SENATE
HOUSE
JOINT
BILL STATUS
STATE LAW
REPORTS
EDUCATIONAL
CONTACT
home
home
HOUSE: | Bills Introduced | Resolutions Introduced | Abstract | Topical Index | Committee Schedule | Calendar | Local Calendar | Special Calendar | Journal | Menu |

House Topical


Abortion (44 Bills)
HB 2008 - Defining "the deceased" for purposes of prescribing that a deceased victim includes unborn children under first and second degree murder
HB 2028 - Providing that when any body part of an unborn child is outside the womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state
HB 2029 - Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity
HB 2035 - Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed
HB 2057 - Requiring the department of health and human resources to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations
HB 2058 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2073 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2094 - Prohibiting employees of higher education from assisting students in securing abortions
HB 2146 - Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures
HB 2237 - Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide
HB 2238 - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire
HB 2254 - Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn child
HB 2257 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2263 - Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus by using ultrasound
HB 2278 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2302 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2313 - Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus
HB 2374 - Requiring any faith-based facility that counsels women regarding contraception, abortion or pregnancy to maintain a quality assurance program
HB 2455 - Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors
HB 2493 - Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor
HB 2516 - Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility
HB 2520 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a woman suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2543 - Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion
HB 2590 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors
HB 2598 - Relating to parental notification requirements for abortions performed on unemancipated minors
HB 2610 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2611 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents
HB 2614 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2636 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2717 - Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus
HB 2797 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2846 - Relating to criminalizing abortion
HB 2906 - Prohibiting persons who are not licensed physicians from performing an abortion
HB 2942 - Prohibiting subsidies to entities that perform abortions
HB 3159 - Prohibiting moneys from any state fund or funding source to be expended for any abortion unless the abortion qualifies for federal funding under Medicaid
HB 3162 - Prohibiting coverage for abortions under insurance plans provided under the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 4411 - Relating to the care of aborted fetuses
HB 4517 - Requiring that a person who is undergoing an abortion be offered the opportunity to view available ultrasound images of the fetus
HB 4551 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 4571 - Abortion Complication Reporting Act

Actions and Suits (13 Bills)
HB 2136 - Providing limited immunity from civil damages for persons who volunteer their services to public health departments
HB 2138 - Creating an affirmative defense for certain civil and criminal actions arising from the sale of certain alcoholic drinks and nonintoxicating beer by licensed private clubs to persons under the age of twenty-one
HB 2262 - Making it a misdemeanor to file a frivolous lawsuit
HB 2449 - Verifying the lawful presence within the United States of any applicant for certain public benefits
HB 2463 - Providing that adultery shall be a bar to alimony in a divorce proceeding
HB 2498 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 2517 - Relating to immunity from civil liability for operators of parks and recreation districts
HB 2634 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 3325 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items
HB 4420 - Asbestos Claims Transparency Act
HB 4584 - Tolling the statute of limitations against all tortfeasors upon filing
HB 4611 - Abolishing joint liability and establishing the principle of comparative fault

Acts (1 Bills)
HB 2038 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 2039 - Establishing the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act
HB 2058 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2084 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2095 - Faculty Excellence Act
HB 2255 - Relating to the "Mandated Benefits Review Act"
HB 2343 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2363 - Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2390 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2431 - Emergency Contraception Education Act
HB 2475 - Permitting retired state employees to transfer from Medicare to coverage through the West Virginia Public Employees Act
HB 2477 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Act
HB 2501 - West Virginia Public Employment Relations Act
HB 2514 - Verifiable Science Act
HB 2524 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2542 - "Jason Flatt Act of 2010"
HB 2549 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2550 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2604 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2631 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2646 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2675 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act
HB 2715 - The Economic Fairness Act of 2009
HB 2720 - Genetic Information Privacy Act
HB 2721 - Dangerous Dog Act
HB 2899 - Adding Tramadol to Schedule IV of the West Virginia Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 3021 - Medication Administration by Certified Medicine Aides Act
HB 3078 - Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act
HB 3091 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 3129 - Creative Communities Development Act
HB 3233 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 3273 - West Virginia Correctional Officer Retirement System Act
HB 3302 - Certified Legal Assistant Act
HB 4008 - Green Buildings Act
HB 4012 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 4016 - Strengthening the Ethics Act financial disclosure filing requirements
HB 4020 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
HB 4028 - Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act
HB 4030 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 4150 - West Virginia Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being Act
HB 4188 - Anti-Criminal Street Gang Act
HB 4200 - Creating the West Virginia Community Empowerment Transportation Act
HB 4262 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
HB 4302 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 4307 - Plastic Shopping Bag Excise Tax Act
HB 4312 - Relating to the Tax Procedure and Administration Act
HB 4343 - Labor History Week Act
HB 4374 - Caregivers Consent Act
HB 4387 - Flexible Leave Act
HB 4420 - Asbestos Claims Transparency Act
HB 4544 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 4545 - Drug Trafficking Registration Act

Advertising (4 Bills)
HB 2137 - Prohibiting out-of-state persons or business entities from soliciting business by written advertisement in this state under certain circumstances
HB 2556 - Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 4061 - Tourism, direct advertising grants program
HB 4430 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency and its contractors, under certain circumstances, to advertise that they are seeking bids prior to accepting bids

Agriculture (17 Bills)
HB 2343 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2358 - Including a tax checkoff option for Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp
HB 2511 - Relating to the valuation of managed timberland
HB 2561 - Providing that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor for renewal
HB 2625 - Providing for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming
HB 2735 - Changing the membership of the State Conservation Committee
HB 2936 - Restoring or keeping intact scenic views by coal and timber operators
HB 3096 - Providing tax credits for the sale of locally grown produce
HB 3099 - Conducting a program to increase awareness and consumption of locally produced foods
HB 3254 - Requiring county commissions to adopt and implement county farmland protection programs
HB 4064 - Agriculture, animal disease control
HB 4065 - Agriculture, integrated pest management programs
HB 4066 - Agriculture, shellfish
HB 4201 - Creating the Livestock Care Standards Board
HB 4224 - Agriculture, best management practices for land application of waste products
HB 4333 - Creating regulations for commercial dog breeding operations
HB 4406 - Creating the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 4407 - Updating the law regarding the rabies vaccinations of dogs and cats
HB 4429 - Increasing the financial penalties for causing serious injury or death to a dog or horse used by law enforcement officials
HB 4477 - Transferring certain powers from the Division of Natural Resources to the Division of Forestry
HB 4501 - Permitting farm use vehicles to travel on public highways under certain circumstances
HB 4511 - Relating to the consumers sales and service tax exemption for sales of livestock
HB 4519 - Requiring all of an established $11 million Racetrack Video Lottery Fund to be transferred into the Unredeemed Pari-Mutuel Tickets account for the payment of certain current and unpaid debt, etc...
HB 4527 - Limiting the liability of apiary owners and operators
HB 4540 - Requiring restoring or keeping intact scenic views by coal and timber operators operating in those areas
HB 4542 - Creating the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 4624 - Creating the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act"
HB 4625 - Creating the "Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act"
HB 4626 - Creating the "Genetically Engineered Crop and Animal Farmer Protection Act"
HB 4634 - Defining "spelunking" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited

Air Quality (15 Bills)
HB 4045 - DEP, air quality, standards of performance for new stationary sources
HB 4046 - DEP, air quality, permits for construction and major modification
HB 4047 - DEP, air quality, control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment
HB 4048 - DEP, air quality, acid rain provisions and permits
HB 4049 - DEP, air quality, emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 4050 - DEP, air quality, ambient air quality standards
HB 4088 - DEP, air quality, permits
HB 4638 - Relating to air pollution control

Alcohol (12 Bills)
HB 2100 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
HB 2103 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2122 - Allowing municipalities to regulate the hours of operation of private liquor clubs by ordinance
HB 2138 - Creating an affirmative defense for certain civil and criminal actions arising from the sale of certain alcoholic drinks and nonintoxicating beer by licensed private clubs to persons under the age of twenty-one
HB 2452 - Providing that a child born addicted to a controlled substance constitutes child abuse
HB 2459 - Increasing the tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors outside corporate limits
HB 2484 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2593 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2664 - Reducing recidivism of offenders convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol
HB 2855 - Permitting the holder of a license to sell nonintoxicating liquors to determine the use or nonuse of tobacco products on the licensees' premises
HB 2907 - Relating to the sales of wine
HB 2919 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 3067 - Allowing certain owners of warehouses to store and to transport quantities of alcoholic liquors, wine, beer or nonintoxicating beer which are not intended or being stored for the purpose of sale or use within the state
HB 3147 - Allowing the legal sale of liquor and wine on Sunday to be the same hours as prescribed for the sale of beer on Sunday
HB 4205 - Relating to the sale of fortified wines
HB 4225 - Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, nonintoxicating beer licensing and operations procedures
HB 4326 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver
HB 4346 - Making it a felony to drive a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, controlled substance or other drug that causes serious bodily injury to another person
HB 4388 - Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer
HB 4515 - Curtailing the serving of alcoholic beverages by licensed clubs as early as one A.M.
HB 4522 - Relating to prescribing regulations governing the advertising of alcoholic liquors and nonintoxicating beers
HB 4530 - Permitting private clubs to purchase alcoholic liquors from retail liquor stores in any market zone in the state
HB 4629 - Relating generally to wine and excluding wine from the definitions of alcoholic liquor and intoxicating liquor

Animals (28 Bills)
HB 2061 - Prohibiting abusive behavior towards elephants by an owner or manager
HB 2145 - Increasing penalties for the illegal killing, taking, or possessing of certain wildlife
HB 2585 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2623 - Allowing Class RG and RRG deer stamps to be used to hunt and take antlerless deer
HB 2699 - Establishing breeding restrictions for aggressive or vicious dogs
HB 2721 - Dangerous Dog Act
HB 4064 - Agriculture, animal disease control
HB 4216 - Prohibiting wagering at animal fighting ventures and providing a felony criminal penalty
HB 4406 - Creating the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 4407 - Updating the law regarding the rabies vaccinations of dogs and cats
HB 4429 - Increasing the financial penalties for causing serious injury or death to a dog or horse used by law enforcement officials
HB 4542 - Creating the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 4546 - Relating to livestock in dire or extreme condition

Appropriations (7 Bills)
HB 2108 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2150 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Veterans' Affairs
HB 4025 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution

Appropriations-Supplemental (27 Bills)
HB 2090 - Providing a housing supplement for members of the State Police
HB 2310 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History
HB 2385 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System; and providing a one-time supplement for annuitants and survivor beneficiaries after being retired five consecutive years
HB 2397 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2645 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy
HB 4211 - Providing supplemental funding for providing alternative programs for limited English proficient students
HB 4668 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History, and to the Department of Environmental Protection

Associations (3 Bills)
HB 2308 - Relating to the West Virginia Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being
HB 2323 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2331 - Allowing teachers who graduated from colleges and universities that are not accredited by associations recognized in West Virginia, to obtain a teaching certificate based on their certification in another state
HB 2472 - Establishing a West Virginia State Trooper's Association leave donation program
HB 2558 - Exempting from taxation certain property owned by a nonprofit organization
HB 4392 - Requiring the Consolidated Public Retirement Board to deduct from monthly benefits to retirees sums to pay retiree association dues and to provide retiree associations or organizations lists of plan beneficiaries and addresses

Athletics (6 Bills)
HB 2277 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2392 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2508 - Permitting county board of education the power to employ the most qualified person to be athletic and other extracurricular coaches
HB 2589 - Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as athletic coaches
HB 2665 - Authorizing mixed martial arts competitions
HB 2804 - Preventing a professional educator from taking a coaching position away from a current coach
HB 3152 - Athletic Trainers Registration Act
HB 4067 - Athletic Commission, administrative rules
HB 4196 - Relating to the State Athletic Commission
HB 4290 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 4602 - Defining the responsibilities of school athletic directors

Attorney General (46 Bills)
HB 4242 - Relating to assignment of cases to private attorneys by bid

Attorneys (19 Bills)
HB 2262 - Making it a misdemeanor to file a frivolous lawsuit
HB 2361 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2634 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 3296 - Relating to the worker's compensation claimant attorney fees
HB 4242 - Relating to assignment of cases to private attorneys by bid
HB 4480 - Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children
HB 4555 - Permitting persons with schizophrenic "reality disorder" two opportunities to sign a durable power of attorney
HB 4562 - Encouraging and assisting persons diagnosed with schizophrenic reality disorder in designating a durable medical power of attorney

Audits/Auditing (3 Bills)
HB 2002 - Changing the time for periodic valuations and assessments of real and personal property
HB 2511 - Relating to the valuation of managed timberland
HB 2512 - Relating to assessed property valuations
HB 4432 - Providing for actual costs to be paid for municipal audits and reducing the cap on audits for Class IV municipalities
HB 4443 - Clarifying that audit supporting documentation is confidential
HB 4509 - Allowing audits to be published electronically
HB 4556 - Relating to an annual legislative audit of the Parkways Authority
HB 4648 - Providing guidelines for an independent audit of the Public Service Commission

Banks and Banking (6 Bills)
HB 2351 - Prohibiting the placement of automated teller machines (ATM) in establishments that contain video lottery terminals
HB 2896 - Requiring banks to show good cause for calling a business loan due before maturity
HB 2937 - Allowing members of the board of banking and financial institutions to receive compensation for travel expenses
HB 2938 - Relating to the conversion of other financial institutions to state-chartered banks
HB 2996 - Requiring bank transactions involving savings and checking accounts to be posted at the time of the transaction and not the next day
HB 3114 - Mandating that state-chartered banks provide loans for consumers purchasing solar energy panels
HB 3332 - Allowing the Division of Banking to participate in the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry
HB 4291 - Eliminating duplicitous criminal background investigations with both the West Virginia State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
HB 4294 - Requiring banks to provide a bond or pledge assets to secure county deposits under certain circumstances
HB 4318 - Preventing employees and officials of the Division of Banking from taking regulatory action involving financial institutions with whom they may have outstanding extensions of credit or pending applications
HB 4469 - Requiring bank transactions involving savings and checking accounts to be credited to the account at the time of the transaction

Boards and Commissions (1 Bills)
HB 2017 - Authorizing and encouraging county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel
HB 2021 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2085 - Providing county boards of education may study the economic feasibility of exercising an option of engaging in cooperative agreements with local public or regional transit authorities to transport students
HB 2118 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2126 - Requiring that the State School Board ensure that no class size for grades seven through twelve be greater than twenty-five students to every one teacher
HB 2147 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2234 - Relating to increasing the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make for an individual award
HB 2243 - Creating the joint commission on technology and advanced communications
HB 2284 - Prohibiting individual county board of education members from acting on behalf of the board in an individual capacity unless authorized by law
HB 2301 - Prohibiting the demolition of a historic structure prior to a review of and the issuance of a permit by the Commissioner of the Division of Culture and History
HB 2311 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2319 - Creating a Sentencing Commission
HB 2326 - Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day
HB 2352 - Providing nonsupervisory employees of the West Virginia State Board of Education with the same protections against summary dismissal as are applicable to employees of county boards of education
HB 2354 - Creating the Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission
HB 2369 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2398 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2437 - Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board
HB 2438 - Establishing the West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau Accreditation Board and requiring accreditation standards for convention and visitors bureaus
HB 2508 - Permitting county board of education the power to employ the most qualified person to be athletic and other extracurricular coaches
HB 2515 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2552 - Revising Insurance Commissioner reporting requirements to the Legislature on workers' compensation insurance rules
HB 2559 - Directing the State Board of Education to determine what principal and teacher reports are unnecessary
HB 2580 - Directing the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction on macroeconomics
HB 2581 - Making changes to the Municipal Home Rule Board
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2640 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2641 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2658 - Requiring state offices, agencies, boards and commissions to submit annual reports electronically
HB 2732 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2741 - Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners to sign readmission orders
HB 2912 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 2915 - Authorizing the sale of prohibited fireworks
HB 2919 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 2927 - Requiring the Legislature to approve changes in costs imposed by the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board
HB 2937 - Allowing members of the board of banking and financial institutions to receive compensation for travel expenses
HB 2982 - Modifying the definition of "shallow" and "deep" wells to allow a shallow well to be drilled deeper
HB 3099 - Conducting a program to increase awareness and consumption of locally produced foods
HB 3157 - Relating to allowing a county board of education to enter into lease-purchase agreements and allowing the School Building Authority to provide one-time grants to a county board of education for that purpose
HB 3168 - Creating the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, creating a library board with the power to operate said library, and providing a method of financing the operation of the library
HB 3175 - Adjusting the State Rail Authority's contract authority due to inflation
HB 3247 - Requiring any person licensed to prescribe drugs to check with the State Board of Pharmacy before initially prescribing certain drugs to a new patient to determine if said patient is engaging in doctor shopping
HB 3280 - Relating to higher education capital facilities
HB 3293 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 3294 - Requiring the jail facilities standards commission to promulgate rules for the confinement of certain persons in local jails and private facilities
HB 3311 - Clarifying that hospitals owned or operated by nonprofit corporations, nonprofit associations or local government units have only one governing body whose meetings shall be open to the public
HB 4017 - Relating to the powers and duties of the board of parole
HB 4019 - Increasing the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make
HB 4036 - Establishing the Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission
HB 4039 - Increasing the number of persons that may be appointed to the Marshall County Park and Recreation Board
HB 4043 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, schedule of fees
HB 4044 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, refund, reinstatement and loan interest factors
HB 4053 - Insurance Commission, WV life and health insurance guaranty association act
HB 4054 - Insurance Commission, viatical settlements
HB 4055 - Medicine, WV Board of, fees for services rendered
HB 4060 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, renewal
HB 4067 - Athletic Commission, administrative rules
HB 4068 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, procedures, criteria and curricula
HB 4069 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, standard of ethics
HB 4070 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, continuing education
HB 4071 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, hearing procedure
HB 4072 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, qualifications, training, examination and licensure of instructors
HB 4073 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, licensing schools of barbering and beauty culture
HB 4074 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, operation of barber, beauty shops and schools
HB 4075 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, schedule of fines
HB 4076 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, disciplinary and complaint procedures
HB 4078 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, teachers' retirement system
HB 4080 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, state police
HB 4098 - Fire Commission, state fire code
HB 4106 - Insurance Commission, mental health parity
HB 4107 - Insurance Commission, use of senior-specific certifications and professional designations in the sale of life insurance and annuities
HB 4119 - Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund, board of trustees
HB 4120 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, requirements for licensure
HB 4127 - Fire Commission, state building code
HB 4131 - Relating to the board of optometry
HB 4135 - Relating to ethical guidelines for members of professional licensing boards
HB 4139 - Relating to professional licensing boards
HB 4140 - Relating to the board of physical therapy
HB 4142 - Relating to the board of sanitarians
HB 4144 - Relating to the board of veterinary medicine
HB 4147 - Relating to licensing exemptions of persons who only perform the duty of hair washing for a licensed barber or cosmetologist
HB 4174 - Establishing the West Virginia Transportation Finance Commission
HB 4178 - Prohibiting the Finance Board of the Public Employees Insurance Agency from increasing costs to retirees
HB 4179 - Removing the termination date of the Equal Pay Commission
HB 4180 - Clarifying the authority of the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board to determine the participating employer contribution rate under the provisions of the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 4191 - Eliminating the Insurance Commissioner's exemption relating to workers' compensation rulemaking
HB 4192 - Creating the West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission
HB 4196 - Relating to the State Athletic Commission
HB 4198 - Extending the expired term of a member of the Oil and Gas Inspectors' Examining Board until such time as the member's successor is appointed and qualified
HB 4201 - Creating the Livestock Care Standards Board
HB 4209 - Requiring at least one commissioner be present before a hearing may be conducted on public utility matters
HB 4210 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board to have a quorum of five members present at any public hearing
HB 4225 - Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, nonintoxicating beer licensing and operations procedures
HB 4230 - Insurance Commission, variable life insurance
HB 4231 - Insurance Commission, annuity disclosure
HB 4232 - Insurance Commission, medicare supplement insurance
HB 4233 - Insurance Commission, coordination of health benefits
HB 4235 - Lottery Commission, limited gaming facility rule
HB 4236 - Psychologists, WV Board of, qualifications for licensure as a psychologist or a school psychologist
HB 4245 - Relating to county board of education, eligibility of members and training requirements
HB 4248 - Relating to the solicitation of charitable funds
HB 4249 - Requiring the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to use recycled materials in construction or maintenance of roads and highways
HB 4303 - Clarifying that the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board may offset annual retiree premium increases
HB 4320 - Establishing the number of members for a municipal planning commission for Class IV municipalities
HB 4330 - Relating to comprehensive revisions of classification plans for classified and classified-exempt employees
HB 4360 - Relating to a commission to study annexation
HB 4377 - Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards
HB 4392 - Requiring the Consolidated Public Retirement Board to deduct from monthly benefits to retirees sums to pay retiree association dues and to provide retiree associations or organizations lists of plan beneficiaries and addresses
HB 4405 - Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board
HB 4413 - Requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to propose legislative rules concerning concussions
HB 4414 - Updating references from the commissioner of accounts to the fiduciary commissioner
HB 4417 - Abolishing the West Virginia Board of Landscape Architects
HB 4421 - Removing the provision specifying a termination date for the Equal Pay Commission
HB 4428 - Abolishing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists
HB 4438 - Creating a commission to develop a pilot program to help at-risk youth in West Virginia
HB 4447 - Extending the time for the Board of Education of Boone County to meet as a levying body to present to the voters of Boone County the question of renewing an excess levy for schools
HB 4458 - Lottery Revenue Bond Act
HB 4466 - Requiring that bartenders be licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner
HB 4474 - Increasing the representation on the Health Information Network Board
HB 4490 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of minorities
HB 4493 - Authorizing rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding Energy Savings Revolving Loan Fund Program and PROMISE scholarship program
HB 4502 - Increasing the amount of net terminal income allocated to the Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund
HB 4507 - Establishing procedures for appealing an adverse decision or action taken by a local board of health
HB 4525 - Changing the composition, powers and responsibilities of the board of Coal Mine Health and Safety
HB 4533 - Relating to powers and duties of the State Board of Medicine
HB 4560 - Eliminating the agency of Insurance Commissioner
HB 4597 - Creating the Northern Panhandle Child Advocacy Commission
HB 4600 - Allowing the West Virginia University Board of Governors to participate in the Public Employees Insurance Agency Insurance Program or another insurance program
HB 4615 - Authorizing political subdivisions to establish risk pools to insure their workers' compensation risks
HB 4622 - Revising, consolidating and codifying the laws relating to fireworks
HB 4623 - Adding six additional members to the Equal Pay Commission, three from the House of Delegates and three from the Senate
HB 4630 - Relating to refunding of appraisal fees
HB 4635 - Relating to the Fire Prevention and Control Act
HB 4637 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 4643 - Authorizing the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a limited number of license plates to County Prosecutors for use on vehicles
HB 4667 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to maintain school bus turnarounds in the state
HB 4669 - Granting exceptions to certain statutes to innovation zone plans approved by state board

Bonds (11 Bills)
HB 2115 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2632 - Modifying the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority's power to charge tolls and issue bonds
HB 4037 - Relating generally to federal subsidy bonds and bond financing
HB 4041 - Authorizing the School Building Authority to issue bonds in the maximum aggregate amount of $500 million outstanding at any time
HB 4294 - Requiring banks to provide a bond or pledge assets to secure county deposits under certain circumstances
HB 4458 - Lottery Revenue Bond Act
HB 4496 - Prohibiting bail bonding companies or bail bond enforcers from providing fiduciary bonds for estates

Buildings (8 Bills)
HB 2108 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2326 - Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day
HB 2643 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers
HB 2948 - Requiring the use of the LEED and Green Globes standard for new construction and renovation of state buildings
HB 4008 - Green Buildings Act
HB 4026 - Relating to higher education capital facilities generally
HB 4162 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership
HB 4250 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 4276 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 4371 - Increasing allowable tax credits for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment
HB 4498 - Prohibiting smoking in the capitol building and all offices

Bureaus (12 Bills)
HB 2294 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2438 - Establishing the West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau Accreditation Board and requiring accreditation standards for convention and visitors bureaus

Capitol Complex (4 Bills)
HB 2945 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings

