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Abortion (1 Bills)
HB 2035 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2037 - Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus
HB 2064 - Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed
HB 2090 - Relating to the care of aborted fetuses
HB 2098 - 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 2105 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2157 - Relating to parental notification requirements for abortions performed on unemancipated minors
HB 2196 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2213 - Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn child
HB 2216 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2275 - Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures
HB 2279 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2281 - Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide
HB 2289 - Abortion Complication Reporting Act
HB 2295 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2326 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a woman suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2651 - Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors
HB 2678 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents
HB 2680 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2687 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 3020 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions

Actions and Suits (45 Bills)
HB 2067 - Providing that adultery shall be a bar to alimony in a divorce proceeding
HB 2109 - 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 2233 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 2252 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items
HB 2287 - Abolishing joint liability and establishing the principle of comparative fault
HB 2336 - Providing limited immunity from civil damages for persons who volunteer their services to public health departments
HB 2686 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 3049 - Limiting a landowner from civil liability for injuries that may occur to a person or property
HB 3075 - Increasing the time period in the hold-harmless provision when distributing state aid to local health departments
HB 3109 - Permitting unit owners' associations to institute legal action against a unit owner to collect dues or assessments that are overdue
HB 3127 - Increasing the fees charged by the clerk of the circuit court for medical professional liability actions
HB 3161 - Relating to assignment of cases to private attorneys by bid
HB 3233 - Protecting consumers against certain actions of debt collectors
HB 3244 - Limiting the amount of a tortfeasor to the amount of insurance coverage

Acts (22 Bills)
HB 2005 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2024 - Green Buildings Act
HB 2025 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 2056 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
HB 2105 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2124 - Certified Legal Assistant Act
HB 2136 - Plastic Shopping Bag Excise Tax Act
HB 2155 - West Virginia Public Employment Relations Act
HB 2185 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2210 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2214 - Relating to the "Mandated Benefits Review Act"
HB 2219 - Verifiable Science Act
HB 2240 - Adding Tramadol to Schedule IV of the West Virginia Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 2290 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 2333 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2413 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2422 - Creative Communities Development Act
HB 2527 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2554 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2627 - Labor, crane operator certification act
HB 2628 - Labor, crane operator certification act - practical examination
HB 2657 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2675 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2692 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 2705 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 2710 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2716 - Dangerous Dog Act
HB 2717 - The Economic Fairness Act of 2009
HB 2724 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act
HB 2739 - Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Act
HB 2751 - Clarifying that fire chiefs and their duly appointed officers are provided immunity under the Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act
HB 2760 - Revising the Municipal Economic Opportunity Development District Act
HB 2762 - Revising the County Economic Opportunity Development District Act
HB 2770 - Flexible Leave Act
HB 2790 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2795 - Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2801 - Creating the "Health Care Choice Act"
HB 2821 - Strengthening the Ethics Act financial disclosure filing requirements
HB 2829 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 2836 - Relating to the Neighborhood Investment Program Act
HB 2850 - Alternative Coal Slurry Disposal Act
HB 2852 - Relating to the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act
HB 2866 - West Virginia Patriot's Protection Act
HB 2873 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2878 - Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling Gas Act
HB 2889 - Creating the "Jason Flatt Act of 2011"
HB 2890 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 2893 - Relating to the Home Incarceration Act
HB 2915 - Repealing certain sections of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2930 - Safe and Efficient Parkways Act
HB 2931 - Primary Stroke Center Hospital Designation Act
HB 2942 - Medical Harm Disclosure Act
HB 2972 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2993 - Relating to the West Virginia Commercial Patents Incentives Tax Act
HB 3005 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 3010 - Ensuring patient safety
HB 3015 - The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act
HB 3018 - West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange Act
HB 3019 - Incorporating the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 into the insurance code
HB 3040 - Twenty-First Century Business Technologies Property Valuation Act
HB 3043 - Grieving Parents Act
HB 3045 - Forest Fairness Act
HB 3051 - The Parent Empowerment and Choice Act
HB 3071 - Requiring certification of correctness as to design, construction and performance of domestic and commercial liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances
HB 3073 - Clarifying that the Human Rights Act purpose is to provide all citizens equal opportunity for employment, equal access to places of public accommodations, and equal opportunity in housing accommodations
HB 3076 - Relating to the procedure for petitioning to regain the right to possess firearms
HB 3080 - Dangerous Dog Act
HB 3086 - Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act
HB 3088 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 3099 - Marcellus Gas and Manufacturing Development Act
HB 3120 - Keep Jobs in West Virginia Act
HB 3125 - Relating to the regulation of firearms and other deadly weapons
HB 3146 - Creating the Tea Party Act
HB 3210 - Creating the Consumer and Employee Arbitration Fairness Act
HB 3221 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 3230 - Creating the Immigration Law Enforcement Act
HB 3247 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 3266 - Uniform Power of Attorney Act

Advertising (1 Bills)
HB 2137 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency and its contractors, under certain circumstances, to advertise that they are seeking bids prior to accepting bids
HB 2654 - Prohibiting lottery from using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2875 - Allowing outdoor advertising signs to contain numerical content that changes no more often than once every twenty-four hours

Agriculture (24 Bills)
HB 2015 - Creating regulations for commercial dog breeding operations
HB 2027 - Requiring county commissions to adopt and implement county farmland protection programs
HB 2178 - Creating the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act"
HB 2179 - Creating the "Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act"
HB 2180 - Creating the "Genetically Engineered Crop and Animal Farmer Protection Act"
HB 2398 - Creating the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 2527 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2568 - Agriculture, inspection of meat and poultry
HB 2605 - Agriculture, apiary rule
HB 2683 - 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

Air Quality (4 Bills)
HB 2404 - Relating to air pollution control
HB 2576 - DEP-air quality, standards of performance for new stationary sources
HB 2577 - DEP-air quality, permits for construction and major modification of major stationary sources of air pollution
HB 2578 - DEP-air quality, control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment
HB 2579 - DEP-air quality, emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 2580 - DEP-air quality, ambient air quality standards
HB 2899 - DEP- air quality, permits for construction and major modification
HB 2900 - DEP - air quality, control of air pollution
HB 3254 - Adding oil and gas facilities, wells, pipelines and tanks to the coordinated statewide program of air pollution prevention

Alcohol (12 Bills)
HB 2057 - 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 2097 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2109 - 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 2171 - Curtailing the serving of alcoholic beverages by licensed clubs as early as one A.M.
HB 2201 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2339 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 2388 - 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 2408 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
HB 2428 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver
HB 2670 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2707 - Expanding the definition of "imminent danger to the physical well-being of the child" with regard to child abuse and neglect
HB 2714 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund
HB 2774 - Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer
HB 2816 - Permitting private clubs to purchase alcoholic liquors from retail liquor stores in any market zone in the state
HB 2897 - ABCC, licensed retailer operations
HB 2898 - ABCC, licensing of retail outlets
HB 3057 - Providing for career development and establishing a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and supervisors
HB 3100 - Permitting the sale of liquor on election day
HB 3172 - Including certain employees of the office of the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner be included in the classified service
HB 3174 - Relating to liquor sampling events
HB 3178 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor
HB 3252 - Allowing wine distribution agreements to be by geographic areas
HB 3256 - Requiring the closing hours of private clubs to be two o'clock a.m.

Animals (14 Bills)
HB 2042 - Allowing Class RG and RRG deer stamps to be used to hunt and take antlerless deer
HB 2361 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2372 - Prohibiting abusive behavior towards elephants by an owner or manager
HB 2398 - Creating the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 2443 - Prohibiting wagering at animal fighting ventures and providing a felony criminal penalty
HB 2450 - Relating to the protection of cats from injury by dogs
HB 2470 - Increasing penalties for the illegal killing, taking, or possessing of certain wildlife
HB 2504 - Creating the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 2566 - Veterinary Medicine, schedule of fees
HB 2643 - Veterinary Medicine, organization and operation and licensing of veterinarians
HB 2646 - Veterinary Medicine, certified animal euthanasia technicians
HB 2716 - Dangerous Dog Act
HB 2883 - Creating regulations for commercial dog breeding
HB 2917 - Relating to the purchase and sale of dogs
HB 2924 - Creating "Dutch's Law" to honor fallen law enforcement canines and their law enforcement handlers
HB 2945 - Reporting beaver and river otter taken and tagged
HB 2966 - Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 2991 - Relating to the West Virginia Fair Housing Act
HB 3080 - Dangerous Dog Act
HB 3095 - Relating to livestock in dire or extreme condition
HB 3098 - Clarifying levels of West Virginia Greyhound Breeding Development Fund payouts, and providing funding for greyhound adoption and spay and neutering programs
HB 3143 - Relating to penalties for causing injury or death to certain animals used by law enforcement

Appropriations (26 Bills)
HB 2012 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
HB 2312 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Veterans' Affairs
HB 2410 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2952 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Governor's Office - Civil Contingent Fund

Appropriations-Supplemental (4 Bills)
HB 2130 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2376 - 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 2507 - Providing a housing supplement for members of the State Police
HB 3115 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education - State Aid to Schools

Arbitration (25 Bills)
HB 3210 - Creating the Consumer and Employee Arbitration Fairness Act

Associations (1 Bills)
HB 2283 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2334 - 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

Athletics (3 Bills)
HB 2071 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2131 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2365 - Preventing a professional educator from taking a coaching position away from a current coach
HB 2377 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2562 - Relating to the State Athletic Commission
HB 2639 - Authorizing miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2640 - Physical Therapy, fees for athletic trainers
HB 2669 - Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as athletic coaches
HB 2712 - Relating to the State Athletic Commission
HB 3264 - Designating $10 million of the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund for the funding of high school and middle school athletics

Attorney General (7 Bills)
HB 3161 - Relating to assignment of cases to private attorneys by bid

Attorneys (36 Bills)
HB 2032 - Encouraging and assisting persons diagnosed with schizophrenic reality disorder in designating a durable medical power of attorney
HB 2307 - Relating to the worker's compensation claimant attorney fees
HB 2433 - Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children
HB 2509 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2686 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 2979 - Relating to the award of attorney fees by the Surface Mine Board

Audits/Auditing (17 Bills)
HB 2082 - Changing the time for periodic valuations and assessments of real and personal property
HB 2208 - Providing for actual costs to be paid for municipal audits and reducing the cap on audits for Class IV municipalities
HB 2492 - Relating to supervision of local government offices
HB 3270 - Allowing reports to be generated by the Legislative Auditor and authorizing audits of state funds

Banks and Banking (6 Bills)
HB 2241 - Relating to the conversion of other financial institutions to state-chartered banks
HB 2827 - Allowing members of the board of banking and financial institutions to receive compensation for travel expenses
HB 2882 - Relating to the Commissioner's Assessment and Examination Fund
HB 2962 - Increasing the amount of a fine or penalty the Commissioner of Banking may impose on residential mortgage brokers and lenders

Boards and Commissions (8 Bills)
HB 2001 - Providing that inmates serving life sentences shall be considered for parole only once every three years
HB 2008 - Relating to licensing exemptions of persons who only perform the duty of hair washing for a licensed barber or cosmetologist
HB 2019 - Increasing the representation on the Health Information Network Board
HB 2044 - Creating a Sentencing Commission
HB 2054 - Increasing the maximum cash award the Employee Suggestion Award Board may make
HB 2055 - Prohibiting charitable organizations from soliciting contributions on public highways
HB 2079 - Relating to the Fire Prevention and Control Act
HB 2087 - Creating the Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission
HB 2108 - 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 2112 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2118 - Prohibiting individual county board of education members from acting on behalf of the board in an individual capacity unless authorized by law
HB 2139 - 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 2147 - Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board
HB 2167 - Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards
HB 2169 - Requiring that bartenders be licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner
HB 2174 - Relating to powers and duties of the State Board of Medicine
HB 2211 - 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 2217 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2220 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2221 - 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 2230 - 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 2247 - 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 2250 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 2257 - Authorizing and encouraging county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel
HB 2266 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2269 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2285 - Directing the State Board of Education to determine what principal and teacher reports are unnecessary
HB 2327 - 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 2331 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2339 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 2343 - Requiring the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to use recycled materials in construction or maintenance of roads and highways
HB 2345 - Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board
HB 2356 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2375 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2385 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 2399 - Creating a commission to develop a pilot program to help at-risk youth in West Virginia
HB 2430 - Abolishing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists
HB 2445 - Requiring the Legislature to approve changes in costs imposed by the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board
HB 2502 - Requiring certain boards to combine administrative functions
HB 2503 - Authorizing Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to require licensees to provide government identification
HB 2513 - Relating to the practice of pharmacy
HB 2524 - Relating to the practice of speech-language pathology and audiology
HB 2525 - Relating to the practice of social work
HB 2562 - Relating to the State Athletic Commission
HB 2571 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, general provisions
HB 2597 - Pharmacy, board of pharmacy rules regarding licensure and practice
HB 2600 - Sanitarians, interim fee schedule
HB 2601 - Sanitarians, rules governing the practice
HB 2630 - Optometry, rules of the board
HB 2638 - Physical Therapy, general provisions
HB 2663 - Relating to public service commissioners presiding at hearings
HB 2667 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board to have a quorum of five members present at any public hearing
HB 2673 - Directing the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction on macroeconomics
HB 2676 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2688 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2709 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 2712 - Relating to the State Athletic Commission
HB 2754 - Allowing sheriffs and their designees access to information maintained by the Board of Pharmacy
HB 2796 - Relating to professional licensing boards
HB 2800 - Creating the West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission
HB 2819 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of minorities
HB 2827 - Allowing members of the board of banking and financial institutions to receive compensation for travel expenses
HB 2848 - Relating to ethical guidelines for members of professional licensing boards
HB 2881 - Authorizing the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to govern the practice of advanced nurse practitioners
HB 2884 - Establishing a statute of limitations regarding claims involving manufactured housing
HB 2929 - Relating to radiologic technologists
HB 3004 - Relating to the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District
HB 3017 - Relating to higher education personnel
HB 3021 - Adding two new members to the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission
HB 3030 - Increasing the number of municipalities that may participate in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program
HB 3031 - Authorizing professional licensing boards to obtain criminal history record checks
HB 3050 - Relating to the practice of dieticians
HB 3061 - Creating a volunteer certification so that a health or mental health professional may provide volunteer services in this state without having to have a license issued by this state
HB 3196 - Establishing a program and procedure for certifying medications assistive persons in the health industry
HB 3200 - Changing the requirements for acquiring a renewal of a barber's license
HB 3204 - Creating the West Virginia Enterprise Resource Planning Board and Executive Committee
HB 3226 - Relating to qualification of members of the board of parole

Bonds (2 Bills)
HB 2068 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2511 - Permitting a county board of education to include in any revenue bond for construction projects the cost of demolition of buildings
HB 2557 - Extending the time for the Board of Education of Upshur County to meet as a levying body
HB 3141 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to require bonds be posted in connection with major construction, mineral extraction and industrial projects that impact the roads

Buildings (7 Bills)
HB 2024 - Green Buildings Act
HB 2410 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2545 - Requiring onsite employees at certain public works construction projects to complete an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) approved 10-hour construction safety program
HB 2890 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 2954 - Relating to the construction, planning and location of comprehensive career technical education facilities
HB 2957 - Requiring new facility projects of public agencies and projects receiving state funds to comply with the International Code Council 2009 International Energy Conservation Code
HB 3250 - Authorizing the School Building Authority to award grants or moneys to county and local library boards in connection with public library construction projects

Bureaus (6 Bills)
HB 2282 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2582 - WV Bureau for Public Health, specialized multipatient medical transport
HB 2583 - WV Bureau for Public Health, public water systems
HB 2584 - WV Bureau for Public Health, fire department rapid response services licensure
HB 2585 - WV Bureau for Public Health, cancer registry
HB 2617 - WV Bureau for Public Health, food manufacturing
HB 2618 - WV Bureau for Public Health, maternal risk screening
HB 3209 - Permitting the Secretary of State to dissolve a corporate entity if its professional license has been revoked

Capitol Complex (11 Bills)
HB 2782 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings
HB 3093 - Clarifying language relating to offenses occurring at the State Capitol

Cemeteries (8 Bills)
HB 2542 - Clarifying requirements and procedures for access to cemeteries and grave sites located on private land

Charitable Organizations (2 Bills)
HB 2058 - Allowing nonprofit organizations to hold up to two charitable Texas hold'em tournaments per year
HB 2117 - Exempting nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee
HB 2125 - Requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents' identity
HB 2252 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items
HB 2296 - Income tax deduction for gifts to West Virginia charities
HB 2374 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 2516 - Relating to charitable raffles
HB 2980 - Exempting from taxation property which is owned by a charitable organization owned by a nonprofit youth serving organization in certain circumstances
HB 3112 - Clarifying the distinction of nonprofit in charitable organizations

Child Welfare (2 Bills)
HB 2036 - Increasing penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 2048 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children
HB 2157 - Relating to parental notification requirements for abortions performed on unemancipated minors
HB 2175 - 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 2237 - West Virginia Child Advocate for the Protection of Children Act
HB 2239 - Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child
HB 2309 - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders
HB 2314 - 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 2418 - Prohibiting sex offenders from residing in certain areas and subjecting convicted sex offenders to global positional system monitoring
HB 2431 - 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 2432 - Establishing a bill of rights for children in foster care
HB 2433 - Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children
HB 2434 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents
HB 2461 - Relating to the appointment of hearing officers for juvenile drug courts
HB 2469 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2475 - Including certain records of the Division of Juvenile Services in the exemptions from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2546 - Relating to subpoena powers for aid of criminal investigations
HB 2558 - Establishing the Office of Child Advocacy
HB 2651 - Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors
HB 2654 - Prohibiting lottery from using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2668 - 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 2678 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents
HB 2679 - Increasing penalties for failing to report child abuse
HB 2687 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2689 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2707 - Expanding the definition of "imminent danger to the physical well-being of the child" with regard to child abuse and neglect
HB 2721 - Including additional information on the sex offender registry
HB 2722 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life
HB 2735 - Creating a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated
HB 2750 - Adding consideration of sexual assault in issuing an order to temporarily or permanently end a parent-child relationship
HB 2808 - Reducing from six months to three months the period of delinquency for failure to meet an obligation to pay support to a minor
HB 2860 - Authorizing the promulgation of rules by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction
HB 2998 - Providing medical and nonmedical exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 3028 - Expanding the responsibilities of the Maternal Mortality Review Team
HB 3037 - Creating crime and criminal penalties for drug and alcohol abuse during pregnancy resulting in diagnosed harm to infant
HB 3106 - Regulating the use of the internet by children
HB 3123 - Encouraging the use of telemedicine, telepsychology and video conferencing in order to make child welfare system more effective
HB 3133 - Removing the statute of limitations in child and spousal support cases
HB 3134 - Relating to child support enforcement
HB 3173 - Amending and adding to divorce, distribution of property and child custody guidelines to take into consideration the presence of an autistic child
HB 3194 - Increasing the age of consent that a minor may refuse mental health treatment
HB 3217 - Allowing an adoptee who was a minor at the time of entry of an order of adoption to dissent at any time after the adoption
HB 3236 - Relating to child abuse and neglect
HB 3245 - Establishing "The School Truancy Pilot Study Project Act"
HB 3261 - BPA-Free Kids Act

Citizenship (3 Bills)
HB 2260 - 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 3207 - Authorizing the state to enter into a multistate compact defining the birthright form of United States citizenship

Civil Rights (1 Bills)
HB 2045 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation
HB 2159 - Relating to prohibiting members of the news media from being compelled to give testimony
HB 2161 - Creating the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs
HB 2256 - Relating to approval of a student for homebound services and their rights
HB 2657 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2694 - Creating the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs
HB 2817 - Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient
HB 2819 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of minorities
HB 2840 - Providing that all persons have the right to be free from violence
HB 2866 - West Virginia Patriot's Protection Act
HB 2873 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2991 - Relating to the West Virginia Fair Housing Act
HB 3073 - Clarifying that the Human Rights Act purpose is to provide all citizens equal opportunity for employment, equal access to places of public accommodations, and equal opportunity in housing accommodations
HB 3220 - Preserving the rights of individuals guaranteed by the West Virginia Constitution and the United States Constitution when deciding the comity of a legal decision in a foreign country
HB 3225 - Expanding the definition of harassment, intimidation or bullying
HB 3227 - Providing a definition of sex for unlawful discriminatory practices

