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Abortion (12 Bills)
SB 33 - Relating to parental notification for unemancipated minor obtaining abortion
SB 38 - Allowing pharmacists to refuse dispensing certain abortion-related prescriptions
SB 39 - Prohibiting certain state medical facilities from performing abortions
SB 50 - Requiring women seeking abortion opportunity to view fetus ultrasound image
SB 54 - Requiring abortion-related statistics' collection
SB 76 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
SB 135 - Providing certain fetuses anesthesia
SB 138 - Prohibiting gender-based abortions
SB 140 - Prohibiting subsidies to entities performing abortions
SB 688 - Prohibiting interstate transport of minor for abortion without parental consent
SB 703 - Relating to certain abortion reporting requirements
SB 717 - Requiring parental notification for unemancipated minor obtaining abortion

Actions and Suits (1 Bills)
SB 276 - Imposing statute of limitations on certain real property civil actions

Acts (47 Bills)
SB 27 - Creating Physicians' Lien Act
SB 34 - Creating Volunteer Firefighter Length of Service Act
SB 82 - Creating State Police Higher Education Security Act
SB 87 - Creating Asbestos Claims Transparency Act
SB 142 - Relating to Tourism Development Act
SB 241 - Creating WV Public Campaign Financing Act
SB 242 - Relating to DUI offenses
SB 280 - Creating Correctional Industries Act of 2009
SB 289 - Creating WV Innovation and Development Act
SB 297 - Creating Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
SB 301 - Creating Green Buildings Act
SB 307 - Creating Maternal Screening Act
SB 311 - Creating 2012 Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program
SB 325 - Creating WV Energy Efficient Buildings Program Act
SB 376 - Creating School Innovation Zones Act
SB 410 - Updating terms in Corporation Net Income Tax Act
SB 455 - Creating Protect Children from Dangerous Lighters Act
SB 456 - Creating Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act
SB 478 - Creating Surface Owners Protection Act
SB 483 - Creating Caregivers Consent Act
SB 515 - Creating Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act
SB 516 - Creating Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act
SB 531 - Relating to Professional Surveyors Act
SB 532 - Creating WV SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act
SB 551 - Creating Athletic Trainers Registration Act
SB 553 - Creating Good Coal Company Neighbor Act
SB 558 - Creating Asbestos Claims Transparency Act
SB 571 - Creating Punitive Damages Standards Act
SB 576 - Creating Religious Viewpoints Anti-Discrimination Act
SB 585 - Limiting amount of free residential solid waste disposal
SB 586 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Act
SB 607 - Creating Commuter Rail Access Act
SB 610 - Relating to Film Industry Investment Act
SB 620 - Revising Municipal Economic Opportunity Development District Act
SB 633 - Creating Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
SB 639 - Relating to Public Records Management and Preservation Act
SB 643 - Creating WV Cemetery Act
SB 671 - Relating to WV Guardianship and Conservatorship Act
SB 712 - Creating Refund Anticipation Loan Act
SB 716 - Creating Diesel-Powered Motor Vehicles Idling Act
SB 726 - Creating WV Service Members Civil Relief Act
SB 727 - Creating WV Manufacturing Competiveness and Growth Act
SB 728 - Creating WV Commercial Patent Incentives Tax Act
SB 733 - Creating WV Official Prescription Program Act
SB 737 - Creating Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
SB 755 - Creating WV Twenty-First Century Tax Credit Act
SB 758 - Creating WV Public Charter Schools Act of 2009

Advertising (2 Bills)
SB 472 - Revising certain outdoor advertising restrictions
SB 473 - Clarifying civil service job posting provisions

Agriculture (1 Bills)
SB 310 - Relating to farm supply vehicles

Alcohol (11 Bills)
SB 26 - Increasing tax on alcohol purchases outside corporate municipal limits
SB 35 - Requiring employees selling alcohol take alcohol awareness course
SB 75 - Establishing alcohol use by minors as juvenile delinquent offense
SB 98 - Authorizing certain Alcohol Beverage Control employees to have arrest powers and carry concealed weapons
SB 113 - Rescinding student financial assistance due to certain alcohol or drug violations
SB 242 - Relating to DUI offenses
SB 282 - Relating to retail liquor licenses' classification
SB 317 - Adding DUI penalties
SB 535 - Authorizing municipalities and county commissions set closing time for certain bars
SB 555 - Allowing certain warehouse owners store certain alcohol
SB 597 - Establishing salary schedule for certain Alcohol Beverage Control Commission employees

Animals (12 Bills)
SB 6 - Regulating feral cat care and management
SB 83 - Providing certain animal cruelty protections
SB 292 - Creating tax credit for spaying or neutering pets
SB 346 - Correcting code reference related to bear tagging
SB 399 - Creating senior resident hunting, fishing and trapping license
SB 447 - Relating to commercial dog breeding operations
SB 448 - Creating special hunting and fishing license for severely disabled and terminally ill youth
SB 463 - Permitting Sunday hunting on licensed shooting preserves
SB 467 - Creating senior resident hunting, fishing and trapping license
SB 501 - Prohibiting animal gas chamber euthanasia
SB 745 - Establishing commercial feed distributor permit fee to fund spay/neuter program
SB 763 - Clarifying Racing Commission's authority over certain thoroughbred race horses' registration

Appropriations (2 Bills)
SB 150 - Budget bill
SB 546 - Making supplemental appropriation to Department of Education and the Arts

Appropriations-Supplemental (4 Bills)
SB 403 - Making supplemental appropriation from State Road Fund to Department of Transportation
SB 771 - Making supplemental appropriation of federal funds to various accounts
SB 772 - Making supplemental appropriation to various accounts
SB 773 - Making supplemental appropriation to Department of Agriculture, Land Protection Authority

Athletics (4 Bills)
SB 57 - Relating to certain school coaches' requirements
SB 383 - Relating to retired coaches
SB 551 - Creating Athletic Trainers Registration Act
SB 683 - Authorizing mixed martial arts competitions

Attorney General (2 Bills)
SB 37 - Authorizing Attorney General to investigate and charge certain fuel price gouging
SB 96 - Authorizing Attorney General to investigate and charge certain fuel price gouging

Attorneys (3 Bills)
SB 377 - Requiring court-appointed attorneys disclose certain fees
SB 577 - Relating to Prosecuting Attorneys Institute
SB 747 - Relating to medical power of attorney

Audits/Auditing (3 Bills)
SB 442 - Requiring State Auditor perform delinquent land sales paper processing responsibilities
SB 541 - Requiring annual legislative audit of Parkways Authority
SB 660 - Requiring annual Parkways Authority audit

Banks and Banking (14 Bills)
SB 2 - Requiring continuing education of regulated consumer lenders
SB 3 - Authorizing Commissioner of Banking to enter into contracts for loan review services
SB 43 - Requiring certain lenders register with Commissioner of Banking
SB 105 - Relating to mortgage loan procedures generally
SB 106 - Providing Division of Banking notification of state banks' and holding companies' applications for out-of-state bank acquisitions
SB 258 - Clarifying local fiscal bodies cannot be held liable for certain deficits
SB 328 - Creating WV Transportation Finance Commission
SB 424 - Converting financial institution to state-chartered bank
SB 425 - Disclosing certain refinanced loan's higher annual percentage rate
SB 476 - Relating to "financial institution" definition
SB 489 - Allowing Board of Banking and Financial Institutions receive travel expense compensation
SB 503 - Defining "sound financial condition"
SB 532 - Creating WV SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act
SB 658 - Authorizing Auditor and Treasurer contract emergency banking services

Boards and Commissions (54 Bills)
SB 42 - Requiring each magisterial district have equal number of members on county planning commissions
SB 48 - Allowing county commissions to regulate and restrict locations of video lottery establishments
SB 144 - Increasing Employee Suggestion Award Board's cash award limit
SB 257 - Creating nonvoting student member position on county boards of education
SB 261 - Mandating party executive committees submit certain nominees 70 days before election
SB 296 - Requiring State Board of Education create school drug safety program
SB 306 - Increasing pipeline companies' special license fees to Public Service Commission
SB 314 - Authorizing county commissions designate early voting locations
SB 320 - Relating to Insurance Commissioner's surveillance of insurers' financial condition
SB 335 - Authorizing Division of Culture and History distribute fairs and festivals' funding
SB 343 - Relating to Management of Pain Act
SB 344 - Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners sign readmission orders
SB 370 - Relating to community corrections program fees
SB 381 - Prohibiting certain family members from serving simultaneously on county boards of education
SB 402 - Creating WV Convention and Visitors Bureau Accreditation Board
SB 404 - Creating sesquicentennial commission and fund
SB 422 - Creating Higher Education Community School Law
SB 427 - Clarifying Board of Medicine as autonomous board
SB 444 - Authorizing certain Insurance Commissioner's employees access to Board of Pharmacy information
SB 459 - Requiring Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety perform risk assessment of current safety standards
SB 489 - Allowing Board of Banking and Financial Institutions receive travel expense compensation
SB 490 - Authorizing Mercer County Commission appoint emergency operations center board
SB 494 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner order restitution in certain cases
SB 495 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner permit certain groups life insurance policies
SB 504 - Requiring State Fire Commission promulgate certain building code rules
SB 527 - Relating to Ethics Commission's enforcement powers
SB 535 - Authorizing municipalities and county commissions set closing time for certain bars
SB 540 - Clarifying certain Tax Commissioner's authorities
SB 548 - Consolidating Records Management and Preservation Advisory Committee with Records Management and Preservation Board
SB 552 - Relating to affordable health insurance plan proposals
SB 557 - Relating to county school boards' members qualifications
SB 559 - Creating Governor's Commission on Reorganization of Tamarack
SB 570 - Requiring Board of Optometry promulgate rules limiting practice
SB 572 - Repealing section creating Public Employee Leave Benefit Analysis Board
SB 573 - Continuing Pharmaceutical Cost Management Council as advisory council
SB 577 - Relating to Prosecuting Attorneys Institute
SB 587 - Repealing section creating State Personnel Advisory Council
SB 588 - Repealing section creating Public Insurance Agency Advisory Board
SB 596 - Requiring Public Service Commission update railroad walkways safety regulations
SB 611 - Relating to higher education institutional board of governors
SB 635 - Relating to Process for Improving Education Council
SB 649 - Increasing Capitol Building Commission membership
SB 655 - Authorizing Public Service Commission to require removal of certain television cables
SB 663 - Authorizing Commissioner of Highways operate Market Street Bridge in Brooke County as toll bridge
SB 672 - Creating Mental Health Stabilization Act of 2009
SB 683 - Authorizing mixed martial arts competitions
SB 687 - Relating to Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission
SB 720 - Providing State Teachers Retirement System credit for county board of education service
SB 725 - Providing county commissions standard of review for probate matters
SB 734 - Allowing county commissions impose fire service fee
SB 739 - Relating to county school board members' qualifications, training and duties
SB 743 - Relating to Higher Education Policy Commission
SB 757 - Requiring Higher Education Policy Commission, Council for Community and Technical College Education and State Board of Education enter into state data-sharing compact
SB 763 - Clarifying Racing Commission's authority over certain thoroughbred race horses' registration