Charitable Organizations (2 Bills)
HB 2120 - Prohibiting charitable organizations from soliciting contributions on public highways
HB 2239 - Exempting nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee
HB 2276 - Income tax deduction for gifts to West Virginia charities
HB 2364 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 3070 - Allowing nonprofit organizations to hold up to two charitable Texas hold'em tournaments per year
HB 3325 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items
HB 4248 - Relating to the solicitation of charitable funds
HB 4376 - Requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents' identity
HB 4442 - Defining a charitable organization in regards to an inaugural committee's disbursement of excess contributions

Child Welfare (2 Bills)
HB 2039 - Establishing the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act
HB 2059 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility, school bus stop, or other child safety zone
HB 2111 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2119 - Changing the compulsory school attendance for children in the state from sixteen to eighteen years of age
HB 2134 - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders
HB 2297 - Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders
HB 2300 - Excluding certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2342 - Allowing for juveniles to be tried as adults for instances of child abuse resulting in bodily injury and child abuse which results in death
HB 2386 - Relating to the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2399 - Providing for tuition and fee waiver for certain child survivors of domestic violence deaths
HB 2447 - Establishing county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers
HB 2452 - Providing that a child born addicted to a controlled substance constitutes child abuse
HB 2455 - Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors
HB 2456 - Relating to child abuse and neglect
HB 2493 - Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2542 - "Jason Flatt Act of 2010"
HB 2544 - Relating to factors to be considered in granting grandparent visitation
HB 2556 - Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2583 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2598 - Relating to parental notification requirements for abortions performed on unemancipated minors
HB 2611 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents
HB 2612 - Increasing penalties for failing to report child abuse
HB 2636 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2666 - Changing some processes and orders when determining child custody disputes
HB 2693 - Including testing for illegal drugs in newborns
HB 2704 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life
HB 2705 - Including additional information on the sex offender registry
HB 2707 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children
HB 2728 - Prohibiting sex offenders from residing in certain areas and subjecting convicted sex offenders to global positional system monitoring
HB 2761 - Transferring the authority to administer the juvenile justice database
HB 2772 - Increasing penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 2783 - Creating a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated
HB 2879 - Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child
HB 2989 - Failing to provide or return a minor child for visitation
HB 4164 - Creating of a pilot program for the placement of children four to ten years of age in foster care which shall be known as Jacob's Law
HB 4374 - Caregivers Consent Act
HB 4454 - Establishing the Office of Child Advocacy
HB 4478 - Requiring a child to be placed with a relative, where possible, when removed from the home of a parent under the Home-Base Family Preservation Act
HB 4479 - Establishing a bill of rights for children in foster care
HB 4480 - Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children
HB 4481 - West Virginia Child Advocate for the Protection of Children Act
HB 4483 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents
HB 4531 - Mandating that shackling of pregnant women who are incarcerated is not allowed except in extraordinary circumstances
HB 4536 - Allowing, under limited circumstances, a child under the age of fifteen years to hunt or take antlerless deer without first obtaining a certificate of training

Citizenship (2 Bills)
HB 2495 - Establishing the consumer's right to know regarding telemarketers and requiring certain vendors to use only persons authorized to work in the United States
HB 2871 - Verifying legal employment status of workers

Civil Rights (6 Bills)
HB 2269 - Relating to approval of a student for homebound services and their rights
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2454 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation
HB 2524 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 4148 - Relating to prohibiting members of the news media from being compelled to give testimony
HB 4161 - Creating the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs

Civil Service (18 Bills)
HB 2298 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2434 - Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions
HB 2919 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 3153 - Specifying that federal civil service system retirement income derived from military retirement system pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions is treated as military retirement income for purposes of the modifications to federal adjusted gross income

Claims (7 Bills)
HB 2449 - Verifying the lawful presence within the United States of any applicant for certain public benefits
HB 2526 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 2634 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 4015 - Relating to civil actions based upon false or fraudulent claims against the medical programs of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4204 - Using the Crime Victims Fund to fill-in a portion of the property damage deductible for victims of the negligence of an uninsured driver
HB 4339 - Relating to collecting debts through the United States Treasury Offset Program
HB 4366 - Requiring insurers issuing group accident and sickness insurance policies to certain employers to furnish claims loss experience
HB 4416 - Declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state and directing payments thereof
HB 4420 - Asbestos Claims Transparency Act
HB 4508 - Increasing the allowable expense that may be paid for the clean-up of real property damage by a meth lab

Code Repealed (7 Bills)
HB 2424 - Repealing the Code of West Virginia and adopting in lieu thereof the Code of the Commonwealth of Virginia
HB 3165 - Repealing article of the code granting a business license to sell drug paraphernalia
HB 4134 - Removing non-utilized code sections
HB 4535 - Repealing outdated and obsolete sections of the tax code

Commerce (36 Bills)
HB 4311 - Authorizing the Marketing and Communications office of the Department of Commerce to promote and sell West Virginia related items
HB 4464 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act

Communications (1 Bills)
HB 2004 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2124 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2243 - Creating the joint commission on technology and advanced communications
HB 2290 - Relating to a no telephone solicitation contact (Do Not Call) list
HB 2548 - Relating to telephone solicitation of consumers
HB 2549 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2597 - Making 911 emergency fees available to be used for both emergency and nonemergency calls
HB 2642 - Reverting the 911 fee on wireless telephones from three dollars to seventy-five cents
HB 2683 - Increasing the amount allocated from the wireless enhanced 911 fee to be deposited into the enhanced 911 wireless tower access assistance fund
HB 4183 - Requiring a study of the telecommunications tax
HB 4661 - Relating to registration of state-owned or leased cellular phones

Consumer Protection (50 Bills)
HB 2279 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2282 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2290 - Relating to a no telephone solicitation contact (Do Not Call) list
HB 2495 - Establishing the consumer's right to know regarding telemarketers and requiring certain vendors to use only persons authorized to work in the United States
HB 2548 - Relating to telephone solicitation of consumers
HB 2549 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2853 - Prohibiting the reporting of credit scoring as a part of a credit report
HB 3097 - Preventing predatory lending practices
HB 3127 - Protecting computer owners and users from computer spyware
HB 3332 - Allowing the Division of Banking to participate in the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry
HB 4159 - Requiring insurers to notify insureds of all rate increases before they take effect
HB 4208 - Requiring a landlord to give at least thirty days written notice to a tenant when property being occupied by the tenant is being foreclosed upon
HB 4297 - Requiring regulated consumer lenders to provide notice of change in ownership or control to the West Virginia Division of Banking and clarifying that mortgage loan originators employed by such lenders must be registered or licensed
HB 4308 - Relating to fraudulent, deceptive or misleading representations by debt collectors
HB 4370 - Limiting the number of telephone calls by a debt collector to a consumer
HB 4539 - Prohibiting the reporting of credit scoring as a part of a credit report
HB 4664 - Relating to required mediation in consumer protection matters

Contracts (11 Bills)
HB 2067 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2129 - Requiring bids under state contract to disclose the location of work to be performed or risk state termination of the contract
HB 2349 - Providing for continuing contract status for teachers and establishing dismissal and suspension procedures
HB 2365 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to allow Class I cities to enter into one or more agreements with contract carriers by motor vehicle
HB 2427 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 2571 - Relating to privatization contracts
HB 2718 - Authorizing public school teachers to purchase one personal computer and related devices per year from the state contract for use outside the classroom
HB 2923 - Requiring the disclosure of subcontractors within a certain time of the close of bids for public construction contracts
HB 3002 - Allowing private citizens the freedom to enter into private contracts for health care services or health care coverage or both
HB 3175 - Adjusting the State Rail Authority's contract authority due to inflation
HB 4357 - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts

Corporations and Business Entities (24 Bills)
HB 2009 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2042 - Providing a tax credit for Ad Valorem tax paid on Manufacturing Inventory
HB 2066 - Prohibiting fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline
HB 2070 - Requiring that all worker's compensation adjusters employed by a private insurance carrier be located within the geographic borders of West Virginia
HB 2084 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2122 - Allowing municipalities to regulate the hours of operation of private liquor clubs by ordinance
HB 2128 - Relating to minimum grab bar standards for hotel and motel rooms that are specifically designated or intended for use by handicapped or disabled guests
HB 2137 - Prohibiting out-of-state persons or business entities from soliciting business by written advertisement in this state under certain circumstances
HB 2138 - Creating an affirmative defense for certain civil and criminal actions arising from the sale of certain alcoholic drinks and nonintoxicating beer by licensed private clubs to persons under the age of twenty-one
HB 2281 - Relating to a tax exemption on certain sales of clothing
HB 2307 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2322 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2358 - Including a tax checkoff option for Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp
HB 2454 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation
HB 2459 - Increasing the tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors outside corporate limits
HB 2476 - Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2516 - Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility
HB 2554 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2571 - Relating to privatization contracts
HB 2582 - Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds
HB 2675 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act
HB 2751 - Exempting nonprofit corporations from paying prevailing wages in certain circumstances
HB 2785 - Requiring that every house, dwelling or business located in an area where public water services are made available for the first time, be connected
HB 2855 - Permitting the holder of a license to sell nonintoxicating liquors to determine the use or nonuse of tobacco products on the licensees' premises
HB 3073 - Exempting from the excise tax on property transfers property that is transferred from an individual to a wholly-owned corporation or a wholly-owned limited liability company
HB 3293 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 4004 - Relating to small, women and minority-owned businesses
HB 4146 - Relating to the public land corporation, powers and duties
HB 4285 - Relating to the licensing of residential mortgage brokers, lenders and loan originators by the Division of Banking
HB 4335 - Relating to the business registration tax
HB 4460 - Relating to granting licensed real estate appraisers access to commercial or residential review documents
HB 4530 - Permitting private clubs to purchase alcoholic liquors from retail liquor stores in any market zone in the state
HB 4552 - Allowing any party in a bankruptcy proceeding to compel the bankruptcy trustee to disclose the exact disposition of any property and any compensation derived by the trustee
HB 4570 - Relating to dedication of severance tax proceeds
HB 4582 - Creating reciprocity for West Virginia small, women and minority-owned businesses who receive such preferences in other states
HB 4590 - Bringing consistency of filing deadlines for all organizations filing annual reports with the Secretary of State
HB 4605 - Establishing that the environmental regulation of business activities performed within the state is not subject to federal regulation
HB 4636 - Relating to the process of incorporation, and clarifying the requirements of that process
HB 4646 - Relating to corporate political accountability

Corrections (8 Bills)
HB 2011 - Providing correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of actual and honorable service
HB 2051 - Providing a two thousand eight dollar salary increase for each employee of the Division of Corrections
HB 2252 - Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees
HB 2319 - Creating a Sentencing Commission
HB 2426 - Reducing state income tax for state correctional officer retirees
HB 2545 - Providing arresting agency shall pay cost for the initial twenty-four hours of incarceration
HB 2546 - Requiring persons incarcerated for sex offenses to register as such at the time they are incarcerated
HB 2586 - Granting a salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2608 - Changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2638 - Establishing a work program for qualified inmates
HB 2641 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2711 - Providing that correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of service
HB 2756 - Clarifying that probation officers have the authority to arrest both probationers and persons on supervised release
HB 2799 - Eliminating parole for persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities
HB 3161 - Providing that the officers of the Division of Protective Services have the same powers of arrest and law enforcement as members of the West Virginia State Police
HB 3273 - West Virginia Correctional Officer Retirement System Act
HB 3294 - Requiring the jail facilities standards commission to promulgate rules for the confinement of certain persons in local jails and private facilities
HB 4081 - Authorizing the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to promulgate legislative rules
HB 4082 - Corrections, monitoring inmate mail
HB 4132 - Increasing the penalties for sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion on incarcerated persons
HB 4171 - Relating to criminogenic risk and needs assessments
HB 4241 - Authorizing the superintendent of the state police to refuse a request to carry a handgun when made by a retired trooper not living in West Virginia
HB 4355 - Making it a felony offense to disarm, or attempt to disarm probation officers and parole officers
HB 4386 - Restricting the state convict road force from working around schools and child care centers
HB 4531 - Mandating that shackling of pregnant women who are incarcerated is not allowed except in extraordinary circumstances
HB 4603 - Creating a pilot program for incarceration and treating low risk inmates who are disabled or impaired
HB 4628 - Mandatory funding of community corrections programs

Counties (And Related Subheadings) (4 Bills)
HB 2050 - Expanding the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties; and increasing the number of members
HB 2075 - Allowing family court judges to carry concealed deadly weapons without obtaining a license
HB 2117 - Reallocating the proceeds from limited video lottery by increasing the percentages payable to counties, municipalities and retailers
HB 2147 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2286 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2296 - Empowering certain county and municipalities to deny a development activity if adequate public facilities, assets and services are not available to support the activity
HB 2311 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2326 - Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day
HB 2447 - Establishing county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers
HB 2498 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 2515 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2540 - Dedicating a portion of revenue generated from certain severance taxes for the benefit of counties from which the revenue was generated
HB 3108 - Requiring the assessor of each county to prepare a new property tax ticket within three months of a deed filing
HB 4040 - Requiring county boards to adopt contingency plans designed to guarantee one hundred eighty separate days of instruction for students
HB 4129 - Clarifying that municipalities and counties are able to increase the rate of property taxes by more than ten percent in a given year when an election is held

Counties -- Commissions (23 Bills)
HB 2260 - Authorizing governing bodies of municipalities and county commissions to transfer early in-person voting ballots to precincts in the manner absentee ballots are delivered
HB 2267 - Providing that a county commission may establish a program for transfer of development rights without the requirement for an election
HB 2372 - Authorizing county commissions to use impact fees to fund the building and operation of libraries and to administer and provide affordable housing for individuals or families of low or moderate income
HB 2462 - Authorizing county commissions to adopt and enforce noise abatement ordinances
HB 3111 - Requiring county commissions to hold one monthly meeting in the evening
HB 3236 - Authorizing counties to create urban growth boundaries
HB 3254 - Requiring county commissions to adopt and implement county farmland protection programs
HB 4217 - Requiring the West Virginia Enhanced 911 Council to propose Emergency Medical Dispatch procedures
HB 4305 - Relating to limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms
HB 4309 - Authorizing the Town of Moorefield, the Hardy County Commission, and Hardy County's largest corporate user of public wastewater facilities to construct and maintain a state of the art regional wastewater treatment plant
HB 4444 - Authorizing lateral transfers for deputy sheriffs
HB 4546 - Relating to livestock in dire or extreme condition
HB 4583 - Permitting municipalities and counties to use proceeds from the hotel occupancy tax to fund public libraries
HB 4610 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury
HB 4656 - Enabling counties, municipalities, the state and county boards of education to deposit public funds into deposit accounts that are swept periodically into multiple federally insured deposit accounts

Counties -- Courts and Officers (12 Bills)
HB 2292 - Relating to requiring lien holders to notify the sheriff's office via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days after the lien has been satisfied
HB 2466 - Adding one magistrate to Wood County
HB 2677 - Increasing the number of magistrates in Jefferson County by one
HB 3034 - Giving county litter control officers the authority to issue citations for not having proof of proper disposal of garbage
HB 4453 - Adding a magistrate to those serving Monongalia County
HB 4561 - Adding an additional magistrate court clerk to Monongalia County

Counties -- Law Enforcement (18 Bills)
HB 3244 - Authorizing a law enforcement officer to make an arrest and take the driver before a magistrate or court when the person is charged with driving with a suspended license

Counties (And Related Subheadings) (9 Bills)
HB 4177 - Dedicating five percent of coal severance tax to the county of origin
HB 4245 - Relating to county board of education, eligibility of members and training requirements
HB 4247 - Providing counties the discretion to accompany an electronic poll book with a printed poll book
HB 4294 - Requiring banks to provide a bond or pledge assets to secure county deposits under certain circumstances
HB 4334 - Providing general rules for all county and municipal referendum votes
HB 4423 - Providing additional conditions for which counties may provide teachers salary increments or compensation above the county salary schedule
HB 4447 - Extending the time for the Board of Education of Boone County to meet as a levying body to present to the voters of Boone County the question of renewing an excess levy for schools
HB 4460 - Relating to granting licensed real estate appraisers access to commercial or residential review documents
HB 4564 - Altering apportionment of the membership of the House of Delegates by adding a 59th delegate district consisting of portions of Mason and Putnam counties
HB 4652 - Establishing a school calendar committee for each county

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (7 Bills)
HB 2046 - Enabling creditors to collect upon their judgements from debtors who often attempt to defeat such judgments
HB 2078 - Notifying persons from out-of-state who issue worthless checks in this state and who, fail to pay the check and applicable fine or fail to appear in court, that a notice of their failure will be sent to the Division of Motor Vehicles
HB 2492 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2544 - Relating to factors to be considered in granting grandparent visitation
HB 2590 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors
HB 2731 - Increasing the salary of family court judges
HB 2808 - Providing a procedure for removal of county, district or municipal officers
HB 3050 - Requiring disclosure by judicial officers of campaign contributions in excess of $250
HB 3269 - Creating an Intermediate Court of Appeals for each of the state's three congressional districts
HB 4032 - Relating to accelerated parole eligibility for certain inmates
HB 4036 - Establishing the Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission

Courts -- Circuit (7 Bills)
HB 2603 - Relating to nonpartisan election of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 4352 - Authorizing the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to create a Business Court Division within certain circuit court districts
HB 4541 - Authorizing circuit court judges and magistrates to utilize county or municipal jails to detain persons charged with a crime up to ninety-six hours, or, to confine persons convicted of a crime for not more than fourteen days

Courts -- Magistrate (16 Bills)
HB 2060 - Requiring magistrate courts to maintain records relating to successful collection rates on judgements
HB 2079 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked
HB 2428 - Permitting magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2466 - Adding one magistrate to Wood County
HB 2672 - Expanding the powers of the magistrate to prosecute for worthless checks beyond the strict limitations of NSF
HB 2677 - Increasing the number of magistrates in Jefferson County by one
HB 2688 - Prohibiting magistrates from imposing multiple court cost fees for the same matter
HB 2806 - Removing the salary cap for secretary-clerks and case coordinators of the family court
HB 2910 - Increasing the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county
HB 3012 - Relating to electing magistrates by division
HB 3117 - Providing for a total of four part-time deputy magistrate court clerks to be employed to assist with the workload of magistrate court clerks who have often been overburdened
HB 3303 - Increasing the salaries of magistrates who serve populations of eight thousand four hundred or more
HB 4292 - Relating to requirements to serve as a magistrate
HB 4356 - Allowing a nonresident to have an additional ten days to pay his or her fine before the magistrate court sends notice to the DMV
HB 4365 - Increasing the maximum amount in controversy in magistrate court from $5,000 to $15,000
HB 4453 - Adding a magistrate to those serving Monongalia County
HB 4541 - Authorizing circuit court judges and magistrates to utilize county or municipal jails to detain persons charged with a crime up to ninety-six hours, or, to confine persons convicted of a crime for not more than fourteen days
HB 4561 - Adding an additional magistrate court clerk to Monongalia County

Courts -- Supreme Court (20 Bills)
HB 2603 - Relating to nonpartisan election of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 4130 - Creating the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program
HB 4278 - Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule
HB 4352 - Authorizing the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to create a Business Court Division within certain circuit court districts

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (15 Bills)
HB 4261 - Relating to writing worthless checks
HB 4310 - Prohibiting members of the media from being compelled to give testimony, or be subject to search, before a grand jury
HB 4496 - Prohibiting bail bonding companies or bail bond enforcers from providing fiduciary bonds for estates
HB 4619 - Authorizing a new court to be known as the Intermediate Court of Appeals and delineating the structure and duties thereof

Creditors and Debtors (4 Bills)
HB 2046 - Enabling creditors to collect upon their judgements from debtors who often attempt to defeat such judgments
HB 2240 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2282 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2364 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 2391 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses
HB 2599 - Changing the PROMISE Scholarship Program to the PROMISE Forgivable Student Loan Program and establishing deferment and forgiveness conditions
HB 2777 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2853 - Prohibiting the reporting of credit scoring as a part of a credit report

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (28 Bills)
HB 2015 - Creating the criminal offense of injury to a pregnant woman that results in miscarriage or stillbirth
HB 2018 - Making the destruction of a landlord's property which has been rented for residential purposes a criminal offense
HB 2115 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2124 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2130 - Prohibiting law-enforcement officers from asking crime victims if they have insurance coverage to cover losses occasioned by criminal activity
HB 2237 - Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide
HB 2252 - Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees
HB 2262 - Making it a misdemeanor to file a frivolous lawsuit
HB 2270 - Increasing certain penalties for persons convicted of domestic battery and domestic assault
HB 2348 - Requiring mandatory community service upon conviction of a misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence and creating a central registry
HB 2393 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2607 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2609 - Establishing criminal penalties for interfering with medical treatment of a railroad employee
HB 2716 - Clarifying the penalty provisions regarding battery on a police officer
HB 2754 - Requiring witnesses of violent acts or emergency situations to report the incident to law-enforcement
HB 2846 - Relating to criminalizing abortion
HB 2879 - Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child
HB 2881 - Relating to fees charged for worthless checks
HB 2944 - Providing for the criminal offenses of home invasion in the first, second, third and fourth degrees
HB 2989 - Failing to provide or return a minor child for visitation
HB 3019 - Relating to obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer
HB 3059 - Exempting federal, state, county or private investigators from prosecution for stalking due to performing lawful investigations
HB 3087 - Making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace
HB 3141 - Including larceny of copper ground wires or cables from communications towers sites under crimes against property
HB 3263 - Providing that all persons have a right to be free from violence
HB 4029 - Establishing crimes of malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery and assault on volunteer firefighters, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical service employees
HB 4032 - Relating to accelerated parole eligibility for certain inmates
HB 4170 - Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act

Crimes -- Alcohol and Drugs (2 Bills)
HB 2266 - Creating a registry of convictions for operating a clandestine drug laboratory
HB 2562 - Creating the felony offense of unlawful possession of cocaine
HB 2593 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2664 - Reducing recidivism of offenders convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol
HB 2671 - Establishing criminal penalties of not less than two years nor more than ten years for the manufacture, delivery or possession of methamphetamine precursors
HB 2772 - Increasing penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 3239 - Including medical scooters within the definition of "motor vehicle" for purposes of driving under the influence
HB 4018 - Establishing that possession of a mixture or preparation intended for human consumption containing salvia divinorum is unlawful

Crimes -- Felonies (6 Bills)
HB 2008 - Defining "the deceased" for purposes of prescribing that a deceased victim includes unborn children under first and second degree murder
HB 2052 - Prohibiting a person convicted of any felony from holding public office
HB 2121 - Making armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property or school personnel or students a felony
HB 2279 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2383 - Prohibiting any person convicted of any felony from voting in an election of state and local officials
HB 2440 - Relating to the insertion of language which defines acts of violence and makes its false reporting a felony
HB 2562 - Creating the felony offense of unlawful possession of cocaine
HB 2783 - Creating a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated
HB 2802 - Providing for a death penalty and procedures and standards applicable thereto for commission of murder in the first degree
HB 4173 - Making property crimes valued at over $1,000 a felony
HB 4216 - Prohibiting wagering at animal fighting ventures and providing a felony criminal penalty
HB 4346 - Making it a felony to drive a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, controlled substance or other drug that causes serious bodily injury to another person
HB 4355 - Making it a felony offense to disarm, or attempt to disarm probation officers and parole officers
HB 4641 - Permitting the state to opt out of a federal statute that would otherwise not allow a state resident who has been convicted of a felony involving a controlled substance from receiving certain benefits

Crimes -- Juveniles (32 Bills)
HB 2297 - Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders
HB 2342 - Allowing for juveniles to be tried as adults for instances of child abuse resulting in bodily injury and child abuse which results in death

Crimes -- Sexual Offenses (1 Bills)
HB 2059 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility, school bus stop, or other child safety zone
HB 2149 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2546 - Requiring persons incarcerated for sex offenses to register as such at the time they are incarcerated
HB 2641 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2704 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life
HB 2705 - Including additional information on the sex offender registry
HB 2707 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children
HB 2728 - Prohibiting sex offenders from residing in certain areas and subjecting convicted sex offenders to global positional system monitoring
HB 3102 - Requiring sex offenders to pay a fee which is to be deposited into the State Police Retirement Fund
HB 3304 - Relating to residency restrictions for registered sex offenders
HB 4132 - Increasing the penalties for sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion on incarcerated persons
HB 4175 - Amending the community notification and disclosure provisions of the Sex Offender Registration Act
HB 4258 - Requiring sex offenders to verify their e-mail and other online identities

