House of Delegates must follow suit “My first year in college, I lost 20 pounds,” said Sen. Mike Azinger as he voted against a “hunger-free” campus bill. “I didn’t eat. I didn’t have food all the time. I went to Bible college. … You go to college, sometimes you don’t have ...
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate and House of Delegates plowed through long lists of bills on Tuesday, in preparation for Crossover Day on Wednesday. School sports, smoking and deep fakes were among the topics. Crossover Day is the 50th day of the session, when bills must pass out of their ...
MORGANTOWN – An amendment to a bill making some tweaks to state homeschooling law plunged the House of Delegates into a 90-minute debate about child abuse prevention, the failures of Child Protective Services and potential harm to homeschooling families. HB 5180 is the bill. It adds ...
MORGANTOWN — A bill to prohibit racial discrimination based on hair textures and hairstyles narrowly passed out Senate Judiciary last Thursday, only to be sent to Senate Finance on Friday. Many believed it was sent there to die, and die it did, Senate Finance chair Eric Tarr confirmed on ...
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee crammed a wham-bam 9-minute meeting between floor sessions on Monday – approving two Senate student-hunger bills and a Senate PROMISE Scholarship bill without debate. SB 162 is the Summer Feeding for All Program, for schools to find ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates passed a human smuggling bill on Monday, but opponents objected that it places trafficking and smuggling on the same level and denies trafficking victims the right to restitution. Across the Capitol, the Senate moved bills regarding parental surrogacy, ...