By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill designed to impose an asset test on applicants for government assistance programs received a near-unanimous shellacking during a public hearing Monday. Senate Bill 60, which the Senate passed last week, yielded comments from 19 audience members in the chambers of the House of Delegates. Of […]
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Republican Party asked its members in the House of Delegates to vote no on a bill, up for second reading Monday, that would permit the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes in the state. The letter, which is from the West Virginia Republican Platform Committee […]
By ASHTON MARRA West Virginia Public Broadcasting CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Senators on the chamber’s Finance Committee were given their first look at the body’s proposed budget bill Monday, April 3, which the chamber’s finance chairman says relies almost solely on cuts to find a balance. This Senate budget largely relies on cutting all state agencies […]
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A House committee advanced to the floor Monday a bill dealing with broadening and lowering the sales tax rate. Questions surfaced in an afternoon floor session about whether a bill was passed to the full House dealing with broadening and lowering the sales tax rate; members voted […]
By WENDY HOLDREN The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With only five days remaining in the regular Legislative session, Gov. Jim Justice criticized West Virginia lawmakers at a press conference Monday for failing to balance the state’s budget. “I thought we were really close, but we’re not,” Justice said. While he commended the efforts made toward […]
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill that would permit the use of medical marijuana, which was on second reading in the West Virginia House of Delegates, was amended on Monday so that it no longer allows patients to grow their own plants, prohibits smoking, and sets hefty fees for companies that […]
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia could be on the verge of legalizing the medical use of marijuana. The movement came after a 4 1/2-hour debate in the House of Delegates that ended at about 11 p.m. Monday. The House agreed late in the afternoon to a strike-and-insert amendment to […]
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON — After several hours of debate over two amendments, the West Virginia House approved a more restrictive change to a bill that would legalize medical marijuana and advanced the bill to a third reading today. Delegate John Shott, R-Mercer, described his amendment as “putting a toe in the water” instead […]
By DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House of Delegates spent about three hours late April 3 debating two alternate new versions of the medical cannabis bill, SB 386. In a 51-48 vote, they chose a Republican leadership version about three times as long and far different from the original Senate bill. […]
By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates advanced the West Virginia Cannabis Act following a major overhaul of the bill Monday night. Members of the House approved an amendment following a nearly three-hour long debate over two amendments that restructured the bill, one with a lead sponsor in […]
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