W.Va. Legislative Committee Meeting Schedule – Subject to change
Watch WV Legislature Live each day at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/live.cfm
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
THIRD READING
- Eng. SB 198: Expanding Health Sciences Program to allow certain medical practitioners in underserved areas
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 280: Moving administration of Civil Air Patrol to Adjutant General
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 338: Relating to medical professional liability (original similar to HB 2682, HB 2757)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 358: Relating generally to trustee sale of timeshare estates (original similar to HB 2782)
SECOND READING
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 173: Relating to autocycles (original similar to HB 2530, HB 2576)
- SB 185: Allowing spending units designate fund into which proceeds from sale of surplus property must be deposited
- Com. Sub. for SB 206: Expanding definition of “kidnapping” to include taking or gaining custody of, confining or concealing person by force
- Com. Sub. for SB 220: Relating to offenses and penalties under Uniform Controlled Substances Act (original similar to HB 2003, HB 2643, HB 2645)
- SB 365: Maintaining solvency of Unemployment Compensation Fund (original similar to HB 2784)
FIRST READING
- SB 235: Relating to motorcycle registration renewal
- Com. Sub. for SB 259: Requiring administrators of intestate estates to give bond and take oath
- Com. Sub. for SB 473: Permitting collection and sale of naturally shed deer antlers
10 a.m.: Workforce (208W)
- SB 399: Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting local ordinances regulating benefits employers provide to employees
10 a.m.: Interstate Cooperation (451M)
- Organizational Meeting: Welcome and introduction of Committee Staff
Immediately Following Floor Session: Confirmations (208W)
- Consideration of Senate Executive Message No. 3-T Nominations
2 p.m.: Agriculture and Rural Development (208W)
- SB 283: Creating Food Production Act. (To be referred to sub-committee)
- SB 531: Relating to renewal date for apiary certificates of registration
- SB 183: Transferring Division of Forestry from Department of Commerce to Department of Agriculture
2 p.m.: Pensions (451M)
- SB 393: Relating to administration of municipal pensions
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- TBA
3 p.m. Finance (451M)
- Budget Hearing: West Virginia Consumer Advocate Division
- Budget Hearing: West Virginia Public Service Commission
- SB 299: Supplementing, amending, decreasing and increasing items of appropriations from State Road Fund to DOH
- SB 300: Supplemental appropriation from unappropriated balance in Treasury to Division of Personnel
- SB 301: Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to State Board of Education, School Lunch Program
- SB 302: Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to Division of Human Services
- SB 303: Supplemental appropriation of public moneys from Treasury to DHHR
- SB 305: Supplemental appropriation of public moneys from Treasury to Fire Commission
- SB 306: Supplemental appropriation of federal funds from Treasury to Workforce West Virginia
- SB 538: Requiring parolees engage in alcohol or drug therapy as condition of parole (Trump; Judiciary)
- SB 539: Making significant revisions to law regulating election financing (Ferns, Rucker; Judiciary)
- SB 540: Requiring school counselors inform graduating students of student aid availability (Maynard; Education)
- SB 541: Permitting county boards of education post professional personnel job vacancies (FN) (Maynard; Education)
- SB 542: Providing special obligation notes to finance construction to complete Interstates 73 and 74 (Maynard, Cline, Mullins, Plymale, Swope, Takubo; Transportation & Infrastructure then Finance)
- SB 543: Allowing maximum number of pupils exceed up to 5 in certain instances (Mullins; Education then Finance)
- SB 544: Relating to use of aftermarket automobile crash parts (Maynard, Stollings, Smith, Cline, Prezioso, Facemire, Boso, Palumbo; Judiciary)
- SB 545: Increasing penalties for malicious assault, unlawful assault and assault on law-enforcement officer (Cline; Judiciary)
- SB 546: Creating emergency text number systems for children (Cline; Gov Org)
- SB: 547: Modifying fees paid to Secretary of State (FN) (Blair; Finance)
- SB 548: Providing for specific escheat of US savings bonds (Hall; Judiciary)
- SB 549: Allowing individuals at least 21 or older operate or ride motorcycle without helmet (Maynard; Transportation & Infrastructure then Judiciary
- SB 550: Relating to disposition of vacated school buildings or other state-owned buildings (Maynard; Gov Org)
- SB 551: Limiting School Building Authority’s discretion to disburse funds (Maynard; Education then Finance)
- SB 552: Authorizing WV Disaster Recovery Board intervene to restore access to private property (Maynard; Gov Org)
- SB 553: Providing teachers with 3 percent pay raise (FN) (Maynard; Education then Finance)
- SB 554: Relating to false swearing in legislative proceeding (Weld; Judiciary)
- SB 555: Dissolving PEIA (FN) (Ferns; Banking & Insurance then Finance)
- SB 556: Relating to Consumer Credit and Protection Act (Trump; Judiciary)
- SB 557: [By Request of the Executive] Dissolving Information Services and Communications Division (FN) (Gov Org then Finance)
- SB 558: Requiring state-owned or -leased vehicles be registered (Beach, Facemire, Miller, Ojeda, Romano, Woelfel; Gov Org)
- SB 559: Relating to limited video lottery (Ferns; Judiciary)
- SB 560: Creating medical malpractice peer review panel by Board of Medicine (FN) (Takubo, Maynard, Stollings, Swope; Judiciary then Finance)
- SB 561: Allowing economically depressed county to retain 50 percent of coal severance tax collected in county (FN) (Stollings, Ojeda; Energy, Industry & Mining then Finance)
- SB 562: Relating to civil actions for damages brought against county commissions and municipalities (Blair; Judiciary)
- SB 563: Relating to Consumer Credit and Protection Act (Trump; Judiciary)
- SJR 7: Senators and Delegates Service Limit Amendment (Maynard; Judiciary)
