dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Education Committee sailed through two school safety bills Tuesday morning. One resurrects the West Virginia Guardian Program. The other would require public schools to install a panic alarm system. SB 450 is the Guardian bill. It ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Legislature is taking another crack at aligning municipal election dates with statewide primary and general elections. The prior two efforts began and died in the House of Delegates. This one is in the Senate, in SB 50. Senate Judiciary amended ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee approved on Monday a resurrected version of a bill to allow coal companies to take a severance tax credit for road improvements and purchases of production equipment. SB 448 would allow a company to ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates is trying once again to prevent potential abuse of absentee ballots by making it illegal to distribute more than 10 applications for absentee ballots with a specific request by a voter or voters. And a bill to prohibit ranked ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates will take up a bill to ban a handful of synthetic dyes from foods sold in West Virginia starting Monday. Current code bans added substances and ingredients that are “poisonous or injurious to the health” from food, drink, confectioneries and ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The full House Health and Human Resources Committee got a first look at two foster care bills – one regarding LGBTQ issues and one regarding vaccines. The Human Services subcommittee advanced both of them. HB 2033 says a foster or adoptive ...