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Referred Bills (325)
Relating to the powers of the Public Service Commission and the regulation of natural gas utilities
Relating to the Hazardous Waste Management Fund
Clarifying the method for calculating the amount of severance tax attributable to the increase in coal production
Natural Gas Liquids Economic Development Act
Allowing for expedited oil and gas well permitting upon payment of applicable expedited fees
Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund
Disposition of funds from certain oil and natural gas wells due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners
Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells
Relating to termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases
Feasibility study of extracting rare earth elements from coal ash
Relating to withholding tax on income of nonresidents from natural resources royalty payments
Relating to reports concerning funds due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners
Orphan Oil and Gas Well Prevention Act
Removing the provisions for self-bonding
Relating to oil and gas conservation commission membership
Relating to pollution control facilities tax treatment
West Virginia Technology Attraction Act and the West Virginia Information and Technology Investment Act
Relating to the Public Energy Authority Act of West Virginia
Renewable Energy Facilities Program
Relating to the valuation of natural resources property
Department of Environmental Protection, West Virginia surface mining reclamation rule
Office of Miner's Health, Safety and Training, rules governing the certification, recertification and training of EMT-miners and EMT-M instructors
Department of Environmental Protection, voluntary remediation and redevelopment rule
Office of Miner's Health, Safety and Training, substance abuse screening, standards and procedures
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, rules of the commission
Department of Environmental Protection, groundwater protection rules for coal mining operations
Relating to inspections of surface coal mining operations
Relating to the termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases
Providing for solar energy production on formerly mined land
Altering the definition of an aboveground storage tank
Relating to the manner in which actual investment of capital and costs and a natural gas utility’s expedited cost recovery are calculated
Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
Establishing an industrial water extraction fee
Relating to the removal of the severance tax on oil and gas produced from low producing oil and natural gas wells
Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
Relating generally to horizontal well control standards
Increasing the tax on the privilege of severing natural gas and oil
Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
Permitting residential customers to deduct up to 50 percent of their electric utility payments from their federal adjusted gross income
Requiring the use of statutory income tax rates for ratemaking purposes for certain public utilities
Implementing the recommendations of the studies required by the Natural Gas and Horizontal Well Control Act
Prohibiting drilling units from being established without consent of all owners
Permitting third party ownership of on-site renewable and alternative generating facilities
Reallocating and dedicating the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
Intrastate Coal and Use Act
Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling
Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues to the oil and gas producing counties
Requiring owners of oil and gas wells to install and maintain separate meters that calculate the amount of production from those wells
Increasing the tax on the privilege of severing natural gas and oil
Permitting customers and developers to enter into solar power purchase agreements
Relating to net metering
Relating generally to coal mining activities
Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules
Authorizing Department of Commerce promulgate legislative rules
Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund
Relating to natural gas utilities
Allowing for expedited oil and gas well permitting
Providing that proceeds from certain oil and gas wells to persons whose name or address are unknown are to be kept in a special fund
Recognizing the importance of West Virginia’s energy resources and critical energy infrastructure to support economic development and national security
Relating to the termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases
Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
Recognizing the recent rise in Black Lung, particularly Progressive Massive Fibrosis, the most-deadly form of Black Lung in West Virginia
Updating and modernizing the minimum spacing provisions for the drilling of horizontal deep wells
Relating to withholding tax on income from natural resources royalty payments
Relating to the deregulation of natural gas for certain consumers
Permitting customers and developers to enter into solar power purchase agreements
Orphan Oil and Gas Well Prevention Act
Relating to entry onto private property for certain purposes by a federally regulated natural gas company
Permitting residential customers to deduct up to 50 percent of their electric utility payments from their federal adjusted gross income
Relating to abandoned mines
Permitting third party ownership of on-site renewable and alternative generating facilities
Reducing the severance tax on thermal or steam coal
Requiring the use of statutory income tax rates for ratemaking purposes for certain public utilities
Entitling natural resource producers to the economic opportunity tax credit
Requiring owners of oil and gas wells to install and maintain separate meters that calculate the amount of production from those wells
