2017 Regular Session

Relating to false swearing in legislative proceeding

Sponsor: Ryan Weld

Repealing outdated code related to Division of Corrections

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating generally to crimes against persons

Sponsor: Ryan Weld

Increasing the pet food registration fee and directing that the additional money be deposited into the West Virginia Spay Neuter Assistance Fund

Sponsor: Matthew Rohrbach

Adjusting date when children become eligible for certain school programs and school attendance requirements

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

Relating to PSC jurisdiction over certain telephone company and internet services

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Eliminating any requirement that class hours of students be consecutive

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Clarifying civil actions heard in circuit court

Sponsor: John Shott

Relating to private club operations requirements

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Creating farm-to-food bank tax credit

Sponsor: Robert Karnes

Relating to the permit limit calculations and allowing overlapping mixing zones for calculating permit limits for drinking water criteria

Sponsor: Mark Zatezalo

Relating to public school support

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Changing the amounts of prejudgment and post-judgment interest to reflect today's economic conditions

Sponsor: William Anderson

Removing the cost limitation on projects completed by the Division of Highways

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Authorizing a method for the collection and remittance of property taxes related to dealers’ heavy equipment inventory

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Relating to temporary teaching certificates for Armed Forces spouses

Sponsor: Jill Upson

Allowing vehicles of a size and weight exceeding certain specifications to operate over specified routes

Sponsor: Martin Atkinson

Exempting transportation of household goods from PSC jurisdiction

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Authorizing the issuance of special "In God We Trust" motor vehicle registration plates

Sponsor: Ralph Rodighiero

Relating to collection of Tier II fees for chemical inventories

Sponsor: Rodney Miller

Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Creating a legislative rule to permit a pharmacist or pharmacy intern to administer certain immunizations

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Relating to supplemental Medicaid provider reimbursement

Sponsor: Amy Summers

Repealing state hemophilia program

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

Relating to medical professional liability

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating to regulation of health care and the certificate of need process

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Declaring public policy and legislative intent for improving the marketing, quality and frequency of passenger rail service of the Cardinal Passenger Train

Sponsor: John O'Neal

Disqualifying CDL for DUI conviction in certain cases

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating to conspiracy to commit crimes under Uniform Controlled Substances Act

Sponsor: Ryan Weld

Relating generally to trustee sale of timeshare estates

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating generally to certain agreements between DHHR and state's medical schools

Sponsor: Robert Plymale

Relating to Statewide Independent Living Council

Sponsor: Tom Takubo

Increasing penalty for crime of child abuse causing death by parent, guardian, custodian or other person

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Exempting specified Division of Natural Resources’ contracts for some replacement, repair or design for repairs to facilities from review and approval requirements

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Authorizing school bus drivers trained in administration of epinephrine auto-injectors to administer auto-injectors

Sponsor: Joseph Statler

Supplemental appropriation of public moneys from Treasury to Fire Commission

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to Division of Human Services

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Act

Sponsor: Steve Westfall

Relating to Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Establishing additional substance abuse treatment facilities

Sponsor: John Kelly

Including high school students participating in a competency based pharmacy technician education and training program as persons qualifying to be a pharmacy technician trainee

Sponsor: Tom Fast

Authorizing the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to request and obtain criminal background checks of employees of the Legislature

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Authorizing WV State Police impose and collect fees for agencies and entities using their facilities

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Specifying the contents and categories of information for inclusion in annual reports

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Relating to increasing the number of limited video lottery terminals

Sponsor: Jason Barrett

Barring persons who are convicted of certain criminal offenses from acquiring property from their victims

Sponsor: Ruth Rowan

Excluding from protection oral communications uttered in child care center under Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating to state flood protection planning

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to Workforce West Virginia

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Prohibiting electioneering within or near early voting locations during early voting periods

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Creating crime of nonconsensual distribution of sexual images

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

Incorporating changes to Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Allowing magistrates to conduct proceeding for temporary emergency protective order dealing with temporary custody by family court

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Transferring the Security office under the Division of Culture and History to the Division of Protective Services

Sponsor: Brad White

Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Establishing timelines for taking final action on certain permits

Sponsor: Roger Hanshaw

Reorganizing Division of Tourism

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Modifying fees paid to Secretary of State

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Relating to product liability actions

Sponsor: John Shott

Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Relating to West Virginia Insurance Guaranty Association Act

Sponsor: Steve Westfall

Allowing licensed professionals donate time to care of indigent and needy in clinical setting

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Requiring the Library Commission to survey the libraries of the state

Sponsor: Karen Arvon

Relating to employment of retired teachers and prospective employable professional personnel in areas of critical need and shortage

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Relating to certain WV officials carrying concealed firearm nationwide

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating generally to copies of health care records furnished to patients

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating to required minimum distribution of retirement benefits of plans administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Increasing the penalties for transporting controlled substances

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Authorizing redirection of certain amounts to General Revenue Fund

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Relating generally to administration of trusts

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Extending the Multi State Real-Time Tracking System

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Relating to higher education governance

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Adopting Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating generally to shooting ranges

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating to pharmacy audits

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Repealing requirement for employer's bond for wages and benefits

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Relating to direct primary care

Sponsor: Amy Summers

Relating to prohibiting aiding and abetting of sexual abuse by school personnel

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Requiring agencies listed in the online state phone directory to update certain employee information

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Imposing penalties for repeat violations of the prohibition against driving under the influence on a suspended license

Sponsor: Joseph Canestraro

Classifying additional drugs to Schedules I, II, IV and V of controlled substances

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Defining special aircraft property

Sponsor: Danny Hamrick

Authorizing miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Reporting requirements of employee information to CPRB

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Relating generally to coal mining, safety and environmental protection

Sponsor: Randy Smith

Authorizing home incarceration officers to arrest participants for violating the terms and conditions of his or her supervision with or without a court order

Sponsor: John Shott

Relating to municipal policemen’s or municipal firemen’s pension and relief funds

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Raising the amount required for competitive bidding of construction contracts by the state and its subdivisions

Sponsor: Vernon Criss

Authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Establishing procedure for retitling mobile and manufactured homes

