https://www.wvlegislature.gov West Virginia Legislature - 2013 Regular Session en-US wvsweb@wvnet.edu (Webmaster) Copyright 2005, West Virginia Legislature https://www.wvlegislature.gov/images/home_link.gif https://www.wvlegislature.gov 25 25 https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2061&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring operators to post a bond for each well and to condition the release of the bond Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2062&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Studying the environmental and health impacts of shale gas development Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2064&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring a driller or owner of a natural gas well who contaminates a groundwater aquifer to remediate the aquifer until it meets the standards of the Clean Water Act Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2065&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Relating to ground water contamination and spills associated with the stimulation of wells using the fracking process Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2066&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring the posting of material data safety sheets and documentation of fracking fluid components Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2114&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Relating to revocation of current and future horizontal well permits Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2136&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Providing landowners of property adjacent to proposed well sites copies of the application, the erosion and sediment control plan Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2137&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Enacting zoning ordinances that regulate drilling and hydraulic fracturing activity Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2152&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring flowback plans for all work on oil and gas wells Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2254&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring an emergency, temporary and permanent water supply when gas and oil operations have resulted in contamination, diminution or interruption Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2255&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Studying injection induced seismic activity associated with to horizontal well drilling and waste injection Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2256&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Establishing a cradle to grave monitoring system for withdrawals of water used in the development of natural wells Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2257&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Creating a publicly accessible database of information relevant to all horizontally drilled wells Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2258&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring the center of all new gas wells to be more than one thousand feet from water wells or six hundred twenty-five feet from the edge of the well pad Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2260&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Prohibiting the drilling of horizontal oil and gas wells beneath abandoned wells Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2262&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring operators of natural gas wells and surface owners to enter into surface use agreements Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2280&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Requiring persons who are not members of the American Association of Professional Landmen to have two years or more of experience in contracting for oil and gas leases Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2435&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Relating to severance taxes collected for privilege of producing oil or natural gas Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2436&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Relating to liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2468&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Requiring certification of correctness as to design, construction and performance of domestic and commercial liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2535&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Creating the "Intrastate Coal and Use Act" and the "Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas and Use Act" Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2598&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Finance, PEND COMM) - Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2722&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, TABL 3RDS) - Increasing the amount of special license fees paid by pipeline companies Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2795&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2874&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Requiring natural gas lessors to provide surface owners on whose properties natural gas producing wells are drilled up to three hundred million cubic feet of free gas per year Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2893&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Finance, PEND COMM) - Relating to preservation of cemeteries Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2917&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Making it an unfair trade practice to refuse to refill a propane gas tank Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2918&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Health and Human Resources, PEND COMM) - West Virginia Fair Health Insurance Act of 2013 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2925&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Relating to alternative fuel initiatives Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2962&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (Tabled on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, TABL 3RDS) - Relating to exemptions from the tax on the privilege of severing natural gas and oil Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=2998&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, PEND COMM) - Requiring natural gas lessors to provide surface owners the ability to purchase gas from those wells Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3001&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring a composite soil sampling and testing be performed on the ground area underneath a pit or impoundment after it has been drained Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3046&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to issue a procedural rule to allow surface owners a right to a hearing and appeal Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3047&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Finance, PEND COMM) - Establishing the Tax Reduction Fund in the State Treasury Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3051&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Relating to fees charged for natural gas drilling waste fluids injected into underground injection control wells Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3060&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Authorizing the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to regulate the horizontal deep wells Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3085&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Government Organization, PEND COMM) - Requiring persons engaged in natural gas horizontal well drilling activities to annually submit a report to the Department of Labor identifying the state of residency Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=3151&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Judiciary, PEND COMM) - Relating to generally oil and gas conservation Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=98&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To House Education, PEND COMM) - Creating Shale Research, Education, Policy and Economic Development Center at WVU Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=167&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (On 2nd reading to Finance, PEND COMM) - Creating West Virginia Future Fund Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=343&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To Government Organization, PEND COMM) - Dedicating portion of oil and gas severance tax to counties and municipalities of origin Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=616&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (To Energy, Industry and Mining, PEND COMM) - Integrating interests in horizontal shallow oil or gas well drilling units Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_history.cfm?input=638&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill (Approved by Governor 4/18/13, SIGN GOV) - Terminating certain severance tax exemption for production of natural gas or oil Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EST