2010 Regular Session

Authorizing Division of Wildlife Resources recover possession or restitution value of certain animals

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Continuing the current hazardous waste management fee until 2015

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Relating to the board of physical therapy

Sponsor: William Hartman

Updating references to Information Services and Communications Division

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Relating to speed-detecting device use law

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Relating to mineral rights' benefits

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Relating to the emergency medical services retirement system act

Sponsor: Sharon Spencer

Relating to duties of protected person's guardian

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Changing the composition, powers and responsibilities of the board of Coal Mine Health and Safety

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Updating language relating to adult social services

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Providing counties the discretion to accompany an electronic poll book with a printed poll book

Sponsor: Charlene Marshall

Authorizing DMV use certain program to identify uninsured vehicles

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Declaring December 7 special memorial day

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Relating to tagging and checking beaver pelts

Sponsor: John Fanning

Relating to professional employer organizations

Sponsor: Jim Morgan

Removing non-utilized code sections

Sponsor: William Hartman

Creating of a pilot program for the placement of children four to ten years of age in foster care which shall be known as Jacob's Law

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Exempting Adjutant General and National Guard from certain leasing and accounting requirements

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Adopting the Uniform State Military Code of Justice into West Virginia law

Sponsor: Richard Iaquinta

Requiring Racetrack Video Lottery Fund be used for certain payments

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Relating to PSC approval of high voltage transmission line construction

Sponsor: John Unger

Athletic Trainers Registration Act

Sponsor: Bob Ashley

Increasing civil and criminal penalties for littering

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Increasing the monetary penalties for selling tobacco products to minors

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Authorizing circuit court judges and magistrates to utilize county or municipal jails to detain persons charged with a crime up to ninety-six hours, or, to confine persons convicted of a crime for not more than fourteen days

Sponsor: John Frazier

Prohibiting providing false information to obtain controlled substances prescription

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Relating to tax tickets and other required notifications concerning property taxes

Sponsor: John Ellem

Clarifying deceased public employees' survivors participate in comprehensive group health insurance plans only

Sponsor: Walt Helmick

Anti-Criminal Street Gang Act

Sponsor: John Ellem

Increasing game trap markings

Sponsor: John Fanning

Relating to PEIA preexisting conditions limitations

Sponsor: Walt Helmick

Relating to the solicitation of charitable funds

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Depositing public funds into certain federally insured accounts

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Providing fiduciary commissioner oversight

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Updating commercial driver's license requirements

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Repealing outdated and obsolete sections of education code

Sponsor: Michael Oliverio

Creating DOT administrative law judge office

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Extending DNR license and stamp fees sunset provision

Sponsor: John Fanning

Establishing motor vehicle search criteria

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Requiring State Fire Commission approve certain county and municipal fire ordinances and regulations

Sponsor: Roman Prezioso

Creating Aquaculture Development Act

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Adding six additional members to the Equal Pay Commission, three from the House of Delegates and three from the Senate

Sponsor: Virginia Mahan

Increasing the safety of school children that use school buses

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Updating language in WV Medical Practice Act

Sponsor: Larry Edgell

Authorizing any municipality to enact by ordinance a vacant property registration program

Sponsor: Richard Thompson

Relating to land surveyors

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Relating to refunding of appraisal fees

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Relating to the licensing of residential mortgage brokers, lenders and loan originators by the Division of Banking

Sponsor: Tom Azinger

Eliminating the twelve-month look-back period for certain children who have had employer sponsored insurance

Sponsor: Samuel Cann

Granting exceptions to certain statutes to innovation zone plans approved by state board

Sponsor: Denny Canterbury

Relating to the access to and protection of cemeteries

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Imposing a statutory lien on fire insurance proceeds in the event of a total loss to real property

Sponsor: Richard Thompson

Requiring banks provide bond to secure certain county deposits

Sponsor: Evan Jenkins

Creating WV Official Prescription Program Act

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Providing discretion to schools that make AYP to use assessments and adopting instructional strategies and programs that promote student learning

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Transferring certain Health Care Authority's duties to Insurance Commissioner

Sponsor: Roman Prezioso

Providing supplemental funding for providing alternative programs for limited English proficient students

Sponsor: Walter Duke

Requiring local labor for public construction projects

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Authorizing the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to create a Business Court Division within certain circuit court districts

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Relating to the Tax Procedure and Administration Act

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Relating to administration of sales and use tax

Sponsor: Walt Helmick

Relating to electronic filing of tax returns and electronic funds transfers in payment of taxes

Sponsor: Richard Thompson

Reconstituting Commission to Study Residential Placement of Children

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Specifying number of members on municipal planning commissions and zoning boards

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to special rates for energy-intensive industrial electric power consumers

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Division of Labor to verify employers records relating to employees legal employment status

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Removing provisions prohibiting sharing domestic violence information with other governments

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Requiring telecommunications tax study

Sponsor: Earl Tomblin

Eliminating duplicitous criminal background investigations with both the West Virginia State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Sponsor: Tom Azinger

Updating terms and reporting procedures for traffic crashes

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Relating to certain oil and gas drilling geologic reports

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Caregivers Consent Act

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Requiring child care centers have written evacuation plan

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to insurance companies deemed to be in hazardous financial condition

Sponsor: David Perry

Providing flexibility in the West Virginia public school support plan for funding regional education service agencies

Sponsor: Richard Thompson

Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Extending time to purchase full service credit in Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to school bus operators

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Extending time Fairmont City Council can meet

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Authorizing the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to promulgate legislative rules

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Authorizing Energy and Water Savings Revolving Loan Fund Program and PROMISE rules for Higher Education Policy Commission

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Prohibiting landfill disposal of certain electronic devices

Sponsor: Karen Facemyer

Updating process for adopting textbooks and other instructional material

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Codifying the Division of Criminal Justice Services being incorporated into the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety

Sponsor: Jim Morgan

Relating to county board of education members' eligibility

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Creating reciprocity for West Virginia small, women and minority-owned businesses who receive such preferences in other states

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Clarifying definition of "raffle"

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Increasing circuit clerks' copying charge

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Relating to Division of Energy's duties

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state and directing payments thereof

