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Delegate Mr. Speaker (Mr. Kiss) sponsored 113 bills: |
Bill |
Title |
Status |
Committee |
Step |
Last Action |
HB 2992 | Adding operations of clandestine drug labs to the crime of wanton endangerment involving destructive devices | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/29/05 |
HB 3092 | Adding the counties of Mercer and Raleigh as participating members of the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreational Authority | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 03/31/05 |
HB 2413 | Administration of tax credits available under the West Virginia Capital Company Act | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/05 |
HB 3139 | Allowing service credit under the Public Employees Retirement System for up to five years of other public service | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 03/22/05 |
HB 3061 | Authorizing crossbow hunting for disabled persons | Pending | House A&N | Committee | 03/16/05 |
HB 3217 | Authorizing magistrates to impose home confinement for certain non-violent offenders in lieu of a bail bond | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/31/05 |
HB 3068 | Authorizing private inspectors to conduct annual inspections of elevators in state-owned buildings while establishing authority for the Division of Labor to conduct over-site inspections | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2848 | Authorizing table games at licensed racetracks | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/05 |
HB 2783 | Authorizing the Director of the Division of Rehabilitation Services to allow youth or other civic groups to use rehabilitation facilities and to charge a reasonable rent therefor | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2005 | Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3328 | Changing the name of the office of emergency services and specifying additional responsibilities | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3143 | Clarifying the criteria for an employee to sustain a lawsuit for intentional injury | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/22/05 |
HB 3176 | Clarifying the exemption for property used by not for profit, tax exempt communities from property taxes | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/23/05 |
HB 2779 | Clarifying when audits are required of state funds or grants | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/01/05 |
HB 2825 | Continuing the tax credit provided under article three-t, chapter eleven of this code for physicians who practice Obstetrics and Gynecology | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/31/05 |
HB 3071 | Continuing the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute until July 30, 2011 | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/16/05 |
HB 3231 | Creating a credit against the severance tax to encourage private companies to make infrastructure improvements to highways, roads and bridges in this state | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/28/05 |
HB 3049 | Creating a new crime of wanton endangerment involving the use of fire and imposing a criminal penalty for such crime | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2839 | Creating a special revenue fund for the operation of the West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 2966 | Creating a statewide thoroughbred breeders program | Vetoed | Governor | 04/16/05 | |
HB 2833 | Creating the "Better Sight for Better Learning Act" | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 3167 | Creating the Beckley-Raleigh county building code authority to establish and enforce a building code for the city of Beckley and Raleigh County | Pending | 2nd Reading | 04/09/05 | |
HB 3052 | Creating the West Virginia Board of Treasury Investments, transferring management of the Consolidated Fund from the Investment Management Board to the Board of Treasury Investments,...etc... | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/16/05 |
HB 3351 | Creating the West Virginia Byrd Scholarship Program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/25/05 |
HB 2831 | Deleting the provision that requires reduction of disability retirement income when a person attains the age of sixty-five | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/24/05 |
HB 3216 | Describing the scope and limitations of legislative immunity | Pending | 3rd Reading | 04/09/05 | |
HB 2985 | Discontinuing the loan program of deputy sheriffs who become members of the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System on or after July 1, 2005 | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 03/10/05 |
HB 2828 | Eliminating a gap in employment for certain employees participating in the Public Employees Insurance Plan | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 3319 | Eliminating the legal doctrine of "constructive exhaustion" relative to an insured's claim for underinsurance under his or her motor vehicle insurance policy | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 03/25/05 |
HB 2467 | Eliminating the set-off against unemployment compensation benefits for persons receiving social security benefits | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/05 |
HB 2821 | Establishing a pilot program that provides certain units of government with additional flexibility during a twenty-four month period ending June 30, 2007 | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 03/01/05 |
HB 3293 | Establishing residential treatment programs for regional jail inmates who are abusers of alcohol and other drugs | Vetoed | Governor | 04/16/05 | |
HB 3016 | Excepting the making of appointments by secretaries of licensed real estate brokers and salespersons with buyers and sellers of real estate from the scope of practice of real estate brokerage subject to licensing | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3309 | Exempting Mental-Health Retardation Centers from payment of the privilege tax and providing that Mental-Health Retardation Centers are covered by the Board of Risk and Insurance Management without the requirement to pay a premium | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/31/05 |
HB 3012 | Exempting property acquired by lease purchase agreement by the state, a county, district, city, village, town or other political subdivision, state college or university, from property tax | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3098 | Expanding the prohibitions and criminal penalties for sexual exploitation or sexual abuse of a child by a parent, or guardian or custodian to include offenses by persons who hold a position of trust in relation to a child | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3047 | Expanding the statute governing manufacturing, compounding, producing, processing or preparing methamphetamine and providing penalties | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/28/05 |