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (11 Bills)
HB 4188 - Anti-Criminal Street Gang Act
HB 4207 - Making it unlawful to send obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant or other mobile device
HB 4261 - Relating to writing worthless checks
HB 4287 - Providing that a person convicted of a crime, under the provisions of the West Virginia Computer Crime and Abuse Act, against a minor is denied Internet access as part of punishment and penalty
HB 4367 - Creating the criminal offense of obtaining nonferrous metals unlawfully
HB 4372 - Correcting a cross-reference in a pretrial diversion agreement section of the WV code
HB 4382 - Providing for forfeiture of property used in various crimes and the disposition of such property
HB 4412 - Reducing from six months to three months the period of delinquency for failure to meet an obligation to pay support to a minor
HB 4422 - Clarifying that law-enforcement may remove weapons possessed after service or notice of a protective order but before an actual hearing
HB 4489 - Increasing the criminal penalties for overtaking or passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving and discharging children
HB 4534 - Increasing the criminal penalty for failing to stop and render aid after a motor vehicle accident; Erin's Law
HB 4541 - Authorizing circuit court judges and magistrates to utilize county or municipal jails to detain persons charged with a crime up to ninety-six hours, or, to confine persons convicted of a crime for not more than fourteen days
HB 4604 - Increasing the criminal penalties for persons who obstruct, flee from or make false statements to law-enforcement officers
HB 4627 - Requiring an automatic home confinement sentence for certain nonviolent misdemeanors
HB 4628 - Mandatory funding of community corrections programs

Criminal Background Checks (137 Bills)
HB 2568 - Requiring background checks on applicants for residence in nursing homes and assisted living residences

Culture and History (4 Bills)
HB 2301 - Prohibiting the demolition of a historic structure prior to a review of and the issuance of a permit by the Commissioner of the Division of Culture and History
HB 2310 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History
HB 2551 - Instituting a "Celebrate Freedom Week" and requiring the instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other American historical documents
HB 4668 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History, and to the Department of Environmental Protection

Disabilities (4 Bills)
HB 2068 - Excluding federal interest income when applying the income exclusion available to those sixty-five years of age or older and to persons permanently and totally disabled
HB 2128 - Relating to minimum grab bar standards for hotel and motel rooms that are specifically designated or intended for use by handicapped or disabled guests
HB 2140 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2338 - Eliminating the six month waiting period for those in the Teachers Retirement System to receive disability retirement benefits
HB 2414 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2579 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2607 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2625 - Providing for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming
HB 2633 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2778 - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five
HB 2888 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors
HB 2962 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 3107 - Issuing special registration plates allowing parking privileges for persons with mobility impairments
HB 3319 - Permitting the parents of an autistic student to seek a change in the student's aide or mentor
HB 4181 - Relating to qualifying for total and permanent disability retirement in the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 4268 - Exempting from certain taxation and toll fees members of the military service of the state or United States who are totally disabled
HB 4281 - Replacing references to "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability"
HB 4410 - Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 4603 - Creating a pilot program for incarceration and treating low risk inmates who are disabled or impaired
HB 4610 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury

Domestic Relations (1 Bills)
HB 2033 - Including a parenting plan with an application for a marriage license
HB 2038 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 2115 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2140 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2238 - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire
HB 2254 - Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn child
HB 2270 - Increasing certain penalties for persons convicted of domestic battery and domestic assault
HB 2300 - Excluding certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2386 - Relating to the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2399 - Providing for tuition and fee waiver for certain child survivors of domestic violence deaths
HB 2456 - Relating to child abuse and neglect
HB 2463 - Providing that adultery shall be a bar to alimony in a divorce proceeding
HB 2544 - Relating to factors to be considered in granting grandparent visitation
HB 2612 - Increasing penalties for failing to report child abuse
HB 2666 - Changing some processes and orders when determining child custody disputes
HB 2796 - Using both parents' income in determining child support, calculation of adjusted gross income
HB 2966 - Requiring both parents to be equally responsible for a child's funeral expenses
HB 2971 - Clarifying domestic relations definitions
HB 3299 - Relating to requirements for self-employed persons to participate in the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement's PayConnextion program
HB 3322 - Creating and issuing certificates recognizing the termination of marriage
HB 4151 - Providing a procedure for disclosure of birth parents to an adoptee, in certain circumstances
HB 4284 - Providing that protective orders in domestic violence cases include the requirement that a respondent wear a monitoring device
HB 4354 - Relating to conditions and arrests in domestic violence matters
HB 4361 - Removing provisions prohibiting sharing domestic violence information with other governments
HB 4412 - Reducing from six months to three months the period of delinquency for failure to meet an obligation to pay support to a minor
HB 4465 - Changing the definition of child for grandparent visitation purposes
HB 4471 - Relating to prevention and treatment of domestic violence
HB 4478 - Requiring a child to be placed with a relative, where possible, when removed from the home of a parent under the Home-Base Family Preservation Act
HB 4479 - Establishing a bill of rights for children in foster care
HB 4481 - West Virginia Child Advocate for the Protection of Children Act
HB 4483 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents
HB 4497 - Extending the maximum length of protective orders in domestic violence
HB 4506 - Relating to the revocation of death benefits by divorce
HB 4639 - Providing for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence
HB 4659 - Relating to the designation of a primary guardian for a minor child

Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia (56 Bills)
HB 2100 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
HB 2103 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2259 - Relating to the creation and implementation of drug-free workplaces in coal mines
HB 2266 - Creating a registry of convictions for operating a clandestine drug laboratory
HB 2452 - Providing that a child born addicted to a controlled substance constitutes child abuse
HB 2496 - Establishing threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possessed by an individual
HB 2562 - Creating the felony offense of unlawful possession of cocaine
HB 2583 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2644 - Relating to prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs
HB 2647 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers
HB 2671 - Establishing criminal penalties of not less than two years nor more than ten years for the manufacture, delivery or possession of methamphetamine precursors
HB 3060 - Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics except for programs operated as community health centers and requiring all community health center methadone programs to monitor patient's pharmacy registry
HB 4018 - Establishing that possession of a mixture or preparation intended for human consumption containing salvia divinorum is unlawful
HB 4269 - Restricting the sale of drug paraphernalia to licensed pharmacies
HB 4461 - Requiring property owners to disclose the previous existence on the property of a crystal methamphetamine lab
HB 4508 - Increasing the allowable expense that may be paid for the clean-up of real property damage by a meth lab
HB 4545 - Drug Trafficking Registration Act
HB 4599 - Requiring that when a controlled substance is dispensed by mail or delivery service the recipient of the controlled substance be over eighteen years of age
HB 4633 - Permitting a medical services provider under certain circumstances to inspect certain confidential information concerning controlled substances
HB 4666 - Establishing a grant program for substance abuse prevention

Economic Development (9 Bills)
HB 2084 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2296 - Empowering certain county and municipalities to deny a development activity if adequate public facilities, assets and services are not available to support the activity
HB 2350 - Providing that the transfer of development rights are renewable
HB 2363 - Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2427 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 2632 - Modifying the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority's power to charge tolls and issue bonds
HB 3113 - Relating to arts, entertainment and enterprise districts
HB 3129 - Creative Communities Development Act
HB 4275 - Authorizing excess funds in the courtesy Patrol Fund to be transferred back to the Tourism Promotion Fund
HB 4288 - Requiring that not less than fifty percent of the moneys remaining in the Tourism Promotion Fund be expended to West Virginia companies
HB 4311 - Authorizing the Marketing and Communications office of the Department of Commerce to promote and sell West Virginia related items
HB 4532 - Allowing the Division of Energy to develop an energy related public relations campaign focused on educating the Washington, D.C. area and the federal government about West Virginia coal
HB 4588 - Creating the 2010 West Virginia Job Promotion, Evaluation and Reporting Act

Education (And Related Subheadings) (17 Bills)
HB 2017 - Authorizing and encouraging county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel
HB 2024 - Reducing staff development programs for school personnel from eighteen hours to twelve hours
HB 2059 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility, school bus stop, or other child safety zone
HB 2085 - Providing county boards of education may study the economic feasibility of exercising an option of engaging in cooperative agreements with local public or regional transit authorities to transport students
HB 2093 - Providing a framework to avoid imposition of policies and practices on the public schools that distract from a thorough and efficient education
HB 2095 - Faculty Excellence Act
HB 2118 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2119 - Changing the compulsory school attendance for children in the state from sixteen to eighteen years of age
HB 2121 - Making armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property or school personnel or students a felony
HB 2126 - Requiring that the State School Board ensure that no class size for grades seven through twelve be greater than twenty-five students to every one teacher
HB 2147 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2269 - Relating to approval of a student for homebound services and their rights
HB 2271 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2284 - Prohibiting individual county board of education members from acting on behalf of the board in an individual capacity unless authorized by law
HB 2310 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History
HB 2311 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2326 - Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day
HB 2340 - Approving fee waivers for certain students and faculty and staff at institutions of higher education and providing that nonresident faculty and staff may get the exemption only up to the amount of in-state tuition
HB 2349 - Providing for continuing contract status for teachers and establishing dismissal and suspension procedures
HB 2352 - Providing nonsupervisory employees of the West Virginia State Board of Education with the same protections against summary dismissal as are applicable to employees of county boards of education
HB 2384 - Allowing the State Superintendent of Schools to designate certain geographical areas as a "School Choice Zone"
HB 2392 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2397 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2481 - Giving state institutions of higher education more flexibility in the planning and operation of their schools
HB 2494 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2508 - Permitting county board of education the power to employ the most qualified person to be athletic and other extracurricular coaches
HB 2510 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2515 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2550 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2556 - Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2559 - Directing the State Board of Education to determine what principal and teacher reports are unnecessary
HB 2563 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2577 - Allowing a public school employee or retiree who missed work as a result of pregnancy to purchase up to one year of service credit in the teachers retirement system
HB 2599 - Changing the PROMISE Scholarship Program to the PROMISE Forgivable Student Loan Program and establishing deferment and forgiveness conditions
HB 2604 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2614 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2631 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2718 - Authorizing public school teachers to purchase one personal computer and related devices per year from the state contract for use outside the classroom
HB 2730 - Authorizing a tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas
HB 2732 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2768 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements
HB 2804 - Preventing a professional educator from taking a coaching position away from a current coach
HB 3026 - Providing a two-tiered personal income tax credit to parents or legal guardians who provide home or private, primary or secondary education for their children
HB 3088 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent
HB 3123 - Relating to donation and transfer of surplus personal computers and other information systems, technology and equipment for educational purposes
HB 3157 - Relating to allowing a county board of education to enter into lease-purchase agreements and allowing the School Building Authority to provide one-time grants to a county board of education for that purpose
HB 3235 - Prohibiting the use of calculators for teaching purposes in grades K through eight
HB 3319 - Permitting the parents of an autistic student to seek a change in the student's aide or mentor
HB 3320 - The Family Education Tax Credit Act
HB 3330 - Charter Schools Act
HB 4007 - Requiring that transportation to and from school be provided for each child that needs or desires transportation
HB 4031 - Providing flexibility in the West Virginia public school support plan for funding regional education service agencies
HB 4040 - Requiring county boards to adopt contingency plans designed to guarantee one hundred eighty separate days of instruction for students
HB 4041 - Authorizing the School Building Authority to issue bonds in the maximum aggregate amount of $500 million outstanding at any time
HB 4165 - Relating to compulsory school attendance

Education -- Colleges & Universities (31 Bills)
HB 2037 - Relating to requirements for PROMISE scholarships
HB 2044 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2067 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2094 - Prohibiting employees of higher education from assisting students in securing abortions
HB 2101 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2131 - Providing West Virginia students with a partial PROMISE scholarship for schooling outside this state for the reason that no in-state institution offers a course for a major or a degree in the student's desired field
HB 2249 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
HB 2256 - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment of state income tax
HB 2273 - Relating to suspension of drivers license for certain offenses if committed by college students
HB 2331 - Allowing teachers who graduated from colleges and universities that are not accredited by associations recognized in West Virginia, to obtain a teaching certificate based on their certification in another state
HB 2340 - Approving fee waivers for certain students and faculty and staff at institutions of higher education and providing that nonresident faculty and staff may get the exemption only up to the amount of in-state tuition
HB 2399 - Providing for tuition and fee waiver for certain child survivors of domestic violence deaths
HB 2453 - Providing a tax credit for scholarship donations
HB 2467 - Providing for special registration plates bearing the logo, insignia, letters or words demonstrating support for Mountain State University
HB 2481 - Giving state institutions of higher education more flexibility in the planning and operation of their schools
HB 2513 - Pay incentives for teachers who teach in their core field degree
HB 2543 - Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion
HB 2550 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2599 - Changing the PROMISE Scholarship Program to the PROMISE Forgivable Student Loan Program and establishing deferment and forgiveness conditions
HB 2639 - Allowing for more teachers to be reimbursed for approved course work
HB 2700 - Protecting academic freedom in higher education
HB 2810 - Providing salary increases for deputies with college degrees
HB 2921 - Relating to tuition and fee waivers for members of the West Virginia State Police to attend a college or university
HB 2955 - Removing West Virginia University of Technology from the merger with West Virginia University
HB 3137 - Special Needs Scholarship Program
HB 3173 - Setting compensation standards for classified employees who work overtime on weekends or holidays
HB 3257 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists
HB 3280 - Relating to higher education capital facilities
HB 3286 - The Eustace Frederick Preengineering and Technology Education Programs
HB 4026 - Relating to higher education capital facilities generally
HB 4145 - Providing services and facilities to assist student veterans at state institutions of higher education
HB 4263 - Changing the name of Marshall Community and Technical College to MountWest Community and Technical College
HB 4340 - Protecting academic speech of professional educators
HB 4399 - Creating the Higher Education Merit Screening Advisory Committee
HB 4488 - Prohibiting cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities
HB 4493 - Authorizing rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding Energy Savings Revolving Loan Fund Program and PROMISE scholarship program
HB 4528 - Requiring the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute to develop a plan regarding neurodegenerative diseases
HB 4553 - Removing West Virginia University Institute of Technology from the merger with West Virginia University and returning it to its former status
HB 4631 - Relating to redemption or repayment of PROMISE scholarship funds when a student drops or withdraws from classes

Education -- Courses, Programs & Testing (6 Bills)
HB 2020 - Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing requirement
HB 2024 - Reducing staff development programs for school personnel from eighteen hours to twelve hours
HB 2037 - Relating to requirements for PROMISE scholarships
HB 2044 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2096 - Requiring the subject of physics as a required course in all public secondary schools for graduation
HB 2131 - Providing West Virginia students with a partial PROMISE scholarship for schooling outside this state for the reason that no in-state institution offers a course for a major or a degree in the student's desired field
HB 2245 - Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school
HB 2249 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
HB 2329 - Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development
HB 2513 - Pay incentives for teachers who teach in their core field degree
HB 2580 - Directing the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction on macroeconomics
HB 2637 - Requiring that all state high schools provide a course in archery safety for hunters
HB 2639 - Allowing for more teachers to be reimbursed for approved course work
HB 2714 - Specifying the types of topics that are to be covered in school programs on personal finance
HB 3234 - Requiring that fetal models be displayed in public schools
HB 3260 - Requiring the accumulation of one and one-half years of instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other founding American historical documents, including the Bill of Rights, before high school graduation
HB 4211 - Providing supplemental funding for providing alternative programs for limited English proficient students
HB 4343 - Labor History Week Act
HB 4349 - Updating terms and the process for approval and adoption of instructional resources in public schools
HB 4424 - Requiring a revised annual personnel evaluation process for all professional personnel that is aligned with the state's new teaching and leadership standards
HB 4427 - Providing an annual $5,000 bonus to teachers of advanced placement math and science classes
HB 4436 - Providing discretion to schools that make AYP to use assessments and adopting instructional strategies and programs that promote student learning

Education -- Retirement (39 Bills)
HB 2041 - Exempting the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax
HB 2246 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2338 - Eliminating the six month waiting period for those in the Teachers Retirement System to receive disability retirement benefits
HB 2345 - Exempting from state and personal income tax the benefits a retired teacher receives from the State Teachers Retirement System under certain circumstances
HB 2385 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System; and providing a one-time supplement for annuitants and survivor beneficiaries after being retired five consecutive years
HB 2390 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2410 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2560 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2577 - Allowing a public school employee or retiree who missed work as a result of pregnancy to purchase up to one year of service credit in the teachers retirement system
HB 2709 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2861 - Repealing the one hundred forty day limitation that a retired school teacher may teach in public schools
HB 3092 - Providing that certain beneficiaries in the State Teachers Retirement System receive an annuity when an eligible spouse has not redeemed the accumulated contributions
HB 4181 - Relating to qualifying for total and permanent disability retirement in the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 4324 - Extending the expiration date of employment of retired teachers beyond the post-retirement employment limit
HB 4663 - Extending the time for certain members to purchase additional service credit for service in the Teachers Defined Contribution Retirement System

Education -- Salaries, Classifications, Leave (4 Bills)
HB 2001 - Providing additional state minimum salary for certain teachers
HB 2005 - Requiring schools to post and make available to the public the schedules of teachers and staff
HB 2013 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2069 - Increasing the faculty senate allotment for classroom teachers and librarians
HB 2132 - Relating to allowing bus operators for county school systems to carry-over years of experience operating buses for purposes of determining seniority
HB 2258 - Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year
HB 2271 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2287 - Crediting a deceased teacher's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and other dependents
HB 2331 - Allowing teachers who graduated from colleges and universities that are not accredited by associations recognized in West Virginia, to obtain a teaching certificate based on their certification in another state
HB 2349 - Providing for continuing contract status for teachers and establishing dismissal and suspension procedures
HB 2370 - Providing for increased compensation for aides and paraprofessionals with large numbers of pupils in kindergarten and grades one through six
HB 2379 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2381 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel
HB 2392 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2437 - Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board
HB 2500 - Establishing school service personnel class title and pay grade for the positions of "Administrative Assistant" and "Legal Secretary"
HB 2510 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2513 - Pay incentives for teachers who teach in their core field degree
HB 2589 - Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as athletic coaches
HB 2670 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2967 - Encouraging teachers who have achieved a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certificate to renew their certifications when they expire after ten years, and continuing the salary bonus for renewed certificates
HB 3025 - Raising the county board of education pay to that of the county commissioners
HB 3186 - Increasing the stipend paid to mentor teachers and enforcing teacher mentor provisions
HB 3272 - Providing a five percent increase in teacher's salaries and adding pay increment categories for teachers with additional hours of graduate work
HB 4009 - Providing paid childbirth leave for higher education personnel
HB 4245 - Relating to county board of education, eligibility of members and training requirements
HB 4345 - Giving teachers credit toward the pay scale for completing an accredited seminary
HB 4377 - Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards
HB 4423 - Providing additional conditions for which counties may provide teachers salary increments or compensation above the county salary schedule
HB 4543 - Reimbursing teachers for recertification fees
HB 4595 - Relating to the minimum salaries of teachers based on years experience and level of education
HB 4608 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel
HB 4655 - Relating to when notices of termination of an employment contract with school personnel, notices of transfer of school personnel and notices to probationary personnel of rehiring or nonrehiring are to be given

Education (And Related Subheadings) (15 Bills)
HB 4290 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 4306 - Relating to public school support computation of local share
HB 4340 - Protecting academic speech of professional educators
HB 4378 - Relating to approval and operation of alternative education programs to prepare principals for certification
HB 4380 - Providing eligibility for a license to teach in the public schools for candidates who are not United States citizens
HB 4383 - Relating to low-performing school accreditation status and consequent steps for improvement
HB 4389 - Exempting sales of personal tangible property and services by public and private schools from consumer sales tax and service
HB 4398 - Redefining planning periods for teachers
HB 4413 - Requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to propose legislative rules concerning concussions
HB 4424 - Requiring a revised annual personnel evaluation process for all professional personnel that is aligned with the state's new teaching and leadership standards
HB 4438 - Creating a commission to develop a pilot program to help at-risk youth in West Virginia
HB 4448 - Correcting an inconsistency in the code regarding school board levies
HB 4487 - Relating to the reporting of assaults, batteries and other incidents on school property
HB 4489 - Increasing the criminal penalties for overtaking or passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving and discharging children
HB 4495 - Relating to special demonstration professional development school projects
HB 4512 - Relating to school bus operators
HB 4543 - Reimbursing teachers for recertification fees
HB 4579 - Relating to the school aid formula
HB 4586 - Providing a $1,200 cost of living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 4602 - Defining the responsibilities of school athletic directors
HB 4610 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury
HB 4637 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 4650 - Allowing the school building authority to designate money for the building of playgrounds
HB 4652 - Establishing a school calendar committee for each county
HB 4653 - Requiring elementary students to have access to a certified library media specialist, art specialist, music specialist and physical education specialist
HB 4656 - Enabling counties, municipalities, the state and county boards of education to deposit public funds into deposit accounts that are swept periodically into multiple federally insured deposit accounts
HB 4662 - Permitting a retired law-enforcement officer to be employed by a county board of education as a resource prevention officer
HB 4667 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to maintain school bus turnarounds in the state
HB 4669 - Granting exceptions to certain statutes to innovation zone plans approved by state board

Education--Facilities (8 Bills)
HB 2297 - Establishing a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders
HB 2519 - Allowing fireworks displays on public school property upon approval of the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Fire Marshal

Elections (14 Bills)
HB 2016 - Providing for removal and election of Public Service Commissioners
HB 2052 - Prohibiting a person convicted of any felony from holding public office
HB 2260 - Authorizing governing bodies of municipalities and county commissions to transfer early in-person voting ballots to precincts in the manner absentee ballots are delivered
HB 2267 - Providing that a county commission may establish a program for transfer of development rights without the requirement for an election
HB 2383 - Prohibiting any person convicted of any felony from voting in an election of state and local officials
HB 2442 - Agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote
HB 2575 - Providing an election to allow resident homeowners, sixty-five years old or older, to defer the payment of property tax increases to their residential property
HB 2603 - Relating to nonpartisan election of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 2657 - Requiring write-in candidates for public office to pay a filing fee
HB 2676 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2764 - West Virginia Public Campaign Financing Act
HB 2864 - Prohibiting the use of touch screen voting machines
HB 2974 - Abolishing the one-vote straight ticket voting in all general and special elections within West Virginia
HB 2993 - Prohibiting any member of the Legislature from fund-raising during any session
HB 2997 - Requiring commissioners of the public service commission to be elected
HB 3012 - Relating to electing magistrates by division
HB 3013 - Prohibiting a cheif deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities
HB 3050 - Requiring disclosure by judicial officers of campaign contributions in excess of $250
HB 4042 - Relating to ethical standards for elected and appointed officials and public employees
HB 4121 - Secretary of State, early voting
HB 4122 - Secretary of State, vote-by-mail pilot project
HB 4123 - Secretary of State, vote-by-mail pilot project phase 2
HB 4130 - Creating the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program
HB 4137 - Using voter registration figures to determine the placement of political parties on the general election ballot
HB 4156 - Relating to recall elections of elected or appointed federal officers that do not hold a life term
HB 4169 - Relating to statewide voter registration list maintenance
HB 4247 - Providing counties the discretion to accompany an electronic poll book with a printed poll book
HB 4251 - Requiring election officials, poll clerks and poll workers to vote in the precincts where they are registered to vote
HB 4264 - Requiring the manually counting of ballots in five percent of the relevant precincts in only contested elections
HB 4313 - Providing that parties advocating passage or defeat of a public question by referendum vote are subject to reporting requirements
HB 4334 - Providing general rules for all county and municipal referendum votes
HB 4442 - Defining a charitable organization in regards to an inaugural committee's disbursement of excess contributions
HB 4452 - Providing incentives for the recruitment of poll workers by reducing the federal adjusted gross income
HB 4467 - Relating to elections
HB 4468 - Clarifying the procedures for vacancies in the State Legislature
HB 4550 - Requiring commissioners of the Public Service Commission to be elected
HB 4589 - Conforming article three of chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, to the requirements of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act of 2009
HB 4632 - Bringing older contradicting language still remaining in the code into conformity with §3-2-5(b)(3) and reestablishing a definition for "independent voter"
HB 4642 - Relating to the agreement among states to elect the president by national popular vote
HB 4647 - Relating to the regulation and control of elections

