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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
56th Day of the Legislative Session
From the Activity Calendar: WVSOM Day, Upper House and Upper Senate Rotundas
The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- SR 61: Recognizing Leadership Jefferson
- SR 62: Recognizing October as National Dwarfism Month
THIRD READING
- Eng. HB 4039: Providing limitations on nuisance actions against fire department and emergency medical services – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4077: Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4083: Requiring the West Virginia Parkways Authority to accept the use of credit and debit cards for paying tolls – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4137: Allowing counties to store and maintain voter registration records in a digital format
- Eng. HB 4161: Making it illegal to scleral tattoo a person
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4217: Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4252: Authorizing miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4352: Removing the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure or certification in decision making (original similar to SB 503)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4398: Relating to required courses of instruction – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4434: West Virginia health care workforce sustainability study (original similar to SB 558)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4464: Relating to driving privileges and requirements for persons under the age of 18 – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4478: Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4480: Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission
- Eng. HB 4504: Relating to renewal application requirements for individuals with permanent disabilities
- Eng. HB 4510: Prohibiting bodily intrusion by an inmate upon any person at any correctional facility – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4529: Relating to the collection of assessments and the priority of liens on property within a resort area
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4544: Relating to possession of any controlled substance on the premises of or within 200 feet of a public library – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4559: Modifying the limitations on civil actions against the perpetrator of sexual assault or sexual abuse upon a minor – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4576: Establishing a procedure for correcting errors in deeds, deeds of trust and mortgages – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4620: Redefining definition of “recovery residence”
- Eng. HB 4647: Relating to limited video lottery permit holders
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4729: Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4773: Creating a workgroup to investigate and recommend screening protocols for adverse childhood trauma in this state – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4790: Relating to Career Technical Education for middle school students
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4925: Requiring the Secondary Schools Athletic Commission to recognize preparatory athletic programs
- Eng. HB 4955: Relating to reducing the cost of fees for state licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons and provisional state licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons
SECOND READING
- SB 854: Expiring funds to Division of Culture and History from Auditor’s Office, Purchasing Card Administration Fund
- SB 855: Expiring funds to State Rail Authority, WV Commuter Rail Access Fund from Auditor’s Office, Purchasing Card Administration Fund
- SB 856: Expiring funds from WV Development Office, Synthetic Fuel, Producing County Fund to Market and Communications Operating Fund
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2892: Including digital and virtual information in the definition of property that can be searched and seized by a warrant – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4022: Clarifying the qualifications of the Chancellor of the Higher Education Policy Commission
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4099: Eliminating the permit for shampoo assistants
- Eng. HB 4113: Relating to motor fuel excise taxes – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4198: Permitting a person to obtain a 12-month supply of contraceptive drugs – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4378: Relating to disciplining teachers – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4396: Relating to reporting suspected governmental fraud
- Eng. HB 4409: Relating to transferring remaining funds from the Volunteer Fire Department Workers’ Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4414: Relating to the selection of language and development milestones for the deaf and hard-of-hearing children – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4415: Relating to missing and endangered children – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4417: Relating to permitting professional boards
- Eng. HB 4519: Establishing a summer youth intern pilot program within Department of Commerce
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4546: Relating to tuberculosis testing for school superintendents