Sponsor: William Anderson

Reviewing all of the Department of Health and Human Resources requests for proposals or change orders valued at over $500,000 prior to their release

Sponsor: Nancy Peoples Guthrie

Revising Municipal Economic Opportunity Development District Act

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Providing state bid preference for certain current license or permit holders

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Replacing references to "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability"

Sponsor: Bob Ashley

Renaming conservation officers to be natural resources police officers

Sponsor: Tom Azinger

Establishing a school calendar committee for each county

Sponsor: Mary Poling

Relating to Economic Development Authority loans' criteria

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to public higher education personnel

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to reinstating former chiefs of police to previously held positions within the paid police department

Sponsor: Tom Azinger

Authorizing citation issuance in lieu of court appearance in certain situations

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Authorizing State Police promulgate legislative rule relating to carrying of handguns by retired or medically discharged members

Sponsor: Donna Boley

The "PFC Franklin L. Conn Memorial Bridge"

Updating terms and the process for approval and adoption of instructional resources in public schools

Sponsor: Walter Duke

Authorizing State Tax Department promulgate legislative rule relating to corporation net income tax

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Exempting antique motor vehicles from personal property taxes

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Agriculture, to the Department of Health and Human Resources, to the Department of Revenue - Racing Commission, to the Bureau of Senior Services and to the Higher Education Policy Commission

Sponsor: Bob Ashley

Extending the expiration date of employment of retired teachers beyond the post-retirement employment limit

Sponsor: Walter Duke

Calling for the termination of scientists who acted to conceal data, suppress dissenting views and stifle science regarding anthropocentric global warming

Requesting a study on reimbursement for medical services by preferred provider organizations

Requesting a study on the feasibility of authorizing the DMV to adopt a program to utilize electronic verification of insurance coverage to identify uninsured motor vehicles

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study forensic services

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study alternative funding sources for roads ineligible for federal matching dollars

Requesting DOH name bridge in Logan County "G. R. 'Bob' Johnson Memorial Bridge"

The "Staff Sergeant Arthur Coulter and Corporal E. J. Sizemore Memorial Bridge"

Authorizing Board of Psychologists promulgate legislative rule relating to qualifications for licensure as psychologist or school psychologist

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting Joint Committee on Judiciary study limiting certain DNR Parks and Recreation liability

Requesting DOH name bridge in Mercer County "Andrew Scott Memorial Bridge"

Requesting DOH name bridge in Mingo County "Bobby Lee Jarrell Memorial Bridge"

Extending the time for certain members to purchase additional service credit for service in the Teachers Defined Contribution Retirement System

Sponsor: William Anderson

Recognizing James Fitzpatrick, dedicated public servant and distinguished West Virginian

Urging EPA not veto Spruce Mine permit

Requesting DOH name bridge in Mercer County "Yon-Peraldo Memorial Bridge"

Requesting DOH name bridge in Lincoln County "Private Brunty Willis Memorial Bridge"

The "Ray P. Reip Memorial Bridge"

The "Glenn Holton Memorial Bridge"

Authorizing State Tax Department promulgate legislative rule relating to film industry investment tax credit

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to interpret the West Virginia Water Pollution Act

The "Sgt. Chester A. Mollett Memorial Highway"

Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to annuity disclosure

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting a study of funding sources for county clerks to acquire resources to implement Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and other similar acts

Requesting DOH name bridge in Mercer County "Phoebe Goodwill Memorial Bridge"

Making a supplementary appropriation to the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, the Department of Education and the Arts - Division of Culture and History, and to the Department of Environmental Protection

Sponsor: Bob Ashley

The"Jerry Alan Jones Memorial Bridge"

Authorizing Commissioner of Agriculture promulgate legislative rule relating to best management practices for land application of waste products from aquaculture facilities

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rule relating to out-of-school time child care center licensing requirements

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to variable life insurance

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Allowing court discretion for habitual offender sentencing

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

The "Arsenio Albert Alvarez Memorial Bridge"

Updating language in WV Medical Practice Act

Sponsor: Michael Oliverio

Reporting of certain geologic information obtained incidental to oil and gas drilling

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to continue studying the needs, challenges, and issues facing West Virginia veterans returning from recent service

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study DNR Parks and Recreation section deferred maintenance, profitability and recommended facility closures

Creating Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act

Sponsor: Donald Caruth

The "Delmar L. Parrish Bridge"

Congratulating Piedmont Elementary Chess team

Making it unlawful to send obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant or other mobile device

Sponsor: Timothy Ennis

Amending Rule 65 of the Rules of the House of Delegates, by reordering the Daily Order of Business and designating Introduction of Guests as Item XIV

Allowing municipalities to operate teen courts

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study vocational education from middle school through adulthood

Congratulating Walton Middle School Boys' varsity basketball team

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study gubernatorial succession

Requesting Joint Committee on Education study providing athletic department funding to secondary schools

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study tourism industry development

The "Joseph Homer Lloyd Bridge"

Requesting Joint Committee on Judiciary study establishing additional civil and criminal forfeiture statutes

"The Marion County Veterans Memorial Bridge"

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study PSC's legislative rule-making exemption

Relating to special rates for energy intensive industrial consumers of electric power

Sponsor: Steven Kominar

Repealing outdated and obsolete sections of tax code

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Finding and declaring certain claims against state

Sponsor: Larry Edgell

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study green public policy initiatives

Requesting a study of West Virginia's cemetery industry to determine whether oversight and regulation are needed to protect the public

Clarifying responsibilities of Higher Education Policy Commission

Sponsor: Earl Tomblin

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study updating article one provisions regarding chapter thirty boards

Establishing requirements for Marcellus gas well operations use of water resources

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Commercial and Industrial Tangible Personal Property Tax Exemption Amendment

Sponsor: Richard Thompson

Authorizing Secretary of State promulgate legislative rule relating to Vote-by-Mail Pilot Project Phase 2: Voting by Mail

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Trustees of Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund promulgate legislative rule relating to fund

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Using voter registration figures to determine the placement of political parties on the general election ballot

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Authorizing Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board promulgate legislative rule relating to renewal of licensure or certification

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Department of Transportation promulgate legislative rules

