any infant who dies before reaching one year of age
HB 2633 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2650 - Eliminating the sales tax on food effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2681 - Eliminating the food tax, increasing the tax on nonintoxicating beer, increasing the cigarette tax, increasing the noncigarette tobacco products tax..etc...
HB 2733 - Creating an annual sales tax holiday for purchases of guns and ammunition
HB 2746 - Raising the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2940 - Exempting funeral establishments and authorized representatives of the deceased from any sales tax regarding goods and services
HB 2999 - Relating to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement and the West Virginia consumers sales and service tax and use tax
HB 3017 - Exempting from the consumers sales and service tax and use tax any sales of donated clothing or clothing accessories
HB 3079 - 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
HB 3096 - Providing tax credits for the sale of locally grown produce
HB 3130 - Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer
HB 3140 - Relating to tax map sales
HB 3284 - Allowing local governments to levy a sales tax on food and beverages

Taxation -- Mines & Minerals (3 Bills)
HB 2314 - Relating to a severance tax imposed on surface mining activities
HB 3003 - Continuing and reimposing the special reclamation tax, providing for periodic legislative review, and removing the additional tax on clean coal
HB 3081 - Coal-to-Liquid Act of 2009

Taxation -- Motor Vehicles (6 Bills)
HB 2218 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2321 - Extending the alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit for ten years and making the credit retroactive from the expiration date of the initial credit
HB 2775 - Exempting antique cars from taxation and fees
HB 3072 - Providing a full tax deduction for the purchase of a new automobile and providing an exemption from the sales tax in the tax year 2009
HB 3095 - Exempting antique motor vehicles from personal property taxes
HB 3243 - Relating to consumers sales and service tax on motor vehicles

Taxation -- Personal & Corporate Income Tax (65 Bills)
HB 2009 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2026 - Eliminating penalties associated with the underpayment of taxes owed from a person who is a resident individual, provided a personal income tax is timely filed
HB 2036 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2041 - Exempting the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax
HB 2042 - Providing a tax credit for Ad Valorem tax paid on Manufacturing Inventory
HB 2068 - Excluding federal interest income when applying the income exclusion available to those sixty-five years of age or older and to persons permanently and totally disabled
HB 2086 - Providing a five percent personal income tax reduction
HB 2097 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2101 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2102 - Changing the qualifier for low income for a senior citizens' homestead tax credit
HB 2109 - Increasing the West Virginia retirement income exemption from taxation on persons age sixty-five years of age or older or surviving spouse of such persons
HB 2148 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies provided by corporate employers to employees
HB 2229 - Tax Department, Film Industry Investment Tax Credit
HB 2235 - Income tax exemption for veterans who locate in West Virginia following separation from service
HB 2252 - Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees
HB 2256 - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment of state income tax
HB 2261 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions form state income tax
HB 2276 - Income tax deduction for gifts to West Virginia charities
HB 2286 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2317 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and that the revenue from these fees are to be transferred to the benefit fund of the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2320 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors
HB 2322 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2345 - Exempting from state and personal income tax the benefits a retired teacher receives from the State Teachers Retirement System under certain circumstances
HB 2361 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2401 - Providing for the expiration of the alternative minimum tax
HB 2426 - Reducing state income tax for state correctional officer retirees
HB 2476 - Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2480 - Exempting all military income from personal income taxes
HB 2483 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax
HB 2535 - Creating a tax credit for certain solar energy systems
HB 2540 - Dedicating a portion of revenue generated from certain severance taxes for the benefit of counties from which the revenue was generated
HB 2554 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2573 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2576 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2582 - Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds
HB 2595 - Providing an exemption from gross income for members of volunteer fire departments for state personal income tax purposes
HB 2622 - Relating to the reduction of state income taxes for certain state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2624 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income to determine West Virginia adjusted gross income for purposes of personal income tax
HB 2635 - Allowing the federal adjusted gross income deduction for the amount spent for medical expenses
HB 2679 - Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology
HB 2708 - Exempting certain income received by retired federal employees from the personal income tax
HB 2722 - Providing a one hundred dollar tax credit to certain businesses that are required to reprogram its cash registers because of a change in the food tax
HB 2744 - Providing a small business tax credit
HB 2765 - Updating the meaning of "federal adjusted gross income" and certain other terms in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 2781 - Providing a tax credit to sawmills that become certified in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System
HB 2791 - Relating to any income derived from the West Virginia Teachers Retirement System and any other income received by active public school teacher or service personnel being subtracted from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2793 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
HB 2859 - Critical needs firefighters tax credit
HB 2868 - West Virginia Children with Autism Trust Act
HB 2889 - Exempting the first $30,000 of a taxpayer's severance wages from state income tax for year 2009 only
HB 2890 - Providing low-income workers with a refundable state tax credit
HB 2901 - Relating to limitations on expending hotel occupancy tax proceeds
HB 2902 - Updating the meaning of "federal taxable income" used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act to conform with the Internal Revenue Code
HB 2931 - Removing a severance tax on timber for tax years 2010 through 2013
HB 2962 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2994 - Eliminating the one and twenty-two hundredths percent severance tax on timber for five years
HB 3000 - Relating to a business and occupation tax on the business of the transmission of electricity through certain electric transmission lines
HB 3004 - Permitting individual taxpayers a modification to state income tax for medical expenses exceeding two percent of their federal adjusted gross income
HB 3026 - Providing a two-tiered personal income tax credit to parents or legal guardians who provide home or private, primary or secondary education for their children
HB 3125 - Providing a tax credit against income tax for the sale of stock in a corporation located within West Virginia
HB 3128 - Relating to the use of reported income tax expenses in setting the rates of certain public utilities
HB 3136 - Providing a modification to taxable income of up to $10, 000 for payment to a taxpayer from an employer as a result of a reduction in force for the taxable year 2009
HB 3179 - Relating to the West Virginia Film Industry Investment Act
HB 3290 - Reducing the federal adjusted gross income, for West Virginia personal income tax purposes, of poll workers that donate their earnings to qualified charities
HB 3316 - Decreasing the corporate income tax rate beginning in the year 2012

