State Senate

Scheduled Committee Meetings

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

• 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 752: Transferring authority for racing events from county commissions to DOT
• Com. Sub. for SB 753: Establishing Adopt-A-Road program

1 p.m.: Workforce (208W)

• SB 553: Providing for transfer of license to contractor’s qualifying immediate family member

2 p.m.: Pensions (451M)

• SB 141: Increasing WV Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System accrued benefit for certain members
• SB 149: Allowing certain contracted counsel for executive agencies to purchase years of service in PERS
• Com. Sub. for SB 774: Allowing certain county EMS officers to participate in EMS Retirement System

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

• SR 32: Protecting WV coal jobs, coal power, and coal families
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4026: Relating to expanding the requirements for integrated resource plans utility companies must file with the Public Service Commission

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Agenda TBA

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• SB 799: Requiring receipt of return of service or return receipt be filed with court
• SB 59: Clarifying residency requirements for voter registration
• SB 493: Relating to open captioning for motion pictures

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

Senate Bills to be Introduced Monday, February 16, 2026

A list of bills to be introduced in the Senate on Monday, February 16, 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 13, 2026

9 a.m.: Finance

• SB 228: Relating to use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 549: Raising pay for jurors from $40 per day to $100 per day
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 575: Relating to refusal review hearings
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 28: Allowing members of State Police retirement system to use accrued leave as credit toward retirement
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 206: Updating retirement eligibility for certain sheriffs
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 717: Modifying disability and retirement benefits and procedures for municipal police and firefighters
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• SB 719: Relating to Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System
• Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

• Com. Sub. for SB 724: Relating to home confinement officers’ participation in EMS retirement system
• Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Friday, February 13, 2026 (60)

• SB 1: Small Business Growth Act (Passed House; pending Senate concurrence to House amendment)
• 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 30: Allowing 18 to 20-year-olds to carry concealed weapon without permit (House Judiciary)
• 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 173: Prohibiting abortifacients (Pending House introduction)
• SB 207: Clarifying sheriff's compensation for collection of taxes (H First Reading, Inactive Calendar, 02-10)
• SB 208: Exempting certain military records from public release (H Second Reading, Inactive Calendar, 02-13)
• 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 389: Historic Rehab Building Credit Act (Pending House introduction)
• SB 390: Altering conditions for flood resiliency disbursements (House Government Organization then House Finance)
• SB 393: Updating corporate net income tax definitions (Pending House introduction)
• 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 404: Relating to Department of Human Services authority to contract with certain providers (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 427: Relating to loan form (House Finance)
• SB 440: Increasing penalty for transporting telecommunication devices into jails (House Judiciary)
• 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 (House Energy and Public Works)
• SB 473: Creating felony offense of using electronic device to threaten violence (House Judiciary)
• SB 478: Second Amendment Reaffirmation and Protection Act (House Judiciary)
• SB 490: Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants (House Government Organization)

• SB 506: Permitting certain use of county-owned wireless tower (House Judiciary)
• SB 531: Establishing First Amendment Preservation Act (Pending House introduction)
• SB 532: Relating to certified public accountants (House Finance)

• SB 536: Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards (House Education)
• SB 543: Requiring Bureau for Social Services to file legislative rule (House Health then House Judiciary)
• SB 556: Modifying priority of insurance coverage for drivers of certain vehicles to make consistent with federal law (House Judiciary then House Finance)
• SB 570: Supplemental Appropriation to Department of Health, fund 8802 (Pending House introduction)
• 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 (House Government Organization)
• SB 592: WV Short Line Railroad Modernization Act (House Finance)
• SB 604: Extending Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council sunset date (House Health)
• SB 607: Relating to federally approved project delivery methods for airport capital improvement projects (House Government Organization)
• SB 615: Requiring persons with illegal immigration status be turned over to ICE (House Judiciary)
• SB 622: Extending mine safety technology tax credit (House Finance)
• SB 625: Relating to responsibility of board of public service district that is being dissolved (House Energy and Public Works)
• SB 633: Relating to WV Commission on Holocaust Education (House Education)
• SB 645: Prohibiting surprise billing of ground emergency medical services by nonparticipating providers (House Health and Human Resources)
• SB 692: Authorizing green flashing warning lights on DOH vehicles (Pending House introduction)