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Transferring licensure for private security services from the Secretary of State to the Division of Criminal Justice Services

Sponsor: William Hartman

Correcting inconsistency in school board levies' code

Sponsor: Earl Tomblin

Requiring public access to electronic system of certain public documents

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Requiring practitioners report suspected controlled substance prescription fraud

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Authorizing Board of Osteopathy promulgate legislative rule relating to formation and approval of professional limited liability companies

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing issuance of revenue bonds for public projects

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing DOT promulgate legislative rule relating to valuation of used rolling stock and equipment

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology promulgate legislative rule relating to licensure of speech-pathology and audiology

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Secretary of State promulgate legislative rule relating to Vote-by-Mail Pilot Project Phase 1: Class IV Early Voting by Mail

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Relating to professional licensing boards posting fee increase proposals

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Authorizing State Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses promulgate legislative rule relating to policies and procedures for development and maintenance of educational programs in practical nursing

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Increasing the number of persons that may be appointed to the Marshall County Park and Recreation Board

Sponsor: Scott Varner

Authorizing political subdivisions to establish risk pools to insure their workers' compensation risks

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Authorizing Board of Occupational Therapy promulgate legislative rule relating to administrative rules of board and licensure of occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Occupational Therapy promulgate legislative rule relating to competency standards for advance practice by occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rule relating to nurse aid abuse registry

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to WV/NPDES rules for coal mining facilities

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority promulgate legislative rule relating to rules for use of facilities

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study student performance and instructional time

Requesting Joint Committee on Judiciary study child pornography investigative process

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study effects of coal slurry impoundments and underground injection

Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to WV Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act notice requirements

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Fire Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to State Fire Code

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to monitoring wells

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Insurance Commissioner promulgate legislative rule relating to viatical settlements

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to covered electronic devices takeback program

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study diversifying state economy

Authorizing Health Care Authority promulgate legislative rule relating to hospital ambulatory health care facilities

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Relating to the practice of medical imaging and radiation therapy

Sponsor: William Hartman

Authorizing Division of Energy promulgate legislative rule relating to community development assessment and real property valuation procedures for Office of Coalfield Community Development

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Honoring Mike Carey, WVU women's basketball team head coach

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to hazardous waste management systems

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing DNR promulgate legislative rule relating to deer hunting

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to acid rain provisions and permits

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Reaffiriming the sister-state relationship West Virginia has with Taiwan Province of the Republic of China

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study economic impact of oil and gas drillers' capture rule

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to permits for construction and major modification of major stationary sources of air pollution which cause or contribute to nonattainment

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists promulgate legislative rule relating to standard of ethics

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board promulgate legislative rule relating to PERS

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting a study of the consequences of net metering tariff policy as practiced by the Public Service Commission

Authorizing Athletic Commission promulgate legislative rule relating to administration of commission

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists promulgate legislative rule relating to continuing education

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Division of Corrections promulgate legislative rule relating to recording of inmate telephone calls

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study prison and regional jail overcrowding

Authorizing Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists promulgate legislative rule relating to operation of barber, beauty shops and schools of barbering and beauty culture

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting DOH name bridge in Wayne County "Corporal Samuel R. Drown Memorial Bridge"

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to permits for construction and major modification of major stationary sources of air pollution for prevention of significant deterioration

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Examiners in Counseling promulgate legislative rule relating to marriage and family therapists' licensing

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting DOH name bridge at Cyrus Creek Road, Cabell County, "Glenn Holton Memorial Bridge"

Authorizing Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists promulgate legislative rule relating to hearing procedures

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Examiners in Counseling promulgate legislative rule relating to licensed professional counselor license renewal and continuing professional education requirements

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists promulgate legislative rule relating to qualifications, training, examination and licensure of instructors in barbering and beauty culture

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists promulgate legislative rule relating to procedures, criteria and curricula for examinations and licensure of barbers, cosmetologists, manicurists and aestheticians

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requesting DOH name bridge in Kanawha County "Private First Class Charles M. Conner Memorial Bridge"

Relating to public school support computation of local share

Sponsor: Walter Duke

Requesting DOH name bridge in Mingo County "Virgil and Marcella Faye Marcum Memorial Bridge"

Requesting DOH name bridge in Wyoming County "Hubert Cline Memorial Bridge"

Requesting a study of justice reinvestment strategies as a mechanism to better direct our expenditures in criminal justice

Requesting DOH name bridge in Boone County "Kevin Lee Ball Memorial Bridge"

Designating the annual observance of the week following Labor Day as Labor History Week

Requesting DOH name bridge in Kanawha County "Private First Class Vernon L. Dillard Memorial Bridge"

Requesting DOH name bridge at Mercer's Bottom, Mason County, "Private First Class Kenneth W. Bright Memorial Bridge"

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study continued deputy sheriff employment past mandatory retirement age

Requiring review and approval of final settlements of Workers' Compensation awards

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Requesting DOH name bridge in Scott Depot, Putnam County, "Trooper William 'Bill' Phillips Memorial Bridge"

Designating March 9, 2010, as "West Virginia Home School Day"

Requesting DOH name bridge in Big Chimney, Kanawha County, "Private First Class Thomas Keith Coleman Memorial Bridge"

Requesting a study of the costs and benefits of the creation of an exemption for social security benefits regarding personal income taxes

Requesting DOH name bridge in Wayne County "Perdue Brothers Memorial Bridge WWII Veterans Walter, Riley, James, Norman, Omer, Earl"

Requesting a study of the taxation of West Virginia's antique motor vehicles

Regarding the valuation of motor vehicles and motorcycles for property tax assessment purposes

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to conduct a study on the care and prevention of concussion injuries in sports regulated by the Secondary Schools

Requesting a study on the issue of public protective services provided to private residential subdivisions

Requesting a study of the law governing the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Requesting a study of the Board of Examiners of Psychologists and the scope of practice of psychologists and school psychologists

Requesting a study of the powers and duties regarding real estate acquisition and services for real estate held by the State of West Virginia

Requesting a study of the law governing the West Virginia Board of Dental Examiners

Requesting a study of the policies and procedures for awarding vendor preferences in state purchasing contracts

