CHARLESTON – Here is a sampling of bills introduced Feb. 4. Monongalia-Preston-Marion-area lead sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted.
SB 514, to create a victim’s right to know the place of employment and residence of a person who has been incarcerated for domestic violence. Sen. Dave Sypolt, R-Preston, lead sponsor. Sen. Mike Maroney, R-Marshall, co-sponsor.
SB 518, prohibits the sale of products containing the cough medication dextromethorphan, also called DMX, to anyone under 18, in an effort to curb abuse of the medication. A version of this passed the House in 2018 but died in the Senate. Maroney, lead sponsor;
SCR 22, urging Congress to call a constitution convention to pass an amendment “restoring free and fair elections,” which would undo the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which said political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections. Sen. Bob Beach, D-Monongalia, lead sponsor; Sens. Charlest Clements, R-Wetzel, Randy Smith, R-Tucker, Sypolt, Maroney, co-sponsors.
SCR 23, to rename Wana Bridge, carrying W.Va. 7 over the West Virginia Fork of Dunkard Creek in Monongalia County, the Jeffrey Alan Clovis Memorial Bridge. Beach, lead sponsor; Maroney, co-sponsor.
