State Senate

Friday, January 30, 2026 – 17th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 10 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

THIRD READING

• Eng. SB 208: Exempting certain military records from public release

SECOND 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)

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 256: Authorizing DEP to promulgate legislative rules
• SB 536: Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards
• SB 556: Modifying priority of insurance coverage for drivers of certain vehicles to make consistent with federal law: (Com. title amend. pending) (original similar to HB 4877)
• Com. Sub. for SB 573: Relating to requirements for disclosures and recordkeeping by persons making mortgage loans (original similar to HB 4792)
• SB 574: Relating to bank merger by interstate branching
• SB 581: Eliminating requirement that commissioner approve joint account forms used by banking institutions (original similar to HB 4791)
• SB 582: Relating to requirements for licensure as mortgage lender or broker (original similar to HB 4790)

Scheduled Committee Meetings

9 a.m.: Finance (451M)

• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Bureau of Senior Services

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Friday, January 30, 2026

A list of bills to be introduced in the Senate on Friday, January 30, 2026, will be available on the Legislature’s website HERE.

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Thursday, January 29, 2026

9:30 a.m.: Education

• SB 155: Relating to adjunct teaching permits
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 196: Relating generally to liability insurance coverage for board of education
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 11: Allowing certain Teachers Retirement System members to exchange unused leave for monetary compensation
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 516: Increasing state minimum salary for teachers
• Committee took no action on the bill

9:30 a.m.: Government Organization

• Com. Sub. for SB 532: Relating to certified public accountants
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 493: Relating to open captioning for motion pictures
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

• SB 580: Updating practice act for WV Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

12:30 p.m.: Economic Development

• SB 607: Relating to federally approved project delivery methods for airport capital improvement projects
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Government Organization

• Com. Sub. forSB 627: Replacing Build WV Act project cost with cap on new tax credit liability
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

1:30 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining

• Com. Sub. for SB 20: Stable Energy Rates Protection Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Government Organization

• Com. Sub. for SB 25: Establishing WV Coal Marketing Program
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 131: Creating credit against severance tax for certain infrastructure improvements
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 424: Establishing Affordable Electricity and Economic Growth Act of 2026
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 210: Requiring departments to prepare performance plans and performance reports for Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 543: Requiring Bureau for Social Services to file legislative rule
• Bill laid over until Monday’s meeting

• Com. Sub. for SB 617: Banking and Financial Services Provider Protections for Eligible Adults from Financial Exploitation
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Thursday, January 29, 2026 (14)

• SB 4: Relating to crimes against public justice (Pending House introduction)
• 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 (House Judiciary)
• SB 66: Modifying classes of state of preparedness declared by Governor or Legislature (House Government Organization)
• SB 84: Prohibiting law enforcement from placing surveillance cameras on private property (Pending House introduction)
• 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 (House Judiciary)
• SB 309: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (House Government Organization)

• SB 388: Requiring public elementary or secondary school make Aitken Bible available to certain classrooms (Pending House introduction)
• SB 390: Altering conditions for flood resiliency disbursements (Pending House introduction)
• SB 400: Updating personal income tax definitions and provision of law relating to gaming and gambling losses (Pending House introduction)
• SB 443: Granting municipal fire marshals authority to assist in lawful execution of law-enforcement officer's official duties (Pending House introduction)
• SB 445: Adding Potomac State College as eligible institution for participation in Learn and Earn Program (Pending House introduction)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Thursday, January 29, 2026 (2 – 1 Senate; 1 House)

• SCR 1: Requesting DOH name certain transportation infrastructure (Adopted, 1-29)
• HCR 3: House Infrastructure Naming Resolution (Adopted, 01-29)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Thursday, January 29, 2026 (23)

• 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 4393: Requiring the development and implementation of statewide prevention plan (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4410: Relating to special stops required for on-track equipment (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 4437: To allow Gold Star parents to receive one free Gold Star vehicle registration for personal use (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)

• HB 4610: Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4626: Relating to the establishment of a grant program to fund the United States Food and Drug Administration’s drug development trials with ibogaine (Pending Senate introduction)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Thursday, January 29, 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 (Adopted, 01-29)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Thursday, January 29, 2026 (4 – 1 Senate; 3 House)

• SCR 1: Requesting DOH name certain transportation infrastructure (Adopted, 01-29)
• 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 (Adopted, 01-29)

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.