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Repealing West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange Act

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Creating WV Medical Cannabis Act

Sponsor: Richard Ojeda

Clarifying lawful business structures are unaffected by enactment of prohibitory legislation

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating to operation and regulation of certain water and sewer utilities owned or operated by political subdivisions of the state

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Authorizing the Secretary of State to transmit electronic versions of undeliverable mail to the circuit clerks

Sponsor: John O'Neal

West Virginia Drug Overdose Monitoring Act

Sponsor: Cindy Frich

Extending the length of time for the special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth

Sponsor: Larry Rowe

Relating to application of payments on consumer credit sale and loans

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to utilize the Attorney General for all legal assistance and services

Sponsor: Marty Gearheart

Creating uniform system of recording and indexing fictitious names used by sole proprietors

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Removing the Division of Energy as an independent agency

Sponsor: William Anderson

Relating to the use of outside speakers by persons licensed to manufacture, sell, possess for sale, transport or distribute nonintoxicating beer

Sponsor: Mike Pushkin

Relating to abandoned antique vehicles

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Eliminating the financial limitations on utilizing the design-build program for highway construction

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Regulating step therapy protocols

Sponsor: John Kelly

Correcting definition of "telehealth" in medication-assisted treatment programs

Sponsor: Tom Takubo

Relating to requiring comprehensive drug awareness and prevention program in all public schools

Sponsor: Matthew Rohrbach

Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Administration

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Authorizing State Fire Commission establish program to address problems facing VFDs

Sponsor: Gregory Boso

Establishing Accessibility and Equity in Public Education Enhancement Act

Sponsor: Kenny Mann

Increasing the felony criminal penalties for exposing children to methamphetamine manufacturing

Sponsor: Ralph Rodighiero

Relating to dangerous weapons

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Providing more efficient collection and submission of state moneys received from court transactions or court services

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Allowing the School Building Authority to transfer funds allocated into the School Construction Fund

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Establishing Court Advanced Technology Subscription Fund

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Creating Legislative Coalition on Chronic Pain Management

Sponsor: Tom Takubo

Allowing influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Prohibiting persons convicted of sexual offenses against children with whom they hold positions of trust from holding certification or license valid in public schools

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Permitting school nurses to possess and administer opioid antagonists

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Relating to health care provider taxes

Sponsor: Tom Takubo

Relating generally to commitment of persons to custody of Commissioner of Corrections

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Exempting WV State Police from state purchasing requirements

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Eliminating salary for Water Development Authority board members

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Establishing Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Terminating the Women’s Commission and discontinue its functions

Sponsor: Kayla Kessinger

Relating generally to tax procedures and administration

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Limiting use of wages by employers and labor organizations for political activities

Sponsor: Robert Karnes

Relating to the requirement that all executive branch agencies maintain a website that contains specific information

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Creating new system for certain contiguous counties to establish regional recreation authorities

Sponsor: Robert Karnes

Providing certain rules inapplicable after county board of education notifies state board of possible closing or consolidations

Sponsor: Gregory Boso

Feasibility study of dividing the Department of Health and Human Resources

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Study of the tax on sales of tobacco products other than cigarettes and the excise tax on e-cigarette liquid

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs

Sponsor: Barbara Fleischauer

Study of tobacco/smoking harm reduction policies

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Study for Preauthorization procedures legislation

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Study relating to power generation facilities

Sponsor: Roger Hanshaw

Craddock Brothers Bridge

Sponsor: Roger Hanshaw

Study policiesof nationally certified or licensed athletic trainers

Sponsor: Mark Dean

Study of the West Virginia Office on Drug Policy.

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

1SG Carl J. Crabtree Memorial Road

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

Feasibility study of the creation of an “Advisory Council on Rare Diseases

Sponsor: Matthew Rohrbach

Increasing penalties for manufacturing or transportation of a controlled substance in the presence of a minor

Sponsor: Terrishie Sypolt

Relating generally to horse and dog racing lottery

Sponsor: Cindy Frich

Relating to the development and implementation of a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas

Sponsor: Danny Hamrick

Requesting study of Division of Purchasing

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Relating to WV Jobs Act reporting requirements

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Encouraging mastery-based education through the Innovation In Schools program

Sponsor: Jill Upson

Roads to Prosperity Amendment of 2017

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Relating to the licensure of physician assistants

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Adding the examination of Advanced Care Technician

Sponsor: Rodney Miller

Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education, State Board of Education – School Lunch Program

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Deputy Sheriff SGT. Justin Alan Thompson Memorial Highway

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Arnold Miller Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Larry Rowe

Increasing tax credits allowed for rehabilitation of certified historic structures

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

US Army Ranger SGT Richard E. Arden Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

James Earl Gibson Memorial Road

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

Eliminating the mandated employer versus employee cost share of eighty percent employer, twenty percent employee for Public Employee Insurance Agency

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Webster County Veterans Highway

Sponsor: Dana Lynch

Almond Brothers and Family Veterans Bridge

Sponsor: Ricky Moye

Providing for paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Gill Brothers World War II Veterans’ Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Interim study relating to public schools

Sponsor: Steve Westfall

U. S. Army CPL Wilson B. Lambert, Jr. Memorial Road

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Lowe Mountain Memorial Highway

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

Expiring funds from Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund to General Revenue

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

U.S. Army SPC David H. Stamper Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Ralph Rodighiero

US Army CPL Daniel Frederick Mehringer Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Charles Clements

Increasing the speed limit on highways to 75 miles per hour

Sponsor: Ron Walters

US Army PVT Oren J. "Junior" Johnson Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

US Army PFC Kelva H. Justice Memorial Road

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

US Army PFC Joe Messe, Sr., Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Michael Romano

US Army CPL James Russell Carter Memorial Road

Sponsor: Jeffrey Mullins

USMC Lance Corporal Edwin Russell 'Snook' Danehart Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

Recognizing and honoring the heroic efforts of West Virginia first responders during the state’s unprecedented and historic flooding of June 2016

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Memorializing the life of the Honorable Otis Anderson Leggett

Sponsor: Allen Evans

Home of Anna Lindquist, 1996 NHPA Hall of Fame Inductee highway sign

Sponsor: Robert Beach

US Army CPL Herbert "Herb" Linkous Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Jeffrey Mullins

