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 ...
MORGANTOWN – Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Monday, Feb. 6. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. HB 3297, to allow for patients to refuse to have their procedures observed by residents of the hospital, or medical students. HB 3298, Angel's Law, to prohibit ...
MORGANTOWN – Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Friday, Feb. 3. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. HB 3247, the the Abuse and Neglect Oversight Act, to protect individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability; Delegate Amy Summers, R-Taylor, ...
Good: SB 124 to require schools to create an age-appropriate dating/sexual violence prevention program for grades 7-12. There are a lot of things the Legislature is doing wrong when it comes to public education, but there are a handful of things it is doing right. This is one of ...
Gov. Jim Justice wants to negotiate. The West Virginia governor said on Talkline Wednesday that he is ready and willing to try to get a deal with Senate Republicans on a tax cut plan, and that willingness includes giving ground. “We’d absolutely compromise,” Justice ...