MORGANTOWN — The state Senate sailed through a series of bills on Monday, passing them all unanimously with no debate — including a school protection bill and one to put a framed copy of the U.S. motto in every government building. All bills head to the House of Delegates. SB 282 ...
Like the magic that allowed Cinderella to go the ball, the 2022 regular legislative session ended at midnight (technically Sunday) and took with it a whole host of bills. Most of the bills we covered here in our The Good, the Bad and the Stupid editorials now lie in the legislative graveyard. ...
In 2017, West Virginia did away with its film tax credit. At the time, the film credit, issued by the Film Office, was the domain of the Tourism Office, under the umbrella of the Department of Commerce. The DoC audited the film tax credit program and found it wasn’t beneficial the state, so ...
MORGANTOWN — The effort to repeal the state's ban on building nuclear power plants took its first step forward on Wednesday as the Senate Economic Development Committee passed SB 4 to lift the ban. The bill is only one sentence long and repeals the two sections of code passed in 1996 ...