MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates spent just over an hour Friday debating another one of its annual resolutions applying to Congress to call a convention of states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Given that the resolution had 36 GOP sponsors, adoption was inevitable. It ...
MORGANTOWN – House Judiciary expanded and approved a Senate bill on Thursday that would require all county school board meetings to be open to the public in person and via audio and video broadcast live via a link on the board website. It also would require the boards to archive the audio ...
MORGANTOWN – An Ohio County delegate made an unsuccessful attempt to kill a Senate anti-CRT bill on Thursday. Also on Thursday, a House resolution that would allow the voters to decide if the Legislature should have closer oversight of the state Board of Education completed its ...
MORGANTOWN – Here is a look at other bills passed on Day 50 of the 2022 legislative session – Crossover Day. Pierpont bill SB 653 carries the dull short title, “Relating to public higher education governance.” What's inside is the plan to make Pierpont Community and Technical ...
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate on Wednesday approved bills dealing with Critical Race Theory in schools and abortions of unborn children with Down syndrome. Wednesday was Crossover Day, when all bills had to pass out of their house of origin to remain alive. SB 498 is called the ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates passed a number of weighty bills on Wednesday – Crossover Day – but perhaps weightiest of all was the bill it didn't pass: the bill to strip the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training of its enforcement powers. That bill was HB 4840, to ...