Designating March 7-13, 2010, National Problem Gambling Awareness Week

Requesting a study of the law governing the West Virginia Board of Medicine

Requesting a study of the law governing the West Virginia Occupational, Safety and Health Act for public employees

Requesting a study of the powers and duties of the Division of Criminal Justice Services

Providing that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor for renewal

Sponsor: Carol Miller

Designating March 2010 "American Red Cross Month"

The "Fletcher Brothers Memorial Bridge"

The "Chief Warrant Officer John Michael Hohman Memorial Bridge"

The "Trooper First Class James Thomas Brammer Memorial Bridge"

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study state employee interdepartmental transfers

The "William H. Sanders II Memorial Highway"

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study state Occupational, Safety and Health Act

Celebrating the life and lamenting the death of Gene M. Ashley, former member of the House of Delegates from the County of Roane

Establishing driver's license restoration program

Sponsor: Dan Foster

The "Charley Meddings Memorial Bridge"

Updating Logging Sediment Control Act

Sponsor: John Fanning

Relating to eligibility of certain felons to receive certain federally funded benefits

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Extending the termination date of the modified mental hygiene procedures pilot project

Sponsor: Jim Morgan

Creating Caregivers Consent Act

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Relating to public records management and preservation

Sponsor: Earl Tomblin

Making failure to wear safety belts primary offense

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Revising classification and compensation plans for certain civil service employees

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Requesting a study on the utility of transferring licensing authority of private investigative and security services

Relating to the revocation of death benefits by divorce

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Relating to dog and cat rabies' vaccination

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Restricting certain rehired state employees from previous benefits

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Relating to powers, duties and responsibilities of Water Development Authority

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to appoint a select interim committee to study the annexation process

Creating county boards of education school calendar committees

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Creating Spay Neuter Assistance Fund

Sponsor: Clark Barnes

Distributing minimum share of severance tax to coalbed methane-producing counties

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Allowing a nonresident to have an additional ten days to pay his or her fine before the magistrate court sends notice to the DMV

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Protecting consumers from state of emergency-related price gouging

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Relating to civil service for deputy sheriffs

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Relating to Commission on Special Investigations

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Defining charitable organization's inaugural committee's disbursement of excess contributions

Sponsor: Larry Edgell

Creating Asbestos Claims Disclosure Act

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to special license plates

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Relating to Creative Communities Development Pilot Program

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Establishing tax credit for repayment of certain student loans

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to liquor sampling on Class A retail licenses

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Relating to Board of Hearing-Aid Dealers

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Flexible Leave Act

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Relating to child pornography

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to corporate political accountability

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Allowing certain permit limits for dischargers located upstream of public water intakes

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Requesting a study on the issues implicated in the redistricting of the House of Delegates into one hundred single member districts after the 2010 census

Creating the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs

Sponsor: Nancy Peoples Guthrie

Designating May 24, 2010, "Aviation Maintenance Technician Day"

Designating March 1, 2010, as West Virginia March for Meals Day the month of March, 2010, as March for Meals Fundraising Month

Encouraging teachers who have achieved a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certificate to renew their certifications when they expire after ten years, and continuing the salary bonus for renewed certificates

Sponsor: Harold Michael

Relating to mandatory retirement age of deputy sheriffs

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Updating references from the commissioner of accounts to the fiduciary commissioner

Sponsor: Kevin Craig

Recognizing US Power Squadrons District 7

Declaring that February 26, 2010, be designated "West Virginia State Grange Day"

Requiring certain students provide dental exam proof

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Establishing centralized filing system for reports required to be filed with the Legislature

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Designating February 26, 2010, "West Virginia Grange Day"

Congratulating Grafton High School golf team on winning 2009 Class AA state championship

Relating to Smart 529 college savings plan

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Relating to law-enforcement certification and training

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Requesting a study on improving the efficiency, focus and fairness of the system for holding school systems accountable for preparing students for the 21st Century economy

Adopting Uniform State Military Code of Justice

Sponsor: Joseph Minard

Imposing penalties for falsifying State Police Retirement Fund records

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Relating generally to federal subsidy bonds and bond financing

Sponsor: Richard Thompson

Requesting a study on the issues related to fees and charges for overdrafts of checking and depository accounts

Relating to the practice of beauty care

Sponsor: Kevin Craig

Transferring certain cash balances between funds administered by Commissioner of Highways

Sponsor: Evan Jenkins

Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rule relating to fees for services

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Setting salary range for Lottery Director and Adjutant General

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Honoring Donald Spence for dedication to education

Creating WV Transportation Finance Commission

Sponsor: John Fanning

Transferring certain professional bondsmen oversight from Supreme Court to Insurance Commissioner

Sponsor: Joseph Minard

Relating to release requirements for liens

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Requiring employees selling alcohol take alcohol awareness course

Sponsor: John Unger

Clarifying that nothing in the Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Community-Based Services Act

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Exempting certain public employers and employees from requirements of certain insurance provisions

Sponsor: Walt Helmick

Relating to immunity from civil liability for operators of parks and recreation districts

Sponsor: Kevin Craig

Authorizing conservation officers conduct boat safety checks

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Commemorating City of Ranson's Centennial

Relating to Supreme Court Justices' election by division

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study tobacco-related tax uses

Fire Commission, state fire code

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Corrections, monitoring inmate mail

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

The "Sergeant Shirley W. O'Boyle Memorial Bridge"

Relating to information to be obtained from landowners by assessor

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Designating February 23, 2010, as "Community Action Day"

West Virginia State Police Career Progression System

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

State Police, carrying of handgun by retired or medically discharged members

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Requiring DEP monitor certain litigation

Sponsor: Donald Caruth

Requesting DOH name bridge in Woodville, Lincoln County, "Private First Class Karol Clay Memorial Bridge"

Fire Commission, state building code

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Relating to the sale of municipal public utility

Sponsor: Tom Louisos

Relating to the method of appraising certain affordable multifamily rental housing property for ad valorem property tax purposes

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Repealing the 80-20 requirements for payment of 20% of the aggregate premium by active employees, to prevent premium increases unless there is an increase in salary or pensions

