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 ...
MORGANTOWN – Here is a sampling of bills introduced Friday, Feb. 2. Local sponsors and cosponsors are noted. SB 618, to authorize the Division of Forestry to administer the Carbon Exchange Program. SB 620, the West Virginia Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program, to provide ...
MORGANTOWN – House Speaker Roger Hanshaw stepped down from his dais on Friday to promote a bill to give $2 million to WVU's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute to support its groundbreaking research. And the House held an extended debate on a resolution to support Texas in its fight with ...
Good: SB 175 — updates offenses of extortion and attempted extortion. It specifically adds “or other thing of value” (understood to include sexual acts) to the list of things that, if threatened, would qualify as extortion. It also adds that “threaten[ing] to publish in any manner ...