Senate Calendar

SENATE CALENDAR

 

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

11:00 AM

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                                                  SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS

                                               Saturday, April 08, 2017 – 11:00 AM

 

                                              Consideration of executive nominations

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

S. C. R. 54 - Requesting study of allowing teachers to post online schedule of calendar of activities

S. C. R. 55 - Requesting study on ways and methods of generating revenue to complete I-73 and I-74

S. C. R. 56 - Requesting study of creation and role of WV Motorsports Commission

S. C. R. 57 - Requesting study of feasibility of repurposing, renovating or disposing of vacated school buildings

S. C. R. 58 - Requesting study on benefits of using nonemployees to improve state parks or forests

S. C. R. 59 - Requesting study of allowing WV Disaster Recovery Board restore access to private property following natural disaster

 

THIRD READING

 

Eng. Com. Sub. for S. B. 199 - Budget Bill

Eng. Com. Sub. for S. B. 476 - Expiring funds from Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund to General Revenue (original similar to HB2801)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2006 - Increasing the penalties for violating the Whistle-blower Law

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2083 - Increasing the felony criminal penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. H. B. 2119 - Repealing West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange Act

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2219 - Authorizing miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules (original similar to SB84)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2303 - Increasing criminal penalties for littering

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2319 - Relating to candidates or candidate committees for legislative office disclosing contributions - (Com. title amend. pending) (original similar to SB8)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2367 - Establishing a criminal offense of organized retail crime - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2373 - Authorizing school bus drivers trained in administration of epinephrine auto-injectors to administer auto-injectors - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. H. B. 2427 - Requiring agencies listed in the online state phone directory to update certain employee information (original similar to SB267)

Eng. H. B. 2446 - Relating to the requirement that all executive branch agencies maintain a website that contains specific information (original similar to SB269)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2453 - Expanding the list of persons the Commissioner of Agriculture may license to grow or cultivate industrial hemp

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2475 - Authorizing the Tax Commissioner to collect tax, interest and penalties due and owing from payments to vendors and contractors from the Auditor and other state, county, district or municipal officers and agents

Eng. H. B. 2548 - Relating to the use of outside speakers by persons licensed to manufacture, sell, possess for sale, transport or distribute nonintoxicating beer (original similar to HB2888)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2619 - Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Act - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2676 - Transferring the Security office under the Division of Culture and History to the Division of Protective Services

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2683 - Relating to West Virginia Insurance Guaranty Association Act (original similar to SB434)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2726 - Authorizing home incarceration officers to arrest participants for violating the terms and conditions of his or her supervision with or without a court order

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2734 - Authorizing a method for the collection and remittance of property taxes related to dealers’ heavy equipment inventory (original similar to SB603)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2767 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to transmit electronic versions of undeliverable mail to the circuit clerks - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2898 - Authorizing the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to request and obtain criminal background checks of employees of the Legislature

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2939 - Relating to the sale of items in the State Police Academy post exchange to the public (original similar to SB570, SB665)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2949 - Exempting specified Division of Natural Resources’ contracts for some replacement, repair or design for repairs to facilities from review and approval requirements

Eng. H. B. 2963 - Eliminating tax lien waiver requirement for estates of nonresidents (original similar to SB594)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2980 - Relating to civil lawsuit filing fees for multiple defendant civil action - (Com. title amend. pending)

 

SECOND READING

 

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2129 - Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2195 - Relating to requiring comprehensive drug awareness and prevention program in all public schools

Eng. H. B. 2348 - Eliminating any requirement that class hours of students be consecutive

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2402 - Relating to abandoned antique vehicles - (Com. amends. pending) (original similar to HB2445, SB382)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2494 - Providing that statewide school report cards are only to be made available to custodial parents and guardians of students upon request - (Com. title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2503 - Relating to the rulemaking authority for Board of Osteopathic Medicine

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2546 - Allowing replacement costs of employer provided property to be deducted from an employee’s final paycheck if the property is not returned - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2555 - Relating to tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending) (original similar to SB191)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2579 - Increasing the penalties for transporting controlled substances - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to HB2448, HB2602)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2585 - Creating felony crime of conducting financial transactions involving proceeds of criminal activity - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2589 - Permitting students who are homeschooled or attend private schools to enroll and take classes at the county’s vocational school - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2603 - Relating to municipal policemen’s or firemen’s pension and relief funds that are funded at one hundred and twenty-five percent or more

Eng. H. B. 2628 - Relating generally to the powers and duties of the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to HB2423, HB2630)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2631 - Relating to time standards for disposition of complaint proceedings

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2646 - Terminating the Women’s Commission and discontinue its functions - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. H. B. 2691 - Allowing a person who is qualified by training to be a barber and a cosmetologist to elect to practice solely as a barber

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2702 - Relating to excused absences for personal illness from school - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2709 - Authorizing the City of South Charleston to levy a special district excise tax (original similar to SB565)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2771 - Relating to temporary teaching certificates for Armed Forces spouses - (Com. amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2792 - Requiring the Library Commission to survey the libraries of the state

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2797 - Codifying statutory immunity for government agencies and officials from actions of third-parties using documents or records

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2805 - Finding and declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state - (Com. amends. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2815 - Relating to higher education governance - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)

Eng. H. B. 2833 - Specifying the contents and categories of information for inclusion in annual reports

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2839 - Updating the procedures for legislative review of departments and licensing boards

Eng. H. B. 2869 - Providing for paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2897 - Raising the amount required for competitive bidding of construction contracts by the state and its subdivisions - (Com. amends. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2941 - Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to utilize the Attorney General for all legal assistance and services

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2961 - Relating generally to charitable bingo games and charitable raffles - (Com. title amend. pending) (original similar to SB625)

Eng. H. B. 2962 - Enlarging the authority of the Tax Commissioner to perform background investigations of employees and contractors - (Com. amend. pending) (original similar to SB598)

Eng. H. B. 2967 - Relating generally to administration of estates and trusts - (Com. amends. pending)

Eng. H. B. 3022 - Relating to the reporting of fraud, misappropriation of moneys, and other violations of law to the commission on special investigations

Eng. H. B. 3037 - Removing the Division of Energy as an independent agency - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 3048 - Relating to collection of Tier II fees for chemical inventories - (Com. title amend. pending) (original similar to SB629)

Eng. H. B. 3053 - Relating to motor vehicle lighting

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 3080 - Requiring instruction in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution - (Com. amend. pending)

 

FIRST READING

 

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2552 - Increasing the pet food registration fee and directing that the additional money be deposited into the West Virginia Spay Neuter Assistance Fund - (Com. amends. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2601 - Relating to municipal policemen’s or municipal firemen’s pension and relief funds - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to SB393)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2720 - Allowing the School Building Authority to transfer funds allocated into the School Construction Fund - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2724 - Relating to creating a pilot program under the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2759 - Creating Statewide Interoperable Radio Network - (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2801 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated balance in the State Fund from the Department of Revenue, Office of the Secretary – Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2850 - Relating to product liability actions

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2857 - West Virginia Safer Workplaces Act

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 2916 - Authorizing certain first responders to carry firearms - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. H. B. 3018 - Adding definition of correctional employee to the list of persons against whom an assault is a felony - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 3030 - Relating to appeals as a matter of right in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals - (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)

Eng. Com. Sub. for H. B. 3064 - Allowing vehicles of a size and weight exceeding certain specifications to operate over specified routes