- Eng. HB 4551: Relating to subsidized adoption – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4589: Conducting study for an appropriate memorial for West Virginians killed in the War on Terror – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4593: Authorizing the assignment of poll workers to serve more than one precinct under certain circumstances – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4594: Allowing poll workers to be appointed to work in precincts outside their county – (Com. amends. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4621: West Virginia FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Act – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4633: Expanding county commissions’ ability to dispose of county or district property – (Com. amends. pending)
- Eng. HB 4655: Permitting military personnel in areas where on-the-job emergency medicine is part of the training to be granted automatic EMS or EMT certification – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4664: Clarifying the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4666: Relating to competitive bids for intergovernmental relations and urban mass transportation – (Com. amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4691: Relating to employment in areas of critical need in public education
- Eng. HB 4714: Increasing the monetary threshold for requiring nonprofit organizations to register as a charitable organization
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4780: Permitting county boards to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4803: Relating to certification of electrical inspectors
- Eng. HB 4859: Accounting for state funds distributed to volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments
- Eng. HB 4960: Relating to exempting from licensure as an electrician
FIRST READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 2967: Permitting a county to retain the excise taxes for the privilege of transferring title of real estate
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4001: Creating West Virginia Impact Fund – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4009: Relating to the process for involuntary hospitalization – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4102: Relating to opioid antagonists – (Com. amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4375: Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Compact – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending) (original similar to SB 656)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4439: Clarifying the method for calculating the amount of severance tax attributable to the increase in coal production – (Com. title amend. pending)
- Eng. HB 4523: Removing the limitation of number of apprentice hunting and trapping licenses a person may purchase
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4573: Relating to Medicaid subrogation liens of the Department of Health and Human Resources – (Com. amend. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4581: Relating to West Virginia Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening – (Com. amends. pending)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4892: Reducing personal income tax rates when personal income tax reduction fund is funded at a certain threshold
- Eng. HB 4958: Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs – (Com. amend. and title amend. pending)
9:30 a.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure (451M)
- SCR 9: US Army SSG Nick P. Markos Memorial Bridge
- SCR 42: US Army CPL Richard “Warren” Ellison Memorial Bridge
- HCR 4: U. S. Marine Corps LCpl Michael Linn Cooper Memorial Bridge
- HCR 13: Watts Brothers Memorial Road
- HCR 14: U. S. Army, Staff Sargent Wendell Otho Casto Memorial Bridge.
- HCR 19: Gold Star Families Highway
- HCR 32: Wolfe Brothers, Edward, William, Paul, George and Fred, WW II Veterans Memorial Bridge
- HCR 34: Requesting the Division of Highways to place at least 10 additional signs along highways entering West Virginia honoring fallen veterans and Gold Star Families
- HCR 38: U. S. Army PFC Nile C. Ballard Memorial Road
- SCR 6: Walter E. Swiger, Jr., Memorial Bridge
- HCR 17: U. S. Army PFC William E. “Ed” Smith and W. Va. Army Nat. Guard SSG Edward L. “Eddie” Smith Memorial Bridge
- HCR 33: U.S.A.F. Lt Col Frederick Donald Belknap Memorial Bridge
- HB 4017: Establishing country roads accountability and transparency
- HB 4853: Relating to a customer constructing a connection or other infrastructure necessary for the customer to connect to the public utility
- SCR 47: Requesting study of effectiveness of current laws maintaining private roads
10 a.m.: Committee on Rules (Senate President’s Conference Room)
1 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining (208W)
- Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4484: Relating to the Hazardous Waste Management Fund
- Eng. HB 4956: Relating generally to the partition of real property
1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)
- SCR 53: Requesting study providing free feminine hygiene products to female students in grades 6-12
- HB 4003: Relating to telehealth insurance requirements
- HB 4734: Rewriting the article on registered professional nurses
- HB 4543: Relating to insurance coverage for diabetics
- HB 4422: The Patient Brokering Act
- HB 2321: Allowing workers’ compensation benefits for first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder
2 p.m.: Government Organization (208W)
- HB 4619: Approving plans proposed by electric utilities to install middle-mile broadband fiber
- HB 4176: West Virginia Intelligence/Fusion Center Act
- HB 4717: Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act
- HB 4747: Extending electronic submission of various applications and forms for nonprofit and charitable organizations, professionals and licensees
- HB 4360: Exempting certain persons from heating, ventilating, and cooling system licensing requirements
- HB 4864: Relating to performance reviews of state agencies and regulatory boards