Bonds (3 Bills)
SB 243 - Relating to issuing general obligation bonds
SB 251 - Authorizing issuance of revenue bonds for public projects
SB 645 - Relating to municipalities and counties issuing bonds

Buildings (3 Bills)
SB 325 - Creating WV Energy Efficient Buildings Program Act
SB 371 - Creating Energy Efficient Building Act
SB 504 - Requiring State Fire Commission promulgate certain building code rules

Capitol Complex (4 Bills)
SB 17 - Increasing certain Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund allocations
SB 46 - Placing Science and Cultural Center under General Services Division's authority
SB 147 - Deleting provision banning weapons on State Capitol property
SB 649 - Increasing Capitol Building Commission membership

Charitable Organizations (1 Bills)
SB 22 - Relating to Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Checkoff Program

Child Welfare (22 Bills)
SB 36 - Providing criminal penalty for parental controlled substance activity with child present
SB 115 - Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicle when child under 14 is present
SB 318 - Expanding Division of Protective Services' law-enforcement authority over state property under certain circumstances
SB 395 - Relating to child visitation
SB 405 - Relating to grandparents' visitation
SB 421 - Prohibiting child custody and support order modification due to military service
SB 438 - Relating to shared parenting
SB 455 - Creating Protect Children from Dangerous Lighters Act
SB 485 - Requiring certain students undergo dental examination
SB 488 - Requiring parental consent for minor using tanning facility
SB 498 - Relating to early childhood education
SB 581 - Permitting certain minor blood donations with parental consent
SB 595 - Relating to assignment of child support obligations
SB 604 - Raising mental health refusal age of consent
SB 612 - Relating to willful nonpayment of child support
SB 653 - Relating to great-grandparents' visitation rights
SB 670 - Relating to court-ordered payment of certain children's medical or socially necessary services
SB 688 - Prohibiting interstate transport of minor for abortion without parental consent
SB 697 - Relating to mandatory immunization exemptions
SB 717 - Requiring parental notification for unemancipated minor obtaining abortion
SB 744 - Relating to child custody plans for National Guard or military reserve parents
SB 746 - Prohibiting child custody plan modification due to military service

Citizenship (2 Bills)
SB 497 - Relating to WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being
SB 666 - Relating to community enhancement districts

Civil Rights (2 Bills)
SB 134 - Relating to unlawful discriminatory practices generally
SB 238 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation

Code Repealed (2 Bills)
SB 240 - Repealing article banning nuclear power plants' construction
SB 267 - Repealing article allowing drug paraphernalia business license

Commerce (2 Bills)
SB 690 - Relating to reciprocity for certain small, women- and minority-owned businesses
SB 727 - Creating WV Manufacturing Competiveness and Growth Act

Communications (2 Bills)
SB 263 - Disclosing certain inmates' personal communications
SB 691 - Relating to telecommunications regulation

Consumer Protection (5 Bills)
SB 37 - Authorizing Attorney General to investigate and charge certain fuel price gouging
SB 96 - Authorizing Attorney General to investigate and charge certain fuel price gouging
SB 264 - Prohibiting sale of goods or services with counterfeit mark
SB 290 - Requiring tobacco products sold in factory-wrapped packaging only
SB 709 - Relating to preventing predatory lending practices

Contracts (4 Bills)
SB 275 - Relating to certain qualifications for procuring surveying services
SB 382 - Adjusting State Rail Authority's contract authority
SB 562 - Relating to certain land sale contracts
SB 767 - Relating to certain Medicaid program contracts

Corporations and Business Entities (1 Bills)
SB 677 - Requiring certain corporations provide members' and managers' names upon request

Corrections (11 Bills)
SB 10 - Providing certain corrections officers full retirement benefits
SB 81 - Increasing certain Division of Corrections' employees salaries and increment pay
SB 108 - Requiring defendants pay certain incarceration costs
SB 250 - Authorizing Regional Jail Authority assess charges for inmate medical services
SB 255 - Allowing Commissioner of Corrections deposit certain interest or other moneys into inmate benefit fund
SB 263 - Disclosing certain inmates' personal communications
SB 280 - Creating Correctional Industries Act of 2009
SB 370 - Relating to community corrections program fees
SB 460 - Including telecommunications devices as jail contraband
SB 521 - Including telecommunications devices as jail contraband
SB 770 - Relating to Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Fund excess funds

Counties (And Related Subheadings) (10 Bills)
SB 132 - Dedicating certain severance tax portion to counties and municipalities
SB 239 - Allowing majority vote for certain metro government approval
SB 256 - Providing additional requirements for certain property annexation
SB 262 - Removing prohibition against using county's General Revenue Fund for historic preservation
SB 300 - Authorizing counties and municipalities enter into energy-savings contracts
SB 471 - Requiring county clerks file certain biannual reports
SB 528 - Relating to certain fees collected by county clerks
SB 645 - Relating to municipalities and counties issuing bonds
SB 648 - Requiring manual vote counting in certain counties
SB 764 - Providing race election results certification procedure

Counties -- Commissions (3 Bills)
SB 48 - Allowing county commissions to regulate and restrict locations of video lottery establishments
SB 251 - Authorizing issuance of revenue bonds for public projects
SB 656 - Authorizing Mercer County Commission to appoint emergency operations center board

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (21 Bills)
SB 32 - Granting municipal courts jurisdiction over juveniles violating tobacco use laws
SB 99 - Sentencing discretion for certain youthful offenders
SB 103 - Relating to jury selection
SB 104 - Clarifying basis for prospective juror disqualification
SB 108 - Requiring defendants pay certain incarceration costs
SB 259 - Clarifying certain terminology within Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority
SB 260 - Creating public defender corporations in certain judicial circuits
SB 276 - Imposing statute of limitations on certain real property civil actions
SB 377 - Requiring court-appointed attorneys disclose certain fees
SB 387 - Relating to mental hygiene guardians and conservators
SB 405 - Relating to grandparents' visitation
SB 416 - Increasing family court judges' salaries
SB 423 - Relating to circuit clerks' service of protective orders
SB 654 - Prohibiting certain judges from conducting alternative sentencing programs
SB 661 - Clarifying deliberate intention litigation
SB 670 - Relating to court-ordered payment of certain children's medical or socially necessary services
SB 699 - Relating to properly apportioning percentage of fault in certain cases
SB 711 - Prohibiting convicted felons from certain courthouse or county jobs
SB 713 - Providing statutory procedure for certain offer of judgment
SB 714 - Relating to alternative sentencing programs
SB 725 - Providing county commissions standard of review for probate matters

Courts -- Circuit (4 Bills)
SB 103 - Relating to jury selection
SB 104 - Clarifying basis for prospective juror disqualification
SB 260 - Creating public defender corporations in certain judicial circuits
SB 338 - Creating additional seventeenth judicial circuit court judge

Courts -- Magistrate (7 Bills)
SB 44 - Adding magistrate deputy clerk for Braxton County
SB 400 - Relating to driving with revoked or suspended license
SB 407 - Authorizing magistrate courts collect judgment abstract fee
SB 565 - Creating part-time magistrate court deputy clerk positions
SB 567 - Electing magistrates by divisions
SB 591 - Electing magistrates by divisions
SB 609 - Relating to magistrate education and workload requirements

Courts -- Supreme Court (6 Bills)
SB 136 - Relating to nonpartisan election of Supreme Court justices
SB 311 - Creating 2012 Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program
SB 341 - Transferring juvenile justice database administration to Supreme Court
SB 392 - Registering protective orders with Supreme Court
SB 393 - Authorizing Supreme Court administrator hire certain probation officers
SB 760 - Authorizing Supreme Court to develop pilot pretrial release programs

Creditors and Debtors (2 Bills)
SB 141 - Requiring advance notice of negative credit reports
SB 735 - Providing for decedent's nonexoneration of certain secured debt

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (37 Bills)
SB 20 - Providing temporary detention of certain criminal suspects
SB 49 - Relating to abandoned vehicles generally
SB 83 - Providing certain animal cruelty protections
SB 118 - Preserving criminal case biological evidence
SB 119 - Setting imprisonment term for malicious assault on certain officers
SB 143 - Increasing certain criminal trespassing penalties
SB 149 - Creating misdemeanor offense of interference with treatment of injured railroad employee
SB 235 - Preserving biological evidence secured in certain criminal cases
SB 242 - Relating to DUI offenses
SB 253 - Relating to certain sexual offenses by or against inmates
SB 254 - Providing reduction in certain inmate sentences for completing education and rehabilitation programs
SB 263 - Disclosing certain inmates' personal communications
SB 272 - Disclosing certain convicted juveniles' identities
SB 278 - Creating felony offense of willful failure to provide certain drug benefits
SB 281 - Creating Juvenile Services Reimbursement Offender Fund
SB 293 - Creating felony offense of unauthorized practice of certain health care professions
SB 294 - Defining criminal offense of incapacitated person's abuse or neglect
SB 302 - Expanding municipal parking authority officers' ticketing powers
SB 318 - Expanding Division of Protective Services' law-enforcement authority over state property under certain circumstances
SB 336 - Changing failure to wear seatbelt to primary offense
SB 340 - Granting juvenile probation officers certain arrest powers
SB 395 - Relating to child visitation
SB 400 - Relating to driving with revoked or suspended license
SB 451 - Relating to crime victims' compensation awards
SB 457 - Relating to DNA data collection
SB 554 - Requiring sex offender registry fee
SB 612 - Relating to willful nonpayment of child support
SB 629 - Increasing penalties for crimes against government and health care workers
SB 630 - Creating felony offense of unlawful entry on public utility sites
SB 637 - Prohibiting texting while driving
SB 650 - Increasing penalties for certain accessory after the fact crimes
SB 667 - Prohibiting certain panhandling and solicitation
SB 681 - Relating to crimes against certain protected persons
SB 682 - Relating to manufacture or possession of burglary tools
SB 714 - Relating to alternative sentencing programs
SB 740 - Relating to obscene, harassing and threatening communications via the internet
SB 761 - Relating to illegal entries upon certain property

Crimes -- Alcohol and Drugs (6 Bills)
SB 16 - Establishing penalties for manufacturing, selling or dispensing certain controlled substances causing death
SB 36 - Providing criminal penalty for parental controlled substance activity with child present
SB 75 - Establishing alcohol use by minors as juvenile delinquent offense
SB 242 - Relating to DUI offenses
SB 317 - Adding DUI penalties
SB 749 - Reviewing certain driver's license DUI revocation orders

Crimes -- Felonies (7 Bills)
SB 146 - Creating DNA samples database from felony arrests
SB 253 - Relating to certain sexual offenses by or against inmates
SB 278 - Creating felony offense of willful failure to provide certain drug benefits
SB 294 - Defining criminal offense of incapacitated person's abuse or neglect
SB 657 - Clarifying terroristic threat as felony
SB 679 - Increasing penalties for certain accessory after the fact crimes
SB 711 - Prohibiting convicted felons from certain courthouse or county jobs

