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| Senator Kessler (Acting President) sponsored 170 bills: |
Bill |
Title |
Status |
Committee |
Step |
Last Action |
| 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 200 | Correcting names of state institutions of higher education | Signed | Effective from passage - (February 8, 2011) | ||
| SB 205 | Updating certain terms in Corporation Net Income Tax Act | Signed | Effect from passage | ||
| SB 213 | Relating to crimes using computers, telephones and electronic devices | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2011) | ||
| SB 219 | Relating to maintaining solvency of Unemployment Compensation Fund | Signed | Effect from passage | ||
| 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 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 228 | Creating Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone Act | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 12, 2011) | ||
| 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 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 243 | Relating to Neighborhood Investment Program Act | Signed | Effective July 1, 2011 | ||
| SB 247 | Exempting certain construction contractor purchases from consumers sales, service and use tax | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 12, 2011) | ||
| 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 245 | Relating to protection of Chesapeake Bay and Greenbrier River watersheds | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011) | ||
| SB 282 | Continuing Highway Design-Build Pilot Program | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 9, 2011) | ||
| SB 342 | Making supplementary appropriation to Governor's Office--Civil Contingent Fund | Signed | Effective from passage - (February 7, 2011) | ||
| SB 373 | Relating to funding and financing comprehensive middle schools and other School Building Authority projects | Signed | Effective July 1, 2011 | ||
| SB 408 | Creating WV Health Benefit Exchange Act | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011) | ||
| SB 428 | Increasing and reallocating certain circuit court fees | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 16, 2011) | ||
| 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 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 465 | Creating Marcellus Gas and Manufacturing Development Act | Signed | Effective July 1, 2011 | ||
| SB 488 | Revising HIV testing statute to conform with most recent recommendations from CDC | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2011) | ||
| SB 492 | Relating to maximizing federal funding for state Medicaid program | Signed | Effective July 1, 2011 | ||
| SB 507 | Continuing Broadband Deployment Council | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 26, 2011) | ||
| SB 544 | Relating to municipal policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 11, 2011) | ||
| SB 546 | Relating to municipal police and firefighter pensions | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 12, 2011) | ||
| SB 550 | Relating generally to gaming at licensed racetracks and historic resort hotels | Signed | Effective July 1, 2011 | ||
| SB 592 | Requiring schools have crisis response plans | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2011) | ||
| 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 424 | Creating Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act | Pending | 3rd Reading | 03/12/11 | |
| SB 407 | Incorporating federal health insurance reforms into insurance code | Pending | 3rd Reading | 03/12/11 | |
| SB 242 | Dedicating portion of coal severance tax to county of origin | Pending | CONF | 03/12/11 | |
| 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 70 | Budget Bill | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/12/11 |
| SB 553 | Creating workers' compensation insurance subsidy program for volunteer fire departments | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/07/11 |
| SB 526 | Allowing certain emergency service providers possess Naloxone to administer in suspected overdoses | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/11 |
| SB 227 | Relating to Creative Communities Development Pilot Program | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/04/11 |
| SB 268 | Establishing driver's license restoration program | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/04/11 |
| SB 388 | Allowing fire chief appoint member to serve as designee on property safety enforcement agency | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/11 |
| SB 410 | Extending alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 03/03/11 |
| SB 426 | Requiring judge's permission before release of juror information after trial | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/11 |
| SB 430 | Filing civil petition for expungement of certain criminal records | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/11 |
| SB 307 | Creating Intermediate Court of Appeals | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/11 |
| 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 606 | Providing funding for parkways project along U. S. Route 35 | Rejected | 03/02/11 | ||
| SB 552 | Creating crime of financial exploitation of elderly, protected or incapacitated person | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/02/11 |
| SB 444 | Relating to protection of nonfamily or nonhousehold members from violations of personal safety | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/02/11 |
| SB 467 | Requiring incidence reports when teachers are unlawfully assigned any responsibility during their planning period | Pending | House EDU | Committee | 03/02/11 |
| SB 508 | Allowing certain liquor licensees ability to conduct responsible liquor sampling events | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/01/11 |
| SB 229 | Creating Math and Science Teacher Loan Assistance Program | Pending | House EDU | Committee | 03/01/11 |
| SB 202 | Creating commission to develop pilot program to help at-risk youth | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/01/11 |
| SB 516 | Requiring state board establish digital learning program | Pending | House EDU | Committee | 03/01/11 |
| SB 566 | Relating to other post-employment benefits generally | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/25/11 |
| SB 248 | Relating to coal slurry disposal | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/25/11 |
| SB 272 | Relating to WV Tax Increment Financing Act | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/25/11 |
| 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 372 | Relating to dedication of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/25/11 |
| SB 319 | Establishing tax credit for certain medical providers | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/24/11 |
| SB 283 | Creating Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/24/11 |
| 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 233 | Establishing modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for recent graduates of higher education institutions | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 240 | Allowing Director of Purchasing Division conduct reverse auctions to purchase commodities | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 381 | Allowing use of tuition assistance for National Guard members enrolled in certain programs | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 396 | Relating to mutual-aid agreements between law-enforcement entities | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 564 | Creating Fiscal and Policy Division under Joint Committee on Government and Finance | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 587 | Adding small-scale tourism development and ancillary project components to Tourism Development Act | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 528 | Allowing certain physically disabled service personnel work in another classification with continued compensation | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 523 | Increasing tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 549 | Relating to funding for civil legal services for poor | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/23/11 |
