House Topical

Abortion (8 Bills)
HB 2031 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2172 - Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing
HB 2256 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2371 - Relating to abortions performed on unemancipated minors
HB 2440 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions
HB 2458 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2468 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2715 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents

Actions, Suits and Liens (8 Bills)
HB 4008 - Establishing a wrongful conduct rule
HB 4252 - Relating to custodial orders in suits affecting the parent-child relationship
HB 4539 - Permitting farm winery licensure as alternating wine proprietorships and permitting farm wineries to provide samples
HB 4555 - Establishing a cause of action against a person who commits an act of financial exploitation against an elderly person
HB 4599 - Extending the statute of limitations in personal actions for damages for victims of criminal actions
HB 4600 - Child Victims Act
HB 4641 - Relating to the limitation of action that applies to an action to recover the unpaid balance due upon a contract made by a consumer for the purchase of personal property
HB 4649 - Relating to limitations and suits

Acts (27 Bills)
HB 2042 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
HB 2052 - Relating to the labor-management relations act for the private sector
HB 2109 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 2110 - Relating generally to the tax treatment of manufacturing entities
HB 2119 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2195 - Making changes to the definition of electrical contractor
HB 2248 - Ensuring Patient Safety Act
HB 2468 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2508 - Creating the West Virginia Freedom of Conscience Protection Act
HB 2511 - Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act
HB 2517 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act
HB 2531 - Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act
HB 2600 - Fair Trial Act
HB 2604 - Creating the Second Chance for Employment Act
HB 2615 - West Virginia Small Business Capital Act
HB 2635 - West Virginia Native American Tribes Unique Recognition, Authentication and Listing Act
HB 2679 - Good Jobs First Act
HB 2785 - Statewide Interoperable Radio Network Act
HB 2794 - Making changes to the definition of contractor for purposes of the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 2819 - Relating generally to contested cases under the Administrative Procedures Act
HB 2834 - Amending the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
HB 2869 - Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act
HB 2873 - Budget and Spending Transparency Act
HB 2891 - Making the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act more consistent with the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
HB 2897 - Young Entrepreneur Reinvestment Act
HB 2911 - Voluntary Political Contribution Act
HB 2930 - Aged, Blind, Disabled and Long Term Services and Support Managed Care Act

Advertising (1 Bills)
HB 2190 - Removing limitations on advertising and promotional activities by limited video lottery retailers

Agriculture (15 Bills)
HB 2448 - Permitting the sale of raw milk
HB 2449 - Permitting co-owners of cows to receive raw milk from those cows
HB 2529 - Requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to develop a pilot program for the cultivation of marijuana to be sold in states where sales are legal
HB 2807 - Expanding the list of persons the Commissioner of Agriculture may license to grow or cultivate industrial hemp
HB 2966 - Relating to the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
HB 3007 - Exempting from food related laws or rules for certain individually produced agricultural products
HB 4203 - Providing a hunting license exemption for certain nonresident landowners
HB 4351 - Transferring the Cedar Lakes Camp and Conference Center from the West Virginia Board of Education to the Department of Agriculture
HB 4515 - Increasing the pet food registration fee
HB 4538 - Relating to cooperative extension workers
HB 4557 - Removing the requirement that the West Virginia Rural Rehabilitation Loan Committee outsource the servicing of its loans
HB 4625 - Redirecting certain racing and gaming revenues from greyhound development funds to the State Road Fund
HB 4653 - Relating to spaying and neutering of companion animals
HB 4673 - Providing for a crime for the theft, damage or release of deer from private game farms
HB 4712 - Relating to permitted use and possession of marihuana

Alcohol (8 Bills)
HB 2069 - Providing for career development and establishing a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and supervisors
HB 2466 - Exempting valid nonprofit organizations from licensing requirements of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority during certain events
HB 2479 - Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs
HB 2633 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor
HB 2756 - Authorizing appointees or employees of the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to carry concealed handguns
HB 2803 - Relating to the sale of alcohol by licensed manufacturers
HB 2804 - Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays by private licensees
HB 2937 - Designating 5 million dollars per year for 4 years from beer, wine, and liquor tax revenue to the Fight Substance Abuse Fund

Alcoholic Liquors and Beers (10 Bills)
HB 4332 - Requiring licensees authorized to serve alcoholic liquors or nonintoxicating beer to have certain liability insurance coverage
HB 4442 - Exempting farm wineries from taxation for sales of wine to retail outlets
HB 4534 - Allowing sale and serving of alcoholic liquors at 11:00 a.m. on Sundays
HB 4539 - Permitting farm winery licensure as alternating wine proprietorships and permitting farm wineries to provide samples
HB 4565 - Allowing Class A Licensees to begin selling alcohol at ten o’clock a.m. on Sundays
HB 4571 - Creating a one-day special license for charitable events to sell nonintoxicating beer
HB 4576 - Increasing the penalties for transporting controlled substances into the state
HB 4622 - Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays by private licensees
HB 4715 - Exempting commercial airlines from obtaining licenses to serve liquor, beer or wine on flights
HB 4720 - Prohibiting the sale and consumption of powdered alcohol

Animals (5 Bills)
HB 2189 - Permitting counties to adopt certain ordinances relating to dogs and cats
HB 2399 - Exempting all veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component thereof from having to obtain a hunting, trapping fishing license
HB 2449 - Permitting co-owners of cows to receive raw milk from those cows
HB 2618 - Creating a State Animal Abuse Registry
HB 2959 - Allowing the use of rotary drum composters to destroy or dispose of the carcass of any animal to prevent the spread of disease

Appropriations (18 Bills)
HB 4149 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services
HB 4150 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4151 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education
HB 4152 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Environmental Protection – Protect Our Water Fund
HB 4153 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health, and the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services
HB 4154 - Making a supplementary appropriation of public to the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services
HB 4155 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health – West Virginia Birth-to-Three Fund, and the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services - Medical Services Trust Fund
HB 4156 - Transferring funds from the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, to the Department of Revenue, Lottery Commission, Distributions to Statutory Funds and Purposes
HB 4157 - Supplementing, amending, and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the State Road Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways
HB 4158 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce, WorkForce West Virginia – Workforce Investment Act
HB 4159 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Public Services Commission – Motor Carrier Division
HB 4160 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Revenue, Tax Division
HB 4162 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus from the Department of Revenue, Insurance Commissioner
HB 4189 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated balance in State Fund, General Revenue, from the Department of Revenue
HB 4229 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Bureau of Senior Services
HB 4270 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
HB 4336 - Decreasing appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4608 - Requiring the State Auditor to consider for payment a claim submitted by an electronically generated invoice

Athletics (3 Bills)
HB 2058 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2749 - Relating to the secondary schools athletic commission
HB 2905 - Relating to athletic coaches in public schools

Attorneys (2 Bills)
HB 2147 - Requiring the circuit court, when appointing counsel for alleged protected persons, to make appointments from a listing of all interested attorneys in the circuit
HB 2955 - Increasing the hourly rate for attorneys providing Public Defender Services for in court and out of court work

Aviation (2 Bills)
HB 2653 - Prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft
HB 2739 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise

Banking and Finance (4 Bills)
HB 4244 - Eliminating the need for a public hearing when no objection is filed on an application from an out of state state-chartered credit union to establish a branch in West Virginia
HB 4245 - Requiring the cashier or executive officer of a banking institution to provide shareholders with the institution’s most recent year-end audited financial statement
HB 4495 - Allow a lender to charge and receive interest on a loan that is rescindable by the borrower, during the rescission period
HB 4623 - Relating to limits on charges a secured lender may recover

Banks and Banking (2 Bills)
HB 2379 - Simplifying the process by which a bank may adjust the hours of operation for branch offices
HB 2398 - Prohibiting the number of inquiries reflected in a credit report, credit score report or CLUE report from adversely affecting an application for insurance

Boards and Commissions (32 Bills)
HB 2082 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2096 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2202 - Relating to more equitable disbursement of funds to county boards
HB 2267 - Authorizing a county school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message
HB 2512 - Requiring the consent of the Public Service Commission before an electric utility subject to this chapter may retire or permanently shut-down an electric generating plant
HB 2561 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to contract with private providers or contractors for necessary emergency maintenance operations
HB 2577 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education
HB 2739 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise
HB 2836 - Requiring the clerk of a county commission to maintain a county ordinance book
HB 2849 - Creating the West Virginia Sentencing Commission
HB 2970 - Authorizing county commissions and municipalities to cooperate and enter into agreements removing or demolishing dwellings or buildings unfit for human habitation
HB 4025 - Requiring members of the State Board of Education to be physically present in state board meetings
HB 4026 - Limiting terms of citizen members of the School Building Authority
HB 4185 - Establishing the ratio of four pharmacy technicians to every one on-duty pharmacist operating in a pharmacy
HB 4227 - Relating to qualifications of members of the Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board
HB 4230 - Relating to qualifications of members of the Board of Registration For Professional Engineers
HB 4238 - Relating to qualifications of members of the board of Professional Surveyors
HB 4241 - Relating to qualifications of members of the Real Estate Commission
HB 4311 - Relating to qualifications of members of the Board of Landscape Architects
HB 4312 - Relating to qualifications of members of the Board of Accountancy
HB 4313 - Relating to qualifications of members of the Board of Architects
HB 4340 - Amending licensing requirements for an act which may be called Lynette’s Law
HB 4526 - Establishing an advisory council on rare diseases
HB 4544 - Discontinuing the West Virginia Board of Landscape Architects and transferring its duties and authority to the Board of Registration for Professional Engineers
HB 4574 - Terminating the West Virginia Board of Accountancy
HB 4580 - Terminating the State Board of Registration of Foresters
HB 4598 - Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team; and authorizing a Community Health Equity Initiative Demonstration Project
HB 4654 - Relating to the Executive Secretary of the Board of Registered Professional Nurses
HB 4656 - Granting the Finance Division within the Department of Administration supervisory control over the board of Accountancy
HB 4657 - Prohibiting state agencies, boards and commissions from hiring lobbyists
HB 4658 - Relating to the Board of Funeral Service Examiners
HB 4709 - Requiring the Auditor to train members of local instrumentalities of counties and municipalities in appropriate rules of order and the West Virginia Ethics Act

Bonds (2 Bills)
HB 2193 - Providing the Parkways Authority with the power to issue $500 million worth of bonds
HB 2194 - Relating to the School Building Authority

Buildings (2 Bills)
HB 2194 - Relating to the School Building Authority
HB 2488 - Requiring the construction of new public buildings and when an entrance of an existing public building is renovated to be compliant with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act by having automatic doors

Capitol Complex (1 Bills)
HB 2120 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex

Cemeteries (1 Bills)
HB 2122 - Making it illegal for first responders to photograph a corpse; Jonathan's Law

Child Welfare (17 Bills)
HB 2048 - Relating to juvenile proceedings
HB 2173 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2255 - Increasing the felony criminal penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 2257 - Establishing a bill of rights for children in foster care
HB 2258 - "Parents' Bill of Rights"
HB 2264 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents
HB 2366 - Relating generally to the solicitation of minors
HB 2403 - Relating to qualifying children of state employees, receiving income of $25,000 per year or less, for the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program
HB 2429 - Requiring a convicted sex offender who volunteers for an organization whose volunteers have contact with minors to inform that organization of his or her conviction
HB 2436 - Increasing the number of child protective service workers
HB 2455 - 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 2460 - Relating to the effect of adoption on grandparent visitation rights
HB 2501 - Prohibiting sexual offenders from residing within one thousand feet of a school or childcare facility
HB 2556 - Providing medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 2715 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents
HB 2842 - Establishing a four year pilot program to have social workers in public schools, from prekindergarten through the elementary school
HB 2989 - Requiring each judicial circuit to have a court-appointed special advocate program and each county to have a special advocate for children in abuse and neglect proceedings

Civil Rights (4 Bills)
HB 2653 - Prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft
HB 2689 - Repealing the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products
HB 2696 - Relating to investigations of discrimination by the Human Rights Commission
HB 2956 - 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

Civil Service (1 Bills)
HB 2061 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees

Claims (2 Bills)
HB 4366 - Finding and declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state
HB 4647 - Eliminating the requirement that proceedings against the State, a state agency or state officer be brought and prosecuted in the circuit court of Kanawha County

Code Repealed (1 Bills)
HB 2180 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances

Commerce (4 Bills)
HB 2102 - Prohibiting the sale of United States flags or West Virginia flags unless manufactured in the United States
HB 2104 - Terminating the Tax Commissioner's authority to issue business licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2269 - Requiring rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal laws
HB 2852 - Relating to legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks

Compacts (2 Bills)
HB 4375 - Entering reciprocal agreements to recognize hunting, fishing and trapping licenses issued by other states
HB 4449 - Creating the Compact for a Balanced Budget

Constitutional Amendments (2 Bills)
HB 4419 - Exempting any veteran’s primary residence from real property tax
HB 4650 - Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state

Constitutional Officers (1 Bills)
HB 4007 - Relating generally to appointment of attorneys to assist the Attorney General

Consumer Protection (20 Bills)
HB 2063 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2551 - Prohibiting internet service providers from advertising or offering to provide high speed internet service that is not at least ten megabytes per second
HB 2552 - Permitting utility consumers to use the consumer protection laws when concerning billing issues are in question
HB 2660 - Relating to health insurance exchange navigators and nonnavigator assisters
HB 2661 - Providing for the protection and privacy of persons seeking health insurance assisted by navigators and nonnavigator assisters under the federal Affordable Care Act
HB 4205 - Relating to disclaimers and exclusions of warranties in consumer transactions for goods
HB 4234 - Relating to consumer credit and protection
HB 4278 - Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract
HB 4382 - Prohibiting fuel surcharges in certain instances
HB 4417 - Increasing wages protected from garnishment
HB 4420 - Requiring the listing of the ingredients contained in vapor products
HB 4422 - Internet Service Provider Accountability Act
HB 4448 - Clarifying that communication by a lender or debt collector which is allowed under the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act, likewise does not violate the provisions of the West Virginia Computer Crime and Abuse Act
HB 4531 - Requiring hospitals, or other similar institutions, to publish a cost list for the most commonly performed procedures that are billed
HB 4589 - Reauthorizing, with amendment, the legislative rule contained in title twenty-eight, series two of the Code of State Rules relating to the Contractors Licensing Act
HB 4590 - Relating to the requirements for making regulated consumer loans
HB 4593 - Protecting consumers from surprise bills by health care providers
HB 4603 - Replacing the word “unconscionable” with the word “fraudulent”, referring to conduct
HB 4609 - West Virginia Residential Furniture and Children's Products Flame Retardants Act
HB 4649 - Relating to limitations and suits