Eugene Lee "Gene" Burner Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Gregory Boso

Relating to selling Jackie Withrow Hospital

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

U.S. Army SSG Styish R. Morris Memorial Road

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

US Army Corporal Jerry Lee Noble Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

US Marine CPL Walter Vincent Filipek Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Study of the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses and the Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Relating generally to Uniform Unclaimed Property Act

Sponsor: Roger Hanshaw

US Navy MM2 Carl E. Keeney and US Army PFC Carl M. Nicholas Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Donnie Adkins Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Jeffrey Mullins

U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Frederick Burdett Warder Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Amy Summers

Congratulating Huntington High School boys' basketball team for winning 2017 Class AAA basketball championship

Sponsor: Mike Woelfel

Requesting Congress to fully support the National Park Service’s recommendations to extend the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail to include additional sites along the Expedition’s Eastern Legacy

Sponsor: Carol Miller

Congratulating Huntington High School girls' basketball team for winning 2017 Class AAA basketball championship

Sponsor: Mike Woelfel

Supporting the passage of HR 1315 introduced in the United States House of Representatives to roll back ethanol fuel requirements

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Requesting study of economic, health and tourism impacts of biking, hiking and other forms of activity

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Sustainability of the state’s current system of higher education

Sponsor: Tim Miley

U.S. Army PVT Preston D. Vanscoy Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: William Hartman

Designating April 5, 2017, as Nurses Unity Day

Sponsor: Patricia Rucker

Designating 2017 as Robert C. Byrd Centennial Legacy Year

Sponsor: John Unger

U.S. Army PFC Donald Ray Cochran Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

U.S. Army PFC John Ira Pinkerman Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Carol Miller

U S Army PFC Tracy Victor Rohrbaugh Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Allen Evans

Requesting study on ways and methods of generating revenue to complete I-73 and I-74

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Requesting study of feasibilty and benefits of eliminating or reforming WV civil service system

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Toby” Runyon Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

U.S. Marine Sergeant David Paul McCord Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Joseph Statler

Requesting study of creation and role of WV Motorsports Commission

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Relating generally to taxation

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Declaring January 26 of each year Danny Heater Day

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Appropriating expiring funds from State Fund, General Revenue to DHHR

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Army SSG Arthur N. McMellon Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Zachery Maynard

Donald Tackett Jr. Memorial Road

Sponsor: Justin Marcum

Relating generally to Public Defender Services

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Supporting and encouraging the enactment of the federal Hearing Protection Act of 2017

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

Eugene Jack Brewer Memorial Road

Sponsor: Justin Marcum

Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Providing exception to waste for certain oil and gas development

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Reaffirming sister-state ties between Taiwan and State of WV

Sponsor: Roman Prezioso

Relating to insurance coverage for breast cancer screening

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Relating to WV Economic Development Authority

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Creating WV Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Creating additional flexibility for school systems in use of school aid funds

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

Honoring and memorializing the life of Gerald "Jerry" L. Crosier

Sponsor: George Ambler

Designating March 30, 2017, as Marshall University Day

Sponsor: Robert Plymale

Relating to medical professional liability

Sponsor: Tom Takubo

Removing limitation on amount counties collect on hotel occupancy tax

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Relating to grandparents' visitation rights

Sponsor: Sue Cline

Relating to incentives for consolidating local governments

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state

Sponsor: Michael Folk

Congratulating Herbert Hoover High School boys' basketball team for outstanding athletic achievement

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

Defining the act of leaving the scene of a crash involving death or serious bodily injury as a felony; Erin's Law

Sponsor: Pat McGeehan

Relating to payment of small claims by DOH

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Removing restrictions on where traditional lottery games may be played

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Correcting technical error within Solid Waste Management Act

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Congratulating Wyoming East High School golf team for winning 2016 Class AA state championship

Sponsor: Sue Cline

US Army SGT Denver E. Short Memorial Road

Sponsor: Richard Ojeda

Removing financial limitations on number of design-build projects undertaken by DOH

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Relating to transportation network companies

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Declaring WV Marching Band Invitational to be state's official marching band championship event

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Relating to disclaimers of warranties regarding used manufactured homes

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating generally to employer withholding taxes

Sponsor: Eric Nelson

Allowing individuals at least 21 or older operate or ride motorcycle without helmet

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting local ordinances regulating benefits employers provide to employees

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

Relating to Community Sustainability Investment Pilot Program

Sponsor: Ronald Miller

Relating to authorizing redirection of certain amounts to the General Revenue Fund

Sponsor: Eric Nelson

Continuing personal income tax adjustment for certain retirees

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

Defining "special aircraft property"

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Relating to Public-Private Transportation Facilities Act

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Creating of special revenue funding sources for the Division of Labor

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Increasing amount of authorized federal Grant Anticipation Notes for which DOH may apply

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Relating to the means of giving notice to a debt collector of a consumer’s representation by legal counsel

Sponsor: Cindy Frich

Relating to generic drug products

Sponsor: Tom Takubo

Permitting surface owners purchase mineral interests when interest becomes tax lien

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Recognizing 200th anniversary of Sistersville Ferry

Sponsor: Michael Maroney

Recognizing centennial year of main structure at Parkersburg High School

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Relating generally to teacher-pupil ratios

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Transferring Division of Forestry from Department of Commerce to Department of Agriculture

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Relating to crossbow hunting

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Creating a one-day special license for charitable events sell nonintoxicating beer

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Changing fees for custom slaughters from annual to triennial

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Relating to providing funding for Statewide Interoperable Radio Network

Sponsor: Patricia Rucker

Congratulating WVU rifle team for winning 2017 National Championship

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Relating to expansion of broadband service

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Creating 2-year pilot program to allow all-terrain or recreational vehicles in Cabwaylingo State Forest

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Relating to motor vehicle license plates

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Eliminating Office of Surveyor of Lands Amendment

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Creating a misdemeanor for violation of catching, taking or killing fish within two hundred feet of agency personnel stocking fish into public waters

