CHARLESTON – Here is a sampling of bills introduced Jan. 21. Among them is the House bill to create a banking system for the medical cannabis program and a bill to raise the oil and gas severance tax. Monongalia-Preston-Marion-area lead sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. SB 355, ...
CHARLESTON – The annual bill (it always dies) to allow motorcyclists and their passengers age 21 and up to ride without helmets generated an hour’s worth of questions and testimony Monday afternoon, but no vote. The Committee on Technology & Infrastructure – formerly Roads & ...
CHARLESTON – The House Judiciary Committee on Monday decided a proposal to create a state wholesale import program for lower-cost Canadian drugs raises too many questions and needs more study. So HB 2319, the bill to create the program, is out of consideration. In its place, the committee ...
CHARLESTON — Talk in the state Capitol hallways has been about a possible bill that would roll in a variety of changes to West Virginia’s education system. Such a bill might include provisions allowing educators to bank personal days while also rolling in measures allowing charter schools ...
CHARLESTON — The House of Delegates approved and sent to the Senate on Monday a bill to help relieve regional jail overcrowding. HB 2190 bill requires that except for good cause shown, a magistrate must release a misdemeanor pre-trial defendant on personal recognizance. The exceptions ...
MORGANTOWN — Roger Schrout, a 15-year-old Morgantown High School student, has not been seen since Thursday night. His mother, Kelly, said she last saw him as he was leaving her house at Independence Hill about 9 p.m. Thursday. “I said love you, see you in the morning,” she ...