Civil Service (19 Bills)
HB 2245 - 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 2335 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2339 - Including enforcement officers employed by the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission in the classified service under the Civil Service System
HB 2703 - Relating to qualifications of members of certain county commissions
HB 2872 - Providing civil service status for certain employees of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 2995 - Relating to notice requirements of a convicted sex offender volunteering for an organization which has direct contact with minors
HB 3011 - Expanding the number of hours temporary state personnel may work in a calendar year
HB 3172 - Including certain employees of the office of the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner be included in the classified service

Claims (28 Bills)
HB 2011 - 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 2072 - Relating to civil actions based upon false or fraudulent claims against the medical programs of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2255 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 2686 - Relating to limitations for certain asbestos exposure claims
HB 2812 - Requiring insurers issuing group accident and sickness insurance policies to certain employers to furnish claims loss experience
HB 2818 - Increasing the allowable expenses to be paid to victims by the Crime Victim Compensation Fund
HB 2884 - Establishing a statute of limitations regarding claims involving manufactured housing
HB 3064 - Finding and declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state

Code Repealed (39 Bills)
HB 2246 - Repealing article of the code granting a business license to sell drug paraphernalia
HB 2652 - Repealing the Code of West Virginia and adopting in lieu thereof the Code of the Commonwealth of Virginia
HB 2915 - Repealing certain sections of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2935 - Repealing an outdated article of election code relating to voting systems
HB 3125 - Relating to the regulation of firearms and other deadly weapons

Commerce (4 Bills)
HB 2790 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2932 - Authorizing the Marketing and Communications office of the Department of Commerce to promote and sell West Virginia related items
HB 2933 - Transferring the Office of Economic Opportunity from the Governor's Office to the Department of Commerce

Communications (1 Bills)
HB 2077 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2310 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2413 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2452 - Prohibiting the use of prerecorded or synthesized voice messages and establishing a do-not-call list
HB 2690 - Reverting the 911 fee on wireless telephones from three dollars to seventy-five cents
HB 2695 - Relating to the educational broadcasting authority
HB 2832 - Including larceny of copper ground wires or cables from communications towers sites under crimes against property
HB 2997 - Allowing the Information Services and Communications Division to accumulate invoices under $75 and send them to the spending unit on one statement near the end of the fiscal year
HB 3029 - Relating to crimes using computers, telephones and electronic communications devices

Consumer Protection (1 Bills)
HB 2059 - Requiring insurers to notify insureds of all rate increases before they take effect
HB 2260 - 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 2291 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2308 - Protecting computer owners and users from computer spyware
HB 2319 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2413 - Relating to the "Telephone Record Confidentiality Act"
HB 2537 - Protecting consumers from price gouging and unfair pricing practices
HB 3202 - Relating to residential rental security deposits
HB 3210 - Creating the Consumer and Employee Arbitration Fairness Act
HB 3233 - Protecting consumers against certain actions of debt collectors
HB 3261 - BPA-Free Kids Act

Contracts (22 Bills)
HB 2106 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2144 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 2165 - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts
HB 2419 - Allowing private citizens the freedom to enter into private contracts for health care services or health care coverage or both
HB 3046 - Relating to voiding all noncompete agreements
HB 3136 - Relating to government construction contracts
HB 3138 - Providing for companies with state-funded contracts to disclose any employment practices regarding the employment of workers overseas
HB 3149 - Requiring state contracts and local contracts funded with state dollars to be performed within the United States
HB 3181 - Creating "The Prompt Pay Act of 2011
HB 3192 - Relating to those persons or entities that enters into direct contracts with providers for the delivery of health care services
HB 3210 - Creating the Consumer and Employee Arbitration Fairness Act

Corporations and Business Entities (9 Bills)
HB 2045 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation
HB 2075 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2109 - 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 2209 - Requiring that all worker's compensation adjusters employed by a private insurance carrier be located within the geographic borders of West Virginia
HB 2210 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2250 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 2271 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2277 - 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 2373 - Prohibiting fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline
HB 2400 - Relating to granting licensed real estate appraisers access to commercial or residential review documents
HB 2405 - Relating to corporate political accountability
HB 2448 - Creative Communities Development Pilot Program
HB 2477 - Relating to roads and highways
HB 2512 - Relating to pawnbrokers
HB 2529 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2549 - Establishing a system of issuing all licenses, certificates or permits, required for business entities in the state, from a single location
HB 2655 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2661 - Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2724 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act
HB 2816 - Permitting private clubs to purchase alcoholic liquors from retail liquor stores in any market zone in the state
HB 2884 - Establishing a statute of limitations regarding claims involving manufactured housing
HB 2918 - Relating to permanent business registrations
HB 2978 - Abolishing the business franchise tax starting July 1, 2011
HB 2993 - Relating to the West Virginia Commercial Patents Incentives Tax Act
HB 3046 - Relating to voiding all noncompete agreements
HB 3066 - Preventing a business from adopting a trade name already in use
HB 3113 - Exempting nonprofit, tax exempt corporations or organizations affiliated with a church from consumer sales and service tax
HB 3118 - Relating to private developers constructing new water systems
HB 3138 - Providing for companies with state-funded contracts to disclose any employment practices regarding the employment of workers overseas
HB 3149 - Requiring state contracts and local contracts funded with state dollars to be performed within the United States
HB 3169 - Reinstating the high-growth business investment tax credit
HB 3209 - Permitting the Secretary of State to dissolve a corporate entity if its professional license has been revoked
HB 3234 - Requiring the Secretary of State to notify every corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company and foreign limited liability company registered to do business of their duty to pay an annual report fee

Corrections (33 Bills)
HB 2001 - Providing that inmates serving life sentences shall be considered for parole only once every three years
HB 2028 - Establishing a work program for qualified inmates
HB 2044 - Creating a Sentencing Commission
HB 2102 - Providing a two thousand eight dollar salary increase for each employee of the Division of Corrections
HB 2158 - Increasing the penalties for sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion on incarcerated persons
HB 2182 - Mandatory funding of community corrections programs
HB 2184 - Granting a salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2223 - Providing correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of actual and honorable service
HB 2299 - Eliminating parole for persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities
HB 2460 - Clarifying that probation officers are authorized to supervise sex offenders
HB 2475 - Including certain records of the Division of Juvenile Services in the exemptions from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2476 - Relating to imposition of sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion on incarcerated persons
HB 2482 - Changing the way that the costs of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2517 - Allowing Correctional Industries to directly purchase workers' compensation coverage for inmates
HB 2518 - Relating to escape from custody of the Director of Juvenile Services
HB 2520 - Relating to centers for housing young adult offenders
HB 2553 - Subjecting certain inmates that commit first degree murder to capital punishment
HB 2656 - Requiring persons incarcerated for sex offenses to register as such at the time they are incarcerated
HB 2677 - Changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2689 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2718 - Providing that correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of service
HB 2743 - Changing the way the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2785 - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jail fees
HB 2786 - Allowing a credit against state personal income tax for the purchase of a new wood or pellet stove
HB 2872 - Providing civil service status for certain employees of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 2874 - Creating a pilot program for incarceration and treating low risk inmates who are disabled or impaired
HB 2893 - Relating to the Home Incarceration Act
HB 2996 - Establishing shift differential pay scales for employees of the Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services, and Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 3164 - Creating a pilot program for incarceration and treating low risk inmates who are disabled
HB 3205 - Reducing jail sentence for successful completion of education and rehabilitation programs
HB 3206 - Implementing evidence-based practices to reduce recidivism
HB 3212 - Requiring community corrections performance measurement standards for agencies responsible for supervising individuals placed on probation, serving a period of parole
HB 3213 - Relating to the Community Corrections Performance Incentive
HB 3226 - Relating to qualification of members of the board of parole
HB 3255 - Relating to exceptions as to prohibitions against carrying concealed deadly weapons
HB 3259 - Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to state hospitals
HB 3260 - Adding certain sanctions for violations of probation and parole

Counties (And Related Subheadings) (5 Bills)
HB 2112 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2192 - Requiring the assessor of each county to prepare a new property tax ticket within three months of a deed filing
HB 2217 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2220 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2233 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 2262 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks

Counties -- Commissions (21 Bills)
HB 2007 - Authorizing counties to create urban growth boundaries
HB 2013 - Requiring the West Virginia Enhanced 911 Council to propose Emergency Medical Dispatch procedures
HB 2027 - Requiring county commissions to adopt and implement county farmland protection programs
HB 2228 - Providing that a county commission may establish a program for transfer of development rights without the requirement for an election
HB 2231 - 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 2349 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury
HB 2387 - Requiring county commissions to hold one monthly meeting in the evening
HB 2696 - Authorizing the county commission of Boone County to transfer its title and interests in the Boone Memorial Hospital
HB 2701 - Granting county commissions with the plenary power and authority to establish a vacant building registration program
HB 2703 - Relating to qualifications of members of certain county commissions
HB 2706 - Allowing county commissions to use 911 fees to provide financial assistance to a countywide emergency ambulance service authority
HB 2749 - Allowing a Class IV Town be allowed to create their own charter
HB 2820 - Permitting municipalities and counties to use proceeds from the hotel occupancy tax to fund public libraries
HB 2871 - Relating to brownfield economic development districts
HB 3185 - Allowing county commissions to waive or reduce impact fees and capital improvement fees of affordable housing units in their county

Counties -- Courts and Officers (19 Bills)
HB 2040 - Increasing the number of magistrates in Jefferson County by one
HB 2515 - Relating to liens for assessments on common interest community real property
HB 2519 - Relating to qualifications of application for the position of deputy sheriff
HB 2851 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien
HB 2927 - Removing outdated language from the code and requiring a county prosecuting attorney to be full-time
HB 3002 - Requiring the sheriff of a county to issue, upon request, a blue flashing warning light to the prosecuting attorney

Counties (And Related Subheadings) (14 Bills)
HB 2016 - Providing general rules for all county and municipal referendum votes
HB 2303 - 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 2366 - Dedicating five percent of coal severance tax to the county of origin
HB 2400 - Relating to granting licensed real estate appraisers access to commercial or residential review documents
HB 2463 - Requiring an equal number of members from each magisterial district on county planning commissions
HB 2482 - Changing the way that the costs of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2737 - Providing a procedure for removal of county, district or municipal officers
HB 2855 - Providing that the salaries for certain county officials and employees are minimum salaries
HB 2912 - Dedicating five percent of coal severance tax to the county of origin

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (16 Bills)
HB 2207 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2224 - 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 2243 - Requiring disclosure by judicial officers of campaign contributions in excess of $250
HB 2737 - Providing a procedure for removal of county, district or municipal officers
HB 2822 - Enabling creditors to collect upon their judgements from debtors who often attempt to defeat such judgments

Courts -- Circuit (20 Bills)
HB 2488 - Relating to the nonpartisan elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 2893 - Relating to the Home Incarceration Act
HB 2923 - Relating to expungement of certain criminal convictions
HB 2927 - Removing outdated language from the code and requiring a county prosecuting attorney to be full-time
HB 3041 - Protecting nonfamily or nonhousehold members from sexual offenses, stalking and harassment
HB 3127 - Increasing the fees charged by the clerk of the circuit court for medical professional liability actions

Courts -- Magistrate (8 Bills)
HB 2040 - Increasing the number of magistrates in Jefferson County by one
HB 2051 - Relating to electing magistrates by division
HB 2093 - Increasing the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county
HB 2225 - 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 2251 - Increasing the salaries of magistrates who serve populations of eight thousand four hundred or more
HB 2397 - 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 2463 - Requiring an equal number of members from each magisterial district on county planning commissions
HB 2465 - Requiring magistrate courts to maintain records relating to successful collection rates on judgements
HB 2510 - Permitting magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2540 - Relating to requirements to serve as a magistrate
HB 2725 - Expanding the powers of the magistrate to prosecute for worthless checks beyond the strict limitations of NSF
HB 2925 - Increasing the number of magistrate court clerks in Marion County by one
HB 3041 - Protecting nonfamily or nonhousehold members from sexual offenses, stalking and harassment
HB 3089 - Increasing the number of allowable magistrate court deputy clerks
HB 3142 - Increasing the allowable number of magistrate court deputy clerks by five
HB 3176 - Adding a magistrate to Monongalia County

Courts -- Supreme Court (8 Bills)
HB 2488 - Relating to the nonpartisan elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 3213 - Relating to the Community Corrections Performance Incentive

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (19 Bills)
HB 2451 - Relating to victim impact statements
HB 2461 - Relating to the appointment of hearing officers for juvenile drug courts
HB 2518 - Relating to escape from custody of the Director of Juvenile Services
HB 2520 - Relating to centers for housing young adult offenders
HB 2521 - Eliminating the requirement of serving domestic violence orders by certified mail
HB 2526 - Providing for a death penalty and procedures and standards applicable thereto for commission of murder in the first degree
HB 2775 - Relating to writing worthless checks
HB 2839 - Reducing the number of jurors in criminal trials in municipal courts
HB 3041 - Protecting nonfamily or nonhousehold members from sexual offenses, stalking and harassment
HB 3067 - Enhancing funding for civil legal services for the poor
HB 3128 - Relating to filing a civil petition for expungement of records relating to an arrest
HB 3132 - Requiring a judge's permission before a juror's information can be released
HB 3147 - Increasing the annual salaries of supreme court justices, circuit judges, family court judges and magistrates
HB 3150 - Authorizing a new court to be known as the Intermediate Court of Appeals
HB 3165 - Creating an Intermediate Court of Appeals
HB 3173 - Amending and adding to divorce, distribution of property and child custody guidelines to take into consideration the presence of an autistic child
HB 3193 - Permitting persons who have been convicted of felonies to qualify for jury service
HB 3206 - Implementing evidence-based practices to reduce recidivism
HB 3212 - Requiring community corrections performance measurement standards for agencies responsible for supervising individuals placed on probation, serving a period of parole
HB 3257 - Relating to competency and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of a crime
HB 3258 - Providing forensic evaluators with civil immunity for acts committed by the subject of the evaluation

Creditors and Debtors (19 Bills)
HB 2049 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2319 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2332 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses
HB 2374 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 2822 - Enabling creditors to collect upon their judgements from debtors who often attempt to defeat such judgments

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (15 Bills)
HB 2010 - Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act
HB 2068 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2077 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2129 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2188 - Providing for the criminal offenses of home invasion in the first, second, third and fourth degrees
HB 2190 - Making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace
HB 2239 - Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child
HB 2281 - Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide
HB 2311 - Creating the criminal offense of injury to a pregnant woman that results in miscarriage or stillbirth
HB 2315 - Relating to obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer
HB 2362 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2382 - Requiring witnesses of violent acts or emergency situations to report the incident to law-enforcement
HB 2832 - Including larceny of copper ground wires or cables from communications towers sites under crimes against property

Crimes -- Alcohol and Drugs (4 Bills)
HB 2036 - Increasing penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 2495 - Relating generally to driving under the influence
HB 2670 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2803 - 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 3037 - Creating crime and criminal penalties for drug and alcohol abuse during pregnancy resulting in diagnosed harm to infant

Crimes -- Felonies (13 Bills)
HB 2001 - Providing that inmates serving life sentences shall be considered for parole only once every three years
HB 2081 - 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 2089 - Prohibiting any person convicted of any felony from voting in an election of state and local officials
HB 2103 - Prohibiting a person convicted of any felony from holding public office
HB 2291 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2313 - Relating to the insertion of language which defines acts of violence and makes its false reporting a felony
HB 2443 - Prohibiting wagering at animal fighting ventures and providing a felony criminal penalty
HB 2476 - Relating to imposition of sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion on incarcerated persons
HB 2486 - Creating the felony offense of possession of one gram or more of cocaine
HB 2526 - Providing for a death penalty and procedures and standards applicable thereto for commission of murder in the first degree
HB 2553 - Subjecting certain inmates that commit first degree murder to capital punishment
HB 2735 - Creating a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated
HB 2747 - Creating a felony offense for causing serious bodily injury to another person while driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs
HB 2803 - 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 2841 - Eliminating the third offense conviction of shoplifting and its corresponding felony penalty
HB 2858 - Requiring persons arrested for a felony to submit to a DNA sample
HB 2922 - Establishing the felony offense of causing serious bodily injury to another person by a person who is driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or other drugs
HB 3184 - Making property crimes valued at over $1,000 a felony
HB 3193 - Permitting persons who have been convicted of felonies to qualify for jury service

Crimes -- Juveniles (2 Bills)
HB 2314 - 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 2518 - Relating to escape from custody of the Director of Juvenile Services
HB 2520 - Relating to centers for housing young adult offenders
HB 2722 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life

Crimes -- Sexual Offenses (5 Bills)
HB 2048 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children
HB 2158 - Increasing the penalties for sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion on incarcerated persons
HB 2226 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2418 - Prohibiting sex offenders from residing in certain areas and subjecting convicted sex offenders to global positional system monitoring
HB 2476 - Relating to imposition of sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion on incarcerated persons
HB 2656 - Requiring persons incarcerated for sex offenses to register as such at the time they are incarcerated
HB 2689 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep track of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses against children
HB 2721 - Including additional information on the sex offender registry
HB 2722 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life
HB 2750 - Adding consideration of sexual assault in issuing an order to temporarily or permanently end a parent-child relationship
HB 2784 - Requiring sex offenders to pay a fee which is to be deposited into the State Police Retirement Fund
HB 2891 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes to "GPS" monitoring for the duration of their life
HB 2995 - Relating to notice requirements of a convicted sex offender volunteering for an organization which has direct contact with minors
HB 3041 - Protecting nonfamily or nonhousehold members from sexual offenses, stalking and harassment
HB 3162 - Relating to polygraph examinations required as a condition of supervision for certain sex offenders
HB 3253 - Relating to forensic-medical examination services for victims of sexual offenses

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (26 Bills)
HB 2001 - Providing that inmates serving life sentences shall be considered for parole only once every three years
HB 2181 - Requiring an automatic home confinement sentence for certain nonviolent misdemeanors
HB 2182 - Mandatory funding of community corrections programs
HB 2346 - Reconciling code provisions relating to law enforcement officers duties to enforce domestic violence protective orders
HB 2446 - Increasing the criminal penalties for assaults and batteries against athletic officials
HB 2450 - Relating to the protection of cats from injury by dogs
HB 2451 - Relating to victim impact statements
HB 2459 - Prohibiting the stopping of certain vehicles in roadways for the discharging of passengers
HB 2484 - Relating to railroad employees
HB 2490 - Prohibiting the use of a mobile communication device to engage in text messaging or additional technologies while operating a motor vehicle
HB 2495 - Relating generally to driving under the influence
HB 2526 - Providing for a death penalty and procedures and standards applicable thereto for commission of murder in the first degree
HB 2528 - 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 2541 - Relating to the criminal offense of robbery and attempted robbery
HB 2546 - Relating to subpoena powers for aid of criminal investigations
HB 2555 - Establishing the offense of operating a motor vehicle while sending, reading or receiving a text message
HB 2565 - Relating to crimes using computers, telephones and electronic devices
HB 2725 - Expanding the powers of the magistrate to prosecute for worthless checks beyond the strict limitations of NSF
HB 2775 - Relating to writing worthless checks
HB 2841 - Eliminating the third offense conviction of shoplifting and its corresponding felony penalty
HB 2864 - All relating to the creation of a misdemeanor crime of unlawful restraint in the first and second degree
HB 2923 - Relating to expungement of certain criminal convictions
HB 2947 - Making it a crime to put certain types of invasive software on mobile devices
HB 3029 - Relating to crimes using computers, telephones and electronic communications devices
HB 3044 - Relating to civil forfeiture actions related to criminal activity
HB 3143 - Relating to penalties for causing injury or death to certain animals used by law enforcement
HB 3144 - Creating a criminal offense and adding misdemeanor criminal penalties for picketing or disrupting funerals
HB 3184 - Making property crimes valued at over $1,000 a felony
HB 3190 - Creating the offense of obstructing health care facility access
HB 3198 - Relating to abuse or neglect of an incapacitated adult
HB 3206 - Implementing evidence-based practices to reduce recidivism
HB 3257 - Relating to competency and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of a crime
HB 3259 - Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to state hospitals

Criminal Background Checks (1 Bills)
HB 2227 - Requiring background checks on applicants for residence in nursing homes and assisted living residences
HB 3031 - Authorizing professional licensing boards to obtain criminal history record checks

Culture and History (11 Bills)
HB 2230 - 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 2414 - Instituting a "Celebrate Freedom Week" and requiring the instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other American historical documents
HB 2826 - Clarifying procedures for protection of graves and burial sites
HB 2843 - Relating to public records management and preservation

