State Senate

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 – 15th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 14: Recognizing James and Lucille Pennington on receiving the 2025 West Virginia Logger of the Year award
• SR 15: Recognizing 154th anniversary of Glennville State University

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 55: Establishing criminal offense for obstructing or hindering home incarceration supervisor or social services worker
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 281: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 309: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 4: Relating to crimes against public justice
• Com. Sub. for SB 84: Prohibiting law enforcement from placing surveillance cameras on private property
• SB 388: Requiring public elementary or secondary school make Aitken Bible available to certain classrooms
• Com. Sub. for SB 390: Altering conditions for flood resiliency disbursements (original similar to HB 4018)
• Com. Sub. for SB 400: Updating personal income tax definitions and provision of law relating to gaming and gambling losses (original similar to HB 4024)
• SB 443: Granting municipal fire marshals authority to assist in lawful execution of law-enforcement officer's official duties
• SB 445: Adding Potomac State College as eligible institution for participation in Learn and Earn Program (original similar to HB 4533)

FIRST READING

• SB 208: Exempting certain military records from public release

Scheduled Committee Meetings

1 p.m.: Select Committee on School Choice (208W)

• SB 170: Allowing career technical education program to be part of local high school
• SB 536: Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards
• SB 216: Restoring Private Schools Act of 2026

2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 573: Relating to requirements for disclosures and recordkeeping
• SB 574: Relating to bank merger by interstate branching
• SB 581: Eliminating requirement that commissioner approve joint account forms used by banking institutions
• SB 582: Relating to requirements for licensure as mortgage lender or broker

2 p.m.: Agriculture (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 226: Relating to WV Commercial Feed Law

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Administration
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Education
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Office of the Inspector General

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 256: DEP rule relating to alternative emission limitations during startup and shutdown operations

• Includes 45 CSR 01, Alternative Emission Limitations During Startup and Shutdown; 45 CRS 08, Ambient Air Quality Standards; 45 CRS 16, Standards Performance for New Stationary Sources; 45 CRS 18, Control of Air Pollution from Combustion of Solid Waste; 45 CRS 25, Control of Air Pollution from Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities; 45 CRS 34, Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants; 45 CRS 43, Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to Control Annual Nitrogen Oxides Emissions, Annual Sulfur Dioxide Emissions, and Ozone Season Nitrogen Oxides Emissions; 33 CSR 20, Hazardous Waste Management System; 47 CSR 02, Requirements Governing Water Quality Standards; 47 CSR 09B, Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Fee Schedule

5:30 p.m.: Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee (208W)

• 145 CSR 20: Economic Development, Certified Microgrid Development Program

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Wednesday, January 28, 2026

• SB 635: Creating Mountain Bike Responsibility Act (Willis, Helton, M. Maynard; Judiciary)
• SB 636: Allowing intergovernmental agreements with Land Stewardship Corporation (Woodrum; Judiciary)
• SB 637: Establishing tax credit for certain physicians who locate to practice in WV (FN) (Takubo; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 638: Creating Forensic Pathology Recruitment Program (Takubo; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 639: Levying user fee on cigarettes to support EMS (FN) (Takubo; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 640: Prohibiting release of certain personal information of contributors to political elections (Azinger, Charnock, Helton, Z. Maynard; Judiciary)
• SB 641: Altering definition of "aboveground storage tank" (Rose, Helton, Rucker, Tarr; Energy, Industry, and Mining)
• SB 642: Clarifying requirements before assessor can be nominated for property valuation (Woodrum; Government Organization then Finance)
• SB 643: Discontinuing WV Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Program (Charnock, Chapman, Takubo, Tarr, Weld; Judiciary)
• SB 644: Requiring State Treasurer participate in federal tax credit scholarship program (Rucker; School Choice)
• SB 645: Prohibiting surprise billing of ground emergency medical services by nonparticipating providers (Deeds; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 646: Relating to WV employer-provided or sponsored child care tax credit program (FN) (Deeds; Economic Development then Finance)
• SB 647: Allowing physician assistants to own practice (Takubo; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 648: Relating to strategic and critical resources (Morris, Charnock, Hamilton, Helton, Queen, Rose, Rucker, Takubo, Woodrum, Z. Maynard; Judiciary)
• SB 649: Requiring coverage of home blood pressure monitoring devices for certain Medicaid recipients (FN) (Grady; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 650: Designating psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients (Queen; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 651: Relating to sale of certain properties subject to delinquent tax liens (Smith; Government Organization)
• SB 652: Relating to distribution of tax revenues collected from data centers (Garcia; Economic Development then Finance)
• SB 653: Placing statue of remembrance in the rotunda (FN) (Sen. Chapman, Rose, Willis; Government Organization then Finance)
• SR 19: Designating January 28, 2026, as WV Tourism and History Day at Legislature (Smith)
• SR 20: Recognizing and honoring victims of Agent Orange exposure during Vietnam War (Barrett)
• SR 21: Designating January 29, 2026, as Jan Lilly-Stewart Disability Advocacy Day at Capitol (Takubo)
• SR 22: Designating October 14 as “Charlie Kirk Day” in WV (Rose, Chapman)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Tuesday, January 27, 2026