Emergency Services (45 Bills)
HB 2004 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2238 - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire
HB 2333 - Including ambulance and fire fees as part of the property tax assessment so that the fees and property taxes may be paid with the same check
HB 2597 - Making 911 emergency fees available to be used for both emergency and nonemergency calls
HB 2642 - Reverting the 911 fee on wireless telephones from three dollars to seventy-five cents
HB 2683 - Increasing the amount allocated from the wireless enhanced 911 fee to be deposited into the enhanced 911 wireless tower access assistance fund
HB 2755 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to take control of an emergency scene on a highway
HB 4020 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
HB 4029 - Establishing crimes of malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery and assault on volunteer firefighters, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical service employees
HB 4143 - Relating to emergency medical services
HB 4152 - Making it a misdemeanor to make more than three separate calls to 911 for nonemergency health concerns
HB 4168 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
HB 4182 - Relating to the emergency medical services retirement system act
HB 4195 - Requiring paramedics to be on site at coal mines
HB 4217 - Requiring the West Virginia Enhanced 911 Council to propose Emergency Medical Dispatch procedures

Eminent Domain (1 Bills)
HB 2356 - Exempting acts resulting in the taking or damaging of private property for public use from the immunity granted to a political subdivision
HB 2892 - Increasing any award of just compensation to a property owner for eminent domain takings by nongovernment entities

Energy (6 Bills)
HB 3023 - Relating to oil and gas surface owner's bill of rights
HB 3081 - Coal-to-Liquid Act of 2009
HB 4012 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 4097 - Energy, community development assessment and real property valuation procedures for office of coalfield community development
HB 4219 - Reporting of certain geologic information obtained incidental to oil and gas drilling
HB 4274 - Residential Renewable Energy Systems Tax Credit
HB 4315 - Relating to the tax credit for residential solar energy systems
HB 4492 - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act

Environmental Protection (8 Bills)
HB 2499 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five tires
HB 2680 - Relating to increasing the environmental protection advisory council membership to nine members
HB 2905 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 2936 - Restoring or keeping intact scenic views by coal and timber operators
HB 2982 - Modifying the definition of "shallow" and "deep" wells to allow a shallow well to be drilled deeper
HB 3023 - Relating to oil and gas surface owner's bill of rights
HB 3055 - Relating to environmental permitting of surface coal mining and correcting antiquated language
HB 3279 - Prohibiting any permits authorizing the construction, enlargement or modification of any coal mine waste
HB 3326 - Relating to existing National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits
HB 4001 - Relating to water pollution control
HB 4008 - Green Buildings Act
HB 4049 - DEP, air quality, emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 4051 - DEP, electronic devices takeback program
HB 4091 - DEP, water resources, national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES)
HB 4092 - DEP, water resources, requirements governing groundwater standards
HB 4093 - DEP, water resources, water pollution control permit fee schedules
HB 4094 - DEP, water resources, WV/NPDES rule for coal mining facilities
HB 4149 - Authorizing incentives for energy conservation by electric utilities
HB 4162 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership
HB 4193 - Relating to the groundwater protection fund
HB 4198 - Extending the expired term of a member of the Oil and Gas Inspectors' Examining Board until such time as the member's successor is appointed and qualified
HB 4218 - Modifying the definitions of "shallow well" and "deep well"
HB 4219 - Reporting of certain geologic information obtained incidental to oil and gas drilling
HB 4226 - DEP, oil and gas wells and other wells
HB 4250 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 4262 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
HB 4267 - Creating a mandatory grace period for the payment of water and sewer bills
HB 4277 - Authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to issue National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits
HB 4408 - Creating the "Surface Owners' Rights Recognition Act"
HB 4457 - Relating to the access to and protection of cemeteries
HB 4461 - Requiring property owners to disclose the previous existence on the property of a crystal methamphetamine lab
HB 4492 - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act
HB 4494 - Allowing the Environmental Protection Advisory Council to review, adopt and eliminate rules exceeding applicable federal standards
HB 4510 - Requiring all final actions by the Department of Environmental Protection regarding coal mine permits to be completed within six months
HB 4513 - Establishing requirements for Marcellus gas well operations use of water resources
HB 4518 - Relating to the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 4529 - Repealing certain sections of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 4532 - Allowing the Division of Energy to develop an energy related public relations campaign focused on educating the Washington, D.C. area and the federal government about West Virginia coal
HB 4540 - Requiring restoring or keeping intact scenic views by coal and timber operators operating in those areas
HB 4580 - Establishing a returnable beverage container deposit program
HB 4605 - Establishing that the environmental regulation of business activities performed within the state is not subject to federal regulation
HB 4612 - Relating to imposing a severance tax on the generation of wind power into a renewable energy resource
HB 4637 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 4638 - Relating to air pollution control
HB 4654 - Limiting storage of methyl isocyanate
HB 4668 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History, and to the Department of Environmental Protection

Estates and Trusts (37 Bills)
HB 2097 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2629 - Providing an exemption from estate taxes and the Consumers Sales and Service Tax for certain expenses of any infant who dies before reaching one year of age
HB 2656 - Relating to appraisement of estates of deceased persons
HB 4414 - Updating references from the commissioner of accounts to the fiduciary commissioner
HB 4435 - Relating to estate tax
HB 4496 - Prohibiting bail bonding companies or bail bond enforcers from providing fiduciary bonds for estates
HB 4598 - Relating to filing a memorandum of deed of trust in lieu of a deed of trust
HB 4659 - Relating to the designation of a primary guardian for a minor child

Ethics (27 Bills)
HB 4016 - Strengthening the Ethics Act financial disclosure filing requirements
HB 4042 - Relating to ethical standards for elected and appointed officials and public employees
HB 4069 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, standard of ethics
HB 4115 - Occupational Therapy, ethical standards
HB 4135 - Relating to ethical guidelines for members of professional licensing boards
HB 4418 - Requiring lobbyists to disclose compensation agreements for each registered employer

Fire Fighting and Prevention (1 Bills)
HB 2251 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2294 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2333 - Including ambulance and fire fees as part of the property tax assessment so that the fees and property taxes may be paid with the same check
HB 2519 - Allowing fireworks displays on public school property upon approval of the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Fire Marshal
HB 2615 - Providing discounted motor registration fees for members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2627 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2668 - Establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters
HB 2669 - Providing an exemption from gross income for certain members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2874 - Providing a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter has developed a pulmonary disease or sustained a cardiovascular injury
HB 2930 - Including volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 3078 - Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act
HB 4011 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 4098 - Fire Commission, state fire code
HB 4155 - Expanding permitted uses for revenues allocated to volunteer and part time fire departments
HB 4166 - Expanding the age for firefighters over thirty-five years of age for persons already employed by another paid fire department
HB 4592 - Relating to volunteer and part volunteer fire companies and departments
HB 4635 - Relating to the Fire Prevention and Control Act

Firearms (19 Bills)
HB 2075 - Allowing family court judges to carry concealed deadly weapons without obtaining a license
HB 2121 - Making armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property or school personnel or students a felony
HB 2298 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2299 - Limiting the purchase of handguns to one gun per month
HB 2393 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2428 - Permitting magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2507 - Relating to the discharging of firearms within a certain distance of a dwelling house
HB 2866 - Allowing a license to carry deadly weapons to remain valid until the applicant receives notice the application for renewal has been issued or denied
HB 4014 - Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers employed by a West Virginia law-enforcement agency to receive certification to carry a concealed firearm nationwide
HB 4238 - State Police, carrying of handgun by retired or medically discharged members
HB 4241 - Authorizing the superintendent of the state police to refuse a request to carry a handgun when made by a retired trooper not living in West Virginia
HB 4256 - Creating a sales tax holiday for purchases of guns and ammunition during the month of November
HB 4265 - Prohibiting the taking of lawfully possessed arms and ammunition during a declared state of emergency
HB 4280 - Relating to the regulation of carrying firearms
HB 4305 - Relating to limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms
HB 4316 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 4325 - Relating to the regulation of firearms and other deadly weapons
HB 4422 - Clarifying that law-enforcement may remove weapons possessed after service or notice of a protective order but before an actual hearing
HB 4521 - Creating a sales tax holiday for purchases of guns and ammunition

Food and Food Services (3 Bills)
HB 2019 - Prohibiting employees at restaurants from handling drinking vessels by touching on or near the vessel's brim
HB 2143 - Dedicating a portion of the receipts from the tax on food products to be distributed equally to each district of the Division of Highways
HB 2620 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2650 - Eliminating the sales tax on food effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2681 - Eliminating the food tax, increasing the tax on nonintoxicating beer, increasing the cigarette tax, increasing the noncigarette tobacco products tax..etc...
HB 4514 - Eliminating the sales tax on food

Freedom of Information (26 Bills)
HB 4500 - Redefining the term "public record" as it is used in the Freedom of Information Act

Fuel (23 Bills)
HB 2066 - Prohibiting fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline
HB 2321 - Extending the alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit for ten years and making the credit retroactive from the expiration date of the initial credit
HB 2322 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2521 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2619 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 3237 - Making it an unfair trade practice to refuse to refill a propane gas tank
HB 4358 - Exempting special fuel and propane used for home heating purposes from the motor fuel excise tax

Funds (13 Bills)
HB 2044 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2058 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2257 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2274 - Relating to the distribution of the State Treasurer's "Road Fund"
HB 2317 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and that the revenue from these fees are to be transferred to the benefit fund of the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2372 - Authorizing county commissions to use impact fees to fund the building and operation of libraries and to administer and provide affordable housing for individuals or families of low or moderate income
HB 2574 - Prohibiting certain nursing homes from using state funds for activities unrelated to the provision of health care services
HB 2582 - Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds
HB 2610 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2643 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers
HB 2676 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2683 - Increasing the amount allocated from the wireless enhanced 911 fee to be deposited into the enhanced 911 wireless tower access assistance fund
HB 2729 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund
HB 2797 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2912 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 4002 - Specifying that infrastructure projects providing broadband services facilities be included in infrastructure projects eligible for funding
HB 4193 - Relating to the groundwater protection fund
HB 4204 - Using the Crime Victims Fund to fill-in a portion of the property damage deductible for victims of the negligence of an uninsured driver
HB 4493 - Authorizing rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding Energy Savings Revolving Loan Fund Program and PROMISE scholarship program
HB 4502 - Increasing the amount of net terminal income allocated to the Cultural Facilities and Capitol Resources Matching Grant Program Fund
HB 4519 - Requiring all of an established $11 million Racetrack Video Lottery Fund to be transferred into the Unredeemed Pari-Mutuel Tickets account for the payment of certain current and unpaid debt, etc...

Funeral Services (19 Bills)
HB 2045 - Relating to funeral and cremation expenses for indigent persons
HB 2905 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 2912 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 2928 - Clarifying procedures for protection of graves and burial sites
HB 2940 - Exempting funeral establishments and authorized representatives of the deceased from any sales tax regarding goods and services
HB 4022 - Exempting funeral procession from paying tolls while traveling on the West Virginia Turnpike
HB 4376 - Requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents' identity

Gaming Activities (35 Bills)
HB 2117 - Reallocating the proceeds from limited video lottery by increasing the percentages payable to counties, municipalities and retailers
HB 2317 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and that the revenue from these fees are to be transferred to the benefit fund of the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2351 - Prohibiting the placement of automated teller machines (ATM) in establishments that contain video lottery terminals
HB 2430 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2556 - Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2668 - Establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters
HB 2725 - Suspending the future issuing of new video lottery licenses
HB 4235 - Lottery Commission, limited gaming facility rule
HB 4519 - Requiring all of an established $11 million Racetrack Video Lottery Fund to be transferred into the Unredeemed Pari-Mutuel Tickets account for the payment of certain current and unpaid debt, etc...

Governmental Agencies (1 Bills)
HB 2050 - Expanding the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties; and increasing the number of members
HB 2461 - Creating a State Trail Authority within the West Virginia Development Office
HB 2498 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 3049 - Authorizing the Chief Technology Officer to receive confidential records and have access to an agencies' database
HB 3054 - Clarifying that the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration has the power and duty of acquiring and disposing of real property, contracting for third-party real estate services and billing spending units for costs of such services
HB 3230 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years
HB 4141 - Transferring licensure for private security services from the Secretary of State to the Division of Criminal Justice Services
HB 4194 - Codifying the Division of Criminal Justice Services being incorporated into the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
HB 4297 - Requiring regulated consumer lenders to provide notice of change in ownership or control to the West Virginia Division of Banking and clarifying that mortgage loan originators employed by such lenders must be registered or licensed
HB 4318 - Preventing employees and officials of the Division of Banking from taking regulatory action involving financial institutions with whom they may have outstanding extensions of credit or pending applications
HB 4319 - Relating to publication of the State Register
HB 4321 - Relating to underwriting of nonstate employer groups by the Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 4329 - Clarifying provisions relating to functions of the Division of Personnel
HB 4339 - Relating to collecting debts through the United States Treasury Offset Program
HB 4342 - Exempting the Adjutant General and the West Virginia National Guard from state leasing and accounting requirements
HB 4347 - Relating to the functions of the purchasing director and the powers and duties of acquiring real property
HB 4350 - Relating to the functions of the purchasing director
HB 4394 - Relating to the use of mineral rights to benefit state agencies, institutions or departments
HB 4396 - Assuring audited and unaudited agencies included in the comprehensive annual financial report comply with all deadlines established by the Finance Division of the Department of Administration
HB 4416 - Declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state and directing payments thereof
HB 4443 - Clarifying that audit supporting documentation is confidential
HB 4475 - Exempting motor vehicles used by the Department of Health and Human Resources from the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission
HB 4490 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of minorities
HB 4557 - Reviewing all of the Department of Health and Human Resources requests for proposals or change orders valued at over $500,000 prior to their release
HB 4567 - Repealing the authority to involuntary transfer employees
HB 4568 - Authorizing the use of additional medium for use in archiving government records
HB 4578 - Providing that hearing examiners conducting state agency administrative hearings be selected from a panel of five
HB 4581 - Requiring insurance coverage of spouses and dependents for pregnancy and contraceptive services
HB 4582 - Creating reciprocity for West Virginia small, women and minority-owned businesses who receive such preferences in other states
HB 4657 - Relating to workers' compensation programs of state agencies

Governor (18 Bills)
HB 2640 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2658 - Requiring state offices, agencies, boards and commissions to submit annual reports electronically
HB 4368 - Creating an Equal Pay Coordinator within the Governor's Office to ensure pay equity among state employees

Governor -- Bills Requested By (2 Bills)
HB 4025 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
HB 4028 - Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act
HB 4029 - Establishing crimes of malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery and assault on volunteer firefighters, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical service employees
HB 4030 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 4031 - Providing flexibility in the West Virginia public school support plan for funding regional education service agencies
HB 4032 - Relating to accelerated parole eligibility for certain inmates
HB 4033 - Relating to the management of motor vehicles and aircraft owned or possessed by the state
HB 4034 - Authorizing any municipality to enact by ordinance a vacant property registration program
HB 4035 - Relating to electronic filing of tax returns and electronic funds transfers in payment of taxes
HB 4036 - Establishing the Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission
HB 4037 - Relating generally to federal subsidy bonds and bond financing
HB 4038 - Imposing a statutory lien on fire insurance proceeds in the event of a total loss to real property
HB 4040 - Requiring county boards to adopt contingency plans designed to guarantee one hundred eighty separate days of instruction for students
HB 4041 - Authorizing the School Building Authority to issue bonds in the maximum aggregate amount of $500 million outstanding at any time
HB 4130 - Creating the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program
HB 4183 - Requiring a study of the telecommunications tax
HB 4279 - Renaming the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority

Hazardous Materials (3 Bills)
HB 2034 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2489 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2499 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five tires
HB 4090 - DEP, waste management, hazardous waste management system
HB 4105 - Highways, transportation of hazardous wastes upon the roads and highways
HB 4187 - Continuing the current hazardous waste management fee until 2015

Health (And Related Subheadings) (2 Bills)
HB 2019 - Prohibiting employees at restaurants from handling drinking vessels by touching on or near the vessel's brim
HB 2028 - Providing that when any body part of an unborn child is outside the womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state
HB 2034 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2039 - Establishing the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act
HB 2065 - Relating to issuing a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
HB 2073 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2238 - Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire
HB 2255 - Relating to the "Mandated Benefits Review Act"
HB 2264 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2302 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2329 - Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development
HB 2332 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2354 - Creating the Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission
HB 2431 - Emergency Contraception Education Act
HB 2503 - Requiring licensed tattoo artist to inform patrons, prior to performing the tattoo procedure, of the potential problems that a tattoo may cause in relation to the reading of magnetic resonance imaging
HB 2542 - "Jason Flatt Act of 2010"
HB 2583 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2590 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors
HB 2609 - Establishing criminal penalties for interfering with medical treatment of a railroad employee
HB 2693 - Including testing for illegal drugs in newborns
HB 2712 - Relating to rule making requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services
HB 2720 - Genetic Information Privacy Act
HB 2773 - Increasing the monetary penalties for selling tobacco products to minors
HB 2780 - Emergency Credentialing for Health Care Providers Act
HB 2847 - Prohibiting the use of the body of a fetus for certain purposes
HB 2932 - Requiring the approval of board of health rules relating to tobacco use in public or private places
HB 2942 - Prohibiting subsidies to entities that perform abortions
HB 3004 - Permitting individual taxpayers a modification to state income tax for medical expenses exceeding two percent of their federal adjusted gross income
HB 3069 - Providing medical and nonmedical exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 3166 - Health Care Affordability Act
HB 3234 - Requiring that fetal models be displayed in public schools
HB 3262 - Relating to health care provider tax
HB 4015 - Relating to civil actions based upon false or fraudulent claims against the medical programs of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4099 - Health and Human Resources, grade "A" pasteurized milk
HB 4100 - Health and Human Resources, fees for services
HB 4101 - Health and Human Resources, distribution of state aid funds to local boards of health
HB 4102 - Health and Human Resources, nurse aide abuse registry
HB 4103 - Health Care Authority, hospital ambulatory health care facilities
HB 4138 - Relating to the practice of medical imaging and radiation therapy
HB 4150 - West Virginia Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being Act
HB 4153 - Creating an Office for Oral Health under the Bureau for Public Health
HB 4164 - Creating of a pilot program for the placement of children four to ten years of age in foster care which shall be known as Jacob's Law
HB 4167 - Creating a special revenue fund, known as the Department of Health and Human Resources Safety and Treatment Fund
HB 4168 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System

Health -- Facilities (15 Bills)
HB 2035 - Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed
HB 2049 - Providing that a legally unlicensed personal care home may house up to four unrelated residents if there is at least one full-time employee working at the home
HB 2054 - Providing a mechanism whereby unused, unexpired nonnarcotic drugs previously owned by a deceased nursing home patient or resident may be donated to free health care clinics in the state
HB 2055 - Requiring nursing homes to publicly post staffing information and granting rights to family councils
HB 2146 - Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures
HB 2257 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2278 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2364 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 2377 - Providing for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff
HB 2447 - Establishing county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers
HB 2516 - Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility
HB 2543 - Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion
HB 2568 - Requiring background checks on applicants for residence in nursing homes and assisted living residences
HB 2574 - Prohibiting certain nursing homes from using state funds for activities unrelated to the provision of health care services
HB 2636 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2644 - Relating to prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs
HB 2647 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers
HB 2729 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund
HB 2785 - Requiring that every house, dwelling or business located in an area where public water services are made available for the first time, be connected
HB 2848 - Requiring development of a program for payment of personal needs funds to Medicaid recipients in nursing homes
HB 3060 - Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics except for programs operated as community health centers and requiring all community health center methadone programs to monitor patient's pharmacy registry
HB 3124 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources and Medicaid to provide financial assistance to persons in assisted living facilities
HB 3311 - Clarifying that hospitals owned or operated by nonprofit corporations, nonprofit associations or local government units have only one governing body whose meetings shall be open to the public
HB 4186 - Relating to the practice of nursing home administration
HB 4189 - Establishing an independent dispute resolution process for nursing homes
HB 4425 - Developing a pilot program for unlicensed personnel to administer medication in a nursing home
HB 4426 - Ending the requirement that health facilities acquire a certificate of need to open

Health -- Insurance (15 Bills)
HB 2048 - Providing for the continuance of medical coverage for the spouse of a deceased retired public employee for any period previously purchased with accumulated leave
HB 2111 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2332 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2425 - Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2576 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2605 - Requiring accident and sickness insurance providers and HMO's to cover the treatment of Lyme disease
HB 2635 - Allowing the federal adjusted gross income deduction for the amount spent for medical expenses
HB 2655 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2679 - Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology
HB 3126 - Requiring the DHHR to annually review and adjust rates it pays to care providers
HB 3190 - Allowing the purchase of service credit for those emergency services officers who transferred into the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System from the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)
HB 3250 - Excluding indigent persons from receiving health care records free of charge when represented by an organization or an attorney that is charging a fee
HB 4197 - Relating to health maintenance organizations
HB 4215 - Prohibiting gender discrimination in health care insurance plans
HB 4272 - Expanding the applicability of Prescription Fairness Act requirements to dependants covered by health insurance for contraceptive coverage
HB 4282 - Creating the "Health Care Choice Act"
HB 4302 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 4649 - Relating to health care forms and data

Health -- Personnel (91 Bills)
HB 2014 - Eliminating the severance tax and the health care provider tax on behavior health providers
HB 2029 - Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity
HB 2053 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2136 - Providing limited immunity from civil damages for persons who volunteer their services to public health departments
HB 2248 - Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises
HB 2263 - Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus by using ultrasound
HB 2278 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2377 - Providing for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff
HB 2382 - Salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health
HB 2391 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses
HB 2394 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2398 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2493 - Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor
HB 2520 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a woman suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2706 - Relating to exempting physicians from obtaining Medicaid preauthorization for certain medical conditions
HB 2717 - Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus
HB 2741 - Authorizing mental hygiene commissioners to sign readmission orders
HB 2906 - Prohibiting persons who are not licensed physicians from performing an abortion
HB 3021 - Medication Administration by Certified Medicine Aides Act
HB 4108 - Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules
HB 4176 - Relating to credentialing of health care practitioners
HB 4375 - Relating to retaining nursing educators

Health (And Related Subheadings) (10 Bills)
HB 4195 - Requiring paramedics to be on site at coal mines
HB 4220 - Relating to the practice of medical imaging and radiation therapy
HB 4221 - Permitting a person who has practiced nuclear medicine technology for a certain time to be eligible for licensure
HB 4229 - Health and Human Resources, out-of-school time child care center licensing requirements
HB 4411 - Relating to the care of aborted fetuses
HB 4415 - Establishing the "Primary Stroke Center Hospital Designation Act"
HB 4434 - Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced nurse practitioners
HB 4462 - Allowing a modification reducing federal adjusted gross when medical expenses exceed $2,000 a year
HB 4474 - Increasing the representation on the Health Information Network Board
HB 4488 - Prohibiting cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities
HB 4499 - Raising the age of consent that a minor may refuse mental health treatment
HB 4507 - Establishing procedures for appealing an adverse decision or action taken by a local board of health
HB 4517 - Requiring that a person who is undergoing an abortion be offered the opportunity to view available ultrasound images of the fetus
HB 4520 - Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient
HB 4551 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 4555 - Permitting persons with schizophrenic "reality disorder" two opportunities to sign a durable power of attorney
HB 4557 - Reviewing all of the Department of Health and Human Resources requests for proposals or change orders valued at over $500,000 prior to their release
HB 4562 - Encouraging and assisting persons diagnosed with schizophrenic reality disorder in designating a durable medical power of attorney
HB 4563 - Extending the termination date of the modified mental hygiene procedures pilot project
HB 4569 - Reviewing the rates of all stand alone rehabilitation hospitals and developing and implementing a rate methodology
HB 4571 - Abortion Complication Reporting Act
HB 4572 - Utilization of Unused Prescription Medications Act
HB 4574 - Authorizing regional water authorities, regional wastewater authorities and regional water and wastewater authorities to provide for the joint maintenance of its participating public agencies
HB 4596 - Removing the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health from professional licensure boards
HB 4607 - Establishing the Oral Health Pilot Program in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region
HB 4613 - Permitting unlicensed personnel to administer medications in certain circumstances
HB 4633 - Permitting a medical services provider under certain circumstances to inspect certain confidential information concerning controlled substances
HB 4640 - Initiating the Healthy Lifestyles Restaurant Calorie Posting Program
HB 4658 - Capping the Medical Services Trust Fund and redirecting excess funding
HB 4666 - Establishing a grant program for substance abuse prevention