Sponsor: Martin Atkinson

Dissolving Information Services and Communications Division

Sponsor: Roman Prezioso

Requiring individuals receiving unemployment compensation apply for and accept seasonal employment

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Establishing DOC responsibility for costs of housing and maintaining inmate

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating to DNA evidence

Sponsor: Mike Woelfel

Increasing State Road Fund by raising DMV fees and motor fuel excise taxes

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights

Sponsor: Mike Woelfel

Authorizing dedication of fee on certain managed timberland to Volunteer and Part-Volunteer Fire Departments Fee Fund

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Dr. H. Luke Eye Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Isaac Sponaugle

Providing consumers sales and service tax and use tax exemption for certain services and tangible personal property sold for repair, remodeling and maintenance of aircraft

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Fair and Simple Tax Reform or FASTR amendment

Sponsor: Robert Karnes

Authorizing counties and municipalities to establish a joint airport hazard comprehensive plan

Sponsor: Barbara Fleischauer

Eliminating taxation on annuity consideration received by life insurer

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Urging Congress reassess federal definition of industrial hemp

Sponsor: Sue Cline

U.S. Army PVT Charles E. Ellis and U.S. Army PVT Ira V. Ellis Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Kenneth Hicks

US Army PFC Dell Dingess Lane

Sponsor: Richard Ojeda

Study of imposing a presumption in West Virginia Family Courts that 50/50 shared parenting be awarded in child custody cases

Sponsor: Geoff Foster

Blue Demon Bridge

Sponsor: Marty Gearheart

Removing restrictions on maximum wager per limited video lottery game and bill denominations accepted by video lottery terminals

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Relating to nonpartisan election of county surveyors

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Declaring and making the blackberry the official state berry of West Virginia.

Sponsor: Richard Iaquinta

Allowing county assessors make separate entries in land books when real property is partly used for exempt and partly nonexempt purposes

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Designating March 24, 2017, as Jefferson County Day

Sponsor: Patricia Rucker

Relating to the adoption of instructional resources for use in the public schools

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

The West Virginia Assisted Outpatient Treatment Act

Sponsor: Amy Summers

Enacting Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Updating the all payor claims database

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Reorganizing the departments, agencies and commissions within the executive branch of state government

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Relating to personnel management of public employees

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Commemorating 25th anniversary for national and state ChalleNGe Program

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Agriculture, Department of, Animal Disease Control

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Making it a felony to knowingly expose another individual to HIV

Sponsor: Terrishie Sypolt

Relating to domestic relations

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Athletic Commission, W.Va. State Administrative Rules of the WV State Athletic Commission

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Counseling, W.Va. Board of Examiners in Licensed Professional Counselor License Renewal and Continuing Professional Education Requirements

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Osteopathic Medicine, W.Va. Board of Osteopathic Physician Assistants

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Counseling, W.Va. Board of Examiners in Marriage and Family Therapists Fees

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Barbers and Cosmetologists, W.Va. Board of Waxing Specialist

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Treasurer’s Office, W.Va. State Selection of State Depositories for Disbursement Accounts through Competitive Bidding

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Registered Professional Nurses, W.Va. Board of Examiners for, Requirements for Registration and Licensure and Conduct Constituting Professional Misconduct

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Abolishing the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Auditor, W.Va. State, Standards for Requisitions for Payment Issued by State Officers on the Auditor

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Pharmacy, WV Board of Licensure and Practice of Pharmacy

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Medicine, WV Board of Licensure, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures, Continuing Education, Physician Assistants

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Agriculture, Department of, Captive Cervid

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Authorizing local government adopt energy efficiency partnership programs

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Congratulating Charleston Catholic golf team for winning 2016 Class A State Championship

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Sanitarians, W.Va. State Board of Practice of Public Health Sanitation

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Treasurer’s Office, W.Va. State Procedures for Processing Payments from the State Treasury

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Registered Professional Nurses, W.Va. Board of Examiners for Limited Prescriptive Authority for Nurses in Advanced Practice

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Treasurer’s Office, W.Va. State Selection of State Depositories for Receipt Accounts

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Treasurer’s Office, W.Va. State Procedures for Deposit of Monies with the State Treasurer's Office by State Agencies

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Veterinary Medicine, W.Va. Board of Standards of Practice

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Barbers and Cosmetologists, W.Va. Board of Qualifications, Training, Examination and Certification of Instructors in Barbering and Cosmetology

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Permitting exclusion, modification or limitation of warranties in sale of used motor vehicles

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Counseling, W.Va. Board of Examiners in Marriage and Family Therapist License Renewal and Continuing Professional Education Requirements

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Providing flexibility in the transfer process of school personnel

Sponsor: Joseph Statler

Agriculture, Department of, Dangerous Wild Animals

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Medicine, WV Board of Licensing and Disciplinary Procedures: Physicians; Podiatrists

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia relating to education, and providing for the election of members of the State Board of Education

Sponsor: Roy Cooper

Recognizing Leadership Jefferson

Sponsor: John Unger

Changing the number of strikes in jury selection in felony cases

Sponsor: Amy Summers

Designating March 21, 2017, as Preston County Day

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Designating March 21, 2017, as Down Syndrome Awareness Day

Sponsor: Jeffrey Mullins

Recognizing Homer Hickam

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Permitting Class III and Class IV municipalities to be included in the West Virginia Tax Increment Act

Sponsor: Tom Fast

Defining "aboveground storage tanks"

Sponsor: Randy Smith

Designating March 20, 2017, as International Pageant Day

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Prohibiting persons under 18 from using tanning device

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Transfer of the West Virginia Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Fund

Sponsor: Karen Arvon

Livable Home Tax Credit

Sponsor: Ruth Rowan

Relating to tax on sales of e-cigarette liquid

Sponsor: Ronald Miller

Relating to powers and duties of the Commissioner of Public Health

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Permitting surface owners seek damages from oil and gas operations

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Increasing tax rate for higher earning businesses

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

Prohibiting counties from regulating sale and use of fireworks

Sponsor: Robert Karnes

Relating generally to compensation of constitutional officers

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Authorizing a State Ombudsman position

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Requiring photo identification on voter registration cards

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Adding digital literacy skills to high-quality education standards