| SB 512 | Relating generally to salaries of certain judges and magistrates | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/22/11 |
| SB 390 | Adding web-enabled mobile devices to crime of invasion of privacy on computer | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/22/11 |
| SB 334 | Creating criminal offense for animal fighting ventures involvement | Pending | House Agriculture | Committee | 02/22/11 |
| SB 520 | Relating to Economic Development Authority's criteria for loans to tourism projects | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/21/11 |
| 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 BNK | Committee | 02/21/11 |
| SB 545 | Relating to residential rental security deposit return | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/18/11 |
| SB 548 | Changing age of consent for refusal of mental health treatment | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/18/11 |
| 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 362 | Increasing excise tax on all tobacco products | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/18/11 |
| SB 462 | Creating Prompt Pay Act of 2011 | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/17/11 |
| SB 542 | Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of fire departments | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/17/11 |
| SB 522 | Requiring parents objecting to immunizations provide written statement in lieu of certificates of proof | Pending | Senate HHR | Committee | 02/16/11 |
| SB 449 | Creating Twenty-First Century Business Technologies Property Valuation Act and Tax Credit Act | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/16/11 |
| 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 359 | Exempting certain charitable organizations from property taxation | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/16/11 |
| SB 411 | Providing higher education employees' eligibility for seat in Legislature | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/16/11 |
| SB 201 | Creating Energy Efficient Building Act | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/15/11 |
| SB 509 | Requiring insurance coverage of spouses and dependents for pregnancy and contraceptive services | Pending | Senate BNK | Committee | 02/14/11 |
| SB 506 | Relating to Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/14/11 |
| SB 491 | Creating WV Future Fund | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/11/11 |
| SB 385 | Increasing special penalties for assault and battery on athletic official | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/11/11 |
| SB 487 | Increasing required amount of noncombustible material in certain coal mines | Pending | Senate Energy, Industry and Mining | Committee | 02/10/11 |
| SB 310 | Making certain employees eligible for unemployment compensation | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/10/11 |
| SB 218 | Requiring insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/09/11 |
| SB 471 | Expanding prescriptive authority of certain nurses | Pending | Senate HHR | Committee | 02/09/11 |
| SB 473 | Relating to fire chief and deputy chief positions | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/09/11 |
| SB 466 | Reducing tax on behavioral health services | Pending | Senate HHR | Committee | 02/08/11 |
| 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 459 | Creating Keep Jobs in WV Act | Pending | Senate Labor | Committee | 02/08/11 |
| SB 425 | Increasing salary of Adjutant General | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/08/11 |
| 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 HHR | Committee | 02/07/11 |
| SB 453 | Providing retention salary increases for Division of Corrections and Division of Juvenile Services | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/07/11 |
| SB 446 | Providing tax credit to retain nursing educators | Pending | Senate EDU | Committee | 02/07/11 |
| SB 249 | Creating WV Manufacturing Competitiveness and Growth Act | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/07/11 |
| 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 412 | Increasing educational requirements for magistrates | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/03/11 |
| SB 261 | Providing for special primary and general elections to fill vacancy in office of Governor | Tabled | 1st Reading | 02/03/11 | |
| SB 397 | Establishing value of antique motor vehicles for personal property taxes | Pending | Senate TRN | Committee | 02/02/11 |
| SB 398 | Establishing shift differential pay scales for certain correctional employees | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/02/11 |
| SB 384 | Providing for financing to complete Route 35 without using toll booths | Pending | Senate TRN | Committee | 02/02/11 |
| SB 379 | Relating to registration of certain out-of-state sex offenders | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/01/11 |
| SB 363 | Relating to retention and destruction of health care records | Pending | Senate HHR | Committee | 02/01/11 |
| SB 369 | Granting volunteer medical licenses to certain practicing physicians | Pending | Senate HHR | Committee | 02/01/11 |
| SB 361 | Requiring insurance companies indicate on billing statements increased cost of fire insurance if no local fire department existed | Pending | Senate BNK | Committee | 01/31/11 |
| 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 341 | Exempting certain participants in nonprofit organization's rehabilitative therapy day trip from purchasing hunting and fishing license | Pending | Senate NRS | Committee | 01/31/11 |
| SB 71 | Making child neglect creating substantial risk of bodily harm misdemeanor | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/31/11 |
| 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 336 | Creating WV Energy Efficient Buildings Program Act | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/28/11 |
| 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 HHR | 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 EDU | Committee | 01/27/11 |
| 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 TRN | Committee | 01/27/11 |
| SB 316 | Creating WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being Act | Pending | Senate HHR | 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 HHR | Committee | 01/27/11 |
| SB 284 | Changing date of canvassing of votes in primary election | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/26/11 |
| 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 273 | Providing one-time supplemental salary increase for certain state employees | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/25/11 |
| SB 246 | Including Salem International University as eligible institution to continue to receive PROMISE scholarship funds | Pending | Senate EDU | Committee | 01/25/11 |
| SB 251 | Relating to alternative principal and teacher certification | Pending | Senate EDU | Committee | 01/25/11 |
| SB 252 | Expanding subsidy for certain enrollees in model health plan for uninsurable individuals | Pending | Senate BNK | Committee | 01/25/11 |
| 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 244 | Defining ownership of coalbed methane when no deed has expressed ownership | Pending | Senate Energy, Industry and Mining | Committee | 01/24/11 |
| SB 236 | Providing for annual evaluation of professional personnel in public schools | Pending | Senate EDU | Committee | 01/21/11 |
| SB 237 | Relating to improvement of schools and school districts | Pending | Senate EDU | Committee | 01/21/11 |
| 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 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 TRN | Committee | 01/19/11 |
| SB 214 | Creating Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/19/11 |
| SB 199 | Establishing certain requirements for pawnbrokers | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/19/11 |
| SB 206 | Creating Office of Child Advocacy | Pending | Senate HHR | 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 TRN | Committee | 01/19/11 |
| 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 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 72 | Defining "president", "speaker" and "presiding officer" | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/11 |