Sponsor: Larry Williams

Permitting the state to opt out of a federal statute that would otherwise not allow a state resident who has been convicted of a felony involving a controlled substance from receiving certain benefits

Sponsor: Barbara Hatfield

Initiating the Healthy Lifestyles Restaurant Calorie Posting Program

Sponsor: Barbara Hatfield

Relating to required mediation in consumer protection matters

Sponsor: Alex Shook

Authorizing the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a limited number of license plates to County Prosecutors for use on vehicles

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Relating to the designation of a primary guardian for a minor child

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Providing a $5000 salary increase to social workers employed by the Department of Health and Human Resources

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Relating to county board of education, eligibility of members and training requirements

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Providing guidelines for an independent audit of the Public Service Commission

Sponsor: Pat McGeehan

Setting forth disability benefits for employees that receive a foreseeable injury in an inherently dangerous function required by their employer but outside scope of employment

Sponsor: Timothy Ennis

Requesting a study on the establishment of a codified Food Council

Requiring elementary students to have access to a certified library media specialist, art specialist, music specialist and physical education specialist

Sponsor: Orphy Klempa

Redesignating Division of Veterans' Affairs Department of Veterans' Assistance

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Homestead Exemption Increase Amendment

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Relating to when notices of termination of an employment contract with school personnel, notices of transfer of school personnel and notices to probationary personnel of rehiring or nonrehiring are to be given

Sponsor: Ronald Fragale

Expanding the counties covered by West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority to include Cabell, Mason and Jackson counties; and increasing the number of members

Sponsor: Kevin Craig

Establishing Oral Health Pilot Program

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Permitting in-state tuition and fee rates for certain military dependents

Sponsor: Frank Deem

Providing that the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to regulate railroads terminates July 1, 2011, and transferring this authority to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Abolishing joint liability and establishing the principle of comparative fault

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Creating WV Religious Restoration Freedom Act

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Relating to surface landowner's rights

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Creating the Northern Panhandle Child Advocacy Commission

Sponsor: William Romine

Authorizing the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority to enter into certain compacts with other toll road authorities

Sponsor: Linda Sumner

Permitting political action committees receive contributions from certain membership organization funds

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Authorizing tax credit for teachers for certain out-of-pocket school supply expenses

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to the minimum salaries of teachers based on years experience and level of education

Sponsor: Danny Wells

Exempting veterans' organizations from consumers sales and service tax

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Bringing older contradicting language still remaining in the code into conformity with §3-2-5(b)(3) and reestablishing a definition for "independent voter"

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Creating temporary natural gas resources transportation road system

Sponsor: Larry Edgell

Relating to Department of Education school intervention

Sponsor: Robert Plymale

Relating to certain utility taxpayers' tax credit

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Requiring rules for management of concussion and head injury in youth sports

Sponsor: Michael Oliverio

Establishing that the environmental regulation of business activities performed within the state is not subject to federal regulation

Sponsor: Pat McGeehan

Creating the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act"

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Creating Intermediate Court of Appeals

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Requiring PSC update railroad walkway safety regulations

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Raising sheriffs' salaries

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Allowing certain traffic law photo-monitoring device use

Sponsor: Walt Helmick

Permitting unlicensed personnel to administer medications in certain circumstances

Sponsor: Larry Border

Permitting a medical services provider under certain circumstances to inspect certain confidential information concerning controlled substances

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Requiring political subdivisions give preference to certain resident vendors

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Relating to imposing a severance tax on the generation of wind power into a renewable energy resource

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Relating generally to wine and excluding wine from the definitions of alcoholic liquor and intoxicating liquor

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Compensating Attorney General's services at panel attorneys' rate

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Requiring that when a controlled substance is dispensed by mail or delivery service the recipient of the controlled substance be over eighteen years of age

Sponsor: Kevin Craig

Requiring that cutter heads, long wall shears and other mining machines automatically shut-off when the methane level reaches one percent

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Providing for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Updating surveyor terminology and plat preparation

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Allowing the West Virginia University Board of Governors to participate in the Public Employees Insurance Agency Insurance Program or another insurance program

Sponsor: Alex Shook

Authorizing a new court to be known as the Intermediate Court of Appeals and delineating the structure and duties thereof

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Relating to the agreement among states to elect the president by national popular vote

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Providing excise tax on utility transfers

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Revising Health Care Authority's powers and duties

Sponsor: Roman Prezioso

Utilization of Unused Prescription Medications Act

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Agriculture, shellfish

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Counseling, marriage and family therapists licensing

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Tolling the statute of limitations against all tortfeasors upon filing

Sponsor: Alex Shook

Abortion Complication Reporting Act

Sponsor: Bob Ashley

Exempting antique motor vehicles and antique motorcycles from taxable personal property

Sponsor: Allen Evans

Creating the 2010 West Virginia Job Promotion, Evaluation and Reporting Act

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Proposing amendment to Constitution designated Bond Forfeiture Amendment

Recognizing WV Higher Education Advisory Council of Faculty

Terminating tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike before 2020

Sponsor: Linda Sumner

Providing that hearing examiners conducting state agency administrative hearings be selected from a panel of five

Sponsor: Ricky Moye

Providing licensed appraisers certain forms from county assessor's office

Sponsor: Brooks McCabe

Providing guidelines for annual reporting by the Public Service Commission

Sponsor: John Doyle

Bringing consistency of filing deadlines for all organizations filing annual reports with the Secretary of State

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Regulating time to sell alcohol in private clubs

Sponsor: John Unger

Relating to dedication of severance tax proceeds

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Relating to mineral exploration or development

Sponsor: Mike Green

Repealing the authority to involuntary transfer employees

Sponsor: Ricky Moye

Phasing in increased property assessments

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Relating to estate and trust administration

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Relating to teacher differential pay incentives

Sponsor: Robert Plymale

Creating WV Small Business Assistance Program Act

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Psychologists, WV Board of, qualifications for licensure as a psychologist or a school psychologist

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Relating to mandatory anti-racial profiling training for certain law-enforcement officers

Sponsor: Nancy Peoples Guthrie

Permitting Office of Chief Medical Examiner inspect certain controlled substances' information

