Around the Rotunda: Legislative, committee schedule for Thursday, Feb. 15

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Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018
37th Day of the Legislative Session

Rotunda and social activities:

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SENATE:  

Senate Convenes at 11 a.m. 

On the Agenda: 

RESOLUTIONS

• SR 43: Designating February 15, 2018, as WV Alzheimer’s Association Day

 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• SCR 20: Requesting Bureau for Medical Services review and update Medicaid rates for ground and air ambulance services
• SCR 21: US Army PFC Charles Thurman “Buddy” Ellis Memorial Bridge
• SCR 22: US Army Colonel Larkin Bilton Vance Memorial Highway

 

THIRD READING (For Passage)

• Com. Sub. for SB 36: Relating generally to DNA testing
• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 341: Relating generally to WV Appellate Reorganization Act of 2018 (original similar to HB 4004)
• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 347: Relating to operation of motorboats (original similar to HB 4274)
• Com. Sub. for SB 348: Allowing for disposal of service weapons of special DNR police officers
• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 355: Dissolving IS&C Division under Office of Technology (original similar to HB 4339)
• Com. Sub. for SB 370: Exempting nonpaid volunteers at ski areas from workers’ compensation benefits
• Com. Sub. for SB 458: Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting regulations or legal requirements relating to employer-employee relationship
• Com. Sub. for SB 461: Extending time to file petition for motor fuel excise tax refund
• SB 524: Relating to disposition of complaint proceedings
• SB 525: Relating to certification for emergency medical training – mining
• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SJR 3: Judicial Budget Oversight Amendment (original similar to HJR 101, HJR 104, HJR 109)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4162: Granting authority to the State Conservation Committee to contract for flood response

 

SECOND READING (Amendments Stage)

• Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 273: Reducing use of certain prescription drugs (original similar to HB 4263)
• SB 339: Relating to WV Retirement Health Benefit Trust Fund within PEIA (original similar to HB 4272)
• Com. Sub. for SB 358: Imposing fee for processing criminal bonds
• SB 398: Relating to requirements for making consumer loans
• Com. Sub. for SB 495: Designating specific insurance coverages exempt from rate filing requirements
• SB 498: Creating two-year pilot program allowing all-terrain or recreational vehicles in Cabwaylingo State Forest
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 3004: Relating to filling vacancies in offices of state officials, United States Senators, Justices, judges, and magistrates (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
• Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4242: Clarifying the jurisdictional amount for removal of a civil action from magistrate court to circuit court

 

FIRST READING

• SB 47: Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person’s child – (Com. amend. pending)
• Com. Sub. for SB 87: Allowing purchase of Class XS resident senior hunting, fishing and trapping licenses at age 65
• Com. Sub. for SB 415: Permitting wagering on certain professional or collegiate sports events authorized as WV Lottery Sports Wagering activities (original similar to HB4396)
• SB 444: Repealing antiquated code sections regarding safety glass and lighting in motor vehicles
• Com. Sub. for SB 510: Designating hospitals for stroke treatment

Senate Bills Introduced

Committees

Daily Committee Schedule: 

 

9:30 a.m.: Finance

• Com. Sub. for HB 4142: Providing certain employees of the Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services, and West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority a salary adjustment
• SB 523: Relating to tax treatment of pollution control facilities and wind power projects

 

1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)

• Originating Bill 1: Relating to coal mining generally

 

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

• SB 316: Creating refundable personal income tax credit to encourage persons receiving public assistance to get married
• SB 499: Requiring one year of certain approved postgraduate clinical training for persons with foreign medical degrees
• HB 4035: Creating a legislative coalition to study and report to the Legislature on palliative care
• HB 4332: Relating to home peritoneal renal dialysis

 

2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)

• SB 500: Authorizing City of White Sulphur Springs to expend principal and interest from special interest-bearing fund
• SB 432: Relating to municipal home rule
• SB 474: Requiring that certain documents filed pursuant to WV Jobs Act which include records of wages be considered confidential

 

2 p.m.: Education (451M)

• SB 507: Establishing Katherine Johnson Academy as magnet school programs at WV colleges and universities
• Com. Sub. for SB 83: Relating to higher education student success
• Subcommittee report on SB 111: Enacting Forming Open and Robust University Minds Act

 

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

• Agenda TBA

 

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

• Agenda TBA

 

Senate Bills to be Introduced Thursday, February 15, 2018

• SB 546: Improving coordination of law-enforcement agencies in finding missing persons and identifying remains (Jeffries; Judiciary)

HOUSE OF DELEGATES:   

House Convenes at 11 a.m.

