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Senator Kessler (Acting President) sponsored 170 bills:

Bill	Title	Status	Committee	Step	Last Action
SB 70	Budget Bill	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	03/12/11
SB 71	Making child neglect creating substantial risk of bodily harm misdemeanor	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	01/31/11
SB 72	Defining "president", "speaker" and "presiding officer"	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/13/11
SB 98	Allowing certain organizations use electronic or mechanical devices to conduct raffles	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/17/11
SB 99	Allowing workers' compensation for mental illness resulting from being victim of crime	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/17/11
SB 186	Relating to issuing subpoena to aid in criminal investigations involving certain crimes against minors	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2011)
SB 192	Protecting consumers from price gouging and unfair pricing practices	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011)
SB 193	Relating to law-enforcement certification generally	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011)
SB 194	Authorizing State Police enter into agreement with Marshall University Forensic Science Center for certain DNA testing	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/28/11
SB 195	Relating to requirements to serve as magistrate	Pending		3rd Reading	03/12/11
SB 196	Relating to criminal offenses of robbery and attempted robbery	Pending		3rd Reading	03/12/11
SB 198	Requiring study of feasibility of consolidation of government services and enforcement of laws pertaining to motor carrier industry	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/18/11
SB 199	Establishing certain requirements for pawnbrokers	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/19/11
SB 200	Correcting names of state institutions of higher education	Signed	Effective from passage - (February 8, 2011)
SB 201	Creating Energy Efficient Building Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/15/11
SB 202	Creating commission to develop pilot program to help at-risk youth	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/01/11
SB 203	Requiring disclosure of subcontractors within certain time for public construction contracts	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/19/11
SB 204	Requiring employees at certain construction projects complete OSHA approved safety program	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	01/19/11
SB 205	Updating certain terms in Corporation Net Income Tax Act	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 206	Creating Office of Child Advocacy	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/19/11
SB 207	Reducing consumers sales and service tax on food	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/19/11
SB 209	Creating misdemeanor offense of operating motor vehicle while texting	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	01/19/11
SB 213	Relating to crimes using computers, telephones and electronic devices	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2011)
SB 214	Creating Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/19/11
SB 215	Updating certain terms in Personal Income Tax Act	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 216	Modifying "imminent danger to physical well-being of a child" definition	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2011)
SB 218	Requiring insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/09/11
SB 219	Relating to maintaining solvency of Unemployment Compensation Fund	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 223	Relating to civil and criminal forfeiture actions related to criminal activity	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/20/11
SB 224	Repealing article banning nuclear power plants' construction	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	01/20/11
SB 226	Prohibiting discrimination based on age or sexual orientation	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/20/11
SB 227	Relating to Creative Communities Development Pilot Program	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/04/11
SB 228	Creating Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone Act	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2011)
SB 229	Creating Math and Science Teacher Loan Assistance Program	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/01/11
SB 233	Establishing modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for recent graduates of higher education institutions	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 234	Revising Municipal Economic Opportunity Development District Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2011)
SB 235	Revising County Economic Opportunity Development District Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2011)
SB 236	Providing for annual evaluation of professional personnel in public schools	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	01/21/11
SB 237	Relating to improvement of schools and school districts	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	01/21/11
SB 238	Redesignating Division of Veterans' Affairs as Department of Veterans' Assistance	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 239	Extending period higher education institutes have to deposit moneys into research endowments	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 240	Allowing Director of Purchasing Division conduct reverse auctions to purchase commodities	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 241	Relating to organization and authority of Marketing and Communications Office of Department of Commerce, Division of Tourism and Tourism Commission	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011)
SB 242	Dedicating portion of coal severance tax to county of origin	Pending		CONF	03/12/11
SB 243	Relating to Neighborhood Investment Program Act	Signed	Effective July 1, 2011
SB 244	Defining ownership of coalbed methane when no deed has expressed ownership	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	01/24/11
SB 245	Relating to protection of Chesapeake Bay and Greenbrier River watersheds	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011)
SB 246	Including Salem International University as eligible institution to continue to receive PROMISE scholarship funds	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	01/25/11
SB 247	Exempting certain construction contractor purchases from consumers sales, service and use tax	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2011)
SB 248	Relating to coal slurry disposal	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/25/11
SB 249	Creating WV Manufacturing Competitiveness and Growth Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/07/11
SB 251	Relating to alternative principal and teacher certification	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	01/25/11
SB 252	Expanding subsidy for certain enrollees in model health plan for uninsurable individuals	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	01/25/11
SB 254	Making supplementary appropriation of federal funds to Development Office and Division of Human Services	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 255	Making supplementary appropriation of unappropriated moneys to various accounts	Signed	Effect from passage
SB 257	Providing additional magistrate court clerk to Monongalia County	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/25/11
