State Senate

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 – 21st Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 20: Recognizing and honoring victims of Agent Orange exposure during Vietnam War
• SR 25: Designating February 3, 2026, as Marshall University Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. SB 536: Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards
• Eng. 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)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 573: Relating to requirements for disclosures and recordkeeping by persons making mortgage loans (original similar to HB 4792)
• Eng. SB 574: Relating to bank merger by interstate branching
• Eng. SB 581: Eliminating requirement that commissioner approve joint account forms used by banking institutions (original similar to HB 4791)
• Eng. SB 582: Relating to requirements for licensure as mortgage lender or broker (original similar to HB 4790)

SECOND READING

• SB 155: Relating to adjunct teaching permits
• Com. Sub. for SB 210: Modifying oversight provisions for Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability
• Com. Sub. for SB 256: Authorizing DEP to promulgate legislative rules
• Com. Sub. for SB 532: Relating to certified public accountants

FIRST READING

There are no bills on First Reading for Tuesday, February 3, 2026.

Scheduled Committee Meetings

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

• SB 176: Increasing non-traditional instruction days for WV teachers
• SB 232: Establishing WV Secondary School Athletic Trainer and Career Technical Education Program Act
• SB 694: Removing county residency requirement for county superintendent of schools

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

• Com. Sub. for SB 625: Relating to responsibility of board of public service district
• Com. Sub. for SB 583: Creating emeritus physician license
• Com. Sub. for SB 607: Relating to federally approved project delivery methods for airport capital improvement projects

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

• SB 173: Prohibiting abortifacients
• SB 404: Relating to Department of Human Services authority to contract with certain providers
• SB 645: Prohibiting surprise billing of ground emergency medical services by nonparticipating providers

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

• SB 450: Relating to tax credit for qualified rehabilitated buildings
• SB 669: Relating to general powers of the PSC

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• SB 592: WV Short Line Railroad Modernization Act
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Homeland Security
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia State Police
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Veterans Assistance

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• SB 640: Prohibiting release of certain personal information of contributors to political elections
• SB 539: Increasing compensation of panel attorneys and guardians ad litem
• Com. Sub. for SB 30: Allowing 18 to 20-year-olds carry concealed weapon without permit
• Com. Sub. for SB 478: Second Amendment Reaffirmation and Protection Act

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Tuesday, February 3, 2026

• SB 716: Reducing participation required to receive volunteer firefighter tax credit (FN) (Z. Maynard, Azinger, Barnhart, Bartlett, Chapman, Charnock, Clements, Deeds, Fuller, Garcia, Hamilton, Hart, Helton, Jeffries, M. Maynard, Martin, Morris, Oliverio, Phillips, Queen, Rose, Rucker, Takubo, Tarr, Taylor, Thorne, Weld, Willis, Woelfel, Woodrum; Finance)
• SB 717: Modifying disability and retirement benefits and procedures for municipal police and firefighters (FN) (Oliverio; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 718: Increasing pay for magistrates (FN) (Oliverio, Woodrum, Chapman, Charnock, Clements, Fuller, Garcia, Morris, Phillips, Queen, Taylor, Weld, Z. Maynard; Judiciary then Finance)
• SB 719: Relating to Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System (Oliverio; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 720: WV Comprehensive Student and Family Support Act (FN) (Deeds; Education then Finance)
• SB 721: Updating definitions and requirements for rental agreements of self-storage facilities (Azinger; Judiciary)
• SB 722: Requiring warrant for DNR officials or officers to enter onto any private property (Hart, Chapman; Natural Resources then Judiciary)
• SB 723: Clarifying law-enforcement cooperation with bordering states (Barnhart; Judiciary)
• SB 724: Relating to home confinement officers’ participation in EMS retirement system (FN) (Barrett; Pensions then Finance)
• SB 725: Creating First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Act (FN) (Barnhart; Banking and Insurance then Finance)
• SB 726: Removing cap for municipalities on their stabilization fund (Barnhart, Woodrum; Government Organization)
• SB 727: Relating to bank merger by interstate branching (Barnhart; Banking and Insurance)
• SB 728: Authorizing county commissions to increase compensation of elected county officials (FN) (Rose; Government Organization then Finance)
• SB 729: Setting forth mandatory Medicaid program requirements (Rucker, Helton, Rose, Tarr; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 730: Relating to program requirements of Bureau for Family Assistance (Rucker, Azinger, Helton, Rose, Tarr; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 731: Eliminating hepatitis-b and meningitis as required vaccines (Rucker; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 732: Permitting audio recording during Child Protective Services investigations (Rose, Helton, M. Maynard, Rucker, Taylor; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• SB 733: Establishing Energy Freedom and Fairness Act (Rucker; Energy, Industry, and Mining then Judiciary)
• SR 26: Congratulating Hurricane High School on being 2025 AAAA Boys State Soccer champions (Tarr, Grady)
• SR 27: Designating February 4, 2026, as WVU Day (Smith, Taylor, Oliverio, Garcia, Rose, Clements)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Monday, February 2, 2026