Disabilities (77 Bills)
HB 2046 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2107 - 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 2277 - 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 2349 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury
HB 2362 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2363 - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five
HB 2384 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors
HB 2411 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2415 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2442 - Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 2653 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2683 - 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 2831 - Issuing special registration plates allowing parking privileges for persons with mobility impairments
HB 2874 - Creating a pilot program for incarceration and treating low risk inmates who are disabled or impaired
HB 2991 - Relating to the West Virginia Fair Housing Act
HB 3009 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 3108 - Providing permanent total disability recipients annual cost-of-living allowances
HB 3164 - Creating a pilot program for incarceration and treating low risk inmates who are disabled
HB 3221 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 3247 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 3269 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees

Domestic Relations (5 Bills)
HB 2067 - Providing that adultery shall be a bar to alimony in a divorce proceeding
HB 2068 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members
HB 2138 - Providing for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence
HB 2204 - Relating to requirements for self-employed persons to participate in the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement's PayConnextion program
HB 2213 - Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn child
HB 2234 - Providing a procedure for disclosure of birth parents to an adoptee, in certain circumstances
HB 2237 - West Virginia Child Advocate for the Protection of Children Act
HB 2290 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 2322 - Creating and issuing certificates recognizing the termination of marriage
HB 2325 - Using both parents' income in determining child support, calculation of adjusted gross income
HB 2347 - Extending the maximum length of protective orders in domestic violence
HB 2406 - Relating to the designation of a primary guardian for a minor child
HB 2411 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2431 - 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 2432 - Establishing a bill of rights for children in foster care
HB 2434 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents
HB 2521 - Eliminating the requirement of serving domestic violence orders by certified mail
HB 2613 - Authorizing the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2679 - Increasing penalties for failing to report child abuse
HB 2742 - Revoking certain death benefits by divorce
HB 2750 - Adding consideration of sexual assault in issuing an order to temporarily or permanently end a parent-child relationship
HB 2808 - Reducing from six months to three months the period of delinquency for failure to meet an obligation to pay support to a minor
HB 2864 - All relating to the creation of a misdemeanor crime of unlawful restraint in the first and second degree
HB 3133 - Removing the statute of limitations in child and spousal support cases
HB 3134 - Relating to child support enforcement
HB 3140 - Providing for the interception of insurance settlement claims by the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement for past-due support
HB 3173 - Amending and adding to divorce, distribution of property and child custody guidelines to take into consideration the presence of an autistic child
HB 3217 - Allowing an adoptee who was a minor at the time of entry of an order of adoption to dissent at any time after the adoption
HB 3236 - Relating to child abuse and neglect

Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia (8 Bills)
HB 2069 - Relating to the creation and implementation of drug-free workplaces in coal mines
HB 2152 - Establishing threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possessed by an individual
HB 2201 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2381 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers
HB 2408 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
HB 2461 - Relating to the appointment of hearing officers for juvenile drug courts
HB 2486 - Creating the felony offense of possession of one gram or more of cocaine
HB 2505 - Adding synthetic cannabinoids and hallucinogens and stimulants to the Schedule I list of controlled substances (K2)
HB 2598 - Pharmacy, controlled substances monitoring
HB 2668 - 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 2794 - 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 2818 - Increasing the allowable expenses to be paid to victims by the Crime Victim Compensation Fund
HB 2828 - 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 2922 - Establishing the felony offense of causing serious bodily injury to another person by a person who is driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or other drugs
HB 2965 - Implementing drug testing for legislators of the State of West Virginia and for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits
HB 3079 - Implementing random drug testing for recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits and for legislators
HB 3231 - Establishing prohibited acts relating to possession of controlled substances obtained from more than one heath practitioner
HB 3251 - Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act
HB 3265 - Making the possession of heroin, without a valid prescription, by a person, acting in the course of his or her professional practice, a felony

Economic Development (1 Bills)
HB 2096 - Relating to arts, entertainment and enterprise districts
HB 2144 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 2210 - Small Business Development Incentive Program for Internal Growth Act
HB 2254 - Authorizing excess funds in the courtesy Patrol Fund to be transferred back to the Tourism Promotion Fund
HB 2422 - Creative Communities Development Act
HB 2440 - 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 2760 - Revising the Municipal Economic Opportunity Development District Act
HB 2762 - Revising the County Economic Opportunity Development District Act
HB 2795 - Jobs Impact Statement Act
HB 2836 - Relating to the Neighborhood Investment Program Act
HB 2837 - Authorizing an exemption from the consumers sales and service tax and use tax for qualified purchases
HB 2852 - Relating to the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act
HB 2862 - Allowing a deduction for all capital expenditures from the corporate net income tax
HB 2871 - Relating to brownfield economic development districts
HB 2933 - Transferring the Office of Economic Opportunity from the Governor's Office to the Department of Commerce
HB 2950 - Reducing the required original cost of manufacturing facilities
HB 2953 - Relating to dedication of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds
HB 3040 - Twenty-First Century Business Technologies Property Valuation Act
HB 3086 - Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act
HB 3099 - Marcellus Gas and Manufacturing Development Act
HB 3169 - Reinstating the high-growth business investment tax credit
HB 3185 - Allowing county commissions to waive or reduce impact fees and capital improvement fees of affordable housing units in their county
HB 3203 - Creating a fund within the council for community and economic development to assist communities with strategic and feasibility plans
HB 3204 - Creating the West Virginia Enterprise Resource Planning Board and Executive Committee

Education (And Related Subheadings) (36 Bills)
HB 2003 - Giving state institutions of higher education more flexibility in the planning and operation of their schools
HB 2005 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2023 - Requiring that transportation to and from school be provided for each child that needs or desires transportation
HB 2108 - 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 2112 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education
HB 2116 - Reducing staff development programs for school personnel from eighteen hours to twelve hours
HB 2118 - Prohibiting individual county board of education members from acting on behalf of the board in an individual capacity unless authorized by law
HB 2128 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2130 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2139 - 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 2156 - 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 2191 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent
HB 2197 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2211 - 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 2217 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2220 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2221 - 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 2249 - Prohibiting the use of calculators for teaching purposes in grades K through eight
HB 2256 - Relating to approval of a student for homebound services and their rights
HB 2257 - Authorizing and encouraging county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel
HB 2266 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2285 - Directing the State Board of Education to determine what principal and teacher reports are unnecessary
HB 2323 - The Family Education Tax Credit Act
HB 2353 - Allowing the State Superintendent of Schools to designate certain geographical areas as a "School Choice Zone"
HB 2354 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2355 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2356 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2365 - Preventing a professional educator from taking a coaching position away from a current coach
HB 2377 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2654 - Prohibiting lottery from using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2675 - West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act
HB 2676 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2680 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2731 - Authorizing a tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas
HB 2736 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements
HB 2783 - 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

Education -- Colleges & Universities (9 Bills)
HB 2003 - Giving state institutions of higher education more flexibility in the planning and operation of their schools
HB 2005 - Extending the provisions of the Higher Education Flexibility Act
HB 2018 - Creating the Higher Education Merit Screening Advisory Committee
HB 2041 - Allowing for more teachers to be reimbursed for approved course work
HB 2052 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists
HB 2100 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2106 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2148 - Providing a tax credit for scholarship donations
HB 2215 - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment of state income tax
HB 2280 - Relating to redemption or repayment of PROMISE scholarship funds when a student drops or withdraws from classes
HB 2324 - Special Needs Scholarship Program
HB 2334 - 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 2348 - Requiring the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute to develop a plan regarding neurodegenerative diseases
HB 2389 - Setting compensation standards for classified employees who work overtime on weekends or holidays
HB 2394 - Protecting academic speech of professional educators
HB 2508 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2723 - Protecting academic freedom in higher education
HB 2758 - Relating to higher education directed research endowments
HB 2771 - Stay Home in West Virginia and Work Tax Incentive
HB 2825 - Relating to tuition and fee waivers for members of the West Virginia State Police to attend a college or university
HB 2919 - Correcting the name of West Liberty University
HB 2920 - Establishing a tax credit for graduates of a higher education institution
HB 3017 - Relating to higher education personnel
HB 3055 - Retaining nursing educators
HB 3068 - Creating the WVU-Tech Revitalization Project
HB 3104 - Relating to health professionals student loan programs
HB 3241 - Clarifying powers and duties of certain public higher education organizations and oversight of higher education capital facilities

Education -- Courses, Programs & Testing (25 Bills)
HB 2002 - Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school
HB 2041 - Allowing for more teachers to be reimbursed for approved course work
HB 2070 - Requiring the subject of physics as a required course in all public secondary schools for graduation
HB 2100 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2116 - Reducing staff development programs for school personnel from eighteen hours to twelve hours
HB 2126 - Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing requirement
HB 2134 - Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development
HB 2302 - Providing an annual $5,000 bonus to teachers of advanced placement math and science classes
HB 2478 - Charter Schools Act
HB 2563 - Relating to reimbursement of tuition, registration and other required fees for course work completed by teachers
HB 2673 - Directing the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction on macroeconomics
HB 2797 - 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 2889 - Creating the "Jason Flatt Act of 2011"
HB 2954 - Relating to the construction, planning and location of comprehensive career technical education facilities
HB 3062 - Reforming the school aid formula
HB 3116 - Relating to the authority of school curriculum teams and local school collaborative processes
HB 3151 - Requiring that national assessment of educational progress program tests be administered during the last week of the academic school year
HB 3152 - Relating to tests and methods to annually assess the basic skills of achievement and proficiency of home schooled students and students in private, parochial or church schools
HB 3171 - Providing educators with the education and training necessary to ensure the safety of state schools
HB 3195 - Providing eligibility for a license to teach in the public schools for candidates who are not United States citizens
HB 3199 - Creating a pathway to proficiency for third graders though eleventh graders

Education -- Retirement (33 Bills)
HB 2033 - Repealing the one hundred forty day limitation that a retired school teacher may teach in public schools
HB 2113 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2156 - 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 2333 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2359 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2376 - 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 2412 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2523 - Permitting a retired person to accept employment as a substitute teacher without affecting monthly retirement benefits
HB 2556 - Resetting the expiration date of provisions that allow the employment of retired teachers as substitutes beyond the post-retirement employment limit
HB 2719 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2778 - Extending the expiration date of employment of retired teachers beyond the post-retirement employment limit

Education -- Salaries, Classifications, Leave (16 Bills)
HB 2053 - Providing paid childbirth leave for higher education personnel
HB 2060 - Requiring schools to post and make available to the public the schedules of teachers and staff
HB 2078 - Raising the county board of education pay to that of the county commissioners
HB 2083 - Crediting a deceased teacher's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and other dependents
HB 2088 - Providing for increased compensation for aides and paraprofessionals with large numbers of pupils in kindergarten and grades one through six
HB 2099 - Relating to the minimum salaries of teachers based on years experience and level of education
HB 2127 - Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year
HB 2128 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2143 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2147 - Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board
HB 2154 - Establishing school service personnel class title and pay grade for the positions of "Administrative Assistant" and "Legal Secretary"
HB 2167 - Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards
HB 2195 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2197 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2253 - Providing additional state minimum salary for certain teachers
HB 2304 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel
HB 2321 - Giving teachers credit toward the pay scale for completing an accredited seminary
HB 2329 - Reimbursing teachers for recertification fees
HB 2334 - 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 2338 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel
HB 2377 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2500 - Relating to school personnel
HB 2556 - Resetting the expiration date of provisions that allow the employment of retired teachers as substitutes beyond the post-retirement employment limit
HB 2669 - Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as athletic coaches
HB 2726 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2838 - Relating to alternative principal and teacher certification
HB 2895 - Relating to sign language interpreter certification and commercial driver's license for school service personnel
HB 3039 - Replacing the different classifications for school cooks with a single classification and increasing the salary for the cook position
HB 3059 - Relating to teacher pay rate for work assignment outside regular school day or beyond a contracted employment period
HB 3062 - Reforming the school aid formula
HB 3077 - Allowing county board of education members to receive additional compensation for attending training sessions
HB 3195 - Providing eligibility for a license to teach in the public schools for candidates who are not United States citizens
HB 3211 - Adding school social workers to the list of professional personnel who may receive salary supplement and educational expense reimbursement

Education (And Related Subheadings) (33 Bills)
HB 2031 - Relating to the reporting of assaults, batteries and other incidents on school property
HB 2063 - Requiring elementary students to have access to a certified library media specialist, art specialist, music specialist and physical education specialist
HB 2074 - Permitting a retired law-enforcement officer to be employed by a county board of education as a resource prevention officer
HB 2131 - Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors
HB 2164 - Relating to public school support computation of local share
HB 2317 - Redefining planning periods for teachers
HB 2329 - Reimbursing teachers for recertification fees
HB 2349 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury
HB 2394 - Protecting academic speech of professional educators
HB 2399 - Creating a commission to develop a pilot program to help at-risk youth in West Virginia
HB 2435 - Allowing the school building authority to designate money for the building of playgrounds
HB 2446 - Increasing the criminal penalties for assaults and batteries against athletic officials
HB 2478 - Charter Schools Act
HB 2483 - Authorizing public school teachers to purchase one personal computer and related devices per year from the state contract for use outside the classroom
HB 2485 - Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds
HB 2500 - Relating to school personnel
HB 2501 - Relating to donation and transfer of surplus state owned personal computers for educational purposes
HB 2511 - Permitting a county board of education to include in any revenue bond for construction projects the cost of demolition of buildings
HB 2524 - Relating to the practice of speech-language pathology and audiology
HB 2550 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
HB 2560 - Relating to the employment of personnel in public schools
HB 2563 - Relating to reimbursement of tuition, registration and other required fees for course work completed by teachers
HB 2631 - Optometry, continuing education
HB 2648 - Increasing the faculty senate allotment for classroom teachers and librarians
HB 2681 - Waiving tuition and fees for members of the WV State Police
HB 2704 - Adding to the definition of harassment, intimidation or bullying
HB 2738 - Creating the math and science teacher loan assistance program
HB 2739 - Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Act
HB 2756 - Relating to the improvement of schools and school districts
HB 2757 - Providing for evaluation of professional personnel in the public schools
HB 2811 - Exempting sales of personal tangible property and services by public and private schools from consumer sales tax and service
HB 2868 - Requiring every county board of education to employ a nurse in each public school
HB 2895 - Relating to sign language interpreter certification and commercial driver's license for school service personnel
HB 2961 - Assessing an additional $10 penalty on all speeding tickets
HB 2976 - Exempting barbers with twenty or more years of experience from continuing education requirements
HB 2981 - Clarifying payment for trade certifications and allowing use of tuition assistance for West Virginia National Guard members enrolled in a doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine program
HB 2998 - Providing medical and nonmedical exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 3034 - Recognizing outstanding students who are top achievers in scholastic studies
HB 3035 - Preventing teachers from being assigned additional responsibilities during planning period
HB 3048 - Requiring public schools to institute mandatory recycling programs
HB 3051 - The Parent Empowerment and Choice Act
HB 3068 - Creating the WVU-Tech Revitalization Project
HB 3069 - Returning funding levels of regional educational service agencies to original levels
HB 3081 - Permitting the use of reasonable corporal punishment by a teacher or administrator
HB 3115 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education - State Aid to Schools
HB 3130 - Removing the dollar cap on the funding formula for Regional Education Service Agencies
HB 3135 - Decreasing the student to teacher ratio in kindergarten through sixth grades
HB 3148 - Relating to residency requirements for persons appointed as campus police officers
HB 3182 - Ensuring a more thorough analysis of the rural health initiative and its future
HB 3189 - Clarifying that the Legislature is the sole authority regarding compulsory immunizations
HB 3205 - Reducing jail sentence for successful completion of education and rehabilitation programs
HB 3225 - Expanding the definition of harassment, intimidation or bullying
HB 3245 - Establishing "The School Truancy Pilot Study Project Act"

Education--Facilities (33 Bills)
HB 2660 - Allowing fireworks displays on public school property upon approval of the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Fire Marshal
HB 2709 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 2954 - Relating to the construction, planning and location of comprehensive career technical education facilities
HB 3241 - Clarifying powers and duties of certain public higher education organizations and oversight of higher education capital facilities

Elections (3 Bills)
HB 2016 - Providing general rules for all county and municipal referendum votes
HB 2051 - Relating to electing magistrates by division
HB 2089 - Prohibiting any person convicted of any felony from voting in an election of state and local officials
HB 2091 - Prohibiting a cheif deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities
HB 2103 - Prohibiting a person convicted of any felony from holding public office
HB 2202 - Providing for removal and election of Public Service Commissioners
HB 2222 - Prohibiting the use of touch screen voting machines
HB 2228 - Providing that a county commission may establish a program for transfer of development rights without the requirement for an election
HB 2235 - 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 2243 - Requiring disclosure by judicial officers of campaign contributions in excess of $250
HB 2298 - Prohibiting any member of the Legislature from fund-raising during any session
HB 2300 - Abolishing the one-vote straight ticket voting in all general and special elections within West Virginia
HB 2378 - Agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote
HB 2393 - Providing that parties advocating passage or defeat of a public question by referendum vote are subject to reporting requirements
HB 2417 - Requiring write-in candidates for public office to pay a filing fee
HB 2438 - 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 2441 - Relating to elections
HB 2444 - Using voter registration figures to determine the placement of political parties on the general election ballot
HB 2454 - Relating to recall elections of elected or appointed federal officers that do not hold a life term
HB 2481 - Relating to elections
HB 2488 - Relating to the nonpartisan elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges
HB 2497 - Relating to the nonpartisan elections of Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General and Commissioner of Agriculture and justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
HB 2533 - Requiring the identities of signatories to a certificate for a person seeking ballot access to be made public and verified
HB 2552 - Providing for a new election to fill a vacancy in the Office of Governor
HB 2557 - Extending the time for the Board of Education of Upshur County to meet as a levying body
HB 2698 - Requiring a nonbinding referendum in the counties of Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson to determine their desire to secede from West Virginia and become a part of Virginia
HB 2732 - West Virginia Public Campaign Financing Act
HB 2748 - Relating to the voting period for early in-person voting
HB 2749 - Allowing a Class IV Town be allowed to create their own charter
HB 2853 - Providing for a special primary and general election to fill a vacancy in the office of Governor
HB 2856 - Reducing the days for early voting in person
HB 2857 - Requiring voting for at least five consecutive days during the period of early voting
HB 2859 - Relating to the Public Service Commission
HB 2903 - Election Commission, public campaign financing pilot program
HB 2935 - Repealing an outdated article of election code relating to voting systems
HB 2936 - Changing the date of the canvassing of votes in a primary election
HB 3001 - Lengthening the period for voter registration
HB 3014 - Increasing the limit on the size of voting precincts
HB 3032 - Relating to emergency powers of the Secretary of State
HB 3036 - Relating generally to voter registration
HB 3038 - Clarifying inconsistences in the election code
HB 3058 - Relating generally to the use of electronic voting systems
HB 3065 - Relating to the eligibility requirements, processes, and assistance of absentee voting, and early in person voting
HB 3100 - Permitting the sale of liquor on election day
HB 3103 - Amending recount procedures
HB 3107 - Implementing an agreement among the states to elect the President and Vice President by national popular vote
HB 3166 - Permitting municipalities to stagger the terms of elected officers
HB 3175 - Requiring a popular vote of the residents of the county affected by a proposed initial rate or a proposed increase of any rate or tolls
HB 3219 - Requiring a voter to present an identifying document which contains the name, address and a photograph of that person
HB 3229 - Relating to community voting locations
HB 3248 - Allowing political parties to obtain ballot access by expanding the scope of the definition of political party

Emergency Services (5 Bills)
HB 2013 - Requiring the West Virginia Enhanced 911 Council to propose Emergency Medical Dispatch procedures
HB 2141 - 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 2273 - Requiring paramedics to be on site at coal mines
HB 2310 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2391 - Making it a misdemeanor to make more than three separate calls to 911 for nonemergency health concerns
HB 2690 - Reverting the 911 fee on wireless telephones from three dollars to seventy-five cents
HB 2706 - Allowing county commissions to use 911 fees to provide financial assistance to a countywide emergency ambulance service authority
HB 2904 - Health, emergency medical services
HB 2982 - Limiting the liability of military personnel who respond to local emergencies and calls for assistance
HB 3105 - Providing immunity from civil or criminal liability for first responders who use forced entry to a residence

Eminent Domain (10 Bills)
HB 2823 - Increasing any award of just compensation to a property owner for eminent domain takings by nongovernment entities

