West Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB186
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to amend the witness fee rate in West Virginia to match the current federal rate.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB187
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide bonuses for unused days of personal leave for school personnel, including professional and service employees.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB188
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalty for voluntary manslaughter.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB189
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to allow testimony by one spouse regarding an offense of the other spouse against a child or grandchild.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB19
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from civil or criminal prosecution against persons using force, including deadly force, in defense of self, real and personal property. The bill also includes the use of force in defensive actions protecting self, real, and personal property of another person or in other defined situations, including when there is no duty to retreat. Persons prosecuted civilly or criminally for lawful use of this reasonable force are entitled to receive court costs, fees, and expenses resulting from their legal and lawful defensive actions.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB190
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to increase the retirement benefit multiplier of the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act from two and one-half percent to three percent of the member's final average salary multiplied by the member's years of credited service.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB191
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to change the awards and benefits to dependents of State Police officers who must take disability retirement to better match the awards and benefits of the dependents of State Police retirants who serve twenty years without disability retirement.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB192
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of sixty-two with eight or more years of service.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB193
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the amounts of deputy sheriff annual salary increases.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB194
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to modify the sentence and parole eligibility for murder in the second degree.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB195
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide reports on mental or physical disabilities, or disorders, to the Division of Motor Vehicles to determine an individual's medical competency to retain their driver's license. The bill also provides that this section shall be known as "McKayla, Miranda and Philip's Law".
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB196
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Enrolled
4/12/25
Passed
4/24/25
The purpose of this bill is to enhance the penalties for drug offenses and to match the federal drug offenses penalties.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB197
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Engrossed
3/29/25
Refer
3/31/25
Refer
3/31/25
The purpose of this bill is to limit persons required to pass appropriate West Virginia Board of Education approved basic skills and subject matter tests in the area for which licensure is being sought as a condition for the issuance of a professional teaching certificate.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB198
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Engrossed
3/3/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Enrolled
4/10/25
Passed
4/24/25
The purpose of this bill is to establish the criminal offenses of creating, producing, distributing, or possessing with intent to distribute artificial intelligence-created visual depictions of child pornography when no actual minor is depicted; to set forth findings; to define terms; to clarify that the visual depiction of a minor need not be of an actual person; and to establish criminal penalties.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB199
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Engrossed
3/10/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/11/25
Enrolled
4/3/25
Passed
4/15/25
The purpose of this bill is to address elementary behavior intervention and safety; to clarify that nothing in the bill be construed to conflict with certain federal laws; and to specify requirements applicable to when a grade kindergarten through six teacher in an elementary setting determines that the behavior of a student is violent, threatening, or intimidating toward staff or peers, or creates an unsafe learning environment, or impedes on other students' ability to learn in a safe environment.