1 p.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure

• Com. Sub. for SB 467: Allowing enforcement of Purple Heart parking spaces taken by non-Purple Heart recipients
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 620: Exempting certain physicians from specified traffic laws when responding to emergencies
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

1 p.m.: Workforce

• Com. Sub. for SB 490: Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

2 p.m.: Energy

• Com. Sub. for SB 48: Relating to powers and duties of PSC
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• SB 586: Modifying requirements for public water systems
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 685: Creating Natural Resources Anti-Commandeering Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 686: Providing exception to waste and trespass for certain coal estates
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

3 p.m.: Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 1: Small Business Growth Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 622: Extending mine safety technology tax credit
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• Com. Sub. for SB 543: Requiring Bureau for Social Services to file legislative rule
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 440: Increasing penalty for transporting telecommunication devices into jails
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 615: Requiring persons with illegal immigration status to be turned over to ICE
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Monday, February 2, 2026 (22)

• SB 4: Relating to crimes against public justice (House Judiciary)
• 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 61: Prohibiting acceptance of illegal ballots cast in any election (Pending House introduction)
• 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 (House Judiciary)
• SB 137: Modifying parole eligibility for crime of second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter (House Judiciary)
• SB 167: Relating to meetings for local levying bodies (Pending House introduction)
• SB 207: Clarifying sheriff's compensation for collection of taxes (House Judiciary)
• SB 208: Exempting certain military records from public release (House Judiciary)
• SB 233: Clarifying qualifications to be licensed to administer polygraphs (Pending House introduction)

• 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 374: Authorizing Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules (Pending House introduction)

• SB 388: Requiring public elementary or secondary school make Aitken Bible available to certain classrooms (House Education then House Judiciary)
• SB 390: Altering conditions for flood resiliency disbursements (House Government Organization then House Finance)
• SB 400: Updating personal income tax definitions and provision of law relating to gaming and gambling losses (House Finance)
• SB 403: Relating to expanding definition of "tourism attraction" (Pending House introduction)
• SB 427: Relating to loan form (Pending House introduction)
• SB 443: Granting municipal fire marshals authority to assist in lawful execution of law-enforcement officer's official duties (House Government Organization then House Judiciary)
• SB 445: Adding Potomac State College as eligible institution for participation in Learn and Earn Program (House Education)

• SB 506: Permitting certain use of county-owned wireless tower (Pending House introduction)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Monday, February 2, 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 Monday, February 2, 2026 (27)

• 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 (Finance)
• HB 4036: Relating to stricter enforcement for parking in a handicapped designated spot (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4081: To create the Higher Education Health and Aid Grant (Education then Finance)
• HB 4138: Relating to persons convicted of a crime (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4169: Relating to mental health examination requirements (Judiciary)
• 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 (Judiciary)
• 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 (Military then Judiciary)
• HB 4366: Relating to military interpersonal violence (Pending Senate introduction)

• HB 4393: Requiring the development and implementation of statewide prevention plan (Finance)
• HB 4410: Relating to special stops required for on-track equipment (Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary)
• HB 4415: Creating crime of attempting to smuggle contraband into federal correctional institutions within the state (Judiciary)

• 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 (Education)
• 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 (Transportation and Infrastructure)

• 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 (Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• 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 (Health and Human Resources then Finance)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Monday, February 2, 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 Monday, February 2, 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.

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