(Editor's note: This story has been updated to include language from the final version of SR 6, honoring Edith Levy.) MORGANTOWN – The state House and Senate spent a long day in session on Friday, the 59th day of the 60-day session. Most of it was spent in recess for backroom negotiation ...
Good: HB 5516 — “prohibiting the use of deep fake images for the nonconsensual disclosure of private intimate images; prohibiting the unlawful depiction of nude or partially nude minors or minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.” Similar to the bills on child porn, this one ...
Here is a question West Virginia legislators always need to ask themselves, especially in the closing days of a session: Is it better to do something or do nothing? That applies to the current debate under the Capitol dome over SB 841 which makes significant changes in the benefits paid to ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate moved through a series of House bills on Thursday, as both chambers head into the 60th and final day of the session on Saturday. Here are a few highlights. HB 4851 came out of the House as a bill to allow public, charter and private schools to employ armed ...
MORGANTOWN -- An attempt to revive the CROWN Act by plugging it into a different bill fizzled Wednesday evening in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill up for consideration was HB 5232, and update to the 2018 Business Liability and Protection Act, which was nicknamed the Parking Lot ...
MORGANTOWN – An appeal from a Boy Scouts leader led the Senate Education Committee to ease their planned restrictions on a House bill to allow the Scouts to recruit new members in schools. HB 4863 creates the Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act. It says that starting next school ...