MORGANTOWN – In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when most folks were snug in their beds, House Judiciary wrapped up one of its famous marathon meetings – grinding out two controversial bills between midnight and 2 a.m. One of them is the so-called anti-CRT bill. The other puts ...
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 few of its own bills – sending them to the governor. SB 591 is the vacancy bill. It stems from the Jan. ...
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 reinstate the film tax credit and one to ensure family members can visit loved ones after surgery were among the bills ...
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 because we keep talking about it. This bill makes three important changes to state code regarding insulin ...
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 exclude from the Aboveground Storage Tank Act’s inspection requirements tanks having a capacity of 210 barrels (8,820 ...
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 Senate bill, SB 250, came over with essentially the same General Fund number as the governor's: $4.645 billion. ...