Relating to the manner in which actual investment of capital and costs and a natural gas utility’s expedited cost recovery are calculated
Excluding electric generating facilities designated as an exempt wholesale generator from being regulated by the PSC
Increasing the tax on the privilege of severing natural gas and oil
Increasing the tax on the privilege of severing natural gas and oil
Relating to the removal of the severance tax on oil and gas produced from low producing oil and natural gas wells
Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
Intrastate Coal and Use Act
Establishing an industrial water extraction fee
Relating to net metering
Implementing the recommendations of the studies required by the Natural Gas and Horizontal Well Control Act
Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues to the oil and gas producing counties
Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
Intrastate Coal and Use Act
Relating generally to horizontal well control standards
Reallocating and dedicating the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling
Prohibiting drilling units from being established without consent of all owners
Relating generally to coal mining
Relating to certification for emergency medical training - mining
Co-tenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act
Providing for the timely payment of moneys owed from oil and natural gas production
Relating to the severance tax on oil and gas produced from low producing wells
Relating to oil and gas permits not to be on flat well royalty leases
Urging federal policymakers to support legislation advancing the development of an Appalachian Storage Hub
Relating to tax treatment of pollution control facilities and wind power projects
Authorizing local units of government to adopt local energy efficiency partnership programs
Dedicating certain severance taxes to fund PEIA
Entitling natural resource producers to the economic opportunity tax credit
Relating to assessment value of wind turbines
Prohibiting public utilities from prohibiting customers from constructing, installing, or maintaining a connection or other infrastructure
West Virginia Natural Resources Permanent Fund
Requiring the mineral estate of an unknown owner be sold to the legal surface owner at the fair market value of the mineral interest
Providing that proceeds from certain oil and gas wells that are due to persons whose name or address are unknown be kept in a special fund
Permitting residential customers to deduct up to 50 percent of their electric utility payments from their federal adjusted gross income
Relating to development of interests in natural gas and oil
Relating to net metering
Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues to the oil and gas producing counties
Relating to collecting rents and royalties from leases of public lands
Department of Environmental Protection, rule relating to West Virginia surface mining reclamation
Office of Miners' Health Safety and Training, rule relating to operating diesel equipment in underground mines
Department of Environmental Protection, rule relating to underground storage tanks
Department of Environmental Protection, rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources
Department of Environmental Protection, rule relating to control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities
Department of Environmental Protection, rule relating to control of air pollution from combustion of solid waste
Department of Environmental Protection, rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
Department of Environmental Protection, rule relating to ambient air quality standards
Relating to an oil and gas royalty arms-length transaction
Creating a tax credit for a manufacturer or power generating facility in West Virginia that purchases and uses coal, oil or gas
Reallocating and dedicating the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
Relating to the powers and duties of the Office of Coalfield Community Development
Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
Repealing a section of the code related to wind power projects
Creating five-year tax credits for businesses locating on post-coal mine sites
Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
Reducing the severance tax on coal to two percent
Relating to entry onto private property by natural gas companies
Relating generally to horizontal well control standards
Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
Clarifying the intent of gas royalty leases which required not less than 1/8th (12.5%) of the total amount paid to, received by or delivered to the owner
Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
Requiring continuous monitoring of air, noise, dust and particulates
Requiring all unclaimed oil and gas royalties due a leaseholder of the mineral estate shall be transferred and paid to the legal surface owner
Permitting certain surface owners to purchase gas at market rates
Changing the determination of just compensation to be paid to the landowner when eminent domain is used for a pipeline
Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling
Authorizing shut-in of oil and gas wells in West Virginia
Prohibiting drilling units from being established without consent of all owners
Intrastate Coal and Use Act
Prohibiting the state from requiring persons with oil or gas rights connected to deep oil or gas wells to involuntarily integrate their interests
Relating generally to coal mining, safety and environmental protection
Removing the Division of Energy as an independent agency
Establishing timelines for taking final action on certain permits
Relating to the definition of above ground storage tanks
America’s promise to our retired coal miners and widows and to pass the Miners Protection Act as soon as possible and provide the full measure of benefits these retirees were promised and have earned.