Crimes -- Juveniles (5 Bills)
SB 62 - Increasing penalties for underage use or possession of tobacco
SB 75 - Establishing alcohol use by minors as juvenile delinquent offense
SB 99 - Sentencing discretion for certain youthful offenders
SB 272 - Disclosing certain convicted juveniles' identities
SB 281 - Creating Juvenile Services Reimbursement Offender Fund

Crimes -- Sexual Offenses (2 Bills)
SB 253 - Relating to certain sexual offenses by or against inmates
SB 347 - Correcting code reference related to extended supervision for certain sex offenders

Criminal Background Checks (1 Bills)
SB 129 - Requiring background checks on real estate licensing applicants

Culture and History (4 Bills)
SB 17 - Increasing certain Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund allocations
SB 46 - Placing Science and Cultural Center under General Services Division's authority
SB 262 - Removing prohibition against using county's General Revenue Fund for historic preservation
SB 335 - Authorizing Division of Culture and History distribute fairs and festivals' funding

Disabilities (5 Bills)
SB 491 - Requiring handrails in handicap restrooms
SB 493 - Transferring central registry for head injuries to Center for Excellence in Disabilities
SB 623 - Extending permanent total disability benefits to claimants for life
SB 627 - Allowing certain seizure disorder patients operate motor vehicle
SB 747 - Relating to medical power of attorney

Domestic Relations (5 Bills)
SB 72 - Providing automatic court-ordered transfer of marital property upon divorce decree
SB 266 - Increasing tax credit for nonfamily adoptions
SB 294 - Defining criminal offense of incapacitated person's abuse or neglect
SB 449 - Clarifying domestic relations definitions
SB 708 - Relating to certain domestic violence victims' funeral arrangements

Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia (9 Bills)
SB 16 - Establishing penalties for manufacturing, selling or dispensing certain controlled substances causing death
SB 36 - Providing criminal penalty for parental controlled substance activity with child present
SB 267 - Repealing article allowing drug paraphernalia business license
SB 296 - Requiring State Board of Education create school drug safety program
SB 510 - Requiring drug-free coal mines
SB 516 - Creating Drug Offender Accountability and Treatment Act
SB 533 - Updating terms in consumers sales and service tax
SB 606 - Including salvia divinorum as hallucinogenic controlled substance
SB 628 - Creating Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team

Economic Development (6 Bills)
SB 14 - Requiring jobs impact statement for certain proposed legislation
SB 446 - Creating Neighborhood Housing and Economic Stabilization Program
SB 543 - Prohibiting Parkways Authority from issuing additional revenue bonds
SB 544 - Requiring Parkways Authority pay indebtedness on schedule
SB 729 - Establishing 21st Century Economic Development Fund
SB 730 - Relating to Economic Development Authority developing tourism project loans criteria

Education (And Related Subheadings) (57 Bills)
SB 1 - Revising immunization requirements for school children
SB 8 - Requiring certain nonprofit directors and board members attend training
SB 18 - Reducing ratio of school nurses to students
SB 35 - Requiring employees selling alcohol take alcohol awareness course
SB 56 - Awarding National Board for Professional Teaching Standards salary bonus to certain teachers
SB 57 - Relating to certain school coaches' requirements
SB 59 - Requiring principals take responsibility and control over teacher's classroom performance
SB 63 - Increasing deposit from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to Higher Education Improvement Fund
SB 66 - Relating to school employees' donated personal leave days
SB 67 - Allocating funding for transporting students to certain activities
SB 70 - Removing scholarship funds' cap for dependent children of deceased State Police
SB 74 - Allowing county school boards' substitute service personnel placement flexibility
SB 100 - Allowing school districts certain substitute teacher hiring flexibility in critical need areas
SB 111 - Requiring Legislative Auditor evaluate Secondary Schools Activities Commission
SB 113 - Rescinding student financial assistance due to certain alcohol or drug violations
SB 114 - Relating to teachers' professional development and preparation days
SB 121 - Setting school athletic director standards
SB 125 - Requiring boards of education hire best qualified candidate for extracurricular activities
SB 245 - Requiring state participation in Yellow Ribbon G. I. Education Enhancement Program
SB 249 - Relating to annual school calendar
SB 254 - Providing reduction in certain inmate sentences for completing education and rehabilitation programs
SB 257 - Creating nonvoting student member position on county boards of education
SB 265 - Authorizing tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas
SB 269 - Relating to supplemental funding provision for limited English proficient students' alternative programs
SB 270 - Relating to Public School Support Plan
SB 273 - Creating incentives to obtain GED
SB 274 - Allowing county boards of education enter into lease-purchase agreements
SB 287 - Relating to State Teachers Retirement System
SB 288 - Clarifying teachers' retirement systems return of contribution eligibility
SB 296 - Requiring State Board of Education create school drug safety program
SB 304 - Relating to Nurse Faculty Loan Program
SB 333 - Basing school nurse ratio on total net enrollment
SB 373 - Relating to PROMISE Scholarship
SB 376 - Creating School Innovation Zones Act
SB 386 - Creating critical skills instructional support programs for certain students
SB 435 - Creating Learn and Earn Cooperative Education Program
SB 485 - Requiring certain students undergo dental examination
SB 498 - Relating to early childhood education
SB 513 - Relating to hiring, termination, transfer and reassignment of school personnel
SB 557 - Relating to county school boards' members qualifications
SB 576 - Creating Religious Viewpoints Anti-Discrimination Act
SB 602 - Establishing teacher dress code
SB 609 - Relating to magistrate education and workload requirements
SB 618 - Relating to regional education service agencies' foundation allowance
SB 635 - Relating to Process for Improving Education Council
SB 638 - Relating to higher education capital facilities
SB 640 - Relating to higher education employees' eligibility for Legislature
SB 644 - Relating to removing certain continuing education requirement for insurers
SB 652 - Relating to mentor teacher
SB 697 - Relating to mandatory immunization exemptions
SB 723 - Increasing PROMISE Scholarship funding
SB 738 - Requiring higher education institutions use Educational Information System student identifier
SB 739 - Relating to county school board members' qualifications, training and duties
SB 743 - Relating to Higher Education Policy Commission
SB 750 - Relating to teacher certification and shortages
SB 757 - Requiring Higher Education Policy Commission, Council for Community and Technical College Education and State Board of Education enter into state data-sharing compact
SB 758 - Creating WV Public Charter Schools Act of 2009

Education -- Colleges & Universities (7 Bills)
SB 47 - Increasing fees for certain higher education students
SB 316 - Relating to Smart 529 college savings plan
SB 422 - Creating Higher Education Community School Law
SB 480 - Requiring state participation in Yellow Ribbon G. I. Education Enhancement Program
SB 536 - Relating to reorganization and consolidation of community and technical colleges
SB 611 - Relating to higher education institutional board of governors
SB 736 - Relating to Community and Technical College at West Virginia University Institute of Technology

Education -- Courses, Programs & Testing (3 Bills)
SB 269 - Relating to supplemental funding provision for limited English proficient students' alternative programs
SB 270 - Relating to Public School Support Plan
SB 296 - Requiring State Board of Education create school drug safety program

Education -- Retirement (12 Bills)
SB 11 - Providing certain State Teachers Retirement System annuitants state income tax exemption
SB 287 - Relating to State Teachers Retirement System
SB 288 - Clarifying teachers' retirement systems return of contribution eligibility
SB 303 - Providing certain retired teachers state income tax exemption
SB 383 - Relating to retired coaches
SB 458 - Relating to retired teachers
SB 496 - Granting retirement credit for certain teacher service
SB 512 - Allowing certain employees transfer credit to Public Employees Retirement System
SB 550 - Relating to certain retired college teachers' employment
SB 569 - Relating to State Teachers Retirement System loan application deadline for service credit conversion
SB 646 - Updating definitions relating to retired substitute teachers
SB 720 - Providing State Teachers Retirement System credit for county board of education service

Education -- Salaries, Classifications, Leave (3 Bills)
SB 80 - Awarding National Board for Professional Teaching Standards salary bonus to certain school leaders
SB 579 - Relating to school service personnel salary schedules, pay grades and seniority status
SB 705 - Relating to limiting professional personnel transfers

Education--Facilities (3 Bills)
SB 251 - Authorizing issuance of revenue bonds for public projects
SB 274 - Allowing county boards of education enter into lease-purchase agreements
SB 638 - Relating to higher education capital facilities

Elections (11 Bills)
SB 73 - Prohibiting dispensing of public moneys within 90 days of election
SB 136 - Relating to nonpartisan election of Supreme Court justices
SB 261 - Mandating party executive committees submit certain nominees 70 days before election
SB 271 - Requiring write-in candidates pay filing fee
SB 314 - Authorizing county commissions designate early voting locations
SB 445 - Removing conservation supervisors' election certification requirements
SB 462 - Relating to voter registration
SB 591 - Electing magistrates by divisions
SB 648 - Requiring manual vote counting in certain counties
SB 668 - Allowing police officers to run for certain public office
SB 764 - Providing race election results certification procedure

Emergency Services (5 Bills)
SB 279 - Relating to industrial accidents and emergency response regulations
SB 291 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
SB 490 - Authorizing Mercer County Commission appoint emergency operations center board
SB 656 - Authorizing Mercer County Commission to appoint emergency operations center board
SB 694 - Creating intrastate mutual aid system

Energy (12 Bills)
SB 79 - Requiring Public Service Commission promulgate wind power projects' rules
SB 93 - Authorizing municipalities to enter into energy-savings contracts
SB 240 - Repealing article banning nuclear power plants' construction
SB 297 - Creating Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
SB 300 - Authorizing counties and municipalities enter into energy-savings contracts
SB 301 - Creating Green Buildings Act
SB 325 - Creating WV Energy Efficient Buildings Program Act
SB 371 - Creating Energy Efficient Building Act
SB 372 - Relating to natural gas and oil severance taxes
SB 374 - Creating Oil and Gas Surface Owner's Bill of Rights
SB 509 - Creating Office of Energy Advisor
SB 608 - Providing tax credit for certain solar energy systems

Environmental Protection (15 Bills)
SB 28 - Requiring Commissioner of Public Health assess health impact of certain rules proposed by Department of Environmental Protection
SB 45 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection Secretary to sign National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits
SB 234 - Exempting land-based aquaculture facilities from certain sludge management requirements
SB 237 - Establishing returnable beverage container deposit program
SB 301 - Creating Green Buildings Act
SB 396 - Regulating carbon dioxide sequestration and storage
SB 436 - Updating terminology relating to surface mining reporting requirements
SB 454 - Reporting certain geological information obtained incidental to oil and gas drilling
SB 509 - Creating Office of Energy Advisor
SB 518 - Granting Environmental Protection Advisory Council rule-making authority
SB 539 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection enforce certain surface mining-related water pollution violations
SB 563 - Relating to surface coal mining environmental permits
SB 564 - Relating to Department of Environmental Protection's final actions on coal mine permits
SB 568 - Prohibiting certain water pollution control permits
SB 574 - Requiring Department of Environmental Protection monitor certain litigation

