Bill Status - 2008 Regular Session
Committee Activity
170 Bills Pending in Committee — House Finance
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 165 | Relating to school employees' donated personal leave days | 02/28/08 |
| SB 301 | Relating to State Police Retirement Fund | 02/20/08 |
| SB 465 | Eliminating Business Franchise Tax | 02/26/08 |
| SB 520 | Authorizing municipalities' assessment and collection of delinquent service fees | 02/28/08 |
| SB 534 | Creating Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Firefighter Protection Act | 02/29/08 |
| SB 559 | Increasing certain Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund allocations | 02/28/08 |
| SB 666 | Permitting fraternal organizations certain use of charitable raffle proceeds | 02/28/08 |
| SB 667 | Relating to policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds | 02/27/08 |
| SB 686 | Relating to Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council | 02/27/08 |
| SB 693 | Creating senior resident lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license | 02/28/08 |
| SB 769 | Appropriating certain moneys to Bureau for Medical Services | 02/27/08 |
| SB 770 | Reducing certain landfill solid waste assessment fees | 02/28/08 |
| SB 779 | Prohibiting hotel occupancy proceeds paid to certain convention and visitors' bureaus | 02/29/08 |
| SB 782 | Creating Special Manufacturing Inventory Property Valuation Act | 02/27/08 |
| SB 783 | Modifying County Economic Opportunity Development Act | 02/28/08 |
| SB 786 | Authorizing Department of Administration's Real Estate Division to acquire real property | 02/28/08 |
| HB 2006 | Income tax deduction for gifts to West Virginia charities | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2032 | Relating to a tax exemption on certain sales of clothing | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2057 | Reducing the corporation net income tax | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2067 | Exempting from personal property taxation, the equipment, inventory and raw materials of crafts people who have had their work evaluated and accepted or juried and accepted by the West Virginia arts and crafts guild | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2073 | Making available to retired participants in PEIA the optional dental, vision, and audiology and hearing-aid services insurance plans that are available to current participants | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2091 | Exempting nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2101 | Reducing the federal adjusted gross income for motor fuel expenses incurred in commuting to and from one's occupation | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2103 | Directing one half of any budget surplus in a fiscal year equally to every West Virginia family or individual within two hundred percent of the poverty level | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2107 | Promoting contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state parks | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2109 | Crediting a deceased teacher's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and other dependents | 02/07/08 |
| HB 2158 | Providing a base starting pay and retention salary increases for Division of Protective Services law-enforcement officers, excluding the Director and Deputy Director | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2161 | Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene materials | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2169 | Creating sales and use tax exemptions for purchases of design and engineering services and materials and equipment directly used in construction of new or replacement amusement rides | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2177 | Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2191 | Exempting certain start-up businesses founded by West Virginia college or university graduates from various state, county and municipal taxes | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2198 | Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2207 | Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2238 | Providing service credits for service in the West Virginia national guard and reserve for public employees retirement system and civil service examinations | 02/15/08 |
| HB 2239 | Requiring the Attorney General to comply with certain requirements when entering into contracts for legal services | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2240 | Providing that the reduction in the tax rate provided in this section applies to mines operating before the effective date of the applicable provision | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2246 | Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2278 | Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2367 | Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five tires | 01/14/08 |
| HB 2382 | Exempting funeral-related retail sales from the consumers sales tax | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2431 | Providing an exemption from estate taxes and the Consumers Sales and Service Tax for certain expenses of any infant who dies before reaching one year of age | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2452 | Providing an exemption from gross income for certain members of volunteer fire departments, for state personal income tax purposes | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2500 | Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities | 01/24/08 |
| HB 2539 | Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2561 | Eliminating the severance tax and the health care provider tax on behavior health providers | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2584 | Dedicating a portion of the receipts from the tax on food products to be distributed equally to each district of the Division of Highways | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2704 | Providing State Treasury Fire Protection Fund revenue to the West Virginia State Fire Chiefs Association and the West Virginia State Fireman's Association | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2753 | Providing a five percent personal income tax reduction | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2782 | Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2810 | Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2812 | Tax credit for employees who provide child day care services for their employees | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2828 | Providing a housing supplement for members of the State Police | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2855 | Exempting sales of propane gas for any church, religious sect, society or denomination consumption from the imposition of the excise tax on gasoline or special fuel | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2879 | Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2890 | Excluding federal interest income when applying the income exclusion available to those sixty-five years of age or older and to persons permanently and totally disabled | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2927 | Exempting certain income received by retired federal employees from the personal income tax | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2942 | Relating to the reduction of state income taxes for certain state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2946 | Removing the five year coalbed methane severance tax exemption | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2975 | Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2976 | Reinstating the sales tax exemption for comprehensive mental health care centers | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2984 | Providing a cost-of-living adjustment for comprehensive community mental health care providers | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2995 | Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3027 | Allowing the federal adjusted gross income deduction for the amount spent for medical expenses | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3030 | Relating to the imposition of a tax on corporations for the transfer of corporate real estate or equipment | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3033 | Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions | 02/14/08 |