HB 3033 | Extending the temporary special reclamation tax for an additional twenty-four months | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3182 | Facilitating the construction of certain public water and sewer infrastructure projects without cost to the public | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/24/05 |
HB 3003 | General revisions to the unclaimed property statutes | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/11/05 |
HB 2852 | Implementing the recommendations of the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Cost Council | Pending | Concurrence | 04/09/05 | |
HB 2995 | Including a checkoff option on the state personal tax return to donate some or all of any tax refund to the "James 'Tiger' Morton Catastrophic Illness Check-off Program" | Tabled | 2nd Reading | 03/31/05 | |
HB 2847 | Including a clinic-based health care option under the definition of a "limited health service" | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 3287 | Increasing the salaries of Supreme Court Justices, circuit court judges, family court judges and magistrates | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/25/05 |
HB 2195 | Limiting access to certain chemicals used in the production of methamphetamines | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/05 |
HB 2959 | Making it unlawful to hunt, trap, shoot, destroy, attempt to destroy or possess an albino deer, and to provide penalties and fines for such violations | Pending | House A&N | Committee | 03/10/05 |
HB 2777 | Making technical changes concerning High-Tech research zones, parks and technology centers and tax incentives relating thereto | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2900 | Minimizing the likelihood that a reader might be induced to believe that he or she had more time than actually existed to perfect a lien upon subject property | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/07/05 |
HB 2960 | Permitting licensed restaurants to sell sealed bottles of wine produced by a member of the West Virginia Farm Wineries Association for consumption off the premises | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2990 | Permitting the Director of the Natural Resources to set the time and date of the meeting for the convenience of the Public | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2837 | Prescribing personal finance instruction in secondary schools by the State Board of Education | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3260 | Prohibiting an employee from recovering for an injury that was self-inflicted and establishing the Asbestos and Silica Compensation Fairness Act of 2005 | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/25/05 |
HB 2834 | Prohibiting homeowner insurance discrimination against dog owners | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 2816 | Promoting healthy lifestyles in West Virginia | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2876 | Providing a preference to vendors for state contracts who provide health insurance benefits to their employees | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/04/05 |
HB 2285 | Providing a procedure for payment of the veterans bonus to veterans of the Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq conflicts | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3121 | Providing flexibility measures for West Virginia University and Marshall University | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/21/05 |
HB 3161 | Providing for a potential subsidy of employer share of PEIA payments by certain small government related entities that are required to pay for retirees eligible for PEIA coverage | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 03/23/05 |
HB 2931 | Providing for any review of the State Tax Commissioner's ruling on a question of classification or taxability (not valuation) of real property for ad valorem tax purposes to be by the Office of Tax Appeals | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/08/05 |
HB 3125 | Providing for biannual independent review of the Neighborhood Investment Program and to extend the program until July 1, 2008 | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2866 | Providing for continuation of tuition and fee payments to members after discharge from military service due to wounds or injuries received in the line of duty | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2820 | Providing for insurance reform by expanding and providing for funding, and expanded powers for the office of consumer advocacy | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 03/01/05 |
HB 3037 | Providing for judicial procedures for suspension and revocation of licenses for driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/15/05 |
HB 2827 | Providing for the approval of the county commission of Class I and Class II Municipal development or redevelopment tax financing districts | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 2980 | Providing for the certification of special inspectors and to permit the acceptance of inspections provided by special inspectors in lieu of inspections by the Division of Labor | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2830 | Providing for the immediate suspension or revocation of a license of a dentist if it is necessary to protect the health and safety of the public | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 2824 | Providing judicial guidelines for the apportionment of damages in causes of action involving the tortious conduct of more than one defendant | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 3040 | Providing maximum time limits for one-way bus transportation for any new bus route created to transport students in the wake of the closure or consolidation of an existing school facility | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 03/31/05 |
HB 3103 | Providing teachers with a fifteen percent salary increase over the next three years | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/18/05 |
HB 2835 | Providing that a judgement debtor may not assert anew the thousand dollar exemption for wages in two consecutive pay periods | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 2619 | Providing that moneys from revenues allocated to volunteer and part volunteer fire companies and departments may be expended for the payment of dues to national, state and county associations | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2822 | Providing that municipalities, county development authorities or municipal development authorities, or both, may organize and jointly own joint development entities | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 04/04/05 | |
