MORGANTOWN – The 2025 legislative session wrapped up at midnight Saturday, and a number of bills we followed along the way completed their journeys. Most prominent among […]
West Virginia Legislature
Senate Holocaust education bill dies in the House – again
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Legislature is plowing through bills as it heads to close of session midnight Saturday, but the Senate bill to require Holocaust education in […]
Senate passes bills limiting cell phones in schools, plowing roads in Mon and Preston
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate on Wednesday passed bills launching a pilot project to plow secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties, and to limit student cell […]
Senate passes House bill stripping some university board of governors members of voting rights
DBeard@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN — A divided state Senate on Wednesday passed the House bill stripping the voting rights from certain members of university governing boards. The vote followed […]
House passes amended Senate municipal elections bill and returns it to Senate
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates on Monday passed and sent back to the Senate the bill to align municipal election dates with statewide primary and […]
Senate committee advances bill to remove voting power from 4 WVU BOG members
MORGANTOWN – The House bill that would strip the voting rights from the two faculty representatives, the classified staff representative and the student body representative on the […]
House amends Senate city elections bill to shorten time for municipalities to change their voting dates
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates on Friday adopted an amendment to the Senate’s bill to align municipal election dates with state dates – an amendment that […]
Senate committee adds third option to bill for schools to put guards on campus
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Finance Committee on Friday upped the ante on both chambers’ efforts to enable schools to put some form of security guards in […]
A look at bills that died before Crossover Day at the Capitol
MORGANTOWN – Wednesday was Crossover Day at the Legislature: Day 50 of the 60-day session, the deadline for bills to pass out of their house of origin […]
Senate takes up bill to ban mail-order abortion medications
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The state Senate will be voting on a bill to ban the prescription and dispensing of abortion medications by mail order. The Judiciary Committee […]