Taxation -- Property (22 Bills)
HB 2030 - Providing a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence
HB 2042 - Providing a tax credit for Ad Valorem tax paid on Manufacturing Inventory
HB 2176 - Tax Department, Repeal of Valuation of Intangible Personal Property
HB 2252 - Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees
HB 2283 - Authorizing county tax assessors to choose not to impose the property tax in a county on businesses for property that is business inventory intended for resale
HB 2304 - Exempting from personal property taxation, the equipment, inventory and raw materials of crafts people who have had their work evaluated and accepted or juried and accepted by the West Virginia arts and crafts guild
HB 2333 - Including ambulance and fire fees as part of the property tax assessment so that the fees and property taxes may be paid with the same check
HB 2558 - Exempting from taxation certain property owned by a nonprofit organization
HB 2573 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2575 - Providing an election to allow resident homeowners, sixty-five years old or older, to defer the payment of property tax increases to their residential property
HB 2578 - Providing a ten percent cap on any increase in assessment of real and personal property in any one year
HB 2625 - Providing for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming
HB 2629 - Providing an exemption from estate taxes and the Consumers Sales and Service Tax for certain expenses of any infant who dies before reaching one year of age
HB 2873 - Requiring assessors to create a cost of housing index
HB 2934 - Clarifying language relating to redemption of property
HB 2986 - Imposing a tax of $50 on the transfer of real estate valued at $25,000 or more within the incorporated limits of any municipality
HB 2998 - Relating to periodic valuations of real property and the assessment of the value thereof
HB 3027 - Providing an excise tax on the recordation of mortgages and deeds of trust
HB 3073 - Exempting from the excise tax on property transfers property that is transferred from an individual to a wholly-owned corporation or a wholly-owned limited liability company
HB 3108 - Requiring the assessor of each county to prepare a new property tax ticket within three months of a deed filing
HB 3139 - Increasing the amount for a title examination when a person redeems real property
HB 3270 - High Technology Business Property Valuation Act