Sponsor: Kenny Mann

Enacting Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Creating grant fund to encourage production of film and entertainment

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Defining crime of filing fraudulent claim against doctor

Sponsor: Ronald Miller

Allowing county commissions set standards for certain road construction projects

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Establishing Adult Drug Court Participation Fund

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Correcting code regarding handgun safety

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Relating to research, development and technology parks

Sponsor: Roman Prezioso

Relating to access to controlled substance monitoring

Sponsor: Ryan Weld

Expanding definition of deductions under Wage Payment and Collection Act

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Recognizing Pineville Middle School's Pineville Giving Tree project

Sponsor: Sue Cline

Relating to WV jobs on public construction projects

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

Relating to obtaining title to reconstructed vehicle

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Exempting names of licensed hunters from public disclosure

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Creating WV Motorsports Committee

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Creating Public-Private Infrastructure Facilities Act

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

Creating preference for state citizens in construction contracts for public improvements

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

Relating to state ownership of wildlife

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Relating to employer's right to require employee training

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

Adding violations of law upon which a public servant’s retirement plan may be forfeited

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Designating March 17, 2017, as Corrections Day

Sponsor: Gregory Boso

Changing license period for horse and dog racing

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Decreasing minimum number of live racing days horse racing licensee must conduct

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Relating generally to charitable bingo and raffles

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Relating to online posting of required calendar of scheduled activities

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Walter E. Swiger, Jr., Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Establishing 80 miles per hour speed limit on state highways

Sponsor: Robert Karnes

Relating to body mass index

Sponsor: Amy Summers

Blue Demons Bridge

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

John Hancock Hall Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Patricia Rucker

Recognizing Karen Donathan for winning Award for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

West Virginia Farm-to-Food Bank Tax Credit

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Relating to the reconstitution of the Driver’s Licensing Advisory Board

Sponsor: Marty Gearheart

Requiring Department of Defense family advocacy groups be notified about abuse or neglect of military member's child

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Creating a special motor vehicle collector license plate

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Calculating state share of gross profits from limited video lottery revenues at 50 percent

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Designating March 15, 2017, as Higher Education Day

Sponsor: Kenny Mann

Limiting recoverable damages when patient transferred from one health care facility to another

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Extending sunset on DOH public-private partnerships

Sponsor: Dave Sypolt

Granting county commissions authority to establish vacant building registration programs

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Limiting the authority of municipalities to regulate the purchasing, possessing, transferring, owning, carrying, transporting, selling and storing of knives

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

Allowing use of larger horsepower boats on limited horsepower lakes

Sponsor: Tom Takubo

Requiring State Road Commission make available state road and highway map online

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Relating to records of charitable institutions

Sponsor: John O'Neal

Stay in State tax credit

Sponsor: Shawn Fluharty

Establishing a program for the licensing and regulation of out-patient substance abuse counseling programs

Sponsor: Matthew Rohrbach

Making PROMISE Scholarship funds available for use at community and technical colleges

Sponsor: Cindy Frich

Prohibiting use of a person's credit history in certain insurance transactions

Sponsor: Shawn Fluharty

Allocating disability or death benefits resulting from an occupational pneumoconiosis claim among the claimant’s employers on a proportional basis

Sponsor: Jordan Hill

Requesting Congress to enact legislation to allow any honorably discharged military reservist regardless of whether he or she was called to active duty to have access to a veterans hospital health services and that veterans hospitals determine fees based upon ability to pay.

Sponsor: Linda Longstreth

Providing for the voluntary valuation of water and sewer systems for ratemaking purposes

Sponsor: Charlotte Lane

Appropriation Supremacy Act of 2017

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Requiring continuous monitoring of air, noise, dust and particulates

Sponsor: Terrishie Sypolt

Allowing county boards of education to hire retired teachers

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a state hotline for travelers to identify road hazards

Sponsor: Larry Rowe

Providing tax credits for providing broadband service and wireless broadband service to unserved areas

Sponsor: Roger Hanshaw

Occupational Board Reform Act

Sponsor: Danny Hamrick

Replacing annual and sick leave for state employees with personal leave

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to domestic violence victims' eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to procurement of technical infrastructure

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Permitting certain animal euthanasia technicians who have been certified by other states be certified animal euthanasia technicians in West Virginia

Sponsor: John Overington

Providing that a person when being attacked in a place that is not his or her home should retreat instead of using deadly force

Sponsor: Sean Hornbuckle

Repealing the article of the code related to unfair trade practices

Sponsor: Jason Barrett

Cotenancy and Lease Integration Act

Sponsor: William Anderson

Granting priority to roadway construction, reconstruction and maintenance for roadways prone to recurring floods that hinder ingress and egress

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Redirecting certain racing and gaming revenues

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Conducting a study to determine the amount of revenue to be derived from instituting tolls on I-70 and I-81

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to Promise scholarship program requirements for home schooled students

Sponsor: John Overington

Licensing the practice of athletic training

Sponsor: Vernon Criss

Creating a new court to be known as West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals

Sponsor: Carol Miller

Changing the determination of just compensation to be paid to the landowner when eminent domain is used for a pipeline

Sponsor: Guy Ward

Budget and Spending Transparency Act

Sponsor: Stephen Wilson

Relating to the valuation of oil and gas producing property

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

Clarifying that merged care organizations are not exempt from payment of insurance premium taxes

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to the West Virginia Contraband Forfeiture Act

Sponsor: Pat McGeehan

Providing counties the power to establish a county sales tax under certain circumstances

Sponsor: John Kelly

Prohibiting state funding of abortions

Sponsor: Karen Arvon

Establishing a different amount of annual leave for state employees

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to the maximum licensed school psychologist-pupil ratio

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Urging the United States Congress to pass, and the President to sign into law, legislation to extend and expand the current federal tax credit for carbon capture, utilization and storage

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Extending the time that teachers may pay into the State Teachers Retirement System

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Establishing a merit-based Katherine Johnson Hope Scholarship program to provide tuition and fee payments for certain qualified students

Sponsor: Larry Rowe

Requiring motor carrier vehicle transporting solid waste to be equipped and operated with truck tarpaulins

