Senators on Friday started consideration of West Virginia’s general revenue budget, leaving room for the possibility of a tax cut. “It contemplates the largest tax cut to the citizens of West Virginia in the history of West Virginia, passing the Senate,” Senate Finance Chair Eric ...
Senators passed a bill affecting the longstanding problem of regional jail bill costs. Senate Bill 596 sets a per day inmate base rate and establishes a formula for calculating fees. In some circumstances, it would allow a reduced rate or higher rates in others. Every 10 years, the rate ...
Senate Health Committee members kicked off consideration of a bill that would make changes to several aspects of the Public Employees Insurance Agency. Senate Bill 268 makes a range of changes to PEIA, growing out of concern that the agency faces growing financial stress. The health ...
Senators are trailing the Justice administration’s transfer of the remaining $28 million in federal COVID relief dollars to a fund controlled by the Governor’s Office, which then put millions of dollars from that transfer toward construction of Marshall University’s new baseball ...
Gov. Jim Justice says he has a big tax proposal to pitch in next week’s State of the State address. “Absolutely, we’ll be announcing the biggest tax cuts in the history of this state, hands down,” Justice said during a briefing Wednesday. Here’s the catch: “And hopefully, ...
The new chairman of the House Finance Committee says the Justice administration will take the lead on proposing an annual state budget that could include tax cut proposals. “I’m waiting on what the governor and the administration have. They’re working on a plan so that next Wednesday ...