Estates and Trusts (1 Bills)
SB 530 - Authorizing certain minors nominate own guardian to manage estate

Fire Fighting and Prevention (10 Bills)
SB 9 - Providing certain volunteer fire department members state income tax exemption
SB 19 - Providing allocated Fire Protection Fund revenue to Fire Chiefs' and Fireman's Associations for certain expenses
SB 34 - Creating Volunteer Firefighter Length of Service Act
SB 64 - Authorizing allocated revenues to fund volunteer firemen pensions
SB 308 - Relating to State Fire Code
SB 319 - Relating to certain volunteer firefighters' benefits
SB 504 - Requiring State Fire Commission promulgate certain building code rules
SB 545 - Relating to volunteer firefighters' rebuttable presumptions for workers' compensation claims
SB 734 - Allowing county commissions impose fire service fee
SB 762 - Relating to volunteer firefighters' Length of Service Awards Program

Firearms (5 Bills)
SB 98 - Authorizing certain Alcohol Beverage Control employees to have arrest powers and carry concealed weapons
SB 139 - Prohibiting straw purchases of firearms
SB 148 - Clarifying concealed handgun license reciprocity
SB 305 - Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers receive certification to carry concealed firearm nationwide
SB 378 - Relating to concealed handgun license reciprocity

Freedom of Information (1 Bills)
SB 252 - Exempting certain disclosures under Freedom of Information Act

Fuel (3 Bills)
SB 37 - Authorizing Attorney General to investigate and charge certain fuel price gouging
SB 96 - Authorizing Attorney General to investigate and charge certain fuel price gouging
SB 680 - Establishing 2010 calendar year average motor fuel wholesale price

Funds (41 Bills)
SB 17 - Increasing certain Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund allocations
SB 19 - Providing allocated Fire Protection Fund revenue to Fire Chiefs' and Fireman's Associations for certain expenses
SB 25 - Establishing Voluntary Retirement Accounts Program
SB 58 - Allowing blasting program penalties' deposit in Special Reclamation Fund
SB 63 - Increasing deposit from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to Higher Education Improvement Fund
SB 64 - Authorizing allocated revenues to fund volunteer firemen pensions
SB 67 - Allocating funding for transporting students to certain activities
SB 70 - Removing scholarship funds' cap for dependent children of deceased State Police
SB 73 - Prohibiting dispensing of public moneys within 90 days of election
SB 76 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
SB 112 - Creating Municipal Roads and Bridges Repair Fund
SB 144 - Increasing Employee Suggestion Award Board's cash award limit
SB 246 - Relating to unemployment compensation generally
SB 255 - Allowing Commissioner of Corrections deposit certain interest or other moneys into inmate benefit fund
SB 258 - Clarifying local fiscal bodies cannot be held liable for certain deficits
SB 262 - Removing prohibition against using county's General Revenue Fund for historic preservation
SB 269 - Relating to supplemental funding provision for limited English proficient students' alternative programs
SB 270 - Relating to Public School Support Plan
SB 280 - Creating Correctional Industries Act of 2009
SB 281 - Creating Juvenile Services Reimbursement Offender Fund
SB 298 - Increasing Enhanced 911 Wireless Tower Access Assistance Fund allocation
SB 299 - Relating to Infrastructure Fund projects
SB 403 - Making supplemental appropriation from State Road Fund to Department of Transportation
SB 404 - Creating sesquicentennial commission and fund
SB 424 - Converting financial institution to state-chartered bank
SB 433 - Creating Juvenile Services Status Offender Fund
SB 468 - Requiring redemption property purchaser pay in certified funds
SB 528 - Relating to certain fees collected by county clerks
SB 578 - Relating to calculating prevailing wage on federally funded construction projects
SB 582 - Requiring Secretary of Administration promulgate rules for travel reimbursement
SB 594 - Requiring monthly fund installments to Courtesy Patrol
SB 618 - Relating to regional education service agencies' foundation allowance
SB 642 - Relating to Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund
SB 694 - Creating intrastate mutual aid system
SB 723 - Increasing PROMISE Scholarship funding
SB 729 - Establishing 21st Century Economic Development Fund
SB 745 - Establishing commercial feed distributor permit fee to fund spay/neuter program
SB 752 - Requiring economic stimulus plan funds be first spent on WV Turnpike
SB 762 - Relating to volunteer firefighters' Length of Service Awards Program
SB 765 - Relating to Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund
SB 770 - Relating to Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Fund excess funds

Funeral Services (2 Bills)
SB 110 - Exempting insurance burial policies from Medicaid assignment
SB 708 - Relating to certain domestic violence victims' funeral arrangements

Gaming Activities (9 Bills)
SB 7 - Relating to taxation of gambling and lottery winnings and losses
SB 17 - Increasing certain Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund allocations
SB 52 - Prohibiting sales and possession of certain raffle boards and games
SB 101 - Prohibiting ATMs in video lottery establishments
SB 401 - Creating State Gaming and Alcohol Commission
SB 575 - Relating to gaming operations at historic resort hotel
SB 673 - Defining lottery "promotional credits"
SB 675 - Establishing Preston County horse-themed park
SB 718 - Allowing certain counties and municipalities increase proportionate share of lottery table games receipts

Governmental Agencies (3 Bills)
SB 46 - Placing Science and Cultural Center under General Services Division's authority
SB 51 - Modifying circumstances which relieve certain directors from civil liability
SB 235 - Preserving biological evidence secured in certain criminal cases

Governor (2 Bills)
SB 519 - Authorizing Governor institute employee furlough program
SB 559 - Creating Governor's Commission on Reorganization of Tamarack

Governor -- Bills Requested By (24 Bills)
SB 150 - Budget bill
SB 244 - Relating to public employees' reemployment after retirement
SB 245 - Requiring state participation in Yellow Ribbon G. I. Education Enhancement Program
SB 246 - Relating to unemployment compensation generally
SB 247 - Authorizing nonbase building salary enhancement for certain state employees
SB 248 - Providing for alternative minimum tax expiration
SB 249 - Relating to annual school calendar
SB 258 - Clarifying local fiscal bodies cannot be held liable for certain deficits
SB 260 - Creating public defender corporations in certain judicial circuits
SB 279 - Relating to industrial accidents and emergency response regulations
SB 282 - Relating to retail liquor licenses' classification
SB 297 - Creating Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
SB 329 - Updating terms in Personal Income Tax Act
SB 372 - Relating to natural gas and oil severance taxes
SB 373 - Relating to PROMISE Scholarship
SB 375 - Relating to Office of Coalfield Community Development master land use plans
SB 376 - Creating School Innovation Zones Act
SB 386 - Creating critical skills instructional support programs for certain students
SB 396 - Regulating carbon dioxide sequestration and storage
SB 401 - Creating State Gaming and Alcohol Commission
SB 412 - Creating Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning
SB 505 - Imposing business and occupation tax on electricity transmission through certain lines
SB 511 - Relating to procurement of certain engineering services
SB 513 - Relating to hiring, termination, transfer and reassignment of school personnel

Hazardous Materials (3 Bills)
SB 406 - Requiring Department of Health and Human Resources provide list of certain contaminated properties
SB 558 - Creating Asbestos Claims Transparency Act
SB 754 - Regulating fireworks

Health (And Related Subheadings) (66 Bills)
SB 1 - Revising immunization requirements for school children
SB 16 - Establishing penalties for manufacturing, selling or dispensing certain controlled substances causing death
SB 21 - Allowing federal adjusted gross income deduction for cost of certain high deductible health plan
SB 23 - Requiring certain acupuncture treatment insurance coverage
SB 27 - Creating Physicians' Lien Act
SB 28 - Requiring Commissioner of Public Health assess health impact of certain rules proposed by Department of Environmental Protection
SB 29 - Allowing paid sick leave to be used as paid family leave
SB 33 - Relating to parental notification for unemancipated minor obtaining abortion
SB 38 - Allowing pharmacists to refuse dispensing certain abortion-related prescriptions
SB 39 - Prohibiting certain state medical facilities from performing abortions
SB 50 - Requiring women seeking abortion opportunity to view fetus ultrasound image
SB 54 - Requiring abortion-related statistics' collection
SB 76 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
SB 115 - Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicle when child under 14 is present
SB 116 - Providing penalties for failure to report to Alzheimer's Disease Registry
SB 127 - Allowing emergency medical technicians to administer epinephrine
SB 133 - Providing certain medical providers tax credit
SB 135 - Providing certain fetuses anesthesia
SB 138 - Prohibiting gender-based abortions
SB 250 - Authorizing Regional Jail Authority assess charges for inmate medical services
SB 278 - Creating felony offense of willful failure to provide certain drug benefits
SB 286 - Expanding prepaid limited health service organizations services
SB 291 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
SB 293 - Creating felony offense of unauthorized practice of certain health care professions
SB 294 - Defining criminal offense of incapacitated person's abuse or neglect
SB 304 - Relating to Nurse Faculty Loan Program
SB 307 - Creating Maternal Screening Act
SB 321 - Modifying certificate of need process
SB 322 - Exempting certain life insurance policies from Medicaid assignment
SB 331 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
SB 332 - Eliminating severance and health care provider taxes on behavioral health providers
SB 339 - Exempting certain licensed medical professionals from county hiring prohibition
SB 343 - Relating to Management of Pain Act
SB 344 - Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners sign readmission orders
SB 387 - Relating to mental hygiene guardians and conservators
SB 397 - Relating to mental hygiene commissioners' retirement
SB 406 - Requiring Department of Health and Human Resources provide list of certain contaminated properties
SB 408 - Relating to model health plan for uninsurable individuals
SB 412 - Creating Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning
SB 414 - Creating Governor's Office of Health Enhancement and Lifestyle Planning
SB 419 - Creating Healthy Lifestyles Restaurant Calorie Posting Program
SB 426 - Requiring certain medical providers accept Tricare military insurance
SB 429 - Creating Credentialing Verification Organization
SB 431 - Providing in-state medical providers notice of small group health benefit plan
SB 491 - Requiring handrails in handicap restrooms
SB 493 - Transferring central registry for head injuries to Center for Excellence in Disabilities
SB 526 - Relating to osteopathy post-doctoral training requirements
SB 529 - Relating to certain nursing care provisions
SB 533 - Updating terms in consumers sales and service tax
SB 547 - Prohibiting tobacco sales in pharmacies
SB 570 - Requiring Board of Optometry promulgate rules limiting practice
SB 573 - Continuing Pharmaceutical Cost Management Council as advisory council
SB 581 - Permitting certain minor blood donations with parental consent
SB 586 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Act
SB 592 - Creating behavioral health service provider tax
SB 599 - Regulating X ray second readings
SB 604 - Raising mental health refusal age of consent
SB 628 - Creating Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team
SB 669 - Extending Preventative Care Pilot Program
SB 670 - Relating to court-ordered payment of certain children's medical or socially necessary services
SB 672 - Creating Mental Health Stabilization Act of 2009
SB 717 - Requiring parental notification for unemancipated minor obtaining abortion
SB 722 - Clarifying filing and review of accountings of incapacitated protected persons' conservators
SB 724 - Relating to health care provider tax
SB 747 - Relating to medical power of attorney
SB 767 - Relating to certain Medicaid program contracts

