State Senate

Friday, April 11, 2025 – 59th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

SENATE CALENDAR

Scheduled Committee Meetings

There are no committee meetings currently scheduled for Friday, April 11, 2025.

** Committee times and agendas are subject to change **

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Thursday, April 10, 2025 (264 – 207 Senate; 105 House)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, April 10, 2025 (131 – 54 Senate; 76 House)

• SB 8: Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender (Signed, 03-26)
• SB 10: Exempting certain meat processes from consumers sales and service tax (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 22: Applying penalties for nonpayment of royalties under terms of oil and natural gas leases (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 138: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 198: Prohibiting creation, production, distribution, or possession of artificially generated child pornography (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 199: Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 240: Updating crime of sexual extortion (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 257: Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 267: Extending time for renewal and restoration of commercial driver's licenses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 270: Declaring sale and manufacture of firearms essential business during declared emergency (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 282: Modifying provisions for employment of retired teachers as substitutes in areas of critical need and shortage (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 283: Expanding grade levels of personal finance course requirements needed for graduation (Signed, 04-01)
• SB 291: Extending time frame for pharmacies to register from annually to biennially (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 336: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (Signed, 04-01)
• SB 358: Authorizing Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules (Signed, 03-20)
• SB 369: Authorizing miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules (Vetoed, 04-01; Amended and Repassed, 04-04)
• SB 443: Authorizing Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board of Examiners to conduct criminal background checks for licensing (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 456: Defining "men" and "women" (Signed, 03-12)
• SB 458: Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025 (Signed, 04-07)
• SB 459: Requiring county planning commission members be state residents (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 462: Permitting Board of Occupational Therapy to require criminal history record checks (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 464: Creating license plate for recipients of Medal of Valor (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 485: Exempting West Virginia Secretary of State from competitive bidding process (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 486: Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections (Signed, 03-26)
• SB 487: Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls (Signed, 03-25)
• SB 490: Prohibiting ranked-choice voting in elections in West Virginia (Signed, 03-18)
• SB 492: Removing outdated provisions governing political committees (Signed, 04-01)
• SB 496: Removing reflexology and other energy-based work from definition of "massage therapy" (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 500: Transferring audits of volunteer fire departments to Legislative Auditor (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 522: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of limited liability companies by Secretary of State (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 525: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of nonprofit corporations by Secretary of State (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 537: Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 538: Allowing certain entities to purchase qualifying tax-delinquent properties before they are offered at public auction (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 565: Relating generally to practice of optometry (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 573: Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 615: Eliminating accelerated tax payment requirements (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 617: Discouraging gang activity (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 621: Authorizing digital court records (Signed, 04-01)
• SB 627: Removing prohibition against leasing state-owned pore spaces underlying lands designated as state parks (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 650: Relating to full-time interventionists (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 715: Relating to personally identifiable information of member, retirant, beneficiary, or alternate payee of retirement system (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 716: Relating to failure to pay required contributions and interest payments for certain retirees who transfer between retirement systems (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 734: Repealing section creating A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 736: Relating to publication of registered lobbyist information (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 738: Terminating Employee Suggestion Award Board (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 746: Allowing State Board of Education to delegate its Medicaid provider status to public charter schools (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 810: Clarifying requirements for administration of anesthesia and chronic pain practice by certain licensed nurses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by Governor)
• SB 823: Clarifying and separating duties between Division of Emergency Management and DEP (Signed, 04-08)
• SB 828: Clarifying requirements for persons employed by Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation include contracted vendor staff (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 844: Exempting non-native quail and partridge from game farm requirement if owned for agricultural purposes (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 861: Updating references to reflect consolidation of Information Services and Communications Division into Office of Technology (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 862: Repealing antiquated language related to Voluntary Gilding Dome Check-Off Program (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 863: Removing reference to Information Services and Communications Division (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• SB 876: Terminating certain requirements for Tax Commissioner to submit reports, publish information, and provide notice (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2002: Establishing One Stop Shop Permitting Process (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2003: Prohibiting Cell phones in class (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2013: Transfer of employees to classified exempt service (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2024: Updating the meaning certain terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
• HB 2025: Updating terms in the Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
• HB 2042: Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2043: Relating to use of dog and/or drones for tracking or locating mortally wounded deer, elk, turkey, wild boar or bear (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2053: Relating to including the United States Space Force in the definition armed forces (Signed, 03-21)
• HB 2067: West Virginia Firearms Liability Clarification Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2123: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2129: Creating the Parents Bill of Rights (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2152: Prompt Payment Act of 2025 (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2157: Provide one trip temporary vehicle permits to be purchased and printed online (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2165: Allowing disabled purple heart recipients park free at municipal metered parking spaces (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2172: Relating to adding an athletic trainer to the Board of Physical Therapy (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2217: Relating to penalties for conspiracy to commit murder (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2222: Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules (Signed, 03-26)
• HB 2233: Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2331: Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2354: Banning certain products from food in West Virginia (Signed, 03-24)
• HB 2360: Clarifying the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2387: To repeal the class A1 Pistol stamp for hunting (Signed, 04-08)
• HB 2397: Prevent immediate family members from acting in a fiduciary capacity for the same governmental authority (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2399: Relating to the taxation of managed timber (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2441: To make those who fail drug test ineligible for unemployment (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2444: Relating to limiting financial records of limited video lottery permittees that are subject to examination by Lottery Commission (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2484: Clarifying the probationary period for paid municipal firefighters (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2491: Relating to conditions on holding online raffles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2499: Training course for principals in public schools; informing teachers of their rights and protections; IEP format (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2513: Enhancing training requirements for county boards of education members (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2516: To repeal antiquated and inoperative portions of code (Signed, 04-08)