SB 258	Creating Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling Gas Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/25/11
SB 261	Providing for special primary and general elections to fill vacancy in office of Governor	Tabled		1st Reading	02/03/11
SB 268	Establishing driver's license restoration program	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/04/11
SB 272	Relating to WV Tax Increment Financing Act	Pending	House Finance	Committee	02/25/11
SB 273	Providing one-time supplemental salary increase for certain state employees	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	01/25/11
SB 276	Criminalizing sale and use of synthetic cannabinoids	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/26/11
SB 278	Creating misdemeanor crime of unlawful restraint	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/26/11
SB 282	Continuing Highway Design-Build Pilot Program	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 9, 2011)
SB 283	Creating Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/24/11
SB 284	Changing date of canvassing of votes in primary election	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/26/11
SB 307	Creating Intermediate Court of Appeals	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/03/11
SB 310	Making certain employees eligible for unemployment compensation	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/10/11
SB 312	Preventing reduction of disability pensions in Public Employees Retirement System	Pending	Senate Pensions	Committee	01/27/11
SB 313	Creating Spay Neuter Assistance Fund; funding	Pending	Senate Agriculture	Committee	01/27/11
SB 314	Creating Natural Gas Resources Transportation Road System	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	01/27/11
SB 315	Making funding for high school athletics priority expenditure from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund surplus	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 316	Creating WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being Act	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/27/11
SB 317	Requiring corporations disclose expenditures for political activities	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/27/11
SB 318	Requiring handrails in handicap restrooms	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/27/11
SB 319	Establishing tax credit for certain medical providers	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/24/11
SB 320	Requiring certain governmental entities and circuit courts retain biological material for possible DNA testing	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/27/11
SB 321	Requiring insurers cover autism spectrum disorders	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	01/27/11
SB 322	Including WV in agreement among states to elect President by national popular vote	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/27/11
SB 323	Increasing parole ineligibility period for those convicted of distributing controlled substance near school bus	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	01/27/11
SB 334	Creating criminal offense for animal fighting ventures involvement	Pending	House Agriculture	Committee	02/22/11
SB 336	Creating WV Energy Efficient Buildings Program Act	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/28/11
SB 341	Exempting certain participants in nonprofit organization's rehabilitative therapy day trip from purchasing hunting and fishing license	Pending	Senate Natural Resources	Committee	01/31/11
SB 342	Making supplementary appropriation to Governor's Office--Civil Contingent Fund	Signed	Effective from passage - (February 7, 2011)
SB 346	Relating to collection of fees by circuit clerks	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/31/11
SB 348	Allowing certain community work program labor be credited to fines or court costs	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	01/31/11
SB 355	Permitting magistrates carry concealed handguns without permit	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	01/31/11
SB 359	Exempting certain charitable organizations from property taxation	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/16/11
SB 361	Requiring insurance companies indicate on billing statements increased cost of fire insurance if no local fire department existed	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	01/31/11
SB 362	Increasing excise tax on all tobacco products	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/18/11
SB 363	Relating to retention and destruction of health care records	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/01/11
SB 369	Granting volunteer medical licenses to certain practicing physicians	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/01/11
SB 372	Relating to dedication of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/25/11
SB 373	Relating to funding and financing comprehensive middle schools and other School Building Authority projects	Signed	Effective July 1, 2011
SB 379	Relating to registration of certain out-of-state sex offenders	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/01/11
SB 381	Allowing use of tuition assistance for National Guard members enrolled in certain programs	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 384	Providing for financing to complete Route 35 without using toll booths	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	02/02/11
SB 385	Increasing special penalties for assault and battery on athletic official	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/11/11
SB 388	Allowing fire chief appoint member to serve as designee on property safety enforcement agency	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/04/11
SB 390	Adding web-enabled mobile devices to crime of invasion of privacy on computer	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	02/22/11
SB 396	Relating to mutual-aid agreements between law-enforcement entities	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/23/11
SB 397	Establishing value of antique motor vehicles for personal property taxes	Pending	Senate Transportation and Infrastructure	Committee	02/02/11
SB 398	Establishing shift differential pay scales for certain correctional employees	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/02/11
SB 407	Incorporating federal health insurance reforms into insurance code	Pending		3rd Reading	03/12/11
SB 408	Creating WV Health Benefit Exchange Act	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011)
SB 410	Extending alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit	Pending	House Roads and Transportation	Committee	03/03/11
SB 411	Providing higher education employees' eligibility for seat in Legislature	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/16/11
SB 412	Increasing educational requirements for magistrates	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/03/11
SB 421	Relating to maintaining minimum number of State Police; salary	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/04/11
SB 422	Compensating State Police for call-back time; housing stipend	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/04/11
SB 424	Creating Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act	Pending		3rd Reading	03/12/11
SB 425	Increasing salary of Adjutant General	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/08/11
SB 426	Requiring judge's permission before release of juror information after trial	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/03/11