Energy (45 Bills)
HB 2025 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 2401 - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act
HB 2709 - Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts
HB 2740 - Making covenants that restrict the installation or use of solar energy systems unenforceable
HB 2741 - Exempting the construction or addition of active solar energy systems from real and personal property taxation
HB 2776 - Residential Renewable Energy Systems Tax Credit
HB 2786 - Allowing a credit against state personal income tax for the purchase of a new wood or pellet stove
HB 2810 - Relating to interconnection and net-metering of customer-generators of renewable energy
HB 2890 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 2915 - Repealing certain sections of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
HB 2957 - Requiring new facility projects of public agencies and projects receiving state funds to comply with the International Code Council 2009 International Energy Conservation Code
HB 3071 - Requiring certification of correctness as to design, construction and performance of domestic and commercial liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances
HB 3088 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 3129 - Creating and implementing a fund to encourage the development and use of renewable forms of energy
HB 3238 - Allowing additional facilities to be built on the site of wind power facilities that are already properly permitted by law

Environmental Protection (2 Bills)
HB 2024 - Green Buildings Act
HB 2026 - Prohibiting any permits authorizing the construction, enlargement or modification of any coal mine waste
HB 2056 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
HB 2153 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five tires
HB 2160 - Authorizing incentives for energy conservation by electric utilities
HB 2163 - Creating a mandatory grace period for the payment of water and sewer bills
HB 2170 - Requiring all final actions by the Department of Environmental Protection regarding coal mine permits to be completed within six months
HB 2172 - Relating to the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 2183 - Qualifying children for the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program
HB 2401 - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act
HB 2403 - Establishing requirements for Marcellus gas well operations use of water resources
HB 2404 - Relating to air pollution control
HB 2440 - 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 2554 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2576 - DEP-air quality, standards of performance for new stationary sources
HB 2577 - DEP-air quality, permits for construction and major modification of major stationary sources of air pollution
HB 2578 - DEP-air quality, control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment
HB 2579 - DEP-air quality, emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 2580 - DEP-air quality, ambient air quality standards
HB 2581 - DEP-water resources, requirements governing water quality standards
HB 2609 - DEP - waste management, hazardous waste management system
HB 2814 - Establishing a returnable beverage container deposit program
HB 2824 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 2834 - Relating to water pollution control
HB 2844 - Relating to protection of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
HB 2878 - Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling Gas Act
HB 2940 - Requiring liners in all new surface coal-waste impoundments and requiring regulations relating to the planning, constructing and maintenance of the liners
HB 2955 - Authorizing the Division of Mining and Reclamation to assess certain fees to coal mine operators
HB 2960 - Raising the balance allowed to be in the Underground Storage Tank Administrative Fund
HB 2972 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2985 - Updating the Logging Sediment Control Act
HB 3042 - Relating to the regulation of oil and gas wells
HB 3047 - Removing the ban on disposing of covered electronic devices
HB 3048 - Requiring public schools to institute mandatory recycling programs
HB 3249 - Creating independent Office of Environmental Advocate
HB 3254 - Adding oil and gas facilities, wells, pipelines and tanks to the coordinated statewide program of air pollution prevention

Estates and Trusts (4 Bills)
HB 2212 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2406 - Relating to the designation of a primary guardian for a minor child
HB 2551 - Relating generally to estates and trusts and their administration
HB 2685 - 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 3198 - Relating to abuse or neglect of an incapacitated adult
HB 3266 - Uniform Power of Attorney Act

Ethics (6 Bills)
HB 2297 - Requiring lobbyists to disclose compensation agreements for each registered employer
HB 2464 - Adding additional requirements to the Ethics Act
HB 2612 - Ethics Commission, forms
HB 2806 - Relating to ethical standards for elected and appointed officials and public employees
HB 2821 - Strengthening the Ethics Act financial disclosure filing requirements
HB 2846 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2848 - Relating to ethical guidelines for members of professional licensing boards
HB 3167 - Limiting elected or appointed officials from placing their name or likeness on trinkets paid for with public funds

Fire Fighting and Prevention (12 Bills)
HB 2006 - Providing a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter has developed a pulmonary disease or sustained a cardiovascular injury
HB 2047 - Establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters
HB 2079 - Relating to the Fire Prevention and Control Act
HB 2085 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2141 - 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 2187 - Including volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2282 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2286 - Providing discounted motor registration fees for members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2341 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 2473 - Clarifying that fire chiefs working with paid and volunteer fire departments are employees that are provided immunity under the Governmental Tort Claims
HB 2584 - WV Bureau for Public Health, fire department rapid response services licensure
HB 2660 - Allowing fireworks displays on public school property upon approval of the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Fire Marshal
HB 2684 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2711 - Relating to the adoption of the 2008 National Electric Code
HB 2727 - Providing an exemption from gross income for certain members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2751 - Clarifying that fire chiefs and their duly appointed officers are provided immunity under the Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act
HB 2764 - Relating to the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 2894 - Changing surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies to one percent and dedicating the money to volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments
HB 2986 - Relating to forest fire seasons
HB 3027 - Authorizing the sale of prohibited fireworks
HB 3056 - Eliminating the reporting requirement for public fire departments of nonfire incidents
HB 3191 - Creating a workers' compensation insurance subsidy program for volunteer fire departments
HB 3243 - Relating to appointments or promotions to positions in paid municipal fire departments
HB 3263 - Providing assistance to volunteer fire departments
HB 3271 - Relating to the distribution of state funds to volunteer fire companies and departments

Firearms (45 Bills)
HB 2129 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2229 - Limiting the purchase of handguns to one gun per month
HB 2335 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2346 - Reconciling code provisions relating to law enforcement officers duties to enforce domestic violence protective orders
HB 2457 - Permitting those individuals who have been issued concealed weapons permits to keep loaded firearms in their motor vehicles on the State Capitol Complex grounds
HB 2510 - Permitting magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit
HB 2541 - Relating to the criminal offense of robbery and attempted robbery
HB 2705 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 3076 - Relating to the procedure for petitioning to regain the right to possess firearms
HB 3084 - Substituting the term firearm for handgun with regard to concealed weapon permits
HB 3085 - Including oral or written inquiry of a patient about possession, ownership or storage of firearms as a reason for invoking disciplinary proceedings against physicians
HB 3087 - Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers employed by a West Virginia law-enforcement agency to receive certification to carry a concealed firearm nationwide
HB 3093 - Clarifying language relating to offenses occurring at the State Capitol
HB 3125 - Relating to the regulation of firearms and other deadly weapons
HB 3153 - Exempting of certain public safety training courses from payment of consumer sales tax
HB 3237 - Allowing an honorable military discharge to be an acceptable form of training for a West Virginia concealed handgun permit
HB 3255 - Relating to exceptions as to prohibitions against carrying concealed deadly weapons

Food and Food Services (3 Bills)
HB 2111 - 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 2380 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2977 - Eliminating the sales tax on food effective July 1, 2011

Forestry (14 Bills)
HB 2880 - Establishing forestry officers and special forestry officers
HB 2974 - Relating to Coopers Rock State Forest
HB 2985 - Updating the Logging Sediment Control Act
HB 2986 - Relating to forest fire seasons

Freedom of Information (3 Bills)
HB 2402 - Redefining the term "public record" as it is used in the Freedom of Information Act

Fuel (18 Bills)
HB 2133 - Making it an unfair trade practice to refuse to refill a propane gas tank
HB 2352 - 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 2373 - Prohibiting fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline
HB 2529 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2658 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2662 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 2772 - Exempting special fuel and propane used for home heating purposes from the motor fuel excise tax

Funds (11 Bills)
HB 2011 - 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 2035 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2100 - Including Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifying provisions regarding eligible higher education institutions receiving PROMISE scholarship funds
HB 2105 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2140 - 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 2216 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2231 - 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 2385 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 2714 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund
HB 2788 - Specifying that infrastructure projects providing broadband services facilities be included in infrastructure projects eligible for funding
HB 2844 - Relating to protection of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
HB 2846 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2911 - Treasurer's Office, establishment of imprest funds
HB 2952 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Governor's Office - Civil Contingent Fund
HB 2953 - Relating to dedication of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds
HB 2959 - Providing additional funds to the West Virginia Racing Commission
HB 2960 - Raising the balance allowed to be in the Underground Storage Tank Administrative Fund
HB 2966 - Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 2973 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 3016 - Relating to the responsibilities of the real estate director
HB 3069 - Returning funding levels of regional educational service agencies to original levels
HB 3078 - Repealing the eighty-twenty requirements for payment of twenty per cent of the aggregate premium by active employees
HB 3129 - Creating and implementing a fund to encourage the development and use of renewable forms of energy
HB 3130 - Removing the dollar cap on the funding formula for Regional Education Service Agencies
HB 3167 - Limiting elected or appointed officials from placing their name or likeness on trinkets paid for with public funds
HB 3178 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor
HB 3198 - Relating to abuse or neglect of an incapacitated adult
HB 3203 - Creating a fund within the council for community and economic development to assist communities with strategic and feasibility plans
HB 3204 - Creating the West Virginia Enterprise Resource Planning Board and Executive Committee
HB 3208 - Relating to the Human Resource Benefit Fund
HB 3270 - Allowing reports to be generated by the Legislative Auditor and authorizing audits of state funds
HB 3271 - Relating to the distribution of state funds to volunteer fire companies and departments

Funeral Services (27 Bills)
HB 2125 - Requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents' identity
HB 2132 - Relating to funeral and cremation expenses for indigent persons
HB 2385 - Creating a board and fund to be used to maintain abandoned cemeteries
HB 2824 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 2826 - Clarifying procedures for protection of graves and burial sites
HB 3082 - Including the surviving spouse and a designated individual previously chosen by the deceased as a person who may designate the manner of disposition of a deceased person's body
HB 3144 - Creating a criminal offense and adding misdemeanor criminal penalties for picketing or disrupting funerals

Gaming Activities (24 Bills)
HB 2047 - Establishing a lottery scratch-off game for the benefit of West Virginia firefighters
HB 2140 - 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 2145 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2654 - Prohibiting lottery from using minors in advertising during school hours
HB 2715 - Suspending the future issuing of new video lottery licenses
HB 2908 - Racing Commission, thoroughbred racing
HB 2909 - Racing Commission, greyhound racing
HB 2910 - Racing Commission, pari-mutuel wagering
HB 2958 - Allowing the West Virginia Racing Commission to use certain permit and registration fees to pay salaries and other budgeted expenses
HB 2959 - Providing additional funds to the West Virginia Racing Commission
HB 2988 - Amend the definition of "accredited thoroughbred horse" to require registration with the Thoroughbred Breeders Association
HB 2989 - Creating a process by which the West Virginia Racing Commission may grant stay requests
HB 2990 - Changing the renewal of Racing Commission-issued occupational permits
HB 3006 - Changing the title of the West Virginia Racing Commission's racing secretary to executive director
HB 3098 - Clarifying levels of West Virginia Greyhound Breeding Development Fund payouts, and providing funding for greyhound adoption and spay and neutering programs
HB 3197 - Relating to licensing of out-of-state simulcasting facilities
HB 3208 - Relating to the Human Resource Benefit Fund
HB 3235 - Creating a West Virginia Lottery Advisory Board
HB 3242 - Allowing simulcast pari-mutuel racing within the confines of gaming facilities located at historic resort hotels
HB 3264 - Designating $10 million of the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund for the funding of high school and middle school athletics

Governmental Agencies (29 Bills)
HB 2233 - Providing that actions in which the state is a party be brought in the county which is affected or related to the controversy
HB 2278 - Authorizing the use of additional medium for use in archiving government records
HB 2439 - Requiring insurance coverage of spouses and dependents for pregnancy and contraceptive services
HB 2492 - Relating to supervision of local government offices
HB 2499 - Establishing an Equal Employment Opportunity Office within the Office of the Governor
HB 2530 - Requiring a study of the feasibility of consolidation of government services and enforcement of laws pertaining to the motor carrier industry
HB 2531 - Relating to the regulation of fireworks
HB 2562 - Relating to the State Athletic Commission
HB 2604 - Tax Department, exchange of information agreement between department and lottery
HB 2642 - Tax Department, exchange of information agreement between department and fire marshal
HB 2666 - Repealing the authority to involuntary transfer employees
HB 2759 - Relating to purchasing practices
HB 2763 - Prohibiting the Executive Director of Workforce West Virginia from billing a reimbursable employer under the unemployment compensation law for overpaid amounts of benefits paid to a claimant
HB 2787 - Transferring the licensure of private investigators and security guards from the Secretary of State to the Division of Justice and Community Services
HB 2805 - Providing that activities, documents and records of the government be in English
HB 2815 - Providing that hearing examiners conducting state agency administrative hearings be selected from a panel of five
HB 2819 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of minorities
HB 2833 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years
HB 2932 - Authorizing the Marketing and Communications office of the Department of Commerce to promote and sell West Virginia related items
HB 2933 - Transferring the Office of Economic Opportunity from the Governor's Office to the Department of Commerce
HB 2951 - Relating to an all-payer claims database
HB 2958 - Allowing the West Virginia Racing Commission to use certain permit and registration fees to pay salaries and other budgeted expenses
HB 3006 - Changing the title of the West Virginia Racing Commission's racing secretary to executive director
HB 3013 - Extending the Broadband Deployment Council
HB 3028 - Expanding the responsibilities of the Maternal Mortality Review Team
HB 3094 - Requiring the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to use existing department funds to develop a program to compensate employees for personal property loss
HB 3102 - Granting access to unused property of the Department of Highways to certain real property owners
HB 3146 - Creating the Tea Party Act
HB 3160 - Transferring powers of construction and maintenance activities of parkways authority
HB 3180 - Authorizing the appointment of certain individuals to carry out the business of the Water Development Authority
HB 3181 - Creating "The Prompt Pay Act of 2011
HB 3249 - Creating independent Office of Environmental Advocate
HB 3262 - Requiring persons engaged in natural gas horizontal well drilling activities to annually submit a report to the Department of Labor identifying the state of residency
HB 3270 - Allowing reports to be generated by the Legislative Auditor and authorizing audits of state funds

Governor (27 Bills)
HB 2499 - Establishing an Equal Employment Opportunity Office within the Office of the Governor
HB 2535 - Creating an equal pay coordinator within the Governor's Office to ensure pay equity among state employees
HB 2552 - Providing for a new election to fill a vacancy in the Office of Governor
HB 2688 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2853 - Providing for a special primary and general election to fill a vacancy in the office of Governor
HB 3214 - Designating specific criteria for seals of commissioners appointed by the Governor to acknowledge signatures

Governor -- Bills Requested By (3 Bills)
HB 2012 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
HB 2649 - Reducing the consumers sales and service tax on sales, purchases and uses of food
HB 2650 - Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms
HB 2691 - Maintaining solvency of the Unemployment Compensation Fund
HB 2692 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 2738 - Creating the math and science teacher loan assistance program
HB 2739 - Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Act
HB 2756 - Relating to the improvement of schools and school districts
HB 2757 - Providing for evaluation of professional personnel in the public schools
HB 2758 - Relating to higher education directed research endowments
HB 2759 - Relating to purchasing practices
HB 2760 - Revising the Municipal Economic Opportunity Development District Act
HB 2761 - Redesignating the Division of Veterans' Affairs as the Department of Veteran's Assistance within the executive branch
HB 2762 - Revising the County Economic Opportunity Development District Act
HB 2835 - Relating generally to Division of Tourism and Tourism Commission
HB 2836 - Relating to the Neighborhood Investment Program Act
HB 2837 - Authorizing an exemption from the consumers sales and service tax and use tax for qualified purchases
HB 2838 - Relating to alternative principal and teacher certification
HB 2852 - Relating to the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act
HB 2853 - Providing for a special primary and general election to fill a vacancy in the office of Governor
HB 2879 - Providing a one-time, nonbase building, supplemental salary increase for all eligible state employees
HB 2952 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Governor's Office - Civil Contingent Fund
HB 2953 - Relating to dedication of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds
HB 2954 - Relating to the construction, planning and location of comprehensive career technical education facilities

Hazardous Materials (4 Bills)
HB 2119 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2151 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2153 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty-five tires
HB 2578 - DEP-air quality, control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment
HB 2587 - Highways, transportation of hazardous waste
HB 2609 - DEP - waste management, hazardous waste management system
HB 2960 - Raising the balance allowed to be in the Underground Storage Tank Administrative Fund
HB 3126 - Requiring a railroad company to provide pesticide safety information

Health (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2072 - Relating to civil actions based upon false or fraudulent claims against the medical programs of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2087 - Creating the Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission
HB 2098 - 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 2119 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2121 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2134 - Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development
HB 2196 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2198 - Prohibiting the use of the body of a fetus for certain purposes
HB 2214 - Relating to the "Mandated Benefits Review Act"
HB 2263 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2279 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2351 - Relating to issuing a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
HB 2383 - Emergency Credentialing for Health Care Providers Act
HB 2386 - Requiring the approval of board of health rules relating to tobacco use in public or private places
HB 2424 - Health Care Affordability Act
HB 2668 - 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

Health -- Facilities (6 Bills)
HB 2064 - Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed
HB 2104 - 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 2142 - Providing for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff
HB 2216 - Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion
HB 2227 - Requiring background checks on applicants for residence in nursing homes and assisted living residences
HB 2275 - Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures
HB 2295 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2301 - Ending the requirement that health facilities acquire a certificate of need to open
HB 2350 - 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 2374 - Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs
HB 2381 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers
HB 2427 - Establishing an independent dispute resolution process for nursing homes
HB 2522 - Relating to nursing home administrative appeals
HB 2687 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2696 - Authorizing the county commission of Boone County to transfer its title and interests in the Boone Memorial Hospital
HB 2828 - 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 2931 - Primary Stroke Center Hospital Designation Act
HB 2967 - Providing a personal income tax modification for certain retirees who are in long-term care facilities
HB 3114 - Allowing the development and operation of a nursing home on the grounds of a critical access hospital meeting certain restrictions
HB 3190 - Creating the offense of obstructing health care facility access
HB 3246 - Authorizing the development and operation of a nursing home on the grounds of a critical access hospital in Summers County

Health -- Insurance (11 Bills)
HB 2066 - 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 2101 - 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 2121 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2292 - Requiring the DHHR to annually review and adjust rates it pays to care providers
HB 2392 - Prohibiting gender discrimination in health care insurance plans
HB 2416 - Requiring accident and sickness insurance providers and HMO's to cover the treatment of Lyme disease
HB 2469 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2621 - Insurance Commission, long-term care insurance
HB 2622 - Insurance Commission, property and casualty actuarial opinion
HB 2671 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2699 - Relating to autism spectrum disorder
HB 2728 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2801 - Creating the "Health Care Choice Act"
HB 2876 - Expanding eligibility for subsidies to enrollees in the model health plan
HB 2887 - Requiring health insurance coverage for eosinophilic disorders
HB 3018 - West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange Act
HB 3019 - Incorporating the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 into the insurance code
HB 3020 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions

Health -- Personnel (61 Bills)
HB 2037 - Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus
HB 2142 - Providing for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff
HB 2258 - Eliminating the severance tax and the health care provider tax on behavior health providers
HB 2264 - 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 2284 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2295 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area
HB 2326 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a woman suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2331 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2332 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses
HB 2336 - Providing limited immunity from civil damages for persons who volunteer their services to public health departments
HB 2479 - Relating to dental anesthesia
HB 2506 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2755 - Relating to mentally ill persons
HB 2868 - Requiring every county board of education to employ a nurse in each public school
HB 2881 - Authorizing the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to govern the practice of advanced nurse practitioners
HB 2885 - Allowing a guardian or conservator to be employed or in an employment contract with a behavioral health provider
HB 2907 - Optometry, injectable pharmaceutical agents certificate
HB 2929 - Relating to radiologic technologists
HB 3005 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 3010 - Ensuring patient safety
HB 3055 - Retaining nursing educators
HB 3061 - Creating a volunteer certification so that a health or mental health professional may provide volunteer services in this state without having to have a license issued by this state
HB 3085 - Including oral or written inquiry of a patient about possession, ownership or storage of firearms as a reason for invoking disciplinary proceedings against physicians
HB 3104 - Relating to health professionals student loan programs
HB 3196 - Establishing a program and procedure for certifying medications assistive persons in the health industry
HB 3223 - Relating to complaints made against employees of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 3253 - Relating to forensic-medical examination services for victims of sexual offenses

