State Senate

Thursday, January 29, 2026 – 16th 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 20: Recognizing and honoring victims of Agent Orange exposure during Vietnam War
• SR 21: Designating January 29, 2026, as Jan Lilly-Stewart Disability Advocacy Day at Capitol
• SR 22: Designating October 14 as “Charlie Kirk Day” in WV

THIRD READING

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

SECOND READING

• SB 208: Exempting certain military records from public release

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 61: Prohibiting acceptance of illegal ballots cast in any election
• Com. Sub. for SB 167: Relating to meetings for local levying bodies
• Com. Sub. for SB 233: Clarifying qualifications to be licensed to administer polygraphs
• Com. Sub. for SB 374: Authorizing Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
• SB 403: Relating to expanding definition of "tourism attraction" (original similar to HB 4015)
• SB 427: Relating to loan form
• Com. Sub. for SB 506: Permitting certain use of county-owned wireless tower (original similar to HB 4624)

Scheduled Committee Meetings

9:30 a.m.: Education (451M)

• SB 155: Relating to adjunct teaching permits
• SB 196: Relating generally to liability insurance coverage for board of education
• SB 11: Allowing certain Teachers Retirement System members to exchange unused leave for monetary compensation
• SB 516: Increasing state minimum salary for teachers

9:30 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 532: Relating to certified public accountants
• Com. Sub. for SB 493: Relating to open captioning for motion pictures
• SB 580: Updating practice act for WV Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board

12:30 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 20: Stable Energy Rates Protection Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 25: Establishing WV Coal Marketing Program
• Com. Sub. for SB 131: Creating credit against severance tax for certain infrastructure improvements
• Com. Sub. for SB 424: Establishing Affordable Electricity and Economic Growth Act of 2026

1:30 p.m.: Economic Development (208W)

• SB 607: Relating to federally approved project delivery methods for airport capital improvement projects
• SB 627: Replacing Build WV Act project cost with cap on new tax credit liability

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Parkways Authority
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Transportation

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• SB 210: Requiring departments to prepare performance plans and performance reports for Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability
• SB 543: Requiring Bureau for Social Services to file legislative rule
• SB 617: Banking and Financial Services Provider Protections for Eligible Adults from Financial Exploitation

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Thursday, January 29, 2026

• SB 654: Establishing salon training program (Rucker; Government Organization)
• SB 655: Establishing Right to Race Act (M. Maynard; Judiciary)
• SB 656: Relating to ethics reforms at PSC (Garcia; Judiciary)
• SB 657: Creating Cohen Craddock Student Athlete Safety Act (FN) (Grady; Judiciary then Finance)
• SB 658: Relating to certified microgrid district projects and certified high impact data center projects (Garcia; Economic Development)
• SB 659: Prohibiting certain restrictions on regulation of accessory dwelling units (Rucker; Government Organization)
• SB 660: Relating to spousal coverage under PEIA (Oliverio, Clements, Hamilton, Rose, Takubo; Banking and Insurance then Finance)
• SB 661: Clarifying commercial real property insurance policies (Oliverio, Clements, Takubo; Banking and Insurance)
• SB 662: Relating to colorectal cancer prevention (Oliverio, Charnock, Clements, Garcia, Queen, Rose, Takubo, Taylor; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 663: Allowing parents to refuse family court-ordered medical procedure of child against parents' wishes (Chapman; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• SB 664: Allowing power of attorney or conservator to sign transfer on death deed (Chapman; Judiciary)
• SB 665: Protecting environment and humans from geoengineering and weather modification experiments (Hamilton; Natural Resources)
• SB 666: Determining liability for exposure to asbestos or silica (Helton, Rose, Tarr; Judiciary)
• SB 667: Relating to settlement definitions for real estate transactions (Morris; Judiciary)
• SB 668: Providing compensation to victims of abusive lawsuits (Phillips; Judiciary)
• SB 669: Relating to general powers of PSC (Thorne; Economic Development then Judiciary)
• SB 670: Adopting Uniform Protected Series Act (Martin; Judiciary)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Wednesday, January 28, 2026

1 p.m.: Select Committee on School Choice

• SB 170: Allowing career technical education program to be part of local high school
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 536: Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 216: Restoring Private Schools Act of 2026
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance

• Com. Sub. for SB 573: Relating to requirements for disclosures and recordkeeping
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 574: Relating to bank merger by interstate branching
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 581: Eliminating requirement that commissioner approve joint account forms used by banking institutions
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 582: Relating to requirements for licensure as mortgage lender or broker
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

2 p.m.: Agriculture

• Com. Sub. for SB 226: Relating to WV Commercial Feed Law
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

3 p.m.: Finance

• SB 556: Modifying priority of insurance coverage for drivers of certain vehicles to make consistent with federal law
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• 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
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Wednesday, January 28, 2026 (7)

• SB 15: Protecting coal and gas minerals from carbon capture practices (House Energy and Public Works)
• SB 55: Establishing criminal offense for obstructing or hindering home incarceration supervisor or social services worker (Pending House introduction)
• 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)

• SB 281: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (Pending House introduction)
• SB 309: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (Pending House introduction)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Wednesday, January 28, 2026 (1)

• SCR 1: Requesting DOH name certain transportation infrastructure (Pending House introduction)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Wednesday, January 28, 2026 (18)

• HB 4002: Establishing the West Virginia Collaboratory (Education)
• HB 4005: Skills to work (Government Organization)
• 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 (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4028: Relating to sales tax on construction materials (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4081: To create the Higher Education Health and Aid Grant (Education then Finance)
• HB 4169: Relating to mental health examination requirements (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4196: To offer long-acting reversible contraception to patients receiving methadone and suboxone at the treatment facility for the methadone and suboxone (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4215: Department of Health Rules Bundle (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 (Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• HB 4364: Relating to concurrent juvenile jurisdiction on military installations (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4422: To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4433: Prohibiting Human Smuggling and Trafficking (Judiciary)

• 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 Wednesday, January 28, 2026 (3)

• 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)
• HCR 3: House Infrastructure Naming Resolution (Pending Senate introduction)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Wednesday, January 28, 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.

All Senate Committee meetings and floor sessions are available for both live streaming and to watch again in our archives. The link to the Senate’s archived video page can be found here:http://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00289/Harmony/en/View/UpcomingEvents.