MORGANTOWN – A voting measure and a handful of bills dealing with students and students' healthcare cleared the House and Senate on Tuesday. HJR 21 proposes a constitutional amendment to add this to the section dealing with who is and is not allowed to vote (Article IV, 4-1): “nor ...
MORGANTOWN — Sen. Tom Takubo told his colleagues on the Health Committee on Tuesday that he had nearly thrown in the towel on his perennial bill to prohibit smoking in a vehicle where minors are present. But after receiving urging from a patient and a constituent, he brought it back one ...
MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced Monday, Feb. 5. Local sponsors and co-sponsors are noted. SB 629, to require a builder to follow the provisions of the State Building code in the construction or renovation of a structure, even if a county or municipality does not ...
MORGANTOWN — The Senate and House passed a couple handfuls of bills on Monday, among them one for child cyber safety, one for highway safety and one concerning carbon sequestration to pave the way for economic development projects. SB 466 creates the Safety While Accessing Technology ...
And 1 bad resolution Every West Virginia politician campaigns on fixing the roads, and yet every year, our Legislators fail to take any substantive action that would actually improve them. The problem is always complicated by the fact that there are four types of roads: city, county ...
West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair is among the lawmakers clamoring to bring back the death penalty in the Mountain State, but doing so would be a bad idea. West Virginia abolished capital punishment in 1965, but the last execution was in 1959. According to the West Virginia ...