W.Va. Legislative Committee Meeting Schedule – Subject to change
Watch WV Legislature Live each day at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/live.cfm
SENATE:
Thursday, March 2, 2017
REVIEW BILLS INTRODUCED
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- SCR 25: Jeffrey Alan Clovis Memorial Bridge
- SCR 26: US Marine Corps SSG Beecher J. Rhoades Memorial Bridge
THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 4: Allowing licensed professionals donate time to care of indigent and needy in clinical setting (original similar to HB 2692)
- Com. Sub. for SB 236: Relating to damages for medical monitoring (With right to amend) (original similar to HB 2580)
SECOND READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 190: Eliminating preferences for vendors bidding on state contracts for commodities or printing
- Com. Sub. for SB 410: Relating to marking traps with DNR identification tag
- Com. Sub. for SB 439: Relating to venue for civil and criminal actions at Salem Correctional Center
FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 209: Defining term “veteran” as it relates to veteran-owned business
- Com. Sub. for SB 221: Relating to composition of PEIA Finance Board
- Com. Sub. for SB 224: Repealing requirement for employer’s bond for wages and benefits
- SB 263: Creating exemption from certain contract and common carrier laws for vehicles used exclusively for transportation of railroad personnel
- SB 400: Regarding appointments to WV Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council
- Com. Sub. for SB 429: Relating to monitoring inmate communications
- Com. Sub. for SB 436: Permitting investigators from Attorney General’s office carry firearms
- Com. Sub. for SB 445: Amending definition of “abused child” (original similar to HB 2758)
Committee Schedule:
9:30 a.m.: Finance (451M)
- Budget Hearing: West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts
1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)
- SB 486: Relating to health care provider taxes
- SB 198: Expanding Health Sciences Program to allow certain medical practitioners in underserved areas
- SB 339: Creating legislative coalition on chronic pain management
- SB 360: Creating Legislative Coalition on Diabetes Management
- SB 193: Prohibiting smoking of tobacco products in motor vehicle when person 16 years old or younger is present
2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- SB 280: Moving administration of Civil Air Patrol to Adjutant General
- SB 350: Allowing licensed professional counselors be issued temporary permit
- SB 253: Relating to licensing requirements for physicians and osteopathic physicians in WV
- SB 441: Establishing Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program
2 p.m.: Education (451M)
- Presentation on the State Aid Funding Formula: Amy Willard, Executive Director of School Finance
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- Budget Hearing: West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
HOUSE OF DELEGATES:
Thursday, March 2, 2017
REVIEW BILLS INTRODUCED
The House will convene at 11 a.m.
THIRD READING – For Passage
* S. B. 231<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=231&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to State Board of Education and Medicaid-eligible children
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2329<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2329&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Prohibiting the production, manufacture or possession of fentanyl
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2620<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2620&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – West Virginia Drug Overdose Monitoring Act
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2646<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2646&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Terminating the Women’s Commission and discontinue its functions
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2648<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2648&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Increasing penalties for manufacturing or transportation of a controlled substance in the presence of a minor
SECOND READING – Amendment Stage
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2364<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2364&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Prohibiting electioneering within or near early voting locations during early voting periods
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2502<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2502&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to reciprocity of occupational licenses with other states
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2619<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2619&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Act
* H. B. 2630<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2630&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Medicine and the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to share staff
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2651<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2651&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating generally to standardized testing requirements for nonpublic schools
* H. B. 2684<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2684&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Imposing penalties for repeat violations of the prohibition against driving under the influence on a suspended license
FIRST READING
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2459<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2459&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to regulation of health care and the certificate of need process
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2509<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2509&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the practice of telemedicine
* H. B. 2590<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2590&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Updating the meaning of federal taxable income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax Act
* H. B. 2594<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2594&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
* H. B. 2653<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2653&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Extending the Multi State Real-Time Tracking System
Committee Schedule:
Committee on Small Business & Economic Development – 9 a.m. – Room 434M
* H.B. 2375<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2375&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Establishing a Small Business Empowerment and Economic Expansion Program providing tax relief to newly-established small businesses.
* H.B. 2548<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2548&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to the use of outside speakers by persons licensed to manufacture, sale, possess for sale, transport or distribute nonintoxicating beer.
Committee on Banking & Insurance – 10 a.m. – Room 464M
* House Bill 2672<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2672&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Eliminating conflicting provisions within current code relating to the application of payments and the assessment of delinquency fees on consumer credit sales
* House Bill 2683<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2683&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to West Virginia Insurance Guaranty Association Act
Committee on Senior Citizen Issues – 1 p.m. – Room 215E
* House Resolution 8<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/resolution_history.cfm?year=2017&sessiontype=rs&billtype=r&houseorig=h&btype=res>, Asking Congress to support legislation increasing the Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment
* Presentation by the Office of the Attorney General
Committee on Health & Human Resources – 2 p.m. – Room 215E
* HB 2366<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2366&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to selling Jackie Withrow Hospital (2nd FIN)
* HB 2736<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2736&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Selling of certain state owned long-term care facilities by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources. (2nd FIN)
* HB2460<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2460&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Requiring insurance coverages to ensure telehealth parity
* SB 188<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=188&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Correcting definition of “telehealth” in medication-assisted treatment programs
* HB 2739<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2739&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to supplemental Medicaid provider reimbursement. (2nd FIN)
* HB 2068<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2068&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Operating and maintaining a fully interoperable statewide network to facilitate public and private use of health care information in the state (2nd FIN)
* HB 2665<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2665&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Requiring a person restraining a mentally ill or mentally challenged person in a “four point restraint” to administer sedation by injection at the time the patient is secured (2nd JUD)
* HB 2522<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2522&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Nurse licensure compact (2nd JUD)
* HB 2667<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2667&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to accreditation of nursing schools (2nd GO)
* HB 2497<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2497&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Permitting medication administration by unlicensed personnel in nursing homes (2nd JUD)
* HB 2132<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2132&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Limiting able-bodied adults without dependents receipt of SNAP benefits to three months in a thirty-six month period
Committee on Energy – 2:00 p.m. – Room 410M
***Agenda to be Posted***
Committee on Prevention & Treatment of Substance Abuse – 3:30 p.m. – Room 215E
* HB2470<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2470&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Making it a felony to knowingly house drug traffickers (2nd JUD)
* HB2766<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2766&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Establishing a new special revenue fund, designated the Adult Drug Court Participation Fund (2nd FIN)
