West Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB7
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the crime of a desecration of a human body.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB70
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
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 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB700
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section relating to the effect on regular levy rates when an appraisal results in a tax increase and public hearings.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB701
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/13/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/2/25
The purpose of this bill is to reclassify forestry equipment as Class I property to provide tax benefits to forestry businesses by acknowledging forestry as a part of agriculture.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB702
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/19/25
The purpose of this bill is to require the Bureau for Family Assistance to increase the base rate paid to childcare providers and to study a performance-based model of incentive payments to increase quality and to provide reporting.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB703
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
The purpose of this bill is to allow the Supreme Court of Appeals to create pay scales for judicial support staff. This change will encourage employee recruitment and retention efforts and provide more clarity and consistency in pay structure based on job duties and educational requirements.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB704
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
The purpose of this bill is to allow use of a court reporter or approved electronic means to take reports of circuit court proceedings.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB705
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/26/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
3/26/25
The purpose of this bill allows the Board of Education promulgate rules for submission to the Legislature.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB706
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
The purpose of this bill is to bring the West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) under rulemaking review of the Legislature.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB707
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/26/25
Engrossed
3/29/25
Refer
3/31/25
Refer
3/31/25
The purpose of this bill is to increase payment for professional service provided to the West Virginia Birth-to-Three program by therapists and other professionals who are not employed by a state agency by 25 percent..
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB708
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
3/26/25
Engrossed
3/28/25
Refer
3/31/25
Refer
3/31/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide state mine inspectors with a $4,000 raise.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB709
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to repeal provisions of code that exempt the Department of Transportation, the Tax Division, and the Bureau for Social Services from the Division of Personnel.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB71
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
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 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB710
Introduced
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Engrossed
3/21/25
Refer
3/24/25
Refer
3/24/25
Enrolled
4/12/25
Passed
4/24/25
The purpose of this bill is to create a telehealth practice act for dentists.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB711
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
The purpose of this bill is to remove a prohibition against establishing additional trail systems within state parks and state forests.