Wednesday, March 19, 2025 – 36th Day of Session

 

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

  • Com. Sub. for SCR 3: US Army Warrant Officer Joseph Rose III Memorial Bridge
  • SR 35: Recognizing WV Mothers and Babies Support Program for its outstanding achievements
  • SR 36: Recognizing 100th anniversary of WV State Fair

 

THIRD READING

 

  • Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 37: Allowing certain Teachers Retirement System members to exchange unused leave for monetary compensation
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 83: Allowing Foster Care Ombudsman access to child protective records
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 538: Allowing certain entities to purchase qualifying tax-delinquent properties before they are offered at public auction (original similar to HB 3332)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 547: Creating Charter Schools Startup Fund
  • Eng. SB 598: Permitting judges to refer parents to prosecuting attorney for making certain false allegations in child custody proceedings
  • Eng. SB 621: Authorizing digital court records (original similar to HB 3271)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 719: Relating to age at which minor can consent to certain medical decisions and services

 

SECOND READING

 

  • Com. Sub. for SB 450: Establishing WV Guardian Program
  • Com. Sub. for SB 731: Terminating Design Build Board
  • SB 734: Repealing section creating A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan
  • Com. Sub. for SB 736: Relating to publication of registered lobbyist information
  • SB 738: Terminating Employee Suggestion Award Board

 

FIRST READING

 

  • SB 75: Changing distribution of income from excess lottery fund
  • Com. Sub. for SB 76: Increasing WV Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System accrued benefit for certain members
  • Com. Sub. for SB 601: Relating to fees and charges for municipality-provided fire services
  • SB 615: Eliminating accelerated tax payment requirements (original similar to HB 2012)
  • Com. Sub. for SB 683: Relating to land sales by Auditor
  • Com. Sub. for SB 710: Relating to the practice of teledentistry (original similar to HB 3196)
  • SB 733: Relating to membership composition of Legislative Oversight Commission on Department of Transportation Accountability
  • Com. Sub. for SB 746: Allowing State Board of Education to delegate its Medicaid provider status to public charter schools
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2129: Creating the Parents Bill of Rights – (Com. amend. pending)
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for HB 2441: To make those who fail drug test ineligible for unemployment

Scheduled Committee Meetings

 

9:30 a.m.: Select Committee on Substance Abuse Prevention and Mental Health (451M)

  • SB 761: Creating Joel Archer Substance Abuse Intervention Act
  • HB 2437: Clarification of penalties for offenses involving Fentanyl

1 p.m.: Natural Resources (208W)

  • Com. Sub. for SB 721: Providing penalties for damages resulting to farm property and critical infrastructure from use of drones

2 p.m.: Agriculture (208W)

  • SB 751: Prohibiting manufacture, sale, or distribution of cultivated meat products.
  • Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2158: Relating to removal of a sunset clause for the West Virginia spay and neuter program

2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)

  • Com. Sub. for SB 6: Exempting life insurance cash value from Medicaid eligibility calculations
  • SB 776: Creating Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act
  • Com. Sub. for SB 800: Relating to insurance holding company systems

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

  • SJR 13: Constitutional Officer Term Limit Amendment
  • SB 128: Preventing courts from ordering services at higher rate than Medicaid
  • SB 595: Mountain Bike Responsibility Act
  • SB 705: Allowing Board of Education to promulgate rules for submission to Legislature

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

  • Com. Sub. for SB 10: Exempting certain meat processes from consumers sales and service tax
  • Com. Sub. for SB 35: Permitting campus police officers to participate in Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement System
  • SB 292: Allowing doula services be covered by Medicaid and PEIA
  • SB 249: Expanding employment and training requirements necessary for SNAP benefits

 

** Committee times and agendas are subject to change **

 

