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 ...
MORGANTOWN – Senate Judiciary chair Charles Trump spent several minutes explaining the minutiae of a 55-page, much-amended booze bill on Wednesday. Following the long briefing, Sen. Randy Smith, R-Tucker, in jest, asked for a Rule 43 ruling to be excused from voting. “After that ...
There’s a special irony in the West Virginia Legislature calling for a national constitutional convention over fiscal responsibility when the state can’t even pass a full budget this session because it faces a possible $465 million clawback of federal COVID funds. Over the last several ...
MORGANTOWN – The Senate's Intelligent Design bill took another step in its evolution on Tuesday, as the House Judiciary Committee took up and approved the fourth version and sent it to the House floor. The discussion has also evolved since the origin of SB 280 in the Senate: from ...
MORGANTOWN – Consideration of a well-liked Senate bill to criminalize AI child porn took an unexpected twist in House Judiciary on Tuesday when committee leaders inserted into it the House bill opening public and school libraries up to felony charges for the display or dissemination of ...