W.Va. Legislative Committee Meeting Schedule – Subject to change
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The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- SCR 39: US Army PFC Kelva H. Justice Memorial Road
- SCR 40: Requesting study on available funds for improvements at Beech Fork State Park and Cacapon Resort State Park
- SCR 41: US Army PV2 Mandvial S. “Bunker” Bias Memorial Bridge
THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 186: Adjusting date when children become eligible for certain school programs and school attendance requirements (original similar to HB 2478)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 192: Relating generally to licensed surveyors
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 413: Relating to bids on government construction contracts
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 471: Relating to state ownership of wildlife
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 474: Exempting names of licensed hunters from public disclosure
- Eng. SB 495: Relating to regulation of events by State Athletic Commission
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 531: Relating to renewal date for apiary certificates of registration
- Eng. SB 536: Authorizing tracking of wounded or injured bear or deer
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 575: Limiting nuisance actions against shooting ranges for noise
SECOND READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 255: Relating to filling vacancies on county commissions and other county offices
- SB 443: Establishing Adult Drug Court Participation Fund (original similar to HB 2766)
- SB 444: Establishing Court Advanced Technology Subscription Fund (original similar to HB 2765)
- Com. Sub. for SB 522: Relating to pharmacy audits
- SB 524: Relating to WV academic standards
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2678: Changing the amounts of prejudgment and post-judgment interest to reflect today’s economic conditions
FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 16: Repealing section related to wind power projects
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 308: Clarifying administrative and law-enforcement activities of DNR police officers are important to conservation and management of state’s fish and wildlife
- Com. Sub. for SB 500: Relating to Medicaid fraud and abuse
- SB 554: Relating to false swearing in legislative proceeding
- Com. Sub. for SB 559: Relating to limited video lottery
- Com. Sub. for SB 581: Relating generally to administration of trusts (original similar to HB 2978)
- SB 620: Relating to traffic regulations
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2028: Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
9:30 a.m.: Finance (451M)
- Committee Substitute for SB 362: Authorizing redirection of certain amounts to General Revenue Fund
- Committee Substitute for SB 461: Exempting WV State Police from state purchasing requirements
- SB 464: Eliminating taxation on annuity consideration received by life insurer
- Committee Substitute for Committee Substitute for SB 486: Relating to health care provider taxes
- SB 547: Modifying fees paid to Secretary of State
- SB 565: Authorizing City of South Charleston levy special district excise tax
1 p.m.: Health & Human Resources (451M)
- SB 457: Eliminating WV Health Care Authority
- HB 2509: Relating to the practice of telemedicine
- SB 36: Permitting school nurses to possess and administer opioid antagonists
- SB 27: Relating to microprocessor permit
- HB 2300: Regulating step therapy protocols
1 p.m.: Energy, Industry & Mining (208W)
- SB 583: Abolishing Office of Environmental Advocate within DEP
2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- SB 453: Adding classification and base salaries of certain civilian employees of WV State Police Forensic Laboratory
- SB 499: Creating Debt Resolution Services Division in Auditor’s office
- SB 523: Converting to biweekly for state employees
- SB 480: Authorizing local government adopt energy efficiency partnership programs
- SB 339: Creating Legislative Coalition on Chronic Pain Management
- SB 360: Creating Legislative Coalition on Diabetes Management
- SB 398: Creating Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act
- SB 564: Relating to Statewide Independent Living Council
- SB 412: Relating to WV Jobs Act reporting requirements
3 p.m. Judiciary (208W)
- SB 399: Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting local ordinances regulating benefits employers provide to employees
- SB 548: Providing for specific escheat of US savings bonds
- SB 216: Prohibiting exclusion, modifications or limitation of warranty or remedy in sale of used motor vehicles
The House will convene at 11 a.m.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
* H. C. R. 15 – Requesting Congress to fully support the National Park Service’s recommendations to extend the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail to include additional sites along the Expedition’s Eastern Legacy
* H. C. R. 24 – SGT. Eugene E. Arbogast Memorial Bridge
* H. C. R. 59 – USMC LCpl Timothy J. Dunnigan Memorial Intersection
* H. C. R. 82 – U.S. Marine Sergeant David Paul McCord Memorial Bridge
* H. C. R. 83 – U.S. Army SPC John R. Tennant Memorial Bridge
THIRD READING – For Passage
* Com. Sub. for S. B. 301<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=301&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to State Board of Education, School Lunch Program
* S. B. 330<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=330&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to WV Workplace Freedom Act
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2373<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2373&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing school bus drivers trained in administration of epinephrine auto-injectors to administer auto-injectors
* H. B. 2427<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2427&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Requiring agencies listed in the online state phone directory to update certain employee information
* H. B. 2446<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2446&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the requirement that all executive branch agencies maintain a website that contains specific information
* H. B. 2522<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2522&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Nurse licensure compact
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2601<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2601&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to municipal policemen’s or municipal firemen’s pension and relief funds