Taxation -- Roads & Fuel (6 Bills)
HB 2007 - Reducing the federal adjusted gross income for motor fuel expenses incurred in commuting to and from one's occupation
HB 2327 - Providing cost-of-living benefits to retired teachers funded from the severance tax collections on natural gas
HB 2619 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 2809 - Exempting all gallons of gasoline and propane gas for any church, religious sect, society or denomination from the excise tax
HB 2833 - Clarifying the taxation of natural gas and oil
HB 2894 - Establishing tax credits for personal and commercial users of the West Virginia Turnpike

Technology (11 Bills)
HB 2056 - Relating to electronic and paper requisition format approved by the Auditor
HB 2124 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2230 - Tax Department, Electronic Filing of Payment of Special District Excise Tax
HB 2232 - Tax Department, Exchange of Information Agreement
HB 2243 - Creating the joint commission on technology and advanced communications
HB 2263 - Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus by using ultrasound
HB 2313 - Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus
HB 2503 - Requiring licensed tattoo artist to inform patrons, prior to performing the tattoo procedure, of the potential problems that a tattoo may cause in relation to the reading of magnetic resonance imaging
HB 3123 - Relating to donation and transfer of surplus personal computers and other information systems, technology and equipment for educational purposes
HB 3270 - High Technology Business Property Valuation Act
HB 3281 - Improving the technology infrastructure of the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office

Tobacco and Tobacco Products (6 Bills)
HB 2360 - Insuring that tobacco products are not sold in any packaging other than the original
HB 2681 - Eliminating the food tax, increasing the tax on nonintoxicating beer, increasing the cigarette tax, increasing the noncigarette tobacco products tax..etc...
HB 2746 - Raising the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2773 - Increasing the monetary penalties for selling tobacco products to minors
HB 2855 - Permitting the holder of a license to sell nonintoxicating liquors to determine the use or nonuse of tobacco products on the licensees' premises
HB 2932 - Requiring the approval of board of health rules relating to tobacco use in public or private places

Tourism (3 Bills)
HB 2177 - Tourism, Direct Advertising Grants Program
HB 2632 - Modifying the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority's power to charge tolls and issue bonds
HB 2972 - Requiring that not less than fifty percent of the moneys remaining in the Tourism Promotion Fund be made to West Virginia companies

Transportation (5 Bills)
HB 2058 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2085 - Providing county boards of education may study the economic feasibility of exercising an option of engaging in cooperative agreements with local public or regional transit authorities to transport students
HB 2125 - Providing that personnel carriers used to transport miners must be maintained at the working section
HB 2143 - Dedicating a portion of the receipts from the tax on food products to be distributed equally to each district of the Division of Highways
HB 3232 - West Virginia Commuter Rail Access Act

Treasurer (State) (5 Bills)
HB 2144 - Providing State Treasury Fire Protection Fund revenue to the West Virginia State Fire Chiefs Association and the West Virginia State Fireman's Association
HB 2274 - Relating to the distribution of the State Treasurer's "Road Fund"
HB 2387 - Establishing in the state treasury a targeted minority economic development fund to address economic issues of minorities and minority communities
HB 2831 - Treasurer's Office, selection of state depositories
HB 3295 - Relating to the West Virginia State Treasurer's Office

Unemployment Compensation (6 Bills)
HB 2289 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2336 - Relating generally to unemployment compensation and the unemployment compensation trust fund
HB 2497 - Extending unemployment compensation benefits when special circumstances exist
HB 2678 - Providing for payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence
HB 3007 - Implementing random drug testing for recipients of federal-state assistance, state assistance and unemployment compensation
HB 3024 - Relating to taxation

Uniform Laws (4 Bills)
HB 2038 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 2487 - Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule
HB 2674 - Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule
HB 2685 - Amending the Uniform Principal and Income Act

Utilities (11 Bills)
HB 2009 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2063 - Relating to water utility rates
HB 2265 - Requiring public utilities to file with the county commission in each county in which it provides service, copies of all proposed tariffs and schedules showing all the rates, charges and tolls
HB 2446 - Providing that utility trailer registration plates are midsized relative to automobile registration plates and motorcycle plates
HB 2844 - Relating to the adoption of the 2008 National Electric Code
HB 2851 - Relating to the sale of municipal public utility
HB 2852 - Eliminating charges by public utilities for meter reading and minimum bill fees
HB 2863 - Relating to construction of state utility projects
HB 3039 - Providing reduced rates for low-income residential customers of privately owned water utilities
HB 3128 - Relating to the use of reported income tax expenses in setting the rates of certain public utilities
HB 3184 - Establishing a criminal penalty for entry upon any property owned or leased by a public utility or a company engaged in the production or transmission of natural gas