Senate Bills to be Introduced Wednesday, March 19, 2025

  • SB 803: Relating to data centers (Phillips, Hart, Rose; Economic Development)
  • SB 804: Relating to WV Secondary School Activities Commission Reform Act (Taylor, Smith, Azinger, Bartlett, Chapman, Charnock, Deeds, Fuller, Grady, Hart, Helton, Jeffries, Martin, Maynard, Morris, Roberts, Rose, Rucker, Stuart, Thorne, Weld, Willis; Education)
  • SB 805: Relating to land use associations (Rucker, Deeds; Agriculture then Government Organization)
  • SB 806: Reorganizing several provisions of bail statutes (Deeds, Azinger, Bartlett, Fuller, Hamilton, Thorne; Judiciary)
  • SB 807: Exempting automobiles 25 years or older from personal property taxes (Oliverio, Azinger, Charnock, Garcia, Phillips; Transportation and Infrastructure then Finance)
  • SB 808: Establishing Justice Reinvestment Task Force (Weld; Government Organization)
  • SB 809: Modifying managed timberland certification requirements (Morris; Natural Resources)
  • SB 810: Clarifying requirements for administration of anesthesia (Rucker; Government Organization)
  • SB 811: Creating Child Care Subsidy Pilot Program (Chapman; Health and Human Resources then Finance)
  • SB 812: Establishing, defining, and creating criminal penalties for terrorist acts and groups (Willis; Judiciary)
  • SB 813: Extending time frame for Department of Human Services to identify relatives and fictive kin (Chapman; Judiciary)
  • SB 814: Allowing county commissions to establish fees for municipality-provided fire services (FN) (Martin; Government Organization then Finance)
  • SB 815: Permitting access to funding for public water utilities subject to PSC’s jurisdiction (FN) (Phillips; Finance)
  • SB 816: Prohibiting sales of unauthorized vape products (Stuart; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
  • SB 817: Regulating private alternative adolescent residential or outdoor programs (Chapman; Health and Human Resources then Judiciary)
  • SB 818: Power Generation and Consumption Act of 2025 [By Request of the Executive] (Smith, Woelfel; Economic Development then Finance)
  • SB 819: Requiring heart health program in grades three through six (FN) (Rucker; Education then Finance)
  • SB 820: Whistleblower Protection Fund Act (Helton; Government Organization then Finance)
  • SR 37: Recognizing Energy Council on its 50th anniversary (Phillips, Barrett, Charnock, Hart, Queen, Rose, Stuart, Woodrum)
  • SR 38: Designating March 20, 2025, as Mingo County Day (Maynard)

* (FN) indicates the bill has a Fiscal Note

* (IB) indicates the bill is an Interim Bill

Committee Action on Bills from Tuesday, March 18, 2025

 

9:30 a.m.: Government Organization

  • SB 747: Relating to Real Estate License Act
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

  • SB 743: Adjusting percentage of tax retained by clerk of county commission for certain purposes
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

  • Com. Sub. for SB 1: Requiring utility work and road paving coordination
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

9:30 a.m.: Education

  • SB 531: Defining assault and battery on sports officials
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

  • Com. Sub. for SB 506: Relating to enhanced pay for teachers
  • Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

  • Com. Sub. for SB 737: Creating WV Farm Equipment Repair Pilot Program
  • Bill laid over to a future meeting

  • SB 54: Requiring age-appropriate instruction on Holocaust in public schools
  • Bill laid over to a future meeting

  • SB 695: Requiring higher education institutions to accept Classic Learning Test
  • Bill laid over to a future meeting

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources

  • Com. Sub. for SB 221: Authorizing child or child care tax credit
  • Bill not taken up

  • Com. Sub. for SB 697: Creating Caregiver Tax Credit Act
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

  • Com. Sub. for SB 702: Relating to payment rates for child care services
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

  • SB 472: Requiring transparency from Department of Human Services
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Judiciary

3 p.m.: Judiciary

  • SB 579: Relating to Home Rule Reform
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

  • SB 128: Preventing courts from ordering services at higher rate than Medicaid
  • Bill laid over to a future meeting

  • Com. Sub. for HB 2331: Commerce Bundle – Includes SB 411, Rules Governing the Certification, Recertification and Training of EMT-Miners and the Certification of EMT-M Instructors; SB 412, Transporting and Selling Wildlife Parts and Pelts; SB 413, Boating Rule; SB 414, Special Boating Rule; SB 415, Public Use of Campgrounds in West Virginia State Parks, State Forests, and State Rail Trails under the Division of Natural Resources; SB 416,  Special Projects and Grants for West Virginia State Parks, State Forests, and State Rail Trails under the Division of Natural Resources; SB 417, Prohibitions when Hunting and Trapping; SB 418, General Hunting; SB 419, Special Waterfowl Hunting; SB 420, Special Fishing Rule; SB 421, Catching and Selling Baitfish; SB 422, Falconry
  • Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Finance

  • SB 100: Allowing members of State Police retirement system to use accrued leave as credit toward retirement
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

