CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia School Board Association, which represents school board members in West Virginia, today, Feb. 20, issued the following resolution regarding West Virginia school employees’ “Work Action” planned for Thursday and Friday, Feb. 22-23: Whereas the West Virginia State Legislature has the constitutional mandate to adequately fund public education,[Read More…]
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West Virginia Senate Rules Committee to meet today on teacher pay
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON — Senate President Mitch Carmichael said lawmakers will try to have a fix for the teacher pay bill before the Rules Committee meets this afternoon. The Senate sent a bill that would increase salaries of teachers, school service personnel and State Police to the Rules Committee[Read More…]
Senate trying to put together pay, PEIA plan ahead of West Virginia teachers’ walkout
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Senate leadership is scrambling to come up with a compromise on pay and PEIA benefits before a scheduled statewide teachers walkout Thursday, but Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, said Monday it’s unlikely the Senate will support more than a 2[Read More…]
W.Va. House Finance Committee OKs PEIA funding bill; unclear what will avoid school work stoppage
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With a now-announced statewide public school employees work stoppage set for Thursday and Friday, a legislative committee advanced Monday a bill to put a fifth of annual general revenue surpluses toward funding Public Employees Insurance Agency health coverage. The House Finance Committee action[Read More…]
WVU Festival of Ideals’ ‘Understanding the Opioid Epidemic’ set for 7:30 p.m. today in Charleston
Panel discussion at Charleston Civic Center is free to public CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Six experts on the state’s opioid crisis will take part in a panel discussion Feb. 20 in the Charleston Civic Center Little Theater as part of West Virginia University’s Festival of Ideas. “Understanding the Opioid Epidemic” starts at[Read More…]
West Virginia Senate votes to fund PEIA with sports betting
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — As teachers and school personnel prepare to strike across West Virginia, partially because of rising health care costs, the state Senate unanimously passed an amendment to direct revenue from sports betting to the Public Employees Insurance Agency’s stabilization fund.[Read More…]
House Finance OKs dedicating surplus to West Virginia PEIA Stability Fund
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill originating in the House Finance Ccommittee seeks to dedicate General Fund surplus monies into the Public Employees’ Insurance Agency Stability Fund. Passed by a voice vote, the bill would dedicate 20 percent of surplus money at the end of each budget year to the PEIA[Read More…]
Amendment adopted to provide some funding from sports betting bill to PEIA
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An amendment seeking to provide a funding stream for the Public Employees Insurance Agency was adopted into a Senate sports betting bill on Monday. The amendment is the second in two weeks seeking to provide funding for PEIA. The Senate permits wagering[Read More…]
West Virginia delegates unaware of impeachment discussion
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — At least three local lawmakers say they are unaware of any impeachment discussion in the House of Delegates of a sitting Supreme Court justice involved in a purchasing controversy. Senate Resolution 44, which was on the agenda as unfinished business before the[Read More…]
W.Va. house committee axes bill to stop law enforcement property forfeitures
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State code allows law enforcement officers to claim ownership of property seized from criminal suspects without convicting them of a crime; the House Judiciary Committee axed a bill Monday that would have changed that. House Bill 4615, the subject of two hours[Read More…]
