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Month: March 2017
New WV Senate bill leaves mine safety enforcement, targets water standards
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A new coal industry bill unveiled Thursday in a West Virginia Senate committee meeting would preserve the ability of state inspectors to enforce mine-safety standards, but still attempts to give companies another tool to fight federal lawsuits over water pollution from[Read More…]
WV Senate bill would eliminate civil service for state employees
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — All West Virginia state employees could be fired at any time under a bill up for consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday. Senate Judiciary Chairman Charlie Trump, R-Morgan, lead sponsor of the bill (SB 408) to end civil service protection[Read More…]
School testing amendment divides senators
By DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Senators divided sharply on March 23 over an amendment to a bill to abandon Common Core-related school testing. The testing bill is SB 18. As amended, it requires an 11th-grade college admission assessment that complies with Every Student Succeeds Act requirements[Read More…]
Resolution could lead to elected WV state school board members
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A majority of voting members on the West Virginia Board of Education would be elected by the general public, under a resolution approved by the House Education Committee this week. The resolution (House Joint Resolution 24) would also let the state Legislature[Read More…]
Bill to eliminate RESAs advances
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — School districts in West Virginia would get an extra year to form cooperative agreements for services presently provided by the state’s eight regional service education agencies under legislation now on its way to the House Finance Committee. House Education[Read More…]
Senate clashes over education bill
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Debate in the West Virginia Senate devolved into a free-for-all Thursday, March 23, as Senators clashed over an education bill. The legislation, Senate Bill 18, would require the state school board to come up with ACT-style testing for high school students[Read More…]
Gas drilling bill emerges from Senate committee
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislation to help natural gas companies force holdout mineral owners to allow drilling emerged from committee late Thursday night, and is headed for the floor Senate late in the session, but still with plenty of time for the industry to win[Read More…]
House Education Committee passes governor’s K-12 bill
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After about four hours of discussion, questions and amendments, the West Virginia House Education Committee passed at 11 p.m. Wednesday Gov. Jim Justice’s wide-ranging K-12 education bill. Wednesday was the first appearance of the bill in a legislative committee. It now heads[Read More…]
Adolescent abortion bill up for floor vote in WV House
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would place new restrictions on adolescent abortion in West Virginia. Lawmakers had originally introduced a bill that would no longer allow a physician to waive the parental notification requirement before an adolescent abortion.[Read More…]