Contracts (9 Bills)
HB 2028 - Relating generally to purchasing
HB 2041 - Establishing requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals
HB 2054 - Relating to the right of the landlord of commercial premises to terminate the lease under certain circumstances
HB 2199 - Relating to the surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies
HB 2223 - Including consumer credit sales that are secured by a mortgage, deed of trust or other equivalent consensual security interest on a dwelling or residential real estate in the definitions of "primary mortgage loan" and "subordinate mortgage loan"
HB 2241 - Relating to licenses for the business of currency exchange, transportation or transmission
HB 2561 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to contract with private providers or contractors for necessary emergency maintenance operations
HB 2579 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan
HB 2697 - Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract

Corporations (2 Bills)
HB 4502 - Allowing reciprocity agreements with contiguous states to establish regulations, licensing requirements and taxes for small businesses
HB 4621 - Defining unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus

Corporations and Business Entities (3 Bills)
HB 2050 - Relating generally to the accountability of a corporation's political activities
HB 2444 - Providing for the assignment of economic development office representatives to serve as Small Business Allies as facilitators to assist small business entities and individuals
HB 2490 - Establishing a tax credit for new businesses that locate in the state

Corrections (18 Bills)
HB 2137 - Changing the way counties pay for regional jail inmates
HB 2191 - Work/Incarceration Prison pilot program
HB 2245 - Relating to salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2254 - Allowing the Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish a work program
HB 2375 - Providing civil service status for certain employees of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 2396 - Changing the way that the costs of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2406 - Changing the way the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2456 - Changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2473 - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jail fees
HB 2482 - Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to state hospitals
HB 2731 - Increasing salaries and creating longevity pay increases for all employees of the Division of Corrections, the Regional Jail Authority and the Division of Juvenile Services
HB 2869 - Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act
HB 2928 - Allowing inmates to perform the community service of providing upkeep to cemeteries
HB 4385 - Increasing the annual salary of employees of the Division of Corrections
HB 4410 - Establishing an arborists program for inmates
HB 4424 - Eliminating the need for law enforcement to obtain a court order prior to having access to inmate mail and phone recordings
HB 4633 - Requiring the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday
HB 4716 - Requiring community corrections performance measurement standards for agencies responsible for supervising individuals placed on probation

Counties (32 Bills)
HB 2683 - Adding an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Lewis County
HB 2711 - Providing for a scratch-off game to fund a drug treatment facility on post-mine land in Mingo and Logan Counties
HB 2801 - Permitting county commissions and municipalities to designate areas of special interest which will not affect the use of property in those areas
HB 2847 - Permitting sheriffs to hire outside attorneys to assist with collection of taxes
HB 2865 - Providing county commissioners an ongoing mechanism to consider compensation increases for elected officials every two years
HB 2904 - Requiring the clerk of a county commission to maintain a county ordinance book
HB 2906 - Relating to county budget stabilization funds
HB 2969 - Requiring that a county itemize and publish all activity related to budget stabilization funds
HB 4009 - Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act
HB 4019 - Requiring official business and records of the state and its political subdivisions be conducted in English
HB 4199 - Relating to accessible county records
HB 4256 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 4275 - Requiring the Human Rights Commission, when investigating a complaint of discrimination, to specifically include an examination of the intent of the person
HB 4299 - Increasing the amount volunteer fire companies or paid fire departments may charge for reimbursement
HB 4383 - Making individuals responsible for the costs relating to the filing of excessive false complaints
HB 4418 - Requiring funding by the West Virginia Library Commission to local libraries be based on the population served by each respective library
HB 4430 - Eliminating exemption from hotel occupancy taxes on rental of hotel and motel rooms for thirty or more consecutive days
HB 4451 - Relating to public service districts
HB 4472 - Relating to the rule-making authority of local boards of health
HB 4481 - Requiring authorization from the Legislature before submitting an application for an MS-4 permit to the United States Environmental Protection Agency
HB 4484 - County Financial Transparency Act
HB 4488 - Limiting audits of public libraries to a biennial schedule
HB 4501 - Freezing assessments in counties with recent sharp decline in employment
HB 4508 - Prohibiting counties and municipalities from adopting ordinances or regulations that base restrictions on the breed of a dog
HB 4528 - Permitting an all-volunteer fire department to consolidate with certain other fire departments while retaining their rights to receive funds
HB 4587 - Relating to violations associated with absent voters’ ballots
HB 4612 - Relating generally to tax increment financing and economic opportunity development districts
HB 4616 - Permitting county commissions the option of paying the salaries of county officials and their employees on a bi-weekly basis
HB 4664 - Authorizing counties and municipalities to establish a joint airport hazard comprehensive plan
HB 4667 - Creating a State Animal Abuse Registry
HB 4687 - Relating to registration programs by the clerk of the county commission
HB 4709 - Requiring the Auditor to train members of local instrumentalities of counties and municipalities in appropriate rules of order and the West Virginia Ethics Act

Counties (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2577 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education

Counties -- Law Enforcement (1 Bills)
HB 2189 - Permitting counties to adopt certain ordinances relating to dogs and cats

County Officials (4 Bills)
HB 4432 - Clarifying procedures for removal of office of any person holding any county, school district or municipal office
HB 4456 - Establishing the prosecuting attorney Modernization Act
HB 4646 - Authorizing county process servers and court security personnel to carry dangerous and deadly weapons
HB 4675 - Requiring the election of prosecuting attorneys be on a nonpartisan basis

Courts (28 Bills)
HB 2369 - Creating an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County
HB 2380 - Requiring the issuance of a search warrant before a driver of a motor vehicle can be made to submit to a secondary blood test
HB 2494 - Creating a provisional plea process in criminal cases
HB 2584 - Allowing a judge to excuse a potential juror from jury duty until a later date based on seasonal employment
HB 2600 - Fair Trial Act
HB 2683 - Adding an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Lewis County
HB 2703 - Permitting in absentia parole hearings in certain instances
HB 2721 - Specifying who receives notice of parole hearings via regular or certified mail
HB 2781 - Allowing a medical power of attorney representative or surrogate to waive the incapacitated person's right to a trial by jury
HB 2795 - Providing that when a party's health condition is at issue in a civil action, medical records and releases for medical information may be requested and required without court order
HB 2862 - Adding additional magistrate court deputy clerks
HB 2938 - Requiring the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to maintain a searchable, criminal database containing copies of all arrests and convictions by all the courts in the state
HB 2955 - Increasing the hourly rate for attorneys providing Public Defender Services for in court and out of court work
HB 2989 - Requiring each judicial circuit to have a court-appointed special advocate program and each county to have a special advocate for children in abuse and neglect proceedings
HB 2994 - Prohibiting courts from using, implementing, referring to or incorporating a tenet of any body of religious sectarian law into any decision
HB 4042 - Granting judges the discretionary authority to depart from otherwise minimum sentencing requirements
HB 4173 - Permitting judges to defer jury service for an individual for no more than twelve months after the date for which the person is summonsed
HB 4206 - Relating to grand juries
HB 4272 - Relating to Public Defender Services
HB 4361 - Requiring that senior status circuit judges only fill vacancies in districts or counties in which they were not previously elected
HB 4368 - Allowing the use of bailiffs who are not law-enforcement officers
HB 4450 - West Virginia Court Reporter Act of 2016
HB 4533 - The Mental Health and Military Service Members Court Act
HB 4579 - Relating to voter registration list maintenance and the combined voter registration and driver licensing fund
HB 4632 - Providing a six month term for the four new circuit judges
HB 4644 - Relating to jury fees
HB 4711 - Allowing a mother breastfeeding a child to be excused from jury duty
HB 4716 - Requiring community corrections performance measurement standards for agencies responsible for supervising individuals placed on probation

Courts -- Circuit (2 Bills)
HB 2038 - Relating to excuses from jury service
HB 2418 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to reimburse the circuit clerk of the county where involuntary commitment hearings are held for certain expenses

Courts -- Magistrate (1 Bills)
HB 2265 - Increasing the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county

Courts -- Supreme Court (1 Bills)
HB 2048 - Relating to juvenile proceedings

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (4 Bills)
HB 2038 - Relating to excuses from jury service
HB 2197 - Removing the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case coordinators
HB 2480 - Changing the number of strikes in jury selection in felony cases
HB 2481 - Providing forensic evaluators with civil immunity for acts committed by the subject of the evaluation

Creditors and Debtors (1 Bills)
HB 2063 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings

Crime (41 Bills)
HB 4176 - Permitting the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to participate in the addiction treatment pilot program
HB 4178 - Relating to sanctions for recipients of benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
HB 4201 - Increasing the criminal penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture
HB 4240 - Relating to the Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 4251 - Increasing the criminal penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture
HB 4254 - Relating generally to workers’ compensation
HB 4258 - Relating to substance abuse
HB 4260 - Providing private educational facilities authority to determine whether, and under what circumstances, to permit deadly weapons on school premises through written policies
HB 4285 - Making it a misdemeanor for a person to impersonate a veteran
HB 4291 - Increasing penalties for teachers who commit sexual offenses against children
HB 4292 - Increasing criminal incarceration penalties for the transportation of controlled substances into the state
HB 4293 - Relating to the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program database
HB 4297 - Increasing penalties for destruction or theft of election campaign advertising
HB 4306 - Prohibiting persons who have committed crimes against the elderly from performing any court ordered public service involving the elderly
HB 4309 - Increasing criminal penalties for conviction of certain offenses of financial exploitation of an elderly person
HB 4314 - Prohibiting the sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol
HB 4342 - Relating to the purchase of scrap metal
HB 4350 - Creating a domestic violence registry
HB 4362 - Establishing a felony offense of strangulation
HB 4373 - Prohibiting exposing a dog or cat that is a companion animal to extreme weather conditions that results in injury or death
HB 4413 - Relating to the use of drone surveillance of private citizens
HB 4448 - Clarifying that communication by a lender or debt collector which is allowed under the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act, likewise does not violate the provisions of the West Virginia Computer Crime and Abuse Act
HB 4453 - Requiring the State Police to partner with the DNA and Digital Forensics sections of Marshall University Forensic Science Center
HB 4455 - Prohibiting sex offender registrants from having Halloween related contact with children
HB 4458 - Increasing the criminal penalties for participating in an animal fighting venture
HB 4478 - Defining the act of leaving the scene of a crash involving death or serious bodily injury as a felony; Erin's Law
HB 4489 - Relating generally to human trafficking
HB 4503 - Relating to substance abuse while pregnant
HB 4525 - Establishing new procedures for courts with criminal jurisdiction to suspend and revoke driver’s licenses based on D.U.I.
HB 4558 - Relating to victim notification and designation of additional individuals to receive notice of an offender's release
HB 4575 - Creating criminal offenses relating to money laundering
HB 4577 - Creating an additional penalty for use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug offense
HB 4578 - Creating a criminal offense of conspiracy to violate the drug laws
HB 4587 - Relating to violations associated with absent voters’ ballots
HB 4602 - Increasing mandatory minimum sentences for trafficking drugs into the state
HB 4620 - Prohibiting the production, manufacture or possession of fentanyl
HB 4667 - Creating a State Animal Abuse Registry
HB 4671 - Relating to schedule three controlled substances
HB 4673 - Providing for a crime for the theft, damage or release of deer from private game farms
HB 4678 - Relating to penalties incurred from obstructing, fleeing from and making false statements to law-enforcement
HB 4712 - Relating to permitted use and possession of marihuana

Crimes (13 Bills)
HB 2081 - Including journalists as a protected profession within the definition of crimes of violence against certain categories of workers
HB 2130 - Including law-enforcement officers among those professionals the assault or battery of which leads to enhanced criminal penalties
HB 2251 - Making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace
HB 2252 - Relating to replacing the present crime of burglary with the crime of home invasion
HB 2255 - Increasing the felony criminal penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing
HB 2366 - Relating generally to the solicitation of minors
HB 2402 - Creating a criminal felony offense of aggravated assault or battery of a child or a person who is mentally incapacitated
HB 2427 - Increasing penalties for destruction or theft of election campaign advertising
HB 2554 - Relating to protection of utility workers from crimes against the person
HB 2605 - Removing the limitation on actions against the perpetrator of sexual assault or sexual abuse upon a minor
HB 2868 - Making it a felony to knowingly housing drug traffickers
HB 2942 - Modifying the definition of child abuse or neglect to exclude accidental injury
HB 2963 - Expanding the definition of kidnapping

Crimes -- Alcohol and Drugs (2 Bills)
HB 2136 - Increasing criminal penalties for the transportation of controlled substances
HB 2611 - Relating to controlling methamphetamine

Crimes -- Felonies (2 Bills)
HB 2480 - Changing the number of strikes in jury selection in felony cases
HB 2855 - Relating to the death penalty for first degree murder

Crimes -- Juveniles (1 Bills)
HB 2428 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission

Crimes -- Sexual Offenses (4 Bills)
HB 2205 - Creating the crime of prohibited sexual contact by a psychotherapist
HB 2428 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission
HB 2429 - Requiring a convicted sex offender who volunteers for an organization whose volunteers have contact with minors to inform that organization of his or her conviction
HB 2484 - Clarifying the statutory restrictions placed on sex offenders

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (4 Bills)
HB 2122 - Making it illegal for first responders to photograph a corpse; Jonathan's Law
HB 2275 - Increasing criminal penalties for littering
HB 2439 - Creating enhanced criminal penalties for assaults or batteries against pregnant women
HB 2482 - Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to state hospitals

Disabilities (7 Bills)
HB 2024 - Requiring preplanning, preparing and provisioning of public facilities for use as shelters for elderly and disabled during emergency situations
HB 2039 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2073 - Requiring retail establishments offering gasoline or other motor fuel to provide refueling assistance and refueling access to persons with a disability
HB 2463 - Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2464 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2472 - Issuing a special registration plate for persons who are residents of this state and who have a family member diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
HB 2488 - Requiring the construction of new public buildings and when an entrance of an existing public building is renovated to be compliant with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act by having automatic doors

Domestic Relations (13 Bills)
HB 2040 - Adding domestic violence and fraud to the list of crimes for which conviction would bar a person from holding public office
HB 2251 - Making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace
HB 2258 - "Parents' Bill of Rights"
HB 2264 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents
HB 2460 - Relating to the effect of adoption on grandparent visitation rights
HB 2520 - Relating to domestic violence victims' eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits
HB 4180 - Authorizing a family court judge to order substance abuse counseling of a child in emergency situations
HB 4213 - Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act
HB 4237 - Supporting and Strengthening Families Act
HB 4317 - Limiting factors in parenting plans
HB 4318 - Including consideration of the employment or working schedule of a parent as a factor in determining an allocation of custodial responsibility
HB 4459 - Requiring the amount of child support to be paid is effective from the date the petition for the modification was filed
HB 4601 - Providing that the court allocate time equally between parents, unless equal custody is not consistent with the best interest of the child

Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia (9 Bills)
HB 2026 - Allowing terminally ill patients to have access to investigational products that have not been approved by the federal food and drug administration
HB 2174 - Increasing criminal incarceration penalties for the transportation of controlled substances into the state
HB 2180 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2397 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics in this state; providing exceptions
HB 2455 - 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 2529 - Requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to develop a pilot program for the cultivation of marijuana to be sold in states where sales are legal
HB 2925 - Relating to drug testing of legislators
HB 2961 - Relating to abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs
HB 3004 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund

Economic Development (10 Bills)
HB 2176 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail head
HB 2531 - Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act
HB 2580 - Creating the Economic Fairness Act of 2015
HB 2936 - Relating to the West Virginia Economic Development Authority
HB 4214 - Continuing the Office of Coalfield Community Development within the Department of Commerce
HB 4324 - Authorizing information sharing by Workforce West Virginia
HB 4396 - Updating the West Virginia Workforce Investment Act to the West Virginia Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
HB 4440 - Relating to certain post-mining uses of lands subject to surface mining permits
HB 4444 - West Virginia Community Homesteading Act
HB 4682 - The Agriculture and Tourism Incentive Act

Education (27 Bills)
HB 2112 - Providing that school nutrition plans include take home meals for low income students
HB 2123 - Requiring students to attend school until the age of eighteen
HB 2151 - Making the West Virginia state teacher of the year an ex officio, nonvoting member of the West Virginia Board of Education
HB 2163 - Increasing salaries for school service personnel
HB 2164 - Providing pay increases for teachers and counselors
HB 2183 - Relating to salary increase for school personnel
HB 2184 - Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state
HB 2250 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent
HB 2412 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to public and private elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education
HB 2425 - Requiring a test that is identical to the civics portion of the naturalization test in order to graduate from high school or obtain a General Educational Development (GED) diploma
HB 2486 - Relating to school curricular standards and assessments
HB 2499 - Making available elective courses on the history of the old and new testaments of the bible
HB 2522 - Exempting State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation
HB 2582 - Requiring the State Board of Education to cause school buses to be equipped with safety belts
HB 2599 - Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax
HB 2642 - Reducing personnel employed by the West Virginia Department of Education
HB 2725 - Permitting playground facilities to be part of a school construction project
HB 2774 - Relating to public school standards and assessments
HB 2788 - Providing school days to register and transport students to vote
HB 2799 - Requiring all high schools to teach fetal development
HB 2848 - Requiring the Board of Education to implement a comprehensive drug awareness program in grades K through 12
HB 2866 - Establishing legislative findings, providing physical education and physical activity requirements for physical education classes in schools
HB 2870 - Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school
HB 2960 - Permitting county boards of education to develop emergency preparedness drills in schools
HB 2972 - 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
HB 2981 - Relating to purchase of service credit following transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2986 - Increasing pay to teachers

Education (And Related Subheadings) (5 Bills)
HB 2068 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2078 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2082 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2458 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion
HB 2577 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education

Education -- Colleges & Universities (2 Bills)
HB 2270 - Protecting academic freedom in higher education
HB 2579 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan

Education -- Courses, Programs & Testing (2 Bills)
HB 2451 - Providing that recess periods or other such time allocated for student physical activity during the regular class day may not be reduced
HB 2572 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week

Education - Higher (6 Bills)
HB 2412 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to public and private elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education
HB 2446 - Permitting the possession of firearms on the grounds of higher education institutions by all persons with valid licenses
HB 2594 - Requiring that all higher education institutions in the state award credit to transfer students for similar courses completed at a different institution
HB 2617 - Lengthening the residency requirement necessary to be eligible for the PROMISE Scholarship
HB 2622 - Relating to deductions from personal income tax for contributions to state-administered prepaid college tuition contracts or college savings plans
HB 2954 - Expanding the promise scholarship to technical and community college students

Education -- Retirement (3 Bills)
HB 2059 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2154 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2198 - Permitting teachers under the State Teachers Retirement System to teach college level courses without loss of benefits

Education -- Salaries, Classifications, Leave (2 Bills)
HB 2032 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2414 - Permitting a salary increase for certain kindergarten aides and early childhood classroom assistant teachers

Education (And Related Subheadings) (15 Bills)
HB 2020 - Relating to requirements for PROMISE scholarships
HB 2048 - Relating to juvenile proceedings
HB 2077 - Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an elected municipal or county office
HB 2188 - Relating to compulsory school attendance
HB 2194 - Relating to the School Building Authority
HB 2261 - Requiring automated external defibrillators in public schools
HB 2267 - Authorizing a county school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message
HB 2422 - Removing the requirement that home schooled students have to acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for the promise scholarship
HB 2453 - Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans
HB 2465 - Authorizing the election of and specifying qualifications for nonappointed members of the West Virginia Board of Education
HB 2470 - Relating to nursing education faculty
HB 2510 - Relating to school celebrations, recognition programs and events
HB 2572 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week
HB 2672 - Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer and worship
HB 2842 - Establishing a four year pilot program to have social workers in public schools, from prekindergarten through the elementary school

Education (Higher) (16 Bills)
HB 4182 - Prorating additional tuition charges for students taking higher education credit hours per term beyond a certain number
HB 4261 - Prohibiting the sale or transfer of student data to vendors and other profit making entities
HB 4310 - Relating to the West Virginia University Institute of Technology
HB 4322 - Expanding the Learn and Earn Program
HB 4429 - Relating to events involving firearms and ammunition on former National Guard sites
HB 4431 - Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions
HB 4443 - Classifying the Marshall University Forensic Science Center as a criminal justice agency so that it can participate in the National Data Exchange
HB 4524 - Permitting community and technical colleges and universities to charge students half the cost of a credit for every credit taken over the fifteenth hour
HB 4556 - Relating to the PROMISE scholarship program
HB 4581 - Relating to ownership of real property housing BridgeValley Community and Technical College at the West Virginia Education, Research, and Technology Park
HB 4582 - Relating to Bridge Valley Community and Technical College service facility fee assessments
HB 4610 - Abolishing the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education
HB 4611 - Abolishing the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
HB 4617 - Authorizing legislative rules of the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding the Underwood-Smith Teacher Scholarship Program and Nursing Scholarship Program
HB 4635 - Relating to a per-credit-hour tuition for community and technical colleges
HB 4707 - Abolishing the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission

Education (K12) (70 Bills)
HB 4011 - Providing for the authorization and oversight of public charter schools
HB 4014 - Preventing the State Board of Education from implementing common core academic standards and assessments
HB 4018 - Establishing incentives for public schools to make their recreational facilities available for public use outside of school hours
HB 4020 - School Consolidation Task Force
HB 4024 - Prohibiting the use of the Smarter Balanced Assessment
HB 4025 - Requiring members of the State Board of Education to be physically present in state board meetings
HB 4026 - Limiting terms of citizen members of the School Building Authority
HB 4027 - Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel
HB 4028 - Relating to school calendar and school instructional days
HB 4036 - Restoring language that gives preference to currently employed certified professional educators when hiring athletic coaches
HB 4039 - Increasing salaries for teachers
HB 4147 - Making the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind eligible to participate in any and all funding administered or distributed by the West Virginia School Building Authority
HB 4167 - Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed
HB 4171 - Relating to the public school calendar
HB 4175 - Relating generally to home schooling
HB 4194 - Requiring each public high school to offer a course in computer science
HB 4215 - Removing the requirement that a home schooled student must acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for a PROMISE scholarship
HB 4224 - Requiring school restroom facilities to have privacy walls
HB 4242 - Creating income tax credits against personal income tax for educational expenses incurred by parents for a child
HB 4260 - Providing private educational facilities authority to determine whether, and under what circumstances, to permit deadly weapons on school premises through written policies
HB 4261 - Prohibiting the sale or transfer of student data to vendors and other profit making entities
HB 4269 - Relating to public school finance
HB 4281 - Providing that the statewide summative assessment only be administered in grades three through eight and once at the high school level
HB 4291 - Increasing penalties for teachers who commit sexual offenses against children
HB 4295 - Relating to the School Innovation Zones Act
HB 4296 - Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed
HB 4298 - Changing the age effective date of children for whom county boards of education must provide kindergarten programs
HB 4301 - Relating to a framework for initiating comprehensive transformation of school leadership
HB 4303 - Providing a salary increase for special education teachers
HB 4316 - Relating to reimbursement of certification fee for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification
HB 4325 - Requiring promulgation of a rule to provide for payment of tuition by county boards of education to the Mountaineer Challenge Academy
HB 4351 - Transferring the Cedar Lakes Camp and Conference Center from the West Virginia Board of Education to the Department of Agriculture
HB 4384 - Permitting students to opt out of taking certain academic assessments
HB 4397 - Exempting certain child care facilities from licensure, certification, approval and registration requirements
HB 4403 - Relating to school calendar
HB 4405 - West Virginia Educational Restoration Act
HB 4409 - Requiring in-service training programs in the use of the Heimlich maneuver and response to choking emergencies for all school personnel in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and elementary schools
HB 4432 - Clarifying procedures for removal of office of any person holding any county, school district or municipal office
HB 4445 - Relating to the adoption of instructional educational resources
HB 4446 - Increasing teacher salaries
HB 4447 - Granting a local school improvement council waiver for the purpose of increasing the compulsory school attendance age in Marshall County
HB 4461 - Relating to School Building Authority School Major Improvement Fund eligibility
HB 4465 - Relating to salary equity among school systems
HB 4466 - Relating to public school support
HB 4467 - Including financial aid planning and completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in secondary school instruction in personal finance
HB 4469 - Providing a free lunch to all employees in a school building
HB 4482 - Relating to excused absences for personal illness from school
HB 4492 - Establishing a mandatory course of instruction in firearm safety for high school students
HB 4514 - Reducing the number of pupils per school nurses
HB 4522 - Relating to basic state aid to public education
HB 4535 - Extending the length of time for the special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth
HB 4549 - Requiring that four members of the State Board of Education be elected on a nonpartisan basis
HB 4566 - Relating to school personnel
HB 4572 - Excepting specialized contract instructors from the definition of teacher
HB 4588 - Requiring the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission adopt certain safety standards for youth lacrosse
HB 4595 - Developing a county plan to use funds designated for the support of isolated schools
HB 4627 - Creating a digital learning pilot project
HB 4628 - Requiring county boards of education to conduct regular structural inspections of school facilities and structures
HB 4638 - Relating to truancy intervention
HB 4640 - Providing a tax credit for a taxpayer educating a student in a private or home school
HB 4643 - Eliminating requirements that state provide for professional training and development of teachers
HB 4669 - Redirecting certain funds of the West Virginia Department of Education
HB 4670 - Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services to promote better student school attendance
HB 4686 - Prohibiting the State Board of Education from adopting new Common Core academic content standards
HB 4688 - Relating to basic state aid to public education
HB 4694 - Permitting nonprofessional personnel to be hired as athletic coaches in certain circumstances
HB 4703 - Reclassifying Early Childhood Classroom Assistant Teacher I, II and III positions as Aide V, Aide VI and Aide VII positions
HB 4719 - Allowing employees with an NAPT certification to be eligible for transportation management positions
HB 4722 - Codifying the West Virginia Procedures Manual for the Education of Students with Exceptionalities
HB 4723 - Creating a program of instruction for students in workforce preparedness to be added to the curriculum of courses in secondary schools

Education--Facilities (1 Bills)
HB 2428 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission

Elected Officials (5 Bills)
HB 2040 - Adding domestic violence and fraud to the list of crimes for which conviction would bar a person from holding public office
HB 2077 - Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an elected municipal or county office
HB 2235 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2839 - Eliminating late fees charged by the Secretary of State
HB 2865 - Providing county commissioners an ongoing mechanism to consider compensation increases for elected officials every two years

Elections (28 Bills)
HB 2040 - Adding domestic violence and fraud to the list of crimes for which conviction would bar a person from holding public office
HB 2247 - Prohibiting a chief deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities
HB 2465 - Authorizing the election of and specifying qualifications for nonappointed members of the West Virginia Board of Education
HB 2483 - Requiring the three commissioners of the Public Service Commission be elected from the three congressional districts for six-year terms
HB 2588 - Relating to the filing of financial statements with the Secretary of State
HB 2602 - Requiring a voter to present an identifying document issued by the State of West Virginia or a United States military identification card that contains the name, address and a photograph of the person desiring to vote
HB 2624 - Relating to voter registration photo cards
HB 2628 - Changing the date of filing announcements of candidacies
HB 2694 - Requiring all local special elections to be held on the days and hours of general or primary elections
HB 2788 - Providing school days to register and transport students to vote
HB 2808 - Providing that members of the House of Delegates in districts having more than one delegate be elected from numbered divisions
HB 4013 - Requiring a person desiring to vote to present documentation identifying the voter
HB 4233 - Reducing the age from eighteen years to sixteen years of persons permitted to register to vote
HB 4276 - Requiring all local special elections to be held on the days and hours of general, primary or state-wide elections
HB 4356 - Allowing a group of affiliated voters to become a recognized political party under certain criteria
HB 4381 - Requiring campaign finance statements by all candidates for circuit or family court judge to be filed with the Secretary of State
HB 4401 - Providing that any person with a West Virginia driver’s license or an official identification card is automatically registered to vote
HB 4477 - Expanding the definition of political party
HB 4493 - Relating to voter registration in conjunction with issuance, renewal or change of address of driver license
HB 4499 - Relating to certain persons who have been disqualified or excused from jury service
HB 4527 - Reporting and disclosure requirements relating to election campaign contributions and spending
HB 4569 - Relating to appointment of, conduct of and training of poll watchers
HB 4579 - Relating to voter registration list maintenance and the combined voter registration and driver licensing fund
HB 4587 - Relating to violations associated with absent voters’ ballots
HB 4675 - Requiring the election of prosecuting attorneys be on a nonpartisan basis
HB 4676 - Relating to the nonpartisan election of prosecuting attorneys generally
HB 4687 - Relating to registration programs by the clerk of the county commission
HB 4708 - Relating to additional duties for the Secretary of State relating to voter registration

Emergency Services (2 Bills)
HB 2024 - Requiring preplanning, preparing and provisioning of public facilities for use as shelters for elderly and disabled during emergency situations
HB 2971 - Continuing the Office of Emergency Medical Services as an independent office within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety

Employment (2 Bills)
HB 2041 - Establishing requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals
HB 2052 - Relating to the labor-management relations act for the private sector