Sponsor: Earl Tomblin

Green Buildings Act

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Osteopathy, licensing procedures

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund, board of trustees

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Occupational Therapy, administrative rules

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Occupational Therapy, continuing education

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Occupational Therapy, fees for services rendered

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Barbers and Cosmetologists, licensing schools of barbering and beauty culture

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Barbers and Cosmetologists, operation of barber, beauty shops and schools

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board, requirements for licensure

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Agriculture, animal disease control

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Energy, community development assessment and real property valuation procedures for office of coalfield community development

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Secretary of State, vote-by-mail pilot project

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Area

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Counseling, license renewal

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Medicine, WV Board of, fees for services rendered

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Barbers and Cosmetologists, continuing education

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Natural Resources, special fishing

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board to have a quorum of five members present at any public hearing

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Relating to the marking of traps

Sponsor: Gerald Crosier

Authorizing incentives for energy conservation by electric utilities

Sponsor: John Doyle

Authorizing Board of Medicine promulgate legislative rule relating to fees for services rendered by board, including assistance to board-designated physician health program for physicians, podiatrists and physician assistants

Sponsor: Donna Boley

The "Freda Bell Bridge"

Eliminating the agency of Insurance Commissioner

Sponsor: Pat McGeehan

Increasing court reporter's page rates for typewritten transcripts

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Relating to an annual legislative audit of the Parkways Authority

Sponsor: Ronald Fragale

Eliminating charges by public utilities for meter reading and minimum bill fees

Sponsor: Tom Louisos

Encouraging and assisting persons diagnosed with schizophrenic reality disorder in designating a durable medical power of attorney

Sponsor: Ricky Moye

Providing a personal income tax exemption for living organ donors

Sponsor: Tom Azinger

Creating a lifetime hunting license for nonresidents who are sixty-five years or older and who own real property in the state

Sponsor: Stan Shaver

Requiring minimum level of health insurance plan coverage to out-of-network providers in certain situations

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Updating the requirements to obtain and retain a commercial driver's license

Sponsor: Dale Martin

Recognizing Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary

Authorizing Board of Osteopathy promulgate legislative rule relating to fees for services rendered by board

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Raising the age of consent that a minor may refuse mental health treatment

Sponsor: Linda Phillips

Special Mine Safety Property Valuation Act

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board

Sponsor: Linda Longstreth

The "Sergeant Billy W. Rapp, U.S. Army Memorial Bridge"

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Requesting the Division of Highways erect two signs on I-79 when entering Marion County honoring two West Virginia football legends, Sam Huff and Frank "Gunner" Gatski

Altering apportionment of the membership of the House of Delegates by adding a 59th delegate district consisting of portions of Mason and Putnam counties

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Requesting a study of the potential of state tax incentives to benefit employers who hire persons with criminal records

Removing West Virginia University Institute of Technology from the merger with West Virginia University and returning it to its former status

Sponsor: David Perry

Allowing the Division of Energy to develop an energy related public relations campaign focused on educating the Washington, D.C. area and the federal government about West Virginia coal

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Allowing any party in a bankruptcy proceeding to compel the bankruptcy trustee to disclose the exact disposition of any property and any compensation derived by the trustee

Sponsor: Tom Louisos

Coal-to-Liquid Act of 2010

Sponsor: Alex Shook

Reimbursing teachers for recertification fees

Sponsor: Harold Michael

Recognizing accomplishments of Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society

Drug Trafficking Registration Act

Sponsor: Linda Phillips

Imposing penalties for falsifying retirement records under the West Virginia State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund

Sponsor: Sharon Spencer

Adding an additional magistrate court clerk to Monongalia County

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Relating to powers and duties of the State Board of Medicine

Sponsor: Daryl Cowles

Prohibiting state funding of abortions

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Relating to a commission to study annexation

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Creating the West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Personnel, administrative rule

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to study the efficiency and effectiveness of forensic services of West Virginia

Relating to the practice of medical imaging and radiation therapy

Sponsor: David Perry

Clarifying provisions relating to functions of the Division of Personnel

Sponsor: Dale Martin

Term Limitations Amendment

Creating felony offense of reckless transfer of HIV or AIDS

Sponsor: Michael Oliverio

Developing state coal educational campaign

Sponsor: Earl Tomblin

Requiring the removal of ice and snow from vehicles before operating them on highways

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Removing the termination date of the Equal Pay Commission

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Designating February 16, 2010, "West Virginia Human Resources Day"

Providing that Chapter 8A of the Code of West Virginia does not authorize an ordinance, rule or regulation preventing the complete use of natural resources by the owner outside of urban areas

Sponsor: Daniel Hall

Relating to the Department of Environmental Protection

Sponsor: Doug Skaff

Authorizing Consolidated Public Retirement Board promulgate legislative rule relating to State Police

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Authorizing Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists promulgate legislative rule relating to schedule of fees

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requiring that a person who is undergoing an abortion be offered the opportunity to view available ultrasound images of the fetus

Sponsor: John Ellem

Eliminating the sales tax on food

Sponsor: Pat McGeehan

Allowing audits to be published electronically

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Requiring recipients of state assistance to show photo identification

Sponsor: Tom Louisos

Making it a felony offense to disarm, or attempt to disarm probation officers and parole officers

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Lottery Commission, limited gaming facility rule

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Authorizing Board of Occupational Therapy promulgate legislative rule relating to fees for services rendered by board

Sponsor: Donna Boley

West Virginia Innovative Mine Safety Technology Tax Credit Act

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Redefining the term "public record" as it is used in the Freedom of Information Act

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Allowing the Environmental Protection Advisory Council to review, adopt and eliminate rules exceeding applicable federal standards

Sponsor: Doug Skaff

Designating February 15, 2010, "Veterans Visibility Day"

Exempting motor vehicles used by DHHR from PSC jurisdiction

Sponsor: Roman Prezioso

Claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers

Honoring WV World War II veterans

Extending the maximum length of protective orders in domestic violence

Sponsor: Larry Border

Permitting farm use vehicles to travel on public highways under certain circumstances

Sponsor: Tom Azinger

Increasing the criminal penalties for overtaking or passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving and discharging children

