MORGANTOWN — An attempt to revive the CROWN Act by plugging it into a different bill fizzled Wednesday evening in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill up for consideration was […]
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Senate Education Committee does good deed for House bill to help Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts
MORGANTOWN – An appeal from a Boy Scouts leader led the Senate Education Committee to ease their planned restrictions on a House bill to allow the Scouts to recruit new […]
House booze bill prompts Senate to stop and take a think
MORGANTOWN – Senate Judiciary chair Charles Trump spent several minutes explaining the minutiae of a 55-page, much-amended booze bill on Wednesday. Following the long briefing, Sen. Randy Smith, R-Tucker, in […]
Senate Intelligent Design bill undergoes evolution in House Judiciary
MORGANTOWN – The Senate’s Intelligent Design bill took another step in its evolution on Tuesday, as the House Judiciary Committee took up and approved the fourth version and sent it […]
House Judiciary inserts stalled library obscenity bill into Senate AI child porn bill, stirs Democratic opposition
MORGANTOWN – Consideration of a well-liked Senate bill to criminalize AI child porn took an unexpected twist in House Judiciary on Tuesday when committee leaders inserted into it the House […]
Senators flush House diaper bill in protest over House inaction on Senate bills
MORGANTOWN — Senators flushed a House dirty diaper bill down the toilet on Tuesday as a form of protest for House inaction on a host of Senate bills. HB 5002 […]
Senate Transportation Committee expands House $50K coal tax credit bill to up to $60 million
MORGANTOWN – The Senate Transportation Committee took a House bill offering coal companies a potential $50,000 tax break for making road improvements and expanded it to somewhere between $50 million […]
Senate passes slate of House bills: swatting, sour grapes candidates and more
MORGANTOWN – The Senate cruised through a slate of House bills on Monday, passing them all unanimously without debate. A couple head to the governor; others were amended and returned […]
House Judiciary approves resolution for Congress to call Article V convention for fiscal responsibility amendment
MORGANTOWN – House Judiciary Committee members appeared to have about as much fun as allowed by law on Friday approving yet another resolution demanding Congress call a convention of states […]
Black advocacy groups present $5,500 check in front of Senate Finance office to protest demise of CROWN Act
MORGANTOWN – Following the death of the CROWN Act – SB 496 – on Wednesday, advocacy groups on Thursday presented a check for $5,500 to Black women-led West Virginia organizations […]