Holidays (3 Bills)
HB 2064 - Designating the seventh day of December, "Pearl Harbor Day," as a legal state holiday
HB 2113 - Providing overtime pay for all employees who are required to work holidays regardless if the holiday hours are in excess of a forty hour workweek
HB 3088 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent
HB 3089 - Designating December 7 of each year as "West Virginia Patriots of World War II" and making it a state holiday
HB 3291 - Adding a special memorial day to celebrate the victory of democracy in the Cold War
HB 4027 - Providing that activities, documents and records of the government be in English

Human Services (19 Bills)
HB 2015 - Creating the criminal offense of injury to a pregnant woman that results in miscarriage or stillbirth
HB 2028 - Providing that when any body part of an unborn child is outside the womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state
HB 2045 - Relating to funeral and cremation expenses for indigent persons
HB 2057 - Requiring the department of health and human resources to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations
HB 2374 - Requiring any faith-based facility that counsels women regarding contraception, abortion or pregnancy to maintain a quality assurance program
HB 2431 - Emergency Contraception Education Act
HB 2440 - Relating to the insertion of language which defines acts of violence and makes its false reporting a felony
HB 2644 - Relating to prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs
HB 2712 - Relating to rule making requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services
HB 2848 - Requiring development of a program for payment of personal needs funds to Medicaid recipients in nursing homes
HB 2850 - Requiring recipients of state assistance to show photo identification
HB 2888 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors
HB 3069 - Providing medical and nonmedical exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 3124 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources and Medicaid to provide financial assistance to persons in assisted living facilities
HB 3126 - Requiring the DHHR to annually review and adjust rates it pays to care providers
HB 3159 - Prohibiting moneys from any state fund or funding source to be expended for any abortion unless the abortion qualifies for federal funding under Medicaid
HB 4015 - Relating to civil actions based upon false or fraudulent claims against the medical programs of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4164 - Creating of a pilot program for the placement of children four to ten years of age in foster care which shall be known as Jacob's Law
HB 4409 - Creating the Workers' Lifetime Total Disability Fund and the Supplemental Personal Needs Allowance Fund
HB 4410 - Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 4419 - Developing caseload standards for the Department of Health and Human Resource program areas
HB 4482 - Creating a random drug testing program for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits and for elected officials
HB 4499 - Raising the age of consent that a minor may refuse mental health treatment
HB 4516 - Requiring recipients of state assistance to show photo identification
HB 4544 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 4555 - Permitting persons with schizophrenic "reality disorder" two opportunities to sign a durable power of attorney
HB 4563 - Extending the termination date of the modified mental hygiene procedures pilot project
HB 4591 - Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 4641 - Permitting the state to opt out of a federal statute that would otherwise not allow a state resident who has been convicted of a felony involving a controlled substance from receiving certain benefits
HB 4644 - Providing a $5000 salary increase to social workers employed by the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4658 - Capping the Medical Services Trust Fund and redirecting excess funding

Infrastructure (20 Bills)
HB 2425 - Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects
HB 2427 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 4002 - Specifying that infrastructure projects providing broadband services facilities be included in infrastructure projects eligible for funding

Inspections (2 Bills)
HB 2264 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2295 - Requiring a certified person to examine underground mines after cutting and welding has been performed

Insurance -- Health (31 Bills)
HB 2111 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2425 - Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2576 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2605 - Requiring accident and sickness insurance providers and HMO's to cover the treatment of Lyme disease
HB 2655 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2858 - Requiring insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorder
HB 3002 - Allowing private citizens the freedom to enter into private contracts for health care services or health care coverage or both
HB 3307 - Requiring managed care plan providers to reimburse limited out of network medical expenses
HB 4053 - Insurance Commission, WV life and health insurance guaranty association act
HB 4054 - Insurance Commission, viatical settlements
HB 4197 - Relating to health maintenance organizations
HB 4215 - Prohibiting gender discrimination in health care insurance plans
HB 4227 - Directors of the WV Health Insurance Plan, premium, subsidy
HB 4228 - Directors of the WV Health Insurance Plan, pre-existing conditions exclusion
HB 4231 - Insurance Commission, annuity disclosure
HB 4254 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 4255 - Creating a temporary health information technology reinvestment fee for health insurers
HB 4272 - Expanding the applicability of Prescription Fairness Act requirements to dependants covered by health insurance for contraceptive coverage
HB 4281 - Replacing references to "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability"
HB 4282 - Creating the "Health Care Choice Act"
HB 4301 - Clarifying that surviving spouses and dependents of deceased public employees may only participate in major medical group plans
HB 4410 - Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 4581 - Requiring insurance coverage of spouses and dependents for pregnancy and contraceptive services
HB 4591 - Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 4649 - Relating to health care forms and data

Insurance -- Motor Vehicles (13 Bills)
HB 2006 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2071 - Prohibiting discrimination in rates by insurance companies because of having filed claims under the uninsured and under insured coverage of an automobile policy
HB 2509 - Relating to proof of financial responsibility in motor vehicle insurance
HB 2526 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 2537 - Preventing insurers from increasing the rates for auto liability or homeowners insurance for persons over the age of sixty-five based solely on their age
HB 2895 - Determining the value of a motor vehicle in a claim
HB 4395 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to utilize an electronic insurance verification program to identify uninsured motor vehicles

Insurance -- Public Employees (6 Bills)
HB 2287 - Crediting a deceased teacher's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and other dependents
HB 2627 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2646 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2897 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2927 - Requiring the Legislature to approve changes in costs imposed by the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board
HB 2930 - Including volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2956 - Prohibiting the finance board pursuant to the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act from increasing the types and levels of costs to applicable current and retired employees during the 2010 and 2011 plan years
HB 3162 - Prohibiting coverage for abortions under insurance plans provided under the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 4163 - Relating to the administration of the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 4178 - Prohibiting the Finance Board of the Public Employees Insurance Agency from increasing costs to retirees
HB 4210 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board to have a quorum of five members present at any public hearing
HB 4300 - Prohibiting the imposition of preexisting condition limitations on employees under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act, and limiting the occasions upon which employees may enroll or make benefit changes
HB 4301 - Clarifying that surviving spouses and dependents of deceased public employees may only participate in major medical group plans
HB 4303 - Clarifying that the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board may offset annual retiree premium increases
HB 4321 - Relating to underwriting of nonstate employer groups by the Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 4430 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency and its contractors, under certain circumstances, to advertise that they are seeking bids prior to accepting bids
HB 4587 - Freezing PEIA employee premiums for three years
HB 4600 - Allowing the West Virginia University Board of Governors to participate in the Public Employees Insurance Agency Insurance Program or another insurance program
HB 4621 - Repealing the 80-20 requirements for payment of 20% of the aggregate premium by active employees, to prevent premium increases unless there is an increase in salary or pensions

Insurance (And Related Subheadings) (10 Bills)
HB 2021 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2092 - Prohibiting inquiries reflected on a credit report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2130 - Prohibiting law-enforcement officers from asking crime victims if they have insurance coverage to cover losses occasioned by criminal activity
HB 2240 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2282 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2369 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2552 - Revising Insurance Commissioner reporting requirements to the Legislature on workers' compensation insurance rules
HB 2777 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 3040 - Expanding the insurance fraud unit
HB 3297 - Relating to the Office of Consumer Advocacy, and allowing the Director to participate in the review and consideration of any rate filing
HB 4038 - Imposing a statutory lien on fire insurance proceeds in the event of a total loss to real property
HB 4106 - Insurance Commission, mental health parity
HB 4107 - Insurance Commission, use of senior-specific certifications and professional designations in the sale of life insurance and annuities
HB 4128 - Relating to insurance companies deemed to be in hazardous financial condition
HB 4159 - Requiring insurers to notify insureds of all rate increases before they take effect
HB 4191 - Eliminating the Insurance Commissioner's exemption relating to workers' compensation rulemaking
HB 4204 - Using the Crime Victims Fund to fill-in a portion of the property damage deductible for victims of the negligence of an uninsured driver
HB 4230 - Insurance Commission, variable life insurance
HB 4232 - Insurance Commission, medicare supplement insurance
HB 4233 - Insurance Commission, coordination of health benefits
HB 4234 - Insurance Commission, preventive care pilot program
HB 4243 - Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensing and Regulation Act
HB 4260 - Relating to insurance adjusters
HB 4273 - Relating to professional employer organizations
HB 4298 - Exempting certain employers and employees from the requirements of the insurance provisions of chapter thirty-three of this code
HB 4299 - Providing that nonstate retired employees who have worked for their last nonstate employer for less than five years are responsible for their entire premium cost
HB 4366 - Requiring insurers issuing group accident and sickness insurance policies to certain employers to furnish claims loss experience
HB 4373 - Eliminating the twelve-month look-back period for certain children who have had employer sponsored insurance
HB 4560 - Eliminating the agency of Insurance Commissioner
HB 4615 - Authorizing political subdivisions to establish risk pools to insure their workers' compensation risks
HB 4630 - Relating to refunding of appraisal fees

Interim Studies (34 Bills)
HB 2234 - Relating to increasing the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make for an individual award
HB 3186 - Increasing the stipend paid to mentor teachers and enforcing teacher mentor provisions

Internet (4 Bills)
HB 2658 - Requiring state offices, agencies, boards and commissions to submit annual reports electronically
HB 2679 - Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology
HB 3019 - Relating to obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer
HB 4002 - Specifying that infrastructure projects providing broadband services facilities be included in infrastructure projects eligible for funding
HB 4258 - Requiring sex offenders to verify their e-mail and other online identities
HB 4287 - Providing that a person convicted of a crime, under the provisions of the West Virginia Computer Crime and Abuse Act, against a minor is denied Internet access as part of punishment and penalty

Labor (4 Bills)
HB 2021 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2129 - Requiring bids under state contract to disclose the location of work to be performed or risk state termination of the contract
HB 2236 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2247 - Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek
HB 2640 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2751 - Exempting nonprofit corporations from paying prevailing wages in certain circumstances
HB 2768 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements
HB 2784 - Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements
HB 2871 - Verifying legal employment status of workers
HB 2883 - West Virginia Right to Work Law
HB 2909 - Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws
HB 3009 - Changing the definition of "construction" to only include projects whose total costs are more than $200,000 in the prevailing wage law
HB 3061 - Increasing the spending limits on contracts involving the expenditure by a public service district for construction work or for the purchase of equipment and improvements, without seeking competitive bids
HB 3156 - Establishing the West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program
HB 3301 - Authorizing Division of Labor to verify employers records relating to employees legal employment status
HB 4010 - Providing that all employees have the right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file
HB 4266 - Verifying legal employment status of workers
HB 4298 - Exempting certain employers and employees from the requirements of the insurance provisions of chapter thirty-three of this code
HB 4299 - Providing that nonstate retired employees who have worked for their last nonstate employer for less than five years are responsible for their entire premium cost
HB 4300 - Prohibiting the imposition of preexisting condition limitations on employees under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act, and limiting the occasions upon which employees may enroll or make benefit changes
HB 4332 - Permitting certain part-time employees to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits
HB 4357 - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts
HB 4359 - Requiring local labor for public construction projects
HB 4369 - Clarifying that waitresses are eligible to receive the state minimum wage set before tips or gratuities
HB 4387 - Flexible Leave Act
HB 4421 - Removing the provision specifying a termination date for the Equal Pay Commission
HB 4577 - Relating to elevator inspections and classifications of licensure
HB 4623 - Adding six additional members to the Equal Pay Commission, three from the House of Delegates and three from the Senate
HB 4645 - Relating to the West Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

Languages (6 Bills)
HB 2106 - Making English the official language of West Virginia
HB 3014 - Requiring all governmental documents to be printed in English
HB 4027 - Providing that activities, documents and records of the government be in English
HB 4211 - Providing supplemental funding for providing alternative programs for limited English proficient students

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2088 - Providing for the temporary detention of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officers where probable cause appears to exist
HB 2130 - Prohibiting law-enforcement officers from asking crime victims if they have insurance coverage to cover losses occasioned by criminal activity
HB 2135 - Providing for reexamination of drivers holding valid drivers licenses who are observed by police officers violating traffic laws or who appear to have caused accidents as the result of negligence or inadequate driving skill
HB 2366 - Relating to fleeing from a law-enforcement officer
HB 2393 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2496 - Establishing threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possessed by an individual
HB 2545 - Providing arresting agency shall pay cost for the initial twenty-four hours of incarceration
HB 2716 - Clarifying the penalty provisions regarding battery on a police officer
HB 2754 - Requiring witnesses of violent acts or emergency situations to report the incident to law-enforcement
HB 2810 - Providing salary increases for deputies with college degrees
HB 2842 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate
HB 2911 - Establishing a state law-enforcement association members annual leave program
HB 3244 - Authorizing a law enforcement officer to make an arrest and take the driver before a magistrate or court when the person is charged with driving with a suspended license
HB 3267 - Providing procedures to protect motor vehicle operators with regard to searches of their motor vehicles by law-enforcement officers
HB 4011 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 4014 - Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers employed by a West Virginia law-enforcement agency to receive certification to carry a concealed firearm nationwide
HB 4136 - Relating to delinquent land sales by the sheriff
HB 4180 - Clarifying the authority of the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board to determine the participating employer contribution rate under the provisions of the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 4184 - Relating to mandatory anti-racial profiling training for certain law-enforcement officers
HB 4185 - Relating to mandatory retirement age of deputy sheriffs

Law Enforcement -- County/Municipal (10 Bills)
HB 2292 - Relating to requiring lien holders to notify the sheriff's office via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days after the lien has been satisfied
HB 3013 - Prohibiting a cheif deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities
HB 3148 - Permitting a county sheriff when acting as a conservator to retain five percent of the protected person's estate, up to $250 per year
HB 4190 - Clarifying an exception that allow sheriffs to collect property taxes in more than two installments
HB 4444 - Authorizing lateral transfers for deputy sheriffs
HB 4484 - Relating to reinstating former chiefs of police to previously held positions within the paid police department

Law Enforcement -- State Police (4 Bills)
HB 2090 - Providing a housing supplement for members of the State Police
HB 2294 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2434 - Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions
HB 2472 - Establishing a West Virginia State Trooper's Association leave donation program
HB 2523 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police
HB 2601 - Allowing the Superintendent of the State Police to charge a one hundred dollar motor vehicle inspection facility application fee
HB 2617 - Waiving tuition and fees for members of the WV State Police
HB 2618 - Compensating state troopers for call-back time
HB 2914 - Relating to West Virginia State Police receiving on-call and off-duty pay
HB 2921 - Relating to tuition and fee waivers for members of the West Virginia State Police to attend a college or university
HB 3102 - Requiring sex offenders to pay a fee which is to be deposited into the State Police Retirement Fund
HB 4238 - State Police, carrying of handgun by retired or medically discharged members
HB 4241 - Authorizing the superintendent of the state police to refuse a request to carry a handgun when made by a retired trooper not living in West Virginia
HB 4291 - Eliminating duplicitous criminal background investigations with both the West Virginia State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
HB 4397 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers
HB 4404 - Imposing penalties for falsifying retirement records under the West Virginia State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (30 Bills)
HB 4237 - West Virginia State Police Career Progression System
HB 4257 - Authorizing the law-enforcement agency responsible for a forfeited motor vehicle to trade the motor vehicle in certain circumstances
HB 4353 - Allowing vehicles designated by the Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety for emergency response by West Virginia police reserves to use red flashing lights
HB 4379 - Relating to reporting crashes to a law enforcement agency
HB 4429 - Increasing the financial penalties for causing serious injury or death to a dog or horse used by law enforcement officials
HB 4431 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits
HB 4662 - Permitting a retired law-enforcement officer to be employed by a county board of education as a resource prevention officer

Legislature (44 Bills)
HB 2105 - Relating to prohibiting legislators from enrolling in the state retirement system
HB 2552 - Revising Insurance Commissioner reporting requirements to the Legislature on workers' compensation insurance rules
HB 2993 - Prohibiting any member of the Legislature from fund-raising during any session
HB 3090 - Requiring a seventy-two hour waiting period before the Legislature votes on the state budget for final passage
HB 3091 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 4192 - Creating the West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission
HB 4202 - Redistricting of the House of Delegates into one hundred single member districts
HB 4328 - Establishing centralized filing system for reports required to be filed with the Legislature
HB 4441 - Authorizing the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates to approve a public partnership agreement
HB 4451 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature
HB 4468 - Clarifying the procedures for vacancies in the State Legislature
HB 4482 - Creating a random drug testing program for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits and for elected officials
HB 4498 - Prohibiting smoking in the capitol building and all offices
HB 4564 - Altering apportionment of the membership of the House of Delegates by adding a 59th delegate district consisting of portions of Mason and Putnam counties
HB 4623 - Adding six additional members to the Equal Pay Commission, three from the House of Delegates and three from the Senate

Legislature--Rule Making (27 Bills)
HB 3301 - Authorizing Division of Labor to verify employers records relating to employees legal employment status
HB 4043 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, schedule of fees
HB 4044 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, refund, reinstatement and loan interest factors
HB 4045 - DEP, air quality, standards of performance for new stationary sources
HB 4046 - DEP, air quality, permits for construction and major modification
HB 4047 - DEP, air quality, control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment
HB 4048 - DEP, air quality, acid rain provisions and permits
HB 4049 - DEP, air quality, emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 4050 - DEP, air quality, ambient air quality standards
HB 4051 - DEP, electronic devices takeback program
HB 4052 - Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Area
HB 4053 - Insurance Commission, WV life and health insurance guaranty association act
HB 4054 - Insurance Commission, viatical settlements
HB 4055 - Medicine, WV Board of, fees for services rendered
HB 4056 - Motor Vehicles, WV Division of, collection of tax on the sale of a vehicle
HB 4057 - Natural Resources, commercial whitewater outfitters
HB 4058 - Natural Resources, special fishing
HB 4059 - Personnel, administrative rule
HB 4060 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, renewal
HB 4061 - Tourism, direct advertising grants program
HB 4062 - Transportation, valuation of used rolling stock and equipment
HB 4063 - Administration, state owned vehicles
HB 4064 - Agriculture, animal disease control
HB 4065 - Agriculture, integrated pest management programs
HB 4066 - Agriculture, shellfish
HB 4067 - Athletic Commission, administrative rules
HB 4068 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, procedures, criteria and curricula
HB 4069 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, standard of ethics
HB 4070 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, continuing education
HB 4071 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, hearing procedure
HB 4072 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, qualifications, training, examination and licensure of instructors
HB 4073 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, licensing schools of barbering and beauty culture
HB 4074 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, operation of barber, beauty shops and schools
HB 4075 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, schedule of fines
HB 4076 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, disciplinary and complaint procedures
HB 4077 - Conservation Agency, operation of conservation committee and conservation districts
HB 4078 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, teachers' retirement system
HB 4079 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, public employees retirement system
HB 4080 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, state police
HB 4081 - Authorizing the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to promulgate legislative rules
HB 4082 - Corrections, monitoring inmate mail
HB 4083 - Counseling, marriage and family license renewal and continuing professional education
HB 4084 - Counseling, licensed professional counselor fees
HB 4085 - Counseling, license renewal
HB 4086 - Counseling, marriage and family therapists licensing
HB 4087 - Counseling, marriage and therapists fees
HB 4088 - DEP, air quality, permits
HB 4089 - DEP, waste management, solid waste management
HB 4090 - DEP, waste management, hazardous waste management system
HB 4091 - DEP, water resources, national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES)
HB 4092 - DEP, water resources, requirements governing groundwater standards
HB 4093 - DEP, water resources, water pollution control permit fee schedules
HB 4094 - DEP, water resources, WV/NPDES rule for coal mining facilities
HB 4095 - DEP, water resources, monitoring wells
HB 4096 - DEP, water resources, monitoring well design standards
HB 4097 - Energy, community development assessment and real property valuation procedures for office of coalfield community development
HB 4098 - Fire Commission, state fire code
HB 4099 - Health and Human Resources, grade "A" pasteurized milk
HB 4100 - Health and Human Resources, fees for services
HB 4101 - Health and Human Resources, distribution of state aid funds to local boards of health
HB 4102 - Health and Human Resources, nurse aide abuse registry
HB 4103 - Health Care Authority, hospital ambulatory health care facilities
HB 4104 - Highways, use of state road rights of way and adjacent areas
HB 4105 - Highways, transportation of hazardous wastes upon the roads and highways
HB 4106 - Insurance Commission, mental health parity
HB 4107 - Insurance Commission, use of senior-specific certifications and professional designations in the sale of life insurance and annuities
HB 4108 - Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules
HB 4109 - Motor Vehicles, denial, revocation, restriction, or nonrenewal of driving privileges
HB 4110 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 4111 - Occupational Therapy, administrative rules
HB 4112 - Occupational Therapy, fees for services rendered
HB 4113 - Occupational Therapy, continuing education
HB 4114 - Occupational Therapy, competency standards for advanced practice
HB 4115 - Occupational Therapy, ethical standards
HB 4116 - Osteopathy, licensing procedures
HB 4117 - Osteopathy, formation and approval of professional limited liability companies
HB 4118 - Osteopathy, fees for services rendered
HB 4119 - Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund, board of trustees
HB 4120 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, requirements for licensure
HB 4121 - Secretary of State, early voting
HB 4122 - Secretary of State, vote-by-mail pilot project
HB 4123 - Secretary of State, vote-by-mail pilot project phase 2
HB 4124 - Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
HB 4125 - Tax Department, consumers sales and service tax and use tax - drugs, durable medical goods, mobility enhancing equipment and prosthetic devices
HB 4126 - Tax Department, residential solar energy tax credit
HB 4127 - Fire Commission, state building code
HB 4224 - Agriculture, best management practices for land application of waste products
HB 4225 - Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, nonintoxicating beer licensing and operations procedures
HB 4226 - DEP, oil and gas wells and other wells
HB 4227 - Directors of the WV Health Insurance Plan, premium, subsidy
HB 4228 - Directors of the WV Health Insurance Plan, pre-existing conditions exclusion
HB 4229 - Health and Human Resources, out-of-school time child care center licensing requirements
HB 4230 - Insurance Commission, variable life insurance
HB 4231 - Insurance Commission, annuity disclosure
HB 4232 - Insurance Commission, medicare supplement insurance
HB 4233 - Insurance Commission, coordination of health benefits
HB 4234 - Insurance Commission, preventive care pilot program
HB 4235 - Lottery Commission, limited gaming facility rule
HB 4236 - Psychologists, WV Board of, qualifications for licensure as a psychologist or a school psychologist
HB 4237 - West Virginia State Police Career Progression System
HB 4238 - State Police, carrying of handgun by retired or medically discharged members
HB 4239 - Tax Department, West Virginia Film Industry Investment Act
HB 4240 - Tax Department, corporation net income tax

Levies (11 Bills)
HB 2147 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 4447 - Extending the time for the Board of Education of Boone County to meet as a levying body to present to the voters of Boone County the question of renewing an excess levy for schools
HB 4448 - Correcting an inconsistency in the code regarding school board levies
HB 4463 - Imposing an additional levy on property within the county for the sole purpose of funding public libraries

Liability (11 Bills)
HB 2043 - Relating to notification of cancellation or nonrenewal of an insured's automobile liability insurance contract or policy
HB 2101 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2517 - Relating to immunity from civil liability for operators of parks and recreation districts
HB 2537 - Preventing insurers from increasing the rates for auto liability or homeowners insurance for persons over the age of sixty-five based solely on their age
HB 2585 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 3325 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items
HB 4117 - Osteopathy, formation and approval of professional limited liability companies
HB 4527 - Limiting the liability of apiary owners and operators
HB 4573 - Exempting licensed surveyors from liability for defamation or slander of title when performing their professional duties
HB 4611 - Abolishing joint liability and establishing the principle of comparative fault
HB 4625 - Creating the "Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act"
HB 4634 - Defining "spelunking" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited

