This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the amendment that never was: the Equal Rights Amendment First introduced to Congress in 1923 on the heels of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, the ERA simply states that a person’s rights cannot be ignored or limited because ...
MORGANTOWN – Today we look at the fourth of four constitutional amendments coming before West Virginia voters in November. Amendment 4 is called Education Accountability Amendment and aims to clarify that the rules and policies promulgated by the state Board of Education are subject to ...
MORGANTOWN – Today we look at the third of four constitutional amendments that will be before West Virginia voters in November. It's the simplest and least controversial of the four amendments and is designed to remove an outdated -- and illegal -- provision from the ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia voters will have the opportunity to vote on four proposed amendments to the state Constitution on November's ballot. They are: Clarification of the Judiciary’s Role in Impeachment Proceedings Amendment; Property Tax Modernization Amendment; Incorporation of ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates spent just over an hour Friday debating another one of its annual resolutions applying to Congress to call a convention of states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Given that the resolution had 36 GOP sponsors, adoption was inevitable. It ...
MORGANTOWN – After extended debate, the House Education Committee approved on Thursday a resolution to put to a constitutional amendment before the voters to make county board of education races partisan. HJR 106, if passed by both houses of the Legislature and approved by the voters in ...