- HB 4693: Expanding the scope of the Veterans to Agriculture Program
- HB 4749: Providing more efficient application processes for private investigators, security guards, and firms
- HB 4447: Creating the shared table initiative for senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity
- HB 4155: Relating generally to the regulation of plumbers
- HB 4452: Modifying the notice requirements for the redemption of delinquent properties
- HB 4606: Listing contractor classifications on a contractor license
- HB 4607: Authorizing the operation of mobile shops for hair, nail, cosmetology, and aesthetics services
- HB 4748: Relating to the increase of fees that private nongovernment notary publics may charge for notarial acts
- HB 4178: Requiring calls which are recorded be maintained for a period of five years
- HB 4823: Developing a plan for periodic audits of the expenditure of the fees from the emergency 911 telephone system and wireless enhanced 911
- HB 4444: Establishing Medals of Valor and Medals for Bravery for emergency medical services, firefighters, and law-enforcement officers
- HB 4015: Relating to Broadband Enhancement and Expansion
2 p.m.: Education (451M)
- HB 4165: West Virginia Remembers Program
- HB 4069: West Virginia Student Religious Liberties Act
- HB 4497: Requiring an external defibrillator device at any secondary school athlete event
- HB 4804: Relating to comprehensive systems of support for teacher and leader induction and professional growth
- HB 4737: Clarifying student eligibility for state-sponsored financial aid
- HB 2775: Requiring each high school student to complete a full credit course of study in personal finance
- HB 4535: Relating to student aide class titles
3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- HB 3098: Allowing the same business owner to brew and sell beer to also distill and sell liquor
- HB 4560: Relating to deliveries by a licensed wine specialty shop
- HB 4362: Relating to penalties for neglect, emotional abuse or death caused by a caregiver
- HB 4509: Transferring the Parole Board to the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation for purposes of administrative and other support
- HB 4618: Relating to deadly weapons for sale or hire
- HB 4377: The Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act
- HB 4388: Limiting the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner’s authority to restrict advertising
- HB 2646: Providing a safe harbor for employers to correct underpayment or nonpayment of wages and benefits due to separated employees
- HB 4797: Authorizing municipalities to enact ordinances that allow the municipal court to place a structure, dwelling or building into receivership
- HB 4088: Disposition of funds from certain oil and natural gas wells due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners
- HB 2088: Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages
- HB 4670: Relating to the juvenile restorative justice programs
- HB 4852: Relating to the penalties for the manufacture, delivery, possession, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver methamphetamine
- HB 4092: Relating to foster care
3 p.m.: Finance (451M)
- Agenda TBA
Senate Resolutions to be Introduced Tuesday, March 3, 2020
- SCR 57: Frye Brothers Memorial Bridge (Romano, Facemire)
- SR 63: Designating March 4, 2020, as Recovery Community Day (Unger)
- SR 64: Recognizing efforts of Kanawha State Forest Foundation (Lindsay, Jeffries)
- SR 65: Designating WV State Folk Festival as official site of WV State Pepperoni Roll Championship (Romano, Facemire)
Committee times and agendas are subject to change. Follow @WVSenClerk on Twitter for updates.
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SPECIAL CALENDAR
House to convene at 9 a.m. On the agenda:
THIRD READING – For Passage
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 125 – Prohibiting victim from being subjected to certain physical examinations for sexual offenses
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 144 – Creating misdemeanor penalty for making materially false statement in course of misdemeanor investigation
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 163 – Relating to municipal or county taxation of hotel rooms booked through marketplace facilitator
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 208 – Protecting consumers from unfair pricing practices during state of emergency
· S. B. 545 – Authorizing transfer of moneys from Insurance Commission Fund to Workers’ Compensation Old Fund
· S. B. 569 – Expiring funds from various accounts to DHHR, Medical Services Program Fund
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 570 – Expiring funds from State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to DHHR, Medical Services Program Fund
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 583 – Creating program to further development of renewable energy resources
· S. B. 651 – Relating to definition of “mortgage loan originator”
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 705 – Allowing military veterans with certain experience qualify for examination as electrician or plumber
· S. B. 803 – Supplemental appropriation of money out of General Revenue Fund to DHHR
· S. B. 804 – Supplemental appropriation of moneys from Treasury to PSC, Consumer Advocate Fund
· S. B. 805 – Supplemental appropriation of moneys from Treasury to WV Commuter Rail Access Fund
· S. B. 806 – Supplemental appropriation out of federal funds in Treasury to DOT
· S. B. 812 – Supplemental appropriation from Lottery Net Profits to Bureau of Senior Services
SECOND READING – Amendment Stage
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 136 – Prohibiting certain misleading lawsuit advertising practices (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 150 – Budget Bill