| HB 3043 | Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3045 | Creating a new pay grade classification of "bus operator II" | 01/23/08 |
| HB 3049 | Authorizing Class III and IV municipalities to participate on a limited basis in the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3050 | Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income to determine West Virginia adjusted gross income for purposes of personal income tax | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3067 | Providing salary increases for deputies with college degrees | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3104 | Relating to a severance tax imposed on surface mining activities | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3123 | Eliminating the food tax, increasing the tax on nonintoxicating beer, increasing the cigarette tax, increasing the noncigarette tobacco products tax..etc... | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3147 | Allowing the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to use a certain portion of the civil penalties collected for watershed improvement projects | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3165 | Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3167 | Allowing teachers employed by a statewide service personnel association to count this service towards retirement credit | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3172 | Changing the qualifier for low income for a senior citizens' homestead tax credit | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3176 | Relating to the business and occupation tax on manufacturing synthetic fuel | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3198 | Enacting the West Virginia Windfall Profit Tax Act | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3199 | Providing a one hundred dollar tax credit to certain businesses that are required to reprogram its cash registers because of a change in the food tax | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3209 | Providing benefits for those who have served in the military service | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3210 | Protecting consumers of failed water or sewer utilities by authorizing the Public Service Commission to order a capable water or sewer public utility to acquire the failed utility | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3216 | Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3227 | Providing the option for certain former state employees who were members of the Public Employees Retirement System to transfer to the State Teachers' Retirement System | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3231 | Increasing the assessment of value of managed timberland while providing for a tax of ten percent on the sale or transfer of managed timberland | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3237 | Including certain credit unions and their employees in the definitions of "employer" and "employee" for purposes of the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3238 | Relating to prohibiting legislators from enrolling in the state retirement system | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3253 | Reverting the 911 fee on wireless telephones from three dollars to seventy-five cents | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3259 | Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors | 01/09/08 |
| HB 4004 | Providing funds for the maintenance, repair and preservation of statues on the State Capitol grounds from lottery proceeds | 02/08/08 |
| HB 4005 | Extending the alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit for ten years and making the credit retroactive from the expiration date of the initial credit | 01/09/08 |
| HB 4012 | Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents | 01/09/08 |
| HB 4013 | Requiring the Director of the Division of Veterans' Affairs to establish a healthcare database | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4015 | Authorizing a tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas | 01/10/08 |
| HB 4034 | Allow public employees to acquire a lump sum payment for unused annual leave days in excess of those that can be carried over from year-to-year | 01/11/08 |
| HB 4035 | Exempting social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax for taxpayers whose federal adjusted gross income is less than fifty thousand dollars | 01/11/08 |
| HB 4043 | Making technical and other changes to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System | 02/07/08 |
| HB 4048 | Providing that all employees have the right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file | 02/13/08 |
| HB 4061 | Senior Citizen Property Tax Payment Deferment Act | 01/17/08 |
| HB 4065 | Relating to funeral and cremation expenses for indigent persons | 01/17/08 |
| HB 4087 | Creating the West Virginia Military Family Relief Fund | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4091 | Relating to insurance coverage for autism | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4096 | Creating a "Sudan Divestment Procedure" | 01/21/08 |
| HB 4109 | Exempting social security benefits from West Virginia personal income | 01/21/08 |
| HB 4116 | Providing low-income workers with a refundable state tax credit based on the federal Earned Income Tax Credits | 01/21/08 |
| HB 4122 | Reducing state income tax for state and federal retirees by increasing exemption on retirement income | 01/22/08 |
| HB 4128 | Critical Needs Firefighters Tax Credits | 01/22/08 |
| HB 4130 | Establishing the West Virginia Research Trust Fund | 02/20/08 |
| HB 4131 | Authorizing the School Building Authority to issue certain revenue bonds from proceeds of the State Excess Lottery Fund | 02/20/08 |
| HB 4149 | Levying a minimum corporation income tax | 01/23/08 |
| HB 4163 | Clarifying that if a county board of education moved the library funding obligation of a "special act library" from the regular tax levy to the excess levy, the library funding obligation under the special act would cease | 02/15/08 |
| HB 4288 | Pertaining to the matching program of the deferred compensation plan for state employees | 01/25/08 |