SB 428	Increasing and reallocating certain circuit court fees	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 16, 2011)
SB 430	Filing civil petition for expungement of certain criminal records	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/03/11
SB 441	Creating rebuttable presumption that development of certain cancers by firefighters arose out of employment	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/07/11
SB 443	Prohibiting elective abortion coverage except through optional supplemental policy	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/07/11
SB 444	Relating to protection of nonfamily or nonhousehold members from violations of personal safety	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/02/11
SB 446	Providing tax credit to retain nursing educators	Pending	Senate Education	Committee	02/07/11
SB 449	Creating Twenty-First Century Business Technologies Property Valuation Act and Tax Credit Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/16/11
SB 453	Providing retention salary increases for Division of Corrections and Division of Juvenile Services	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/07/11
SB 456	Relating to responsibilities of Marketing and Communications Office of Department of Commerce	Pending	House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business	Committee	02/25/11
SB 459	Creating Keep Jobs in WV Act	Pending	Senate Labor	Committee	02/08/11
SB 461	Providing criminal penalty for violating restraining order entered upon conviction for stalking or harassment	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2011)
SB 462	Creating Prompt Pay Act of 2011	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/17/11
SB 463	Including WV in agreement among states to elect President and Vice President by national popular vote	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/08/11
SB 464	Allowing certain persons petition to regain right to possess firearms when lost due to mental health disability	Pending		3rd Reading	03/12/11
SB 465	Creating Marcellus Gas and Manufacturing Development Act	Signed	Effective July 1, 2011
SB 466	Reducing tax on behavioral health services	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/08/11
SB 467	Requiring incidence reports when teachers are unlawfully assigned any responsibility during their planning period	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/02/11
SB 470	Creating misdemeanor offense of unlawful use of wireless communication device for nonvoice communication while operating motor vehicle	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/16/11
SB 471	Expanding prescriptive authority of certain nurses	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/09/11
SB 473	Relating to fire chief and deputy chief positions	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/09/11
SB 474	Relating to nonresident liability claims for prescription drug warnings	Signed	Effective July 1, 2011
SB 484	Relating to management agreements of Higher Education Policy Commission	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2011)
SB 486	Creating WVU-Tech Revitalization Project	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 7, 2011)
SB 487	Increasing required amount of noncombustible material in certain coal mines	Pending	Senate Energy, Industry and Mining	Committee	02/10/11
SB 488	Revising HIV testing statute to conform with most recent recommendations from CDC	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011)
SB 491	Creating WV Future Fund	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/11/11
SB 492	Relating to maximizing federal funding for state Medicaid program	Signed	Effective July 1, 2011
SB 506	Relating to Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/14/11
SB 507	Continuing Broadband Deployment Council	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 26, 2011)
SB 508	Allowing certain liquor licensees ability to conduct responsible liquor sampling events	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/01/11
SB 509	Requiring insurance coverage of spouses and dependents for pregnancy and contraceptive services	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	02/14/11
SB 512	Relating generally to salaries of certain judges and magistrates	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/22/11
SB 516	Requiring state board establish digital learning program	Pending	House Education	Committee	03/01/11
SB 520	Relating to Economic Development Authority's criteria for loans to tourism projects	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/21/11
SB 522	Requiring parents objecting to immunizations provide written statement in lieu of certificates of proof	Pending	Senate Health and Human Resources	Committee	02/16/11
SB 523	Increasing tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 526	Allowing certain emergency service providers possess Naloxone to administer in suspected overdoses	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/04/11
SB 528	Allowing certain physically disabled service personnel work in another classification with continued compensation	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 542	Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of fire departments	Pending	Senate Government Organization	Committee	02/17/11
SB 544	Relating to municipal policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 11, 2011)
SB 545	Relating to residential rental security deposit return	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/18/11
SB 546	Relating to municipal police and firefighter pensions	Signed	Effective from passage - (March 12, 2011)
SB 548	Changing age of consent for refusal of mental health treatment	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/18/11
SB 549	Relating to funding for civil legal services for poor	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 550	Relating generally to gaming at licensed racetracks and historic resort hotels	Signed	Effective July 1, 2011
SB 552	Creating crime of financial exploitation of elderly, protected or incapacitated person	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/02/11
SB 553	Creating workers' compensation insurance subsidy program for volunteer fire departments	Pending	House Finance	Committee	03/07/11
SB 559	Removing expiration date for requiring deposit of moneys into Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/18/11
SB 564	Creating Fiscal and Policy Division under Joint Committee on Government and Finance	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 565	Providing notice and ability to be heard during certain hearings to person residing with victim prior to crime	Pending	House Judiciary	Committee	03/03/11
SB 566	Relating to other post-employment benefits generally	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/25/11
SB 574	Creating Grieving Parents Act	Pending	Senate Judiciary	Committee	02/21/11
SB 576	Authorizing refundable tax credit based upon federal earned income tax credit	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/21/11
SB 583	Increasing surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies	Pending	Senate Banking and Insurance	Committee	02/21/11
SB 587	Adding small-scale tourism development and ancillary project components to Tourism Development Act	Pending	Senate Finance	Committee	02/23/11
SB 592	Requiring schools have crisis response plans	Signed	Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2011)
SB 606	Providing funding for parkways project along U. S. Route 35	Rejected			03/02/11

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