  • SB 105: Updating retirement eligibility for certain sheriffs
  • Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

  • Com. Sub. for SB 578: Relating to pet food packages
  • Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

 

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (87 – 81 Senate; 6 House)

 

  • SB 5: Establishing Adopt-A-Road program (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SB 8: Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender (Passed House; pending Senate concurrence to House amendment)
  • SB 22: Applying penalties for nonpayment of royalties under terms of oil and natural gas leases (House Judiciary)
  • SB 29: Allowing physicians assistants to own practice (House Health and Human Resources)
  • SB 50: Requiring municipal elections to be held on same day as statewide elections (House Judiciary)
  • SB 92: Glucagon for Schools Act (House Education)
  • SB 102: Modifying form of certain deeds (House Judiciary)
  • SB 103: Exempting certain records from public release (House Judiciary)
  • SB 117: Exempting certain physicians from specified traffic laws when responding to emergencies (House Judiciary)
  • SB 121: Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure (House Judiciary)
  • SB 124: Reducing statute of limitations on actions to recover on oral and written contracts (House Judiciary)
  • SB 136: Increasing penalties and parole eligibility requirements for homicide (House Judiciary)
  • SB 138: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 139: Relating to filling of vacancies in Legislature (House Judiciary)
  • SB 151: Creating crime of assault on police dogs and other public safety animals (House Judiciary)
  • SB 154: Prohibiting sexual orientation instruction in public schools (House Education)
  • SB 155: Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program (House Education)
  • SB 196: Lauren’s Law (House Judiciary)
  • SB 198: Prohibiting creation, production, distribution, or possession of artificially generated child pornography (House Judiciary)
  • SB 199: Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety (House Education)
  • SB 234: Increasing value at which municipal property must be sold through public auction (House Government Organization)
  • SB 240: Updating crime of sexual extortion (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 257: Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property (House Judiciary)
  • SB 267: Extending time for renewal and restoration of commercial driver’s licenses (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SB 269: Modifying requirements for public water systems or businesses having backflow preventers (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SB 270: Declaring sale and manufacture of firearms essential business during declared emergency (House Judiciary)
  • SB 275: Removing requirement school cooks or custodians have high school diploma or equivalent (House Education)
  • SB 280: Displaying official US motto in public schools (House Education)
  • SB 282: Modifying provisions for employment of retired teachers as substitutes in areas of critical need and shortage (House Education)
  • SB 283: Expanding grade levels of personal finance course requirements needed for graduation (House Education)
  • SB 284: Relating to county board of education member orientation and compensation (House Education)
  • SB 291: Extending time frame for pharmacies to register from annually to biennially (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 299: Modifying WV regulations on pubertal modulation, hormonal therapy, and gender reassignment (House Health and Human Resources)
  • SB 325: Department of Health rule relating to general provisions of Medical Cannabis Program (Health and Human Resources)
  • SB 336: Authorizing Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules (H Second Reading, 03-19)
  • SB 358: Authorizing Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 369: Authorizing miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules (H First Reading, 03-19)
  • SB 427: Permitting certain teenagers to work without obtaining work permit (House Government Organization)
  • SB 443: Authorizing Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board of Examiners to conduct criminal background checks for licensing (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 449: Permitting compressed air and rimfire shooting teams in public schools (House Education)
  • SB 456: Defining “men” and “women” (Signed, 03-12)
  • SB 458: Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025 (House Government Organization)
  • SB 459: Requiring county planning commission members be state residents (House Government Organization)
  • SB 460: Relating to vaccine requirements (House Health and Human Resources)
  • SB 462: Permitting Board of Occupational Therapy to require criminal history record checks (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 482: Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation (House Government Organization)
  • SB 483: Increasing civil penalties for failure to file required campaign finance reports (House Judiciary)
  • SB 485: Exempting West Virginia Secretary of State from competitive bidding process (House Government Organization)
  • SB 486: Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections (Passed House; pending Senate concurrence to House amendment)
  • SB 487: Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 488: Clarifying definition of electioneering (House Judiciary)
  • SB 490: Prohibiting ranked-choice voting in elections in West Virginia (Signed, 03-18)
  • SB 492: Removing outdated provisions governing political committees (House Judiciary)
  • SB 496: Removing reflexology and other energy-based work from definition of “massage therapy” (House Government Organization)
  • SB 500: Transferring audits of volunteer fire departments to Legislative Auditor (House Government Organization)
  • SB 501: Relating to loan form (House Finance)
  • SB 503: Allowing sheriffs to appoint more than one chief deputy with consent of county commission (House Government Organization)
  • SB 521: Requiring party affiliations be listed for all candidates (House Judiciary)
  • SB 522: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of limited liability companies by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
  • SB 525: Clarifying procedure for administrative dissolution of nonprofit corporations by Secretary of State (House Government Organization)
  • SB 532: Making ad valorem taxes on property payable only to county in which property is located (House Finance)
  • SB 534: Clarifying qualifications to be licensed to administer polygraphs (House Government Organization)
  • SB 537: Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program (House Health and Human Resources)
  • SB 548: Creating Safety and Violence Education for Students Act (Pending House introduction)
  • SB 552: Relating to Certified Business Expansion Development Program (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SB 561: Relating to Uniform Special Deposits Act (House Finance)
  • SB 565: Relating generally to practice of optometry (House Health and Human Resources)
  • SB 573: Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SB 581: Relating to school attendance and student participation in 4-H activities (House Education)
  • SB 586: Relating to requirements for filling vacancies in certain elected federal, state, and county offices (Pending House introduction)
  • SB 592: Relating generally to aboveground storage tanks (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SB 606: Relating to notification of breast density (House Health and Human Resources)
  • SB 612: Making rules and regulations of PSC subject to legislative rule-making review procedures (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SB 627: Removing prohibition against leasing state-owned pore spaces underlying lands designated as state parks (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SB 649: Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Health, Office of Inspector General (House Finance)
  • SB 650: Relating to full-time interventionists (House Education)
  • SB 658: Prohibiting certain persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veterans’ benefits (House Judiciary)
  • SB 686: Relating to WV commercial feed law (Pending House introduction)
  • SB 712: Relating to retirement provisions of systems managed by CPRB (Pending House introduction)
  • SB 715: Relating to personally identifiable information of member, retirant, beneficiary, or alternate payee of retirement system (House Finance)
  • SB 716: Relating to failure to pay required contributions and interest payments for certain retirees who transfer between retirement systems (House Finance)
  • HB 2024: Updating the meaning certain terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2025: Updating terms in the Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2042: Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendment)
  • HB 2053: Relating to including the United States Space Force in the definition armed forces (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 2222: Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendment)
  • HB 2354: Banning certain products from food in West Virginia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Senate Resolutions that Have Been Adopted by the Senate as of Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (6)

  • SCR 1: Adopting Joint Rules of Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 01-08)
  • SCR 2: Authorizing payment of joint expenses (Adopted, 01-08)
  • SCR 4: Amending Joint Rules of Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 02-12)
  • SCR 15: Opposing China’s use of UN Resolution 2758 against Taiwan (Pending House introduction)
  • SCR 18: Recognizing intent to create WV Coal Renaissance Act (House Energy and Public Works)
  • SCR 20: Recognizing and commending NCSL on its 50th anniversary (Adopted, 03-18)

Action on House Bills in the Senate as of Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (68)

 

  • HB 2008: Executive Branch Reorganization (Government Organization)
  • HB 2009: Relating to the merging and reorganizing of the executive branch (Government Organization)
  • HB 2024: Updating the meaning certain terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2025: Updating terms in the Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2042: Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendment)
  • HB 2047: Prohibiting cameras and recording devices in bedrooms and bathrooms of foster children (Health and Human Resources)
  • HB 2053: Relating to including the United States Space Force in the definition armed forces (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 2065: To allow Gold Star parents to receive one free Gold Star vehicle registration for personal use (Transportation and Infrastructure)
  • HB 2066: Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment (Judiciary)
  • HB 2117: Relating to when Mail In Ballots are Due (Government Organization)
  • HB 2123: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse (Judiciary)
  • HB 2129: Creating the Parents Bill of Rights (S First Reading, 03-19)
  • HB 2131: Relating to changing the process of election litigation (Judiciary)
  • HB 2143: Require elementary school teachers to be certified in the science of reading (Education)
  • HB 2157: Provide one trip temporary vehicle permits to be purchased and printed online (Transportation and Infrastructure)
  • HB 2158: Relating to removal of a sunset clause for the West Virginia spay and neuter program (Agriculture)
  • HB 2164: To allow for public and private schools in West Virginia to employ security personnel (Education)
  • HB 2165: Allowing disabled purple heart recipients park free at municipal metered parking spaces (Finance)
  • HB 2170: Allowing volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases (Government Organization)
  • HB 2172: Relating to adding an athletic trainer to the Board of Physical Therapy (Government Organization)
  • HB 2190: Including Potomac State College in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program” (Education)
  • HB 2217: Relating to penalties for conspiracy to commit murder (Judiciary)
  • HB 2222: Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules (Passed Senate; pending House concurrence to Senate amendment)
  • HB 2233: Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules (Judiciary)
  • HB 2267: Authorizing Department of Revenue to Promulgate Legislative Rules (Judiciary)
  • HB 2331: Relating to authorizing the Office Miners’ Health, Safety, and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the certification, recertification, and training of EMT-Miners and the certification of EMT-M instructors (Judiciary)
  • HB 2344: Relating generally to traffic safety (Transportation and Infrastructure)
  • HB 2347: Relating generally to the creation of mental hygiene regions by the Supreme Court of Appeals (Judiciary)
  • HB 2354: Banning certain products from food in West Virginia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 2358: Relating to postmortem examinations (Government Organization)
  • HB 2360: Clarifying the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers (Judiciary)
  • HB 2362: Relating to recognizing the law-enforcement powers of correctional officers employed by the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Government Organization)
  • HB 2363: Clarifying the groups of persons to whom the criminal prohibitions related to child pornography are inapplicable when such persons are performing their official or employment duties (Judiciary)
  • HB 2382: Camping ban on certain public property (Judiciary)
  • HB 2387: To repeal the class A1 Pistol stamp for hunting (Natural Resources)
  • HB 2402: Relating to providing access to medical records; providing access to a minor’s medical record (Health and Human Resources)
  • HB 2411: To provide and change graduation requirements and change duties relating to academic content standards (Education)
  • HB 2434: Relating to establishing the Stop Squatters Act (Judiciary)
  • HB 2437: Clarification of penalties for offenses involving Fentanyl (Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health)
  • HB 2441: To make those who fail drug test ineligible for unemployment (S First Reading, 03-19)
  • HB 2444: Relating to limiting financial records of limited video lottery permittees that are subject to examination by Lottery Commission (Finance)
  • HB 2473: Increasing and maintaining the bracketed tax rates on the privilege of establishing or operating a health maintenance organization (Finance)
  • HB 2501: Relating to exemptions of property in bankruptcy proceedings (Finance)
  • HB 2511: Relating to charitable bingo and alcohol sales and consumption while such bingo is taking places (Judiciary)
  • HB 2513: Enhancing training requirements for county boards of education members (Education)

·       HB 2515: Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety (Education)

  • HB 2516: To repeal antiquated and inoperative portions of code (Education)

·       HB 2560: Creating Infrastructure Ready Jurisdictions (Economic Development)

  • HB 2634: To double the criminal penalty for anyone found guilty of sexual assault on a minor (Judiciary)
  • HB 2635: To ensure that classroom sizes are equal without losing a teachers aide (Education)

·       HB 2653: Updating the West Virginia Law Institute (Judiciary)

  • HB 2659: Adding a special permit for a non-profit entity to be a qualified permit holder in a private outdoor designated area (Judiciary)

·       HB 2678: Relating to school zones of public or private schools (Transportation and Infrastructure)

·       HB 2702: Relating to vacancies in offices of state officials (Judiciary)

·       HB 2709: Permitting a voter with a change of address to vote in his or her new precinct without having to cast a provisional ballot (Government Organization)

·       HB 2710: Truth in Giving (Judiciary)

·       HB 2711: Relating to the repeal of the common law rule against perpetuities by extending it to 1,000 years for all trusts (Judiciary)

  • HB 2742: Relating to creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects (Government Organization)

·       HB 2761: Relating generally to magistrate courts (Judiciary)

·       HB 2774: Coach Protection Act (Education)

·       HB 2781: Relating to the meaning of residence for the Purpose of Bail (Judiciary)

  • HB 2802: Relating to in-service training credits for law-enforcement officers (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HB 2867: Relating to Small Estates (Judiciary)

·       HB 2871: Relating to the crime of negligent homicide (Judiciary)

·       HB 2942: Administration of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Design-Build Pilot Program (Finance)