Health -- Facilities (5 Bills)
SB 39 - Prohibiting certain state medical facilities from performing abortions
SB 140 - Prohibiting subsidies to entities performing abortions
SB 312 - Requiring smoke-free medical facilities
SB 379 - Clarifying pharmacists and pharmacies as health care providers
SB 389 - Clarifying pharmacists and pharmacies as health care providers

Health -- Insurance (9 Bills)
SB 21 - Allowing federal adjusted gross income deduction for cost of certain high deductible health plan
SB 23 - Requiring certain acupuncture treatment insurance coverage
SB 27 - Creating Physicians' Lien Act
SB 90 - Allowing federal adjusted gross income deduction for health insurance expenses
SB 102 - Providing certain ventilator patients Medicaid coverage
SB 291 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
SB 411 - Creating temporary health information technology reinvestment fee
SB 632 - Requiring insurers share certain information with Bureau for Medical Services
SB 685 - Relating to Medicaid fraud

Health -- Personnel (14 Bills)
SB 18 - Reducing ratio of school nurses to students
SB 38 - Allowing pharmacists to refuse dispensing certain abortion-related prescriptions
SB 123 - Creating Nursing Education Forgivable Loan Program
SB 294 - Defining criminal offense of incapacitated person's abuse or neglect
SB 333 - Basing school nurse ratio on total net enrollment
SB 379 - Clarifying pharmacists and pharmacies as health care providers
SB 389 - Clarifying pharmacists and pharmacies as health care providers
SB 603 - Relating to Bureau for Public Health's commissioner and state health officer
SB 634 - Relating to certain volunteering physicians' liability
SB 664 - Expanding nurse practitioners' prescriptive authority
SB 696 - Providing tax credit for certain medical providers
SB 703 - Relating to certain abortion reporting requirements
SB 731 - Increasing Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary's certain rule-making authority
SB 742 - Increasing physician assistant's prescriptive authority

Infrastructure (6 Bills)
SB 130 - Relating to Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council
SB 299 - Relating to Infrastructure Fund projects
SB 328 - Creating WV Transportation Finance Commission
SB 522 - Relating to subsurface rights' lessors
SB 549 - Creating Creative Communities Development Pilot Program
SB 766 - Relating to certain sewer and water infrastructure projects' engineering services

Insurance -- Health (15 Bills)
SB 21 - Allowing federal adjusted gross income deduction for cost of certain high deductible health plan
SB 23 - Requiring certain acupuncture treatment insurance coverage
SB 27 - Creating Physicians' Lien Act
SB 90 - Allowing federal adjusted gross income deduction for health insurance expenses
SB 102 - Providing certain ventilator patients Medicaid coverage
SB 286 - Expanding prepaid limited health service organizations services
SB 291 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
SB 326 - Mandating certain dental anesthesia insurance coverage
SB 408 - Relating to model health plan for uninsurable individuals
SB 426 - Requiring certain medical providers accept Tricare military insurance
SB 434 - Relating to long-term care policy insurance agents
SB 552 - Relating to affordable health insurance plan proposals
SB 632 - Requiring insurers share certain information with Bureau for Medical Services
SB 659 - Relating to mental health insurance costs
SB 685 - Relating to Medicaid fraud

Insurance -- Motor Vehicles (1 Bills)
SB 676 - Requiring motor vehicle insurance companies provide daily notice of all active policies

Insurance -- Public Employees (7 Bills)
SB 430 - Prohibiting premium subsidies for certain public employees
SB 450 - Allowing Public Employees Insurance Agency enter into capitated provider arrangements
SB 452 - Relating to Public Employees Insurance Agency underwriting nonstate employer groups
SB 464 - Authorizing Public Employees Insurance Agency charge fee for paper transactions
SB 475 - Relating to Public Employees Insurance Agency employee premiums
SB 492 - Clarifying certain Public Employees Insurance Agency retirement requirements
SB 566 - Providing foundation allowance for professional student support personnel

Insurance (And Related Subheadings) (18 Bills)
SB 77 - Requiring insurers provide full autism spectrum disorder coverage
SB 85 - Creating life insurance reimbursement fund for National Guard members
SB 110 - Exempting insurance burial policies from Medicaid assignment
SB 122 - Authorizing Board of Risk and Insurance Management to provide certain airports' insurance
SB 284 - Relating to Viatical Settlements Act
SB 291 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
SB 320 - Relating to Insurance Commissioner's surveillance of insurers' financial condition
SB 322 - Exempting certain life insurance policies from Medicaid assignment
SB 429 - Creating Credentialing Verification Organization
SB 439 - Permitting State Police Superintendent consult with Insurance Commissioner
SB 443 - Exempting Insurance Commissioner's civil investigation records from subpoena
SB 444 - Authorizing certain Insurance Commissioner's employees access to Board of Pharmacy information
SB 494 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner order restitution in certain cases
SB 495 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner permit certain groups life insurance policies
SB 588 - Repealing section creating Public Insurance Agency Advisory Board
SB 631 - Relating to certain insurance policy cancellation
SB 644 - Relating to removing certain continuing education requirement for insurers
SB 689 - Relating to life and health insurance guaranty associations

Investments (3 Bills)
SB 145 - Divesting state money from companies doing business in countries sponsoring terrorist activities
SB 289 - Creating WV Innovation and Development Act
SB 610 - Relating to Film Industry Investment Act

Labor (1 Bills)
SB 473 - Clarifying civil service job posting provisions

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (14 Bills)
SB 20 - Providing temporary detention of certain criminal suspects
SB 98 - Authorizing certain Alcohol Beverage Control employees to have arrest powers and carry concealed weapons
SB 119 - Setting imprisonment term for malicious assault on certain officers
SB 255 - Allowing Commissioner of Corrections deposit certain interest or other moneys into inmate benefit fund
SB 295 - Clarifying Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
SB 340 - Granting juvenile probation officers certain arrest powers
SB 369 - Relating to probation officers' authority
SB 432 - Relating to certain law-enforcement officers' probationary period
SB 439 - Permitting State Police Superintendent consult with Insurance Commissioner
SB 440 - Increasing county litter control officers' authority
SB 486 - Relating to reinstating former police chiefs to previously held positions
SB 524 - Raising certain law-enforcement agencies' new hire upper age restriction
SB 668 - Allowing police officers to run for certain public office
SB 719 - Allowing certain police officers keep weapon after retirement

Law Enforcement -- County/Municipal (3 Bills)
SB 295 - Clarifying Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
SB 305 - Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers receive certification to carry concealed firearm nationwide
SB 525 - Relating to deputy sheriffs' investigation procedures

Law Enforcement -- State Police (7 Bills)
SB 82 - Creating State Police Higher Education Security Act
SB 86 - Increasing relocation expense allocation for State Police
SB 124 - Compensating State Police for call-back time
SB 305 - Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers receive certification to carry concealed firearm nationwide
SB 554 - Requiring sex offender registry fee
SB 686 - Authorizing State Police use certain traffic law photo-monitoring devices
SB 706 - Creating State Police leave donation program

Legislature (4 Bills)
SB 14 - Requiring jobs impact statement for certain proposed legislation
SB 111 - Requiring Legislative Auditor evaluate Secondary Schools Activities Commission
SB 277 - Requiring Tax Commissioner create single dwelling residential housing index
SB 541 - Requiring annual legislative audit of Parkways Authority