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Abolishing Personal and Corporate Income Tax Amendment

Consolidated Public Retirement Board, state police

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Nonprofit Adventure and Recreational Activity Responsibility Act

Sponsor: Virginia Mahan

Creating gasoline distributers and dealers business and occupation tax calculation method

Sponsor: Clark Barnes

Relating to prevention and treatment of domestic violence

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Creating WV Firearms Freedom Act

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Increasing the representation on the Health Information Network Board

Sponsor: Jim Morgan

Changing the definition of child for grandparent visitation purposes

Sponsor: John Doyle

Making certain part-time employees eligible for unemployment compensation

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Abolishing Advisory Committee on Journalistic and Editorial Integrity

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Increasing the amount for a title examination when a person redeems real property

Sponsor: Kevin Craig

Abolishing Distance Learning Coordinating Council

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Motor Vehicles, WV Division of, collection of tax on the sale of a vehicle

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents

Sponsor: Daryl Cowles

Requiring bank transactions involving savings and checking accounts to be credited to the account at the time of the transaction

Sponsor: Tom Louisos

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rule relating to oil and gas wells and other wells

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requiring nursing home administrators' criminal history record check

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Tax Department, consumers sales and service tax and use tax - drugs, durable medical goods, mobility enhancing equipment and prosthetic devices

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Imposing an additional levy on property within the county for the sole purpose of funding public libraries

Sponsor: Samuel Cann

Prohibiting the use of a mobile communication device to engage in text messaging or additional technologies while operating a motor vehicle

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children

Sponsor: Daryl Cowles

Clarifying the procedures for vacancies in the State Legislature

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to direct the Legislative Auditor to conduct an audit of the Child Protective Services Division

Consolidated Public Retirement Board, refund, reinstatement and loan interest factors

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Allowing a modification reducing federal adjusted gross when medical expenses exceed $2,000 a year

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Requiring a child to be placed with a relative, where possible, when removed from the home of a parent under the Home-Base Family Preservation Act

Sponsor: Daryl Cowles

Creating Green Buildings Act

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Denying certain retired troopers from carrying handguns

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Expanding animal fighting prohibitions

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Requiring insurers issuing group accident and sickness insurance policies to certain employers to furnish claims loss experience

Sponsor: Bob Ashley

Designating portion of State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund for school athletics

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Increasing penalties for passing stopped school bus

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Clarifying audit-supporting documentation confidentiality

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Establishing the Office of Child Advocacy

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Defining a charitable organization in regards to an inaugural committee's disbursement of excess contributions

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Requiring death certificate state cause of death in legible fashion

Sponsor: Mike Green

Relating to establishing new motor vehicle dealership or relocating existing dealership after franchise revoked

Sponsor: Ralph Rodighiero

West Virginia Commercial Patent Incentives Tax Act

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Adding a magistrate to those serving Monongalia County

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Creating a commission to develop a pilot program to help at-risk youth in West Virginia

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Clarifying that municipalities and counties are able to increase the rate of property taxes by more than ten percent in a given year when an election is held

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Changing Technology-Related Assistance Revolving Loan Fund for Individuals With Disabilities Board meeting requirements

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Creating Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Creating Commission on Scope of Practice in Health Care Delivery

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Designating February 10, 2010, as "Marshall University Day"

Relating to publication of the State Register

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Abolishing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Clarifying that an applicant to practice real estate appraisal activity is required to complete a criminal background check

Sponsor: Kevin Craig

Issuing revenue bonds to keep state parks in compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act

Sponsor: Dan Foster

Ending the requirement that health facilities acquire a certificate of need to open

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Relating to determining the appropriate penalty to impose against operators who fail to provide immediate notice upon the occurrence of a mining accident

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Requiring a revised annual personnel evaluation process for all professional personnel that is aligned with the state's new teaching and leadership standards

Sponsor: Walter Duke

Creating Surface Owners' Rights Recognition Act

Sponsor: Clark Barnes

Removing the provision specifying a termination date for the Equal Pay Commission

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Relating to donation and transfer of surplus personal computers and other information systems, technology and equipment for educational purposes

Sponsor: Brady Paxton

Designating February 10, 2010, "Marshall University Day"

Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency and its contractors, under certain circumstances, to advertise that they are seeking bids prior to accepting bids

Sponsor: Tom Azinger

Creating the "Surface Owners' Rights Recognition Act"

Sponsor: Barbara Fleischauer

Reducing from six months to three months the period of delinquency for failure to meet an obligation to pay support to a minor

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Reducing the size of the House of Delegates to fifty and the Senate to seventeen

Relating to the care of aborted fetuses

Sponsor: Daryl Cowles

Requesting DOH name portion of Route 16 in Fayette County "Robert K. 'Bob' Holliday Highway"

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Requesting DOH name bridge in Parsons, Tucker County, "Sheriff O. Gay Hovatter Memorial Bridge"

Requesting DOH name bridge in Fayette County "Eugene Mitchell Skaggs Memorial Bridge"

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Expressing the will of the Legislature in supporting the Credit Card Act enacted by Congress in May of 2009

Requiring health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders

Sponsor: Samuel Cann

Creating public shooting ranges permits

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Redefining planning periods for teachers

Sponsor: Ronald Fragale

Requiring DEP final actions for coal mine permits be completed by certain date

Sponsor: Donald Caruth

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study prevailing wage laws' economic impact

Creating the Higher Education Merit Screening Advisory Committee

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Restricting the state convict road force from working around schools and child care centers

Sponsor: Gerald Crosier

Encouraging judicial circuits and county boards of education implement new approach to truancy

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study coal industry tax burden

Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to utilize an electronic insurance verification program to identify uninsured motor vehicles

Sponsor: Bob Ashley

Verifying workers legal employment status

Sponsor: Karen Facemyer

Extending expiration date reducing federal adjusted gross income for state personal income tax

Sponsor: Edwin Bowman

Changing standards for continued certification of physicians assistants

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Creating WV Manufacturing Competitiveness and Growth Act

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Reasserting WV's sovereignty under Tenth Amendment

Creating the criminal offense of obtaining nonferrous metals unlawfully

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Relating to reporting crashes to a law enforcement agency

