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Monday, Feb. 24, 2020
48th Day of the Legislative Session
From the Activity Calendar: West Virginians for Life Rally, North Steps; Chiropractic Day, Upper Senate Rotunda; Pharmacy Day, Upper House and remaining Upper Senate Rotunda.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- SCR 43: US Army 1LT Fred Omar Pratt Memorial Bridge
- SCR 44: Naming portion of road in Wayne County “In Memory of Tootsie Hensley, Please Keep Buffalo Creek Litter Free”
- SCR 45: Requesting study of benefits of creating WV State Bank to facilitate access to capital for returning veterans
- SCR 46: Requesting DEP and DHHR propose public source-water supply study plan
THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 528: Creating Uniform Worker Classification Act
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 578: Recalculating tax on generating, producing, or selling electricity from solar energy facilities
- Eng. Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 579: Changing and adding fees to wireless enhanced 911 fee
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 586: Reorganizing and re-designating Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety as Department of Homeland Security (original similar to HB 4485)
- Eng. SB 651: Relating to definition of “mortgage loan originator” (original similar to HB 3060)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 689: Enacting Requiring Accountable Pharmaceutical Transparency, Oversight, and Reporting Act
- Eng. SB 691: Limiting programs adopted by State Board of Education
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 705: Allowing military veterans with certain experience qualify for examination as electrician or plumber
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 707: Relating to nursing career pathways
- Eng. SB 723: Requiring Department of Education develop plan based on analyzed data on school discipline
- Eng. SB 727: Relating to disbursement of funds for highway road repair
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 728: Exempting all property used for agricultural purposes from county property maintenance codes or ordinances
- Eng. SB 734: Clarifying powers and duties of DOH in acquiring property for state road purposes
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 751: Removing certain requirements of municipality annexing property within urban growth boundary
- Eng. SB 755: Relating to High-Wage Growth Business Tax Credit Act
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 770: Revising requirements for post-doctoral training
- Eng. SB 782: Relating to fees assessed by Health Care Authority on certain hospitals
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 787: Providing benefits to pharmacists for rendered care
- Eng. SB 803: Supplemental appropriation of money out of General Revenue Fund to DHHR (original similar to HB 4965)
- Eng. SB 837: Providing exemptions from ad valorem taxes for certain types of personal property
- Eng. SB 838: Directing state police establish referral program for substance abuse treatment
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SJR 9: Amendment Authorizing Legislature to Eliminate or Lower Ad Valorem Tax on Motor Vehicles and Any Other Tangible Personal Property
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2338: Allowing the owner of an antique military vehicle to display alternate registration insignia
- Eng. HB 4411: Relating to the West Virginia Residential Mortgage Lender, Broker and Servicer Act
- Eng. HB 4477: West Virginia Mutual to Mutual Insurance Holding Company Act – (Com. title amend. pending) (original similar to SB 598)
- Eng. HB 4661: Relating to the powers of the Public Service Commission and the regulation of natural gas utilities
SECOND READING
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 38: Requiring schools provide elective course on Hebrew Scriptures or Bible
- Com. Sub. for SB 213: Relating to administration of trusts (original similar to HB 4933)
- Com. Sub. for SB 246: Including family court judges in retirement system for judges
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 284: Creating WV Health Care Continuity Act
- Com. Sub. for SB 514: Creating WV FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Act
- Com. Sub. for SB 530: Relating to taxation of aircraft
- Com. Sub. for SB 614: Changing method of allocating funding from Safe School Funds
- Com. Sub. for SB 635: Allowing administration of small estates
- Com. Sub. for SB 668: Enacting Uniform Trust Decanting Act
- Com. Sub. for SB 739: Authorizing PSC protect consumers of distressed and failing water and wastewater utilities
- Com. Sub. for SB 760: Allowing state college or university apply to HEPC for designation as administratively or financially exempt school
- Com. Sub. for SB 772: Clarifying American Law Institute’s Restatements of Law
- Com. Sub. for SB 793: Relating to B&O taxes imposed on certain coal-fired electric generating units
- SB 800: Authorizing electric utilities construct and operate project within electric utility distribution system
- SB 816: Updating North American Industry Classification System code references
- Com. Sub. for SB 819: Relating to DOH management of Coal Resource Transportation roads
- SB 828: Clarifying municipal B&O taxation where business activity occurs
- SB 831: Clarifying Economic Development Authority board enter into contracts necessary to carry out duties
- SB 839: Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4217: Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4600: Relating to the definition of the term member regarding distributing premium tax proceeds
FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 106: Making daylight saving time official time year round in WV
- Com. Sub. for SB 123: Relating generally to pyramid promotional schemes
- Com. Sub. for SB 193: Setting forth timeframes for continuing purchases of commodities and services over $1 million
- Com. Sub. for SB 259: Requiring mandatory incarceration prior to parole for certain persons convicted of distributing controlled substances near libraries
- Com. Sub. for SB 269: Establishing advisory council on rare diseases
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 312: Relating to provisional licensure of social workers (original similar to HB 4128)
- Com. Sub. for SB 329: DEP rule relating to ambient air quality standards (original similar to HB 4217)
- SB 355: Fire Commission rule relating to State Fire Code (original similar to HB 4275)
- Com. Sub. for SB 356: Fire Commission rule relating to State Building Code (original similar to HB 4276)
- Com. Sub. for SB 472: Providing alternative sentencing program for work release (original similar to SB 612)
- SB 489: Moving provisions of licensing contractors to chapter 30 of code
- Com. Sub. for SB 513: Protecting consumers against businesses using automatic renewals without consent
- SB 569: Expiring funds from various accounts to DHHR, Medical Services Program Fund (original similar to HB 4487)
- Com. Sub. for SB 570: Expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR, Medical Services Program Fund (original similar to HB 4489)
- Com. Sub. for SB 633: Creating Medicaid Families First Reserve Fund account (original similar to HB 4643)
- Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 648: Providing dental coverage for adult Medicaid recipients
- SB 680: Qualifying not-for-profit private baccalaureate institutions for Advanced Career Education programs and WV Invests Grant Program
- Com. Sub. for SB 700: Exempting physicians from specified traffic laws when responding to emergencies
- Com. Sub. for SB 710: Establishing pilot program to evaluate telemedicine health services
- Com. Sub. for SB 711: Relating to juvenile jurisdiction of circuit courts
- Com. Sub. for SB 729: Relating to awards and disability under Deputy Sheriff Retirement Act
- Com. Sub. for SB 738: Creating Flatwater Trail Commission
- Com. Sub. for SB 749: Requiring Fatality and Mortality Review Team share data with CDC
- SB 750: Establishing extended learning opportunities
- Com. Sub. for SB 752: Relating generally to medical cannabis
- SB 758: Relating to authority of Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council
- SB 775: Requiring two water bottle filling stations be included in newly built or renovated schools
- Com. Sub. for SB 785: Establishing uniform electioneering prohibition area
- Com. Sub. for SB 797: Authorizing governing boards of public and private hospitals employ hospital police officers
- Com. Sub. for SB 798: Requiring dairy foods processed in state be added to list of items to be purchased by state-funded institutions
- Com. Sub. for SB 802: Relating to public utilities generally
- SB 805: Supplemental appropriation of moneys from Treasury to WV Commuter Rail Access Fund (original similar to HB 4963)
- SB 812: Supplemental appropriation from Lottery Net Profits to Bureau of Senior Services (original similar to HB 4961)
- Com. Sub. for SB 820: Authorizing DHHR transfer comprehensive community mental health centers and intellectual disability facilities to regional centers and facilities
- Com. Sub. for SB 821: Providing immunity from civil liability to facilities and employees providing crisis stabilization
- SB 830: Eliminating special merit-based employment system for health care professionals
- SB 840: Creating statutory fee for modifying permits issued by DEP Office of Oil and Gas
- SB 841: Requiring Governor to fix salaries of certain appointed officers after office is vacated
- SB 842: Requiring Superintendent of Schools establish a Behavior Interventionist Pilot Program in two school districts for five years
9:30 a.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- Originating Bill 3: Providing for the prohibition of the “patriot penalty”
- SB 120: Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells
- HB 4513: Increasing the replacement costs required of a person causing injury or death of game or protected species
- Originating Concurrent Resolution 2: Requesting the West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Highways evaluate the October 1, 2018 “Updated Oil and Gas Road Policy”
9:30 a.m.: Finance (451M)
- Com. Sub. for SB 653: Increasing number of magistrates in Putnam County (Discussion)
- Com. Sub. for SB 160: Creating Voluntary WVU Rifle Team Check-Off Program on hunting and fishing licenses
- SB 732: Authorizing fee payment and expense reimbursement for attorneys who participate on court teams established by Supreme Court of Appeals
1 p.m.: Natural Resources (208W)
- Agenda TBA
2 p.m.: Banking and Insurance (451M)
- HB 4466: Certificates of Insurance Act
- HB 4146: Relating to credit for reinsurance
- HB 4410: Permitting directors and executive officers of a banking institution to borrow from a banking institution with which he or she is connected
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- Originating Bill 6: Prohibiting racial discrimination based on certain physical traits such as hair texture or hairstyle
- SB 278: Providing various methods to deal with defendant who becomes incompetent during trial
- SB 765: Modifying “Habitual Offender” statute
- SCR 23: Requesting study of State Police’s increased duties and responsibilities
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- Agenda TBA
Additional afternoon committee meetings, if any, will be announced at the end of the 11 a.m. floor session.