• HB 2548: Clarifying duties of state superintendent regarding rule implementation (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2576: NIL Protection Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2595: Non Profit Athletics Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2709: Permitting a voter with a change of address to vote in his or her new precinct without having to cast a provisional ballot (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2711: Relating to the repeal of the common law rule against perpetuities by extending it to 1,000 years for all trusts (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2752: Relating to motorcycle safety (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2761: Relating generally to magistrate courts (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2773: Higher Ed Rules (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2866: Relating to fees and charges for municipality provided fire services (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2867: Relating to Small Estates (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2889: To permit a fairness hearing exemption to the registration requirements of the Uniform Securities Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2897: Permitting the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance and financial audits of the West Virginia Department of Education (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2943: Administration of the West Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 2964: Amending residency requirements for regional airport boards (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3012: Relating to Lottery Money Distribution (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3024: Guaranteed course transfer bill (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3030: Administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3342: Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3080: Military Spouse hiring preference (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

• HB 3089: Mandate the use of WV DMV electronic lien and title system for certain entities and persons (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3133: Permitting counties and municipalities to enter into memoranda of understanding for demolition of dilapidated structures (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3144: Wireless Infrastructure and Facilities Siting and Co-location (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3156: Create exemption for Legislature for reporting requirements in Shared Services Section (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3157: Relating to shortened procedure for road condition claims (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3179: Funding for failing public utilities (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3187: Relating to the West Virginia Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

• HB 3192: To repeal obsolete, conflicting or inoperative provisions of code that pertain to higher education (Signed, 04-08)
• HB 3274: Relating to reports of circuit court proceedings (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3275: Update timing for appeals (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3313: Providing more opportunities for high school students in community colleges (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3347: Supplemental Appropriation – Administration – Diamond Bldg. (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3350: Supplemental Appropriation – DCR – Corrections – 0608 (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3358: Supplemental Appropriation – FBGR – DHHR (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3361: Supplemental Appropriation: Health, Birth to Three (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3363: Supplemental Appropriation – Public Defender (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3365: Supplemental Appropriation – HLTH – Birth to Three (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3366: Supplemental Appropriation – FEDA – HLTH – OIG (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3367: Supplemental Appropriation – SAPR – DNR (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3368: Supplemental Appropriation – Administration – Lease Rental Payment (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3370: Supplemental Appropriation – FEDA – HMSV – Summer EBT (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3372: Supplemental Appropriation – FEDA – Veterans (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3389: Exclude the Department of Tourism as a Governmental agency (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3444: Relating to inflammation of the eyes of newborns (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3456: Relating to the powers and duties of the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation regarding Stevens Correctional Center (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3515: Relating to appointment of officers of the West Virginia State Police (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
• HB 3522: Supplemental Appropriation to Arts, Culture and History (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, April 10, 2025 (37 – 14 Senate; 23 House)

