West Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB1
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/22/23
Refer
2/22/23
Requiring Higher Education Policy Commission to create and administer PROMISE Plus Program
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB10
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
1/25/23
Refer
1/25/23
Enrolled
2/21/23
Passed
3/1/23
Chaptered
5/1/23
Campus Self-Defense Act
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB100
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to include newly hired 911 personnel as members of the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB101
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to fully eliminate state income tax for Social Security benefits received by taxpayers for taxable years beginning in 2023.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB102
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of lit tobacco products in a motor vehicle while individuals 16 years of age or under are present. The bill also provides that the misdemeanor offense is a secondary offense that may only be charged if a driver has been detained for violation of another vehicle law.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB103
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to provide definitions, to prohibit public funding of drag shows in West Virginia, and to prohibit minors from being involved in or attending drag shows.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB104
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to allow a person who holds a current and valid license to carry a concealed deadly weapon to carry such a weapon on the campus and in the buildings of a state institution of higher education. It provides exceptions and immunity to an institution for a licensee's intentional or unintentional use of a firearm while carrying it under the act. The bill seeks to acknowledge that violence against disarmed law-abiding citizens is an increasing, but unnecessary, occurrence. The bill is an attempt by the Legislature to reaffirm a law-abiding citizen's Second Amendment Right, the right to protect themselves by allowing legally licensed and permitted employees, staff, and students of public universities the right to legally carry a concealed weapon within specified limitations.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB105
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Refer
1/18/23
The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to impose an amusement tax.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB106
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to protect albino deer. The bill defines albino deer and, with certain exceptions, prohibits hunting, capturing, killing, or destroying them. The bill adds albino deer to the list of animals for which forfeiture and replacement costs apply. The bill provides criminal penalties.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB107
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the time limitations provided for filing occupational pneumoconiosis claims in this section does not apply to or otherwise limit the ability of a claimant to obtain an evaluation from the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB108
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to require probationers who have served 10 or more years to participate in a work release program and spend six months in a work release center. The bill requires that 70 percent their earnings be held in an account and provided to them at the successful completion of the six-month period.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB109
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to create the Orphan Oil and Gas Well Prevention Act; providing for a short title; providing for legislative findings and declarations; providing for restrictions to permit oil and natural gas wells, certain prohibitions, and requiring plugging assurance requirements; providing for limitations on the transfer of wells; providing for responsibility of previous operators to plug transferred wells; providing for different methods for operators to provide plugging assurance of wells including for wells not producing in paying quantities; providing administrative and management responsibilities for the chief of the Office of Oil and Gas and the State Treasurer regarding plugging assurance funds; providing clarifications regarding the duties of mineral and surface owners; and providing for rule-making authority.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB11
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Prohibiting excessive government limitations on exercise of religion
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB110
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to enhance maintenance and repair of the state's roads and highways generally. The bill creates the Special Road Repair Fund as a subaccount of the State Road Fund and authorizes the commissioner of DOH to transfer certain funds into the subaccount for certain purposes. The bill also: creates the Enhanced Road Repair and Maintenance Program; states legislative findings and purpose of the program; requires Division of Highways, and county supervisors consult with county commissions and legislators to submit project requests to the Division of Highways; sets forth a funding formula; sets forth requirements concerning bidding, vendors, and contracts with private vendors; specifies uses of Special Road Repair Fund and provides requirements for the Commissioner of Highways and districts. The bill also requires reporting by Division of Highways and Legislative Auditor.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB111
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a wind power project is not a pollution control facility for purposes of §11-6A-1 et seq. of this code and is taxed as real property.