Committee times and agendas are subject to change. Follow @WVSenClerk on Twitter for updates.
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Citation Presentations Scheduled in House Chamber:
- 9:30 a.m. – UC, WVU & Marshall Schools of Pharmacy
House to convene at 11 a.m. On the agenda:
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
· Com. Sub. for H. C. R. 75 – Naming the highest peak on Wolf Creek Mountain in Monroe County, Boone’s Peak
THIRD READING – For Passage
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 657 – Allowing designation of tourism development districts
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 3127 – Relating to the Secondary School Activities Commission and participation by home schooled students
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4009 – Relating to the process for involuntary hospitalization
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4252 – Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules [Amendment Pending]
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4388 – Limiting the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner’s authority to restrict advertising
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4530 – Authorizing daily passenger rental car companies to charge reasonable administrative fees
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4626 – West Virginia Development Achievements Transparency Act
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4668 – Creating the misdemeanor crime of trespass for entering a structure that has been condemned
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4748 – Relating to the increase of fees that private nongovernment notary publics may charge for notarial acts
SECOND READING – Amendment Stage
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 502 – Relating to methamphetamine criminal penalty
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 2088 – Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 2149 – Relating to the Farm-To-Food Bank Tax Credit
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 2646 – Providing a safe harbor for employers to correct underpayment or nonpayment of wages and benefits due to separated employees
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4019 – Downstream Natural Gas Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit Act of 2020
· H. B. 4354 – Adding nabiximols to the permitted list of distributed and prescribed drugs
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4360 – Exempting certain persons from heating, ventilating, and cooling system licensing requirements
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4377 – The Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act
· H. B. 4396 – Relating to reporting suspected governmental fraud
· H. B. 4409 – Relating to transferring remaining funds from the Volunteer Fire Department Workers’ Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4421 – Natural Gas Liquids Economic Development Act
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4433 – Relating to deeds of trust
· H. B. 4447 – Creating the shared table initiative for senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4464 – Relating to driving privileges and requirements for persons under the age of 18
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4558 – Creating a personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters in West Virginia
· H. B. 4606 – Listing contractor classifications on a contractor license
· H. B. 4715 – Authorizing municipalities to take action to grant certain fire department employees limited power of arrest
· H. B. 4760 – Modifying video lottery retailer licensing eligibility requirements
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4780 – Permitting a school-based decision-making council to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible
· H. B. 4797 – Authorizing municipalities to enact ordinances that allow the municipal court to place a structure, dwelling or building into receivership
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4803 – Relating to certification of electrical inspectors
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4823 – Developing a plan for periodic audits of the expenditure of the fees from the emergency 911 telephone system and wireless enhanced 911
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4853 – Relating to a customer constructing a connection or other infrastructure necessary for the customer to connect to the public utility
· H. B. 4859 – Accounting for state funds distributed to volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments
· H. B. 4872 – Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse
· H. B. 4882 – Authorizing limited sampling and limited sale of wine for off-premises consumption to wineries not licensed in the state
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4886 – Requiring the PSC and the DOH to submit reports concerning activity on the Coal Resource Transportation Road System
· H. B. 4887 – Relating to revocation, cancellation, or suspension of business registration certificates
· H. B. 4959 – Relating to clarifying the ability of the Economic Development Authority Board of Directors to enter into any contracts necessary to carry out its duties
· H. B. 4960 – Relating to exempting from licensure as an electrician
FIRST READING
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 554 – Relating to termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases (Energy Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 571 – Expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to various accounts (Finance Committee Amendment Pending)