Libraries (33 Bills)
HB 2372 - Authorizing county commissions to use impact fees to fund the building and operation of libraries and to administer and provide affordable housing for individuals or families of low or moderate income
HB 2732 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 3168 - Creating the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, creating a library board with the power to operate said library, and providing a method of financing the operation of the library
HB 4455 - Changing the Martinsburg public library to the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library
HB 4463 - Imposing an additional levy on property within the county for the sole purpose of funding public libraries
HB 4583 - Permitting municipalities and counties to use proceeds from the hotel occupancy tax to fund public libraries

Licenses (11 Bills)
HB 2033 - Including a parenting plan with an application for a marriage license
HB 2079 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked
HB 2135 - Providing for reexamination of drivers holding valid drivers licenses who are observed by police officers violating traffic laws or who appear to have caused accidents as the result of negligence or inadequate driving skill
HB 2141 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2273 - Relating to suspension of drivers license for certain offenses if committed by college students
HB 2307 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2362 - Creating multi-year hunting, fishing and trapping licenses
HB 2378 - Relating to the removal of the exemption for government employees performing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license
HB 2479 - Relating to the licensing of private investigators and security guards
HB 2725 - Suspending the future issuing of new video lottery licenses
HB 2866 - Allowing a license to carry deadly weapons to remain valid until the applicant receives notice the application for renewal has been issued or denied
HB 4085 - Counseling, license renewal
HB 4116 - Osteopathy, licensing procedures
HB 4120 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, requirements for licensure
HB 4133 - Clarifying the requirements to practice marriage and family therapy
HB 4139 - Relating to professional licensing boards
HB 4147 - Relating to licensing exemptions of persons who only perform the duty of hair washing for a licensed barber or cosmetologist
HB 4176 - Relating to credentialing of health care practitioners
HB 4243 - Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensing and Regulation Act
HB 4286 - Extending the provision allowing increases in DNR license and stamp fees
HB 4380 - Providing eligibility for a license to teach in the public schools for candidates who are not United States citizens
HB 4401 - Updating the requirements to obtain and retain a commercial driver's license
HB 4466 - Requiring that bartenders be licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner
HB 4577 - Relating to elevator inspections and classifications of licensure

Liens (3 Bills)
HB 2292 - Relating to requiring lien holders to notify the sheriff's office via written instrument and to record a release in the county clerk's office within sixty days after the lien has been satisfied
HB 2774 - Allowing any party in a bankruptcy proceeding to compel the bankruptcy trustee to disclose certain information
HB 3094 - Prohibiting the publication of the consideration paid for the sale of real estate or the amount of any lien on the real property subject to the sale
HB 4038 - Imposing a statutory lien on fire insurance proceeds in the event of a total loss to real property
HB 4259 - Foreclosure Mediation Act
HB 4295 - Relating to the gathering and reporting of residential mortgage foreclosure data and statistics
HB 4552 - Allowing any party in a bankruptcy proceeding to compel the bankruptcy trustee to disclose the exact disposition of any property and any compensation derived by the trustee
HB 4598 - Relating to filing a memorandum of deed of trust in lieu of a deed of trust
HB 4651 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien

Local Bills (4 Bills)
HB 3168 - Creating the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, creating a library board with the power to operate said library, and providing a method of financing the operation of the library
HB 4309 - Authorizing the Town of Moorefield, the Hardy County Commission, and Hardy County's largest corporate user of public wastewater facilities to construct and maintain a state of the art regional wastewater treatment plant
HB 4455 - Changing the Martinsburg public library to the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library

Military Affairs (8 Bills)
HB 2064 - Designating the seventh day of December, "Pearl Harbor Day," as a legal state holiday
HB 2104 - Providing benefits for those who have served in the military service
HB 2110 - Creating a special registration plate for the American Veteran's Organization (AMVETS)
HB 2140 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2150 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Veterans' Affairs
HB 2235 - Income tax exemption for veterans who locate in West Virginia following separation from service
HB 2332 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2414 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2432 - Exempting certain recipients of military medals of valor from special registration plate fees
HB 2434 - Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions
HB 2436 - Relating to the definition of "eligible veteran" for certain state training and employment preference benefits
HB 2468 - Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate
HB 2480 - Exempting all military income from personal income taxes
HB 2943 - Exempting veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component from having to obtain a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 3104 - Allowing members of the West Virginia National Guard or its reserves to obtain free hunting and fishing licenses
HB 3153 - Specifying that federal civil service system retirement income derived from military retirement system pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions is treated as military retirement income for purposes of the modifications to federal adjusted gross income
HB 4145 - Providing services and facilities to assist student veterans at state institutions of higher education
HB 4213 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service
HB 4268 - Exempting from certain taxation and toll fees members of the military service of the state or United States who are totally disabled
HB 4353 - Allowing vehicles designated by the Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety for emergency response by West Virginia police reserves to use red flashing lights
HB 4393 - Adopting the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act into West Virginia law
HB 4440 - Adding Granada, El Salvador, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Panama Canal as military service credit for persons who are eligible for public employees retirement benefits
HB 4504 - Adopting the Uniform State Military Code of Justice into West Virginia law
HB 4585 - Creating a tax credit for hiring veterans of the United States Military
HB 4589 - Conforming article three of chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, to the requirements of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act of 2009
HB 4594 - Providing that the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to regulate railroads terminates July 1, 2011, and transferring this authority to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
HB 4609 - Exempting veterans' organizations from consumers sales and service tax

Mines and Minerals (6 Bills)
HB 2081 - Requiring the superintendent or owner of a mine to sign the fire boss record book daily
HB 2103 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2125 - Providing that personnel carriers used to transport miners must be maintained at the working section
HB 2236 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2259 - Relating to the creation and implementation of drug-free workplaces in coal mines
HB 2264 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2285 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
HB 2295 - Requiring a certified person to examine underground mines after cutting and welding has been performed
HB 2314 - Relating to a severance tax imposed on surface mining activities
HB 2369 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2375 - Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining and manufacturing activities and uses
HB 2489 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2640 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2905 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 3055 - Relating to environmental permitting of surface coal mining and correcting antiquated language
HB 3279 - Prohibiting any permits authorizing the construction, enlargement or modification of any coal mine waste
HB 3318 - Creating a full-time administrative law judge for the office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training
HB 4094 - DEP, water resources, WV/NPDES rule for coal mining facilities
HB 4146 - Relating to the public land corporation, powers and duties
HB 4195 - Requiring paramedics to be on site at coal mines
HB 4270 - Relating to regulation of the commercial transportation of coal
HB 4337 - Specifying a minimum share of coalbed methane severance tax revenue
HB 4394 - Relating to the use of mineral rights to benefit state agencies, institutions or departments
HB 4433 - Relating to determining the appropriate penalty to impose against operators who fail to provide immediate notice upon the occurrence of a mining accident
HB 4437 - Creating a license plate for West Virginia coal miners
HB 4449 - Special Mine Safety Property Valuation Act
HB 4510 - Requiring all final actions by the Department of Environmental Protection regarding coal mine permits to be completed within six months
HB 4525 - Changing the composition, powers and responsibilities of the board of Coal Mine Health and Safety
HB 4532 - Allowing the Division of Energy to develop an energy related public relations campaign focused on educating the Washington, D.C. area and the federal government about West Virginia coal
HB 4540 - Requiring restoring or keeping intact scenic views by coal and timber operators operating in those areas
HB 4547 - Coal-to-Liquid Act of 2010
HB 4566 - Providing guidelines for an appropriate relationship between oil and gas extractors and the owners of surface rights and mineral interests
HB 4620 - Requiring that cutter heads, long wall shears and other mining machines automatically shut-off when the methane level reaches one percent

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (33 Bills)
HB 2149 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2365 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to allow Class I cities to enter into one or more agreements with contract carriers by motor vehicle
HB 2389 - Requiring that motor vehicle insurance certificate may be issued only for the time period for which the insured pays for coverage
HB 2494 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2526 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2667 - Permitting motor vehicle dealers to sell certain motor vehicles on an "as is" basis without a warranty
HB 2862 - Relating to towing companies notifying the DMV of abandoned vehicles
HB 3267 - Providing procedures to protect motor vehicle operators with regard to searches of their motor vehicles by law-enforcement officers
HB 4063 - Administration, state owned vehicles

Motor Vehicles -- Driving Under Influence (15 Bills)
HB 2348 - Requiring mandatory community service upon conviction of a misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence and creating a central registry
HB 2593 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2664 - Reducing recidivism of offenders convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol
HB 4512 - Relating to school bus operators

Motor Vehicles -- Insurance (49 Bills)
HB 2006 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2043 - Relating to notification of cancellation or nonrenewal of an insured's automobile liability insurance contract or policy
HB 2071 - Prohibiting discrimination in rates by insurance companies because of having filed claims under the uninsured and under insured coverage of an automobile policy
HB 2389 - Requiring that motor vehicle insurance certificate may be issued only for the time period for which the insured pays for coverage
HB 2509 - Relating to proof of financial responsibility in motor vehicle insurance
HB 2537 - Preventing insurers from increasing the rates for auto liability or homeowners insurance for persons over the age of sixty-five based solely on their age
HB 2585 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway

Motor Vehicles -- Licenses, Registration & Inspection (2 Bills)
HB 2110 - Creating a special registration plate for the American Veteran's Organization (AMVETS)
HB 2132 - Relating to allowing bus operators for county school systems to carry-over years of experience operating buses for purposes of determining seniority
HB 2135 - Providing for reexamination of drivers holding valid drivers licenses who are observed by police officers violating traffic laws or who appear to have caused accidents as the result of negligence or inadequate driving skill
HB 2141 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2239 - Exempting nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee
HB 2273 - Relating to suspension of drivers license for certain offenses if committed by college students
HB 2318 - Exempting motorcycles from the requirement of annual registration
HB 2394 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2432 - Exempting certain recipients of military medals of valor from special registration plate fees
HB 2467 - Providing for special registration plates bearing the logo, insignia, letters or words demonstrating support for Mountain State University
HB 2468 - Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate
HB 2488 - Relating to registration and operation of mini trucks
HB 2502 - Creating and issuing special registration plates bearing the inscription "In God We Trust"
HB 2601 - Allowing the Superintendent of the State Police to charge a one hundred dollar motor vehicle inspection facility application fee
HB 2615 - Providing discounted motor registration fees for members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2842 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate
HB 2876 - Reinstating the license of a person within thirty days upon receiving the applicable proof of compliance
HB 2939 - Providing for the issuance of a special "Disabled Veteran" license plate for motorcycles
HB 2941 - Providing for the issuance of a special "In God We Trust" license plate
HB 2953 - Providing for the issuance of a special "Animal Friendly" license plate
HB 2964 - Relating to issuance of renewal license certificate to motor vehicle dealers
HB 2973 - Providing for the issuance of special registration plates bearing the logo, symbol, insignia, letters or words demonstrating association with or support for the Friends of Coal organization
HB 3107 - Issuing special registration plates allowing parking privileges for persons with mobility impairments
HB 3244 - Authorizing a law enforcement officer to make an arrest and take the driver before a magistrate or court when the person is charged with driving with a suspended license
HB 4021 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a "Choose Life" license plate displaying the "Choose Life" logo
HB 4172 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue special license plates for members of certain organizations upon approval of the commissioner
HB 4199 - Providing for special registration plates bearing the logo, symbol, insignia, letters or words demonstrating association with or support for Bethany College
HB 4206 - Providing for special registration plates bearing the logo, symbol, insignia, letters or words demonstrating association with or support for Shepherd University
HB 4296 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to create and issue special registration plates bearing the inscription "Support Coal Miners"
HB 4356 - Allowing a nonresident to have an additional ten days to pay his or her fine before the magistrate court sends notice to the DMV
HB 4401 - Updating the requirements to obtain and retain a commercial driver's license
HB 4402 - Relating to the sale and use of mini-trucks
HB 4437 - Creating a license plate for West Virginia coal miners
HB 4445 - Relating to establishing new motor vehicle dealership or relocating existing dealership after franchise revoked
HB 4524 - Revising the definition of "all-terrain vehicle" and including a definition for utility terrain vehicle
HB 4643 - Authorizing the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a limited number of license plates to County Prosecutors for use on vehicles

Motor Vehicles -- Regulations (29 Bills)
HB 2006 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2079 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in magistrate court but then fails to appear shall have his or her privilege to drive in this state revoked
HB 2149 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2357 - Providing for a Public Service Commission investigation for traffic accidents involving a motor carrier regulated by the Public Service Commission
HB 2488 - Relating to registration and operation of mini trucks
HB 2596 - Explaining all warranties for the sale of used cars including the requirements for "as is" sales
HB 2736 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motor boats on lakes
HB 2786 - Authorizing Class I and II municipalities to regulate taxies and taxi stands
HB 2946 - Permitting running lamps on motorcycles, motor-driven cycles and mopeds
HB 2951 - Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging children
HB 2991 - Requiring additional lighting and reflector equipment of certain vehicles
HB 2995 - Prohibiting text messaging by use of a cell phone or personal digital assistant while driving
HB 3239 - Including medical scooters within the definition of "motor vehicle" for purposes of driving under the influence
HB 3249 - Preventing vehicles from driving more than seventy-five feet in a center lane designated for left turns
HB 3252 - Relating to additional lighting and reflector equipment required on certain vehicles
HB 4005 - Making the offense of failure to wear safety belts a primary offense
HB 4013 - Establishing the offense of unlawful use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle
HB 4033 - Relating to the management of motor vehicles and aircraft owned or possessed by the state
HB 4109 - Motor Vehicles, denial, revocation, restriction, or nonrenewal of driving privileges
HB 4167 - Creating a special revenue fund, known as the Department of Health and Human Resources Safety and Treatment Fund
HB 4223 - Increasing the safety of school children that use school buses
HB 4270 - Relating to regulation of the commercial transportation of coal
HB 4271 - Relating to speed restrictions
HB 4289 - Relating to the regulation and operation of low-speed vehicles
HB 4304 - Requiring certain participation in the Motor Vehicle Test and Lock Program
HB 4323 - Prohibiting use of turning lanes for through traffic under certain circumstances
HB 4326 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver
HB 4344 - Establishing the misdemeanor offenses of operating a motor vehicle while writing, reading or sending a text-based communication
HB 4346 - Making it a felony to drive a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, controlled substance or other drug that causes serious bodily injury to another person
HB 4379 - Relating to reporting crashes to a law enforcement agency
HB 4395 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to utilize an electronic insurance verification program to identify uninsured motor vehicles
HB 4472 - Prohibiting the use of a mobile communication device to engage in text messaging or additional technologies while operating a motor vehicle
HB 4485 - Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus
HB 4489 - Increasing the criminal penalties for overtaking or passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving and discharging children
HB 4501 - Permitting farm use vehicles to travel on public highways under certain circumstances
HB 4526 - Requiring the removal of ice and snow from vehicles before operating them on highways
HB 4534 - Increasing the criminal penalty for failing to stop and render aid after a motor vehicle accident; Erin's Law
HB 4616 - Creating the temporary natural gas resources transportation road system
HB 4617 - Authorizing the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority to enter into certain compacts with other toll road authorities

Motor Vehicles -- Taxation (7 Bills)
HB 2007 - Reducing the federal adjusted gross income for motor fuel expenses incurred in commuting to and from one's occupation
HB 2321 - Extending the alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit for ten years and making the credit retroactive from the expiration date of the initial credit
HB 2633 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2775 - Exempting antique cars from taxation and fees
HB 3243 - Relating to consumers sales and service tax on motor vehicles
HB 4056 - Motor Vehicles, WV Division of, collection of tax on the sale of a vehicle
HB 4222 - Exempting antique motor vehicles from personal property taxes
HB 4246 - Creating a tax credit for new or converted qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles
HB 4283 - Exempting recreational vehicles owned by a resident of this state who is seventy years of age or older from ad valorem taxes
HB 4314 - Regarding the valuation of motor vehicles and motorcycles for property tax assessment purposes
HB 4575 - Exempting antique motor vehicles and antique motorcycles from taxable personal property

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (23 Bills)
HB 4257 - Authorizing the law-enforcement agency responsible for a forfeited motor vehicle to trade the motor vehicle in certain circumstances
HB 4385 - Modifying the role of the Public Service Commission in controlling certain services for solid waste collections and taxi service
HB 4395 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to utilize an electronic insurance verification program to identify uninsured motor vehicles
HB 4475 - Exempting motor vehicles used by the Department of Health and Human Resources from the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission

Municipalities (7 Bills)
HB 2117 - Reallocating the proceeds from limited video lottery by increasing the percentages payable to counties, municipalities and retailers
HB 2122 - Allowing municipalities to regulate the hours of operation of private liquor clubs by ordinance
HB 2251 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2260 - Authorizing governing bodies of municipalities and county commissions to transfer early in-person voting ballots to precincts in the manner absentee ballots are delivered
HB 2286 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2296 - Empowering certain county and municipalities to deny a development activity if adequate public facilities, assets and services are not available to support the activity
HB 2307 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2447 - Establishing county and municipal authorities to provide for and maintain facilities to house Child Advocacy Centers
HB 2581 - Making changes to the Municipal Home Rule Board
HB 2663 - Expanding the power of municipal parking authority officers
HB 2786 - Authorizing Class I and II municipalities to regulate taxies and taxi stands
HB 2808 - Providing a procedure for removal of county, district or municipal officers
HB 2909 - Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws
HB 3253 - Providing misdemeanor criminal penalty for failing to comply with law regarding sale, lease or disposition of municipal property
HB 3312 - Requiring that any new or increased municipal taxes or fees must have a defined purpose
HB 4011 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 4034 - Authorizing any municipality to enact by ordinance a vacant property registration program
HB 4129 - Clarifying that municipalities and counties are able to increase the rate of property taxes by more than ten percent in a given year when an election is held
HB 4213 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service
HB 4320 - Establishing the number of members for a municipal planning commission for Class IV municipalities
HB 4322 - Relating to the required number of members for municipal boards of zoning appeals for Class IV municipalities
HB 4334 - Providing general rules for all county and municipal referendum votes
HB 4348 - Relating to the discontinuation of water and sewer utility service for a delinquent bill
HB 4360 - Relating to a commission to study annexation
HB 4381 - Relating to annexation generally
HB 4431 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits
HB 4432 - Providing for actual costs to be paid for municipal audits and reducing the cap on audits for Class IV municipalities
HB 4484 - Relating to reinstating former chiefs of police to previously held positions within the paid police department
HB 4549 - Relating to the sale of municipal public utility
HB 4583 - Permitting municipalities and counties to use proceeds from the hotel occupancy tax to fund public libraries
HB 4592 - Relating to volunteer and part volunteer fire companies and departments
HB 4656 - Enabling counties, municipalities, the state and county boards of education to deposit public funds into deposit accounts that are swept periodically into multiple federally insured deposit accounts

Natural Resources (30 Bills)
HB 2062 - Giving the owners of newly constructed homes a ten-year grace period before a connection to a newly installed sewer line is mandatory
HB 2139 - Establishing a volunteer litter reporting program
HB 2145 - Increasing penalties for the illegal killing, taking, or possessing of certain wildlife
HB 2261 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions from state income tax
HB 2343 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2362 - Creating multi-year hunting, fishing and trapping licenses
HB 2461 - Creating a State Trail Authority within the West Virginia Development Office
HB 2471 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2511 - Relating to the valuation of managed timberland
HB 2514 - Verifiable Science Act
HB 2623 - Allowing Class RG and RRG deer stamps to be used to hunt and take antlerless deer
HB 2637 - Requiring that all state high schools provide a course in archery safety for hunters
HB 2935 - Allowing bona fide nonresident landowners or their children, or parents, to hunt, fish or trap on their own land without obtaining a license
HB 2943 - Exempting veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component from having to obtain a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 3062 - Providing that the amount of required acreage for bird hunting preserves may be one hundred acres for privately owned commercial shooting preserves
HB 3104 - Allowing members of the West Virginia National Guard or its reserves to obtain free hunting and fishing licenses
HB 3110 - Renaming conservation officers to be natural resources police officers
HB 4057 - Natural Resources, commercial whitewater outfitters
HB 4058 - Natural Resources, special fishing
HB 4077 - Conservation Agency, operation of conservation committee and conservation districts
HB 4089 - DEP, waste management, solid waste management
HB 4090 - DEP, waste management, hazardous waste management system
HB 4110 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 4286 - Extending the provision allowing increases in DNR license and stamp fees
HB 4293 - Relating to reporting beaver trapping
HB 4470 - Nonprofit Adventure and Recreational Activity Responsibility Act
HB 4473 - Relating to forest fire season
HB 4477 - Transferring certain powers from the Division of Natural Resources to the Division of Forestry
HB 4491 - Relating to the marking of traps
HB 4505 - Providing that Chapter 8A of the Code of West Virginia does not authorize an ordinance, rule or regulation preventing the complete use of natural resources by the owner outside of urban areas
HB 4536 - Allowing, under limited circumstances, a child under the age of fifteen years to hunt or take antlerless deer without first obtaining a certificate of training
HB 4537 - Creating a lifetime hunting license for nonresidents who are sixty-five years or older and who own real property in the state
HB 4559 - Relating to the requirements to be certified as a registered forester

Organ Donors (11 Bills)
HB 2320 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors

Parks and Recreation (27 Bills)
HB 2080 - Providing a ten percent discount to residents at state parks and forests
HB 2286 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2368 - Making the senior citizens discount on campground rental fees at state parks available year-round
HB 2461 - Creating a State Trail Authority within the West Virginia Development Office
HB 2517 - Relating to immunity from civil liability for operators of parks and recreation districts
HB 2579 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2632 - Modifying the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority's power to charge tolls and issue bonds
HB 4039 - Increasing the number of persons that may be appointed to the Marshall County Park and Recreation Board
HB 4052 - Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Area

Pornography (2 Bills)
HB 2291 - Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene materials
HB 2675 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act

Prescriptions and Medications (21 Bills)
HB 2053 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2054 - Providing a mechanism whereby unused, unexpired nonnarcotic drugs previously owned by a deceased nursing home patient or resident may be donated to free health care clinics in the state
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2485 - Allowing pharmacy interns to vend pseudoephedrine and other chemical precursors of methamphetamine
HB 2648 - Protecting the privacy of a person's prescription information
HB 2899 - Adding Tramadol to Schedule IV of the West Virginia Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 2979 - Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications
HB 3238 - Requiring brand pharmaceuticals manufacturers and pharmacies to allow patients to return unused prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines for safe disposal
HB 3247 - Requiring any person licensed to prescribe drugs to check with the State Board of Pharmacy before initially prescribing certain drugs to a new patient to determine if said patient is engaging in doctor shopping
HB 4024 - Broadening the circumstances and types of prescriptions a physician assistant may issue
HB 4425 - Developing a pilot program for unlicensed personnel to administer medication in a nursing home
HB 4572 - Utilization of Unused Prescription Medications Act
HB 4613 - Permitting unlicensed personnel to administer medications in certain circumstances