Health (And Related Subheadings) (6 Bills)
HB 2014 - Relating to the practice of medical imaging and radiation therapy
HB 2019 - Increasing the representation on the Health Information Network Board
HB 2021 - Permitting unlicensed personnel to administer medications in certain circumstances
HB 2022 - Capping the Medical Services Trust Fund and redirecting excess funding
HB 2032 - Encouraging and assisting persons diagnosed with schizophrenic reality disorder in designating a durable medical power of attorney
HB 2080 - Initiating the Healthy Lifestyles Restaurant Calorie Posting Program
HB 2090 - Relating to the care of aborted fetuses
HB 2273 - Requiring paramedics to be on site at coal mines
HB 2289 - Abortion Complication Reporting Act
HB 2370 - Removing the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health from professional licensure boards
HB 2479 - Relating to dental anesthesia
HB 2513 - Relating to the practice of pharmacy
HB 2522 - Relating to nursing home administrative appeals
HB 2548 - Permitting an individual taxpayer to decrease his or her federal adjusted gross income up to $1,000 for nursing home expenses
HB 2559 - Establishing the Oral Health Pilot Program in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region
HB 2582 - WV Bureau for Public Health, specialized multipatient medical transport
HB 2585 - WV Bureau for Public Health, cancer registry
HB 2597 - Pharmacy, board of pharmacy rules regarding licensure and practice
HB 2599 - Physical Therapy, fees
HB 2600 - Sanitarians, interim fee schedule
HB 2601 - Sanitarians, rules governing the practice
HB 2616 - Health Care Authority, certificate of need rule
HB 2617 - WV Bureau for Public Health, food manufacturing
HB 2618 - WV Bureau for Public Health, maternal risk screening
HB 2632 - Optometry, schedule of fees
HB 2633 - Optometry, examination and scoring policy
HB 2635 - Optometry, contact lenses that contain and deliver pharmaceutical agents certificate
HB 2651 - Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors
HB 2714 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund
HB 2768 - Providing a personal income tax exemption for living organ donors
HB 2817 - Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient
HB 2849 - Utilization of Unused Prescription Medications Act
HB 2870 - Allowing physicians to use electronic signatures for orders for patients care in or admission to long- term care facilities
HB 2905 - Health and Human Resources, safety and treatment program
HB 2942 - Medical Harm Disclosure Act
HB 2971 - Reducing the consumers sales and services tax on food and food ingredients and defining the term "durable medical equipment"
HB 2998 - Providing medical and nonmedical exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 3021 - Adding two new members to the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission
HB 3028 - Expanding the responsibilities of the Maternal Mortality Review Team
HB 3033 - Amending the contract procedure for the Medicaid program
HB 3050 - Relating to the practice of dieticians
HB 3094 - Requiring the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to use existing department funds to develop a program to compensate employees for personal property loss
HB 3117 - Relating to health care provider taxes
HB 3159 - Authorizing certain individuals to obtain a prescription for epinephrine, purchase epinephrine, and administer epinephrine in emergency situations and promulgating rules for the development of training programs
HB 3182 - Ensuring a more thorough analysis of the rural health initiative and its future
HB 3189 - Clarifying that the Legislature is the sole authority regarding compulsory immunizations
HB 3194 - Increasing the age of consent that a minor may refuse mental health treatment
HB 3218 - Reducing the tax on behavioral health services
HB 3221 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 3247 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 3261 - BPA-Free Kids Act

Holidays (3 Bills)
HB 2120 - 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 2191 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent
HB 2203 - Adding a special memorial day to celebrate the victory of democracy in the Cold War
HB 2564 - Designating the first Thursday in May the West Virginia Day of Prayer
HB 2865 - Making November 20 "Robert C. Byrd Day," a legal holiday

Homeland Security (21 Bills)
HB 3230 - Creating the Immigration Law Enforcement Act

Human Services (18 Bills)
HB 2022 - Capping the Medical Services Trust Fund and redirecting excess funding
HB 2072 - Relating to civil actions based upon false or fraudulent claims against the medical programs of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 2081 - 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 2098 - 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 2132 - Relating to funeral and cremation expenses for indigent persons
HB 2292 - Requiring the DHHR to annually review and adjust rates it pays to care providers
HB 2311 - Creating the criminal offense of injury to a pregnant woman that results in miscarriage or stillbirth
HB 2313 - Relating to the insertion of language which defines acts of violence and makes its false reporting a felony
HB 2369 - Developing caseload standards for the Department of Health and Human Resource program areas
HB 2384 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors
HB 2442 - Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 2559 - Establishing the Oral Health Pilot Program in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region
HB 2699 - Relating to autism spectrum disorder
HB 2744 - Requiring recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be issued a photo identification card
HB 2755 - Relating to mentally ill persons
HB 2828 - 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 2949 - Providing definitions of "low income" for purposes of property tax relief programs
HB 2965 - Implementing drug testing for legislators of the State of West Virginia and for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits
HB 3033 - Amending the contract procedure for the Medicaid program
HB 3067 - Enhancing funding for civil legal services for the poor
HB 3075 - Increasing the time period in the hold-harmless provision when distributing state aid to local health departments
HB 3079 - Implementing random drug testing for recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits and for legislators
HB 3108 - Providing permanent total disability recipients annual cost-of-living allowances
HB 3140 - Providing for the interception of insurance settlement claims by the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement for past-due support
HB 3221 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 3223 - Relating to complaints made against employees of the Department of Health and Human Resources

Infrastructure (11 Bills)
HB 2144 - Requiring contractors awarded state public works construction projects to meet time restrictions for the completion of a public works construction project
HB 2788 - Specifying that infrastructure projects providing broadband services facilities be included in infrastructure projects eligible for funding
HB 2953 - Relating to dedication of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds

Inspections (26 Bills)
HB 2263 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors

Insurance -- Health (16 Bills)
HB 2392 - Prohibiting gender discrimination in health care insurance plans
HB 2416 - Requiring accident and sickness insurance providers and HMO's to cover the treatment of Lyme disease
HB 2419 - Allowing private citizens the freedom to enter into private contracts for health care services or health care coverage or both
HB 2439 - Requiring insurance coverage of spouses and dependents for pregnancy and contraceptive services
HB 2442 - Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 2447 - Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act
HB 2469 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2594 - Insurance Commission, HMO point of service option
HB 2671 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2693 - Requiring insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 2728 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2801 - Creating the "Health Care Choice Act"
HB 2943 - Clarifying that the Insurance Commissioner may designate the administrator of the adverse risk plan
HB 2951 - Relating to an all-payer claims database
HB 3018 - West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange Act
HB 3019 - Incorporating the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 into the insurance code
HB 3091 - Relating to review of health insurer rate changes
HB 3192 - Relating to those persons or entities that enters into direct contracts with providers for the delivery of health care services

Insurance -- Motor Vehicles (3 Bills)
HB 2122 - Determining the value of a motor vehicle in a claim
HB 2205 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2206 - Prohibiting discrimination in rates by insurance companies because of having filed claims under the uninsured and under insured coverage of an automobile policy
HB 2255 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 3215 - Providing that taxicab companies are not required to subscribe to or pay into the Workers' Compensation Fund

Insurance -- Public Employees (9 Bills)
HB 2083 - Crediting a deceased teacher's sick leave toward continued insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and other dependents
HB 2137 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency and its contractors, under certain circumstances, to advertise that they are seeking bids prior to accepting bids
HB 2177 - Freezing PEIA employee premiums for three years
HB 2185 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2186 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2187 - Including volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2189 - 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 2445 - Requiring the Legislature to approve changes in costs imposed by the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board
HB 2473 - Clarifying that fire chiefs working with paid and volunteer fire departments are employees that are provided immunity under the Governmental Tort Claims
HB 2667 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board to have a quorum of five members present at any public hearing
HB 2684 - Permitting members of volunteer fire departments to participate in the state's public employees insurance plan
HB 2728 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 3078 - Repealing the eighty-twenty requirements for payment of twenty per cent of the aggregate premium by active employees
HB 3163 - Relating to workers' compensation programs of state government entities

Insurance (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2011 - 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 2049 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions
HB 2059 - Requiring insurers to notify insureds of all rate increases before they take effect
HB 2162 - Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensing and Regulation Act
HB 2269 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2306 - Relating to the Office of Consumer Advocacy, and allowing the Director to participate in the review and consideration of any rate filing
HB 2319 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2375 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2467 - Prohibiting inquiries reflected on a credit report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2532 - Zipline Responsibility Act
HB 2588 - Insurance Commission, suitability in annuity transactions
HB 2589 - Insurance Commission, actuarial opinion and memorandum rule
HB 2590 - Insurance Commission, credit personal property
HB 2591 - Insurance Commission, valuation of life insurance companies
HB 2592 - Insurance Commission, recognition of preferred mortality tables
HB 2593 - Insurance Commission, professional employer organizations
HB 2594 - Insurance Commission, HMO point of service option
HB 2620 - Insurance Commission, insurance adjusters
HB 2621 - Insurance Commission, long-term care insurance
HB 2622 - Insurance Commission, property and casualty actuarial opinion
HB 2623 - Insurance Commission, credit life insurance, credit accident and sickness insurance, credit unemployment insurance
HB 2624 - Insurance Commission, self-insurance pools for political subdivisions
HB 2693 - Requiring insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 2745 - Providing that certain information provided by insurance companies to the Insurance Commissioner is confidential
HB 2812 - Requiring insurers issuing group accident and sickness insurance policies to certain employers to furnish claims loss experience
HB 2877 - Relating to insurance holding company systems
HB 2885 - Allowing a guardian or conservator to be employed or in an employment contract with a behavioral health provider
HB 2894 - Changing surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies to one percent and dedicating the money to volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments
HB 2963 - Relating to surplus lines insurance
HB 2983 - Relating to captive insurance
HB 3052 - Providing a procedure under group accident and sickness insurance policies for assignment of benefits directly to providers
HB 3140 - Providing for the interception of insurance settlement claims by the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement for past-due support
HB 3244 - Limiting the amount of a tortfeasor to the amount of insurance coverage

Internet (24 Bills)
HB 2315 - Relating to obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer
HB 2528 - 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 2788 - Specifying that infrastructure projects providing broadband services facilities be included in infrastructure projects eligible for funding
HB 2829 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 3070 - Relating to publication of the State Register
HB 3086 - Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act
HB 3106 - Regulating the use of the internet by children
HB 3192 - Relating to those persons or entities that enters into direct contracts with providers for the delivery of health care services
HB 3197 - Relating to licensing of out-of-state simulcasting facilities
HB 3222 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to charge fees for current electronic and online services

Investments (6 Bills)
HB 3216 - Relating to investment restrictions on foreign securities

Labor (4 Bills)
HB 2050 - West Virginia Right to Work Law
HB 2092 - Changing the definition of "construction" to only include projects whose total costs are more than $200,000 in the prevailing wage law
HB 2094 - Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws
HB 2114 - Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek
HB 2165 - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts
HB 2265 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2269 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2371 - Relating to the West Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
HB 2390 - Providing that all employees have the right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file
HB 2423 - Establishing the West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program
HB 2625 - Labor, elevator safety act
HB 2626 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2627 - Labor, crane operator certification act
HB 2628 - Labor, crane operator certification act - practical examination
HB 2664 - Verifying legal employment status of workers
HB 2688 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2734 - Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements
HB 2736 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements
HB 2770 - Flexible Leave Act
HB 2886 - Relating to the calculation of prevailing wages
HB 3015 - The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act
HB 3122 - Allowing the West Virginia State Police and the Division of Labor to confirm the validity of an employees identification card
HB 3210 - Creating the Consumer and Employee Arbitration Fairness Act
HB 3262 - Requiring persons engaged in natural gas horizontal well drilling activities to annually submit a report to the Department of Labor identifying the state of residency

Languages (3 Bills)
HB 2409 - Making English the official language of West Virginia
HB 2805 - Providing that activities, documents and records of the government be in English

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (9 Bills)
HB 2129 - Providing for mandatory sentences for any person who shoots a police officer on duty
HB 2152 - Establishing threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possessed by an individual
HB 2341 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 2357 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate
HB 2382 - Requiring witnesses of violent acts or emergency situations to report the incident to law-enforcement
HB 2466 - Providing for the temporary detention of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officers where probable cause appears to exist
HB 2813 - Relating to mandatory retirement age of deputy sheriffs

Law Enforcement -- County/Municipal (11 Bills)
HB 2084 - 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 2091 - Prohibiting a cheif deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities
HB 2395 - Clarifying an exception that allow sheriffs to collect property taxes in more than two installments
HB 2519 - Relating to qualifications of application for the position of deputy sheriff
HB 2752 - Increasing the maximum age for persons applying for appointment for the police force in a Class I or Class II city from thirty-five to forty years
HB 2754 - Allowing sheriffs and their designees access to information maintained by the Board of Pharmacy
HB 2764 - Relating to the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 2766 - Relating to contribution rate for the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System

Law Enforcement -- State Police (51 Bills)
HB 2272 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police
HB 2282 - Eliminating fees charged by the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Police for providing certain information to volunteer fire departments
HB 2472 - Establishing a West Virginia State Trooper's Association leave donation program
HB 2507 - Providing a housing supplement for members of the State Police
HB 2538 - Relating to law-enforcement certification
HB 2539 - Authorizing the West Virginia State Police to enter into agreements for certain forensic services with the Marshall University Forensic Science Center
HB 2575 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, WV State Police
HB 2681 - Waiving tuition and fees for members of the WV State Police
HB 2682 - Compensating state troopers for call-back time
HB 2779 - Relating to West Virginia State Police receiving on-call and off-duty pay
HB 2784 - Requiring sex offenders to pay a fee which is to be deposited into the State Police Retirement Fund
HB 2791 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers
HB 2825 - Relating to tuition and fee waivers for members of the West Virginia State Police to attend a college or university
HB 2863 - Providing for the costs of disability physical and/or mental examinations approved by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board under the West Virginia State Police plan
HB 3022 - Establishing a minimum number of troopers to provide basic law enforcement services, and providing members of the West Virginia State Police a $580 salary increase at the end of two years of service
HB 3054 - Relating to DNA data collection
HB 3087 - Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers employed by a West Virginia law-enforcement agency to receive certification to carry a concealed firearm nationwide
HB 3122 - Allowing the West Virginia State Police and the Division of Labor to confirm the validity of an employees identification card
HB 3168 - Requiring that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby and providing a stipend for housing cost for certain officers

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (7 Bills)
HB 2074 - Permitting a retired law-enforcement officer to be employed by a county board of education as a resource prevention officer
HB 2168 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits
HB 2475 - Including certain records of the Division of Juvenile Services in the exemptions from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2476 - Relating to imposition of sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion on incarcerated persons
HB 2494 - Allowing certain vehicles for emergency response by West Virginia police reserves to use red flashing lights
HB 2538 - Relating to law-enforcement certification
HB 2614 - Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction, law enforcement training standard
HB 2708 - Removing a twelve-month limitation for certain agreements between or among law- enforcement agencies
HB 2713 - Relating to civil and criminal forfeiture actions related to criminal activity
HB 2752 - Increasing the maximum age for persons applying for appointment for the police force in a Class I or Class II city from thirty-five to forty years
HB 2766 - Relating to contribution rate for the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2854 - Regarding the qualifications of paid police officers
HB 2858 - Requiring persons arrested for a felony to submit to a DNA sample
HB 2860 - Authorizing the promulgation of rules by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction
HB 2867 - Requiring DNA testing for individuals arrested for certain offenses
HB 2880 - Establishing forestry officers and special forestry officers
HB 2892 - Permitting specific law-enforcement officials access to certain confidential pharmaceutical information
HB 2924 - Creating "Dutch's Law" to honor fallen law enforcement canines and their law enforcement handlers
HB 2999 - Adding marshals and deputy marshals of the Federal Air Marshal Service to the list of federal law enforcement authorized to act under this section
HB 3002 - Requiring the sheriff of a county to issue, upon request, a blue flashing warning light to the prosecuting attorney
HB 3087 - Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers employed by a West Virginia law-enforcement agency to receive certification to carry a concealed firearm nationwide
HB 3096 - Instituting new rules for hiring and firing of law-enforcement officers that leave a training academy
HB 3125 - Relating to the regulation of firearms and other deadly weapons
HB 3143 - Relating to penalties for causing injury or death to certain animals used by law enforcement
HB 3148 - Relating to residency requirements for persons appointed as campus police officers
HB 3158 - Allowing the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices
HB 3230 - Creating the Immigration Law Enforcement Act
HB 3255 - Relating to exceptions as to prohibitions against carrying concealed deadly weapons

Legislature (21 Bills)
HB 2298 - Prohibiting any member of the Legislature from fund-raising during any session
HB 2303 - 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 2367 - Redistricting of the House of Delegates into one hundred single member districts
HB 2421 - Requiring a seventy-two hour waiting period before the Legislature votes on the state budget for final passage
HB 2464 - Adding additional requirements to the Ethics Act
HB 2769 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature
HB 2829 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 2833 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years
HB 2965 - Implementing drug testing for legislators of the State of West Virginia and for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits
HB 3030 - Increasing the number of municipalities that may participate in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program
HB 3079 - Implementing random drug testing for recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits and for legislators

Legislature--Rule Making (16 Bills)
HB 2566 - Veterinary Medicine, schedule of fees
HB 2567 - WorkForce West Virginia, rule for employer violator system
HB 2568 - Agriculture, inspection of meat and poultry
HB 2569 - Agriculture, general groundwater protection rules
HB 2570 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, schedule of fees
HB 2571 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, general provisions
HB 2572 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, teachers' defined contribution system
HB 2573 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, public employees retirement system
HB 2574 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, refund, reinstatement, retroactive service, loan and employer error interest factors
HB 2575 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, WV State Police
HB 2576 - DEP-air quality, standards of performance for new stationary sources
HB 2577 - DEP-air quality, permits for construction and major modification of major stationary sources of air pollution
HB 2578 - DEP-air quality, control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment
HB 2579 - DEP-air quality, emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 2580 - DEP-air quality, ambient air quality standards
HB 2581 - DEP-water resources, requirements governing water quality standards
HB 2582 - WV Bureau for Public Health, specialized multipatient medical transport
HB 2583 - WV Bureau for Public Health, public water systems
HB 2584 - WV Bureau for Public Health, fire department rapid response services licensure
HB 2585 - WV Bureau for Public Health, cancer registry
HB 2586 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2587 - Highways, transportation of hazardous waste
HB 2588 - Insurance Commission, suitability in annuity transactions
HB 2589 - Insurance Commission, actuarial opinion and memorandum rule
HB 2590 - Insurance Commission, credit personal property
HB 2591 - Insurance Commission, valuation of life insurance companies
HB 2592 - Insurance Commission, recognition of preferred mortality tables
HB 2593 - Insurance Commission, professional employer organizations
HB 2594 - Insurance Commission, HMO point of service option
HB 2595 - Natural Resources, prohibitions when hunting and trapping
HB 2596 - Natural Resources, general hunting
HB 2597 - Pharmacy, board of pharmacy rules regarding licensure and practice
HB 2598 - Pharmacy, controlled substances monitoring
HB 2599 - Physical Therapy, fees
HB 2600 - Sanitarians, interim fee schedule
HB 2601 - Sanitarians, rules governing the practice
HB 2602 - Secretary of State, combined voter registration and driver licensing fund
HB 2603 - State Rail Authority, valuation used in rolling stock and equipment
HB 2604 - Tax Department, exchange of information agreement between department and lottery
HB 2605 - Agriculture, apiary rule
HB 2606 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, procedures, criteria and curricula
HB 2607 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, qualifications, training, examination of instructors
HB 2608 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, operational standards
HB 2609 - DEP - waste management, hazardous waste management system
HB 2610 - DEP - water and waste management, monitoring well design standards
HB 2611 - DEP - water resources, requirements governing groundwater standards
HB 2612 - Ethics Commission, forms
HB 2613 - Authorizing the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2614 - Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction, law enforcement training standard
HB 2615 - Health and Human Resources, requirements for licensure of nonprofit corporations for conservator service
HB 2616 - Health Care Authority, certificate of need rule
HB 2617 - WV Bureau for Public Health, food manufacturing
HB 2618 - WV Bureau for Public Health, maternal risk screening
HB 2619 - Highways, community empowerment transportation act program
HB 2620 - Insurance Commission, insurance adjusters
HB 2621 - Insurance Commission, long-term care insurance
HB 2622 - Insurance Commission, property and casualty actuarial opinion
HB 2623 - Insurance Commission, credit life insurance, credit accident and sickness insurance, credit unemployment insurance
HB 2624 - Insurance Commission, self-insurance pools for political subdivisions
HB 2625 - Labor, elevator safety act
HB 2626 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2627 - Labor, crane operator certification act
HB 2628 - Labor, crane operator certification act - practical examination
HB 2629 - Natural Resources, special motorboating regulations
HB 2630 - Optometry, rules of the board
HB 2631 - Optometry, continuing education
HB 2632 - Optometry, schedule of fees
HB 2633 - Optometry, examination and scoring policy
HB 2634 - Optometry, licensure by endorsement
HB 2635 - Optometry, contact lenses that contain and deliver pharmaceutical agents certificate
HB 2636 - Osteopathy, physician assistants
HB 2637 - Osteopathy, fees
HB 2638 - Physical Therapy, general provisions
HB 2639 - Authorizing miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2640 - Physical Therapy, fees for athletic trainers
HB 2641 - Tax Department, commercial patent incentives tax credit
HB 2642 - Tax Department, exchange of information agreement between department and fire marshal
HB 2643 - Veterinary Medicine, organization and operation and licensing of veterinarians
HB 2644 - Veterinary Medicine, registration of technicians
HB 2645 - Veterinary Medicine, standards of practice
HB 2646 - Veterinary Medicine, certified animal euthanasia technicians
HB 2647 - Motor Vehicles, inspection manual
HB 2896 - Administration, state owned vehicles
HB 2897 - ABCC, licensed retailer operations
HB 2898 - ABCC, licensing of retail outlets
HB 2899 - DEP- air quality, permits for construction and major modification
HB 2900 - DEP - air quality, control of air pollution
HB 2901 - DEP - explosives and blasting
HB 2902 - DEP - mining and reclamation
HB 2903 - Election Commission, public campaign financing pilot program
HB 2904 - Health, emergency medical services
HB 2905 - Health and Human Resources, safety and treatment program
HB 2906 - Optometry, oral pharmaceutical prescriptive authority
HB 2907 - Optometry, injectable pharmaceutical agents certificate
HB 2908 - Racing Commission, thoroughbred racing
HB 2909 - Racing Commission, greyhound racing
HB 2910 - Racing Commission, pari-mutuel wagering
HB 2911 - Treasurer's Office, establishment of imprest funds