· S. B. 572 – Expiring funds from General Revenue and Lottery Net Profits to various accounts
· S. B. 725 – Supplemental appropriation to various Department of Education accounts
· S. B. 778 – Supplemental appropriation expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR
· S. B. 779 – Supplemental appropriation expiring funds in State Excess Lottery Revenue to Department of Veterans’ Assistance
· S. B. 780 – Supplemental appropriation by decreasing and adding new appropriation out of Treasury to DMAPS
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 2478 – Modifying the Fair Trade Practices Act
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 2897 – Relating to driving restrictions in school zones
· H. B. 4159 – Relating to the manufacture and sale of hard cider
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4176 – West Virginia Intelligence/Fusion Center Act
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4362 – Relating to penalties for neglect, emotional abuse or death caused by a caregiver
· H. B. 4402 – Relating to designation of early voting locations
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4439 – Clarifying the method for calculating the amount of severance tax attributable to the increase in coal production
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4461 – Requiring the Governor to fix the salaries of certain state appointed officers after the office is vacated or after July 1
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4494 – Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4497 – Requiring an external defibrillator device at any secondary school athlete event
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4535 – Relating to student aide class titles
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4560 – Relating to deliveries by a licensed wine specialty shop
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4573 – Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4574 – Establishing Just Transition Support for Coal-Related Jobs
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4587 – Modernizing the Public Service Commission’s regulation of solid waste motor carriers and solid waste facilities
· H. B. 4602 – Increasing the penalty for DUI causing death when a child is present
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4619 – Approving plans proposed by electric utilities to install middle-mile broadband fiber
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4639 – Changing frequency of mandatory state inspections of motor vehicles
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4648 – The Parenting Fairness Act of 2020
· H. B. 4665 – Reducing the amount of rebate going to the Purchasing Improvement Fund
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4693 – Expanding the scope of the Veterans to Agriculture Program
· H. B. 4705 – Including three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4717 – Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4746 – Establishing a registry of persons with a communication disability
· H. B. 4804 – Relating to comprehensive systems of support for teacher and leader induction and professional growth
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4892 – Reducing personal income tax rates when personal income tax reduction fund is funded at a certain threshold
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4905 – Ban-the-Box Act
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4925 – Requiring the Secondary Schools Athletic Commission to recognize private, parochial, or church schools
· H. B. 4929 – Relating to the administrative closing of stale or unprogressed estates
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4946 – Eliminating the requirement that municipal police civil service commissions certify a list of three individuals for every position vacancy
· H. B. 4953 – Providing the PSC with authority to order the acquisition of failing utilities and a variety of tools to assist distressed and failing utilities
· H. B. 4958 – Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs
· H. B. 4966 – Relating generally to updating the North American Industry Classification System code references
· H. B. 4969 – Relating to providing tax credit for the donation or sale of a vehicle to certain charitable organizations
· H. B. 4970 – Relating to military service as a factor in certain insurance coverage rates
· H. B. 4971 – Relating to a closing hospital
Public Hearing:
Committee on Education
9:00 a.m. – House Chamber
Com. Sub. for H. B. 4780, Permitting a school-based decision-making council to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible.
Committee Meetings Scheduled:
Agriculture and Natural Resources
9:00 a.m. – Room 410 M
Agriculture:
· S. C. R. 1, Designating dogs adopted from animal shelters and rescues as WV official state dog. (2nd reference to Rules)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 142, Expanding Coyote Control Program through voluntary assessment on breeding cows. (2nd reference to Finance)
· S. B. 490, Relating to criminal offenses against agricultural facilities. (2nd reference to Judiciary)
Natural Resources:
· S. B. 468, Relating to eligibility for license or permit application.
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 550, Permitting leashed dogs track mortally wounded deer or bear.
Political Subdivisions
10:00 a.m. – Room 410 M
· Com. Sub. For Senate Bill 96, Prohibiting municipalities from limiting persons’ rights to possess certain weapons
Committee on Rules
10:30 a.m. – Behind Chamber
Committee on Government Organization
4:00 p.m. – Room 215 E
(***Agenda to be posted.***)