Sponsor: John Shott

Authorizing by ordinance a vacant building registration program

Sponsor: Charlotte Lane

Imposing an additional excise tax on soft drinks

Sponsor: Larry Rowe

Adding the classification and base salaries of certain civilian employees of the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory

Sponsor: Jim Butler

Relating to the preparation of a comprehensive annual financial report

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Relating to the classification plans for employees in the classified and classified-exempt service

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Allowing Tax Commissioner perform background investigations on employees and contractors

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Relating to the tax on soft drinks

Sponsor: Linda Longstreth

Relating generally to procedures for drivers' license suspensions and revocations

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating generally to applied associate of science degrees that target workforce needs

Sponsor: Roger Hanshaw

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study post-treatment protocols for a person diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer

Sponsor: Sean Hornbuckle

Raising the insurance premium tax for two years

Sponsor: Larry Rowe

Placing limitations on length of time that prescriptions may be issued for schedule II and III controlled substances

Sponsor: Stephen Baldwin

Relating to civil asset forfeiture

Sponsor: Stephen Wilson

Creating a state program allowing high school students advance to getting a college degree or technical training while in high school

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia relating to exempting honorably discharged veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States

Sponsor: Isaac Sponaugle

Establishing the Southern West Virginia Lake Development Study Commission

Sponsor: Edward Evans

Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study establishing four-year social worker pilot program

Sponsor: Kenny Mann

Relating to salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees

Sponsor: Ralph Rodighiero

Authorizing county assessors to make separate entries in their land books

Sponsor: Eric Nelson

Requiring DNR study using nonemployee workforce to perform improvements in state parks and forests

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Relating to deduction from jail sentence for litter cleanup

Sponsor: Michael Folk

Relating to labor; employer’s bond for wages

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Joe Manchin, III Office Building

Sponsor: Roman Prezioso

Relating to dangerous weapons

Sponsor: Mike Azinger

Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to regulate professional bondsmen

Sponsor: Jason Barrett

Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection

Sponsor: Barbara Fleischauer

Relating generally to guaranteed asset protection waivers

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Relating generally to additional county excise taxes on the privilege of transferring real property

Sponsor: Daryl Cowles

Relating to allowing Powerball, Mega Millions and Hot Lotto ticket winners to remain anonymous

Sponsor: Jill Upson

Relating to the theft of consumer identity protections

Sponsor: John Williams

Authorizing the change of charging 911 fees to land line telephone bills to being charged to electric bills

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Relating to public school education in dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention

Sponsor: Chad Lovejoy

Requiring all pawnbrokers to upload pictures to their website of all pawned items

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Providing additional circumstance allowing the Tax Commissioner to withdraw tax liens

Sponsor: Eric Nelson

Requiring administrators of intestate estates to give bond and take oath

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Limiting the number of days members of the Legislature may receive compensation during an extended and extraordinary session

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Relating generally to development of infrastructure in the state

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to county litter control officers

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Pothole app and map

Sponsor: John Williams

Budget Stabilization Act of 2017

Sponsor: Mick Bates

Relating to Capitol Complex security access

Sponsor: Mick Bates

Creating independent redistricting commission with certain requirements

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition

Sponsor: Ruth Rowan

Abolishing Office of Environmental Advocate within DEP

Sponsor: Randy Smith

Relating generally to coal mining, coal mining safety and environmental protection

Sponsor: Randy Smith

Permitting a child sixteen years of age or older to petition for a change of parental custody

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

Creating a felony penalty of life without mercy for the first degree murder of a law-enforcement officer

Sponsor: Andrew Byrd

Relating generally to trusts and administration

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Adjusting tax rate on wind-powered generating units

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Permitting a person to practice certain professions for limited time for a charitable function

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Requiring county commissions maintain websites with specific information

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Licensing of advance deposit wagering

Sponsor: Patricia Rucker

Urging Congress call convention of states to impose fiscal restraints on federal government

Sponsor: Robert Karnes

Relating to the establishment of a general fund expenditure limit

Sponsor: John Overington

Eliminating the tax brackets under the personal income tax and changing the rate of the tax

Sponsor: Eric Nelson

Study of the costs and benefits of medicinal marijuana

Sponsor: Larry Rowe

Relating to autonomous vehicles

Sponsor: Danny Hamrick

Making appropriations of public money out of the Treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article VI of the Constitution

Sponsor: Michael Folk

Urging US Congress convene to propose amendment to US Constitution restoring free and fair elections

Sponsor: Robert Beach

Authorizing shut-in of oil and gas wells in West Virginia

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Providing mandatory minimum sentences for trafficking drugs into the state and for other drug offenses

Sponsor: Justin Marcum

Abolishing regional service education agencies

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to verify legal employment status of contractors and vendor’s employees for certain road and bridge contracts

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Relating to the comprehensive statewide student assessment

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Allowing State Police Academy expand sale of items from post exchange to general public

Sponsor: Gregory Boso

Relating to the Office of Technology

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Removing the restriction on liquor licensees from having speakers outside or playing music outdoors

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to changes in distribution of net terminal income, excess net terminal income and excess lottery fund

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Relating to fees collected to conduct criminal background checks

Sponsor: Brad White

Relating to purchase of inmate-made goods by state agencies

Sponsor: Cindy Frich

Relating to the Miners Protection Act

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Removing requirement that persons who pass the bar in West Virginia be members of the West Virginia State Bar in order to practice

Sponsor: Michael Folk

Establishing penalties for filing false claims by doctors or lawyers for disability benefits

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

James L. ‘Bud’ Hall, Sr. Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Justin Marcum

Establishing minimum safety standards for the design of any robot operated in the state

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Requiring county school boards to provide adequate mental health and counseling services

Sponsor: Martin Atkinson

Reorganizing the Division of Tourism

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Authorizing the Governor to issue executive orders to furlough state employees

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund that will serve to support library facilities construction, maintenance and improvement projects

Sponsor: Chad Lovejoy

Feasibility study of authorizing the House Clerk to make nonsubstantive alterations to the code

