By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate approved a bill Wednesday evening that would establish the framework for medical marijuana to become available in West Virginia. The Senate approved Senate Bill 386, the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Act, by a 28-6 margin at 8:20 p.m. The[Read More…]
Month: March 2017
By one vote, WV Senate passes school tax increase bill
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va .— By a hair, the West Virginia Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would cut state pre-K through 12 public education funding by $79.3 million and automatically raise counties’ regular levy property tax rates to make up for the loss. Senate Bill[Read More…]
Debt paydown, teacher raise bill doesn’t progress out of WV House
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates adjourned Wednesday evening without passing to the Senate a bill that would have extended the paydown period for the Teachers’ Retirement System debt and also granted a statewide pay raise for classroom teachers. “It is dead,”[Read More…]
Justice to WVU: ‘We are too blooming good to be last’
By JIM BISSETT The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice made a Morgantown stop March 29 as part of his ongoing Save our State tour. He told a standing-room-only audience at WVU that his budget proposals for his year’s state Legislative session could pull West Virginia out of[Read More…]
WV House postpones action on tax bill, plans to work Senate version
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates postponed action on a tax reform bill Wednesday, March 29, preferring to work on a tax bill passed earlier in the day by the state Senate. House Bill 2933, which would have lowered[Read More…]
Gas drilling bill passes Senate on Crossover Day
By JIM ROSS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The bill that would allow for consolidation of drilling rights for natural gas passed the State Senate by a vote of 19-14 Wednesday with one member absent. The bill passed on “Crossover Day,” the legislative session deadline set in statute for[Read More…]
Senate approves tax increase, state ed cuts
By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate on Wednesday evening narrowly approved a bill that will cut state support to county school districts and increase property taxes to make up the difference. After about an hour of debate, Senate Bill 609 was approved Wednesday evening by[Read More…]
WV House votes to sell Hopemont Hospital
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House of Delegates voted Wednesday to begin the process of selling Hopemont Hospital in Preston County. Without a legislator to spare, HB 3102 passed via a 51-49 decision. Following the roll call, Wednesday’s legislation will join a similar bill passed by the House last week[Read More…]
House votes 51-49 to sell Hopemont, bill moves to the Senate
Staff reports The Preston County News & Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Hopemont Hospital is one step closer to being sold. The West Virginia House of Delegates on Wednesday voted by a narrow margin – 51 for to 49 against – to pass a bill that will sell the state hospital[Read More…]
Legislators push substance abuse bills, tax reform against deadline
By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Wednesday started with two major tax reform measures in the West Virginia Legislature, but only one survived the cutoff date for bills to be passed in their chamber of origin. The West Virginia Senate approved its 2017 Tax Reform Act before lunchtime Wednesday,[Read More…]