Levies (13 Bills)
HB 2112 - Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education

Liability (33 Bills)
HB 2179 - Creating the "Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act"
HB 2252 - Limiting liability for persons donating and charitable organizations accepting certain food and grocery items
HB 2287 - Abolishing joint liability and establishing the principle of comparative fault
HB 2361 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2508 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2793 - Defining "spelunking" as a recreational purpose and activity for which a landowner's liability for injury is limited
HB 3004 - Relating to the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District
HB 3049 - Limiting a landowner from civil liability for injuries that may occur to a person or property
HB 3105 - Providing immunity from civil or criminal liability for first responders who use forced entry to a residence
HB 3127 - Increasing the fees charged by the clerk of the circuit court for medical professional liability actions
HB 3258 - Providing forensic evaluators with civil immunity for acts committed by the subject of the evaluation

Libraries (5 Bills)
HB 2231 - 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 2247 - 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 2356 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2491 - Permitting counties, county boards of education and municipalities to impose an additional levy
HB 2820 - Permitting municipalities and counties to use proceeds from the hotel occupancy tax to fund public libraries
HB 2914 - Funding of public libraries
HB 3250 - Authorizing the School Building Authority to award grants or moneys to county and local library boards in connection with public library construction projects

Licenses (6 Bills)
HB 2008 - Relating to licensing exemptions of persons who only perform the duty of hair washing for a licensed barber or cosmetologist
HB 2075 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2110 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2162 - Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensing and Regulation Act
HB 2169 - Requiring that bartenders be licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner
HB 2225 - 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 2330 - Relating to the licensing of private investigators and security guards
HB 2524 - Relating to the practice of speech-language pathology and audiology
HB 2525 - Relating to the practice of social work
HB 2531 - Relating to the regulation of fireworks
HB 2536 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting
HB 2549 - Establishing a system of issuing all licenses, certificates or permits, required for business entities in the state, from a single location
HB 2615 - Health and Human Resources, requirements for licensure of nonprofit corporations for conservator service
HB 2634 - Optometry, licensure by endorsement
HB 2700 - Relating to elevator safety
HB 2715 - Suspending the future issuing of new video lottery licenses
HB 2781 - Exempting veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component from having to obtain a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 2787 - Transferring the licensure of private investigators and security guards from the Secretary of State to the Division of Justice and Community Services
HB 2796 - Relating to professional licensing boards
HB 2845 - Creating a senior resident lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license that will cost $25
HB 2898 - ABCC, licensing of retail outlets
HB 2926 - Relating to the issuance, disqualification, suspension and revocation of driver's licenses and privilege to operate a commercial motor vehicle
HB 2962 - Increasing the amount of a fine or penalty the Commissioner of Banking may impose on residential mortgage brokers and lenders
HB 2985 - Updating the Logging Sediment Control Act
HB 3005 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 3010 - Ensuring patient safety
HB 3061 - Creating a volunteer certification so that a health or mental health professional may provide volunteer services in this state without having to have a license issued by this state
HB 3072 - Creating a hunting permit to safely accommodate visually impaired hunters
HB 3123 - Encouraging the use of telemedicine, telepsychology and video conferencing in order to make child welfare system more effective
HB 3124 - Relating to administrative hearings for suspension and revocation of licenses for driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs
HB 3195 - Providing eligibility for a license to teach in the public schools for candidates who are not United States citizens
HB 3200 - Changing the requirements for acquiring a renewal of a barber's license
HB 3209 - Permitting the Secretary of State to dissolve a corporate entity if its professional license has been revoked

Liens (6 Bills)
HB 2293 - 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 2851 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien
HB 3187 - Clarifying the notice and service requirements for a notice to redeem to be provided to the delinquent taxpayer at the mailing address for the subject property

Local Bills (8 Bills)
HB 2247 - 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 2557 - Extending the time for the Board of Education of Upshur County to meet as a levying body
HB 2696 - Authorizing the county commission of Boone County to transfer its title and interests in the Boone Memorial Hospital
HB 3004 - Relating to the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District
HB 3246 - Authorizing the development and operation of a nursing home on the grounds of a critical access hospital in Summers County

Military Affairs (3 Bills)
HB 2121 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2146 - Relating to the definition of "eligible veteran" for certain state training and employment preference benefits
HB 2245 - 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 2274 - Income tax exemption for veterans who locate in West Virginia following separation from service
HB 2312 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Veterans' Affairs
HB 2342 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service
HB 2411 - Excluding disability income received from a veteran for service related injuries from any calculation used to determine spousal support
HB 2436 - 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 2468 - Providing benefits for those who have served in the military service
HB 2471 - Exempting certain recipients of military medals of valor from special registration plate fees
HB 2534 - Establishing a program to promote veteran friendly communities
HB 2543 - Relating to unemployment benefits for certain spouses of military personnel
HB 2544 - Relating to disposition of the remains of a deceased military service member who dies while serving
HB 2550 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
HB 2653 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2674 - Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate
HB 2761 - Redesignating the Division of Veterans' Affairs as the Department of Veteran's Assistance within the executive branch
HB 2781 - Exempting veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component from having to obtain a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 2830 - Allowing members of the West Virginia National Guard or its reserves to obtain free hunting and fishing licenses
HB 2981 - Clarifying payment for trade certifications and allowing use of tuition assistance for West Virginia National Guard members enrolled in a doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine program
HB 2982 - Limiting the liability of military personnel who respond to local emergencies and calls for assistance
HB 3003 - Relating to leave of absence for members of the National Guard or Armed Forces Reserves who are also public officials and employees
HB 3097 - Removing the armed conflict requirement before state employees may receive credit for time served in the Armed Forces
HB 3237 - Allowing an honorable military discharge to be an acceptable form of training for a West Virginia concealed handgun permit
HB 3267 - Providing an additional decreasing modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for income earned by certain military personnel and their spouses

Mines and Minerals (29 Bills)
HB 2026 - Prohibiting any permits authorizing the construction, enlargement or modification of any coal mine waste
HB 2030 - Relating to a severance tax imposed on surface mining activities
HB 2069 - Relating to the creation and implementation of drug-free workplaces in coal mines
HB 2151 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2170 - Requiring all final actions by the Department of Environmental Protection regarding coal mine permits to be completed within six months
HB 2201 - Relating to drug and alcohol free mines
HB 2232 - Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining and manufacturing activities and uses
HB 2263 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2265 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2267 - Requiring the superintendent or owner of a mine to sign the fire boss record book daily
HB 2273 - Requiring paramedics to be on site at coal mines
HB 2318 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
HB 2375 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management
HB 2437 - Requiring study relating to mandating the utilization of devices that case underground mining machines to shut-off when methane is detected
HB 2440 - 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 2514 - Requiring reclaimed strip mines to be populated by plants that are beneficial to the local bee population
HB 2554 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2688 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor
HB 2807 - Relating to determining the appropriate penalty to impose against operators who fail to provide immediate notice upon the occurrence of a mining accident
HB 2824 - Increasing the distance required for surface mining activity in relation to cemeteries
HB 2842 - Defining ownership of coalbed methane
HB 2850 - Alternative Coal Slurry Disposal Act
HB 2851 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien
HB 2888 - Strengthening of protections for whistleblowers of unsafe working conditions in mines
HB 2902 - DEP - mining and reclamation
HB 2912 - Dedicating five percent of coal severance tax to the county of origin
HB 2940 - Requiring liners in all new surface coal-waste impoundments and requiring regulations relating to the planning, constructing and maintenance of the liners
HB 2953 - Relating to dedication of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds
HB 2955 - Authorizing the Division of Mining and Reclamation to assess certain fees to coal mine operators
HB 2972 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2979 - Relating to the award of attorney fees by the Surface Mine Board
HB 3131 - Imposing a ten-year moratorium on severance taxes on the extracting and recovering material from refuse, slurry, gob piles or other sources of waste coal
HB 3262 - Requiring persons engaged in natural gas horizontal well drilling activities to annually submit a report to the Department of Labor identifying the state of residency

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (10 Bills)
HB 2038 - Permitting motor vehicle dealers to sell certain motor vehicles on an "as is" basis without a warranty
HB 2226 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2238 - Relating to towing companies notifying the DMV of abandoned vehicles
HB 2255 - Allowing persons involved in motor vehicle accidents to receive pertinent information at no charge in order to file a timely insurance claim
HB 2354 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2676 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project

Motor Vehicles -- Driving Under Influence (38 Bills)
HB 2495 - Relating generally to driving under the influence
HB 2670 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death
HB 2747 - Creating a felony offense for causing serious bodily injury to another person while driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs
HB 2803 - 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 2922 - Establishing the felony offense of causing serious bodily injury to another person by a person who is driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or other drugs
HB 3124 - Relating to administrative hearings for suspension and revocation of licenses for driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs

Motor Vehicles -- Insurance (53 Bills)
HB 2205 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2206 - Prohibiting discrimination in rates by insurance companies because of having filed claims under the uninsured and under insured coverage of an automobile policy
HB 2361 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2975 - Providing for an alternative means for the initial purchaser of junked vehicles to notify the division

Motor Vehicles -- Licenses, Registration & Inspection (4 Bills)
HB 2004 - Creating and issuing special registration plates bearing the inscription "In God We Trust"
HB 2110 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2117 - Exempting nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee
HB 2150 - Relating to registration and operation of mini trucks
HB 2200 - Exempting motorcycles from the requirement of annual registration
HB 2284 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2286 - Providing discounted motor registration fees for members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2327 - 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 2340 - Relating to issuance of renewal license certificate to motor vehicle dealers
HB 2357 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate
HB 2397 - 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 2462 - Providing for the issuance of a special license plate for residents of the fifty-five counties
HB 2471 - Exempting certain recipients of military medals of valor from special registration plate fees
HB 2547 - Relating to the requirements for registration and inspection of motor vehicles
HB 2674 - Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate
HB 2780 - Providing for the issuance of a special "In God We Trust" license plate
HB 2831 - Issuing special registration plates allowing parking privileges for persons with mobility impairments
HB 2926 - Relating to the issuance, disqualification, suspension and revocation of driver's licenses and privilege to operate a commercial motor vehicle
HB 2941 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special license plate for applicants who are hearing impaired
HB 2975 - Providing for an alternative means for the initial purchaser of junked vehicles to notify the division

Motor Vehicles -- Regulations (23 Bills)
HB 2062 - Making the offense of failure to wear safety belts a primary offense
HB 2150 - Relating to registration and operation of mini trucks
HB 2205 - Requiring color coded certificates of insurance to be placed on the windshield of the insured motor vehicle
HB 2225 - 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 2226 - Requiring the DMV to notify the state police when a registered sex offender purchases, trades or registers a motor vehicle
HB 2242 - Permitting running lamps on motorcycles, motor-driven cycles and mopeds
HB 2328 - Providing for a Public Service Commission investigation for traffic accidents involving a motor carrier regulated by the Public Service Commission
HB 2379 - Explaining all warranties for the sale of used cars including the requirements for "as is" sales
HB 2428 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver
HB 2459 - Prohibiting the stopping of certain vehicles in roadways for the discharging of passengers
HB 2490 - Prohibiting the use of a mobile communication device to engage in text messaging or additional technologies while operating a motor vehicle
HB 2494 - Allowing certain vehicles for emergency response by West Virginia police reserves to use red flashing lights
HB 2555 - Establishing the offense of operating a motor vehicle while sending, reading or receiving a text message
HB 2647 - Motor Vehicles, inspection manual
HB 2730 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motor boats on lakes
HB 2798 - Preventing vehicles from driving more than seventy-five feet in a center lane designated for left turns
HB 2802 - Prohibiting use of turning lanes for through traffic under certain circumstances
HB 3186 - Allowing the use of low-speed vehicles in certain incorporated municipalities
HB 3215 - Providing that taxicab companies are not required to subscribe to or pay into the Workers' Compensation Fund

Motor Vehicles -- Taxation (7 Bills)
HB 2046 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2135 - Creating a tax credit for new or converted qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles
HB 2236 - Exempting antique cars from taxation and fees
HB 2352 - 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 2407 - Exempting antique motor vehicles from personal property taxes
HB 2449 - Providing that antique motor vehicles be valued at their salvage value for personal property tax purposes
HB 2777 - Exempting recreational vehicles owned by a resident of this state who is seventy years of age or older from ad valorem taxes

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (8 Bills)
HB 2017 - Modifying the role of the Public Service Commission in controlling certain services for solid waste collections and taxi service
HB 2456 - Prohibiting the modification of mufflers resulting in excessive noise levels
HB 2459 - Prohibiting the stopping of certain vehicles in roadways for the discharging of passengers
HB 2477 - Relating to roads and highways
HB 2530 - Requiring a study of the feasibility of consolidation of government services and enforcement of laws pertaining to the motor carrier industry
HB 2746 - Relating to the testing of vehicles operated by nonprofit corporations engaged in research and development
HB 2896 - Administration, state owned vehicles
HB 2938 - Establishing a tax credit for plug-in electric drive motor vehicles and vehicles using compressed natural gas
HB 2961 - Assessing an additional $10 penalty on all speeding tickets
HB 3002 - Requiring the sheriff of a county to issue, upon request, a blue flashing warning light to the prosecuting attorney
HB 3158 - Allowing the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices

Municipalities (10 Bills)
HB 2016 - Providing general rules for all county and municipal referendum votes
HB 2075 - Relating to acquisition of a municipal business license
HB 2085 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2094 - Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws
HB 2095 - Requiring that any new or increased municipal taxes or fees must have a defined purpose
HB 2168 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits
HB 2208 - Providing for actual costs to be paid for municipal audits and reducing the cap on audits for Class IV municipalities
HB 2262 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2305 - Providing misdemeanor criminal penalty for failing to comply with law regarding sale, lease or disposition of municipal property
HB 2341 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions
HB 2342 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service
HB 2482 - Changing the way that the costs of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2665 - Relating to annexation generally
HB 2697 - Updating the recordkeeping requirements of municipalities
HB 2737 - Providing a procedure for removal of county, district or municipal officers
HB 2749 - Allowing a Class IV Town be allowed to create their own charter
HB 2760 - Revising the Municipal Economic Opportunity Development District Act
HB 2839 - Reducing the number of jurors in criminal trials in municipal courts
HB 2852 - Relating to the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act
HB 2871 - Relating to brownfield economic development districts
HB 2994 - Making municipal self-funded pensions tax exempt
HB 3030 - Increasing the number of municipalities that may participate in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program
HB 3121 - Shortening the statutory time period during which a municipality or metro government may enact ordinances
HB 3166 - Permitting municipalities to stagger the terms of elected officers
HB 3186 - Allowing the use of low-speed vehicles in certain incorporated municipalities
HB 3243 - Relating to appointments or promotions to positions in paid municipal fire departments

Natural Resources (4 Bills)
HB 2042 - Allowing Class RG and RRG deer stamps to be used to hunt and take antlerless deer
HB 2149 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2175 - 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 2199 - Creating a lifetime hunting license for nonresidents who are sixty-five years or older and who own real property in the state
HB 2219 - Verifiable Science Act
HB 2320 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions from state income tax
HB 2420 - Providing that the amount of required acreage for bird hunting preserves may be one hundred acres for privately owned commercial shooting preserves
HB 2470 - Increasing penalties for the illegal killing, taking, or possessing of certain wildlife
HB 2527 - Captive Cervid Farming Act
HB 2536 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting
HB 2595 - Natural Resources, prohibitions when hunting and trapping
HB 2596 - Natural Resources, general hunting
HB 2629 - Natural Resources, special motorboating regulations
HB 2781 - Exempting veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component from having to obtain a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 2830 - Allowing members of the West Virginia National Guard or its reserves to obtain free hunting and fishing licenses
HB 2845 - Creating a senior resident lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license that will cost $25
HB 2878 - Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling Gas Act
HB 2945 - Reporting beaver and river otter taken and tagged
HB 2948 - Relating to electronic registration of wildlife
HB 2974 - Relating to Coopers Rock State Forest
HB 3042 - Relating to the regulation of oil and gas wells
HB 3045 - Forest Fairness Act
HB 3047 - Removing the ban on disposing of covered electronic devices
HB 3072 - Creating a hunting permit to safely accommodate visually impaired hunters
HB 3083 - Including on the state personal income tax return a checkoff option to donate some or all of any tax refund to the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Checkoff Program
HB 3099 - Marcellus Gas and Manufacturing Development Act
HB 3101 - Clarifying the intent of the Legislature as to the measure of tax imposed on a person who produces timber
HB 3254 - Adding oil and gas facilities, wells, pipelines and tanks to the coordinated statewide program of air pollution prevention
HB 3262 - Requiring persons engaged in natural gas horizontal well drilling activities to annually submit a report to the Department of Labor identifying the state of residency

Organ Donors (37 Bills)
HB 2086 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors

Parks and Recreation (2 Bills)
HB 2262 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2268 - Providing a ten percent discount to residents at state parks and forests
HB 2415 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2453 - Making the fifty percent discount on campground rental fees at state parks for West Virginia citizens sixty-two years of age or older available year-round
HB 2676 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2800 - Creating the West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission
HB 2845 - Creating a senior resident lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license that will cost $25
HB 2968 - Increasing the soft drinks tax
HB 2974 - Relating to Coopers Rock State Forest

Pornography (32 Bills)
HB 2294 - Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene materials
HB 2724 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act

Prescriptions and Medications (4 Bills)
HB 2021 - Permitting unlicensed personnel to administer medications in certain circumstances
HB 2104 - 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 2123 - Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications
HB 2240 - Adding Tramadol to Schedule IV of the West Virginia Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 2479 - Relating to dental anesthesia
HB 2506 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2513 - Relating to the practice of pharmacy
HB 2849 - Utilization of Unused Prescription Medications Act
HB 2892 - Permitting specific law-enforcement officials access to certain confidential pharmaceutical information
HB 2906 - Optometry, oral pharmaceutical prescriptive authority
HB 2907 - Optometry, injectable pharmaceutical agents certificate
HB 2946 - Requiring the issuance of a lawful prescription for dispensing drug products containing chemical precursors of methamphetamine
HB 3139 - Relating to restrictions on dispensing oxycontin extended release or fentanyl patches
HB 3159 - Authorizing certain individuals to obtain a prescription for epinephrine, purchase epinephrine, and administer epinephrine in emergency situations and promulgating rules for the development of training programs
HB 3170 - Providing that pharmacists may not obstruct a patient in obtaining a prescription drug or device that has been legally prescribed
HB 3231 - Establishing prohibited acts relating to possession of controlled substances obtained from more than one heath practitioner
HB 3251 - Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act
HB 3265 - Making the possession of heroin, without a valid prescription, by a person, acting in the course of his or her professional practice, a felony

