By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
We’re on the countdown to Crossover Day Wednesday, when state Senate bills must cross over to the House of Delegates and vice versa in order to ensure these bills have a chance of making it to passage by midnight on Saturday, April 12, when the 2025 legislative session ends.
That means we have slightly less than two weeks until the 60-day regular session ends. For some, that day could not come soon enough. For others, such as Gov. Patrick Morrisey, he is already clamoring for a special session
“The more work the Legislature gets done now, the less time it will spend in Charleston during the long, hot summer,” Morrisey posted on social media last Tuesday. “We are not going to accept West Virginia’s decline any longer. There’s no excuse for inaction. There’s no excuse for failing to move the needle on issues that matter. There’s no excuse for just doing things the way they’ve always been done.”
Morrisey’s post came one day after the House of Delegates rejected Senate Bill 460, Morrisey’s bill to codify his executive order allowing for religious and philosophical exemptions to the state’s compulsory immunization program for school-age children.
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