By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON — West Virginia will expand a state pilot program to address substance use disorder at the local level to a second location as Gov. Jim Justice announced Friday that Berkeley and Jefferson counties will be the next site of the initiative. The project provides state[Read More…]
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House of Delegates passes bill to move medical marijuana program forward
By Erin Beck The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Friday meant to allow the state’s stalled medical marijuana program to begin. West Virginia passed a medical marijuana law in 2017 to take effect in July of this year, but the state treasurer’s office[Read More…]
Bipartisan amendment to SB 383 to help small local farmers
WV Food and Farm Coalition speaks on bill By Erica Young West Virginia Press Association Capitol Reporter Suggested Headline: Bipartisan Amendment to SB 383 Helps Small Local Farmers CHARLESTON, W.VA — Senators Patricia Rucker, R-Jefferson, and Stephen Baldwin, D-Greenbrier, found success at Wednesday’s Agriculture and Rural Development meeting. The committee[Read More…]
This week in W.Va. House of Delegates
Release from the W.Va. House of Delegates for Feb. 15, 2019: CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The House of Delegates this past week refined and advanced its proposal for comprehensive education reform for West Virginia schools. The House overwhelmingly passed on a bipartisan basis its alternative to Senate Bill 451 on Thursday, after[Read More…]
Media Alert: W.Va. Governor’s Office posting weekly recap of state announcements
CHARLESTON, W.VA. — The Communications Office for Governor Jim Justice has announced it will release a weekly recap each Friday of the prior week’s events and press releases from across all state agencies within the executive branch. For more information on this effort, contact Director of Communications Butch Antolini, 304-890-2945 or [email protected] See[Read More…]
WV Capitol Daily: Legislature in session Monday; Early schedule
CHARLESTON, W.Va — The West Virginia Press Association offers the following advance – but incomplete – glance at Monday’s West Virginia Legislative calendar. While Monday is a federal holiday – President’s Day – the Legislature will be in session. Monday, Feb. 18, is the 41st day of the session and[Read More…]
At the Capitol: Discussion focuses on Loughry sentencing, education bill
By Phil Kabler Charleston Gazette-Mail For the West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With the now-significantly different versions of the omnibus education bill almost certainly headed for a showdown in a House-Senate conference committee, the most talked-about event of the week at the Capitol actually took place two miles[Read More…]
West Virginia House of Delegates passes drastically different education bill
By ERIN BECK The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed an education reform bill Thursday, but a vastly different version of what the state Senate had sent them. The new version of the bill contains provisions for just two charter schools in the state, but[Read More…]
WV Senate leaders oppose charter schools cap; unions, state board now for bill
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Several West Virginia Senate leaders expressed opposition Thursday to the House of Delegates capping of charter schools to two statewide in the House version of the education overhaul bill, down from the unlimited number the Senate version would allow. But two powerful[Read More…]
Bill would require WV schools provide feminine hygiene products
By LORI KERSEY The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — County school boards would have to provide feminine hygiene produces to students who need them under a bill that passed the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee on Thursday. A committee substitute for Senate Bill 86 would require school boards to provide[Read More…]