Professions and Occupations (2 Bills)
HB 2053 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2061 - Prohibiting abusive behavior towards elephants by an owner or manager
HB 2236 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2242 - Creating sales and use tax exemptions for purchases of design and engineering services and materials and equipment directly used in construction of new or replacement amusement rides
HB 2247 - Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek
HB 2248 - Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises
HB 2249 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
HB 2300 - Excluding certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2303 - Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure
HB 2304 - Exempting from personal property taxation, the equipment, inventory and raw materials of crafts people who have had their work evaluated and accepted or juried and accepted by the West Virginia arts and crafts guild
HB 2361 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2363 - Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2378 - Relating to the removal of the exemption for government employees performing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license
HB 2394 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2425 - Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects
HB 2430 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2479 - Relating to the licensing of private investigators and security guards
HB 2485 - Allowing pharmacy interns to vend pseudoephedrine and other chemical precursors of methamphetamine
HB 2503 - Requiring licensed tattoo artist to inform patrons, prior to performing the tattoo procedure, of the potential problems that a tattoo may cause in relation to the reading of magnetic resonance imaging
HB 2510 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2667 - Permitting motor vehicle dealers to sell certain motor vehicles on an "as is" basis without a warranty
HB 2857 - Prohibiting elected state officials from becoming a lobbyist for two years after their term of office expires
HB 2978 - Relating to the practice of optometry
HB 2979 - Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications
HB 3041 - Clarifying provisions relating to posting of job openings
HB 3059 - Exempting federal, state, county or private investigators from prosecution for stalking due to performing lawful investigations
HB 3152 - Athletic Trainers Registration Act
HB 3238 - Requiring brand pharmaceuticals manufacturers and pharmacies to allow patients to return unused prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines for safe disposal
HB 3247 - Requiring any person licensed to prescribe drugs to check with the State Board of Pharmacy before initially prescribing certain drugs to a new patient to determine if said patient is engaging in doctor shopping
HB 3257 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists
HB 3302 - Certified Legal Assistant Act
HB 4006 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including contingent compensation, paid to lobbyists for all lobbying activities
HB 4010 - Providing that all employees have the right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file
HB 4024 - Broadening the circumstances and types of prescriptions a physician assistant may issue
HB 4059 - Personnel, administrative rule
HB 4083 - Counseling, marriage and family license renewal and continuing professional education
HB 4084 - Counseling, licensed professional counselor fees
HB 4086 - Counseling, marriage and family therapists licensing
HB 4087 - Counseling, marriage and therapists fees
HB 4111 - Occupational Therapy, administrative rules
HB 4112 - Occupational Therapy, fees for services rendered
HB 4113 - Occupational Therapy, continuing education
HB 4114 - Occupational Therapy, competency standards for advanced practice
HB 4115 - Occupational Therapy, ethical standards
HB 4116 - Osteopathy, licensing procedures
HB 4117 - Osteopathy, formation and approval of professional limited liability companies
HB 4118 - Osteopathy, fees for services rendered
HB 4120 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, requirements for licensure
HB 4124 - Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
HB 4128 - Relating to insurance companies deemed to be in hazardous financial condition
HB 4131 - Relating to the board of optometry
HB 4133 - Clarifying the requirements to practice marriage and family therapy
HB 4138 - Relating to the practice of medical imaging and radiation therapy
HB 4144 - Relating to the board of veterinary medicine
HB 4147 - Relating to licensing exemptions of persons who only perform the duty of hair washing for a licensed barber or cosmetologist
HB 4148 - Relating to prohibiting members of the news media from being compelled to give testimony
HB 4160 - Providing a tax incentive to dental practitioners to perform dental services at no cost to indigent patients
HB 4176 - Relating to credentialing of health care practitioners
HB 4186 - Relating to the practice of nursing home administration
HB 4220 - Relating to the practice of medical imaging and radiation therapy
HB 4221 - Permitting a person who has practiced nuclear medicine technology for a certain time to be eligible for licensure
HB 4236 - Psychologists, WV Board of, qualifications for licensure as a psychologist or a school psychologist
HB 4243 - Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensing and Regulation Act
HB 4244 - Relating to penalties for violations of private investigative and security services regulations
HB 4266 - Verifying legal employment status of workers
HB 4273 - Relating to professional employer organizations
HB 4285 - Relating to the licensing of residential mortgage brokers, lenders and loan originators by the Division of Banking
HB 4310 - Prohibiting members of the media from being compelled to give testimony, or be subject to search, before a grand jury
HB 4327 - Relating to the practice of beauty care
HB 4330 - Relating to comprehensive revisions of classification plans for classified and classified-exempt employees
HB 4336 - Clarifying that an applicant to practice real estate appraisal activity is required to complete a criminal background check
HB 4400 - Changing standards for continued certification of physicians assistants
HB 4417 - Abolishing the West Virginia Board of Landscape Architects
HB 4418 - Requiring lobbyists to disclose compensation agreements for each registered employer
HB 4425 - Developing a pilot program for unlicensed personnel to administer medication in a nursing home
HB 4428 - Abolishing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists
HB 4434 - Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced nurse practitioners
HB 4450 - Relating to land surveyors
HB 4460 - Relating to granting licensed real estate appraisers access to commercial or residential review documents
HB 4466 - Requiring that bartenders be licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner
HB 4520 - Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient
HB 4523 - Requiring applicants for, and holders of, licenses under the West Virginia Real Estate License Act to successfully pass criminal history record checks
HB 4533 - Relating to powers and duties of the State Board of Medicine
HB 4554 - Establishing a barber apprenticeship program
HB 4558 - Making certain clarifications of the definition of the term employment as contained in this article
HB 4559 - Relating to the requirements to be certified as a registered forester
HB 4596 - Removing the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health from professional licensure boards
HB 4644 - Providing a $5000 salary increase to social workers employed by the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4660 - Setting forth disability benefits for employees that receive a foreseeable injury in an inherently dangerous function required by their employer but outside scope of employment
HB 4662 - Permitting a retired law-enforcement officer to be employed by a county board of education as a resource prevention officer

Public Employees (29 Bills)
HB 2013 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2089 - Allowing certain public employees to pay back retirement benefits
HB 2108 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2111 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2113 - Providing overtime pay for all employees who are required to work holidays regardless if the holiday hours are in excess of a forty hour workweek
HB 2132 - Relating to allowing bus operators for county school systems to carry-over years of experience operating buses for purposes of determining seniority
HB 2234 - Relating to increasing the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make for an individual award
HB 2250 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2271 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2298 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2323 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2367 - Raising the state salary level to at least one hundred twenty-five percent above the Federal Poverty Guidelines
HB 2378 - Relating to the removal of the exemption for government employees performing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license
HB 2382 - Salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health
HB 2433 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2436 - Relating to the definition of "eligible veteran" for certain state training and employment preference benefits
HB 2475 - Permitting retired state employees to transfer from Medicare to coverage through the West Virginia Public Employees Act
HB 2501 - West Virginia Public Employment Relations Act
HB 2518 - Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less
HB 2563 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2620 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2646 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2655 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2676 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2708 - Exempting certain income received by retired federal employees from the personal income tax
HB 2857 - Prohibiting elected state officials from becoming a lobbyist for two years after their term of office expires
HB 2897 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2945 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings
HB 4042 - Relating to ethical standards for elected and appointed officials and public employees
HB 4163 - Relating to the administration of the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 4317 - Providing a $1,000 cost-of-living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 4331 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees
HB 4368 - Creating an Equal Pay Coordinator within the Governor's Office to ensure pay equity among state employees
HB 4418 - Requiring lobbyists to disclose compensation agreements for each registered employer
HB 4567 - Repealing the authority to involuntary transfer employees
HB 4586 - Providing a $1,200 cost of living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 4587 - Freezing PEIA employee premiums for three years

Public Service Commission (8 Bills)
HB 2016 - Providing for removal and election of Public Service Commissioners
HB 2328 - Increasing the Public Service Commission appointees and requiring that there be one appointee from each congressional district and two at-large appointments
HB 2357 - Providing for a Public Service Commission investigation for traffic accidents involving a motor carrier regulated by the Public Service Commission
HB 2365 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to allow Class I cities to enter into one or more agreements with contract carriers by motor vehicle
HB 2852 - Eliminating charges by public utilities for meter reading and minimum bill fees
HB 2997 - Requiring commissioners of the public service commission to be elected
HB 3115 - Requiring the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for secondary containment systems
HB 3329 - Including additional information in the report submitted to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance by the Public Service Commission
HB 4012 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 4023 - Relating to the Public Service Commission
HB 4209 - Requiring at least one commissioner be present before a hearing may be conducted on public utility matters
HB 4267 - Creating a mandatory grace period for the payment of water and sewer bills
HB 4385 - Modifying the role of the Public Service Commission in controlling certain services for solid waste collections and taxi service
HB 4391 - Relating to interconnection and net-metering of customer-generators of renewable energy
HB 4403 - Stopping accelerated rate recovery because of adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities and revising the definition of need
HB 4446 - Recategorizing recycled energy as a renewable energy resource
HB 4475 - Exempting motor vehicles used by the Department of Health and Human Resources from the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission
HB 4529 - Repealing certain sections of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 4538 - Eliminating charges by public utilities for meter reading and minimum bill fees
HB 4550 - Requiring commissioners of the Public Service Commission to be elected
HB 4565 - Providing guidelines for annual reporting by the Public Service Commission
HB 4574 - Authorizing regional water authorities, regional wastewater authorities and regional water and wastewater authorities to provide for the joint maintenance of its participating public agencies
HB 4593 - Relating to high school graduation improvement
HB 4594 - Providing that the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to regulate railroads terminates July 1, 2011, and transferring this authority to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
HB 4618 - Requiring greater information to be submitted by the Public Service Commission annually regarding the quality of service provided by utilities and persons subject to its jurisdiction
HB 4648 - Providing guidelines for an independent audit of the Public Service Commission
HB 4665 - Relating to special rates for energy intensive industrial consumers of electric power

Public Service Districts (36 Bills)
HB 3061 - Increasing the spending limits on contracts involving the expenditure by a public service district for construction work or for the purchase of equipment and improvements, without seeking competitive bids
HB 3121 - Increasing the salary of public service district board members
HB 3149 - Changing the board members of public service districts terms from six years to three years

Railroads (7 Bills)
HB 2609 - Establishing criminal penalties for interfering with medical treatment of a railroad employee
HB 2917 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 4212 - Requiring PSC update railroad walkway safety regulations
HB 4594 - Providing that the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to regulate railroads terminates July 1, 2011, and transferring this authority to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety

Real Property (8 Bills)
HB 2002 - Changing the time for periodic valuations and assessments of real and personal property
HB 2012 - Relating to assessments of real property
HB 2018 - Making the destruction of a landlord's property which has been rented for residential purposes a criminal offense
HB 2030 - Providing a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence
HB 2062 - Giving the owners of newly constructed homes a ten-year grace period before a connection to a newly installed sewer line is mandatory
HB 2102 - Changing the qualifier for low income for a senior citizens' homestead tax credit
HB 2250 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2350 - Providing that the transfer of development rights are renewable
HB 2356 - Exempting acts resulting in the taking or damaging of private property for public use from the immunity granted to a political subdivision
HB 2372 - Authorizing county commissions to use impact fees to fund the building and operation of libraries and to administer and provide affordable housing for individuals or families of low or moderate income
HB 2379 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2507 - Relating to the discharging of firearms within a certain distance of a dwelling house
HB 2512 - Relating to assessed property valuations
HB 2558 - Exempting from taxation certain property owned by a nonprofit organization
HB 2561 - Providing that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor for renewal
HB 2573 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2575 - Providing an election to allow resident homeowners, sixty-five years old or older, to defer the payment of property tax increases to their residential property
HB 2578 - Providing a ten percent cap on any increase in assessment of real and personal property in any one year
HB 2928 - Clarifying procedures for protection of graves and burial sites
HB 2935 - Allowing bona fide nonresident landowners or their children, or parents, to hunt, fish or trap on their own land without obtaining a license
HB 3054 - Clarifying that the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration has the power and duty of acquiring and disposing of real property, contracting for third-party real estate services and billing spending units for costs of such services
HB 3094 - Prohibiting the publication of the consideration paid for the sale of real estate or the amount of any lien on the real property subject to the sale
HB 3148 - Permitting a county sheriff when acting as a conservator to retain five percent of the protected person's estate, up to $250 per year
HB 3253 - Providing misdemeanor criminal penalty for failing to comply with law regarding sale, lease or disposition of municipal property
HB 4034 - Authorizing any municipality to enact by ordinance a vacant property registration program
HB 4038 - Imposing a statutory lien on fire insurance proceeds in the event of a total loss to real property
HB 4060 - Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, renewal
HB 4136 - Relating to delinquent land sales by the sheriff
HB 4173 - Making property crimes valued at over $1,000 a felony
HB 4208 - Requiring a landlord to give at least thirty days written notice to a tenant when property being occupied by the tenant is being foreclosed upon
HB 4259 - Foreclosure Mediation Act
HB 4295 - Relating to the gathering and reporting of residential mortgage foreclosure data and statistics
HB 4338 - Requiring blasting contractors to notify the State Fire Marshal and local property owners before blasting
HB 4347 - Relating to the functions of the purchasing director and the powers and duties of acquiring real property
HB 4362 - Eliminating the state excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property, and imposing a new county excise tax for transferring real property
HB 4382 - Providing for forfeiture of property used in various crimes and the disposition of such property
HB 4390 - Relating to information to be obtained from landowners by assessor
HB 4408 - Creating the "Surface Owners' Rights Recognition Act"
HB 4439 - Requiring applications for farmland valuation every five years unless the property is sold
HB 4450 - Relating to land surveyors
HB 4457 - Relating to the access to and protection of cemeteries
HB 4461 - Requiring property owners to disclose the previous existence on the property of a crystal methamphetamine lab
HB 4463 - Imposing an additional levy on property within the county for the sole purpose of funding public libraries
HB 4464 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 4476 - Increasing the amount for a title examination when a person redeems real property
HB 4486 - Relating to tax tickets and other required notifications concerning property taxes
HB 4508 - Increasing the allowable expense that may be paid for the clean-up of real property damage by a meth lab
HB 4537 - Creating a lifetime hunting license for nonresidents who are sixty-five years or older and who own real property in the state
HB 4566 - Providing guidelines for an appropriate relationship between oil and gas extractors and the owners of surface rights and mineral interests
HB 4573 - Exempting licensed surveyors from liability for defamation or slander of title when performing their professional duties

Regulation of Trade (13 Bills)
HB 2122 - Allowing municipalities to regulate the hours of operation of private liquor clubs by ordinance
HB 2290 - Relating to a no telephone solicitation contact (Do Not Call) list
HB 2484 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2596 - Explaining all warranties for the sale of used cars including the requirements for "as is" sales
HB 2907 - Relating to the sales of wine
HB 3067 - Allowing certain owners of warehouses to store and to transport quantities of alcoholic liquors, wine, beer or nonintoxicating beer which are not intended or being stored for the purpose of sale or use within the state
HB 3078 - Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity Standard and Fire Prevention Act
HB 3147 - Allowing the legal sale of liquor and wine on Sunday to be the same hours as prescribed for the sale of beer on Sunday
HB 3165 - Repealing article of the code granting a business license to sell drug paraphernalia
HB 3237 - Making it an unfair trade practice to refuse to refill a propane gas tank
HB 4205 - Relating to the sale of fortified wines
HB 4244 - Relating to penalties for violations of private investigative and security services regulations
HB 4269 - Restricting the sale of drug paraphernalia to licensed pharmacies
HB 4280 - Relating to the regulation of carrying firearms
HB 4316 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 4325 - Relating to the regulation of firearms and other deadly weapons
HB 4333 - Creating regulations for commercial dog breeding operations
HB 4590 - Bringing consistency of filing deadlines for all organizations filing annual reports with the Secretary of State
HB 4654 - Limiting storage of methyl isocyanate

Regulations (5 Bills)
HB 2049 - Providing that a legally unlicensed personal care home may house up to four unrelated residents if there is at least one full-time employee working at the home
HB 2055 - Requiring nursing homes to publicly post staffing information and granting rights to family councils
HB 2062 - Giving the owners of newly constructed homes a ten-year grace period before a connection to a newly installed sewer line is mandatory
HB 2073 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2092 - Prohibiting inquiries reflected on a credit report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2094 - Prohibiting employees of higher education from assisting students in securing abortions
HB 2106 - Making English the official language of West Virginia
HB 2125 - Providing that personnel carriers used to transport miners must be maintained at the working section
HB 2245 - Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school
HB 2289 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2299 - Limiting the purchase of handguns to one gun per month
HB 2351 - Prohibiting the placement of automated teller machines (ATM) in establishments that contain video lottery terminals
HB 2462 - Authorizing county commissions to adopt and enforce noise abatement ordinances
HB 2675 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act
HB 4001 - Relating to water pollution control

Rehabilitation Clinic (30 Bills)
HB 2100 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
HB 2647 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers

Religious Organizations (17 Bills)
HB 2020 - Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing requirement
HB 2374 - Requiring any faith-based facility that counsels women regarding contraception, abortion or pregnancy to maintain a quality assurance program
HB 2477 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Act
HB 2484 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2524 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2619 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 2809 - Exempting all gallons of gasoline and propane gas for any church, religious sect, society or denomination from the excise tax
HB 3233 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (7 Bills)
HB 2087 - Changing the definition of final average salary to thirty-six consecutive months for calculating retirement
HB 2778 - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five
HB 3156 - Establishing the West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program
HB 4020 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act

Retirement -- Education Personnel (4 Bills)
HB 2041 - Exempting the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax
HB 2246 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2317 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and that the revenue from these fees are to be transferred to the benefit fund of the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2338 - Eliminating the six month waiting period for those in the Teachers Retirement System to receive disability retirement benefits
HB 2345 - Exempting from state and personal income tax the benefits a retired teacher receives from the State Teachers Retirement System under certain circumstances
HB 2385 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System; and providing a one-time supplement for annuitants and survivor beneficiaries after being retired five consecutive years
HB 2390 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2410 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2560 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2577 - Allowing a public school employee or retiree who missed work as a result of pregnancy to purchase up to one year of service credit in the teachers retirement system
HB 2670 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2709 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2791 - Relating to any income derived from the West Virginia Teachers Retirement System and any other income received by active public school teacher or service personnel being subtracted from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2861 - Repealing the one hundred forty day limitation that a retired school teacher may teach in public schools
HB 3092 - Providing that certain beneficiaries in the State Teachers Retirement System receive an annuity when an eligible spouse has not redeemed the accumulated contributions
HB 3119 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants of the Public Employees' Retirement and Teachers' Retirement Systems at the time they reach the age of seventy
HB 4324 - Extending the expiration date of employment of retired teachers beyond the post-retirement employment limit
HB 4663 - Extending the time for certain members to purchase additional service credit for service in the Teachers Defined Contribution Retirement System

Retirement -- Public Employees (6 Bills)
HB 2011 - Providing correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of actual and honorable service
HB 2048 - Providing for the continuance of medical coverage for the spouse of a deceased retired public employee for any period previously purchased with accumulated leave
HB 2089 - Allowing certain public employees to pay back retirement benefits
HB 2105 - Relating to prohibiting legislators from enrolling in the state retirement system
HB 2261 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions from state income tax
HB 2323 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2398 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2410 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2426 - Reducing state income tax for state correctional officer retirees
HB 2475 - Permitting retired state employees to transfer from Medicare to coverage through the West Virginia Public Employees Act
HB 2560 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2622 - Relating to the reduction of state income taxes for certain state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2711 - Providing that correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of service
HB 2793 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
HB 2956 - Prohibiting the finance board pursuant to the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act from increasing the types and levels of costs to applicable current and retired employees during the 2010 and 2011 plan years
HB 3119 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants of the Public Employees' Retirement and Teachers' Retirement Systems at the time they reach the age of seventy
HB 3153 - Specifying that federal civil service system retirement income derived from military retirement system pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions is treated as military retirement income for purposes of the modifications to federal adjusted gross income
HB 3190 - Allowing the purchase of service credit for those emergency services officers who transferred into the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System from the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)
HB 3273 - West Virginia Correctional Officer Retirement System Act
HB 4044 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, refund, reinstatement and loan interest factors
HB 4078 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, teachers' retirement system
HB 4079 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, public employees retirement system
HB 4080 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, state police
HB 4168 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System
HB 4178 - Prohibiting the Finance Board of the Public Employees Insurance Agency from increasing costs to retirees
HB 4180 - Clarifying the authority of the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board to determine the participating employer contribution rate under the provisions of the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 4181 - Relating to qualifying for total and permanent disability retirement in the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 4182 - Relating to the emergency medical services retirement system act
HB 4185 - Relating to mandatory retirement age of deputy sheriffs
HB 4213 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service
HB 4252 - Reducing state income taxes for state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income in calculating the federal gross income for state personal income tax purposes
HB 4317 - Providing a $1,000 cost-of-living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 4392 - Requiring the Consolidated Public Retirement Board to deduct from monthly benefits to retirees sums to pay retiree association dues and to provide retiree associations or organizations lists of plan beneficiaries and addresses
HB 4405 - Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board
HB 4440 - Adding Granada, El Salvador, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Panama Canal as military service credit for persons who are eligible for public employees retirement benefits
HB 4586 - Providing a $1,200 cost of living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (10 Bills)
HB 4404 - Imposing penalties for falsifying retirement records under the West Virginia State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund
HB 4431 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits

Roads and Highways (2 Bills)
HB 2050 - Expanding the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties; and increasing the number of members
HB 2108 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2120 - Prohibiting charitable organizations from soliciting contributions on public highways
HB 2274 - Relating to the distribution of the State Treasurer's "Road Fund"
HB 2494 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2585 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2606 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2643 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project which receives any operating or construction moneys from state sources or state taxpayers
HB 2661 - Including roads that serve more than one family in the state road system
HB 2755 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to take control of an emergency scene on a highway
HB 2769 - Eliminating the requirement that the Division of Highways post signs indicating the type of surveillance equipment used to determine speed
HB 2800 - Updating the requirements for a new subdivision to access a road in the State Highway System
HB 2862 - Relating to towing companies notifying the DMV of abandoned vehicles
HB 2917 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 2951 - Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging children
HB 3249 - Preventing vehicles from driving more than seventy-five feet in a center lane designated for left turns
HB 4022 - Exempting funeral procession from paying tolls while traveling on the West Virginia Turnpike
HB 4104 - Highways, use of state road rights of way and adjacent areas
HB 4105 - Highways, transportation of hazardous wastes upon the roads and highways
HB 4154 - Relating to bicycle and pedestrian ways being given full consideration in the planning and development of state roads
HB 4200 - Creating the West Virginia Community Empowerment Transportation Act
HB 4249 - Requiring the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to use recycled materials in construction or maintenance of roads and highways
HB 4279 - Renaming the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority
HB 4323 - Prohibiting use of turning lanes for through traffic under certain circumstances
HB 4341 - Authorizing the collection electronic collection of tolls
HB 4386 - Restricting the state convict road force from working around schools and child care centers
HB 4441 - Authorizing the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates to approve a public partnership agreement
HB 4501 - Permitting farm use vehicles to travel on public highways under certain circumstances
HB 4526 - Requiring the removal of ice and snow from vehicles before operating them on highways
HB 4556 - Relating to an annual legislative audit of the Parkways Authority
HB 4576 - Terminating tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike before 2020
HB 4616 - Creating the temporary natural gas resources transportation road system
HB 4617 - Authorizing the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority to enter into certain compacts with other toll road authorities
HB 4667 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to maintain school bus turnarounds in the state

Rule Making Authority (4 Bills)
HB 2712 - Relating to rule making requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services

Safety (39 Bills)
HB 2034 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2059 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from loitering within one thousand feet of a school or child care facility, school bus stop, or other child safety zone
HB 2118 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2134 - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders
HB 2264 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2277 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2285 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
HB 2489 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2492 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2637 - Requiring that all state high schools provide a course in archery safety for hunters
HB 2699 - Establishing breeding restrictions for aggressive or vicious dogs
HB 2911 - Establishing a state law-enforcement association members annual leave program
HB 2917 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 3161 - Providing that the officers of the Division of Protective Services have the same powers of arrest and law enforcement as members of the West Virginia State Police
HB 3304 - Relating to residency restrictions for registered sex offenders
HB 3318 - Creating a full-time administrative law judge for the office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training
HB 4158 - Relating to neighborhood crime watch programs
HB 4167 - Creating a special revenue fund, known as the Department of Health and Human Resources Safety and Treatment Fund
HB 4175 - Amending the community notification and disclosure provisions of the Sex Offender Registration Act
HB 4195 - Requiring paramedics to be on site at coal mines
HB 4212 - Requiring PSC update railroad walkway safety regulations
HB 4223 - Increasing the safety of school children that use school buses
HB 4258 - Requiring sex offenders to verify their e-mail and other online identities
HB 4265 - Prohibiting the taking of lawfully possessed arms and ammunition during a declared state of emergency
HB 4268 - Exempting from certain taxation and toll fees members of the military service of the state or United States who are totally disabled
HB 4284 - Providing that protective orders in domestic violence cases include the requirement that a respondent wear a monitoring device
HB 4305 - Relating to limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms
HB 4325 - Relating to the regulation of firearms and other deadly weapons
HB 4338 - Requiring blasting contractors to notify the State Fire Marshal and local property owners before blasting
HB 4348 - Relating to the discontinuation of water and sewer utility service for a delinquent bill
HB 4386 - Restricting the state convict road force from working around schools and child care centers
HB 4393 - Adopting the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act into West Virginia law
HB 4397 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers
HB 4404 - Imposing penalties for falsifying retirement records under the West Virginia State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund
HB 4422 - Clarifying that law-enforcement may remove weapons possessed after service or notice of a protective order but before an actual hearing
HB 4433 - Relating to determining the appropriate penalty to impose against operators who fail to provide immediate notice upon the occurrence of a mining accident
HB 4449 - Special Mine Safety Property Valuation Act
HB 4473 - Relating to forest fire season
HB 4485 - Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus
HB 4487 - Relating to the reporting of assaults, batteries and other incidents on school property
HB 4489 - Increasing the criminal penalties for overtaking or passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving and discharging children
HB 4491 - Relating to the marking of traps
HB 4503 - West Virginia Innovative Mine Safety Technology Tax Credit Act
HB 4504 - Adopting the Uniform State Military Code of Justice into West Virginia law
HB 4536 - Allowing, under limited circumstances, a child under the age of fifteen years to hunt or take antlerless deer without first obtaining a certificate of training
HB 4620 - Requiring that cutter heads, long wall shears and other mining machines automatically shut-off when the methane level reaches one percent
HB 4645 - Relating to the West Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
HB 4654 - Limiting storage of methyl isocyanate
HB 4661 - Relating to registration of state-owned or leased cellular phones

