MORGANTOWN — Legislators hope a tax break for companies that extract and produce rare earth elements and critical minerals will encourage them to set up in West Virginia. HB 3012 provides for a nine-year break in severance taxes for a company that severs, extracts and produces for sale, ...
MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. SB 635, to change language concerning indecent exposure and increase the penalties associated with it. SB 638, to provide bonuses for unused days of personal ...
MORGANTOWN — The House Judiciary Committee's Wednesday morning public hearing on the campus carry bill drew 40 people; 38 of whom opposed it. Most of the opponents to SB 10 were university students, faculty and administrators. Mary Ellen O'Farrell, speaking on her own behalf, summed ...
A bill that would change some aspects of the Public Employees Insurance Agency is under the microscope. “I’ll tell you, this is a PEIA overhaul bill,” said Sen. Ben Queen, R-Harrison, chair of a Finance subcommittee examining the legislation. “I mean, this is a big, big bill. It’s 60 pages long. We’re making sure that the corrections are needed.” That subcommittee discussed the bill once on Tuesday afternoon and is planning to meet again later this week before it advances to the full Finance Committee. The Senate Health Committee already discussed a version of the ...
A proposal to split West Virginia’s largest agency, DHHR, into three has passed the full House of Delegates. The three would be the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health Facilities. Delegates voted 95-3 in favor of the change. “The current Department of Health and Human Resources is a systemic, hot mess,” said Delegate Larry Kump, R-Berkeley. “I recognize that and certainly welcome reform. I am not completely persuaded that separating it into three separate agencies is a fix. But I am persuaded it is worth a try. I only ...
The governor, House leaders and Senate leaders all say they want to cut taxes, and they’re assessing each other’s plans. Senators introduced a tax proposal last week, advocating for changes in several sections of the code. The governor Monday hosted a roundtable discussion with nationally known advocates for cutting taxes. And the House of Delegates, which passed Justice’s income tax cut proposal a few weeks ago, is taking a look at the details of the Senate’s plan. “Between the two houses and the governor, you’ve got to come to some kind of compromise if you want ...