Energy (7 Bills)
HB 2062 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
HB 3005 - Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling
HB 3013 - Relating generally to horizontal well control standards
HB 4210 - Relating to coal severance tax
HB 4440 - Relating to certain post-mining uses of lands subject to surface mining permits
HB 4634 - Coal Jobs and Revenue Stabilization Act
HB 4684 - Authorizing local units of government to adopt local energy efficiency partnership programs

Environment (4 Bills)
HB 4179 - Removing televisions from definition of covered electronic items
HB 4212 - Regulating wood burning appliances is subject to the approval of the Legislature
HB 4540 - Removing prohibition of disposal of certain electronics in landfills
HB 4573 - Exempting the Department of Environmental Protection’s construction or reclamation contracts from the review and approval requirements of the Division of Purchasing

Environmental Protection (4 Bills)
HB 2042 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
HB 2119 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2269 - Requiring rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal laws
HB 2275 - Increasing criminal penalties for littering

Estates and Trusts (4 Bills)
HB 4235 - Relating to the publication requirements of the administration of estates
HB 4308 - Barring persons who are convicted of certain criminal offenses from acquiring property from their victims
HB 4378 - Relating to access to and receipt of certain information regarding a protected person by certain relatives of the protected person
HB 4400 - Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act

Ethics (7 Bills)
HB 2028 - Relating generally to purchasing
HB 2050 - Relating generally to the accountability of a corporation's political activities
HB 2235 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 4001 - Relating to candidates or candidate committees for legislative office disclosing contributions
HB 4604 - Relating to violations of the Ethics Act
HB 4606 - Relating to the recusal of certain public officials from voting for appropriation of moneys to nonprofit entities
HB 4657 - Prohibiting state agencies, boards and commissions from hiring lobbyists

Finance and Administration (18 Bills)
HB 4225 - Relating to patriotic displays at public buildings
HB 4262 - Requiring that three parking spaces in the West Virginia Culture Center parking lot be designated for use by Purple Heart Medal recipients
HB 4282 - Reorganizing certain code provisions that organize the executive branch of state government
HB 4341 - West Virginia Monument and Memorial Protection Act of 2016
HB 4345 - Repealing the West Virginia Permitting and Licensing Information Act
HB 4371 - Abolishing the Council of Finance and Administration
HB 4379 - Allowing a voluntary donation of refunds for overpayment of fees to the Secretary of State’s office to the West Virginia Children’s Trust Fund
HB 4414 - Requiring disclosure of accounts by members of the Board of Public Works to the Legislature
HB 4468 - Requiring every state agency to submit a report to the Legislature containing a detailed inventory of all property
HB 4510 - Requiring a structural engineering inspection of any building prior to purchase by the state
HB 4511 - Limiting the authority of the Department of Administration’s purchase of real property until it has submitted a report to the Legislature
HB 4513 - Requiring a cost-benefit analysis to be performed before the state purchases certain real estate
HB 4516 - Defining what constitutes capitol dome and capitol improvements
HB 4546 - Requiring all higher education institutions to use statewide contracts issued by the Purchasing Division
HB 4605 - Prohibiting contracting with a state agency unless business entity submits disclosure of interested parties
HB 4624 - Relating to information technology projects under the Office of Technology
HB 4656 - Granting the Finance Division within the Department of Administration supervisory control over the board of Accountancy
HB 4657 - Prohibiting state agencies, boards and commissions from hiring lobbyists

Fire Fighting and Prevention (5 Bills)
HB 2070 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2426 - Relating to the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund
HB 2532 - Reducing federal adjusted gross income for volunteer fire department and rescue squad members
HB 2647 - Allowing an employer to extend workers' compensation insurance coverage to an employee engaged in volunteer fire fighting and allowing employers a tax credit
HB 2659 - Providing that paid county or municipal fire departments and duly incorporated volunteer fire departments pay reduced workers' compensation premiums when not actively engaged in fire fighting

Firearms (8 Bills)
HB 2109 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act
HB 2120 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex
HB 2178 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting
HB 2446 - Permitting the possession of firearms on the grounds of higher education institutions by all persons with valid licenses
HB 2619 - Clarifying when a chief law-enforcement officer is required to certify the transfer or making of certain firearms
HB 2756 - Authorizing appointees or employees of the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to carry concealed handguns
HB 2951 - Recognizing those in active military service as residents for the purpose of obtaining concealed carry permits while stationed at a West Virginia military installation
HB 3002 - Making all future federal and local statutes, ordinances, laws, orders and rules concerning firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition and their accouterments invalid and unenforceable

Food and Food Services (5 Bills)
HB 2029 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2262 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2859 - Exempting certain food establishments from inspection
HB 3000 - Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit
HB 3007 - Exempting from food related laws or rules for certain individually produced agricultural products

Fuel (2 Bills)
HB 2073 - Requiring retail establishments offering gasoline or other motor fuel to provide refueling assistance and refueling access to persons with a disability
HB 2192 - Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax

Funds (18 Bills)
HB 2256 - Prohibiting state funding of abortions
HB 2404 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy
HB 2406 - Changing the way the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected
HB 2426 - Relating to the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund
HB 2435 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees
HB 2468 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2485 - Relating to the West Virginia Future Fund
HB 2514 - Creating a Bureau of Actuarial Services within the office of the Legislative Auditor
HB 2530 - Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund
HB 2656 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game
HB 2711 - Providing for a scratch-off game to fund a drug treatment facility on post-mine land in Mingo and Logan Counties
HB 2718 - Transferring funds remaining in the Racetrack Modernization Fund to the State Road Fund and closing the Racetrack Modernization Fund
HB 2821 - Implementing a surcharge on licensed exotic entertainment facilities and adult bookstores to provide funding for rape information and prevention services and rape crisis centers
HB 2906 - Relating to county budget stabilization funds
HB 2937 - Designating 5 million dollars per year for 4 years from beer, wine, and liquor tax revenue to the Fight Substance Abuse Fund
HB 2969 - Requiring that a county itemize and publish all activity related to budget stabilization funds
HB 2996 - Prohibiting public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion
HB 3004 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund

Gaming Activities (6 Bills)
HB 2175 - Increasing criminal penalties for the illegal killing, taking, or possessing of certain wildlife
HB 2190 - Removing limitations on advertising and promotional activities by limited video lottery retailers
HB 2214 - Permitting the resident lineal descendants of landowners to hunt, trap or fish on that resident landowner's property without a license
HB 2656 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game
HB 2671 - Establishing the state parks instant lottery scratch-off game
HB 2730 - Updating unlawful methods of bear hunting and clarifying the process for bear damage claims

Governmental Agencies (9 Bills)
HB 2101 - Eliminating obsolete government entities
HB 2121 - Establishing a policy for formal recognition of Indian tribes
HB 2129 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years
HB 2206 - Repealing the requirement of paying prevailing hourly rate of wages for construction of public improvements
HB 2235 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2393 - Requiring recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be issued a photo identification card
HB 2452 - Requiring reports to the Governor from state agencies to be made available electronically via the internet
HB 2514 - Creating a Bureau of Actuarial Services within the office of the Legislative Auditor
HB 2839 - Eliminating late fees charged by the Secretary of State

Governor (1 Bills)
HB 2259 - Relating to the Governor filling vacancies on professional boards

Governor -- Bills Requested By (36 Bills)
HB 2009 - Allowing State Police, police, sheriffs and fire and emergency service personnel to possess naloxone or other approved opioid antagonist
HB 4017 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution
HB 4030 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 4032 - Self-Employment Assistance Act
HB 4149 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services
HB 4150 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4151 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education
HB 4152 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Environmental Protection – Protect Our Water Fund
HB 4153 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health, and the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services
HB 4154 - Making a supplementary appropriation of public to the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services
HB 4155 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health – West Virginia Birth-to-Three Fund, and the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services - Medical Services Trust Fund
HB 4156 - Transferring funds from the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, to the Department of Revenue, Lottery Commission, Distributions to Statutory Funds and Purposes
HB 4157 - Supplementing, amending, and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the State Road Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways
HB 4158 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce, WorkForce West Virginia – Workforce Investment Act
HB 4159 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Public Services Commission – Motor Carrier Division
HB 4160 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Revenue, Tax Division
HB 4214 - Continuing the Office of Coalfield Community Development within the Department of Commerce
HB 4216 - Exempting community-based behavioral health facilities, programs or services from the certificate of need process
HB 4217 - Reducing the distributions to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund
HB 4220 - Imposing the consumers sales and service tax and use tax on sales of telecommunications service and ancillary services
HB 4229 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Bureau of Senior Services
HB 4268 - Relating to dedication of severance tax proceeds to the West Virginia Infrastructure General Obligation Debt Service Fund
HB 4269 - Relating to public school finance
HB 4270 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
HB 4271 - Ending discretionary transfers to the Licensed Racetrack Modernization Fund
HB 4293 - Relating to the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program database
HB 4295 - Relating to the School Innovation Zones Act
HB 4304 - Relating to the allocation of premiums for employers and employees in the Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 4305 - Authorizing transportation network companies to operate in the state
HB 4315 - Relating to air-ambulance fees for emergency treatment or air transportation
HB 4322 - Expanding the Learn and Earn Program
HB 4323 - Relating to the reporting of emergency incidents by well operators and pipeline operators
HB 4324 - Authorizing information sharing by Workforce West Virginia
HB 4325 - Requiring promulgation of a rule to provide for payment of tuition by county boards of education to the Mountaineer Challenge Academy
HB 4335 - Authorizing a pharmacist or pharmacy intern to dispense, pursuant to a protocol, an opioid antagonist without a prescription
HB 4683 - West Virginia Second Chance Driver’s License Act

Hazardous Materials (2 Bills)
HB 2802 - Relating to public sewage services
HB 2979 - Clarifying that the county or regional solid waste authority that may impose and collect an additional solid waste assessment fee is the county or region where the waste originates

Health (59 Bills)
HB 2009 - Allowing State Police, police, sheriffs and fire and emergency service personnel to possess naloxone or other approved opioid antagonist
HB 2026 - Allowing terminally ill patients to have access to investigational products that have not been approved by the federal food and drug administration
HB 2269 - Requiring rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal laws
HB 2373 - Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics; providing exceptions
HB 2390 - Relating to public health
HB 2393 - Requiring recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be issued a photo identification card
HB 2397 - Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics in this state; providing exceptions
HB 2511 - Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act
HB 2711 - Providing for a scratch-off game to fund a drug treatment facility on post-mine land in Mingo and Logan Counties
HB 2825 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to review rates it pays to care providers and to increase direct care rates
HB 2869 - Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act
HB 2920 - Vesting the Public Employees Insurance Agency with the authority to negotiate and executing all health care and ancillary contracts for the Medicaid program
HB 2924 - Directing the Health Care Authority to establish a council to investigate and recommend to the authority pricing guides for pharmaceuticals that exclude advertising costs
HB 4004 - Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act
HB 4034 - Relating to abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs
HB 4035 - Permitting pharmacists to furnish naloxone hydrochloride
HB 4038 - Relating to insurance requirements for the refilling of topical eye medication
HB 4166 - Relating to health insurance coverage for prescribed medications
HB 4177 - Exempting drug rehabilitation facilities from certificate of need requirements
HB 4183 - Relating generally to reporting opioid overdoses
HB 4221 - Relating to the administration of an opioid antagonist
HB 4243 - Extending the time that certain nonprofit community groups are exempt from the moratorium on creating new nursing home beds
HB 4248 - Relating to methadone regulation
HB 4249 - Creating the Commission to Accelerate Statewide Coordination of Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents
HB 4259 - Relating to the regulation of vapor products
HB 4335 - Authorizing a pharmacist or pharmacy intern to dispense, pursuant to a protocol, an opioid antagonist without a prescription
HB 4344 - Establishing local needle exchange programs
HB 4353 - Relating to testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases
HB 4358 - Relating to out of state physicians and surgeons traveling with sports teams within this state
HB 4365 - Relating to the certificate of need process
HB 4380 - Adding the spouse of an indigent person as a possible individual who may be liable for the funeral service expenses
HB 4386 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to be notified of hearings involving criminal defendants to be placed in state inpatient mental health facilities
HB 4388 - Relating to stroke centers
HB 4395 - Relating to the licensing and regulation of medication-assisted treatment programs for substance use disorders
HB 4399 - Permitting pharmacists to furnish naloxone hydrochloride in accordance with standardized procedures
HB 4412 - Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 4423 - Requiring various professionals who provide mental health-related services complete a minimum number of fifteen contact hours of course work in suicide assessment, treatment and management before that person may be issued a license
HB 4425 - Modifying the definition of “accrued benefit” by increasing the retirement benefit multiplier for certain EMSRS members
HB 4438 - Relating to the involuntary examination of individuals experiencing a psychiatric emergency or mental illness
HB 4441 - Prohibiting the sale of paraphernalia designed or marketed for use with controlled substances
HB 4463 - Permitting the practice of telemedicine
HB 4470 - Expanding newborn testing to include Adrenoleukodystrophy
HB 4471 - Clarifying the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Public Health as it relates to administration of local boards of health
HB 4472 - Relating to the rule-making authority of local boards of health
HB 4475 - Removing the certificate of need exemption for an ambulatory health care facility located in the same zip code as certain hospitals
HB 4480 - The Ryan Brown Addiction Treatment Act
HB 4509 - Raising the legal age for purchase of tobacco and tobacco products
HB 4520 - Clarifying that certain hospitals have only one governing body whose meetings shall be open to the public
HB 4526 - Establishing an advisory council on rare diseases
HB 4531 - Requiring hospitals, or other similar institutions, to publish a cost list for the most commonly performed procedures that are billed
HB 4533 - The Mental Health and Military Service Members Court Act
HB 4537 - Relating to the regulation of chronic pain clinics
HB 4545 - Relating to regulation of pharmacy benefits managers
HB 4553 - Relating to the West Virginia Health Care Authority
HB 4659 - Authorizing local health departments to bill health insurance plans for services
HB 4663 - Establishing an on-call center for state residents to receive assistance with healthcare
HB 4680 - Creating a medical exemption to criminal laws against marijuana use and possession
HB 4704 - Operating and maintaining a fully interoperable statewide network to facilitate public and private use of health care information in the state
HB 4713 - Authorizing the medical use of cannabis based pharmaceutical products

Health (And Related Subheadings) (2 Bills)
HB 2031 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus
HB 2455 - 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 -- Insurance (1 Bills)
HB 2660 - Relating to health insurance exchange navigators and nonnavigator assisters

Health -- Personnel (4 Bills)
HB 2419 - Adding fifty new positions to the staff at the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital
HB 2436 - Increasing the number of child protective service workers
HB 2450 - Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses and certified nurse-midwives
HB 2470 - Relating to nursing education faculty