• SCR 1: Adopting Joint Rules of Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 01-08)
• SCR 2: Authorizing payment of joint expenses (Adopted, 01-08)
• SCR 3: US Army Warrant Officer Joseph Rose III Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-04)
• SCR 4: Amending Joint Rules of Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 02-12)
• SCR 5: U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Robert Milford Payne Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-04)
• SCR 6: US Army Major Jerome Lee Workman Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-03)
• SCR 8: U.S. Army Sergeant Dennis Charles Hurley Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-04)
• SCR 9: Becker Brothers, Eugene and Kermit Becker Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-03)
• SCR 10: Donald Lucas and Ronald Lucas Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-04)
• SCR 15: Opposing China's use of UN Resolution 2758 against Taiwan (Adopted, 03-19)
• SCR 16: US Army SPC Johnny Long Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-03)
• SCR 17: US Marine Corps PVT Arlie Haught Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-03)
• SCR 19: US Army ST4 Gregory Kent Stephens Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-04)
• SCR 20: Recognizing and commending NCSL on its 50th anniversary (Adopted, 03-18)
• HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to open and publish election returns (Adopted, 01-08)
• HCR 2: Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor (Adopted, 01-08)
• HCR 3: Providing for an adjournment of the Legislature until February 12, 2025 (Adopted, 01-08)
• HCR 4: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-12)
• HCR 8: PFC Lester E. Maynard Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-03)
• HCR 9: Robert S. Pomeroy Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 10: Donald Lucas & Ronald Lucas Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 15: US Marines PFC Delbert Carles Roles Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-03)
• HCR 27: BG Edmund “Frank” Roleff, WVNG Memorial Road (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 31: U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Quewanncoll “Que” Stephens, Sr. Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-03)
• HCR 34: U. S. Merchant Marine Joseph Ward Teter Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-03)
• HCR 37: CPT Ray Leslie Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 43: Ray William “Mutt” Sherman Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-04)
• HCR 44: U.S. Army Corporal Charles W. Wolfe Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 46: U.S. Army SP4 Ronald Gene Sypolt Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 49: Resolution relating to use of industrial sites and the potential impacts on downstream facilities (Adopted, 03-03)
• HCR 51: U.S. Army PFC Roy Lee Hill Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 62: U.S. Army PFC Henry James Miller Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 78: Urging the Commissioner of Highways to prioritize completion of I-73, the King Coal Highway (Adopted, 03-31)
• HCR 85: U.S. Army Corporal Lavern “Mousey” Testerman Memorial Bridge (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 88: Honoring First Responders Honor Board’s Medal of Valor Nominees (Adopted, 04-03)
• HCR 91: U.S. Army Sergeant Major Charles Grant Hoke Memorial Road (Adopted, 04-02)
• HCR 96: Urging West Virginia’s members of Congress to ask the President not to cut funding for the Local Food in Schools and Child Care nutrition (Adopted, 04-09)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Thursday, April 10, 2025 (26 – 17 Senate; 9 House)

• SB 8: Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender (Signed, 03-26)
• SB 138: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 240: Updating crime of sexual extortion (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 283: Expanding grade levels of personal finance course requirements needed for graduation (Signed, 04-01)
• SB 291: Extending time frame for pharmacies to register from annually to biennially (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 336: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (Signed, 04-01)
• SB 358: Authorizing Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules (Signed, 03-20)
• SB 443: Authorizing Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board of Examiners to conduct criminal background checks for licensing (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 456: Defining "men" and "women" (Signed, 03-12)
• SB 458: Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025 (Signed, 04-07)
• SB 462: Permitting Board of Occupational Therapy to require criminal history record checks (Signed, 03-24)
• SB 486: Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections (Signed, 03-26)
• SB 487: Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls (Signed, 03-25)
• SB 490: Prohibiting ranked-choice voting in elections in West Virginia (Signed, 03-18)
• SB 492: Removing outdated provisions governing political committees (Signed, 04-01)
• SB 621: Authorizing digital court records (Signed, 04-01)
• SB 823: Clarifying and separating duties between Division of Emergency Management and DEP (Signed, 04-08)
• HB 2024: Updating the meaning certain terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
• HB 2025: Updating terms in the Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
• HB 2043: Relating to use of dog and/or drones for tracking or locating mortally wounded deer, elk, turkey, wild boar or bear (Signed, 04-08)
• HB 2053: Relating to including the United States Space Force in the definition armed forces (Signed, 03-21)
• HB 2222: Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules (Signed, 03-26)
• HB 2354: Banning certain products from food in West Virginia (Signed, 03-24)
• HB 2387: To repeal the class A1 Pistol stamp for hunting (Signed, 04-08)
• HB 2516: To repeal antiquated and inoperative portions of code (Signed, 04-08)
• HB 3192: To repeal obsolete, conflicting or inoperative provisions of code that pertain to higher education (Signed, 04-08)

Bills Vetoed by the Governor as of Thursday, April 10, 2025 (1 – 1 Senate)

• SB 369: Authorizing miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules (Vetoed, 04-01; Amended and Repassed, 04-04)

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