State Senate

Monday, February 9, 2026 – 27th Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SR 28: Expressing support for I-68 Energy Manufacturing AI Corridor
• SR 30: Designating February 9, 2026, as WVSU Day

THIRD READING

• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 440: Increasing penalty for transporting telecommunication devices into jails (original similar to HB 4857)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 592: WV Short Line Railroad Modernization Act
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 607: Relating to federally approved project delivery methods for airport capital improvement projects (original similar to HB 4808)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 615: Requiring persons with illegal immigration status be turned over to ICE
• Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 625: Relating to responsibility of board of public service district that is being dissolved (original similar to HB 4862)

SECOND READING

• Com. Sub. for SB 30: Allowing 18 to 20-year-olds to carry concealed weapon without permit
• Com. Sub. for SB 473: Creating felony offense of using electronic device to threaten violence
• Com. Sub. for SB 478: Second Amendment Reaffirmation and Protection Act (original similar to HB 4926)
• Com. Sub. for SB 543: Requiring Bureau for Social Services to file legislative rule (original similar to HB 4617)
• Com. Sub. for SB 694: Removing county residency requirement for county superintendent of schools

FIRST READING

• SB 404: Relating to Department of Human Services authority to contract with certain providers (original similar to HB 4017)
• SB 604: Extending Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council sunset date
• Com. Sub. for SB 633: Relating to WV Commission on Holocaust Education
• SB 645: Prohibiting surprise billing of ground emergency medical services by nonparticipating providers

Scheduled Committee Meetings

9 a.m.: Judiciary Subcommittee on SB 539, Increasing compensation of panel attorneys and guardians ad litem (208W)

1 p.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)

• Com. Sub. for SB 501: Expanding digital mapping for secondary and backroads in this state
• Com. Sub. for SB 690: Creating alternative DOH procurement procedure
• Com. Sub. for SB 691: Relating to utility lines on DOH rights of way
• Com. Sub. for SB 692: Authorizing green flashing warning lights on DOH vehicles

2 p.m.: Pensions (451M)

• SB 28: Allowing members of State Police Retirement system to use accrued leave as credit toward retirement
• SB 717: Modifying disability and retirement benefits and procedures for municipal police and firefighters
• SB 724: Relating to home confinement officers' participation in EMS retirement system
• SB 719: Relating to Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System
• SB 206: Updating retirement eligibility for certain sheriffs

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

• Com. Sub. for SB 426: Relating to underground facilities damage prevention
• Com. Sub. for SB 706: Modifying severance tax on newly drilled oil and natural gas wells
• HB 4696: Authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to deposit funds granted pursuant to federal programs

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• SB 570: Supplemental Appropriation to Department of Health, Fund 8802
• SB 781: Supplemental Appropriation to Civil Contingent Fund, fund 0105
• SB 389: Historic Rehab Building Credit Act
• SB 772: Declaring certain claims against WV to be moral obligations
• SB 393: Updating corporate net income tax definitions
• Com. Sub. for SB 402: Workforce Readiness and Opportunity Act

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Com. Sub. for SB 575: Clarifying county attorney obligations for refusal review hearings
• Com. Sub. for SB 635: Creating Mountain Bike Responsibility Act
• Com. Sub. for SB 531: Establishing First Amendment Preservation Act

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Monday, February 9, 2026

A list of bills to be introduced in the Senate on Monday, February 9, 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 Friday, February 6, 2026

10:15 a.m.: Military (208W)

• SB 704: Prohibiting certain compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 6, 2026 (37)

• SB 1: Small Business Growth Act (Pending House introduction)
• 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 155: Relating to adjunct teaching permits (House Education)
• 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 210: Modifying oversight provisions for Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 233: Clarifying qualifications to be licensed to administer polygraphs (House Government Organization)
• SB 256: Authorizing DEP to promulgate legislative rules (House Energy and Public Works)

• 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 467: Allowing enforcement of Purple Heart parking spaces taken by non-Purple Heart recipients (Pending House introduction)
• SB 490: Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants (Pending House introduction)

• SB 506: Permitting certain use of county-owned wireless tower (House Judiciary)
• SB 532: Relating to certified public accountants (House Finance)

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

• SB 586: Modifying requirements for public water systems (Pending House introduction)
• SB 622: Extending mine safety technology tax credit (Pending House introduction)

Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Friday, February 6, 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 Friday, February 6, 2026 (42)

• HB 4002: Establishing the West Virginia Collaboratory (Education)
• HB 4004: Relating to the creation of the Recharge West Virginia Program (Economic Development then Finance)
• 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 4026: Relating to expanding the requirements for integrated resource plans utility companies must file with the Public Service Commission (Pending Senate introduction)
• 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 (Judiciary)
• 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 4382: Require collection agencies to provide 30 days notice prior to wage garnishments (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 4456: Relating to clarification of a law enforcement agency and cooperation between law enforcement agencies and personnel of states bordering this state (Judiciary)
• HB 4461: Establishing limitations on billing practices of Internet or telecommunications providers that fail to provide subscribed customers service for five or more days (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4484: To expand each county commission’s ability to sell or lease property (Government Organization)
• HB 4552: Relating to the law-enforcement powers of correctional officers (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4570: To make the posting of a summons in a conspicuous place on rental property acceptable service when a tenant is unavailable for personal service (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 4606: Relating to the meaning of residence for the purpose of bail (Judiciary)

• HB 4610: Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act (Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
• HB 4625: Relating to quit claim deeds (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 (Health and Human Resources then Finance)

• HB 4629: Relating to medical cessation treatment and research (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4696: Authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to deposit funds granted pursuant to federal programs (Energy, Industry and Mining)
• HB 4740: Statutory Commitments in Rural Health Transformation Program (Government Organization)
• HB 4951: Requiring MDs and DOs to complete continuing education (Health and Human Resources)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Friday, February 6, 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 Friday, February 6, 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.