Health (And Related Subheadings) (4 Bills)
HB 2205 - Creating the crime of prohibited sexual contact by a psychotherapist
HB 2261 - Requiring automated external defibrillators in public schools
HB 2418 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to reimburse the circuit clerk of the county where involuntary commitment hearings are held for certain expenses
HB 2487 - Requiring a person restraining a mentally ill or mentally challenged person in a "four point restraint" to administer sedation by injection at the time the patient is secured

Health--Mental (1 Bills)
HB 2487 - Requiring a person restraining a mentally ill or mentally challenged person in a "four point restraint" to administer sedation by injection at the time the patient is secured

Holidays (1 Bills)
HB 2250 - Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent

Homeland Security (1 Bills)
HB 2410 - Improving state emergency preparedness

Human Rights (8 Bills)
HB 4004 - Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act
HB 4012 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
HB 4275 - Requiring the Human Rights Commission, when investigating a complaint of discrimination, to specifically include an examination of the intent of the person
HB 4328 - Relating to the “Equal Pay Act of 2016”
HB 4343 - Youth Mental Health Protection Act
HB 4363 - The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act
HB 4404 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation
HB 4485 - Deaf Children’s Bill of Rights Act

Human Services (21 Bills)
HB 2147 - Requiring the circuit court, when appointing counsel for alleged protected persons, to make appointments from a listing of all interested attorneys in the circuit
HB 2203 - Redefining the parameters for the offense of human trafficking
HB 2436 - Increasing the number of child protective service workers
HB 2553 - Relating to human trafficking
HB 2724 - Requiring benefit access devices to benefits provided by the Department of Human Services, to have a photograph of the person to whom a device was issued
HB 4010 - Requiring drug screening and testing of applicants for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
HB 4021 - Limiting able-bodied adults without dependents receipt of SNAP benefits
HB 4041 - Limiting able-bodied adults without dependents receipt of SNAP benefits to three months in a thirty-six month period
HB 4044 - Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund Act
HB 4178 - Relating to sanctions for recipients of benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
HB 4216 - Exempting community-based behavioral health facilities, programs or services from the certificate of need process
HB 4338 - Relating to the state’s Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Intellectual/Developmental Disability Waiver
HB 4347 - Providing pregnant women priority to substance abuse treatment
HB 4352 - Relating to the selling of certain state owned health care facilities by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4355 - Requiring the Bureau of Medical Services to request certain waivers from the Center from Medicaid and Medicare Services
HB 4454 - Welfare Fraud Prevention Act
HB 4535 - Extending the length of time for the special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth
HB 4591 - Continuing the state’s bundled service funding and reimbursement program for residential treatment of at-risk children
HB 4614 - Relating to the medical loss ratio contained in any Medicaid managed care contract
HB 4661 - Relating to child welfare
HB 4697 - Relating to the right of the Department of Health and Human Resources to subrogation for third-party liability settlements, by recipients who receive assistance under the Medicaid Program

Infrastructure (3 Bills)
HB 2206 - Repealing the requirement of paying prevailing hourly rate of wages for construction of public improvements
HB 2864 - Relating to the transfer of certain revenues derived from lottery activities generally, restoring distribution to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund to 2013 rates and decreasing the funds available for grants therefrom
HB 3000 - Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit

Insurance (20 Bills)
HB 4023 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products
HB 4040 - Regulating step therapy protocols in health benefit plans
HB 4043 - Adjusting the risk-based capital trend test for life and health insurers
HB 4144 - Relating to risk based capital reporting for health organizations
HB 4166 - Relating to health insurance coverage for prescribed medications
HB 4253 - Relating to mine subsidence insurance
HB 4254 - Relating generally to workers’ compensation
HB 4257 - Prohibiting use of a person's credit history in certain insurance transactions
HB 4286 - Relating to the scope and application of the Unfair Trade Practices Act
HB 4315 - Relating to air-ambulance fees for emergency treatment or air transportation
HB 4332 - Requiring licensees authorized to serve alcoholic liquors or nonintoxicating beer to have certain liability insurance coverage
HB 4376 - Requiring automobile liability insurance providers must give a policyholder a ten day notice of an intent to cancel for nonpayment of premium
HB 4408 - Prohibiting certain civil actions against company adjusters
HB 4464 - Guaranteed Asset Protection Waiver Act
HB 4543 - Relating to willful misrepresentation to gain benefits or payment under the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 4547 - Providing for the merger of the purposes and provisions of the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund
HB 4551 - Clarifying that the plans established and administered by the Public Employees Insurance Agency are exempt from regulation by the Insurance Commissioner, unless specifically stated otherwise
HB 4637 - Relating to requiring insurers of policies providing for payments on death of a named insured to review databases
HB 4655 - Prohibiting insurers, vision care plan or vision care discount plans from requiring vision care providers to provide discounts on noncovered services or materials
HB 4695 - Establishing a temporary maximum contribution rate to the Public Employees Insurance Agency

Insurance -- Health (10 Bills)
HB 2173 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2244 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2383 - Freezing PEIA employee premiums for three years
HB 2398 - Prohibiting the number of inquiries reflected in a credit report, credit score report or CLUE report from adversely affecting an application for insurance
HB 2403 - Relating to qualifying children of state employees, receiving income of $25,000 per year or less, for the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program
HB 2440 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions
HB 2454 - Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act
HB 2518 - Requiring insurers issuing group accident and sickness insurance policies to certain employers to furnish claims loss experience to policyholders
HB 2661 - Providing for the protection and privacy of persons seeking health insurance assisted by navigators and nonnavigator assisters under the federal Affordable Care Act
HB 2920 - Vesting the Public Employees Insurance Agency with the authority to negotiate and executing all health care and ancillary contracts for the Medicaid program

Insurance -- Motor Vehicles (1 Bills)
HB 2398 - Prohibiting the number of inquiries reflected in a credit report, credit score report or CLUE report from adversely affecting an application for insurance

Insurance (And Related Subheadings) (2 Bills)
HB 2063 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings
HB 2096 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers

Investments (2 Bills)
HB 2080 - Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
HB 2110 - Relating generally to the tax treatment of manufacturing entities

Juveniles (6 Bills)
HB 4180 - Authorizing a family court judge to order substance abuse counseling of a child in emergency situations
HB 4237 - Supporting and Strengthening Families Act
HB 4249 - Creating the Commission to Accelerate Statewide Coordination of Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents
HB 4263 - Relating to the juvenile justice reform oversight committee
HB 4521 - Modifying the requirements that allow a child witness to testify by closed circuit television
HB 4661 - Relating to child welfare

Labor (15 Bills)
HB 2041 - Establishing requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals
HB 2052 - Relating to the labor-management relations act for the private sector
HB 2096 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers
HB 2643 - Establishing the West Virginia Right to Work Law
HB 4005 - Repealing prevailing hourly rate of wages requirements
HB 4006 - West Virginia Workplace Freedom Act
HB 4268 - Relating to dedication of severance tax proceeds to the West Virginia Infrastructure General Obligation Debt Service Fund
HB 4277 - Repealing provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products
HB 4364 - Internet Privacy Protection Act
HB 4374 - Providing for security of private, employer-sponsored insurance and/or retirement plans
HB 4490 - Relating to requirements by which an employee can authorize deductions from his or her wages
HB 4496 - Permitting contractors to perform work on a construction project without having a contractor’s license under certain circumstances
HB 4538 - Relating to cooperative extension workers
HB 4589 - Reauthorizing, with amendment, the legislative rule contained in title twenty-eight, series two of the Code of State Rules relating to the Contractors Licensing Act
HB 4666 - Ban-the-Box Act

Law Enforcement (10 Bills)
HB 2009 - Allowing State Police, police, sheriffs and fire and emergency service personnel to possess naloxone or other approved opioid antagonist
HB 2130 - Including law-enforcement officers among those professionals the assault or battery of which leads to enhanced criminal penalties
HB 2380 - Requiring the issuance of a search warrant before a driver of a motor vehicle can be made to submit to a secondary blood test
HB 2459 - Requiring state agencies to issue photographic identification cards to qualified retired law-enforcement officers
HB 2479 - Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs
HB 2548 - Authorizing incorporated Class IV municipalities to enforce speed limits by use of any device designed to measure and indicate or record speed by means of microwaves or reflected light
HB 2619 - Clarifying when a chief law-enforcement officer is required to certify the transfer or making of certain firearms
HB 2800 - Adding law-enforcement officers' contact information and names of family members to the list of exemptions from public records requests
HB 2845 - Requiring persons who are in the business of purchasing precious metals and precious gems to photograph those purchases and to transmit the photographs to law-enforcement
HB 2899 - Relating to career progression of members of the State Police

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2813 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate

Law Enforcement -- County/Municipal (1 Bills)
HB 2247 - Prohibiting a chief deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities

Law Enforcement -- State Police (3 Bills)
HB 2057 - 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
HB 2074 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers
HB 2075 - 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

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2555 - Forfeiture Reporting Act

Legal Gaming (8 Bills)
HB 4217 - Reducing the distributions to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund
HB 4271 - Ending discretionary transfers to the Licensed Racetrack Modernization Fund
HB 4300 - Relating to changes in distribution of net terminal income, excess net terminal income and excess lottery fund
HB 4505 - Allowing powerball winners to remain anonymous
HB 4523 - Permitting licensed limited video lottery retailers to have up to seven video lottery terminals
HB 4583 - Relating to fantasy games
HB 4702 - Eliminating the hotel-motel tax on complementary hotel rooms
HB 4710 - Eliminating the West Virginia Greyhound Breeding Development Fund and transferring that money and future money that would have gone to that fund one-half to the Public Employees Insurance Agency

Legislature (15 Bills)
HB 2129 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years
HB 2222 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature
HB 2235 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2424 - Providing a procedure for West Virginia to select delegates to an Article V convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America
HB 2747 - Prohibiting the expenditures for meals and beverages for members of the Legislature and their staff by lobbyists
HB 4001 - Relating to candidates or candidate committees for legislative office disclosing contributions
HB 4207 - Relating to the ability of the Commission on Special Investigations to obtain information
HB 4208 - Removing the requirement that the Joint Committee on Government and Finance approve expenses of the Commission on Special Investigations
HB 4289 - Relating to grand juries
HB 4302 - Relating to the Commission on Special Investigations
HB 4337 - Requiring the General Services Division to provide former Legislators with access cards to the State Capitol building
HB 4348 - Decreasing the basic compensation paid to members of the Legislature and salaries paid to other state officers by five percent
HB 4407 - Allowing certain officers to bring firearms into the legislative chambers if they have a concealed weapons permit
HB 4630 - Prohibiting lobbyists and members of their immediate family from contributing funds, either directly or indirectly, to individuals running for election to either the executive or legislative branches of state government
HB 4657 - Prohibiting state agencies, boards and commissions from hiring lobbyists

Levies (2 Bills)
HB 2029 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2262 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants

Liability (1 Bills)
HB 2481 - Providing forensic evaluators with civil immunity for acts committed by the subject of the evaluation

Libraries (3 Bills)
HB 2082 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
HB 2530 - Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund
HB 2919 - Requiring the Library Commission to survey the libraries of the state and develop a ten year plan for construction and maintenance of public libraries

Licenses (6 Bills)
HB 2018 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents
HB 2030 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2180 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2195 - Making changes to the definition of electrical contractor
HB 2466 - Exempting valid nonprofit organizations from licensing requirements of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority during certain events
HB 2578 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting

Liens (1 Bills)
HB 2820 - Relating to affirmative defenses against mechanics' liens

Local and Special Laws (2 Bills)
HB 4246 - Changing the Martinsburg Public Library to the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library
HB 4554 - Allowing an increase of gross weight limitations on certain roads in Greenbrier County

Magistrates (1 Bills)
HB 4700 - Clarifying the prohibition of a magistrate assistant being a member of the immediate family of a magistrate

Military Affairs (14 Bills)
HB 2049 - Requiring the Parkways Authority to provide free daily toll passes for veterans under certain circumstances
HB 2135 - Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses
HB 2168 - Requiring an official declaration of war or an action to call forth the West Virginia National Guard by the United States Congress
HB 2244 - Providing state health care services for all active and inactive duty military personnel
HB 2374 - Providing benefits for those who have served in the military service
HB 2399 - Exempting all veterans of the Armed Forces or any reserve component thereof from having to obtain a hunting, trapping fishing license
HB 2415 - Removing the armed conflict requirement before state employees may receive credit for time served in the Armed Forces
HB 2421 - Retaining jobs for certain disabled veterans seeking or receiving treatment for active duty service-connected injury
HB 2453 - Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans
HB 2464 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times
HB 2597 - Exempting all monetary benefits derived from military retirement from personal income tax obligations
HB 2775 - Relating to salary increase for Veteran's Service Officer 1 and Veteran's Service Officer 2 positions
HB 2951 - Recognizing those in active military service as residents for the purpose of obtaining concealed carry permits while stationed at a West Virginia military installation
HB 2971 - Continuing the Office of Emergency Medical Services as an independent office within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety

Military and Veterans (8 Bills)
HB 4284 - Relating to the issuance, expiration and renewal of driver’s license
HB 4285 - Making it a misdemeanor for a person to impersonate a veteran
HB 4287 - Providing for the awarding of a West Virginia veterans’ service pin and a West Virginia Service Cross and ribbon to qualifying West Virginia veterans
HB 4319 - Including in the definition of “veteran” active members of the Guard and Reserve in order to exempt them from fees charged by the Secretary of State
HB 4398 - Exempting residents honorably discharged from the Armed Forces from the requirement of obtaining a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 4419 - Exempting any veteran’s primary residence from real property tax
HB 4507 - Providing an employer may grant preference in hiring to a veteran or disabled veteran
HB 4677 - Providing accessible parking spaces for Purple Heart recipients

Mines and Minerals (5 Bills)
HB 2062 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
HB 2119 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act
HB 2394 - Repealing the additional tax on the privilege of severing coal
HB 2528 - Providing scholarships for certain former coal miners
HB 2987 - Relating to mine safety

Miscellaneous (11 Bills)
HB 2573 - Establishing the English language to be the official language of the state
HB 2646 - Legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks
HB 2682 - Relating to donations of overpayment of fees to the Secretary of State
HB 2787 - Relating to hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings
HB 2809 - Creating a preference for certain limited video lottery current permit holders in bid process
HB 2918 - Relating to delinquency charges on loans
HB 2921 - Eliminating the courtesy patrol program
HB 2993 - Relating to pay on promotion of employees in the classified service
HB 3001 - Requiring private clubs to be closed from two o'clock a.m. to seven o'clock a.m. on weekdays
HB 3010 - Modifying definitions related to the one-call system
HB 3012 - Relating to the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs

Motor Vehicles (42 Bills)
HB 2171 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motorboats on lakes
HB 2196 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue special Hatfield-McCoy Trail license plates
HB 2225 - Relating to roof-mounted off-road light bar lighting devices
HB 2380 - Requiring the issuance of a search warrant before a driver of a motor vehicle can be made to submit to a secondary blood test
HB 2401 - Authorizing the issuance of special "In God We Trust" motor vehicle registration plates
HB 2405 - Providing a maximum repair cost for insured owners of motor vehicles if a collision with a deer caused the damage
HB 2548 - Authorizing incorporated Class IV municipalities to enforce speed limits by use of any device designed to measure and indicate or record speed by means of microwaves or reflected light
HB 2569 - Relating to the Dealer Recovery Program
HB 2638 - Exempting motor vehicles from personal property tax
HB 2665 - Relating to participation in Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program
HB 2693 - Relating to commercial motor carriers
HB 2967 - Providing that the appraised value of an antique motor vehicle is a maximum of $3,000 for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 2978 - Relating to inspection of vehicles and providing that defects in windshields and windows that do not obscure vision are not unsafe conditions
HB 4164 - Requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to conduct drivers tests as a pilot program, at certain high schools
HB 4165 - Authorizing the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue certain vital records in the custody of the State Registrar
HB 4168 - Creating a special motor vehicle collector license plate
HB 4192 - Relating to regional Division of Motor Vehicle offices and self-service kiosks
HB 4193 - Creating an exception to allow aftermarket mufflers
HB 4196 - Relating to abandoned antique vehicles
HB 4198 - Increasing the safety of school children who use school buses
HB 4204 - Relating to inspections of commercial motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers
HB 4284 - Relating to the issuance, expiration and renewal of driver’s license
HB 4305 - Authorizing transportation network companies to operate in the state
HB 4320 - Creating a period for reduced payments of traffic violations
HB 4326 - Making special registration plates for volunteer fire fighters
HB 4327 - Authorizing a special registration plate for elk
HB 4333 - Relating to assessment value of certain motor vehicles for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 4349 - Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus
HB 4401 - Providing that any person with a West Virginia driver’s license or an official identification card is automatically registered to vote
HB 4452 - Exempting Class X vehicles from the tax provisions of this section
HB 4462 - Placing penalty points on driver’s licenses for using electronic communications devices while operating a motor vehicle
HB 4491 - Relating to unattended motor vehicles
HB 4493 - Relating to voter registration in conjunction with issuance, renewal or change of address of driver license
HB 4498 - Relating to certificates of title for certain total loss and abandoned or junked motor vehicles
HB 4506 - Permitting reflective lighting on motorcycles
HB 4512 - Relating to registration for selective service
HB 4529 - Providing that the Division of Motor Vehicles may not stay a revocation for D.U.I. if the driver had a stay in place for a pending contested revocation
HB 4568 - Permitting the assessor to mail a notice advising the owner of a vehicle believed not to be properly registered in the state
HB 4579 - Relating to voter registration list maintenance and the combined voter registration and driver licensing fund
HB 4662 - Permitting the Superintendent of the State Police to collect $3 dollars from the sale of motor vehicle inspection stickers
HB 4683 - West Virginia Second Chance Driver’s License Act
HB 4717 - Relating to the sale of vehicles whose title is branded as total loss, salvage, or similar brand

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2078 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction

Motor Vehicles -- Licenses, Registration & Inspection (5 Bills)
HB 2030 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition
HB 2135 - Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses
HB 2433 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special license plate for applicants who are hearing impaired
HB 2476 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special "SECOND AMENDMENT" license plate
HB 2813 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2150 - Creating an exception to allow aftermarket mufflers

Municipalities (20 Bills)
HB 2070 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments
HB 2384 - Removing prohibition of municipalities that are participating in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program to pass ordinances, acts, rules or regulations pertaining to municipal pension plans
HB 2548 - Authorizing incorporated Class IV municipalities to enforce speed limits by use of any device designed to measure and indicate or record speed by means of microwaves or reflected light
HB 2801 - Permitting county commissions and municipalities to designate areas of special interest which will not affect the use of property in those areas
HB 2913 - Terminating the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program and Municipal Home Rule Board
HB 2970 - Authorizing county commissions and municipalities to cooperate and enter into agreements removing or demolishing dwellings or buildings unfit for human habitation
HB 4019 - Requiring official business and records of the state and its political subdivisions be conducted in English
HB 4265 - Relating to payment by the West Virginia Municipal Bond Commission or state sinking fund commission or the governing body issuing the bonds
HB 4390 - Relating to the West Virginia Land Reuse Agency Authorization Act
HB 4430 - Eliminating exemption from hotel occupancy taxes on rental of hotel and motel rooms for thirty or more consecutive days
HB 4432 - Clarifying procedures for removal of office of any person holding any county, school district or municipal office
HB 4472 - Relating to the rule-making authority of local boards of health
HB 4483 - City Financial Transparency Act
HB 4508 - Prohibiting counties and municipalities from adopting ordinances or regulations that base restrictions on the breed of a dog
HB 4541 - Limiting the authority of municipalities to regulate the purchasing, possessing, transferring, owning, carrying, transporting, selling and storing of knives
HB 4542 - Allowing persons with property within rural fire protection districts to opt out of fire protection coverage
HB 4548 - Disallowing municipalities not admitted to the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program from participating in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program under certain circumstances
HB 4615 - Permitting municipalities to collect unpaid utility bills, trash, refuse, demolition, landfill fees or other fees
HB 4664 - Authorizing counties and municipalities to establish a joint airport hazard comprehensive plan
HB 4718 - Defining the term minor boundary adjustment

Natural Resources (38 Bills)
HB 2018 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents
HB 2067 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation
HB 2071 - Providing an increase in compensation for natural resources police officers
HB 2072 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2144 - Permitting crossbow hunting
HB 2269 - Requiring rules of the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce be no more stringent than corresponding federal laws
HB 2529 - Requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to develop a pilot program for the cultivation of marijuana to be sold in states where sales are legal
HB 2585 - Requiring leaseholders of mineral interests to notify the owners of the minerals when there is an assignment of the lease to another party
HB 2590 - Providing that residents sixty-five years of age or older are not required to have a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 2845 - Requiring persons who are in the business of purchasing precious metals and precious gems to photograph those purchases and to transmit the photographs to law-enforcement
HB 2890 - Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
HB 2977 - Providing that rents and royalties from leases of the minerals under the state's rivers and streams shall be expended for road paving and maintenance
HB 4037 - Prohibiting the state from requiring persons with oil or gas rights connected to deep oil or gas wells to involuntarily integrate their interests
HB 4045 - Providing that all hunting and fishing licenses are valid for one year from the date issued
HB 4170 - Removing restrictions for hunting or trapping on private lands on Sundays
HB 4184 - Establishing criminal penalties for the illegal taking of deer
HB 4211 - Prohibiting drilling units from being established without consent of all owners
HB 4218 - Expanding the definition of “underground facility” in the One-Call System Act
HB 4236 - Relating to the classification of certain species
HB 4247 - Relating to the Laurel Lake Wildlife Management Fund
HB 4255 - Relating to the taking and registration of wildlife including electronic registration of beaver, otter and big game animals
HB 4279 - Relating to disposition of seized firearms
HB 4283 - Removing restrictions for hunting or trapping on private lands on Sundays
HB 4290 - Relating to the Laurel Lake Wildlife Management Fund
HB 4330 - Relating to make unlawful to take a fish, water animal or other aquatic organism from state waters to stock a commercial pond or lake
HB 4331 - Providing the Director of the Division of Natural Resources the authority to offer up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons who have injured or killed game
HB 4339 - Relating to wildlife resources
HB 4346 - Relating to bear hunting and offenses and penalties
HB 4375 - Entering reciprocal agreements to recognize hunting, fishing and trapping licenses issued by other states
HB 4389 - Relating to crossbow hunting
HB 4398 - Exempting residents honorably discharged from the Armed Forces from the requirement of obtaining a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 4411 - Relating to penalty for illegally taking native brook trout
HB 4426 - Horizontal Well Unitization and Landowner Protection Act of 2016
HB 4500 - Oil and Gas Royalty Payment and Transparency Act of 2016
HB 4536 - Reducing the severance tax on coal to two percent of gross value; and creating a local government economic assistance fund
HB 4567 - Establishing an industrial water extraction fee
HB 4631 - Requiring a hunting blind which is used during firearm deer season to have at least one hundred square inches of fluorescent orange on top
HB 4690 - Providing a ten percent discount to West Virginia residents for lodging, camping and other recreational activities at state parks and forests

Oil and Gas (6 Bills)
HB 2062 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
HB 2080 - Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
HB 2192 - Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax
HB 2407 - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin
HB 2707 - Permitting certain surface owners to purchase gas at market rates
HB 2975 - Relating to the assessment of oil and gas mineral interests

Parks and Recreation (7 Bills)
HB 2017 - Providing for the posting of unenclosed lands to prohibit hunting, trapping or fishing
HB 2018 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents
HB 2064 - Providing a ten percent discount to residents at state parks and forests
HB 2178 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting
HB 2196 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue special Hatfield-McCoy Trail license plates
HB 2578 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting
HB 2671 - Establishing the state parks instant lottery scratch-off game

Prescriptions and Medications (3 Bills)
HB 2450 - Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses and certified nurse-midwives
HB 2556 - Providing medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 2611 - Relating to controlling methamphetamine

Professions and Occupations (35 Bills)
HB 2081 - Including journalists as a protected profession within the definition of crimes of violence against certain categories of workers
HB 2151 - Making the West Virginia state teacher of the year an ex officio, nonvoting member of the West Virginia Board of Education
HB 2163 - Increasing salaries for school service personnel
HB 2164 - Providing pay increases for teachers and counselors
HB 2195 - Making changes to the definition of electrical contractor
HB 2378 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 2454 - Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act
HB 2475 - Relating to the requirements for and scope of practice for registered veterinary technicians
HB 2528 - Providing scholarships for certain former coal miners
HB 2554 - Relating to protection of utility workers from crimes against the person
HB 2584 - Allowing a judge to excuse a potential juror from jury duty until a later date based on seasonal employment
HB 2643 - Establishing the West Virginia Right to Work Law
HB 2777 - Relating to licensing of barbers, cosmetologists, and hairstylists, and revising the membership requirements of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists
HB 2794 - Making changes to the definition of contractor for purposes of the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 2841 - Allowing a person to be both a limited video lottery operator and retailer
HB 2843 - Requiring school bus aides, who are trained in preventing bullying and providing a safe environment for students while being transported on a school bus, to be present on school buses
HB 2862 - Adding additional magistrate court deputy clerks
HB 2900 - Exempting certified professional estimator services from consumer sales and service tax
HB 4334 - Clarifying the requirements for a license to practice as an advanced practice registered nurse and expanding prescriptive authority
HB 4359 - Requiring the issuance of a photo identification to persons employed as a security guard by a security guard firm
HB 4360 - Increasing the criminal penalty for the unlawful practice of law
HB 4367 - Relating to background checks for applicants for private investigator and security guard licensure
HB 4399 - Permitting pharmacists to furnish naloxone hydrochloride in accordance with standardized procedures
HB 4428 - Clarifying that optometrists may continue to exercise the same prescriptive authority which they possessed prior to hydrocodone being reclassified
HB 4450 - West Virginia Court Reporter Act of 2016
HB 4460 - Changing qualifications for membership on the Board of Registration of Foresters
HB 4476 - West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
HB 4594 - Relating to predoctoral psychology internship qualifications
HB 4597 - Expanding duties of Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to permit students to perform acts of public service
HB 4651 - Relating to professional examination requirements for hearing-aid dealers and fitters
HB 4652 - Relating to the creation of an intermediate contractor’s license
HB 4685 - Relating to professional and occupational board members
HB 4692 - Relating to offenses and penalties for practicing osteopathic medicine without a license
HB 4696 - Creating the unlicensed practice review board
HB 4703 - Reclassifying Early Childhood Classroom Assistant Teacher I, II and III positions as Aide V, Aide VI and Aide VII positions

Public Employees (30 Bills)
HB 2032 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2043 - Granting all public employees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase
HB 2061 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees
HB 2066 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2068 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children
HB 2113 - Increasing the amount of retirement income to be excluded from the gross income of individuals receiving retirement benefits under the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2163 - Increasing salaries for school service personnel
HB 2169 - Providing cost-of-living adjustments for certain current and former public employees
HB 2170 - Including volunteer firefighters within the Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2173 - Authorizing insurance to married workers without children at reduced rates under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act
HB 2245 - Relating to salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees
HB 2246 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees
HB 2369 - Creating an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County
HB 2375 - Providing civil service status for certain employees of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
HB 2389 - Granting all public employees, all teachers, all service employees, all public employee retirees, all teacher retirees and all service employee retirees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase
HB 2435 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees
HB 2474 - Relating to the compensation of personnel employed at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
HB 2522 - Exempting State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation
HB 2560 - Relating to disqualification for public retirement plan benefits when a participant is determined to have rendered less than honorable service
HB 2620 - Relating to definitions used in the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2642 - Reducing personnel employed by the West Virginia Department of Education
HB 2731 - Increasing salaries and creating longevity pay increases for all employees of the Division of Corrections, the Regional Jail Authority and the Division of Juvenile Services
HB 2791 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2796 - Providing paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency
HB 2800 - Adding law-enforcement officers' contact information and names of family members to the list of exemptions from public records requests
HB 2812 - Clarifying use of subsistence allowance in determining compensation for purposes of calculating pension benefits for natural resources police officers
HB 2818 - Increasing the threshold of signatures of named petitioners required to bring a petition seeking removal of a public official
HB 2920 - Vesting the Public Employees Insurance Agency with the authority to negotiate and executing all health care and ancillary contracts for the Medicaid program
HB 2981 - Relating to purchase of service credit following transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2996 - Prohibiting public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion

Public Safety (22 Bills)
HB 4145 - Relating to carry or use of a handgun or deadly weapon
HB 4169 - Firearm Protection Act
HB 4174 - Exempting activity at indoor shooting ranges from the prohibition of shooting or discharging a firearm within five hundred feet of any church or dwelling house
HB 4197 - Allowing required HIV and hepatitis testing for the protection of law- enforcement officers who may have been exposed
HB 4219 - Relating to vehicle inspection stations
HB 4231 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act
HB 4280 - Permitting persons who are twenty-one years of age or older to operate or be a passenger on a motorcycle without a helmet
HB 4307 - Clarifying that a firearm may be carried for self defense in state parks, state forests and state recreational areas
HB 4323 - Relating to the reporting of emergency incidents by well operators and pipeline operators
HB 4329 - Right to keep and bear arms
HB 4387 - Providing that any law-abiding person eighteen years of age or older may carry a concealed weapon within the boundaries of the state
HB 4427 - Providing identification to qualified law-enforcement officers to allow them to carry firearms for self-defense under the federal Law-Enforcement Officers Safety Act, and clarifying that prosecuting attorneys and assistant prosecuting attorneys may carry firearms for self-defense
HB 4436 - Permitting probation officers to carry deadly weapons on school buses and property
HB 4453 - Requiring the State Police to partner with the DNA and Digital Forensics sections of Marshall University Forensic Science Center
HB 4528 - Permitting an all-volunteer fire department to consolidate with certain other fire departments while retaining their rights to receive funds
HB 4542 - Allowing persons with property within rural fire protection districts to opt out of fire protection coverage
HB 4558 - Relating to victim notification and designation of additional individuals to receive notice of an offender's release
HB 4592 - Relating to the hunting of coyotes
HB 4609 - West Virginia Residential Furniture and Children's Products Flame Retardants Act
HB 4619 - Transferring the Office of Emergency Medical Services from the Bureau for Public Health to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
HB 4662 - Permitting the Superintendent of the State Police to collect $3 dollars from the sale of motor vehicle inspection stickers
HB 4714 - Creating a board for review of officer-involved deaths

Public Service Commission (10 Bills)
HB 2238 - Relating to appointment of Public Service Commissioners
HB 2483 - Requiring the three commissioners of the Public Service Commission be elected from the three congressional districts for six-year terms
HB 4416 - Expanding the authority of motor carrier inspectors
HB 4435 - Authorizing the Public Service Commission to approve expedited cost recovery of electric utility coal-fired boiler modernization and improvement projects
HB 4451 - Relating to public service districts
HB 4584 - Prohibiting shifting future development costs onto existing public service district customers
HB 4660 - Relating to the information required to be included in support of an application to the Public Service Commission for a certificate of convenience and necessity for a water, sewer and/or stormwater service project
HB 4665 - Creating a mandatory grace period for the payment of water and sewer bills
HB 4698 - Enabling applicants for a certificate of convenience and necessity for a water, sewer, and/or storm water project to file complete applications without incurring the expense of an engineer’s preparation
HB 4699 - Limiting supervision of laying of lines on state rights-of-way

Real and Personal Property (7 Bills)
HB 4202 - Establishing oversight and a database for seizures and forfeitures by law enforcement agencies
HB 4256 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 4473 - Clarifying that when the presumption of abandonment arises with respect to a life insurance policy or annuity payable upon proof of death
HB 4501 - Freezing assessments in counties with recent sharp decline in employment
HB 4532 - Establishing a new class of property on utility right-of-ways and easements for taxation purposes
HB 4550 - Relating to the disposition of funds due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners
HB 4586 - Ensuring that the interest of protected persons, incarcerated persons and unknown owners are protected in condemnation actions filed by the Division of Highways

Real Property (7 Bills)
HB 2076 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2223 - Including consumer credit sales that are secured by a mortgage, deed of trust or other equivalent consensual security interest on a dwelling or residential real estate in the definitions of "primary mortgage loan" and "subordinate mortgage loan"
HB 2225 - Relating to roof-mounted off-road light bar lighting devices
HB 2519 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2638 - Exempting motor vehicles from personal property tax
HB 2750 - Abolishing the adverse possession of land
HB 2826 - Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to approve points of access to and from state highways to real property used or to be used for commercial, industrial or mercantile purposes; "Sarah Nott's Law"

Records and Papers (5 Bills)
HB 4278 - Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract
HB 4391 - Issuing identification documents to homeless individuals residing at homeless shelters
HB 4394 - Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act
HB 4402 - E-mail Privacy Act
HB 4517 - Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions

Redistricting (1 Bills)
HB 2129 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during census years

Regulation of Trade (4 Bills)
HB 2171 - Relating to rules governing the operation of motorboats on lakes
HB 2243 - Relating to minimum wage and maximum hours standards for employers
HB 2448 - Permitting the sale of raw milk
HB 2804 - Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays by private licensees

Religious Organizations (1 Bills)
HB 2672 - Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer and worship

Retirement (15 Bills)
HB 2113 - Increasing the amount of retirement income to be excluded from the gross income of individuals receiving retirement benefits under the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2253 - Reducing state income taxes for state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2389 - Granting all public employees, all teachers, all service employees, all public employee retirees, all teacher retirees and all service employee retirees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase
HB 2459 - Requiring state agencies to issue photographic identification cards to qualified retired law-enforcement officers
HB 2560 - Relating to disqualification for public retirement plan benefits when a participant is determined to have rendered less than honorable service
HB 2597 - Exempting all monetary benefits derived from military retirement from personal income tax obligations
HB 2791 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2812 - Clarifying use of subsistence allowance in determining compensation for purposes of calculating pension benefits for natural resources police officers
HB 2981 - Relating to purchase of service credit following transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 4187 - Creating a special fund named “the Public Employee Health Insurance Fund"
HB 4425 - Modifying the definition of “accrued benefit” by increasing the retirement benefit multiplier for certain EMSRS members
HB 4479 - Adding an annual annuity adjustment of one percent for eligible retirants or surviving spouses
HB 4487 - Relating to state retirement systems
HB 4519 - Allowing certain municipalities to elect to participate in the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 4607 - Adding violations of law upon which a public servant’s retirement plan may be forfeited

Retirement -- Education Personnel (5 Bills)
HB 2059 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2154 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2198 - Permitting teachers under the State Teachers Retirement System to teach college level courses without loss of benefits
HB 2417 - Relating to the State Teachers Retirement System
HB 2437 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired

Retirement -- Public Employees (7 Bills)
HB 2059 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers
HB 2067 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation
HB 2154 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees
HB 2415 - Removing the armed conflict requirement before state employees may receive credit for time served in the Armed Forces
HB 2423 - Reinstating service credit to certain members of the Public Employees Retirement System
HB 2437 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired
HB 2620 - Relating to definitions used in the Public Employees Retirement System

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (3 Bills)
HB 2067 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation
HB 2222 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature
HB 2656 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game

Roads and Highways (9 Bills)
HB 2049 - Requiring the Parkways Authority to provide free daily toll passes for veterans under certain circumstances
HB 2078 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisdiction
HB 2193 - Providing the Parkways Authority with the power to issue $500 million worth of bonds
HB 2609 - Prohibiting railroads from blocking crossings on privately owned streets
HB 2699 - Requiring that patching repair of hard surfaced roads, highways and streets be by use of mechanical rollers
HB 2718 - Transferring funds remaining in the Racetrack Modernization Fund to the State Road Fund and closing the Racetrack Modernization Fund
HB 2826 - Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to approve points of access to and from state highways to real property used or to be used for commercial, industrial or mercantile purposes; "Sarah Nott's Law"
HB 2901 - Relating to the establishment of state speed restrictions
HB 2977 - Providing that rents and royalties from leases of the minerals under the state's rivers and streams shall be expended for road paving and maintenance

Roads and Transportation (18 Bills)
HB 4022 - Providing a discount program for certain workers and students who purchase West Virginia EZ Pass transponders
HB 4172 - Creating a special fund named “the State Road Bond Fund"
HB 4200 - Eliminating courtesy patrol programs
HB 4222 - Providing for the transfer of ownership, operation and maintenance of certain assets of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to the Division of Highways
HB 4223 - Authorizing individuals and business concerns to purchase sponsorship relative to courtesy patrol vehicles in exchange for advertisement displays
HB 4228 - Relating to transportation network companies
HB 4273 - Requiring that patching repair of hard surfaced roads, highways and streets be by use of mechanical rollers
HB 4392 - Establishing a special fund to be used for minor road repair within the county
HB 4410 - Establishing an arborists program for inmates
HB 4462 - Placing penalty points on driver’s licenses for using electronic communications devices while operating a motor vehicle
HB 4497 - Dedicating consumer sales tax collected on sales of automobile parts to the State Road Fund
HB 4518 - Prohibiting the placement of the name or likeness of public officials on state road signs
HB 4552 - Relating to purchasing requirements for the Division of Highways
HB 4559 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a statewide communications plan known as the Comprehensive Public Involvement Plan
HB 4560 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts
HB 4562 - Relating to performance metrics for the West Virginia Division of Highways
HB 4586 - Ensuring that the interest of protected persons, incarcerated persons and unknown owners are protected in condemnation actions filed by the Division of Highways
HB 4613 - Declaring rights-of-way held by the Division of Highways that are no longer publically travelled, or maintained, for five or more years, null and void

Rules (101 Bills)
HB 4002 - Relating to rule making under the state Administrative Procedures Act
HB 4031 - Requiring agencies to respond to public comments received during the rule-making process
HB 4046 - Relating to the promulgation of rules by the Department of Administration
HB 4047 - Authorizing the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to private club licensing
HB 4048 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, legislative rule relating to service credit for accrued and unused sick leave
HB 4049 - Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources
HB 4050 - Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of air pollution from combustion of solid waste
HB 4051 - Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities
HB 4052 - Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 4053 - Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of annual nitrogen oxide emissions
HB 4054 - Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions
HB 4055 - Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of annual sulfur dioxide emissions
HB 4056 - Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to surface mining reclamation
HB 4057 - Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to administrative proceedings and civil penalty assessment
HB 4058 - Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to above ground storage tank fee assessments
HB 4059 - Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to above ground storage tank administrative proceedings and civil penalty assessment
HB 4060 - Relating generally to the promulgation of administrative rules by the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety
HB 4061 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating fees for service
HB 4062 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to AIDS-related medical testing and confidentiality
HB 4063 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to Tuberculosis testing, control, treatment and commitment
HB 4064 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to child care licensing requirements
HB 4065 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to family child care facility licensing requirements
HB 4066 - Division of Labor, licensing of elevator mechanics and technicians and registration of apprentices
HB 4067 - Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners, rule relating to the board
HB 4068 - Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, rule relating to substance abuse screening standards and procedures
HB 4069 - Division of Natural Resources, rule relating to general hunting
HB 4070 - Division of Natural Resources, rule relating to deer hunting
HB 4071 - Division of Natural Resources, rule relating to wild boar hunting
HB 4072 - Division of Personnel, rule relating to the administrative rule of the West Virginia Division of Personnel
HB 4073 - Racing Commission, rule relating to thoroughbred racing
HB 4074 - Racing Commission, rule relating to pari-mutuel wagering
HB 4075 - Secretary of State, rule relating to absentee voting by military voters who are members of reserve units called to active duty
HB 4076 - Secretary of State, rule relating to registration forms and receipts
HB 4077 - Secretary of State, rule relating to the elimination of precinct registration books
HB 4078 - Department of Tax and Revenue, rule relating to an exchange of information
HB 4079 - Department of Veterans’ Assistance, rule relating to the state home for veterans
HB 4080 - Department of Veterans’ Assistance, rule relating to VA headstones or markers
HB 4081 - Board of Accountancy, rule relating to Board rules and rules of professional conduct
HB 4082 - Office of Administrative Hearings, rule relating to Appeal Procedures
HB 4083 - Department of Agriculture, rule relating to the inspection of nontraditional domesticated animals
HB 4084 - Department of Agriculture, rule relating to poultry litter and manure movement into primary poultry breeder rearing areas
HB 4085 - Department of Agriculture, rule relating to livestock care standards
HB 4086 - Department of Agriculture, rule relating to captive cervid farming
HB 4087 - Alcohol Beverage Control Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to distilleries and mini-distilleries
HB 4088 - Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, rule relating to nonintoxicating beer licensing and operations procedures
HB 4089 - State Conservation Committee, rule relating to the West Virginia Conservation Agency Financial Assistance Program
HB 4090 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 4091 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to benefit determination and appeal
HB 4092 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to the Teachers’ Defined Contribution System
HB 4093 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to the Teachers’ Retirement System
HB 4094 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to refund, reinstatement, retroactive service, loan and correction of error interest factors
HB 4095 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to the West Virginia State Police
HB 4096 - Board of Examiners in Counseling, rule relating to licensing
HB 4097 - Board of Examiners in Counseling, rule relating to marriage and family license renewal and continuing professional education requirements
HB 4098 - Board of Examiners in Counseling, rule relating to licensed professional counselor license renewal and continuing professional education requirements
HB 4099 - Board of Examiners in Counseling, rule relating to marriage and family therapists licensing
HB 4100 - Board of Dental Examiners, rule relating to continuing education requirements
HB 4101 - Board of Dental Examiners, rule relating to expanded duties of dental hygienists and dental assistants
HB 4102 - Department of Environmental Protection, Oil and Gas, rule relating to horizontal well development
HB 4103 - Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards
HB 4104 - Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to above ground storage tanks
HB 4105 - State Election Commission, rule relating to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals public campaign financing program
HB 4106 - State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, rule relating to the examination, licensure and practice of professional engineers
HB 4107 - State Fire Commission, rule relating to the state building code
HB 4108 - State Fire Commission, rule relating to standards for the certification of continuing education of municipal, county and other public sector building code officials, inspectors and plans examiners
HB 4109 - Authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction, rule relating to law enforcement training and certification standards
HB 4110 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to farmers market vendors
HB 4111 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to the certification of opioid overdose prevention and treatment training programs
HB 4112 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to emergency medical services
HB 4113 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to infectious medical waste
HB 4114 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to West Virginia clearance for access; registry and employment screening
HB 4115 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to chronic pain management licensure
HB 4116 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to neonatal abstinence centers
HB 4117 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to family child care home registration requirements
HB 4118 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to W. Va. Works Program sanctions
HB 4119 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to qualifications for a restricted provisional license to practice as a social worker within the department
HB 4120 - Department of Health and Human Resources, rule relating to goals for foster children
HB 4121 - Division of Highways, rule relating to the state transportation infrastructure fund program
HB 4122 - Division of Labor, rule relating to Elevator Safety Act
HB 4123 - Division of Labor, rule relating to wage payment and collection
HB 4124 - Division of Labor, rule relating to minimum wage and maximum hours
HB 4125 - Board of Medicine, rule relating to the establishment and regulation of limited license to practice medicine and surgery at certain state veterans nursing home facilities
HB 4126 - Division of Natural Resources, rule relating to prohibitions when hunting and trapping
HB 4127 - Division of Natural Resources, rule relating to elk restoration and management
HB 4128 - Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board, rule relating to nursing home administrators
HB 4129 - Board of Pharmacy, rule relating to the licensure and practice of pharmacy
HB 4130 - Board of Pharmacy, rule relating to the Uniform Controlled Substances Act
HB 4131 - Board of Pharmacy, rule relating to record keeping and automated data processing systems
HB 4132 - Board of Pharmacy, rule relating to the licensure of wholesale drug distributors, third-party logistics providers and manufacturers
HB 4133 - Property Valuation and Procedures Commission, rule relating to tax map sales
HB 4134 - Secretary of State, rule relating to the Freedom of Information Act database
HB 4135 - Board of Social Work, rule relating to qualifications for the profession of social work
HB 4136 - Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, rule relating to the licensure of speech pathology and audiology
HB 4137 - Department of Tax and Revenue, rule relating to the payment of taxes by electronic funds transfer
HB 4138 - Department of Transportation, rule relating to rail fixed guideway systems state safety oversight
HB 4139 - WorkForce West Virginia, rule relating to the West Virginia Prevailing Wage Act
HB 4140 - State Election Commission, rule relating to the regulation of campaign finance
HB 4141 - Human Rights Commission, rule relating to the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act
HB 4142 - Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, rule relating to speech-language pathology and audiology assistants
HB 4143 - Ethics Commission, rule relating to the public use of names or likenesses
HB 4190 - Prohibiting state agencies and departments from acting outside their statutory scopes of authority

