MORGANTOWN – The resurrected CROWN Act came to the Senate floor Friday morning, after narrowly passing out of Judiciary the evening before, only to be swatted back to another committee […]
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Senate Judiciary approves Crown Act, prohibiting race-based hairstyle discrimination, in close vote
MORGANTOWN – Bills to prevent racially based discrimination based on hairstyles have sat idle for years in both houses of the state Legislature. But SB 495, the Crown Act, made […]
Senate health approves bills about dentures, non-binary birth certificates, child medical records
MORGANTOWN – The Senate Health Committee moved bills on Thursday dealing with dentures, birth certificates and youth medical records. HB 4320 deals with children of all ages. As it came […]
Abortion access is popular. Legislators want to ban it entirely
There is a vocal group of extreme anti-abortion West Virginians, but despite their outsized presence in the Capitol’s halls, they are a statistical minority. Several polls show West Virginians support […]
Senate committee moves bill to allow creation of alternative public charter schools
MORGANTOWN – The Senate School Choice Committee advanced a bill on Wednesday to enable the creation of alternative high-risk population public charter schools. The school would be required to have […]
Senate bill opens path for state to make money through forest-management wildfire prevention
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate held a long-but-warm-spirited debate on Wednesday over an amendment to a bill designed to protect state-owned forests from wildfires, and bring in cash in the […]
Bill to allow small counties to charge $1 fee for emergency services again moves through Senate
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate is making another go at enabling counties with lots of tourists and few residents to raise money for emergency services to accommodate all those visitors. […]
Senate sends two AI child porn bills to House
MORGANTOWN — The Senate advanced two bills to the House on Tuesday, both aimed at combating AI-era child pornography. SB 740 criminalizes altering a photograph, image, video clip, movie, or […]
House divides over energy, raw milk bills; sends Randall Reid-Smith bill to governor
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates held some lively debate and saw a divided vote over a couple energy-related bills and a raw milk bill on Monday. The milk bill […]
HB 4654 does not protect kids
Do you know what bills are currently sitting in the House Judiciary Committee, awaiting lawmakers; attention? Among the 513 bills, there are dozens of authorizations bills for state agencies and […]