Vendors (1 Bills)
HB 2495 - Establishing the consumer's right to know regarding telemarketers and requiring certain vendors to use only persons authorized to work in the United States

Vital Records (18 Bills)
HB 2060 - Requiring magistrate courts to maintain records relating to successful collection rates on judgements
HB 2065 - Relating to issuing a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
HB 2074 - Requiring that certain records maintained by the clerk of the county commission to be preserved
HB 2081 - Requiring the superintendent or owner of a mine to sign the fire boss record book daily
HB 2266 - Creating a registry of convictions for operating a clandestine drug laboratory
HB 2279 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2348 - Requiring mandatory community service upon conviction of a misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence and creating a central registry
HB 2371 - Releasing the name and identification of any juvenile adjudicated or convicted of a crime to the victims
HB 2490 - Including persons who participate in or who contribute to taking a person's identity with fraudulent intent
HB 2492 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2520 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a women suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2583 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2628 - Restricting public access to concealed weapons permit records
HB 2648 - Protecting the privacy of a person's prescription information
HB 2649 - Relating to confidential records
HB 2679 - Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology
HB 3250 - Excluding indigent persons from receiving health care records free of charge when represented by an organization or an attorney that is charging a fee
HB 3317 - Relating to public records management and preservation

Water Resources (12 Bills)
HB 2063 - Relating to water utility rates
HB 2165 - DEP-Water Resources, State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund
HB 2198 - DEP-Water Resources, Environmental Laboratories
HB 2199 - DEP-Water Resources, Dam Safety Rule
HB 2200 - DEP-Water Resources, Assessment of Civil Administrative Penalties
HB 2206 - Health, Public Water Systems
HB 2474 - Exempting land-based finfish aquaculture facilities from certain sludge management requirements
HB 2527 - Requiring that all houses, dwellings and businesses located in a district where public water service is made available for the first time after July 1, 2009, be connected to the public water service
HB 2736 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motor boats on lakes
HB 2785 - Requiring that every house, dwelling or business located in an area where public water services are made available for the first time, be connected
HB 2815 - DEP-Water Resources, WV/NPDES Rules for Coal Mining Facilities
HB 2960 - Relating to water pollution control

Weapons (2 Bills)
HB 2316 - Relating to unlawful possession of deadly weapons by a minor
HB 2422 - Clarifying what constitutes "on or about the person" regarding possession of a deadly weapon

Workers Compensation (12 Bills)
HB 2070 - Requiring that all worker's compensation adjusters employed by a private insurance carrier be located within the geographic borders of West Virginia
HB 2416 - Providing worker's compensation benefits to volunteer firefighters for cardiovascular or pulmonary diseases provided certain conditions of employment have been met
HB 2430 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2473 - Relating to the commissioner's rule-making authority for workers' compensation
HB 2552 - Revising Insurance Commissioner reporting requirements to the Legislature on workers' compensation insurance rules
HB 2854 - Extending permanent total disability benefits to workers' compensation benefits claimants for life
HB 2874 - Providing a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter has developed a pulmonary disease or sustained a cardiovascular injury
HB 3098 - Relating to the payment of travel expenses of workers' compensation claimants
HB 3143 - Rendering cardiac arrest as a compensable injury pursuant to West Virginia Workers' Compensation law
HB 3259 - Relating to compromise and settlement of workers' compensation claims for permanent total disability
HB 3275 - Changing the date through which governmental entities are required to purchase workers' compensation
HB 3296 - Relating to the worker's compensation claimant attorney fees

Zoning (3 Bills)
HB 2025 - Including bicycle and pedestrian ways in consideration in the planning and development of state roads
HB 2356 - Exempting acts resulting in the taking or damaging of private property for public use from the immunity granted to a political subdivision
HB 2375 - Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining and manufacturing activities and uses

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