Safety (12 Bills)
HB 2058 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players
HB 2062 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
HB 2074 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers
HB 2412 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to public and private elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education
HB 2501 - Prohibiting sexual offenders from residing within one thousand feet of a school or childcare facility
HB 2553 - Relating to human trafficking
HB 2556 - Providing medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children
HB 2582 - Requiring the State Board of Education to cause school buses to be equipped with safety belts
HB 2843 - Requiring school bus aides, who are trained in preventing bullying and providing a safe environment for students while being transported on a school bus, to be present on school buses
HB 2959 - Allowing the use of rotary drum composters to destroy or dispose of the carcass of any animal to prevent the spread of disease
HB 2987 - Relating to mine safety
HB 3005 - Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling

Salaries (13 Bills)
HB 2032 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals
HB 2043 - Granting all public employees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase
HB 2057 - 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
HB 2066 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees
HB 2069 - Providing for career development and establishing a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and supervisors
HB 2071 - Providing an increase in compensation for natural resources police officers
HB 2072 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers
HB 2075 - 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 2197 - Removing the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case coordinators
HB 4092 - Consolidated Public Retirement Board, rule relating to the Teachers’ Defined Contribution System
HB 4385 - Increasing the annual salary of employees of the Division of Corrections
HB 4415 - Offsetting the shortfall of PEIA by reducing the compensation of all elected state officials and members of the state Board of Education
HB 4465 - Relating to salary equity among school systems

Secretary of State (1 Bills)
HB 2588 - Relating to the filing of financial statements with the Secretary of State

Senior Citizens (6 Bills)
HB 2039 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2204 - Eliminating the motor fuels tax on heating oil for residential use by eligible seniors
HB 2404 - Providing one-time supplements to all annuitants when they reach the age of seventy
HB 2463 - Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2590 - Providing that residents sixty-five years of age or older are not required to have a license to hunt, trap or fish
HB 2984 - Creating a Silver Alert program for senior citizens

Social Security (1 Bills)
HB 2230 - Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes

State Personnel (11 Bills)
HB 4187 - Creating a special fund named “the Public Employee Health Insurance Fund"
HB 4226 - Authorizing appointees or employees of the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to carry concealed handguns
HB 4304 - Relating to the allocation of premiums for employers and employees in the Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 4370 - Prohibiting discrimination in public employment based upon sexual orientation
HB 4487 - Relating to state retirement systems
HB 4561 - Creating a special hiring process for West Virginia Division of Highways employees
HB 4607 - Adding violations of law upon which a public servant’s retirement plan may be forfeited
HB 4636 - Increasing the penalties for violating the Whistle-blower Law
HB 4648 - Providing additional pay for public employees who reside in counties with the highest median home costs
HB 4672 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board factor in overtime pay received by employees to determine their premiums
HB 4695 - Establishing a temporary maximum contribution rate to the Public Employees Insurance Agency

Taxation (95 Bills)
HB 2080 - Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
HB 2104 - Terminating the Tax Commissioner's authority to issue business licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2127 - Relating to corporation net income tax for manufacturers of medical devices
HB 2165 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses with more than twenty-five employees that relocate to reclaimed mountaintop removal land
HB 2167 - Providing a $500 tax credit to volunteer firefighters
HB 2249 - Requiring the assessor of each county to, within three months of a deed filing in the county clerk's office of each county, prepare a new property tax ticket
HB 2253 - Reducing state income taxes for state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income
HB 2394 - Repealing the additional tax on the privilege of severing coal
HB 2400 - Relating to quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2407 - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin
HB 2463 - Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2490 - Establishing a tax credit for new businesses that locate in the state
HB 2498 - Allowing taxpayers to make partial payments of real and personal property taxes
HB 2522 - Exempting State Teachers Retirement System pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation
HB 2570 - Relating to a tax deduction allowed for capital expenditures from the corporate net income tax
HB 2599 - Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax
HB 2622 - Relating to deductions from personal income tax for contributions to state-administered prepaid college tuition contracts or college savings plans
HB 2630 - Creating the West Virginia Earned Income Tax Credit
HB 2639 - Abolishing the Personal Income Tax
HB 2647 - Allowing an employer to extend workers' compensation insurance coverage to an employee engaged in volunteer fire fighting and allowing employers a tax credit
HB 2649 - Exempting social security benefits from personal income tax
HB 2675 - Reducing certain severance taxes that are dedicated to the Workers' Compensation Debt Reduction Fund
HB 2687 - Relating to personal income taxes
HB 2695 - Relating to gasoline and fuel excise tax
HB 2704 - West Virginia Consumer Sales and Service Use tax
HB 2709 - Exempting a percentage of social security benefits from personal income tax
HB 2713 - Providing taxpayers repaying their own student loans a modification reducing federal adjusted gross in the amount of the interest paid
HB 2821 - Implementing a surcharge on licensed exotic entertainment facilities and adult bookstores to provide funding for rape information and prevention services and rape crisis centers
HB 2823 - Eliminating the street and interurban and electric railways tax
HB 2832 - Reducing the motor fuel excise tax
HB 2838 - Relating to the reproduction, distribution and sale of tax maps
HB 2847 - Permitting sheriffs to hire outside attorneys to assist with collection of taxes
HB 2870 - Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school
HB 2900 - Exempting certified professional estimator services from consumer sales and service tax
HB 2903 - Providing a tax credit for first time home buyers
HB 2917 - Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit
HB 2953 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products
HB 2967 - Providing that the appraised value of an antique motor vehicle is a maximum of $3,000 for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 2988 - Authorizing the Tax Commissioner to collect tax, interest and penalties due and owing from payments to vendors and contractors from the Auditor and other state, county, district or municipal officers and agents
HB 3000 - Establishing a Hotel and Restaurant Renovation Tax Credit
HB 3015 - Enabling legislation for the "Nonprofit Youth Organization Tax Exemption Support Amendment" to Article X of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia
HB 4003 - Expiring certain severance taxes that are dedicated to the Workers’ Compensation Debt Reduction Fund
HB 4023 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products
HB 4029 - Relating to dedication of corporation net income tax proceeds to railways
HB 4030 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 4148 - Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act
HB 4161 - Relating to levies on classifications of property by the Board of Public Works
HB 4163 - Providing the authority and procedure for municipalities to give notice to, and publish the names of, entities delinquent in paying business and occupation taxes
HB 4181 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products
HB 4191 - Taxation With Representation Act
HB 4195 - Relating to appraisal value of certain motor vehicles for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 4220 - Imposing the consumers sales and service tax and use tax on sales of telecommunications service and ancillary services
HB 4232 - Raising the consumer sales and service tax
HB 4274 - Relating to gasoline and fuel excise tax
HB 4288 - Save the Hospitals Act
HB 4294 - Eliminating the consumers sales and service tax exemption on purchases of certain materials by a second party in construction or maintenance of a highways project
HB 4321 - Relating to tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades
HB 4333 - Relating to assessment value of certain motor vehicles for purposes of ad valorem property taxes
HB 4357 - Home Instruction Tax Relief Act
HB 4369 - Decreasing and ending the tax on timber
HB 4372 - Creating tax credits for new and/or existing small businesses
HB 4377 - Eliminating exemption from hotel occupancy taxes on rental of hotel and motel rooms for thirty or more consecutive days
HB 4419 - Exempting any veteran’s primary residence from real property tax
HB 4421 - Providing tax breaks for employers assisting employees paying student loans
HB 4433 - Allowing an adjustment to gross income for calculating the personal income tax liability of certain retirees
HB 4434 - Relating to limitations on tax certificates
HB 4437 - Creating tax credits for small businesses
HB 4439 - Providing a tax credit for persons receiving a concealed weapons permit
HB 4442 - Exempting farm wineries from taxation for sales of wine to retail outlets
HB 4457 - West Virginia Student Education Incentive Act
HB 4474 - Continuing personal income tax adjustment to gross income of certain retirees receiving pensions from defined pension plans
HB 4486 - Terminating the Behavioral Health Severance and Business Privilege Tax
HB 4494 - Increasing the tax rate on cigarettes and tobacco products
HB 4497 - Dedicating consumer sales tax collected on sales of automobile parts to the State Road Fund
HB 4501 - Freezing assessments in counties with recent sharp decline in employment
HB 4504 - Increasing the excise tax on bottled soft drinks, syrups and dry mixtures
HB 4532 - Establishing a new class of property on utility right-of-ways and easements for taxation purposes
HB 4536 - Reducing the severance tax on coal to two percent of gross value; and creating a local government economic assistance fund
HB 4563 - Reauthorizing the Neighborhood Investment Program Act
HB 4564 - Relating to the taxing certain tobacco products
HB 4567 - Establishing an industrial water extraction fee
HB 4570 - Continuing certain severance taxes that are dedicated to the Workers' Compensation Debt Reduction Fund towards the State Road Fund upon satisfaction of debt
HB 4585 - Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit
HB 4596 - Creating a five-year tax credit for businesses locating on post-mine sites
HB 4626 - Providing a safe harbor valuation for the measure of tax upon limestone and sandstone
HB 4634 - Coal Jobs and Revenue Stabilization Act
HB 4645 - West Virginia Earned Income Tax Credit
HB 4668 - Raising the allowable threshold of the coal severance tax revenue fund budgeted for personal services
HB 4679 - Increasing sales and use taxes by one percent
HB 4681 - Taxing attorneys legal service fees as service taxes
HB 4682 - The Agriculture and Tourism Incentive Act
HB 4689 - Establishing a specific valuation of managed timberland and timberland that is not managed timberland for ad valorem property tax purposes
HB 4691 - Establishing two new tax brackets for personal income tax
HB 4693 - Establishing a recovery fee for the rental of heavy equipment property
HB 4701 - Providing funding of state programs through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)
HB 2579 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan

Taxation -- Consumers Sales Tax (2 Bills)
HB 2029 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants
HB 2262 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants

Taxation -- Personal & Corporate Income Tax (8 Bills)
HB 2039 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled
HB 2067 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation
HB 2076 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2176 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail head
HB 2230 - Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes
HB 2470 - Relating to nursing education faculty
HB 2580 - Creating the Economic Fairness Act of 2015
HB 2668 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on taxpayers' personal residences to be used as a deduction for personal income tax purposes

Taxation -- Property (5 Bills)
HB 2076 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes
HB 2110 - Relating generally to the tax treatment of manufacturing entities
HB 2111 - Providing a special method for valuation of certain wireless technology property for property taxes
HB 2473 - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jail fees
HB 2668 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on taxpayers' personal residences to be used as a deduction for personal income tax purposes

Taxation -- Roads & Fuel (1 Bills)
HB 2192 - Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (2 Bills)
HB 2633 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor
HB 2634 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products

Technology (8 Bills)
HB 2111 - Providing a special method for valuation of certain wireless technology property for property taxes
HB 2452 - Requiring reports to the Governor from state agencies to be made available electronically via the internet
HB 2519 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
HB 2551 - Prohibiting internet service providers from advertising or offering to provide high speed internet service that is not at least ten megabytes per second
HB 2654 - Relating to location information of an electronic device
HB 2785 - Statewide Interoperable Radio Network Act
HB 2912 - Relating to third-party telecommunications services provided to residential and business consumers
HB 2952 - Creating the Statewide Interoperable Radio Network

Tobacco and Tobacco Products (4 Bills)
HB 2104 - Terminating the Tax Commissioner's authority to issue business licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances
HB 2634 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products
HB 2689 - Repealing the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products
HB 2953 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products

Tourism (3 Bills)
HB 2018 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents
HB 2176 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail head
HB 2940 - Creating the Tourist-Oriented Directional Signs Program

Transportation (7 Bills)
HB 2174 - Increasing criminal incarceration penalties for the transportation of controlled substances into the state
HB 2401 - Authorizing the issuance of special "In God We Trust" motor vehicle registration plates
HB 2468 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act
HB 2472 - Issuing a special registration plate for persons who are residents of this state and who have a family member diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
HB 2677 - Creating a legislative commission to study the feasibility of the state entering into sponsorship agreements for transportation structures
HB 2693 - Relating to commercial motor carriers
HB 2856 - Revising the requirements for the removal of the daytime driving restriction for Class G driver's licenses

Unemployment Compensation (6 Bills)
HB 2520 - Relating to domestic violence victims' eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits
HB 4032 - Self-Employment Assistance Act
HB 4041 - Limiting able-bodied adults without dependents receipt of SNAP benefits to three months in a thirty-six month period
HB 4629 - Disqualifying a terminated employee from benefits for testing positive on a drug or alcohol test
HB 4642 - Maintaining the solvency of the Unemployment Compensation Fund
HB 4721 - Providing that individuals working in certain seasonal employment are not eligible for unemployment compensation benefits

Uniform Laws (3 Bills)
HB 4354 - Relating to notices of revocation of certificate of authority to conduct business
HB 4394 - Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act
HB 4400 - Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act

Utilities (5 Bills)
HB 2512 - Requiring the consent of the Public Service Commission before an electric utility subject to this chapter may retire or permanently shut-down an electric generating plant
HB 2552 - Permitting utility consumers to use the consumer protection laws when concerning billing issues are in question
HB 2554 - Relating to protection of utility workers from crimes against the person
HB 2802 - Relating to public sewage services
HB 4634 - Coal Jobs and Revenue Stabilization Act

Vendors (1 Bills)
HB 2028 - Relating generally to purchasing

Vital Records (1 Bills)
HB 2455 - 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

Weapons (1 Bills)
HB 2120 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex

Workers Compensation (2 Bills)
HB 2426 - Relating to the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund
HB 4530 - Exempting taxicab companies whose drivers are independent contractors, from providing workers' compensation coverage for the drivers