Sponsor: Geoff Foster

Dissolving PEIA

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

The Freedom to Prosper Act

Sponsor: Eric Householder

Requiring funding by the West Virginia Library Commission to local libraries be based on the population served by each respective library

Sponsor: John Overington

Relating to a comprehensive inventory of state-managed areas open to off-highway vehicles

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Relating to the collection of taxes on wine and intoxicating liquors

Sponsor: Jordan Hill

Requiring a warning light to be erected on certain roads to warn of a traffic light ahead

Sponsor: Geoff Foster

Relating to fees collected to conduct criminal background checks

Sponsor: Gregory Boso

Emergency Medical Services Act of 2017

Sponsor: Kayla Kessinger

Relating to damages for medical monitoring

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Allowing economically depressed county to retain 50 percent of coal severance tax collected in county

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Relating to care, custody and visitation of pets involved in separation and divorce proceedings

Sponsor: Jill Upson

relating to unlawful employment practices involving unauthorized workers

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Relating to provisions applicable to military members and their spouses

Sponsor: Jill Upson

Pastor Robert L. “Bob” Barker Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Michael Caputo

Limiting School Building Authority's discretion to disburse funds

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Providing teachers with 3 percent pay raise

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Allowing the owner of an antique military vehicle to display alternate registration insignia

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Adding an annual annuity adjustment of one percent for eligible retirants or surviving spouses

Sponsor: Edward Evans

Relating to disposition of vacated school buildings or other state-owned buildings

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Providing that the compensation level of the Chancellor for Higher Education may be no more than the salary of the Governor

Sponsor: Michael Folk

Senators and Delegates Service Limit Amendment

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Relating to agencies exempt from the state purchasing laws and providing for the appointment of the director of purchasing

Sponsor: Cindy Frich

Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit

Sponsor: Shawn Fluharty

Allowing honorably discharged veterans who possess certain military ratings to qualify to take an examination for licensing as a plumber, electrician, and sprinkler fitter

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Relating to erroneous tax assessments and overpayments to the county

Sponsor: William Anderson

Relating to the state’s Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Intellectual/Developmental Disability Waiver

Sponsor: Barbara Fleischauer

Relating to use of aftermarket automobile crash parts

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Permitting county boards of education post professional personnel job vacancies

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Authorizing a medical power of attorney representative to sign a binding arbitration agreement

Sponsor: Geoff Foster

Designating March 8, 2017, as Disability Advocacy Day

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Allowing maximum number of pupils exceed up to 5 in certain instances

Sponsor: Jeffrey Mullins

Eliminating provisions and repealing statutes related to the West Virginia Health Information Network

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Establishing a statewide call-in center to receive assistance with healthcare

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Relating to in-state resident tuition rates for certain reserve members

Sponsor: Ryan Weld

Restricting the authority of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to regulate the use of commonly available, retail beauty products

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Including "In God We Trust" license plate on statutory list of special license plates

Sponsor: Gregory Boso

Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Relating to autocycles

Sponsor: Danny Hamrick

West Virginia Fresh Food Act

Sponsor: Robert Thompson

Relating to teaching certificates for teachers whose spouses are members of armed forces on active duty stationed in state

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Creating exemption from certain contract and common carrier laws for vehicles used exclusively for transportation of railroad personnel

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study closing the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System and the West Virginia Teachers Retirement System to employees newly hired on or after July 1, 2018 and providing new 401K type retirement plans for those employees

Sponsor: Ron Walters

State Medicaid expansion contracts

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Permitting investigators from Attorney General's office carry firearms

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Relating to state ownership of wildlife

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Making information about Division of Natural Resources licensees exempt from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Relating to abuse and neglect of livestock

Sponsor: Allen Evans

Relating to traumatic brain injury

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Increasing the funding for the State Road Fund by increasing Division of Motor Vehicle administrative fees and motor fuel excise taxes

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Establishing a new special revenue fund, designated the Court Advanced Technology Subscription Fund

Sponsor: John Shott

Relating to monitoring inmate communications

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Replacing regional education service agencies

Sponsor: Robert Karnes

Designating March 7, 2017, as WV Alzheimer's Association Day

Sponsor: John Unger

Dr. John McClure Grubb Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Jim Butler

Establishing education savings accounts for WV students

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Designating month of March as American Red Cross Month

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Recognizing contributions of southern WV to entire state

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Creating Returning Veterans and Displaced Miners Job Act

Sponsor: Richard Ojeda

Granting authority to the Parkways Authority to issue revenue bonds and refunding bonds for the purpose of financing parkway projects

Sponsor: Tim Miley

Specifying exemption from the consumers sales and service tax and use tax for purchases of certain services and tangible personal property

Sponsor: Danny Hamrick

Limiting access to state property and secured facilities to persons who have been screened and authorized through the Division of Protective Services

Sponsor: Cindy Frich

Permitting ABCC appointees or employees carry firearms after completing training

Sponsor: Richard Ojeda

Relating to venue for civil and criminal actions at Salem Correctional Center

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Authorizing the Public Service Commission to regulate the billing practices of utilities and other entities that utilize wired or wireless transmission

Sponsor: Ricky Moye

Creating an additional class of special education classroom aides

Sponsor: Robert Thompson

Operating and maintaining a fully interoperable statewide network to facilitate public and private use of health care information in the state

Sponsor: Matthew Rohrbach

Providing cost-of-living adjustment to certain PERS and State Teachers Retirement System employees

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Exempting all monetary benefits derived from retirement income from personal income tax obligations for individuals moving into the state

Sponsor: Jeff Eldridge

Prohibiting smoking of tobacco products in motor vehicle when person 16 years old or younger is present

Sponsor: Tom Takubo

Increasing state employees' pay over two-year period

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Eliminating requirement of no prior or subsequent conviction in order to have criminal conviction expunged

Sponsor: Mike Hall

Increasing the Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment

Sponsor: Rodney Pyles

Providing special license plate for realtors

Sponsor: Sue Cline

Permitting a time-share managing entity to foreclose upon its statutory lien for assessments

Sponsor: Tony Lewis

Tug Valley Students Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Justin Marcum

Relating to imposing, administering, and collecting a license tax on successful bidders for road construction contracts