Sponsor: Dale Martin

Creating WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being Act

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Increasing number of State Police

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Relating to low-performing school accreditation status and consequent steps for improvement

Sponsor: Walter Duke

Relating to land use planning

Sponsor: John Doyle

Allowing vehicles designated by the Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety for emergency response by West Virginia police reserves to use red flashing lights

Sponsor: Samuel Cann

Transferring operation of Big Ditch Lake to DNR Parks and Recreation

Sponsor: Randy White

Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts

Sponsor: Daryl Cowles

Limiting landowners' civil liability for certain hunting injuries

Sponsor: Jack Yost

The Disabled Veterans Homestead Exemption Amendment

Creating a Select Committee on Coal Mining Permits

Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Creating Long-Term Care Facility Safety Act

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Establishing employee meal and rest break length

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents' identity

Sponsor: Mark Hunt

Relating to annexation generally

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Allowing federal adjusted gross income deduction for certain health insurance expenses

Sponsor: Frank Deem

The "PFC William A. Lawrence Memorial Bridge"

Increasing allowable tax credits for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment

Sponsor: Samuel Cann

Creating WV Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Insurance Commission, medicare supplement insurance

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Insurance Commission, preventive care pilot program

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Designating February 4, 2010, "Law-Enforcement Appreciation Day"

Relating to PEIA underwriting nonstate employer groups

Sponsor: Walt Helmick

Authorizing Class I and II municipalities to regulate taxies and taxi stands

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Protecting academic speech of professional educators

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Labor History Week Act

Sponsor: Ronald Fragale

Authorizing the collection electronic collection of tolls

Sponsor: Orphy Klempa

Relating to the administration of sales and use tax

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Establishing seniority rights for public employees

Sponsor: Ralph Rodighiero

Requiring blasting contractors to notify the State Fire Marshal and local property owners before blasting

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Relating to health maintenance organizations

Sponsor: Bob Ashley

Directors of the WV Health Insurance Plan, premium, subsidy

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Insurance Commission, variable life insurance

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Relating to the functions of the purchasing director and the powers and duties of acquiring real property

Sponsor: Harry White

Providing salary increases for deputies with college degrees

Sponsor: Margaret Staggers

Requiring additional license for physicians dispensing hearing aids

Sponsor: Clark Barnes

Authorizing electronic toll collection on certain roads

Sponsor: Jeffrey Kessler

Providing a tax incentive to dental practitioners to perform dental services at no cost to indigent patients

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Relating to underwriting of nonstate employer groups by the Public Employees Insurance Agency

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Relating to the required number of members for municipal boards of zoning appeals for Class IV municipalities

Sponsor: Harold Michael

Authorizing the Marketing and Communications office of the Department of Commerce to promote and sell West Virginia related items

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Designating February 3, 2010, "Social Work Day"

Establishing the number of members for a municipal planning commission for Class IV municipalities

Sponsor: Harold Michael

West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act

Sponsor: Gerald Crosier

Providing that parties advocating passage or defeat of a public question by referendum vote are subject to reporting requirements

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Relating to business registration tax

Sponsor: Walt Helmick

Prohibiting members of the media from being compelled to give testimony, or be subject to search, before a grand jury

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Expanding counties covered by Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority

Sponsor: Evan Jenkins

Increasing certain police departments maximum age for new hires

Sponsor: Larry Edgell

Relating to fraudulent, deceptive or misleading representations by debt collectors

Sponsor: Tom Louisos

Creating misdemeanor offense of disturbing peace

Sponsor: Randy White

Creating DHHR Safety and Treatment Fund

Sponsor: Richard Browning

Barbers and Cosmetologists, procedures, criteria and curricula

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

The "Sheriff O. Gay Hovatter Memorial Bridge"

Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to create and issue special registration plates bearing the inscription "Support Coal Miners"

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Increasing compulsory school attendance age

Sponsor: Truman Chafin

Expanding the applicability of Prescription Fairness Act requirements to dependants covered by health insurance for contraceptive coverage

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Requiring banks to provide a bond or pledge assets to secure county deposits under certain circumstances

Sponsor: Tom Azinger

Requiring that not less than fifty percent of the moneys remaining in the Tourism Promotion Fund be expended to West Virginia companies

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Relating to the regulation of carrying firearms

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Requiring Consolidated Public Retirement Board report certain liabilities to municipalities

Sponsor: Clark Barnes

Requiring the manually counting of ballots in five percent of the relevant precincts in only contested elections

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Providing that protective orders in domestic violence cases include the requirement that a respondent wear a monitoring device

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Relating to regulation of the commercial transportation of coal

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Clarifying that surviving spouses and dependents of deceased public employees may only participate in major medical group plans

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Creating the "Health Care Choice Act"

Sponsor: Troy Andes

Requiring certain participation in the Motor Vehicle Test and Lock Program

Sponsor: Larry Barker

Authorizing excess funds in the courtesy Patrol Fund to be transferred back to the Tourism Promotion Fund

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Relating to the regulation and operation of low-speed vehicles

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Relating to Tax Procedure and Administration Act penalties

Sponsor: Walt Helmick

Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Clarifying that the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board may offset annual retiree premium increases

Sponsor: Thomas Campbell

Ensuring Patient Safety Act

Sponsor: Bonnie Brown

Restricting the sale of drug paraphernalia to licensed pharmacies

Sponsor: Douglas Reynolds

Creating a temporary health information technology reinvestment fee for health insurers

Sponsor: Barbara Hatfield

Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer

Sponsor: Nancy Peoples Guthrie

Changing the name of Marshall Community and Technical College to MountWest Community and Technical College

Sponsor: Jim Morgan

Regulating mini-trucks' sale and use

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study what the appropriate amount for income tax exemptions for retirees in the state should be

Increasing retirement income exemption for certain state and federal retirees

Sponsor: Jack Yost

Requiring sex offenders to verify their e-mail and other online identities

Sponsor: Troy Andes

West Virginia Renewable Energy Act

Sponsor: Nancy Peoples Guthrie

Designating February 1, 2010, as "Women's Day" in West Virginia

Creating a sales tax holiday for purchases of guns and ammunition during the month of November