• SB 694: Removing county residency requirement for county superintendent of schools (House Education)

• SB 704: Prohibiting certain compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits (House Judiciary)
• SB 772: Declaring certain claims against WV to be moral obligations (Pending House introduction)
• SB 781: Supplemental appropriation for Civil Contingent Fund, fund 0105 (Pending House introduction)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Friday, February 13, 2026 (69)

• 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 4011: Relating to advanced recycling (Government Organization)
• HB 4012: Relating to reducing the regulatory burden on utility companies when constructing and maintaining electric power generation and transmission facilities within this state (Energy, Industry and Mining)

• 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 (Energy, Industry and Mining)
• 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 4053: To establish the blue envelope program (Transportation and Infrastructure then Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4081: To create the Higher Education Health and Aid Grant (Education then Finance)
• HB 4089: Preservation of hair during chemotherapy, also known as the “Jessica Huffman Bill” (Health and Human Resources then Finance)

• HB 4098: To restore the right of a person to sit on a jury has been restored upon expungement of one’s record (Pending Senate introduction)

• 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 4179: To create felony charge for individuals who assault police officers or police dogs (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 4198: E-Verify Safe Harbor Act (Judiciary)

• HB 4215: Department of Health Rules Bundle (Judiciary)
• HB 4335: Relating to Medicaid providers (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4345: Relating to the preservation of missing persons records and evidence (Judiciary)

• 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 (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 4412: Require certain websites to utilize age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing content (Pending Senate introduction)
• 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 (S First Reading, 02-16)

• 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 (Energy, Industry and Mining then Government Organization)

• HB 4462: Prohibition on cell-cultured products (Pending Senate introduction)

• HB 4466: Extend the public intoxication of alcohol code to include being under the impairment of narcotics in public (Judiciary)

• HB 4468: Relating to confidentiality of court files and law-enforcement records (Judiciary)
• HB 4474: Extending the Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council sunset date (S Second Reading, 02-16)

• HB 4484: To expand each county commission’s ability to sell or lease property (Government Organization)
• HB 4501: Relating to Dietitian Licensure Compact (Government Organization)

• HB 4522: Banning Foreign backed spending on State Ballot Issues (Workforce then Judiciary)

• HB 4552: Relating to the law-enforcement powers of correctional officers (Judiciary)
• HB 4561: Clarifying the sheriff’s authority to hire within their office (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 (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)

• HB 4600: Require all ballots for primary and general elections be received not later than the close of the polls on election day (Judiciary)
• HB 4602: Relating to requiring the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot program to contract for supplemental caseworker aide services for the Bureau for Social Services (Pending Senate introduction)

• 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 (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 (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4695: To double the criminal penalty for anyone found guilty of sexual assault on a minor (Judiciary)
• HB 4696: Authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to deposit funds granted pursuant to federal programs (Energy, Industry and Mining)
• HB 4725: Clarifying the disposition of animal subject to animal cruelty treatment (Pending Senate introduction)
• HB 4740: Statutory Commitments in Rural Health Transformation Program (Government Organization)

• HB 4749: Relating to adding requirements to the foster child bill of rights (Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)

• HB 4755: Adding Aggravated Vehicular Homicide to the list of qualifying offenses (Judiciary)

• HB 4767: Relating to requiring the Bureau for Medical Services to file a legislative rule (Judiciary)

• HB 4801: Defining Permissible expenditures for municipalities and counties (Pending Senate introduction)

• HB 4951: Requiring MDs and DOs to complete continuing education (Health and Human Resources)

• HB 4982: Make West Virginia Healthy Act of 2026 (Health and Human Resources)
• HB 4893: Increase the penalties for contempt of court in a magistrate court (Judiciary)

• HB 5022: Relating to expanding the programs to be included in the annual capitation rate review (Health and Human Resources then Finance)

• Committee times and agendas are subject to change. Follow @WVSenClerk on Twitter for updates.

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