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 ...
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 to the Senate it grants parents and guardians access to minor children's medical records, except those ...
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 at least some access to abortion: A 2019 poll showed two-thirds of respondents believed ...
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 an unduplicated count of at least 70% of its total enrollment, upon first entry to the ...