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Mineral County delegate’s broadband bill heads to Finance Committee

By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va.  – A Mineral County delegate’s bill, which seeks to help residents access broadband and cell services, now heads to the House Finance Committee. The House Judiciary Committee passed House Bill 2379 Friday. Delegate Gary Howell, R-Mineral, introduced the bill last week. He said[Read More…]

Delegates criticize WV PEIA wellness program as ‘invasion of privacy’

By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some House members were critical Wednesday of a new Public Employees Insurance Agency wellness initiative, calling it intrusive and an invasion of privacy. “We have some pretty doggone unhappy state employees. A lot of that unhappiness is based on this program,” Delegate[Read More…]

Senate bill would require elective courses on the Bible

By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — A bill introduced in the state Senate seeks to require schools to provide elective courses on the Bible. Senate Bill 252 is sponsored by Sens. Mike Azinger, R-Wood, and Sue Cline, R-Wyoming, and seeks to require all schools to provide an elective[Read More…]

West Virginia Senate President sponsors charter school bill

By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill that seeks to establish specialized public charter schools was introduced in the West Virginia Senate Wednesday. Senate President Mitch Carmichael is the lead sponsor of Senate Bill 304, under which, beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, up to two public[Read More…]

West Virginia Delegate Patrick McGeehan seeks change for tax increases

By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — Delegate Pat McGeehan has sponsored a resolution to amend the West Virginia Constitution to require a two-thirds majority to pass any future tax or fee increase by the Legislature. “The people of West Virginia are taxed enough already, and[Read More…]

Election redistricting bill goes to West Virginia House subcommittee

By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia House of Delegates Judiciary Committee Chairman John Shott, R-Mercer, established a subcommittee Wednesday to rework a bill that would create an independent commission to draw voter redistricting lines following the decennial census. In previous years, legislators have used updated information[Read More…]

West Virginia Del. Frank Deem backs single representative districts bill

By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — A bill introduced in the House of Delegates will once again call for the establishment of 100 single representative delegate districts in West Virginia. A Wood County delegate thinks this has a good chance of passing. House Bill 4002[Read More…]

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