Legislature--Rule Making (83 Bills)
SB 151 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to permits for construction, modification, relocation and operation of stationary sources of air pollutants
SB 152 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to permits for construction and major modification of major stationary sources of air pollution for the prevention of significant deterioration
SB 153 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rules
SB 154 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities
SB 155 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
SB 156 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to mercury budget training program to reduce mercury emissions
SB 157 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to ambient air quality standards
SB 158 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to hazardous waste management systems
SB 159 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to assessment of civil administrative penalties
SB 160 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to hazardous waste management fee
SB 161 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to state water pollution control revolving fund
SB 162 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to environmental laboratories' certification and standards of performance
SB 163 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to dam safety
SB 164 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to assessment of civil administrative penalties
SB 165 - Authorizing Ethics Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to employment exemptions
SB 166 - Authorizing Ethics Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to lobbying
SB 167 - Authorizing Ethics Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to filing of verified time records.
SB 168 - Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board promulgate legislative rule relating to benefit determination and appeal
SB 169 - Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board promulgate legislative rule relating to Teachers Retirement System
SB 170 - Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board promulgate legislative rule relating to Public Employees Retirement System
SB 171 - Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board promulgate legislative rule relating to refund, reinstatement, retroactive service and loan interest factors
SB 172 - Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules
SB 173 - Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board promulgate legislative rule relating to State Police
SB 174 - Authorizing Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing promulgate legislative rule relating to establishment of required qualifications and ethical standards for interpreters and transliterators
SB 175 - Authorizing Board of Dental Examiners promulgate legislative rule relating to board
SB 176 - Authorizing Board of Dental Examiners promulgate legislative rule relating to formation and approval of dental corporations
SB 177 - Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rule relating to fair market price determination
SB 178 - Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rule relating to statewide contracts
SB 179 - Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rule relating to qualifications for participation
SB 180 - Authorizing Commissioner of Agriculture promulgate legislative rule relating to animal disease control
SB 181 - Authorizing Commissioner of Agriculture promulgate legislative rule relating to disposal of dead poultry
SB 182 - Authorizing Commissioner of Agriculture promulgate legislative rule relating to commercial feed
SB 183 - Authorizing Commissioner of Agriculture promulgate legislative rule relating to schedule of charges for inspection services: Fruit
SB 184 - Authorizing Board of Architects promulgate legislative rule relating to registration of architects
SB 185 - Authorizing Board of Architects promulgate legislative rule relating to fees for registration of architects
SB 186 - Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board to promulgate legislative rule relating general provisions
SB 187 - Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board promulgate legislative rule relating to Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
SB 188 - Authorizing Board of Accountancy promulgate legislative rule relating to the board and rules of professional conduct
SB 189 - Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rule relating to Purchasing Division
SB 190 - Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rule relating to parking
SB 191 - Authorizing Ethics Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to purchase, sale or lease of personal property
SB 192 - Authorizing Ethics Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to interest in public contracts
SB 193 - Authorizing Ethics Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to voting
SB 194 - Authorizing Department of Health and Human Resources promulgate legislative rule relating to licensure of medical adult day care centers
SB 195 - Authorizing Department of Health and Human Resources promulgate legislative rules
SB 196 - Authorizing Department of Health and Human Resources promulgate legislative rule relating to tuberculosis testing, control treatment and commitment
SB 197 - Authorizing Division of Human Services promulgate legislative rule relating to child care center licensing
SB 198 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to continuing education for individual insurance producers
SB 199 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to preneed life insurance minimum standards for determining reserve liabilities and nonforfeiture values
SB 200 - Authorizing Division of Labor promulgate legislative rule relating to packaging and labeling
SB 201 - Authorizing Division of Labor promulgate legislative rule relating to method of sale of commodities
SB 202 - Authorizing Division of Labor promulgate legislative rule relating to standards for weights and measures inspectors' adoption of National Conference of Weights and Measures Handbook
SB 203 - Authorizing Division of Labor promulgate legislative rule relating to Amusement Rides and Attractions Safety Act
SB 204 - Authorizing Division of Labor promulgate legislative rule relating to Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Board
SB 205 - Authorizing Division of Labor promulgate legislative rule relating to Elevator Safety Act
SB 206 - Authorizing Division of Labor promulgate legislative rule relating to weights and measures calibration fees
SB 207 - Authorizing Board of Medicine promulgate legislative rule relating to definition of surgery
SB 208 - Authorizing Board of Medicine promulgate legislative rule relating to licensure, disciplinary and complaint procedures
SB 209 - Authorizing Board of Medicine promulgate legislative rule relating to establishment and regulation of restricted license issued to applicant in extraordinary circumstances
SB 210 - Authorizing Division of Motor Vehicles promulgate legislative rule relating to denial, suspension, revocation, restriction or nonrenewal of driving privileges
SB 211 - Authorizing Division of Motor Vehicles promulgate legislative rule relating to collection of tax on sale of motor vehicle
SB 212 - Authorizing Division of Natural Resources promulgate legislative rule relating to boating
SB 213 - Authorizing Division of Natural Resources promulgate legislative rule relating to deer hunting
SB 214 - Authorizing Division of Natural Resources promulgate legislative rule relating to lifetime hunting, trapping and fishing licenses
SB 215 - Authorizing Division of Natural Resources promulgate legislative rule relating to lifetime hunting, trapping and fishing license and stamp fees
SB 216 - Authorizing Division of Personnel promulgate legislative rule relating to reimbursement of compensation paid to state employees for training, education and professional development
SB 217 - Authorizing Board of Physical Therapy promulgate legislative rule relating to general provisions
SB 218 - Authorizing Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority promulgate legislative rule relating to criteria and procedures for determination of projected cost per day for incarcerated inmates
SB 219 - Authorizing Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses promulgate legislative rule relating to policies, standards and criteria for evaluation and accreditation of colleges, departments or schools of nursing
SB 220 - Authorizing Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses promulgate legislative rule relating to limited prescriptive authority for nurses in advance practice
SB 221 - Authorizing Division of Rehabilitation Services promulgate legislative rule relating to low vision driver training program
SB 222 - Authorizing Board of Respiratory Care promulgate legislative rule relating to student temporary permits
SB 223 - Authorizing Secretary of State promulgate legislative rule relating to administration of address confidentiality program
SB 224 - Authorizing Board of Social Work Examiners promulgate legislative rule relating to fee schedule
SB 225 - Authorizing State Tax Department promulgate legislative rule relating to combined returns pursuant to investigation by Tax Commissioner
SB 226 - Authorizing State Tax Department promulgate legislative rule relating to film industry investment tax credit
SB 227 - Authorizing Department of Revenue promulgate legislative rules
SB 228 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to voluntary remediation and redevelopment
SB 229 - Authorizing State Tax Department promulgate legislative rule relating to electronic filing and payment of special district excise tax
SB 230 - Authorizing State Tax Department promulgate legislative rule relating to withholding or denial of personal income tax refunds from taxpayers who owe municipal costs, fines, forfeitures or penalties
SB 231 - Authorizing State Tax Department promulgate legislative rule relating to exchange of information agreement between State Tax Division and Department of Health and Human Resources Office of Inspector General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
SB 232 - Authorizing Division of Tourism promulgate legislative rule relating to direct advertising grants program
SB 233 - Authorizing Board of Veterinary Medicine promulgate legislative rule relating to schedule of fees

Liability (6 Bills)
SB 15 - Limiting certain parks and recreation entities' liability
SB 31 - Absolving landowner's liability for hunter's injuries
SB 51 - Modifying circumstances which relieve certain directors from civil liability
SB 109 - Extending civil liability immunity to parks and recreation districts' operators
SB 580 - Excluding certain taxicab companies from Workers' Compensation Fund liability
SB 634 - Relating to certain volunteering physicians' liability

Licenses (18 Bills)
SB 12 - Allowing 2-year motorcycle registration period
SB 78 - Relating to special license plates
SB 126 - Providing single resident hunting, fishing and trapping license
SB 129 - Requiring background checks on real estate licensing applicants
SB 236 - Relating to "In God We Trust" license plate
SB 242 - Relating to DUI offenses
SB 267 - Repealing article allowing drug paraphernalia business license
SB 378 - Relating to concealed handgun license reciprocity
SB 391 - Relating to nurse license plates
SB 398 - Imposing certain restrictions on graduated driver's licenses
SB 399 - Creating senior resident hunting, fishing and trapping license
SB 448 - Creating special hunting and fishing license for severely disabled and terminally ill youth
SB 467 - Creating senior resident hunting, fishing and trapping license
SB 556 - Relating to defensive driving course points deduction
SB 560 - Creating driver's license restoration program
SB 583 - Relating to CAMC Women and Children's Hospital license plate
SB 590 - Requiring driver's license contain concealed weapons permit notification
SB 593 - Relating to minor driver's licensing requirements and penalties

Local Bills (3 Bills)
SB 239 - Allowing majority vote for certain metro government approval
SB 636 - Finding and declaring certain claims against state
SB 656 - Authorizing Mercer County Commission to appoint emergency operations center board

Military Affairs (19 Bills)
SB 4 - Exempting military retirement from personal income tax obligations
SB 65 - Providing public employees retirement credit for armed forces service
SB 85 - Creating life insurance reimbursement fund for National Guard members
SB 128 - Relating to War on Terrorism Service Medal license plate
SB 323 - Relating to certain veterans' disability income
SB 415 - Providing military service retirement credit
SB 421 - Prohibiting child custody and support order modification due to military service
SB 480 - Requiring state participation in Yellow Ribbon G. I. Education Enhancement Program
SB 614 - Redesignating Division of Veterans' Affairs the Department of Veterans Assistance
SB 615 - Designating December 7, "Patriots of World War II Day", as state holiday
SB 616 - Providing state park campground fee discount to National Guard and reserve personnel
SB 617 - Providing free hunting and fishing licenses to National Guard and reserve personnel
SB 619 - Exempting all military personnel from income tax
SB 662 - Exempting all military retirement from state income tax
SB 726 - Creating WV Service Members Civil Relief Act
SB 744 - Relating to child custody plans for National Guard or military reserve parents
SB 746 - Prohibiting child custody plan modification due to military service
SB 756 - Increasing military facilities security guards' patrol areas
SB 759 - Increasing Adjutant General's salary

Mines and Minerals (20 Bills)
SB 5 - Strengthening protections for whistleblowers of unsafe mine conditions
SB 436 - Updating terminology relating to surface mining reporting requirements
SB 459 - Requiring Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety perform risk assessment of current safety standards
SB 482 - Prohibiting mining on cemetery land
SB 499 - Establishing certain coal shippers permit
SB 506 - Conforming state mine subsidence laws and rules with federal laws and rules
SB 507 - Relating to Clean Coal Technology Council's powers and duties
SB 508 - Creating Department of Miners Health, Safety and Training
SB 510 - Requiring drug-free coal mines
SB 539 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection enforce certain surface mining-related water pollution violations
SB 553 - Creating Good Coal Company Neighbor Act
SB 563 - Relating to surface coal mining environmental permits
SB 600 - Relating to coal reclamation tax
SB 605 - Providing tax credit for certain coal mine safety equipment purchase
SB 613 - Clarifying coalbed methane notice requirements
SB 624 - Exempting certain real property owners from natural resources property assessment
SB 692 - Creating Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training administrative law judge office
SB 704 - Defining certain mining-related terms
SB 707 - Requiring Coal Mine Safety and Technical Review Committee provide forum for resolution of certain issues
SB 732 - Allowing Director of Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training discretion when imposing certain penalties

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (14 Bills)
SB 49 - Relating to abandoned vehicles generally
SB 91 - Redefining "all-terrain vehicle" to include all-terrain utility vehicles
SB 115 - Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicle when child under 14 is present
SB 285 - Relating to Division of Motor Vehicles' mobile units issuing drivers' licenses in remote counties
SB 309 - Relating to motor vehicle towing
SB 310 - Relating to farm supply vehicles
SB 327 - Relating to mini-trucks registration and operation
SB 470 - Regulating all-terrain vehicles on Hatfield-McCoy Trail
SB 514 - Relating to realtor license plate
SB 625 - Relating to motorcycle helmet exemption
SB 627 - Allowing certain seizure disorder patients operate motor vehicle
SB 676 - Requiring motor vehicle insurance companies provide daily notice of all active policies
SB 716 - Creating Diesel-Powered Motor Vehicles Idling Act
SB 751 - Creating Division of Motor Vehicles' administrative law judge office

Motor Vehicles -- Driving Under Influence (1 Bills)
SB 749 - Reviewing certain driver's license DUI revocation orders

Motor Vehicles -- Insurance (1 Bills)
SB 626 - Relating to insured's right to recover underinsured benefits

Motor Vehicles -- Licenses, Registration & Inspection (6 Bills)
SB 12 - Allowing 2-year motorcycle registration period
SB 78 - Relating to special license plates
SB 128 - Relating to War on Terrorism Service Medal license plate
SB 285 - Relating to Division of Motor Vehicles' mobile units issuing drivers' licenses in remote counties
SB 598 - Relating to mini-trucks' registration and operation
SB 749 - Reviewing certain driver's license DUI revocation orders

Motor Vehicles -- Regulations (7 Bills)
SB 97 - Relating to handicapped parking violations
SB 120 - Increasing maximum weight for six-axle tractor trailers
SB 131 - Prohibiting handheld cellular phone use while driving
SB 137 - Regulating all-terrain vehicles' use
SB 315 - Regulating all-terrain vehicles' use
SB 637 - Prohibiting texting while driving
SB 641 - Disclosing solid waste origins at commercial landfills

Municipalities (17 Bills)
SB 26 - Increasing tax on alcohol purchases outside corporate municipal limits
SB 84 - Authorizing municipalities to provide free parking for certain veterans
SB 93 - Authorizing municipalities to enter into energy-savings contracts
SB 112 - Creating Municipal Roads and Bridges Repair Fund
SB 132 - Dedicating certain severance tax portion to counties and municipalities
SB 251 - Authorizing issuance of revenue bonds for public projects
SB 268 - Permitting Class III municipalities' participation in Tax Increment Financing Act
SB 300 - Authorizing counties and municipalities enter into energy-savings contracts
SB 302 - Expanding municipal parking authority officers' ticketing powers
SB 327 - Relating to mini-trucks registration and operation
SB 418 - Relating to municipalities' fee requirements
SB 441 - Authorizing certain municipalities impose barge-mooring taxes
SB 535 - Authorizing municipalities and county commissions set closing time for certain bars
SB 589 - Dedicating portion of severance taxes for counties and municipalities
SB 645 - Relating to municipalities and counties issuing bonds
SB 647 - Authorizing Class IV cities' early voting by mail
SB 721 - Allowing municipalities spend certain excise tax revenue to demolish condemned buildings

