MORGANTOWN — Three more school-related bills passed out of the House of Delegates on Wednesday and head to the Senate. HB 5863 creates the Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act. It says that starting next school year, school principals shall allow representatives of a patriotic ...
MORGANTOWN — The House Workforce Development Committee on Wednesday put the brakes on a bill aimed at protecting home-based businesses, but moved one along intended to encourage people to work. HB 5426 is called the Protect Home-Based Work Act. It provides a list of things a local ...
CHARLESTON — After debate that has flared up almost daily, the House of Delegates passed a bill that would define standards for community programs to monitor and analyze information about air quality. The bill still would need to be passed by the state Senate to move toward becoming law. “This bill does not prevent community air monitoring,” said Delegate Bob Fehrenbacher, R-Wood. “It basically says be careful with the data that you get from that.” Most of the debate has been about limits on how the collected air quality information could be used. The bill says that ...
DANIELS — Four guys vying to be West Virginia’s next governor fired verbal shots at each other, declared themselves to be the most effective conservative and offered glimpses into policy positions that would affect the lives of state residents. Tuesday the Republican candidates stood at podiums on stage in the ballroom at Glade Springs Resort, one of the properties owned by Gov. Jim Justice, the two-term incumbent that they hope to succeed. The debate, hosted by the Raleigh County Republican Executive Committee, unfolded before a packed crowd that sometimes cheered and ...
MORGANTOWN — Sen. Tom Takubo told his colleagues on the Health Committee on Tuesday that he had nearly thrown in the towel on his perennial bill to prohibit smoking in a vehicle where minors are present. But after receiving urging from a patient and a constituent, he brought it back one ...
MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced Monday, Feb. 5. Local sponsors and co-sponsors are noted. SB 629, to require a builder to follow the provisions of the State Building code in the construction or renovation of a structure, even if a county or municipality does not ...
