West Virginia 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5037
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to establish the E-cigarette and E-cigarette Liquid Directory. The bill requires all manufacturers to obtain marketing authorization from the United States Food and Drug Administration before engaging in consumer sales in West Virginia. Manufacturers must also apply to the State Tax Commissioner and State Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner and obtain approval from such agencies to be listed on the directory before engaging in consumer sales. Finally, the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner and the Tax Commissioner shall have joint regulatory enforcement authority over the directory.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5038
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the authority of state institutions of higher education to enter into agreements and contractual relationships with one or more corporations formed by the state institution of higher education for purposes of fostering research and economic development efforts.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5039
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Refer
1/31/24
Engrossed
2/26/24
Refer
2/29/24
Refer
2/29/24
The purpose of this bill is to grant the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles jurisdiction over license revocation proceedings for the civil offense of refusing a secondary chemical test.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5040
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to create the Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement Program.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5041
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to guarantee the right to life to all human beings and to provide definitions.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5042
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to repeal the article creating mandatory state inspections of motor vehicles.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5043
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Engrossed
2/23/24
Refer
2/29/24
Refer
2/29/24
The purpose of this bill is to revise and/or establish requirements, prohibitions and regulation of foreign principals or agents of foreign principals, lobbying by or on behalf of such foreign principals or their agents, and to establish criminal liabilities and fines for violations of the requirements applicable to such foreign principals or their agents.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5044
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to amend the statute relating to cruelty to animals. The bill provides definitions of "food", "water", "shelter", and "treatment". It provides specifics for tethering an animal. The bill includes for seizure of an animal for violations in addition to increasing criminal penalties. Finally, the bill provides that a person in violation of this statute for a second time shall be added to a state-wide, publicly available, do not adopt or sell registry.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5045
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Engrossed
2/5/24
Enrolled
2/13/24
Passed
3/1/24
Chaptered
4/22/24
The purpose of this bill is to provide further assurances to the United States Environmental Protection Agency regarding the State of West Virginia's application for primary enforcement authority over underground carbon dioxide sequestration programs in the State of West Virginia.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5046
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to remove the reporting of assessments and portfolio reviews to county boards of home schooled children.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5047
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to implement changes in the West Virginia Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act recommended by the West Virginia Legislature's Post Audit Division to facilitate compliance with state and federal mining and reclamation laws to assure that bonding and reclamation requirements are adequate to assure that post mining reclamation is completed and paid for by coal mining operators and does not become a financial liability to state taxpayers; requiring greater review of stability of special reclamation fund; revising bonding requirements to require the bond be set for actual reclamation costs; providing conditions upon bonding companies to assure viability of the special reclamation fund; requiring coordination between the Tax Department and the Department of Environmental Projection to assure accuracy in reporting and correct payments into the surface mining special reclamation fund; and requiring that mining operations keep payments to the special reclamation fund current as a condition for receiving and retaining a mining permit.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5048
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to remove the cap on the number of gas and other type wells for which operators are required to pay annual oversight fees.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5049
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
The purpose of this bill is to tighten the transfer-tax provisions and remove the loopholes that are being used to evade the payment of transfer taxes.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5050
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
This purpose of this bill is to authorize legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding Guidelines for Employing and Evaluating Presidents, Higher Education Adult Part-Time Student (HEAPS) Grant Program, West Virginia Providing Real Opportunities for Maximizing In-State Student Excellence (PROMISE) Scholarship Program, Dual Enrollment Pilot Program, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Scholarship Program, Higher Education Grant Program, and Nursing Scholarship Program; to authorize legislative rules for the Council for Community and Technical College Education regarding Higher Education Accountability System, Dual Enrollment Pilot Program, Initial Authorization of Degree-Granting Institutions, and Tuition and Fees; and repealing the Council for Community and Technical College Education's rule regarding Accountability System.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia House Bill HB5051
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Refer
2/2/24
The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit against the state corporate net income tax and the state personal income tax for expenditures related to the operation of existing employer-provided or sponsored childcare facilities.