- SCR 28: US Army SPC4 Randall W. Arbogast Memorial Road (Boso, Karnes)
- SR 33: Designating March 8, 2017, as Disability Advocacy Day (Gaunch)
The House will convene at 11 a.m.
THIRD READING – For Passage
* S. B. 176<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=176&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Repealing article concerning detection of tuberculosis, high blood pressure and diabetes
* S. B. 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
SECOND READING – Amendment Stage
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2503<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2503&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to the rulemaking authority for Board of Osteopathic Medicine
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2526<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2526&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Classifying additional drugs to Schedules I, II, IV and V of controlled substances
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2540<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2540&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Permitting a person to practice certain professions for limited time for a charitable function
* H. B. 2628<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2628&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating generally to the powers and duties of the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine
FIRST READING
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2554<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2554&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2571<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2571&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition
* H. B. 2675<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2675&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to primary elections and nominating procedures
* H. B. 2706<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2706&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2726<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2726&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Authorizing home incarceration officers to arrest participants for violating the terms and conditions of his or her supervision with or without a court order
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2731<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2731&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Clarifying civil actions heard in circuit court
Committee on Judiciary – 9 a.m. – Room 410M
* HB 2704<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2704&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Prohibiting persons convicted of sexual offenses against children with whom they hold positions of trust from holding certification or license valid in public schools
* HB 2781<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2781&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Requiring a person desiring to vote to present documentation identifying the voter to one of the poll clerks
* SB 330<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=330&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to WV Workplace Freedom Act
*** Break for 11 a.m. floor session ***
Resume at 2 p.m. – Room 410M
* Continuation of bills from morning session.
Committee on Education – 9 a.m. – Room 434M
* H. B. 2574<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2574&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Middle School Technical Education Program Act
* H. B. 2618<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2618&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to body mass index
* H. B. 2720<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2720&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Allowing the School Building Authority to transfer funds allocated into the School Construction Fund
Committee on Finance – 9 a.m.- Room 460M
* H. B. 2500<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2500&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services.
* H. B. 2501<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2501&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Supplementary appropriation to the Department of Education, State Board of Education – School Lunch Program.
* Budget hearing for the School Building Authority – 10 a.m.- Room 460M
* Budget hearing for the Department of Education and the Arts – 2 p.m. – Room 460M
* Budget hearing for the Secretary of State
Following the Secretary of State’s budget hearing:
* H. B. 2007<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2007&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Eliminating courtesy patrol programs.
* H. B. 2119<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2119&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Repealing West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange Act.
Committee on Government Organization – 9 a.m. – Room 215E
* Work Group requested presentations – 3 p.m. – Room 215E
* HB 2749<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2749&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Exempting vehicles engaged in nonemergency transportation of Medicaid members from permit requirements.
* HB 2773<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2773&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to purchase of inmate-made goods by state agencies. (FIN)
* HB 2518<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2518&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Creating a legislative rule to permit a pharmacist or pharmacy intern to administer certain immunizations.
* HB 2538<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2538&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to the licensure of physician assistants.
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs – 1 p.m. – Room 434M
* HB 2771<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2771&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Relating to teaching certificates for teachers whose spouses are married to a member of the Armed Forces
Bills to be introduced: