Around the Rotunda: Legislative, Committee Schedule for Friday, Feb. 17
W.Va. Legislative Committee Meeting Schedule – Subject to change
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The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.
On the agenda:
- UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- SCR 16: Urging WV congressional delegation require DHHR renegotiate state Medicaid expansion contracts
- THIRD READING
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 127: Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 2230)
- Eng. SB 174: Exempting transportation of household goods from PSC jurisdiction
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 230: Relating to WV officials carrying concealed firearm nationwide
- Eng. Com. Sub. for SB 233: Excluding from protection oral communications uttered in child care center under Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act (original similar to HB 2505)
- SECOND READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 116: Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction rule relating to law-enforcement training and certification standards (original similar to HB 2252)
- SB 172: Eliminating salary for Water Development Authority board members
- SB 215: Allowing county commissions authority to amend proposed rates, fees and charges proposed by public service districts
- Com. Sub. for SB 247: Authorizing prosecuting attorney designate and deliver grand jury records for investigative purposes
- Com. Sub. for SB 248: Clarifying composition and chairmanship of Commission on Special Investigations
- FIRST READING
- Com. Sub. for SB 134: Authorizing Bureau of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB 2231)
- Com. Sub. for SB 202: Relating to pawnbrokers generally (original similar to HB 2452)
- Com. Sub. for SB 249: Relating to information required in abstract of judgment
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- 9 a.m.: Judiciary (208W)
- SB 236: Relating to damages for medical monitoring
- SB 240: Creating crime of distribution of sexual images
- SB 320: Creating Appropriation Supremacy Act of 2017
- 9:30 a.m.: Confirmations (451M)
- Interviews
- For Member, West Virginia Board of Education Barbara Whitecotton, for the term ending November 4, 2024.
- For Member, West Virginia Board of Education, Miller Hall, for the term ending November 4, 2019.
- For Member, West Virginia Board of Education, David G. Perry, for the term ending November 4, 2020.
- For Member, West Virginia Board of Education, Harold L. Hatfield, Jr., for the term ending November 4, 2025.
- For Secretary, Department of Education and the Arts, Gayle C. Manchin, to serve at the will and pleasure of the Governor.
- For Member, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Board of Governors, Cheryl Schreiber, for the term ending June 30, 2020.
- For Member, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Board of Governors, David Rader, for the term ending June 30, 2019.
- Interviews
- 1 p.m.: Select Committee on Tax Reform (451M)
- Presentation: Ted Boettner, Executive Director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Presentation: John Deskins, Ph.D., Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research and Associate Professor at the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics.
- 9 a.m.: Judiciary (208W)
The House will convene at 11 a.m.
On the agenda:
THIRD READING – For Passage
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2099<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2099&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Defining the act of leaving the scene of a crash involving death or serious bodily injury as a felony; Erin’s Law
SECOND READING – Amendment Stage
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2303<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2303&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Increasing criminal penalties for littering
* Com. Sub. for H. B. 2319<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2319&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> – Relating to candidates or candidate committees for legislative office disclosing contributions
Committee Schedule:
Committee on Finance
9:00 a.m. – Room 464M
* Budget hearing for the Department of Education.
Committee on Government Organization Subcommittee on Anti-Competitive Rules and Regulations
9:00 a.m. – Room 215E
* HB 2235<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2235&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Architects, W.Va. Board of, Registration of Architects. (2nd Reference to JUD)
* HB 2236<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2236&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Athletic Commission, W.Va. State Administrative Rules of the WV State Athletic Commission. (JUD)
* HB 2237<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2237&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Athletic Commission, W.Va. State Regulation of Mixed Martial Arts. (JUD)
* HB 2247<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2247&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Counseling, W.Va. Board of Examiners in Marriage and Family Therapist License Renewal and Continuing Professional Education Requirements. (JUD)
* HB 2244<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2244&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Counseling, W.Va. Board of Examiners in Licensed Professional Counselor Fees. (JUD)
* HB 2245<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2245&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Counseling, W.Va. Board of Examiners in Licensed Professional Counselor License Renewal and Continuing Professional Education Requirements. (JUD)
* HB 2246<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2246&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Counseling, W.Va. Board of Examiners in Marriage and Family Therapists Fees. (JUD)
* HB 2232<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2232&year=2017&sessiontype=RS>, Physical Therapy, W.Va. Board of, Fees for Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant. (JUD)
Committee on Judiciary
9:00 a.m. – Room 418M
* HB 2447<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2447&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> Renaming the Court of Claims the state Claims Commission
* HB 2479<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2479&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act
* HB 2465<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2465&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> Modifying the requirements that allow a child witness to testify by closed circuit television
1:00 p.m. – Room 418M
* Continuation of bills from morning session
* HB 2404<http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2404&year=2017&sessiontype=RS> Barring persons who are convicted of certain criminal offenses from acquiring property from their victims
