EDITOR’S NOTE: Hoppy’s original commentary published Feb. 20. The House passed the tax cut on Feb. 22. This column has been lightly edited to reflect the bill’s passage. The House of Delegates took a step toward approving Gov. Jim Justice’s proposal to eliminate the state income ...
One of the good bills moving through the West Virginia Legislature is SB 474, to create a “critical incident review team” to examine when a child known to Child Protective Services or in Department of Human Services’ custody dies or nearly dies. This bill was likely inspired by the ...
MORGANTOWN – Senate Judiciary cruised through a series of bills on Friday, dealing with churches, sexual assault, and belief-based student organizations, but the one that spurred the most debate was one to raise the legal smoking age. SB 717 raises the age for the legal purchase of ...
MORGANTOWN – The Senate is once again trying to give small rural counties a tool to fund their fire and EMS services. SB 167 was among the bills that passed the Senate on Friday and headed to the House. SB 167 would allow any county to impose a $1 health and safety fee on a list of ...
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 – where it may die. SB 496 aims to prohibit discrimination based on race that includes discrimination ...
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 a step forward late Thursday afternoon, advancing out of Senate Judiciary after more than an hour of debate, in ...