West Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB513
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to restore moneys previously removed from net terminal income in 2014 and the racetrack video lottery and racetrack table games.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB514
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Refer
2/7/24
The purpose of this bill is to create the lung cancer prevention and education act. It covers lung cancers screenings via a low-dose computed tomography based upon financial eligibility and medical eligibility set forth in the bill. The bill creates a grant process, requires annual reporting from the Department of Health, and sets a rate for the CT screening. The bill requires the Department of Health to engage in a statewide education campaign.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB515
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a public school student from being required to participate in instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity if a parent, custodian, or guardian of the student objects in writing; require each public school to afford the parent, custodian, or guardian of a child subject to instruction with respect to sexual orientation and gender identity advance written notification of such instruction and of their right to exempt the child from participation; prohibit a public school and the county board employees assigned to the school from knowingly giving false or misleading information to the parent, custodian, or guardian of a student regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that is different than the sex listed on a student's official birth certificate or certificate issued upon adoption if the certificate was issued at or near the time of the student's birth; require a public school employee to report a student's request for an accommodation that is intended to affirm the student's gender identity from a person employed by the public school to an administrator employed by the county board and assigned to the school; and require the administrator to report the student's request to the student's parent, custodian, or guardian.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB516
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/7/24
The purpose of this bill is to determine venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB517
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to require the biological sex to be limited to male or female and to require that nonbinary birth certificates not be issued. The bill also provides circumstances when an amended birth certificate may be issued to change gender. This may be issued based upon a chromosomal count that does not match the sex as different in the registered birth certificate. The bill states the evidence required to amend the birth certificate.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB518
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to exempt feminine hygiene products and diapers from state sales tax.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB519
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to permit cadets the Mountaineer Challenge Academy; to enroll in accredited virtual instructional courses online or to attend accredited courses, in person, in order to obtain a West Virginia Education Information System Number (WVEIS#), from the state board of education.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB52
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to bail bondsmen in criminal cases.This section is new; therefore,
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB520
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to enact an informed consent for vaccinations law.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB521
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to require that whenever a county board enters into an extracurricular assignment agreement with bus operators and the bus operators are compensated during days the bus runs are not made, any special needs bus aides who have entered into an extracurricular assignment agreement to ride the buses and be available to assist student riders shall on those days be assigned to a school, assigned alternate duties at the school, and be paid at their normal rate of pay under the agreement for that day.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB522
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Refer
2/7/24
The purpose of this bill is to change the procedure for citations issued by the county litter control officer.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB523
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to require public schools to notify parents when dispensing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides a definition.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB524
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, or renaming, of any statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, or plaque which is located on public property and has been erected for, or named, or dedicated in honor of certain historical military, labor, civil rights, and Native American events, figures, and organizations; to prohibit any person from preventing the governmental entity having responsibility for maintaining the items, structures, or areas from taking proper measures to protect, preserve, care for, repair, or restore the items, structures, or areas.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB525
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the responsibility of the Governor to fill a vacancy in the state legislature. The bill provides a process for the selection of three legally qualified persons to fill a vacancy in the office of state senator or House of Delegates, allows for virtual candidate interviews where more than three candidates apply, and clarifies the interview process. It also provides that a party county chairman appoint a subcommittee to act as vacancy committee where a senate or delegate district is wholly within one county.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB526
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to verify the legal employment status of all persons who come into their employ and to report their employment to the appropriate governmental agencies; providing definitions; requiring use of E-Verify, the electronic verification of federal employment authorization program of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996; and providing that unauthorized workers employment prohibited.