MORGANTOWN – A bill to allow state residents to deduct medical expenses from their sate income taxes left senators who voted for it wondering how much it might cost the state. Those senators also approved a bill to permit Health Care Sharing Ministries – a faith-based health insurance ...
MORGANTOWN — The House Education Committee unanimously approved a bill aimed at beefing up the state's workforce by subsidizing high school students who want to enroll in career-path higher education courses. HB 2005 would establish a four-year pilot program for high school students to ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate advanced its unemployment benefits bill — decreasing the number of weeks and establishing job-search criteria — to the House on Monday. Three Republicans joined two Democrats to vote against SB 59. Current law allows workers to collect unemployment ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate on Friday approved a bill spelling out how the state would participate in an Article V Constitutional convention, and one requiring the state Board of Education to develop a program in dating-violence prevention and sexual-violence prevention. Article V ...
MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Friday, Jan. 20. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. HB 2847, to impose a life sentence on fentanyl dealers; Delegate Geno Chiarelli, R-Monongalia, lead sponsor. HB 2849, to change the date of local school board ...
MORGANTOWN — Three university presidents have joined to oppose the campus carry legislation working its way through the state Senate. Ericke Cage of West Virginia State University, Kendra Boggess of Concord University and Mary Hendrix of Shepherd University sent a joint letter to the ...