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

John Hancock Hall Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Jill Upson

Designating March 2, 2017, as All Kinds Are Welcome Here Day

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Recognizing WV Association of Retired School Employees for dedicated public service

Sponsor: Ronald Miller

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance authorize a study on whether to establish a bank operated by the state

Sponsor: Richard Iaquinta

John B. Short Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Rupert Phillips

Dedicating five-tenths percent annual severance tax on Marcellus and Utica natural gas to retired public employees

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Requiring all unclaimed oil and gas royalties due a leaseholder of the mineral estate shall be transferred and paid to the legal surface owner

Sponsor: Frank Deem

Curtis ‘Pap’ and Millie ‘Mammie’ Asbury Bridge

Sponsor: Robert Thompson

Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Exempting vehicles engaged in nonemergency transportation of Medicaid members from permit requirements

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Repealing DNR legislative rule on litter control grant program

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Relating to the preservation of rights guaranteed by the West Virginia Constitution and the United States Constitution when deciding the comity of a legal decision in a foreign country

Sponsor: Carol Miller

Recognizing Holly Boggs on winning 2016 Earle S. Dillard Insurance Agent of the Year

Sponsor: Ronald Miller

Prohibiting civil rights violations based on gender identity, or sexual orientation

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to runoff elections for judicial offices

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation

Sponsor: Bill Hamilton

Relating to the Municipal Police and Fire Retirement System

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Relating to modernization of the Physician Assistant Practice Act

Sponsor: Ralph Rodighiero

Making Promise scholarships available for students pursuing certificates or degrees through an accredited community and technical college

Sponsor: Roy Cooper

Providing that the State Board of Education may delegate its Medicaid provider status and subsequent reimbursement to regional educational service agencies or county boards

Sponsor: Steve Westfall

Modifying the penalties imposed on debt collectors who violate the provisions of the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act

Sponsor: Allen Evans

Allowing state agencies to self-insure their own programs

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Allowing the State Building Commission or the Higher Education Policy Commission to request and receive money from the Investment Management Board

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Establishing a system at the county level for the dispatching of emergency towing services

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Amending the definition of “abused child” to include a child conceived as a result of an act of sexual assault

Sponsor: John Shott

Requiring the release of an unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing

Sponsor: Matthew Rohrbach

Increasing the compensation for natural resources police officers

Sponsor: George Ambler

Relating to construction of industrial access roads with state funds

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Replacing 48-hour stickers with 60-day registration plates

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Requiring the Board of Pharmacy to review, investigate and make appropriate referrals of reports of suspicious orders of controlled substances

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Creating incentives for hiring and retaining correctional officers

Sponsor: Richard Ojeda

Creating the Medicaid Laboratory Reimbursement Data Consolidation and Redundancy Act

Sponsor: Shirley Love

Congratulating Jeffrey Stutler as WV Outstanding Tree Farmer for 2017

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Giving the West Virginia State Police additional monies from the wireless enhanced 911 fee

Sponsor: Cindy Frich

Exempting military retirement benefits from personal income tax

Sponsor: Glenn Jeffries

Congratulating Chapmanville Lady Tigers Softball team for winning 2016 Class AA state championship

Sponsor: Ron Stollings

Eliminating WV Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Program

Sponsor: Corey Palumbo

Imposing license tax on successful bidders for road construction contracts

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Prohibiting retailers from selling or leasing products without operating digital blocking capability

Sponsor: Patricia Rucker

Senators and Delegates Service Limit Amendment

Sponsor: Stephen Wilson

Relating to class action safeguards

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Eliminating WV Health Care Authority

Sponsor: Ryan Ferns

Permitting persons who have been issued state licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons to carry those weapons on the grounds of the State Capitol Complex

Sponsor: Stephen Wilson

Relating generally to severance taxes imposed on the privilege of producing coal for sale

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Permitting the carrying of concealed weapons on the campus of a state institution of higher education

Sponsor: Stephen Wilson

Relating to venue in WV courts as applies to nonresidents

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Continuing eligibility for developmental disability services to dependents of military service members

Sponsor: Michael Romano

Congratulating Cabell Midland golf team on winning 2016 Class AAA golf tournament

Sponsor: Robert Plymale

Memorializing the life and lamenting the death of Dr. Ken Hechler

Sponsor: Tim Armstead

Providing that the court allocate time equally between parents

Sponsor: Jill Upson

Relating to complimentary samples of nonintoxicating beer or nonintoxicating craft beer

Sponsor: Ron Walters

Establishing regional recreation authorities and areas

Sponsor: Brent Boggs

Relating to special revenue funds administered by DEP

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Requiring proficiency in civics as condition of receiving high school diploma

Sponsor: Donna Boley

Educational Savings Account Program

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Relating generally to Uniform Unclaimed Property Act

Sponsor: Charles Trump

Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion

Sponsor: Sean Hornbuckle

Eliminating obsolete, duplicate or unnecessary code language as it relates to higher education

Sponsor: Paul Espinosa

Requiring insurance coverages to ensure telehealth parity

Sponsor: Joe Ellington

Providing WV Attorney General operate vehicles without "state car" plate

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Relating to required minimum distribution of retirement benefits from plans administered by CPRB

Sponsor: Ed Gaunch

Terminating the West Virginia Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners

Sponsor: Danny Hamrick

Relating to prime contractor's responsibility for wages and benefits

Sponsor: Craig Blair

Relating to responsibilities of Herbert Henderson Office of Inclusion

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

DHHR rule relating to medication-assisted treatment, office-based medication-assisted treatment

Sponsor: Mark Maynard

Terminating the West Virginia Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board

Sponsor: Gary Howell

Relating generally to requirements and provisions for notice of requested abortions

Sponsor: Patricia Rucker

Providing a mechanism for the independent evaluation of revenue estimates by West Virginia and Marshall Universities’ business colleges

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Relating to severance tax on natural gas

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael

Requiring that information regarding case delays in the courts is to be provided to the public on a regular basis

Sponsor: Kelli Sobonya

Permitting natural gas companies to enter private property without prior consent from the owner for the limited purposes of obtaining data

Sponsor: William Anderson

Relating generally to education

Sponsor: Mitch Carmichael