9:30 a.m.: Education

• SB 102: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• HB 4574: Relating to providing for condition-based emergency funding for a financially distressed county
• No action taken on bill

9:30 a.m.: Government Organization

• Com. Sub. for SB 167: Relating to meetings for local levying bodies
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 506: Permitting certain use of county-owned wireless tower
• Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

12:30 p.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure

• Com. Sub. for SCR 1: Requesting DOH name certain transportation infrastructure
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it be adopted

12:30 p.m.: Workforce

• Com. Sub. for SB 233: Clarifying qualifications to be licensed to administer polygraphs
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 396: Creating WV Job training and Placement Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 402: Workforce Readiness and Opportunity Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

1:30 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

• SB 543: Requiring Bureau for Social Services to file legislative rule
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

• SB 546: Relating to clothing and necessity allowance
• Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Finance

• SB 403: Relating to expanding definition of "tourism attraction"
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 427: Relating to loan form
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 61: Prohibiting acceptance of illegal ballots cast in any election
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 374: Division of Economic Development rule relating to tourism development districts — Includes SB 375, Division of Forestry rule relating to rules for certification of managed timberland; SB 376, Division of Labor rule relating to child labor; SB 377, Office of Miners' Health, Safety, and Training rule relating to submission and approval of comprehensive Mine Safety Program for coal mining operations in WV; SB 378, Division of Natural Resources rule relating to small arms hunting; SB 379, Division of Natural Resources rule relating to wildlife rehabilitation; SB 380, Division of Natural Resources rule relating to special boating; SB 381, Division of Natural Resources rule relating to defining terms used in hunting and trapping; SB 382, Division of Natural Resources rule relating to prohibitions when hunting and trapping; SB 383, Division of Natural Resources rule relating to deer hunting; SB 384, Division of Natural Resources rule relating to special migratory game bird hunting; SB 385, Division of Rehabilitation Services rule relating to Ron Yost Personal Assistance Services Act Board
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, January 27, 2026 (4)

• SB 15: Protecting coal and gas minerals from carbon capture practices (House Energy and Public Works)
• SB 66: Modifying classes of state of preparedness declared by Governor or Legislature (House Government Organization)
• SB 137: Modifying parole eligibility for crime of second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter (House Judiciary)
• SB 207: Clarifying sheriff's compensation for collection of taxes (House Judiciary)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Tuesday, January 27, 2026 (13)

• HB 4002: Establishing the West Virginia Collaboratory (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4005: Skills to work (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4007: Relating to industrial access roads (Economic Development then Finance)
• HB 4008: Relating to Business Ready Sites Program (Economic Development)
• HB 4022: CPS Allocation (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4081: To create the Higher Education Health and Aid Grant (Education then Finance)
• HB 4196: To offer long-acting reversible contraception to patients receiving methadone and suboxone at the treatment facility for the methadone and suboxone (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4335: Relating to Medicaid providers (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4352: Prohibiting cameras and recording devices in bedrooms and bathrooms of foster children (Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• HB 4354: Relating to necessity allowance (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4433: Prohibiting Human Smuggling and Trafficking (Pending Senate introduction)

• HB 4574: Relating to providing for condition-based emergency funding for a financially distressed county (Education then Finance)
• HB 4575: Making Supplemental Appropriation to State Board of Education (Finance)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Tuesday, January 27, 2026 (2)

• HCR 1: Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor (Adopted, 01-14)
• HCR 2: Amending Rule 31 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 01-14)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Tuesday, January 27, 2026 (2 – 2 House)

• HCR 1: Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor (Adopted, 01-14)
• HCR 2: Amending Rule 31 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 01-14)

Committee times and agendas are subject to change. Follow @WVSenClerk on Twitter for updates.

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