MORGANTOWN — A bill to prohibit racial discrimination based on hair textures and hairstyles narrowly passed out Senate Judiciary last Thursday, only to be sent to Senate Finance on Friday. Many believed it was sent there to die, and die it did, Senate Finance chair Eric Tarr confirmed on ...
Senators advanced legislation called the “Women’s Bill of Rights” that would codify definitions of man and woman, and they advanced another bill called “The Restoring Sanity Act” that would, among many policies, allow educators to ignore students’ pronoun preferences. The Women’s Bill of Rights, Senate Bill 601, advanced Monday afternoon from the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill mostly works by defining “female” and “male,” “men” and “women” and “girls” and “boys” and saying those terms should be used wherever state law applies. A ...
After debate of almost two hours, delegates voted for several exemptions to vaccine requirements in West Virginia schools. House Bill 5105 first removed vaccine requirements for students attending virtual public schools, then was expanded to allow private schools to adopt their own policies and then was opened up to parents citing religious reasons to opt out of vaccination requirements at any school in the state. “We have rights. We have the Constitution,” said Delegate Laura Kimble, R-Harrison, the lead sponsor of what she called “a little bill with a little change to a ...
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Assessor Mark Musick said he’s trying to make life a little easier for newcomers to the county. During a recent presentation before the Monongalia County Commission, Musick said his office has put together an information card that includes a QR code ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates passed a human smuggling bill on Monday, but opponents objected that it places trafficking and smuggling on the same level and denies trafficking victims the right to restitution. Across the Capitol, the Senate moved bills regarding parental surrogacy, ...
Earlier this week, delegates took a bill to eliminate vaccine requirements for public virtual schools and expanded it to also eliminate state vaccine requirements for West Virginia’s private and parochial schools. Today, delegates voted to expand the bill again — amending it to allow parents citing religious beliefs to opt out of vaccination requirements for their children in any school in the state. “For the people across our state who hold a religious belief that causes them to object to these vaccines, this is the fair way to do these people, to apply the U.S. ...
