SPONSORED LEGISLATION, 2013 President Kessler was the Lead Sponsor of 59 bills |
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee |
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| SB 143 | Budget Bill | Pending | Finance |
| SB 151 | Requiring corporations disclose expenditures for political activities | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 165 | Requiring presentence reports consider financial costs | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 166 | Establishing tax credit for certain physicians providing services in free health clinics | Pending | Health and Human Resources |
| SB 167 | Creating West Virginia Future Fund | Pending | Finance |
| SB 168 | Providing workers' compensation benefits for mental illness under certain circumstances | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 169 | Preventing disability pension reduction for certain PERS members | Pending | |
| SB 172 | Relating to nonintoxicating beer distributor licensees | Signed | |
| SB 180 | Reforming Medicaid subrogation statute | Pending | Health and Human Resources |
| SB 181 | Clarifying drugged driving offense | Pending | |
| SB 182 | Lowering available tax credit amount for film industry | Pending | Finance |
| SB 183 | Updating terms in Corporation Net Income Tax Act | Signed | |
| SB 184 | Updating terms in Personal Income Tax Act | Pending | Finance |
| SB 185 | Relating to alternative-fuel motor vehicles and qualified refueling infrastructure tax credits | Signed | |
| SB 186 | Relating generally to deposits in Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund and Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund | Pending | Finance |
| SB 187 | Creating Jobs Impact Statement Act | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 188 | Creating vendor transportation program to transport Medicaid service recipients | Pending | Finance |
| SB 189 | Increasing capital investment threshold for certain economic opportunity development districts | Pending | Finance |
| SB 190 | Relating to public-private transportation projects funding | Signed | |
| SB 191 | Relating to increasing maximum aggregate funding to Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund | Pending | Finance |
| SB 192 | Increasing civil penalties imposed by PSC for pipeline safety violations | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 197 | Expiring funds from State Fund, General Revenue, and making supplementary appropriations to various accounts | Signed | |
| SB 199 | Relating to interstate compact for election of president by national popular vote | Pending | |
| SB 202 | Creating WV Spay Neuter Assistance Program and Fund | Signed | |
| SB 207 | Expiring funds from State Fund, General Revenue, and making supplementary appropriations to various accounts | Pending | Finance |
| SB 208 | Making supplementary appropriation from State Fund, General Revenue, to Department of Commerce, Division of Labor, and DHHR, Division of Human Services | Signed | |
| SB 209 | Making supplementary appropriation from State Fund, State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, to DHHR, Division of Human Services | Pending | Finance |
| SB 210 | Providing certain magistrate court employees be compensated equally | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 331 | Permitting Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority to issue bonds | Vetoed | |
| SB 342 | Creating WV Land Stewardship Corporation Act | Pending | |
| SB 355 | Relating to final wage payment to discharged employees | Signed | |
| SB 359 | Relating generally to reforming public education | Signed | |
| SB 363 | Implementing purchasing reforms | Pending | Finance |
| SB 365 | Relating to certain criminal conviction expungement | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 370 | Adjusting foundation allowance for school transportation costs and regional education service agencies | Pending | Education |
| SB 371 | Relating to prison overcrowding | Signed | |
| SB 377 | Redefining "retailer engaging in business in this state" for sales and use tax purposes | Pending | Finance |
| SB 394 | Relating to scholarships for dependent children of law-enforcement officers who die in performance of duty | Signed | |
| SB 486 | Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 503 | Requiring county commissions purchase and display POW/MIA flag | Pending | |
| SB 523 | Making supplementary appropriation of unappropriated moneys to various accounts | Signed | |
| SB 524 | Supplementing, amending, decreasing and increasing appropriations from State Road Fund to DOT | Signed | |
| SB 525 | Making supplementary appropriation of federal funds to various accounts | Signed | |
| SB 526 | Making supplementary appropriation of federal funds to DHHR, Division of Human Services-Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Signed | |
| SB 540 | Permitting Ohio County and Monongalia County commissions levy special district excise tax | Pending | Finance |
| SB 574 | Creating WV Buy American Act of 2013 | Pending | |
| SB 589 | Establishing ethical standards for court reporters | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 594 | Establishing Court of Claims procedure for unjust arrest, conviction or imprisonment claims | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 596 | Determining grant awards for Chesapeake Bay and Greenbrier River watershed compliance projects | Signed | |
| SB 604 | Expanding definition of "electioneering communication" | Signed | |
| SB 610 | Renaming Industrial Home for Youth as Salem Correctional Center; placing Salem and Parkersburg correctional centers under Division of Corrections | Pending | |
| SB 615 | Amending table game license renewal fee for pari-mutuel racetracks | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 622 | Providing WVU and MU boards of governors additional authority and flexibility | Pending | Education |
| SB 653 | Establishing job creation work groups | Pending | |
| SB 1001 | Permitting Monongalia County Commission levy district excise tax | Signed | |
| SB 1002 | Establishing Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund | Pending | |
| SB 1003 | Relating to magistrate court system compensation | Signed | |
| SB 1004 | Relating to local sales and use taxes and excise taxes | Pending | |
| SB 1005 | Making supplementary appropriation from Civil Contingent Fund and Consumer Protection Fund | Signed | |