·       HB 2943: Administration of the West Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Act (Finance)

  • HB 3017: Compliance Audits of Tabulating Equipment (Government Organization)

·       HB 3030: Administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act (Energy, Industry and Mining)

Action on House Resolutions in the Senate as of Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (33)

·       HCR 5: William “Bill” Harrison Lowther Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 6: Private Sidney Washington Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 7: U.S. Army Pfc John Wesley Meadows Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 8: PFC Lester E. Maynard Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 9: Robert S. Pomeroy Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 10: USMC PFC Robert Thomas Taylor Memorial Road (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 11: Thomas A. Azinger Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 12: Charles “Charlie” Goff Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 13: Corporal James E. Jackley Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 15: US Marines PFC Delbert Carles Roles Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 18: Paul J. Hofe Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 20: Tustin Brothers Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 21: U. S. Army Private Terry F. Tustin Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 22: James M. Ellis Memorial Road (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 23: US Army PFC Calvin E. Spade Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 24: Postlethwait Brothers Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 25: Waynesburg Pike Road (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 26: Jimmy M. Hutchison Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 27: BG Edmund “Frank” Roleff, WVNG Memorial Road (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 28: Frank Lee Maddy Memorial Road (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 29: Sheriff Jeremy Taylor Memorial Road (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 31: U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Quewanncoll “Que” Stephens, Sr. Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 32: U. S. Army PVT Leon ‘Deacon’ Stover Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 34: U. S. Merchant Marine Joseph Ward Teter Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 35: U.S. Air Force Thomas M. Oxley Memorial Road (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 36: US. Marine Corps PFC Darrel Lee Burgess Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 37: CPT Ray Leslie Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 39: Gold Star Mother Catherine Blake Highway (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 42: U.S. Army Corporal Kenneth H. Tinsley Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 44: Corporal Charles W. Wolfe Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

·       HCR 45: Charlotte Denise Seymour Hill Memorial Bridge (Pending Senate introduction)

  • HCR 49: Resolution relating to use of industrial sites and the potential impacts on downstream facilities (Adopted, 03-03)

·       HCR 78: Urging the Commissioner of Highways to prioritize completion of I-73, the King Coal Highway (Pending Senate introduction)

Bills that Have Completed Legislation as of Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (13 – 9 Senate; 4 House)

  • SB 138: Enhancing penalties for fleeing officer (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 240: Updating crime of sexual extortion (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 291: Extending time frame for pharmacies to register from annually to biennially (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 358: Authorizing Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 443: Authorizing Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board of Examiners to conduct criminal background checks for licensing (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 456: Defining “men” and “women” (Signed, 03-12)
  • SB 462: Permitting Board of Occupational Therapy to require criminal history record checks (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 487: Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • SB 490: Prohibiting ranked-choice voting in elections in West Virginia (Signed, 03-18)
  • HB 2024: Updating the meaning certain terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2025: Updating terms in the Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2053: Relating to including the United States Space Force in the definition armed forces (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)
  • HB 2354: Banning certain products from food in West Virginia (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (9 – 4 Senate; 5 House)

  • SCR 1: Adopting Joint Rules of Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 01-08)
  • SCR 2: Authorizing payment of joint expenses (Adopted, 01-08)
  • SCR 4: Amending Joint Rules of Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 02-12)
  • SCR 20: Recognizing and commending NCSL on its 50th anniversary (Adopted, 03-18)
  • HCR 1: Raising a Joint Assembly to open and publish election returns (Adopted, 01-08)
  • HCR 2: Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor (Adopted, 01-08)
  • HCR 3: Providing for an adjournment of the Legislature until February 12, 2025 (Adopted, 01-08)
  • HCR 4: Raising a Joint Assembly to hear remarks of the Governor (Adopted, 01-12)
  • HCR 49: Resolution relating to use of industrial sites and the potential impacts on downstream facilities (Adopted, 03-03)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (4 – 2 Senate; 2 House)

  • SB 456: Defining “men” and “women” (Signed, 03-12)
  • SB 490: Prohibiting ranked-choice voting in elections in West Virginia (Signed, 03-18)
  • HB 2024: Updating the meaning certain terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)
  • HB 2025: Updating terms in the Corporation Net Income Tax Act (Signed, 02-24)

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All Senate Committee meetings and floor sessions are available for both live streaming and to watch again in our archives. The link to the Senate’s archived video page can be found here: https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00289/Harmony/en/View/UpcomingEvents.

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