| HB 4289 | Eliminating penalties associated with the underpayment of taxes owed from a person who is a resident individual, provided a personal income tax is timely filed | 01/25/08 |
| HB 4305 | Providing an annual exemption from the consumers sales and service tax for purchases of certain energy efficient products | 01/28/08 |
| HB 4313 | Waving tuition and fees for members of the WV State Police | 02/22/08 |
| HB 4323 | Exempting the sale of the services of shredding and recycling of paper and paper products from the consumer sales tax | 01/29/08 |
| HB 4345 | Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4347 | Compensating state troopers for call-back time | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4361 | Prohibiting magistrates from imposing multiple court cost fees for the same matter | 02/22/08 |
| HB 4376 | Providing an exemption from gross income for members of volunteer fire departments for state personal income tax purposes | 02/01/08 |
| HB 4387 | Relating to the teachers retirement system and providing that certain beneficiaries receive an annuity when an eligible spouse has not redeemed the accumulated contributions | 02/04/08 |
| HB 4395 | Abolishing the business and franchise tax | 02/04/08 |
| HB 4400 | Relating to tax administration efficiency and technical advancements | 02/04/08 |
| HB 4410 | Providing a one-time supplement to retirement benefits for certain annuitants and survivor beneficiaries | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4419 | Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil | 02/05/08 |
| HB 4428 | Eliminating the sales tax on food effective the first day of July, two thousand eight | 02/05/08 |
| HB 4431 | Increasing the compensation of the membership of the West Virginia State Police | 02/05/08 |
| HB 4435 | Exempting vehicles in a funeral procession from paying tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike | 02/11/08 |
| HB 4440 | Clarifying the regulation and treatment under the law of the production, marketing and delivery of natural gas and oil | 02/06/08 |
| HB 4444 | Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand eight | 02/06/08 |
| HB 4461 | Providing health insurance under PEIA for surviving dependents of State Police Officers killed in the line of duty | 02/07/08 |
| HB 4462 | Increasing the amount of benefits for surviving dependents of State Police officers killed in the line of duty | 02/07/08 |
| HB 4493 | Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax | 02/11/08 |
| HB 4508 | Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits | 02/12/08 |
| HB 4516 | Allowing certain state employees to be paid for unused sick leave days once per year | 02/13/08 |
| HB 4532 | Authorizing the county sheriff to charge a fee for conducting drug screens for the Department of Health and Human Resources | 02/20/08 |
| HB 4542 | Prohibiting the placement of automated teller machines (ATM) in establishments that contain video lottery terminals | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4551 | Relating to the Streamlined Sales and Service Tax and Use Tax and the West Virginia Consumer Sales and Service Tax and Use Tax | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4566 | Providing a tax credit for scholarship donations | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4578 | Authorizing a salary increase for civil service employees at state hospitals that did not receive a salary increase in 2007 | 02/15/08 |
| HB 4587 | Making changes to the combined tax reporting requirements for the West Virginia corporate net income tax and business franchise tax and reducing the Corporation Net Income Tax rate | 02/15/08 |
| HB 4598 | Requiring annual adjustments of certain provider payments | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4603 | Making a supplementary appropriation to the state Bureau of Senior Services | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4604 | Requiring the Legislature to appropriate funds to the Small Claims Compensation Fund every six months | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4606 | Giving credit for energy savings when a solar heating water system is installed on a residential property | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4620 | Specifying that infrastructure projects providing broadband services facilities be included in infrastructure projects eligible for funding from the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4622 | Exempting from taxation certain property owned by a nonprofit organization | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4625 | Eliminating the six month waiting period for those in the Teachers Retirement System to receive disability retirement benefits | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4634 | Creating a funding mechanism for Child Advocacy Centers from the Crime Victim's Compensation Fund | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4639 | OxyContin Asset Forfeiture Fund | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4646 | Including a tax checkoff option for Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4655 | Relating to assessed property valuations | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4656 | Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4657 | Establishing a business franchise tax credit to certain home builders | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4658 | Specifying certain terms of participation in the Public Employees Insurance Agency | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4667 | Exempting the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4668 | Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4680 | Allowing for expanded temporary employment of retired state employees in areas of critical need | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4688 | Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4691 | Establishing the Flexible Leave Act | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4697 | Fairness in Public Construction Contract Act | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4698 | Providing a tax credit for Ad Valorem tax paid on Manufacturing Inventory | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4700 | Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4702 | Providing regulation, penalties, and administration for natural gas and methane gas wells | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4703 | Raising the state salary level to at least one hundred twenty-five percent above the Federal Poverty Guidelines | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4704 | Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Veterans' Affairs | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4705 | Relating to the distribution of the State Treasurer's "Road Fund" | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4707 | Bringing the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act up to current regulations | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4709 | Relating to allocation of costs for housing inmates who are transferred | 02/24/08 |
| HB 4710 | Providing that counties may petition for additional temporary magistrates to serve during off-hours | 02/24/08 |
| HB 4711 | Establishing a multi-disciplinary commission to study, make findings and recommendations regarding incarceration population and costs | 02/24/08 |