MORGANTOWN – Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. HB 3307, to establish the West-Virginia Ireland Trade Commission; Delegate George Street, R-Preston, co-sponsor. HB 3309, to establish the Child Support from ...
MORGANTOWN – The Senate Finance Committee spent less than five minutes Tuesday approving a bill to create a Charter Schools Stimulus Fund. Senate Judiciary spent just under 20 minutes on a bill aimed at school employees who have sex with students, with most of that refining what turned ...
MORGANTOWN – A House Republican bill to help more birthing centers spring up across the state drew significant Republican opposition on the House floor on Tuesday. Three other bills sailed through more smoothly, passing unanimously. HB 2789 is the birthing center bill. It aims to exempt ...
MORGANTOWN – A House bill aimed at protecting the business of managed timberlands in the state by heavily taxing carbon offset contracts met with opposition on Tuesday from landowner groups that object to government interference in how they use their lands. HB 3294 was before the House ...
MORGANTOWN – A Preston County woman told legislators her story of the deadly consequences of distracted driving as they considered a bill to update and enhance the penalties for that crime on Monday. The bill was HB 2218, before House Judiciary. Several delegates called it one of the ...
MORGANTOWN — A bill to create a new state agency designed to promote energy development projects in the coalfields is on its way to the House floor after clearing the Government Organization Committee Monday afternoon. The West Virginia Coal Association did not lend its support to the ...