Natural Resources (10 Bills)
SB 31 - Absolving landowner's liability for hunter's injuries
SB 126 - Providing single resident hunting, fishing and trapping license
SB 454 - Reporting certain geological information obtained incidental to oil and gas drilling
SB 613 - Clarifying coalbed methane notice requirements
SB 624 - Exempting certain real property owners from natural resources property assessment
SB 630 - Creating felony offense of unlawful entry on public utility sites
SB 684 - Requiring timbering operators repair damaged roads and rights-of-way
SB 700 - Authorizing natural gas utilities immediately recover fuel cost increases
SB 704 - Defining certain mining-related terms
SB 741 - Requiring Public Land Corporation provide free gas rights in public land leases

Parks and Recreation (4 Bills)
SB 15 - Limiting certain parks and recreation entities' liability
SB 94 - Relating to private investments for Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park
SB 109 - Extending civil liability immunity to parks and recreation districts' operators
SB 470 - Regulating all-terrain vehicles on Hatfield-McCoy Trail

Pornography (1 Bills)
SB 394 - Regulating exotic entertainment business locations

Prescriptions and Medications (6 Bills)
SB 16 - Establishing penalties for manufacturing, selling or dispensing certain controlled substances causing death
SB 278 - Creating felony offense of willful failure to provide certain drug benefits
SB 520 - Creating Prescription Record Privacy Act
SB 664 - Expanding nurse practitioners' prescriptive authority
SB 733 - Creating WV Official Prescription Program Act
SB 742 - Increasing physician assistant's prescriptive authority

Professions and Occupations (4 Bills)
SB 40 - Relating to land surveyor's liability upon entering railroad property
SB 71 - Exempting certain professional and personal services from consumers sales and service tax
SB 129 - Requiring background checks on real estate licensing applicants
SB 293 - Creating felony offense of unauthorized practice of certain health care professions

Public Employees (44 Bills)
SB 10 - Providing certain corrections officers full retirement benefits
SB 11 - Providing certain State Teachers Retirement System annuitants state income tax exemption
SB 19 - Providing allocated Fire Protection Fund revenue to Fire Chiefs' and Fireman's Associations for certain expenses
SB 30 - Preventing reduction of disability pensions for certain Public Employees Retirement System members
SB 61 - Increasing benefits of certain retired state personnel
SB 65 - Providing public employees retirement credit for armed forces service
SB 66 - Relating to school employees' donated personal leave days
SB 68 - Increasing public employees retirement annuity multiplier
SB 69 - Increasing benefits of certain retired teachers
SB 74 - Allowing county school boards' substitute service personnel placement flexibility
SB 81 - Increasing certain Division of Corrections' employees salaries and increment pay
SB 117 - Providing certain retired conservation officers' state income tax exemption
SB 244 - Relating to public employees' reemployment after retirement
SB 247 - Authorizing nonbase building salary enhancement for certain state employees
SB 283 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
SB 303 - Providing certain retired teachers state income tax exemption
SB 313 - Expanding number of hours temporary state personnel may work
SB 430 - Prohibiting premium subsidies for certain public employees
SB 437 - Clarifying General Services Division Director's powers, duties and qualifications
SB 464 - Authorizing Public Employees Insurance Agency charge fee for paper transactions
SB 465 - Clarifying certain Real Estate Division's powers
SB 466 - Clarifying Division of Personnel's functions
SB 475 - Relating to Public Employees Insurance Agency employee premiums
SB 481 - Requiring employers provide certain documentation to Public Employees Insurance Agency
SB 487 - Relating to Division of Personnel Director's qualifications
SB 492 - Clarifying certain Public Employees Insurance Agency retirement requirements
SB 519 - Authorizing Governor institute employee furlough program
SB 561 - Requiring county land surveyors be licensed
SB 566 - Providing foundation allowance for professional student support personnel
SB 572 - Repealing section creating Public Employee Leave Benefit Analysis Board
SB 582 - Requiring Secretary of Administration promulgate rules for travel reimbursement
SB 587 - Repealing section creating State Personnel Advisory Council
SB 597 - Establishing salary schedule for certain Alcohol Beverage Control Commission employees
SB 602 - Establishing teacher dress code
SB 603 - Relating to Bureau for Public Health's commissioner and state health officer
SB 622 - Creating State Labor Relations Act
SB 629 - Increasing penalties for crimes against government and health care workers
SB 640 - Relating to higher education employees' eligibility for Legislature
SB 651 - Increasing teacher salaries
SB 652 - Relating to mentor teacher
SB 674 - Requiring Division of Personnel Director develop demographic information survey
SB 695 - Relating to payment for certain state employees' unused sick leave
SB 705 - Relating to limiting professional personnel transfers
SB 750 - Relating to teacher certification and shortages

Public Service Commission (4 Bills)
SB 79 - Requiring Public Service Commission promulgate wind power projects' rules
SB 453 - Relating to Public Service Commission service of decisions
SB 596 - Requiring Public Service Commission update railroad walkways safety regulations
SB 655 - Authorizing Public Service Commission to require removal of certain television cables

Railroads (3 Bills)
SB 149 - Creating misdemeanor offense of interference with treatment of injured railroad employee
SB 382 - Adjusting State Rail Authority's contract authority
SB 765 - Relating to Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund

Real Property (13 Bills)
SB 72 - Providing automatic court-ordered transfer of marital property upon divorce decree
SB 89 - Limiting real property classification of managed timberland
SB 129 - Requiring background checks on real estate licensing applicants
SB 276 - Imposing statute of limitations on certain real property civil actions
SB 477 - Requiring licensing for subsurface property rights leasing
SB 484 - Relating to ad valorem property taxes
SB 523 - Requiring certain property value assessment adjustments
SB 562 - Relating to certain land sale contracts
SB 621 - Allowing private property owner to prohibit concealed weapons
SB 624 - Exempting certain real property owners from natural resources property assessment
SB 678 - Creating High-Technology Business Property Valuation Act
SB 721 - Allowing municipalities spend certain excise tax revenue to demolish condemned buildings
SB 737 - Creating Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act

Religious Organizations (2 Bills)
SB 701 - Creating WV Religious Freedom Restoration Act
SB 710 - Exempting certain church or religious organization sales from consumers sales and service tax

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (11 Bills)
SB 24 - Increasing exemption on retirement income for certain retirees
SB 25 - Establishing Voluntary Retirement Accounts Program
SB 60 - Providing certain retirees personal income tax adjustment
SB 61 - Increasing benefits of certain retired state personnel
SB 295 - Clarifying Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
SB 303 - Providing certain retired teachers state income tax exemption
SB 331 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
SB 415 - Providing military service retirement credit
SB 417 - Establishing Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program
SB 662 - Exempting all military retirement from state income tax
SB 719 - Allowing certain police officers keep weapon after retirement

Retirement -- Education Personnel (8 Bills)
SB 69 - Increasing benefits of certain retired teachers
SB 303 - Providing certain retired teachers state income tax exemption
SB 337 - Relating to State Teachers Retirement System contributions
SB 458 - Relating to retired teachers
SB 512 - Allowing certain employees transfer credit to Public Employees Retirement System
SB 584 - Providing one-time bonus to certain public employee and teacher annuitants
SB 646 - Updating definitions relating to retired substitute teachers
SB 720 - Providing State Teachers Retirement System credit for county board of education service

Retirement -- Public Employees (16 Bills)
SB 10 - Providing certain corrections officers full retirement benefits
SB 11 - Providing certain State Teachers Retirement System annuitants state income tax exemption
SB 19 - Providing allocated Fire Protection Fund revenue to Fire Chiefs' and Fireman's Associations for certain expenses
SB 30 - Preventing reduction of disability pensions for certain Public Employees Retirement System members
SB 53 - Exempting certain amount of state pensions and Social Security benefits from state income tax
SB 68 - Increasing public employees retirement annuity multiplier
SB 244 - Relating to public employees' reemployment after retirement
SB 283 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
SB 295 - Clarifying Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
SB 303 - Providing certain retired teachers state income tax exemption
SB 337 - Relating to State Teachers Retirement System contributions
SB 397 - Relating to mental hygiene commissioners' retirement
SB 512 - Allowing certain employees transfer credit to Public Employees Retirement System
SB 554 - Requiring sex offender registry fee
SB 569 - Relating to State Teachers Retirement System loan application deadline for service credit conversion
SB 584 - Providing one-time bonus to certain public employee and teacher annuitants

Roads and Highways (22 Bills)
SB 13 - Expanding Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority territory
SB 315 - Regulating all-terrain vehicles' use
SB 324 - Creating Innovative Highway Projects Pilot Program
SB 330 - Including kilometric measurements on traffic control devices
SB 336 - Changing failure to wear seatbelt to primary offense
SB 342 - Updating requirements for new subdivision highway access
SB 384 - Authorizing Department of Transportation take control of certain highway emergencies
SB 390 - Continuing Highway Design-Build Pilot Program
SB 398 - Imposing certain restrictions on graduated driver's licenses
SB 403 - Making supplemental appropriation from State Road Fund to Department of Transportation
SB 472 - Revising certain outdoor advertising restrictions
SB 499 - Establishing certain coal shippers permit
SB 511 - Relating to procurement of certain engineering services
SB 542 - Terminating tolls on Turnpike
SB 543 - Prohibiting Parkways Authority from issuing additional revenue bonds
SB 544 - Requiring Parkways Authority pay indebtedness on schedule
SB 560 - Creating driver's license restoration program
SB 601 - Eliminating driver surveillance signs
SB 625 - Relating to motorcycle helmet exemption
SB 660 - Requiring annual Parkways Authority audit
SB 663 - Authorizing Commissioner of Highways operate Market Street Bridge in Brooke County as toll bridge
SB 752 - Requiring economic stimulus plan funds be first spent on WV Turnpike

