MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates on Wednesday passed a Senate bill regarding vacant legislative seats, quibbled over a Senate bill up for amendment and OK’d Senate amendments to a […]
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Senate OKs House bills for car dealer tax break, rebooting film tax credit, ensuring post-surgery visitation by family members
MORGANTOWN – New car dealers could see a tax break if a House bill revamped and passed Wednesday by the Senate completes its legislative journey. That bill, plus one to […]
Two bills to save, and one bill to kill
The Legislature’s regular session ends Saturday, and there are two bills we’d like to see keep going and one that desperately needs to die. If HB 4252 sounds familiar, it’s […]
House bill to reduce inspections of oil and gas brine tanks near drinking water intakes gets tabled in Senate Energy
MORGANTOWN – A House oil and gas bill that has caused some concern in the environmental community met its apparent end it Senate Energy on Tuesday. HB 2598 intended to […]
House passes $4.6B budget bill, sends it back to the Senate; Senate OKs House bill to fill Jenkins’ state Supreme Court seat and sends it back
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates continued progress on crafting a state budget Tuesday, pasting its budget bill into the Senate’s and sending it back to the west wing. The […]
House approves Senate state employee pay raise bill — with $10,000 raise for state troopers
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates approved the Senate’s state employee pay raise bill on Monday – with an extra boost for state troopers. The additional raise means the bill […]
House Education approves scaled-down version of Senate Anti-Racism Act
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee followed up an early Monday public hearing on the Senate’s Anti-Racism Act – with speakers overwhelmingly against it – with two hours of debate […]
House Education revamps Pierpont-FSU bill to transfer Pierpont’s aviation maintenance program to FSU, leave Pierpont independent
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee wrapped up its deliberations on the Senate bill to make Pierpont Community and Technical College a division of Fairmont State University – deliberations stretching […]
House Education Committee spends 4 hours mulling Pierpont-Fairmont State merger bill, delays action until Monday
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee spent about four hours Saturday mulling over the bill to merge Pierpont Community and Technical College into Fairmont State University. Leaders from the two […]
House OKs Senate bill making it easier for gas drillers to acquire leases
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates made quick work of a bill that will make it easier for oil and gas developers to drill and produce. SB 650 passed with […]