Professions and Occupations (24 Bills)
HB 2008 - Relating to licensing exemptions of persons who only perform the duty of hair washing for a licensed barber or cosmetologist
HB 2009 - Providing a tax incentive to dental practitioners to perform dental services at no cost to indigent patients
HB 2014 - Relating to the practice of medical imaging and radiation therapy
HB 2038 - Permitting motor vehicle dealers to sell certain motor vehicles on an "as is" basis without a warranty
HB 2052 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists
HB 2061 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including contingent compensation, paid to lobbyists for all lobbying activities
HB 2065 - 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 2074 - Permitting a retired law-enforcement officer to be employed by a county board of education as a resource prevention officer
HB 2076 - Establishing a barber apprenticeship program
HB 2114 - Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek
HB 2123 - Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications
HB 2124 - Certified Legal Assistant Act
HB 2145 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2159 - Relating to prohibiting members of the news media from being compelled to give testimony
HB 2162 - Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensing and Regulation Act
HB 2169 - Requiring that bartenders be licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner
HB 2173 - Requiring applicants for, and holders of, licenses under the West Virginia Real Estate License Act to successfully pass criminal history record checks
HB 2174 - Relating to powers and duties of the State Board of Medicine
HB 2197 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions
HB 2264 - 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 2265 - Making the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice in certain instances
HB 2284 - Authorizing the issuance of special license plates for pharmacists
HB 2297 - Requiring lobbyists to disclose compensation agreements for each registered employer
HB 2330 - Relating to the licensing of private investigators and security guards
HB 2368 - Relating to the practice of beauty care
HB 2370 - Removing the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health from professional licensure boards
HB 2372 - Prohibiting abusive behavior towards elephants by an owner or manager
HB 2390 - Providing that all employees have the right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file
HB 2400 - Relating to granting licensed real estate appraisers access to commercial or residential review documents
HB 2430 - Abolishing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists
HB 2447 - Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act
HB 2479 - Relating to dental anesthesia
HB 2489 - Exempting licensed surveyors from liability for defamation or slander of title when performing their professional duties
HB 2498 - Relating to the practice of dentistry
HB 2506 - Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions
HB 2509 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2512 - Relating to pawnbrokers
HB 2566 - Veterinary Medicine, schedule of fees
HB 2570 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, schedule of fees
HB 2599 - Physical Therapy, fees
HB 2606 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, procedures, criteria and curricula
HB 2607 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, qualifications, training, examination of instructors
HB 2608 - Barbers and Cosmetologists, operational standards
HB 2630 - Optometry, rules of the board
HB 2631 - Optometry, continuing education
HB 2632 - Optometry, schedule of fees
HB 2633 - Optometry, examination and scoring policy
HB 2634 - Optometry, licensure by endorsement
HB 2636 - Osteopathy, physician assistants
HB 2637 - Osteopathy, fees
HB 2639 - Authorizing miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2640 - Physical Therapy, fees for athletic trainers
HB 2643 - Veterinary Medicine, organization and operation and licensing of veterinarians
HB 2644 - Veterinary Medicine, registration of technicians
HB 2645 - Veterinary Medicine, standards of practice
HB 2646 - Veterinary Medicine, certified animal euthanasia technicians
HB 2664 - Verifying legal employment status of workers
HB 2753 - Relating to the requirements for and scope of practice for registered veterinary technicians
HB 2976 - Exempting barbers with twenty or more years of experience from continuing education requirements
HB 3200 - Changing the requirements for acquiring a renewal of a barber's license
HB 3218 - Reducing the tax on behavioral health services

Public Employees (9 Bills)
HB 2029 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2115 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2120 - 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 2128 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel
HB 2146 - Relating to the definition of "eligible veteran" for certain state training and employment preference benefits
HB 2155 - West Virginia Public Employment Relations Act
HB 2177 - Freezing PEIA employee premiums for three years
HB 2185 - Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act
HB 2186 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2193 - Providing a $1,000 cost-of-living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 2194 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees
HB 2195 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2283 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2297 - Requiring lobbyists to disclose compensation agreements for each registered employer
HB 2335 - Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons
HB 2355 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2358 - Allowing certain public employees to pay back retirement benefits
HB 2380 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2410 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2455 - Providing for a supplement of three percent to be paid to all annuitants of the Public Employees' Retirement and Teachers' Retirement Systems
HB 2469 - Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees
HB 2473 - Clarifying that fire chiefs working with paid and volunteer fire departments are employees that are provided immunity under the Governmental Tort Claims
HB 2474 - Relating to the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement Act
HB 2480 - Changing the definition of final average salary for calculating retirement
HB 2496 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the state board to count towards certain service personnel pay rates
HB 2535 - Creating an equal pay coordinator within the Governor's Office to ensure pay equity among state employees
HB 2666 - Repealing the authority to involuntary transfer employees
HB 2667 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board to have a quorum of five members present at any public hearing
HB 2720 - Exempting certain income received by retired federal employees from the personal income tax
HB 2728 - Providing crime watch members coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance health coverage plan
HB 2767 - Providing a $1,200 cost of living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 2782 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings
HB 2806 - Relating to ethical standards for elected and appointed officials and public employees
HB 2846 - Prohibiting elected or appointed officials from using public funds to purchase, distribute or disseminate certain items and publications
HB 2879 - Providing a one-time, nonbase building, supplemental salary increase for all eligible state employees
HB 2934 - Granting $1,000 annual salary increase for state employees
HB 2939 - Clarifying the definition of compensation for purposes of calculating required contributions to the public employees retirement system
HB 2992 - Authorizing the equal pay commission to study the "glass ceiling" concept
HB 2996 - Establishing shift differential pay scales for employees of the Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services, and Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 3003 - Relating to leave of absence for members of the National Guard or Armed Forces Reserves who are also public officials and employees
HB 3007 - Providing retention salary increases for the Division of Corrections and the Division of Juvenile Services employees
HB 3011 - Expanding the number of hours temporary state personnel may work in a calendar year
HB 3110 - Establishing a living minimum wage for public employees
HB 3111 - Providing state employees with a cost of living salary adjustment
HB 3179 - Providing a cost-of- living increase for state employees and retirees

Public Service Commission (20 Bills)
HB 2017 - Modifying the role of the Public Service Commission in controlling certain services for solid waste collections and taxi service
HB 2025 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 2163 - Creating a mandatory grace period for the payment of water and sewer bills
HB 2202 - Providing for removal and election of Public Service Commissioners
HB 2328 - Providing for a Public Service Commission investigation for traffic accidents involving a motor carrier regulated by the Public Service Commission
HB 2663 - Relating to public service commissioners presiding at hearings
HB 2799 - 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 2809 - Stopping accelerated rate recovery because of adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities and revising the definition of need
HB 2810 - Relating to interconnection and net-metering of customer-generators of renewable energy
HB 2859 - Relating to the Public Service Commission
HB 3074 - Relating to a certificate of convenience and necessity for taxi cab service
HB 3201 - Increasing the number of commissioners on the Public Service Commission

Public Service Districts (15 Bills)
HB 2244 - Changing the board members of public service districts terms from six years to three years
HB 3063 - Increasing the salary of public service district board members
HB 3119 - Increasing the expenditure limit on public service district construction and purchase contracts

Railroads (5 Bills)
HB 2316 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 2484 - Relating to railroad employees
HB 2603 - State Rail Authority, valuation used in rolling stock and equipment
HB 3126 - Requiring a railroad company to provide pesticide safety information

Real Property (18 Bills)
HB 2082 - Changing the time for periodic valuations and assessments of real and personal property
HB 2084 - 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 2115 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2143 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2199 - Creating a lifetime hunting license for nonresidents who are sixty-five years or older and who own real property in the state
HB 2231 - 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 2235 - 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 2270 - Relating to assessments of real property
HB 2276 - Providing a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence
HB 2293 - 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 2305 - Providing misdemeanor criminal penalty for failing to comply with law regarding sale, lease or disposition of municipal property
HB 2360 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2429 - Eliminating the state excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property, and imposing a new county excise tax for transferring real property
HB 2672 - Providing a ten percent cap on any increase in assessment of real and personal property in any one year
HB 2701 - Granting county commissions with the plenary power and authority to establish a vacant building registration program
HB 2790 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2818 - Increasing the allowable expenses to be paid to victims by the Crime Victim Compensation Fund
HB 3016 - Relating to the responsibilities of the real estate director
HB 3044 - Relating to civil forfeiture actions related to criminal activity
HB 3102 - Granting access to unused property of the Department of Highways to certain real property owners
HB 3177 - Permitting an owner who sells real property pursuant to a deed of trust to terminate a preexisting tenancy
HB 3184 - Making property crimes valued at over $1,000 a felony

Regulation of Trade (12 Bills)
HB 2015 - Creating regulations for commercial dog breeding operations
HB 2057 - 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 2097 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2133 - Making it an unfair trade practice to refuse to refill a propane gas tank
HB 2246 - Repealing article of the code granting a business license to sell drug paraphernalia
HB 2379 - Explaining all warranties for the sale of used cars including the requirements for "as is" sales
HB 2388 - 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 3234 - Requiring the Secretary of State to notify every corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company and foreign limited liability company registered to do business of their duty to pay an annual report fee
HB 3252 - Allowing wine distribution agreements to be by geographic areas
HB 3256 - Requiring the closing hours of private clubs to be two o'clock a.m.
HB 3261 - BPA-Free Kids Act

Regulations (34 Bills)
HB 2002 - Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school
HB 2229 - Limiting the purchase of handguns to one gun per month
HB 2261 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2279 - Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure
HB 2350 - 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 2409 - Making English the official language of West Virginia
HB 2467 - Prohibiting inquiries reflected on a credit report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2567 - WorkForce West Virginia, rule for employer violator system
HB 2724 - Sexually Oriented Businesses Regulation Act
HB 2834 - Relating to water pollution control
HB 2878 - Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling Gas Act

Rehabilitation Clinic (11 Bills)
HB 2381 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers
HB 2408 - Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction

Religious Organizations (4 Bills)
HB 2097 - Permitting the sale of nonintoxicating beer within three hundred feet from a church that consents to the sale
HB 2126 - Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing requirement
HB 2657 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 2662 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 2873 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 3113 - Exempting nonprofit, tax exempt corporations or organizations affiliated with a church from consumer sales and service tax

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (6 Bills)
HB 2363 - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five
HB 2423 - Establishing the West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program

Retirement -- Education Personnel (8 Bills)
HB 2033 - Repealing the one hundred forty day limitation that a retired school teacher may teach in public schools
HB 2113 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2140 - 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 2156 - 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 2333 - Allowing the purchase of service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for temporary employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
HB 2359 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2376 - 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 2412 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2556 - Resetting the expiration date of provisions that allow the employment of retired teachers as substitutes beyond the post-retirement employment limit
HB 2572 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, teachers' defined contribution system
HB 2719 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Teachers Retirement System
HB 2726 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2733 - 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 2778 - Extending the expiration date of employment of retired teachers beyond the post-retirement employment limit
HB 2847 - Relating to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 3023 - Providing a one-time supplement to retired public employees and teachers seventy years of age or older
HB 3024 - Exempting income received by retired public employees and retired teachers through their state retirement systems from personal income taxes
HB 3053 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired
HB 3145 - Providing a one-time bonus to certain annuitants of the Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System

Retirement -- Public Employees (7 Bills)
HB 2043 - Relating to the reduction of state income taxes for certain state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2101 - 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 2189 - 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 2193 - Providing a $1,000 cost-of-living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 2223 - Providing correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of actual and honorable service
HB 2245 - 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 2283 - Granting public employees credit toward their West Virginia public employee retirement benefits for service in the Peace Corps
HB 2320 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions from state income tax
HB 2331 - Providing that certain mental hygiene commissioners are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2342 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service
HB 2345 - Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board
HB 2358 - Allowing certain public employees to pay back retirement benefits
HB 2359 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2364 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
HB 2412 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2436 - 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 2474 - Relating to the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement Act
HB 2480 - Changing the definition of final average salary for calculating retirement
HB 2487 - Relating to the personal income tax
HB 2523 - Permitting a retired person to accept employment as a substitute teacher without affecting monthly retirement benefits
HB 2573 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, public employees retirement system
HB 2574 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, refund, reinstatement, retroactive service, loan and employer error interest factors
HB 2659 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax
HB 2718 - Providing that correctional officers may retire with full benefits after twenty years of service
HB 2764 - Relating to the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 2765 - Relating to the retirement plans administered by the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board
HB 2766 - Relating to contribution rate for the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 2813 - Relating to mandatory retirement age of deputy sheriffs
HB 2921 - Redefining final average salary
HB 2984 - Relating to the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement Act
HB 3008 - Adjusting the amount of pay a retired state worker can make while collecting retirement
HB 3023 - Providing a one-time supplement to retired public employees and teachers seventy years of age or older
HB 3024 - Exempting income received by retired public employees and retired teachers through their state retirement systems from personal income taxes
HB 3025 - Exempting the first $20,000 of public employees pensions from personal income tax
HB 3053 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired
HB 3097 - Removing the armed conflict requirement before state employees may receive credit for time served in the Armed Forces
HB 3145 - Providing a one-time bonus to certain annuitants of the Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 3179 - Providing a cost-of- living increase for state employees and retirees
HB 3269 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2168 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits
HB 2455 - Providing for a supplement of three percent to be paid to all annuitants of the Public Employees' Retirement and Teachers' Retirement Systems
HB 2575 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, WV State Police
HB 2767 - Providing a $1,200 cost of living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 2769 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature
HB 2784 - Requiring sex offenders to pay a fee which is to be deposited into the State Police Retirement Fund
HB 2863 - Providing for the costs of disability physical and/or mental examinations approved by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board under the West Virginia State Police plan
HB 2939 - Clarifying the definition of compensation for purposes of calculating required contributions to the public employees retirement system
HB 2967 - Providing a personal income tax modification for certain retirees who are in long-term care facilities
HB 2994 - Making municipal self-funded pensions tax exempt
HB 3092 - Relating to voluntary deductions by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board

Roads and Highways (2 Bills)
HB 2176 - Terminating tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike before 2020
HB 2238 - Relating to towing companies notifying the DMV of abandoned vehicles
HB 2316 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 2343 - Requiring the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to use recycled materials in construction or maintenance of roads and highways
HB 2354 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2361 - Limiting liability for repair costs to automobile owners when they hit a deer on a public highway
HB 2410 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official
HB 2477 - Relating to roads and highways
HB 2586 - Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2587 - Highways, transportation of hazardous waste
HB 2619 - Highways, community empowerment transportation act program
HB 2676 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project
HB 2798 - Preventing vehicles from driving more than seventy-five feet in a center lane designated for left turns
HB 2802 - Prohibiting use of turning lanes for through traffic under certain circumstances
HB 2861 - Continuing the pilot highway design-build program
HB 2930 - Safe and Efficient Parkways Act
HB 2964 - Eliminating tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike before February 1, 2020
HB 3026 - Authorizing additional powers of the Commissioner of Highways by entering into agreements or permits to protect the care and maintenance of certain secondary highways used in natural gas and oil production
HB 3090 - Relating to oversight, care and maintenance of certain highways used in natural gas and oil production
HB 3141 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to require bonds be posted in connection with major construction, mineral extraction and industrial projects that impact the roads
HB 3160 - Transferring powers of construction and maintenance activities of parkways authority
HB 3175 - Requiring a popular vote of the residents of the county affected by a proposed initial rate or a proposed increase of any rate or tolls
HB 3183 - Creating the Tourist-Oriented Directional Signs Program
HB 3186 - Allowing the use of low-speed vehicles in certain incorporated municipalities

Rule Making Authority (27 Bills)
HB 2860 - Authorizing the promulgation of rules by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction

Safety (11 Bills)
HB 2020 - West Virginia Innovative Mine Safety Technology Tax Credit Act
HB 2031 - Relating to the reporting of assaults, batteries and other incidents on school property
HB 2071 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2119 - Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines
HB 2151 - Requiring mine operators to provide notice of hazardous chemical substances and lead exposure to its employees
HB 2175 - 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 2207 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2263 - Requiring the Office of Miners Health and Safety to employ qualified diesel inspectors
HB 2266 - Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools
HB 2273 - Requiring paramedics to be on site at coal mines
HB 2309 - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders
HB 2316 - Giving full consideration to bicycle, pedestrian and transit ways in the planning, development of state roads, railways and waterways
HB 2318 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
HB 2346 - Reconciling code provisions relating to law enforcement officers duties to enforce domestic violence protective orders
HB 2371 - Relating to the West Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
HB 2437 - Requiring study relating to mandating the utilization of devices that case underground mining machines to shut-off when methane is detected
HB 2545 - Requiring onsite employees at certain public works construction projects to complete an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) approved 10-hour construction safety program
HB 2625 - Labor, elevator safety act
HB 2626 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 2700 - Relating to elevator safety
HB 2704 - Adding to the definition of harassment, intimidation or bullying
HB 2707 - Expanding the definition of "imminent danger to the physical well-being of the child" with regard to child abuse and neglect
HB 2773 - Relating to neighborhood crime watch programs
HB 2791 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers
HB 2807 - Relating to determining the appropriate penalty to impose against operators who fail to provide immediate notice upon the occurrence of a mining accident
HB 2840 - Providing that all persons have the right to be free from violence
HB 2888 - Strengthening of protections for whistleblowers of unsafe working conditions in mines
HB 2901 - DEP - explosives and blasting
HB 2942 - Medical Harm Disclosure Act
HB 3005 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 3010 - Ensuring patient safety
HB 3015 - The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act
HB 3027 - Authorizing the sale of prohibited fireworks
HB 3041 - Protecting nonfamily or nonhousehold members from sexual offenses, stalking and harassment
HB 3071 - Requiring certification of correctness as to design, construction and performance of domestic and commercial liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances
HB 3072 - Creating a hunting permit to safely accommodate visually impaired hunters
HB 3153 - Exempting of certain public safety training courses from payment of consumer sales tax
HB 3171 - Providing educators with the education and training necessary to ensure the safety of state schools

Salaries (78 Bills)
HB 2029 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2061 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including contingent compensation, paid to lobbyists for all lobbying activities
HB 2086 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors
HB 2088 - Providing for increased compensation for aides and paraprofessionals with large numbers of pupils in kindergarten and grades one through six
HB 2102 - Providing a two thousand eight dollar salary increase for each employee of the Division of Corrections
HB 2113 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the teachers retirement system
HB 2115 - Salary increases for public employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2120 - 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 2127 - Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year
HB 2130 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools
HB 2143 - Salary increases for school service employees based upon residential housing costs
HB 2149 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2154 - Establishing school service personnel class title and pay grade for the positions of "Administrative Assistant" and "Legal Secretary"
HB 2184 - Granting a salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2193 - Providing a $1,000 cost-of-living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 2195 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2218 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2251 - Increasing the salaries of magistrates who serve populations of eight thousand four hundred or more
HB 2253 - Providing additional state minimum salary for certain teachers
HB 2261 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2264 - 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 2272 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police
HB 2304 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel
HB 2380 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers
HB 2496 - Allowing comparable credit at trade or vocational schools approved by the state board to count towards certain service personnel pay rates
HB 2682 - Compensating state troopers for call-back time
HB 2726 - Giving all school personnel, including teachers and service personnel and retired teachers a raise
HB 2727 - Providing an exemption from gross income for certain members of volunteer fire departments
HB 2734 - Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements
HB 2767 - Providing a $1,200 cost of living adjustment to all eligible state employees and retirees
HB 2779 - Relating to West Virginia State Police receiving on-call and off-duty pay
HB 2855 - Providing that the salaries for certain county officials and employees are minimum salaries
HB 2879 - Providing a one-time, nonbase building, supplemental salary increase for all eligible state employees
HB 2934 - Granting $1,000 annual salary increase for state employees
HB 2958 - Allowing the West Virginia Racing Commission to use certain permit and registration fees to pay salaries and other budgeted expenses
HB 2992 - Authorizing the equal pay commission to study the "glass ceiling" concept
HB 2996 - Establishing shift differential pay scales for employees of the Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services, and Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 3007 - Providing retention salary increases for the Division of Corrections and the Division of Juvenile Services employees
HB 3022 - Establishing a minimum number of troopers to provide basic law enforcement services, and providing members of the West Virginia State Police a $580 salary increase at the end of two years of service
HB 3057 - Providing for career development and establishing a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and supervisors
HB 3063 - Increasing the salary of public service district board members
HB 3110 - Establishing a living minimum wage for public employees
HB 3111 - Providing state employees with a cost of living salary adjustment
HB 3147 - Increasing the annual salaries of supreme court justices, circuit judges, family court judges and magistrates
HB 3168 - Requiring that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby and providing a stipend for housing cost for certain officers