Providing exception to waste for certain oil and gas development
Permitting surface owners purchase mineral interests when interest becomes tax lien
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
Repealing section related to wind power projects
Cotenancy and Lease Integration Act
Relating generally to coal mining, coal mining safety and environmental protection
Relating to the valuation of oil and gas producing property
Changing the determination of just compensation to be paid to the landowner when eminent domain is used for a pipeline
Clarifying the intent of gas royalty leases which required not less than 1/8th (12.5%) of the total amount paid to, received by or delivered to the owner
Increasing the business and occupation tax on generating electricity for two years
Requiring continuous monitoring of air, noise, dust and particulates
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
Authorizing shut-in of oil and gas wells in West Virginia
Relating to the Miners Protection Act
Requiring all unclaimed oil and gas royalties due a leaseholder of the mineral estate shall be transferred and paid to the legal surface owner
Relating generally to severance tax imposed on privilege of severing natural gas for sale
Relating generally to severance taxes imposed on the privilege of producing coal for sale
Permitting natural gas companies to enter private property without prior consent from the owner for the limited purposes of obtaining data
Authorizing local units of government to adopt local energy efficiency partnership programs
DEP Air Quality Board, Permits for Construction, Modification, Relocation and Operation of Stationary Sources of Air Pollutants, Notification Requirements, Admin. Updates, Temporary Permits, General Permits, Permission to Commence Construction and Procedures for Evaluation
DEP Air Quality Board, Permits for Construction and Major Modification of Major Stationary Sources for the Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality
DEP Air Quality Board, Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
DEP Secretary's Office, Voluntary Remediation and Redevelopment Rule
DEP Water and Waste Management, Awarding of Matching Grants for Local Litter Control Programs
DEP Air Quality Board, Alternative Emission Limitations During Startup, Shutdown and Maintenance Operations
DEP Air Quality Board, Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources
Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, W.Va. Office of, Certification, Recertification and Training of EMT-Miners and the Certification of EMT-M Instructors
DEP Air Quality Board, Control of Air Pollution from Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities
DEP Air Quality Board, Ambient Air Quality Standards
Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
Permitting certain surface owners to purchase gas at market rates
Providing that rents and royalties from leases of the minerals under the state's rivers and streams shall be expended for road paving and maintenance
Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin
Relating to the assessment of oil and gas mineral interests
Reallocating and dedicating up to $30 million to the natural gas and oil severance tax revenues annually to the natural gas and oil-producing counties of origin
Intrastate Coal and Use Act
Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
Relating generally to horizontal well control standards
Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling
Prohibiting drilling units from being established without consent of all owners
Prohibiting the state from requiring persons with oil or gas rights connected to deep oil or gas wells to involuntarily integrate their interests
Relating to pipeline safety
Authorizing the Public Service Commission to approve expedited cost recovery of electric utility coal-fired boiler modernization and improvement projects
Relating to the reporting of emergency incidents by well operators and pipeline operators
Expanding the definition of “underground facility” in the One-Call System Act
Raising the allowable threshold of the coal severance tax revenue fund budgeted for personal services
Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of annual nitrogen oxide emissions
Creating 5-year tax credit for businesses on post-mine sites
Oil and Gas Royalty Payment and Transparency Act of 2016
Allowing well pad and road construction for oil and gas activities
Creating a five-year tax credit for businesses locating on post-mine sites
Relating to the disposition of funds due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners
Reducing the severance tax on coal to two percent of gross value; and creating a local government economic assistance fund
Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax
Prohibiting the state from requiring persons with oil or gas rights connected to deep oil or gas wells to involuntarily integrate their interests
Relating to certain post-mining uses of lands subject to surface mining permits
Horizontal Well Unitization and Landowner Protection Act of 2016
Intrastate Coal and Use Act
Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to above ground storage tank administrative proceedings and civil penalty assessment
Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, rule relating to substance abuse screening standards and procedures
Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards
Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to above ground storage tank fee assessments
Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to above ground storage tanks
Department of Environmental Protection, Oil and Gas, rule relating to horizontal well development
Prohibiting drilling units from being established without consent of all owners
Relating to coal severance tax
Regulating wood burning appliances is subject to the approval of the Legislature
Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of annual sulfur dioxide emissions
Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions
Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities
Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to surface mining reclamation
Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to the control of air pollution from combustion of solid waste
Department of Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management, rule relating to administrative proceedings and civil penalty assessment
Department of Environmental Protection, Air Quality, rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources
Relating to mine safety
Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin
West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling
Repealing the additional tax on the privilege of severing coal
Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
Requiring the consent of the Public Service Commission before an electric utility subject to this chapter may retire or permanently shut-down an electric generating plant
Permitting certain surface owners to purchase gas at market rates
Relating generally to horizontal well control standards