Rule Making Authority (21 Bills)
SB 348 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to control and reduction of nitrogen oxides from nonelectric generating units
SB 349 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to Nox budget trading program as means of control and reduction of nitrogen oxides from electric generating units
SB 350 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to surface mining reclamation
SB 351 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection promulgate legislative rule relating to WV/NPDES rules for coal mining facilities
SB 352 - Authorizing Development Office promulgate legislative rule relating to brownfield economic development districts
SB 353 - Authorizing Fire Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to standards for certification and continuing education of municipal, county and other public building code officials, building code inspectors and plans examiners
SB 354 - Authorizing State Fire Marshal promulgate legislative rule relating to supervision of fire protection work
SB 355 - Authorizing Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction promulgate legislative rule relating to law-enforcement training standards
SB 356 - Authorizing Commissioner of Highways promulgate legislative rule relating to use of state road rights-of-way and adjacent areas
SB 357 - Authorizing Commissioner of Highways promulgate legislative rule relating to transportation of hazardous wastes upon roads and highways
SB 358 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to coordination of health benefits
SB 359 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to long-term care insurance
SB 360 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to actuarial opinion and memorandum
SB 361 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to viatical settlements
SB 362 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to discount medical plan organizations and discount prescription drug plan organizations
SB 363 - Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to professional employer organizations
SB 364 - Authorizing Division of Labor promulgate legislative rule relating to supervision of elevator mechanics and apprentices
SB 365 - Authorizing Board of Pharmacy promulgate legislative rule relating to licensure and practice of pharmacy
SB 366 - Authorizing Board of Pharmacy promulgate legislative rule relating to immunizations administered by pharmacists
SB 367 - Authorizing Board of Pharmacy promulgate legislative rule relating to regulation of charitable clinic pharmacies
SB 368 - Authorizing Treasurer's Office promulgate legislative rule relating to selection of state depositories for receipt accounts

Safety (11 Bills)
SB 315 - Regulating all-terrain vehicles' use
SB 398 - Imposing certain restrictions on graduated driver's licenses
SB 406 - Requiring Department of Health and Human Resources provide list of certain contaminated properties
SB 459 - Requiring Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety perform risk assessment of current safety standards
SB 508 - Creating Department of Miners Health, Safety and Training
SB 596 - Requiring Public Service Commission update railroad walkways safety regulations
SB 625 - Relating to motorcycle helmet exemption
SB 692 - Creating Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training administrative law judge office
SB 707 - Requiring Coal Mine Safety and Technical Review Committee provide forum for resolution of certain issues
SB 732 - Allowing Director of Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training discretion when imposing certain penalties
SB 754 - Regulating fireworks

Salaries (9 Bills)
SB 29 - Allowing paid sick leave to be used as paid family leave
SB 56 - Awarding National Board for Professional Teaching Standards salary bonus to certain teachers
SB 81 - Increasing certain Division of Corrections' employees salaries and increment pay
SB 247 - Authorizing nonbase building salary enhancement for certain state employees
SB 416 - Increasing family court judges' salaries
SB 428 - Eliminating Division of Personnel Director's statutorily set salary
SB 651 - Increasing teacher salaries
SB 695 - Relating to payment for certain state employees' unused sick leave
SB 759 - Increasing Adjutant General's salary

Secretary of State (1 Bills)
SB 693 - Authorizing processing fee to be used for Secretary of State's technology projects

Senior Citizens (3 Bills)
SB 41 - Modifying low-income qualifier for senior citizens' homestead tax credit
SB 60 - Providing certain retirees personal income tax adjustment
SB 385 - Providing one-time supplements to certain public employee and teacher annuitants

Social Security (3 Bills)
SB 53 - Exempting certain amount of state pensions and Social Security benefits from state income tax
SB 55 - Limiting Social Security number requirement in securing state services
SB 107 - Exempting Social Security income from state income tax

Sunset Law (1 Bills)
SB 324 - Creating Innovative Highway Projects Pilot Program

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (33 Bills)
SB 7 - Relating to taxation of gambling and lottery winnings and losses
SB 11 - Providing certain State Teachers Retirement System annuitants state income tax exemption
SB 21 - Allowing federal adjusted gross income deduction for cost of certain high deductible health plan
SB 22 - Relating to Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Checkoff Program
SB 52 - Prohibiting sales and possession of certain raffle boards and games
SB 71 - Exempting certain professional and personal services from consumers sales and service tax
SB 90 - Allowing federal adjusted gross income deduction for health insurance expenses
SB 248 - Providing for alternative minimum tax expiration
SB 265 - Authorizing tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas
SB 266 - Increasing tax credit for nonfamily adoptions
SB 268 - Permitting Class III municipalities' participation in Tax Increment Financing Act
SB 283 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
SB 292 - Creating tax credit for spaying or neutering pets
SB 303 - Providing certain retired teachers state income tax exemption
SB 332 - Eliminating severance and health care provider taxes on behavioral health providers
SB 334 - Reinstating high-growth business investment tax credit
SB 388 - Creating certain motor vehicle sales tax holiday and new purchase tax credit
SB 409 - Relating to limitations on expending hotel occupancy tax proceeds
SB 413 - Creating temporary tax credit for certain small group employers
SB 420 - Raising excise tax on tobacco products
SB 441 - Authorizing certain municipalities impose barge-mooring taxes
SB 479 - Relating to Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement
SB 484 - Relating to ad valorem property taxes
SB 500 - Reducing certain fuels' wholesale tax
SB 505 - Imposing business and occupation tax on electricity transmission through certain lines
SB 540 - Clarifying certain Tax Commissioner's authorities
SB 589 - Dedicating portion of severance taxes for counties and municipalities
SB 592 - Creating behavioral health service provider tax
SB 608 - Providing tax credit for certain solar energy systems
SB 665 - Relating to setting certain public utilities' rates
SB 724 - Relating to health care provider tax
SB 728 - Creating WV Commercial Patent Incentives Tax Act
SB 755 - Creating WV Twenty-First Century Tax Credit Act

Taxation -- Consumers Sales Tax (4 Bills)
SB 71 - Exempting certain professional and personal services from consumers sales and service tax
SB 533 - Updating terms in consumers sales and service tax
SB 710 - Exempting certain church or religious organization sales from consumers sales and service tax
SB 748 - Defining certain consumers sales and service tax-related terms

Taxation -- Mines & Minerals (4 Bills)
SB 92 - Eliminating timber severance tax
SB 132 - Dedicating certain severance tax portion to counties and municipalities
SB 600 - Relating to coal reclamation tax
SB 605 - Providing tax credit for certain coal mine safety equipment purchase

Taxation -- Personal & Corporate Income Tax (20 Bills)
SB 4 - Exempting military retirement from personal income tax obligations
SB 9 - Providing certain volunteer fire department members state income tax exemption
SB 24 - Increasing exemption on retirement income for certain retirees
SB 53 - Exempting certain amount of state pensions and Social Security benefits from state income tax
SB 60 - Providing certain retirees personal income tax adjustment
SB 107 - Exempting Social Security income from state income tax
SB 117 - Providing certain retired conservation officers' state income tax exemption
SB 133 - Providing certain medical providers tax credit
SB 248 - Providing for alternative minimum tax expiration
SB 283 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
SB 292 - Creating tax credit for spaying or neutering pets
SB 303 - Providing certain retired teachers state income tax exemption
SB 329 - Updating terms in Personal Income Tax Act
SB 345 - Exempting certain severance pay from state income tax
SB 380 - Providing earned income tax credit to certain parents
SB 410 - Updating terms in Corporation Net Income Tax Act
SB 538 - Providing low-income workers refundable tax credit
SB 619 - Exempting all military personnel from income tax
SB 662 - Exempting all military retirement from state income tax
SB 696 - Providing tax credit for certain medical providers

Taxation -- Property (1 Bills)
SB 41 - Modifying low-income qualifier for senior citizens' homestead tax credit

Technology (10 Bills)
SB 330 - Including kilometric measurements on traffic control devices
SB 411 - Creating temporary health information technology reinvestment fee
SB 502 - Relating to Geographical Information System
SB 507 - Relating to Clean Coal Technology Council's powers and duties
SB 534 - Authorizing Chief Technology Officer obtain certain confidential information
SB 678 - Creating High-Technology Business Property Valuation Act
SB 691 - Relating to telecommunications regulation
SB 693 - Authorizing processing fee to be used for Secretary of State's technology projects
SB 736 - Relating to Community and Technical College at West Virginia University Institute of Technology
SB 740 - Relating to obscene, harassing and threatening communications via the internet

Tobacco and Tobacco Products (9 Bills)
SB 62 - Increasing penalties for underage use or possession of tobacco
SB 88 - Creating Transition Program for Tobacco Farmers
SB 115 - Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicle when child under 14 is present
SB 290 - Requiring tobacco products sold in factory-wrapped packaging only
SB 312 - Requiring smoke-free medical facilities
SB 420 - Raising excise tax on tobacco products
SB 456 - Creating Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act
SB 547 - Prohibiting tobacco sales in pharmacies
SB 769 - Prohibiting possession, sale, importation or distribution of dissolvable tobacco products

Tourism (6 Bills)
SB 142 - Relating to Tourism Development Act
SB 543 - Prohibiting Parkways Authority from issuing additional revenue bonds
SB 544 - Requiring Parkways Authority pay indebtedness on schedule
SB 575 - Relating to gaming operations at historic resort hotel
SB 594 - Requiring monthly fund installments to Courtesy Patrol
SB 730 - Relating to Economic Development Authority developing tourism project loans criteria

Transportation (7 Bills)
SB 13 - Expanding Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority territory
SB 95 - Permitting Commissioner of Highways to transfer surplus balances between funds
SB 384 - Authorizing Department of Transportation take control of certain highway emergencies
SB 542 - Terminating tolls on Turnpike
SB 580 - Excluding certain taxicab companies from Workers' Compensation Fund liability
SB 607 - Creating Commuter Rail Access Act
SB 642 - Relating to Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund

Treasurer (State) (1 Bills)
SB 658 - Authorizing Auditor and Treasurer contract emergency banking services

Unemployment Compensation (1 Bills)
SB 246 - Relating to unemployment compensation generally

Utilities (3 Bills)
SB 469 - Relating to state utility construction projects
SB 517 - Relating to state utility construction projects
SB 665 - Relating to setting certain public utilities' rates

Water Resources (6 Bills)
SB 461 - Extending selenium effluent limits compliance time
SB 474 - Modifying definitions of certain wells
SB 539 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection enforce certain surface mining-related water pollution violations
SB 568 - Prohibiting certain water pollution control permits
SB 698 - Authorizing certain regional water and wastewater authorities provide joint maintenance to participating agencies
SB 715 - Establishing Chesapeake Bay Restoration Initiative

Weapons (6 Bills)
SB 98 - Authorizing certain Alcohol Beverage Control employees to have arrest powers and carry concealed weapons
SB 139 - Prohibiting straw purchases of firearms
SB 148 - Clarifying concealed handgun license reciprocity
SB 590 - Requiring driver's license contain concealed weapons permit notification
SB 621 - Allowing private property owner to prohibit concealed weapons
SB 719 - Allowing certain police officers keep weapon after retirement

Workers Compensation (4 Bills)
SB 537 - Relating to workers' compensation
SB 545 - Relating to volunteer firefighters' rebuttable presumptions for workers' compensation claims
SB 623 - Extending permanent total disability benefits to claimants for life
SB 702 - Changing workers' compensation purchase date deadline for governmental entities

Zoning (3 Bills)
SB 256 - Providing additional requirements for certain property annexation
SB 394 - Regulating exotic entertainment business locations
SB 753 - Relating to land development ordinances

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