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 490 – Relating to criminal offenses against agricultural facilities
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 578 – Recalculating tax on generating, producing, or selling electricity from solar energy facilities
· S. B. 600 – Creating special revenue account designated Military Authority Fund
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 614 – Changing method of allocating funding from Safe School Funds (Finance Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 662 – Removing restrictions on fiduciary commissioners
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 668 – Enacting Uniform Trust Decanting Act (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 802 – Relating to public utilities generally (Government Organization Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 810 – Implementing federal Affordable Clean Energy rule
FIRST READING
· S. B. 42 – Permitting faith-based electives in classroom drug prevention programs (Education Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 130 – Relating to procedure for driver’s license suspension and revocation for DUI
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 269 – Establishing advisory council on rare diseases (Health and Human Resources Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 275 – Creating Intermediate Court of Appeals (Finance Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 308 – Creating criminal penalties for violation of orders issued for protection of victims of financial exploitation
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 312 – Relating to provisional licensure of social workers
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 547 – Relating to employer testing, notice, termination, and forfeiture of unemployment compensation
· S. B. 654 – Allowing certain sheriffs transfer from PERS to Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 678 – Waiving fines and fees for completing Getting Over Addicted Lifestyles Successfully Program (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
· S. B. 691 – Limiting programs adopted by State Board of Education
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 707 – Relating to nursing career pathways (Education Committee Amendment Pending)
· S. B. 723 – Requiring Department of Education develop plan based on analyzed data on school discipline (Education Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 729 – Relating to awards and disability under Deputy Sheriff Retirement Act
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 739 – Authorizing PSC protect consumers of distressed and failing water and wastewater utilities (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
· S. B. 750 – Establishing extended learning opportunities (Education Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 760 – Allowing state college or university apply to HEPC for designation as administratively exempt school
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 785 – Establishing uniform electioneering prohibition area (Judiciary Committee Amendment Pending)
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 793 – Relating to B&O taxes imposed on certain coal-fired electric generating units
· S. B. 830 – Eliminating special merit-based employment system for health care professionals
· S. B. 839 – Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals (Education Committee Amendment Pending)
· S. B. 842 – Requiring Superintendent of Schools establish a Behavior Interventionist Pilot Program in two school districts for five years (Education Committee Amendment Pending)
· S. B. 846 – Requiring hospital publish notification prior to facility closure regarding patient medical records
· S. B. 848 – Clarifying persons charged with DUI may not participate in Military Service Members Court
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4975 – Making a supplementary appropriation to the School Building Authority, Debt Service Fund
· Com. Sub. for H. B. 4976 – Making a supplementary appropriation to the School Building Authority
· H. B. 4977 – Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Arts, Culture and History, Division of Culture and History, Public Records and Preservation Revenue Account Fund
· H. B. 4978 – Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Transportation, State Rail Authority, West Virginia Commuter Rail Access Fund
Committee Meetings Scheduled:
Committee on Energy
30 minutes following adjournment/recess – Room 215 E
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 120, Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells
Committee on the Judiciary
1:00 p.m. – Room 410 M
· S. B. 765, Modifying “Habitual Offender” statute,
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 528, Creating Uniform Worker Classification Act,
· S. B. 180, Relating to Second Chance Driver’s License Program,
· S. B. 664, Adding physician’s assistant to list of medical professionals capable of determining if individual lacks capacity,
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 711, Relating to juvenile jurisdiction of circuit courts,
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 717, Relating generally to adult protective services,
· S. B. 51, Specifying forms of grandparent visitation,
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 253, Providing for fair pay and maximized employment of disabled persons,
· Com. Sub. for S. B. 700, Exempting physicians from specified traffic laws when responding to emergencies
Citation Presentations Scheduled in front of House Chamber:
- 9:30 a.m. – Herbert Hoover Wrestling Champions, Delegate D. Jeffries
- 9:45 a.m. – W.Va. School of Osteopathic Medicine Citation, Delegate Campbell
