The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislative leaders countered Gov. Jim Justice’s budget clock with a couple visuals of their own on March 13. Senate President Mitch Carmichael and House Speaker Tim Armstead, along with other legislators, stood between two oversize checks representing Justice’s tax-hike-based budget bouncing and their own[Read More…]
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Leadership introduces budget framework; Justice says it won’t save the patient
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislative leadership announced its framework for the budget, saying the goal is for the state to “live within its means” by staying within its $4.055 billion revenue estimate. However, Gov. Jim Justice, who has referred to the state as a dying patient,[Read More…]
Editorial: Limited tank exemptions proper for oil and gas
From the Charleston Gazette-Mail: You’ve got to give credit to the workers and owners and operators of 42,000 above-ground liquid storage tanks in West Virginia. They had been operating their relatively small tanks of about 2,100- to 4,200-gallons safely for years, out of notice from the public with nary a[Read More…]
House Judiciary Committee advances gentler storage tank bill
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLSTON, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates’ committee on the judiciary added amendments to a storage tank bill on Monday, March 13 that could assuage many of the objections to the legislation. The original bill, House Bill 2811, would have[Read More…]
WV lawmakers back off larger rollback of chemical tank law
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia House Judiciary Committee members on Monday backed away from giving the natural gas industry a broad exemption from a 3-year-old chemical tank safety law. That law was passed after the Elk River spill that contaminated the drinking water for[Read More…]
Tax reform bill moves on in Charleston
By DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Senate Select Committee on Tax Reform approved its tax reform bill March 13, with a few amendments, morning and sent it to the Finance Committee. The revised bill changes how and when the personal income tax is phased out. Members[Read More…]
GOP announces plan that cuts $390M from existing WV budget
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s legislative leaders on Monday unveiled what they call the framework for their 2017-18 general revenue budget alternative, a budget capped at $4.055 billion — about $390 million less than the current state budget and $445 million below Gov. Jim Justice’s[Read More…]
Senate Tax Reform Committee ready with tax overhaul
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia Senate’s select committee on tax reform voted on a final state tax overhaul proposal on Monday, March 13 after several meetings to tweak the bill. The committee, appointed by Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, and chaired[Read More…]
Bills introduced March 13
The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Here are some bills introduced March 13, along with two local bridge-naming resolutions. SB 592, to have an independent redistricting commission propose redistricting plans during census years. Sen. Roman Prezioso, D-Marion, co-sponsor. HB 2936, to require competitive bidding for all state purchases of commodities,[Read More…]
Budget battle heats up
By EMILY DANIELS The Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Majority leaders in the West Virginia Legislature discussed an approach to balancing the state budget during a Monday press conference, which rivals Gov. Jim Justice’s introduced budget bill in several ways. The budget plan revealed by Speaker of the House Tim Armstead,[Read More…]
