MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice held a brief COVID-19 press conference Friday morning, shortened to accommodate another press conference at noon to announce statewide funding for broadband. Justice read in another 110 COVID deaths in the state, 31 of which were part of the government’s ...
CHARLESTON — Here is a look at some other House floor action from Friday. — SB 3033, the Congressional district bill. The House passed it Thursday and returned to it briefly Friday to change the effective date to make it effective from passage. — SB 3018, to transfer $250,000 in ...
CHARLESTON — The House of Delegates spent an hour and 50 minutes debating the governor's COVID-19 vaccine exemption bill before passing it with a 68-30 vote. The bill is HB 335. It will go to the Senate for a vote there. The bill says an employer that requires vaccination for hiring ...
CHARLESTON — House of Delegates Democratic leaders gathered Thursday morning to decry the governor's COVID-19 vaccine exemption bill, HB 335. “I'm concerned about the message our governor is sending,” Minority Leader Doug Skaff, D-Kanawha, said. On the one hand, Gov. Jim Justice says ...
CHARLESTON – The state Senate made some more tweaks on Wednesday to its bill clarifying county commission veto power over local health board rules, passed it and sent it to the House. SB 3026 arose in response to confusion over some elements of SB 12, which passed during the 2021 session ...
Gov. Jim Justice began Wednesday’s COVID-19 press conference as he always does, adding to the state’s tally of the dead. Twenty-two additional deaths since Monday brought West Virginia’s total to 3,998. Eleven of the 22 deaths were a result of the Bureau for Public Health’s ...