On the agenda:

SPECIAL CALENDAR

THIRD READING – For Passage

*         Com. Sub. for S. B. 154<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=154&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules

*         Com. Sub. for S. B. 184<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=184&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing DOT promulgate legislative rules

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 2694<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2694&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the development and implementation of a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 2890<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2890&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund that will serve to support library facilities construction, maintenance and improvement projects

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 3104<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=3104&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Transfer of the West Virginia Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Fund

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 4015<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4015&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the management and continuous inventory of vehicles owned, leased, operated, or acquired by the state and its agencies

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 4268<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4268&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Co-tenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 4270<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4270&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Providing for the timely payment of moneys owed from oil and natural gas production

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 4361<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4361&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> –  Bestowing the West Augusta Award upon each West Virginian graduating from U. S. Military Academies with the highest-grade point average

*         H. B. 4433<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4433&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Declaring certain claims against an agency of the state to be moral obligations of the state

*         H. B. 4434<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4434&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Clarifying provisions relating to candidates unaffiliated with a political party as it relates to certificates of announcement

SECOND READING – Amendment Stage

*         Com. Sub. for S. B. 163<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=163&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules

*         Com. Sub. for S. B. 165<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=165&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rules (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)

*         S. B. 379<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=379&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Supplemental appropriation from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR

*         S. B. 382<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=382&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Supplemental appropriation of Lottery Net Profits to Bureau of Senior Services, Lottery Senior Citizens Fund

*         S. B. 384<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=384&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Decreasing and increasing appropriations from State Fund, General Revenue to DHHR

*         S. B. 385<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=385&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Decreasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and MAPS

*         Com. Sub. for S. B. 386<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=386&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Decreasing and increasing appropriations from Treasury to Higher Education Policy Commission

*         S. B. 388<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=388&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Decreasing, increasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and Department of Administration

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 4343<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4343&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the delivery of financial statements to bank shareholders

*         H. B. 4385<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4385&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services

*         H. B. 4402<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4402&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the prevention of sexual abuse of children

*         H. B. 4462<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4462&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Allowing off duty members and officers of the department of public safety to guard private property

FIRST READING

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 2464<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2464&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to disclaimers and exclusions of warranties in consumer transactions for goods

*         H. B. 4376<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4376&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Health and Human Resources

*         H. B. 4389<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4389&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Expiring funds to the Enterprise Resource Planning System Fund

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 4400<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4400&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company

*         Com. Sub. for H. B. 4473<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4473&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to use of state funds for advertising to promote a public official or government office

 

House Bills Introduced

Committees

Daily Committee Schedule:

Committee on Small Business, Entrepreneurship & Economic Development
9:00 a.m. – Room 434M

*         A presentation by Erika Bailey, West Virginia Development Office.

Committee on Banking & Insurance
10:00 a.m. – Room 215E

*         House Bill 4222<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4222&year=2018&sessiontype=RS>, Requiring the owners of motorboats to carry liability insurance, regardless of the horsepower or length of the motorboat

*         House Bill 4486<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4486&year=2018&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to persons required to obtain a license to engage in the business of currency exchange

Committee on Rules
10:45 a.m. – Behind Chamber

Committee on Health & Human Resources
2:00 p.m. – Room 215E

*         HB 4524<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4524&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Establishing guidelines for the substitution of certain biological pharmaceuticals (2nd Reference to Judiciary)

*         HB 4609<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4609&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to advertising by physicians and podiatrists (2nd Reference to Judiciary)

*         HB 4215<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4215&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the involuntary hospitalization of persons administered opioid antagonists (2nd Reference to Judiciary)

Committee on Energy
2:00 p.m. – Room 418M

*         HR 7<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hr7%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=rs&i=7&houseorig=h&billtype=r>, Urging federal policymakers to supports legislation advancing the development of an Appalachian Storage Hub

*         Subcommittee report on HB 4269<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4269&year=2018&sessiontype=RS>, Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

*         HB 4490<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4490&year=2018&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to oil and gas permits not to be on flat well royalty leases

Committee on Prevention & Treatment of Substance Abuse
3:30 p.m. – Room 215E

*         HB 4509<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4509&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the establishment of substance abuse treatment facilities

*         HB 4472<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4472&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund (2nd reference to Finance)

*         HB 4443<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4443&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Requiring bail bondsman and bail bond enforcer be subject to random drug testing (2nd reference to Judiciary)

*         HB 4172<http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=4172&year=2018&sessiontype=RS> – Establishing a crisis line and mobile application for the public to combat the crisis in this state posed by substance abuse (2nd reference to Finance)