Salaries (15 Bills)
HB 2001 - Providing additional state minimum salary for certain teachers
HB 2013 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2051 - Providing a two thousand eight dollar salary increase for each employee of the Division of Corrections
HB 2069 - Increasing the faculty senate allotment for classroom teachers and librarians
HB 2087 - Changing the definition of final average salary to thirty-six consecutive months for calculating retirement
HB 2113 - Providing overtime pay for all employees who are required to work holidays regardless if the holiday hours are in excess of a forty hour workweek
HB 2246 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2248 - Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises
HB 2249 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the State Board to count towards service personnel pay rates
HB 2250 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2258 - Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year
HB 2289 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2300 - Excluding certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2320 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors
HB 2367 - Raising the state salary level to at least one hundred twenty-five percent above the Federal Poverty Guidelines
HB 2370 - Providing for increased compensation for aides and paraprofessionals with large numbers of pupils in kindergarten and grades one through six
HB 2379 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2381 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel
HB 2382 - Salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health
HB 2386 - Relating to the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support
HB 2395 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2397 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2433 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2434 - Relating to treatment of income derived from federal military or federal police pensions that have been converted to federal civil service system pensions
HB 2471 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2500 - Establishing school service personnel class title and pay grade for the positions of "Administrative Assistant" and "Legal Secretary"
HB 2523 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police
HB 2586 - Granting a salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2618 - Compensating state troopers for call-back time
HB 2620 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2669 - Providing an exemption from gross income for certain members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2670 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2731 - Increasing the salary of family court judges
HB 2784 - Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements
HB 2806 - Removing the salary cap for secretary-clerks and case coordinators of the family court
HB 2914 - Relating to West Virginia State Police receiving on-call and off-duty pay
HB 3121 - Increasing the salary of public service district board members
HB 3303 - Increasing the salaries of magistrates who serve populations of eight thousand four hundred or more
HB 4006 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including contingent compensation, paid to lobbyists for all lobbying activities
HB 4317 - Providing a $1,000 cost-of-living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 4368 - Creating an Equal Pay Coordinator within the Governor's Office to ensure pay equity among state employees
HB 4369 - Clarifying that waitresses are eligible to receive the state minimum wage set before tips or gratuities
HB 4621 - Repealing the 80-20 requirements for payment of 20% of the aggregate premium by active employees, to prevent premium increases unless there is an increase in salary or pensions
HB 4644 - Providing a $5000 salary increase to social workers employed by the Department of Health and Human Resources

Secretary of State (52 Bills)
HB 4121 - Secretary of State, early voting
HB 4122 - Secretary of State, vote-by-mail pilot project
HB 4123 - Secretary of State, vote-by-mail pilot project phase 2
HB 4141 - Transferring licensure for private security services from the Secretary of State to the Division of Criminal Justice Services
HB 4590 - Bringing consistency of filing deadlines for all organizations filing annual reports with the Secretary of State

Senior Citizens (11 Bills)
HB 2004 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2036 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2068 - Excluding federal interest income when applying the income exclusion available to those sixty-five years of age or older and to persons permanently and totally disabled
HB 2102 - Changing the qualifier for low income for a senior citizens' homestead tax credit
HB 2368 - Making the senior citizens discount on campground rental fees at state parks available year-round
HB 2537 - Preventing insurers from increasing the rates for auto liability or homeowners insurance for persons over the age of sixty-five based solely on their age
HB 2575 - Providing an election to allow resident homeowners, sixty-five years old or older, to defer the payment of property tax increases to their residential property
HB 2579 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2607 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2625 - Providing for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming
HB 2645 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy
HB 4283 - Exempting recreational vehicles owned by a resident of this state who is seventy years of age or older from ad valorem taxes

Social Security (6 Bills)
HB 2036 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2395 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2483 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax
HB 2624 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income to determine West Virginia adjusted gross income for purposes of personal income tax

Sunset Law (7 Bills)
HB 4157 - Removing outdated sunset language

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (22 Bills)
HB 2067 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2097 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2358 - Including a tax checkoff option for Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp
HB 2453 - Providing a tax credit for scholarship donations
HB 2554 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2715 - The Economic Fairness Act of 2009
HB 2730 - Authorizing a tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas
HB 2915 - Authorizing the sale of prohibited fireworks
HB 3113 - Relating to arts, entertainment and enterprise districts
HB 3166 - Health Care Affordability Act
HB 3262 - Relating to health care provider tax
HB 3312 - Requiring that any new or increased municipal taxes or fees must have a defined purpose
HB 3320 - The Family Education Tax Credit Act
HB 4126 - Tax Department, residential solar energy tax credit

Taxation -- Consumers Sales Tax (33 Bills)
HB 2014 - Eliminating the severance tax and the health care provider tax on behavior health providers
HB 2143 - Dedicating a portion of the receipts from the tax on food products to be distributed equally to each district of the Division of Highways
HB 2242 - Creating sales and use tax exemptions for purchases of design and engineering services and materials and equipment directly used in construction of new or replacement amusement rides
HB 2281 - Relating to a tax exemption on certain sales of clothing
HB 2291 - Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene materials
HB 2459 - Increasing the tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors outside corporate limits
HB 2521 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2629 - Providing an exemption from estate taxes and the Consumers Sales and Service Tax for certain expenses of any infant who dies before reaching one year of age
HB 2633 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2650 - Eliminating the sales tax on food effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2681 - Eliminating the food tax, increasing the tax on nonintoxicating beer, increasing the cigarette tax, increasing the noncigarette tobacco products tax..etc...
HB 2746 - Raising the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2940 - Exempting funeral establishments and authorized representatives of the deceased from any sales tax regarding goods and services
HB 3096 - Providing tax credits for the sale of locally grown produce
HB 4253 - Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer
HB 4256 - Creating a sales tax holiday for purchases of guns and ammunition during the month of November
HB 4351 - Relating to the administration of sales and use tax
HB 4388 - Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer
HB 4389 - Exempting sales of personal tangible property and services by public and private schools from consumer sales tax and service
HB 4511 - Relating to the consumers sales and service tax exemption for sales of livestock
HB 4514 - Eliminating the sales tax on food
HB 4521 - Creating a sales tax holiday for purchases of guns and ammunition
HB 4609 - Exempting veterans' organizations from consumers sales and service tax

Taxation -- Mines & Minerals (6 Bills)
HB 2314 - Relating to a severance tax imposed on surface mining activities
HB 3081 - Coal-to-Liquid Act of 2009
HB 4177 - Dedicating five percent of coal severance tax to the county of origin
HB 4337 - Specifying a minimum share of coalbed methane severance tax revenue
HB 4503 - West Virginia Innovative Mine Safety Technology Tax Credit Act
HB 4547 - Coal-to-Liquid Act of 2010
HB 4570 - Relating to dedication of severance tax proceeds

Taxation -- Motor Vehicles (55 Bills)
HB 2321 - Extending the alternative-fuel motor vehicle tax credit for ten years and making the credit retroactive from the expiration date of the initial credit
HB 2775 - Exempting antique cars from taxation and fees
HB 3243 - Relating to consumers sales and service tax on motor vehicles
HB 4056 - Motor Vehicles, WV Division of, collection of tax on the sale of a vehicle
HB 4222 - Exempting antique motor vehicles from personal property taxes
HB 4246 - Creating a tax credit for new or converted qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles
HB 4314 - Regarding the valuation of motor vehicles and motorcycles for property tax assessment purposes
HB 4402 - Relating to the sale and use of mini-trucks

Taxation -- Personal & Corporate Income Tax (40 Bills)
HB 2009 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2036 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2041 - Exempting the retirement benefits of certain annuitants under the State Teachers Retirement System from state income tax
HB 2042 - Providing a tax credit for Ad Valorem tax paid on Manufacturing Inventory
HB 2068 - Excluding federal interest income when applying the income exclusion available to those sixty-five years of age or older and to persons permanently and totally disabled
HB 2097 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2101 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2102 - Changing the qualifier for low income for a senior citizens' homestead tax credit
HB 2235 - Income tax exemption for veterans who locate in West Virginia following separation from service
HB 2252 - Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees
HB 2256 - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment of state income tax
HB 2261 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions from state income tax
HB 2276 - Income tax deduction for gifts to West Virginia charities
HB 2286 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2317 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and that the revenue from these fees are to be transferred to the benefit fund of the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2320 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors
HB 2322 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2345 - Exempting from state and personal income tax the benefits a retired teacher receives from the State Teachers Retirement System under certain circumstances
HB 2361 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2426 - Reducing state income tax for state correctional officer retirees
HB 2476 - Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2480 - Exempting all military income from personal income taxes
HB 2483 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax
HB 2540 - Dedicating a portion of revenue generated from certain severance taxes for the benefit of counties from which the revenue was generated
HB 2554 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2573 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2576 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2582 - Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds
HB 2622 - Relating to the reduction of state income taxes for certain state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2624 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income to determine West Virginia adjusted gross income for purposes of personal income tax
HB 2635 - Allowing the federal adjusted gross income deduction for the amount spent for medical expenses
HB 2679 - Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology
HB 2708 - Exempting certain income received by retired federal employees from the personal income tax
HB 2791 - Relating to any income derived from the West Virginia Teachers Retirement System and any other income received by active public school teacher or service personnel being subtracted from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2793 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
HB 2890 - Providing low-income workers with a refundable state tax credit
HB 2962 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 3004 - Permitting individual taxpayers a modification to state income tax for medical expenses exceeding two percent of their federal adjusted gross income
HB 3026 - Providing a two-tiered personal income tax credit to parents or legal guardians who provide home or private, primary or secondary education for their children
HB 3316 - Decreasing the corporate income tax rate beginning in the year 2012
HB 4028 - Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act
HB 4030 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 4035 - Relating to electronic filing of tax returns and electronic funds transfers in payment of taxes
HB 4125 - Tax Department, consumers sales and service tax and use tax - drugs, durable medical goods, mobility enhancing equipment and prosthetic devices
HB 4160 - Providing a tax incentive to dental practitioners to perform dental services at no cost to indigent patients
HB 4162 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership
HB 4240 - Tax Department, corporation net income tax
HB 4252 - Reducing state income taxes for state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income in calculating the federal gross income for state personal income tax purposes
HB 4335 - Relating to the business registration tax
HB 4375 - Relating to retaining nursing educators
HB 4384 - Stay Home in West Virginia and Work Tax Incentive
HB 4452 - Providing incentives for the recruitment of poll workers by reducing the federal adjusted gross income
HB 4456 - West Virginia Commercial Patent Incentives Tax Act
HB 4462 - Allowing a modification reducing federal adjusted gross when medical expenses exceed $2,000 a year
HB 4548 - Providing a personal income tax exemption for living organ donors

Taxation -- Property (16 Bills)
HB 2030 - Providing a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence
HB 2042 - Providing a tax credit for Ad Valorem tax paid on Manufacturing Inventory
HB 2252 - Providing a tax credit to landlords who rent to parolees
HB 2304 - Exempting from personal property taxation, the equipment, inventory and raw materials of crafts people who have had their work evaluated and accepted or juried and accepted by the West Virginia arts and crafts guild
HB 2333 - Including ambulance and fire fees as part of the property tax assessment so that the fees and property taxes may be paid with the same check
HB 2558 - Exempting from taxation certain property owned by a nonprofit organization
HB 2573 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2575 - Providing an election to allow resident homeowners, sixty-five years old or older, to defer the payment of property tax increases to their residential property
HB 2578 - Providing a ten percent cap on any increase in assessment of real and personal property in any one year
HB 2625 - Providing for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming
HB 2629 - Providing an exemption from estate taxes and the Consumers Sales and Service Tax for certain expenses of any infant who dies before reaching one year of age
HB 2873 - Requiring assessors to create a cost of housing index
HB 2934 - Clarifying language relating to redemption of property
HB 3073 - Exempting from the excise tax on property transfers property that is transferred from an individual to a wholly-owned corporation or a wholly-owned limited liability company
HB 3108 - Requiring the assessor of each county to prepare a new property tax ticket within three months of a deed filing
HB 4129 - Clarifying that municipalities and counties are able to increase the rate of property taxes by more than ten percent in a given year when an election is held
HB 4190 - Clarifying an exception that allow sheriffs to collect property taxes in more than two installments
HB 4250 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 4362 - Eliminating the state excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property, and imposing a new county excise tax for transferring real property
HB 4389 - Exempting sales of personal tangible property and services by public and private schools from consumer sales tax and service
HB 4390 - Relating to information to be obtained from landowners by assessor
HB 4439 - Requiring applications for farmland valuation every five years unless the property is sold
HB 4449 - Special Mine Safety Property Valuation Act
HB 4476 - Increasing the amount for a title examination when a person redeems real property
HB 4486 - Relating to tax tickets and other required notifications concerning property taxes
HB 4575 - Exempting antique motor vehicles and antique motorcycles from taxable personal property
HB 4601 - Relating to the method of appraising certain affordable multifamily rental housing property for ad valorem property tax purposes
HB 4651 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien

Taxation -- Roads & Fuel (9 Bills)
HB 2007 - Reducing the federal adjusted gross income for motor fuel expenses incurred in commuting to and from one's occupation
HB 2619 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 2809 - Exempting all gallons of gasoline and propane gas for any church, religious sect, society or denomination from the excise tax
HB 4358 - Exempting special fuel and propane used for home heating purposes from the motor fuel excise tax

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (14 Bills)
HB 4183 - Requiring a study of the telecommunications tax
HB 4239 - Tax Department, West Virginia Film Industry Investment Act
HB 4240 - Tax Department, corporation net income tax
HB 4268 - Exempting from certain taxation and toll fees members of the military service of the state or United States who are totally disabled
HB 4274 - Residential Renewable Energy Systems Tax Credit
HB 4276 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 4306 - Relating to public school support computation of local share
HB 4307 - Plastic Shopping Bag Excise Tax Act
HB 4312 - Relating to the Tax Procedure and Administration Act
HB 4315 - Relating to the tax credit for residential solar energy systems
HB 4371 - Increasing allowable tax credits for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment
HB 4435 - Relating to estate tax
HB 4535 - Repealing outdated and obsolete sections of the tax code
HB 4583 - Permitting municipalities and counties to use proceeds from the hotel occupancy tax to fund public libraries
HB 4585 - Creating a tax credit for hiring veterans of the United States Military
HB 4606 - Providing a different procedure for determining the credit for utility taxpayers with net operating loss carryovers
HB 4612 - Relating to imposing a severance tax on the generation of wind power into a renewable energy resource
HB 4614 - Providing an excise tax on transfers of utilities

Technology (3 Bills)
HB 2124 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2243 - Creating the joint commission on technology and advanced communications
HB 2263 - Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus by using ultrasound
HB 2313 - Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus
HB 2503 - Requiring licensed tattoo artist to inform patrons, prior to performing the tattoo procedure, of the potential problems that a tattoo may cause in relation to the reading of magnetic resonance imaging
HB 3123 - Relating to donation and transfer of surplus personal computers and other information systems, technology and equipment for educational purposes
HB 4013 - Establishing the offense of unlawful use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle
HB 4255 - Creating a temporary health information technology reinvestment fee for health insurers
HB 4328 - Establishing centralized filing system for reports required to be filed with the Legislature
HB 4344 - Establishing the misdemeanor offenses of operating a motor vehicle while writing, reading or sending a text-based communication
HB 4472 - Prohibiting the use of a mobile communication device to engage in text messaging or additional technologies while operating a motor vehicle
HB 4509 - Allowing audits to be published electronically

Tobacco and Tobacco Products (39 Bills)
HB 2681 - Eliminating the food tax, increasing the tax on nonintoxicating beer, increasing the cigarette tax, increasing the noncigarette tobacco products tax..etc...
HB 2746 - Raising the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2773 - Increasing the monetary penalties for selling tobacco products to minors
HB 2855 - Permitting the holder of a license to sell nonintoxicating liquors to determine the use or nonuse of tobacco products on the licensees' premises
HB 2932 - Requiring the approval of board of health rules relating to tobacco use in public or private places
HB 4498 - Prohibiting smoking in the capitol building and all offices

Tourism (4 Bills)
HB 2632 - Modifying the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority's power to charge tolls and issue bonds
HB 4061 - Tourism, direct advertising grants program
HB 4192 - Creating the West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission
HB 4275 - Authorizing excess funds in the courtesy Patrol Fund to be transferred back to the Tourism Promotion Fund
HB 4279 - Renaming the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority
HB 4288 - Requiring that not less than fifty percent of the moneys remaining in the Tourism Promotion Fund be expended to West Virginia companies

Transportation (1 Bills)
HB 2058 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2085 - Providing county boards of education may study the economic feasibility of exercising an option of engaging in cooperative agreements with local public or regional transit authorities to transport students
HB 2125 - Providing that personnel carriers used to transport miners must be maintained at the working section
HB 2143 - Dedicating a portion of the receipts from the tax on food products to be distributed equally to each district of the Division of Highways
HB 4007 - Requiring that transportation to and from school be provided for each child that needs or desires transportation
HB 4062 - Transportation, valuation of used rolling stock and equipment
HB 4174 - Establishing the West Virginia Transportation Finance Commission

Treasurer (State) (41 Bills)
HB 2274 - Relating to the distribution of the State Treasurer's "Road Fund"

Unemployment Compensation (7 Bills)
HB 2289 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2497 - Extending unemployment compensation benefits when special circumstances exist
HB 4332 - Permitting certain part-time employees to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits
HB 4363 - Removing the receipt of an annuity, pension or other retirement pay as a disqualification for unemployment compensation benefits
HB 4525 - Changing the composition, powers and responsibilities of the board of Coal Mine Health and Safety
HB 4558 - Making certain clarifications of the definition of the term employment as contained in this article
HB 4639 - Providing for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence

Uniform Laws (103 Bills)
HB 2038 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 4170 - Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act
HB 4590 - Bringing consistency of filing deadlines for all organizations filing annual reports with the Secretary of State

Utilities (8 Bills)
HB 2009 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2844 - Relating to the adoption of the 2008 National Electric Code
HB 2851 - Relating to the sale of municipal public utility
HB 2852 - Eliminating charges by public utilities for meter reading and minimum bill fees
HB 4149 - Authorizing incentives for energy conservation by electric utilities
HB 4209 - Requiring at least one commissioner be present before a hearing may be conducted on public utility matters
HB 4348 - Relating to the discontinuation of water and sewer utility service for a delinquent bill
HB 4403 - Stopping accelerated rate recovery because of adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities and revising the definition of need
HB 4446 - Recategorizing recycled energy as a renewable energy resource
HB 4538 - Eliminating charges by public utilities for meter reading and minimum bill fees
HB 4549 - Relating to the sale of municipal public utility
HB 4606 - Providing a different procedure for determining the credit for utility taxpayers with net operating loss carryovers
HB 4614 - Providing an excise tax on transfers of utilities
HB 4618 - Requiring greater information to be submitted by the Public Service Commission annually regarding the quality of service provided by utilities and persons subject to its jurisdiction
HB 4665 - Relating to special rates for energy intensive industrial consumers of electric power

Vendors (20 Bills)
HB 2495 - Establishing the consumer's right to know regarding telemarketers and requiring certain vendors to use only persons authorized to work in the United States

Vital Records (12 Bills)
HB 2060 - Requiring magistrate courts to maintain records relating to successful collection rates on judgements
HB 2065 - Relating to issuing a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
HB 2081 - Requiring the superintendent or owner of a mine to sign the fire boss record book daily
HB 2266 - Creating a registry of convictions for operating a clandestine drug laboratory
HB 2279 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2348 - Requiring mandatory community service upon conviction of a misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence and creating a central registry
HB 2492 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2520 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a woman suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2583 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor
HB 2648 - Protecting the privacy of a person's prescription information
HB 2649 - Relating to confidential records
HB 2679 - Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology
HB 3250 - Excluding indigent persons from receiving health care records free of charge when represented by an organization or an attorney that is charging a fee
HB 3317 - Relating to public records management and preservation
HB 4003 - West Virginia Geographical Information System
HB 4500 - Redefining the term "public record" as it is used in the Freedom of Information Act

Water Resources (8 Bills)
HB 2736 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motor boats on lakes
HB 2785 - Requiring that every house, dwelling or business located in an area where public water services are made available for the first time, be connected
HB 4091 - DEP, water resources, national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES)
HB 4092 - DEP, water resources, requirements governing groundwater standards
HB 4093 - DEP, water resources, water pollution control permit fee schedules
HB 4094 - DEP, water resources, WV/NPDES rule for coal mining facilities
HB 4095 - DEP, water resources, monitoring wells
HB 4096 - DEP, water resources, monitoring well design standards
HB 4309 - Authorizing the Town of Moorefield, the Hardy County Commission, and Hardy County's largest corporate user of public wastewater facilities to construct and maintain a state of the art regional wastewater treatment plant
HB 4348 - Relating to the discontinuation of water and sewer utility service for a delinquent bill
HB 4513 - Establishing requirements for Marcellus gas well operations use of water resources

Workers Compensation (15 Bills)
HB 2070 - Requiring that all worker's compensation adjusters employed by a private insurance carrier be located within the geographic borders of West Virginia
HB 2430 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2552 - Revising Insurance Commissioner reporting requirements to the Legislature on workers' compensation insurance rules
HB 2854 - Extending permanent total disability benefits to workers' compensation benefits claimants for life
HB 2874 - Providing a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter has developed a pulmonary disease or sustained a cardiovascular injury
HB 3143 - Rendering cardiac arrest as a compensable injury pursuant to West Virginia Workers' Compensation law
HB 3296 - Relating to the worker's compensation claimant attorney fees
HB 4155 - Expanding permitted uses for revenues allocated to volunteer and part time fire departments
HB 4191 - Eliminating the Insurance Commissioner's exemption relating to workers' compensation rulemaking
HB 4214 - Requiring review and approval of final settlements of Workers' Compensation awards
HB 4409 - Creating the Workers' Lifetime Total Disability Fund and the Supplemental Personal Needs Allowance Fund
HB 4459 - Increasing the time in which a dependent may apply for Workers Compensation death benefits where occupational pneumoconiosis is determined to be a cause of death
HB 4615 - Authorizing political subdivisions to establish risk pools to insure their workers' compensation risks
HB 4657 - Relating to workers' compensation programs of state agencies
HB 4660 - Setting forth disability benefits for employees that receive a foreseeable injury in an inherently dangerous function required by their employer but outside scope of employment

Zoning (15 Bills)
HB 2356 - Exempting acts resulting in the taking or damaging of private property for public use from the immunity granted to a political subdivision
HB 2375 - Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining and manufacturing activities and uses
HB 4154 - Relating to bicycle and pedestrian ways being given full consideration in the planning and development of state roads
HB 4320 - Establishing the number of members for a municipal planning commission for Class IV municipalities
HB 4322 - Relating to the required number of members for municipal boards of zoning appeals for Class IV municipalities
HB 4364 - Relating to land use planning
HB 4381 - Relating to annexation generally

This Web site is maintained by the West Virginia Legislature's Office of Reference & Information.  |  Terms of Use  |   Email WebmasterWebmaster   |   © 2024 West Virginia Legislature **