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2603<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2603&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to municipal policemen’s or firemen’s pension and relief funds that are funded at one hundred and twenty-five percent or more
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2631<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2631&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to time standards for disposition of complaint proceedings
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2649<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2649&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Adding violations of law upon which a public servant’s retirement plan may be forfeited
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 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
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2792<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2792&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Requiring the Library Commission to survey the libraries of the state
* H. B. 2796<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2796&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the West Virginia National Guard entering into contracts and subcontracts for specialized technical services
SECOND READING – Amendment Stage
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2546<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2546&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Allowing replacement costs of employer provided property to be deducted from an employee’s final paycheck if the property is not returned
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2555<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2555&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2586<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2586&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to required minimum distribution of retirement benefits of plans administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2676<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2676&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Transferring the Security office under the Division of Culture and History to the Division of Protective Services
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2694<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2694&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the development and implementation of a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2739<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2739&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to supplemental Medicaid provider reimbursement
* H. B. 2766<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
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2811<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2811&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the definition of above ground storage tanks
* H. B. 2833<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2833&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Specifying the contents and categories of information for inclusion in annual reports
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2839<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2839&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Updating the procedures for legislative review of departments and licensing boards
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2852<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2852&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the preparation of a comprehensive annual financial report
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2868<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2868&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating generally to Uniform Unclaimed Property Act
FIRST READING
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2898<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2898&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to request and obtain criminal background checks of employees of the Legislature
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2916<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2916&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing certain first responders to carry firearms
Public Bill Presentation: Committee on the Judiciary – 8:30 a.m. – House Chamber
* Presentation on HB 3093<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=3093&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Establishing Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies
Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources – 9 a.m. – Room 434M
Agriculture bills before Committee:
* HB2790<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2790&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Transferring the Division of Forestry from the Department of Commerce to the Department of Agriculture.
Natural Resources bills before Committee:
* HB3101<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=3101&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to fishing within 200 feet of agency personnel stocking fish in public waters; criminal penalties — Originating Bill.
* HB3020<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=3020&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to criminal penalties for the offenses of hunting, trapping or fishing on the lands of another person.
Committee on Banking & Insurance – 10 a.m. – Room 215E
* House Bill 2851<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2851&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Updating fee structure provisions for broker-dealers
* House Bill 2871<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2871&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Eliminating the mandated employer versus employee cost share of eighty percent employer, twenty percent employee for Public Employee Insurance Agency
Committee on Rules – 10:45 a.m. – Behind Chamber
Committee on Senior Citizen Issues – 1 p.m. – Room 215E
* House Bill 2848<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2848&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Livable Home Tax Credit
* Presentation by Gaylene Miller, State Director, AARP WV
Committee on Energy – 2 p.m. – Room 418M
** Agenda to be posted. **
Committee on Health & Human Resources – 2 p.m. – Room 215E
* HB 2002<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2002&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to parental notification of abortions performed on unemancipated minors (2nd reference to Judiciary)
* HB 3009<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=3009&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to access by the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to the Controlled Substances Monitoring Program database (2nd JUD)