State Senate

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 – 22nd Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 26: Congratulating Hurricane High School on being 2025 AAAA Boys State Soccer champions
• SR 27: Designating February 4, 2026, as WVU Day

THIRD READING

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

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 256: Authorizing DEP to promulgate legislative rules

FIRST READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 1: Small Business Growth Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 440: Increasing penalty for transporting telecommunication devices into jails (original similar to HB 4857)
• Com. Sub. for SB 467: Allowing enforcement of Purple Heart parking spaces taken by non-Purple Heart recipients
• Com. Sub. for SB 490: Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants (original similar to HB 4595)
• Com. Sub. for SB 543: Requiring Bureau for Social Services to file legislative rule (original similar to HB 4617)
• SB 586: Modifying requirements for public water systems
• Com. Sub. for SB 615: Requiring persons with illegal immigration status be turned over to ICE
• SB 622: Extending mine safety technology tax credit

Scheduled Committee Meetings

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

• SB 63: Creating Sustaining Opportunities for Academics in Rural Schools Act
• SB 683: Removing certain requirements for private, parochial, or church schools

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

• Com. Sub. for SB 413: Creating Transactional Gold and Silver Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 661: Clarifying commercial real property insurance policies

2 p.m.: Agriculture (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 73: Clarifying non-agricultural status of solar farms
• SB 693: Classifying forestry equipment for levy purposes

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and Community and Technical Colleges
• Budget Presentation: West Virginia Department of Health Facilities

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• SB 635: Creating Mountain Bike Responsibility Act
• SB 473: Creating felony penalties for criminal threats using electronic devices
• Com. Sub. for SB 478: Second Amendment Reaffirmation and Protection Act

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Wednesday, February 4, 2026

• SB 734: Updating requirements for filing fee and annual fee (FN) (Z. Maynard, Barnhart, Charnock, Fuller, Phillips, Rose; Judiciary then Finance)
• SB 735: Phasing out corporate net income tax over 4 years (FN) (Z. Maynard, Phillips, Rose; Finance)
• SB 736: Requiring DMV to provide identification card for eligible released inmates (FN) (Z. Maynard; Workforce then Finance)
• SB 737: Authorizing county boards of education to accept volunteers as certified chaplains (Azinger; Education then Judiciary)
• SB 738: Clarifying eligibility for TRICARE program (Willis; Military then Finance)
• SB 739: Creating Protecting Shareholders Act (Willis; Banking and Insurance then Judiciary)
• SB 740: Relating to container labeling of nonintoxicating beer (Oliverio; Government Organization)
• SB 741: Expanding pilot program to implement involuntary commitment process (FN) (Helton; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
• SB 742: Permitting physicians to determine 72-hour holds without contacting enumerated individuals (Helton; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• SB 743: Creating exemption to prescription limitations for mid-level providers (Takubo; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 744: Relating to Critical Incident Review Team (Helton; Health and Human Resources)
• SB 745: Relating to requirements for school nutrition programs (FN) (Helton; Health and Human Resources then Finance)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Tuesday, February 3, 2026

9:30 a.m.: Education

• Com. Sub. for SB 176: Increasing non-traditional instruction days for WV teachers
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 232: Establishing WV Secondary School Athletic Trainer and Career Technical Education Program Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 694: Removing county residency requirement for county superintendent of schools
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

9:30 a.m.: Government Organization

• Com. Sub. for SB 625: Relating to responsibility of board of public service district
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 583: Creating emeritus physician license
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 607: Relating to federally approved project delivery methods for airport capital improvement projects
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

• Com. Sub. for SB 173: Prohibiting abortifacients
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

1 p.m.: Economic Development

• SB 450: Relating to tax credit for qualified rehabilitated buildings
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

• Com. Sub. for SB 669: Relating to general powers of the PSC
• 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 592: WV Short Line Railroad Modernization Act
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

• SB 640: Prohibiting release of certain personal information of contributors to political elections
• Bill referred to subcommittee; Senator Azinger (chair), Garcia, Rucker, Tarr, Weld appointed

• SB 539: Increasing compensation of panel attorneys and guardians ad litem
• Bill referred to subcommittee; Senator Deeds (chair), Chapman, Taylor, Fuller, Rucker, Garcia appointed

• Com. Sub. for SB 30: Allowing 18 to 20-year-olds carry concealed weapon without permit
• Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, February 3, 2026 (28)

• 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 (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 (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 (House Government Organization)
• 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 (House Government Organization)

• 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 (House Government Organization)

• 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" (House Government Organization)
• SB 427: Relating to loan form (House Finance)
• 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 (House Judiciary)

• SB 536: Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards (Pending House introduction)
• SB 556: Modifying priority of insurance coverage for drivers of certain vehicles to make consistent with federal law (Pending House introduction)
• SB 573: Relating to requirements for disclosures and recordkeeping by persons making mortgage loans (Pending House introduction)
• SB 574: Relating to bank merger by interstate branching (Pending House introduction)
• SB 581: Eliminating requirement that commissioner approve joint account forms used by banking institutions (Pending House introduction)
• SB 582: Relating to requirements for licensure as mortgage lender or broker (Pending House introduction)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Tuesday, February 3, 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 Tuesday, February 3, 2026 (31)

• 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 (Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary)
• HB 4081: To create the Higher Education Health and Aid Grant (Education then Finance)
• HB 4137: Updating the West Virginia Law Institute (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4138: Relating to persons convicted of a crime (Judiciary)
• 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 (Military then Judiciary)

• 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)

• HB 4629: Relating to medical cessation treatment and research (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4740: Statutory Commitments in Rural Health Transformation Program (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4951: Requiring MDs and DOs to complete continuing education (Pending Senate introduction)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Tuesday, February 3, 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 Tuesday, February 3, 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.