Secretary of State (10 Bills)
HB 2481 - Relating to elections
HB 2533 - Requiring the identities of signatories to a certificate for a person seeking ballot access to be made public and verified
HB 2552 - Providing for a new election to fill a vacancy in the Office of Governor
HB 2602 - Secretary of State, combined voter registration and driver licensing fund
HB 2787 - Transferring the licensure of private investigators and security guards from the Secretary of State to the Division of Justice and Community Services
HB 3032 - Relating to emergency powers of the Secretary of State
HB 3058 - Relating generally to the use of electronic voting systems
HB 3070 - Relating to publication of the State Register
HB 3209 - Permitting the Secretary of State to dissolve a corporate entity if its professional license has been revoked
HB 3214 - Designating specific criteria for seals of commissioners appointed by the Governor to acknowledge signatures
HB 3222 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to charge fees for current electronic and online services
HB 3234 - Requiring the Secretary of State to notify every corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company and foreign limited liability company registered to do business of their duty to pay an annual report fee

Senior Citizens (8 Bills)
HB 2107 - 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 2235 - 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 2310 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls
HB 2337 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2362 - Increasing penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
HB 2415 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons
HB 2453 - Making the fifty percent discount on campground rental fees at state parks for West Virginia citizens sixty-two years of age or older available year-round
HB 2522 - Relating to nursing home administrative appeals
HB 2683 - 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 2777 - Exempting recreational vehicles owned by a resident of this state who is seventy years of age or older from ad valorem taxes
HB 2845 - Creating a senior resident lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping license that will cost $25
HB 3009 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 3221 - Community-Based Services Act
HB 3268 - Relating to who may claim a homestead exemption

Social Security (7 Bills)
HB 2218 - Subtracting social security benefits from federal adjusted gross income
HB 2337 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2659 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax
HB 2916 - Exempting social security benefits from West Virginia personal income

Sunset Law (21 Bills)
HB 2804 - Removing outdated sunset language

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (33 Bills)
HB 2095 - Requiring that any new or increased municipal taxes or fees must have a defined purpose
HB 2096 - Relating to arts, entertainment and enterprise districts
HB 2106 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2148 - Providing a tax credit for scholarship donations
HB 2212 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2323 - The Family Education Tax Credit Act
HB 2424 - Health Care Affordability Act
HB 2655 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2717 - The Economic Fairness Act of 2009
HB 2731 - Authorizing a tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas

Taxation -- Consumers Sales Tax (10 Bills)
HB 2046 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabilities
HB 2111 - 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 2258 - Eliminating the severance tax and the health care provider tax on behavior health providers
HB 2294 - Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene materials
HB 2649 - Reducing the consumers sales and service tax on sales, purchases and uses of food
HB 2658 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2685 - 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 2702 - Creating an annual exemption for clothing, footwear and school supplies
HB 2729 - Raising the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2774 - Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer
HB 2811 - Exempting sales of personal tangible property and services by public and private schools from consumer sales tax and service
HB 2837 - Authorizing an exemption from the consumers sales and service tax and use tax for qualified purchases
HB 2928 - Relating to the administration of sales and use tax generally
HB 2971 - Reducing the consumers sales and services tax on food and food ingredients and defining the term "durable medical equipment"
HB 2977 - Eliminating the sales tax on food effective July 1, 2011
HB 3027 - Authorizing the sale of prohibited fireworks
HB 3113 - Exempting nonprofit, tax exempt corporations or organizations affiliated with a church from consumer sales and service tax
HB 3153 - Exempting of certain public safety training courses from payment of consumer sales tax
HB 3224 - Removing annual credit cap for expansion projects

Taxation -- Mines & Minerals (53 Bills)
HB 2020 - West Virginia Innovative Mine Safety Technology Tax Credit Act
HB 2030 - Relating to a severance tax imposed on surface mining activities
HB 2366 - Dedicating five percent of coal severance tax to the county of origin
HB 2851 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien
HB 2912 - Dedicating five percent of coal severance tax to the county of origin
HB 2953 - Relating to dedication of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds
HB 3131 - Imposing a ten-year moratorium on severance taxes on the extracting and recovering material from refuse, slurry, gob piles or other sources of waste coal
HB 3240 - Energy Intensive Industrial Consumers Revitalization Tax Credit

Taxation -- Motor Vehicles (51 Bills)
HB 2135 - Creating a tax credit for new or converted qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles
HB 2236 - Exempting antique cars from taxation and fees
HB 2352 - 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 2407 - Exempting antique motor vehicles from personal property taxes
HB 2449 - Providing that antique motor vehicles be valued at their salvage value for personal property tax purposes
HB 3232 - Relating to consumers sales tax on motor vehicles

Taxation -- Personal & Corporate Income Tax (16 Bills)
HB 2009 - Providing a tax incentive to dental practitioners to perform dental services at no cost to indigent patients
HB 2043 - Relating to the reduction of state income taxes for certain state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2086 - Providing for a modification to federal adjusted gross income for expenses incurred by organ donors
HB 2107 - 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 2140 - 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 2212 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on a taxpayers' personal residences to be used for personal income tax purposes
HB 2215 - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment of state income tax
HB 2262 - Allowing for an adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for contributions to the maintenance and improvement of state, county and municipal parks
HB 2271 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2274 - Income tax exemption for veterans who locate in West Virginia following separation from service
HB 2288 - Decreasing the corporate income tax rate beginning in the year 2012
HB 2296 - Income tax deduction for gifts to West Virginia charities
HB 2320 - Exempting Division of Natural Resources conservation officers' retirement pensions from state income tax
HB 2337 - Eliminating West Virginia income tax on social security benefits
HB 2360 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2364 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees
HB 2485 - Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds
HB 2487 - Relating to the personal income tax
HB 2493 - Increasing allowable tax credits for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment
HB 2508 - Providing for a credit against the West Virginia personal income tax liability in the amount of payments made on student loans
HB 2509 - Requiring lobbyists and lawyers providing lobbying services to pay service tax
HB 2529 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2548 - Permitting an individual taxpayer to decrease his or her federal adjusted gross income up to $1,000 for nursing home expenses
HB 2655 - Abolishing the business and franchise tax
HB 2659 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax
HB 2661 - Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand nine
HB 2671 - Providing a corporate tax credit for qualified health insurance policies
HB 2692 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 2720 - Exempting certain income received by retired federal employees from the personal income tax
HB 2733 - 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 2768 - Providing a personal income tax exemption for living organ donors
HB 2771 - Stay Home in West Virginia and Work Tax Incentive
HB 2783 - 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 2786 - Allowing a credit against state personal income tax for the purchase of a new wood or pellet stove
HB 2836 - Relating to the Neighborhood Investment Program Act
HB 2862 - Allowing a deduction for all capital expenditures from the corporate net income tax
HB 2913 - Making a technical correction in the definition of "eligible taxpayer" in §11-24-11b, relating to corporation net income tax
HB 2916 - Exempting social security benefits from West Virginia personal income
HB 2920 - Establishing a tax credit for graduates of a higher education institution
HB 2937 - Reducing the corporation net income tax rate
HB 2938 - Establishing a tax credit for plug-in electric drive motor vehicles and vehicles using compressed natural gas
HB 2967 - Providing a personal income tax modification for certain retirees who are in long-term care facilities
HB 2970 - Clarifying which entities are to be included in a water's edge group for purposes of the corporation net income tax
HB 3009 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 3024 - Exempting income received by retired public employees and retired teachers through their state retirement systems from personal income taxes
HB 3025 - Exempting the first $20,000 of public employees pensions from personal income tax
HB 3055 - Retaining nursing educators
HB 3060 - Providing a different procedure for determining the credit for utility taxpayers with net operating loss carryovers relating to the corporation net income tax
HB 3083 - Including on the state personal income tax return a checkoff option to donate some or all of any tax refund to the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Checkoff Program
HB 3169 - Reinstating the high-growth business investment tax credit
HB 3228 - Authorizing a refundable tax credit based upon the federal earned income tax credit
HB 3267 - Providing an additional decreasing modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for income earned by certain military personnel and their spouses
HB 3269 - Reducing state income tax liability for certain retired public employees

Taxation -- Property (3 Bills)
HB 2141 - 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 2192 - Requiring the assessor of each county to prepare a new property tax ticket within three months of a deed filing
HB 2235 - 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 2276 - Providing a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence
HB 2360 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2395 - Clarifying an exception that allow sheriffs to collect property taxes in more than two installments
HB 2429 - Eliminating the state excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property, and imposing a new county excise tax for transferring real property
HB 2491 - Permitting counties, county boards of education and municipalities to impose an additional levy
HB 2515 - Relating to liens for assessments on common interest community real property
HB 2603 - State Rail Authority, valuation used in rolling stock and equipment
HB 2672 - Providing a ten percent cap on any increase in assessment of real and personal property in any one year
HB 2683 - 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 2685 - 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 2741 - Exempting the construction or addition of active solar energy systems from real and personal property taxation
HB 2785 - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jail fees
HB 2811 - Exempting sales of personal tangible property and services by public and private schools from consumer sales tax and service
HB 2852 - Relating to the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act
HB 2914 - Funding of public libraries
HB 2944 - Capping a property tax increase resulting from an increase from the three-year reappraisal
HB 2949 - Providing definitions of "low income" for purposes of property tax relief programs
HB 2950 - Reducing the required original cost of manufacturing facilities
HB 2980 - Exempting from taxation property which is owned by a charitable organization owned by a nonprofit youth serving organization in certain circumstances
HB 2987 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes and requiring new tax tickets to be mailed after property is transferred
HB 3062 - Reforming the school aid formula
HB 3187 - Clarifying the notice and service requirements for a notice to redeem to be provided to the delinquent taxpayer at the mailing address for the subject property
HB 3268 - Relating to who may claim a homestead exemption

Taxation -- Roads & Fuel (19 Bills)
HB 2658 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
HB 2662 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil
HB 2772 - Exempting special fuel and propane used for home heating purposes from the motor fuel excise tax

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (5 Bills)
HB 2136 - Plastic Shopping Bag Excise Tax Act
HB 2164 - Relating to public school support computation of local share
HB 2491 - Permitting counties, county boards of education and municipalities to impose an additional levy
HB 2493 - Increasing allowable tax credits for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment
HB 2641 - Tax Department, commercial patent incentives tax credit
HB 2642 - Tax Department, exchange of information agreement between department and fire marshal
HB 2649 - Reducing the consumers sales and service tax on sales, purchases and uses of food
HB 2650 - Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms
HB 2776 - Residential Renewable Energy Systems Tax Credit
HB 2792 - Providing an excise tax on transfers of utilities
HB 2820 - Permitting municipalities and counties to use proceeds from the hotel occupancy tax to fund public libraries
HB 2837 - Authorizing an exemption from the consumers sales and service tax and use tax for qualified purchases
HB 2890 - Energy Efficient Building Act
HB 2956 - Updating the list of jurisdictions identified as tax havens
HB 2963 - Relating to surplus lines insurance
HB 2968 - Increasing the soft drinks tax
HB 2969 - Requiring the disclosure of the number of stamps by brand name that have been purchased from a nonparticipating tobacco product manufacturer
HB 2973 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2978 - Abolishing the business franchise tax starting July 1, 2011
HB 2994 - Making municipal self-funded pensions tax exempt
HB 3101 - Clarifying the intent of the Legislature as to the measure of tax imposed on a person who produces timber
HB 3117 - Relating to health care provider taxes
HB 3169 - Reinstating the high-growth business investment tax credit
HB 3178 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor
HB 3218 - Reducing the tax on behavioral health services
HB 3239 - Abolishing the food tax, increasing the tax on nonintoxicating beer, increasing the tax on cigarettes, and increasing the tax on noncigarette tobacco products
HB 3240 - Energy Intensive Industrial Consumers Revitalization Tax Credit

Technology (4 Bills)
HB 2077 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
HB 2490 - Prohibiting the use of a mobile communication device to engage in text messaging or additional technologies while operating a motor vehicle
HB 2501 - Relating to donation and transfer of surplus state owned personal computers for educational purposes
HB 2516 - Relating to charitable raffles
HB 2555 - Establishing the offense of operating a motor vehicle while sending, reading or receiving a text message
HB 2565 - Relating to crimes using computers, telephones and electronic devices
HB 2710 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2843 - Relating to public records management and preservation
HB 2844 - Relating to protection of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
HB 2870 - Allowing physicians to use electronic signatures for orders for patients care in or admission to long- term care facilities
HB 2928 - Relating to the administration of sales and use tax generally
HB 2929 - Relating to radiologic technologists
HB 2930 - Safe and Efficient Parkways Act
HB 2947 - Making it a crime to put certain types of invasive software on mobile devices
HB 2948 - Relating to electronic registration of wildlife
HB 2951 - Relating to an all-payer claims database
HB 2961 - Assessing an additional $10 penalty on all speeding tickets
HB 2997 - Allowing the Information Services and Communications Division to accumulate invoices under $75 and send them to the spending unit on one statement near the end of the fiscal year
HB 3012 - Clarifying that the Office of Technology is responsible for the retirement or transfer of certain information technology equipment
HB 3013 - Extending the Broadband Deployment Council
HB 3029 - Relating to crimes using computers, telephones and electronic communications devices
HB 3040 - Twenty-First Century Business Technologies Property Valuation Act
HB 3047 - Removing the ban on disposing of covered electronic devices
HB 3058 - Relating generally to the use of electronic voting systems
HB 3123 - Encouraging the use of telemedicine, telepsychology and video conferencing in order to make child welfare system more effective
HB 3158 - Allowing the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices
HB 3188 - Relating to the confidentiality of the Rate Setting Model

Tobacco and Tobacco Products (19 Bills)
HB 2386 - Requiring the approval of board of health rules relating to tobacco use in public or private places
HB 2729 - Raising the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2969 - Requiring the disclosure of the number of stamps by brand name that have been purchased from a nonparticipating tobacco product manufacturer
HB 2973 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products

Tourism (2 Bills)
HB 2254 - Authorizing excess funds in the courtesy Patrol Fund to be transferred back to the Tourism Promotion Fund
HB 2458 - Creating a West Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame at Yeager Airport
HB 2532 - Zipline Responsibility Act
HB 2800 - Creating the West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission
HB 2835 - Relating generally to Division of Tourism and Tourism Commission
HB 3183 - Creating the Tourist-Oriented Directional Signs Program
HB 3224 - Removing annual credit cap for expansion projects

Transportation (1 Bills)
HB 2023 - Requiring that transportation to and from school be provided for each child that needs or desires transportation
HB 2105 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2111 - 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 2211 - 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 2458 - Creating a West Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame at Yeager Airport
HB 2530 - Requiring a study of the feasibility of consolidation of government services and enforcement of laws pertaining to the motor carrier industry
HB 2561 - Creating the West Virginia Transportation Finance Commission
HB 3074 - Relating to a certificate of convenience and necessity for taxi cab service

Treasurer (State) (21 Bills)
HB 2482 - Changing the way that the costs of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2911 - Treasurer's Office, establishment of imprest funds
HB 3208 - Relating to the Human Resource Benefit Fund

Unemployment Compensation (3 Bills)
HB 2138 - Providing for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence
HB 2259 - Extending unemployment compensation benefits when special circumstances exist
HB 2261 - Changing the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment benefits
HB 2344 - Removing the receipt of an annuity, pension or other retirement pay as a disqualification for unemployment compensation benefits
HB 2543 - Relating to unemployment benefits for certain spouses of military personnel
HB 2691 - Maintaining solvency of the Unemployment Compensation Fund
HB 2763 - Prohibiting the Executive Director of Workforce West Virginia from billing a reimbursable employer under the unemployment compensation law for overpaid amounts of benefits paid to a claimant
HB 3137 - Providing for additional circumstances giving rise to "state ‘on' indicators" for purposes of extended unemployment compensation

Uniform Laws (98 Bills)
HB 2010 - Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act
HB 2290 - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
HB 3266 - Uniform Power of Attorney Act

Utilities (4 Bills)
HB 2034 - Relating to the adoption of the 2008 National Electric Code
HB 2160 - Authorizing incentives for energy conservation by electric utilities
HB 2271 - Business and occupation tax credit to electric power generators for the use of West Virginia coal
HB 2452 - Prohibiting the use of prerecorded or synthesized voice messages and establishing a do-not-call list
HB 2529 - Authorizing a corporation net income tax credit for reducing charges for home heating fuel and propane gas provided to low-income residents
HB 2583 - WV Bureau for Public Health, public water systems
HB 2663 - Relating to public service commissioners presiding at hearings
HB 2792 - Providing an excise tax on transfers of utilities
HB 2799 - 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 2809 - Stopping accelerated rate recovery because of adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities and revising the definition of need
HB 2869 - Reducing rates for low-income residential customers of privately owned water utilities
HB 3060 - Providing a different procedure for determining the credit for utility taxpayers with net operating loss carryovers relating to the corporation net income tax
HB 3088 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
HB 3118 - Relating to private developers constructing new water systems
HB 3240 - Energy Intensive Industrial Consumers Revitalization Tax Credit

Vendors (7 Bills)
HB 2260 - 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 3120 - Keep Jobs in West Virginia Act
HB 3181 - Creating "The Prompt Pay Act of 2011

Vital Records (27 Bills)
HB 2039 - Relating to confidential records
HB 2066 - 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 2207 - Providing that accident report forms are conclusive as to the issue of the accident's cause, unless a court rules otherwise
HB 2267 - Requiring the superintendent or owner of a mine to sign the fire boss record book daily
HB 2291 - Providing that identity theft is a felony if a person commits the crime with the intent to commit any other crime
HB 2326 - Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a woman suffered injury or death due to induced abortion
HB 2351 - Relating to issuing a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
HB 2402 - Redefining the term "public record" as it is used in the Freedom of Information Act
HB 2465 - Requiring magistrate courts to maintain records relating to successful collection rates on judgements
HB 2668 - 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 2789 - West Virginia Geographical Information System
HB 2843 - Relating to public records management and preservation
HB 3012 - Clarifying that the Office of Technology is responsible for the retirement or transfer of certain information technology equipment
HB 3043 - Grieving Parents Act
HB 3070 - Relating to publication of the State Register
HB 3207 - Authorizing the state to enter into a multistate compact defining the birthright form of United States citizenship

Water Resources (6 Bills)
HB 2403 - Establishing requirements for Marcellus gas well operations use of water resources
HB 2569 - Agriculture, general groundwater protection rules
HB 2581 - DEP-water resources, requirements governing water quality standards
HB 2583 - WV Bureau for Public Health, public water systems
HB 2610 - DEP - water and waste management, monitoring well design standards
HB 2629 - Natural Resources, special motorboating regulations
HB 2730 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motor boats on lakes
HB 2834 - Relating to water pollution control
HB 2850 - Alternative Coal Slurry Disposal Act
HB 2878 - Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling Gas Act
HB 2985 - Updating the Logging Sediment Control Act
HB 3118 - Relating to private developers constructing new water systems
HB 3180 - Authorizing the appointment of certain individuals to carry out the business of the Water Development Authority

Workers Compensation (11 Bills)
HB 2006 - Providing a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter has developed a pulmonary disease or sustained a cardiovascular injury
HB 2065 - 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 2145 - Providing workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities
HB 2209 - Requiring that all worker's compensation adjusters employed by a private insurance carrier be located within the geographic borders of West Virginia
HB 2307 - Relating to the worker's compensation claimant attorney fees
HB 2396 - Requiring review and approval of final settlements of Workers' Compensation awards
HB 2517 - Allowing Correctional Industries to directly purchase workers' compensation coverage for inmates
HB 2943 - Clarifying that the Insurance Commissioner may designate the administrator of the adverse risk plan
HB 3163 - Relating to workers' compensation programs of state government entities
HB 3191 - Creating a workers' compensation insurance subsidy program for volunteer fire departments
HB 3215 - Providing that taxicab companies are not required to subscribe to or pay into the Workers' Compensation Fund
HB 3271 - Relating to the distribution of state funds to volunteer fire companies and departments

Zoning (15 Bills)
HB 2166 - Relating to land use planning
HB 2232 - Removing the exemption from planning and zoning restrictions for mining and manufacturing activities and uses
HB 2665 - Relating to annexation generally

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