West Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB104
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the sheriff's commission compensation for the job duty of tax collector for the county and fix the amount at $15,000.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB105
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
3/24/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
3/26/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of 62 with eight or more years of service.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB106
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security to assist with border security in the state of Texas.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB107
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to balance the interests of current landowners and future landowners to ensure surface, minerals, and forest land may be developed for future economic gain by limiting use restrictions for forest carbon capture and sequestration to a maximum term of 20 years. The bill requires parties to current and new carbon offset agreements to register with the State Tax Department. The bill requires reports by Division of Forestry and the State Tax Department. The bill authorizes the disclosure of information between the Tax Commissioner and Division of Forestry. The bill imposes excise tax on receipts derived from carbon offset agreements. The bill sets forth reporting requirements. The bill provides an effective date. The bill specifies application of West Virginia Tax Procedure and Administration Act and West Virginia Tax Crimes and Penalties Act. The bill authorizes promulgation of rules. The bill provides legislative findings and declarations. The bill provides that any covenant, restriction, condition, easement, contract, lease, deed, agreement, option, or other governing document, which is executed or recorded after the effective date, which effectively prohibits or restricts the development of land, minerals, and the harvesting of timber for the purposes of forest carbon capture, carbon offset, and carbon sequestration is void and unenforceable, unless said covenant, restriction, condition, easement, contract, lease, deed, agreement, option, or other governing document is for a maximum term of 20 years. The bill provides that options to renew or continue such arrangements beyond the initial maximum term of 20 years shall be valid only if the consideration is required to be renegotiated to exercise the option.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB108
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary private school immunization.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB109
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/7/25
The purpose of this bill is to create a program to reward citizens for information on drug trafficking; to create an excise tax on opioid antagonists and test strips; create a special revenue account; to establish a program for providing rewards for pertinent information; placing the program with the State Police; giving the Secretary of Homeland Security jurisdiction over the program; set out privacy requirements; providing exclusions; authorizing funding; requiring an application; exempting the reward from taxation and other legal processes.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB11
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to prevent oil and gas wells from being orphaned on surface owner's land with no responsible driller or operator with the resources to plug the well. The bill:Does not make any changes in bonding requirements for wells that are not producing in paying quantities.Requires new wells to either post a single well, full cost plugging bond, or to start at the beginning of production to set aside money in an interest bearing account in the State Treasurer's office to plug the well at the end of its life.Requires transferred wells either to post a single well, full cost plugging bond or to start setting aside money in an interest bearing account in the State Treasurer's office to plug the well.Requires existing wells that are producing in paying quantities to set aside 15 cents per MCF in the State Treasurer's office to plug the well.Requires operators to plug wells that were in violation of the law before that operator transferred the well to another operator if the new owner of the well does not plug the well.Allows the owners of the surface where the well is located to defer the plugging of the well as long as that surface owner owns the land, and as long as the well is not causing environmental etc. problems.Requires an operator drilling a new well to plug all orphaned and abandoned wells in the well's drainage area, and authorizes that driller to recover the cost from any responsible operator of the well.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB110
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to create a Medicaid state plan amendment. The bill provides that the Bureau of Medical Services shall seek a state plan amendment. The bill provides that the state plan amendment provides for cost sharing and/or premiums for certain populations. The bill allows that the state plan amendment may provide for a demonstration project. Finally, the bill provides for an effective date.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB111
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to require that free feminine hygiene products be provided to female prisoners in all jails, regional jails or state correctional facilities and female juveniles in juvenile detention.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB112
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the acceptance of illegal ballots cast in any election and to provide criminal penalties for intentionally and knowingly accepting an absentee ballot that does not comply with state requirements for absentee voting.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB113
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to establish responsibility for reimbursement of training costs of law-enforcement employees who leave original jurisdiction of employment for employment in any other law-enforcement agency in this state.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB114
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to mandate lending institutions who conduct five or more transactions annually to utilize the Division of Motor Vehicles electronic lien system to perfect or release security interest in a vehicle.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB115
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to establish a tax credit for physicians who are new graduates and locate in West Virginia to practice medicine for at least six years.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB116
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to increase the coverage limit and to require the Bureau for Medical Services to require its Medicaid managed care organizations to provide education to Medicaid enrollees regarding the availability of benefits provided in this section beginning on July 1, 2025, and to require reporting.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB117
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/10/25
Refer
3/10/25
The purpose of this bill is to permit physicians to be exempt from specified traffic laws when responding to an emergency call. This proposed bill provides that the physician must continue to exercise due care and provides for rulemaking.