HB 3122 | Providing that the Director of Natural Resources, designated county issuers and agents shall provide a voter registration application form as an integral and simultaneous part of every process for a hunting or fishing license | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/22/05 |
HB 3119 | Providing that the Division of Natural Resources may not reduce the habitat land acreage available for hunting and shooting | Pending | House A&N | Committee | 03/21/05 |
HB 3118 | Raising the fee for persons that are permitted to cash checks from one percent to three percent | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 03/21/05 |
HB 2808 | Relating to adding a magistrate to those serving Raleigh County | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/31/05 |
HB 3021 | Relating to amending licensure procedures for massage therapists | Pending | 2nd Reading | 04/09/05 | |
HB 3004 | Relating to an increase in the annual base salary of all sworn state police personnel by eighteen percent effective July 1, 2005 | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/11/05 |
HB 3285 | Relating to authorizing county commissions to adopt ordinances to reduce false alarms | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 03/25/05 |
HB 2886 | Relating to cure offers and requiring notice of violation prior to initiation of law suits | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/05 |
HB 3051 | Relating to defining certain terms relative to hunting | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2860 | Relating to direct appeals to the West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/05 |
HB 2601 | Relating to electric utilities and providing for equivalent residential rates for certain community organizations | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/23/05 |
HB 2993 | Relating to establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/11/05 |
HB 2814 | Relating to financially-related activities of State-charted Banking Institutions | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 03/21/05 | |
HB 2334 | Relating to limiting child out-of-state placements | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2869 | Relating to permit the conversion of a domestic corporation to a domestic limited liability company | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2478 | Relating to removing the prohibition against brewers of nonintoxicating beer requiring distributors to submit certain financial documents | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2813 | Relating to requirements for certificate of public convenience and necessity | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2950 | Relating to requiring a paper copy of a voter's votes when using an electronic system to vote if an election is contested or for a random count of precincts | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 3048 | Relating to restructuring of the hunting and fishing license system | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2929 | Relating to the administration of anesthesia by dentists | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2194 | Relating to the ethical standards of public officers and employees, modifying confidentiality requirements, prohibiting submission of false information, and providing penalties | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/05 |
HB 2849 | Relating to the financing of environmental control activities by certain qualified electric utilities through the issuance of environmental control bonds | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/28/05 |
HB 3007 | Relating to the merger and consolidation of the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 03/11/05 |
HB 2829 | Relating to the regulation of advertising by dentists | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 2838 | Relating to the rehabilitation environmental action plan | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/29/05 |
HB 2891 | Relating to the reorganization of the executive branch of state government | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2853 | Relating to the West Virginia Courtesy Patrol Program | Pending | Concurrence | 04/09/05 | |
HB 3135 | Relating to updating the meaning of "federal adjusted gross income" and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 03/30/05 | |
HB 3128 | Relating to updating the meaning of "federal taxable income" and certain other terms used in West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 03/30/05 | |
HB 2826 | Removing certain limitations on recovery from manufacturer, dealer, distributor or contractor bonds in manufactured housing purchase | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 2832 | Requiring persons involved in motor vehicle accidents which result in death or bodily injury submit to a blood test for alcohol or other controlled substances | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 03/02/05 |
HB 2882 | Requiring that a contracting public entity may not reject the lowest bid unless relevant criteria exists | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/04/05 |
HB 2600 | Requiring the installation of fire hydrants at intervals of not less than one thousand feet in all upgrades of water mains and construction and installation of new mains | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/23/05 |
HB 2815 | Requiring the use of an appropriate child passenger restraint device or booster seat until the child is at least six years of age and weighs at least sixty pounds | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 03/31/05 | |
HB 2914 | Restricting actions against doctors who are board certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility for in vitro fertilization attempts that fail to result in a live birth | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/24/05 |
HB 2855 | Retaining seniority for professional personnel who voluntarily terminate employment | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 04/07/05 |
HB 2984 | State Pensions and Retirement generally | Signed | Governor | 05/11/05 | |
HB 2633 | Submitting the proposed "Pension Bond Amendment" to the Constitution of the state to the people of the state for ratification or rejection | Pending | House Constitutional Revision | Committee | 02/24/05 |
HB 2999 | The "West Virginia Railroad Track Maintenance Tax Credit Act" | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 03/11/05 |
HB 3058 | The Critical Access Hospital Designation Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/24/05 |
HB 3005 | Transferring the centralized accounting system from the Department of Administration to the Auditor's Office and to create a Financial Services Oversight Committee | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/28/05 |