Relating to the assessment of oil and gas mineral interests
Allowing well work permit transfers
Repealing portions of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
Providing a procedure for the development of a state plan under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act
Providing protection against property crimes committed against coal mines, utilities and other industrial facilities
Relating to the eligibility of a mine operator to receive a tax credit for performing reclamation or remediation at a bond forfeiture site
Providing for the unitization of interests in drilling units in connection with all horizontal oil or gas wells
Requesting the Congress of the United States invoke the Congressional Review Act
Relating generally to horizontal well control standards
Prohibiting blasting within six hundred twenty-five feet of an occupied dwelling
Streamlining the process of abandoned mineral interests
Relating to the assessment of oil and gas mineral interests
Relating to mine safety
Establishing radiation levels for oil and gas drill cuttings that are disposed in solid waste
Preserving employment and promoting health and safety in the coal industry
Relating to the spacing of shallow horizontal wells on a multiwell pad
Relating to net metering
Requiring oil and gas lessees to make royalty payments within one hundred twenty days of production
Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the WV/NPDES rule for coal mining facilities
Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to authorize a study of various industries that use natural gas
Relating to additional duties of the Public Service Commission
Permitting certain surface owners to purchase gas at market rates
Coal Jobs and Safety Act of 2015
Requiring the consent of the Public Service Commission before an electric utility subject to this chapter may retire or permanently shut-down an electric generating plant
Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property in certain circumstances
Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin
Repealing the additional tax on the privilege of severing coal
Repealing all of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
Abolishing the West Virginia Diesel Equipment Commission
Repealing Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act; creating net metering of customer-generators
West Virginia Coal Employment Enhancement Act
Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax
Intrastate Coal and Use Act
Relating to underground coal mines
Requiring that mining equipment being transported or trammed underground be done by qualified personnel under supervision of a certified foreman
Relating to the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
Relating to investment of the Acid Mine Drainage Fund
Including proximity detection systems and cameras used on continuous mining machines and underground haulage equipment for tax credit purposes
Establishing separate standards of performance for carbon dioxide emissions
Allowing the disposal of drill cuttings and associated drilling waste generated from well sites in commercial solid waste facilities
Allowing receipt of gifts, donations and contributions by Division of Energy
Relating to methane protections in underground mines
Relating to underground coal mines
Relating to oil and gas conservation
Relating to the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
Requiring the Director of the Division of Energy to develop an energy independence policy that ensures all oil, gas and coal produced in the state to be first used within the state before being exported
Authorizing local units of government to adopt property assessed clean energy programs
Requiring that mining equipment being transported or trammed underground be done by qualified personnel under supervision of a certified foreman
Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety
Providing a tax credit to coal producers who sell coal to taxpayers who increase their consumption of West Virginia coal
West Virginia Energy Efficiency Resource Act
Relating to civil penalties and civil administrative penalties for violations of the Water Pollution Control Act by coal mining
Requiring all operators of the underground facilities in this state to participate in the one-call system
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
Requiring all final actions by the Department of Environmental Protection regarding coal mine permits to be completed within six months
Stopping accelerated rate recovery because of adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities and revising the definition of need
Creating and implementing a fund to encourage the development and use of renewable forms of energy
Relating to residential solar energy tax credits
Permitting the disposal of drill cuttings and associated drilling mud generated from well sites in solid waste landfills
Delaying implementation of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act
Relating to alternative fuel initiatives
Requiring liners in all new surface coal-waste impoundments and requiring regulations relating to the planning, constructing and maintenance of the liners
Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues
Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split of air
Prohibiting underground injection of coal slurry in new permits or modifications and renewals
Allowing a credit against state personal income tax for the purchase of a new wood or pellet stove
Awarding credits for use of alternative and renewable energy resources
Relating to the state's jurisdiction over reclaimed sites of bond-forfeited surface mining operations
Exempting special fuel and propane used for home heating purposes from the motor fuel excise tax
Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien
Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use
Relating to alternative and renewable energy portfolio standards
Relating to interconnection and net-metering of customer-generators of renewable energy
Creating the "Intrastate Coal and Use Act" and the "Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas and Use Act"
West Virginia Renewable Energy Act
Requiring natural gas lessors to provide surface owners the ability to purchase gas from those wells
Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act
Relating to informal conferences on surface mining permit applications
West Virginia coal employment enhancement act
Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax
Intrastate Coal and Use Act
West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act
Employing best available control technology to control air pollution
Relating to liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances
Prohibiting fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline
Relating to energy efficiency for electric and gas utilities and their customers
Requiring persons who are not members of the American Association of Professional Landmen to have two years or more of experience in contracting for oil and gas leases