W.Va. Legislative Committee Meeting Schedule – Subject to change Watch WV Legislature Live each day at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/live.cfm SENATE: Thursday, March 2, 2017 REVIEW BILLS INTRODUCED The Senate will convene at 11 a.m. UNFINISHED BUSINESS SCR 25: Jeffrey Alan Clovis Memorial Bridge SCR 26: US Marine Corps[Read More…]
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Storm causes power outages, wind damage
Staff reports Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Thousands of Kanawha Valley residents are without power after a storm swept through the area Wednesday morning, downing trees and power lines and causing wind damage, dispatchers said. The wind damage was concentrated in the western part of Kanawha County including Cross Lanes,[Read More…]
Senate advances bill to allow attorney general investigators to carry guns
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate is bringing back a bill that would allow investigators in the office of the attorney general to carry guns. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday, Feb. 28 to send the bill on to the full[Read More…]
WV House votes to stiffen methamphetamine penalties
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates voted Tuesday, Feb. 28 to stiffen the criminal penalties on adults who expose children to methamphetamine during production of the drug. House Judiciary Chairman Delegate John Shott, R-Mercer, said exposing children to meth[Read More…]
WV Senate introduces bill to eliminate public funding for Supreme Court races
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Seven years after passing a law allowing public financing for West Virginia Supreme Court races, and months after watching how the law worked in practice, members of the West Virginia Senate have introduced a bipartisan bill that would eliminate the public[Read More…]
Proposed bill allows prosecuting attorneys to concealed carry
By DANYEL VANREENEN The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Prosecuting attorneys are the only members of law enforcement not carrying weapons, according to Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney Matthew Harvey. Harvey said it’s not unusual to receive threats from defendants or their family members, and under the current laws, prosecuting attorneys may[Read More…]
Gov. Justice plans visit to Elkins
By BETH HENRY-VANCE The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice is scheduled to meet Thursday with seniors as part of a statewide tour promoting his highways construction program and budget proposals. Justice plans to attend lunch at the Randolph County Senior Center at 11:45 a.m., according to his staff,[Read More…]
House passes college personnel bill, forwards to Senate
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — On nearly a party-line vote, the Republican-controlled House of Delegates on Wednesday approved 61-38 a bill which would give three colleges in the state greater flexibility when laying off employees. Democrats tried to stall a vote on HB 2542 for a day[Read More…]
Bill aligns WV private, public school test requirements
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail In a voice vote with no nays heard Monday, West Virginia’s House Education Committee passed to the full House a bill that would reduce standardized testing requirements for most private schools in the near term but also would, in the future, more closely align testing[Read More…]
Water pollution bill up for WV House floor vote
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill that would allow increased discharges of pollution into West Virginia’s rivers and streams has moved forward again, setting the stage for an up-or-down vote Wednesday in the House of Delegates. On Tuesday, the House considered and approved just one amendment to House Bill 2506,[Read More…]