MORGANTOWN — Senators flushed a House dirty diaper bill down the toilet on Tuesday as a form of protest for House inaction on a host of Senate bills. HB 5002 would require that all state-owned rest areas and welcome centers built after Jan. 1, 2025, have at least one diaper-changing ...
CHARLESTON — Senate Majority Leader Tom Takubo, who is also a pulmonologist, supports a bill that would establish a tax credit for physicians who locate to West Virginia to practice medicine. Takubo, R-Kanawha, spoke in favor of SB208 as it advanced from the Senate Health and Human ...
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 ...
Wednesday morning, West Virginia senators announced their own $600 million tax plan that they called comprehensive. By afternoon, senators passed the tax proposal in bipartisan fashion, 33-0. To do so, senators suspended constitutional rules requiring bills to be read and considered three ...