MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission on Wednesday joined the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization in throwing its support behind a Westover project to build a sidewalk along Fairmont Road. The city hopes to secure a Community Development Block Grant to help ...
MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. HB 2752, to create the Non-Profit Transparency and Accountability Act, which will require that all nonprofit organizations that receive any part of their total ...
MORGANTOWN — A House committee has resurrected a bill that would allow a handful of city voters to petition for an election to overturn a city ordinance. The Political Subdivisions Committee approved HB 2244 in a divided voice vote. The original version said, “Any city shall, upon ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill to allow specially trained medical professionals who accompany police SWAT teams on missions to carry weapons. SB 83 would allow a “tactical medical professional” trained and certified in tactical combat casualty ...
A week into the regular legislative session, debate over Gov. Jim Justice’s proposal to cut personal income taxes by half over three years is on maximum. The House of Delegates moved the bill toward Wednesday passage in that chamber, Senators quizzed Revenue Secretary Dave Hardy, and the governor went on Fox News this week in a national cable news appearance that included a pitch for the proposal. Despite the flurry of activity, it’s not clear whether the tax bill will get through the legislative process intact. Members of the state Senate’s Republican majority have ...
The House Health Committee swiftly advanced a bill that would split the Department of Health and Human Resources into three separate agencies. The three would be the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Health Facilities. “This bill was about three years in the making,” said Delegate Matthew Rohrbach, R-Cabell. “I can easily say why we’re doing this. DHHR has the largest budget in state government by far. And we all hear from our constituents the inefficiencies in the various components of DHHR. “I would contend to you that an ...
