MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates introduced 580 bills on Wednesday, Jan. 10, the first day of the 2024 session. Some of them are carryovers from last year, and a big chunk of them are agency legislative rules bills. Here's a sampling of the non-rules bills. Local sponsors and cosponsors ...
MORGANTOWN — The 2024 legislative session began Wednesday afternoon at the state Capitol. As usual, the opening floor sessions were largely formalities, but Babydog sparked a brief debate on the House floor, and the Senate continued its recent practice of accelerating passage of certain ...
As the 2024 legislative session opens today, there are certain words already on lawmakers’ lips: drugs, addiction, substance abuse, fentanyl. And one more: punishment. Over the last few years, as West Virginia has tried to wrangle an out-of-control drug crisis, lawmakers have talked a ...
MORGANTOWN – Former Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer has taken a job with the Feminist Majority, a national women’s rights organization. She informed the Monongalia County Democratic Executive Committee and announced her new job publicly on Tuesday. With the new commitment, she said ...
CHARLESTON – Visitors to the House of Delegates chamber this session will find it to be fresher, brighter and more open, follwing its first renovation since 1995 and only the second since its 1932 dedication. House Clerk Stephen Harrison offered a tour of the refreshed chamber on Friday. ...
CHARLESTON – Three health care leaders pondered the challenges facing health care during a Friday session of the West Virginia Press Association Legislative Lookahead. The 2024 session begins on Wednesday. Their first question was how to make health care more accessible in our rural, ...