West Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB415
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to public use of campgrounds in West Virginia State Parks and State Forests and campsites in State Rail Trails under the Division of Natural Resources.This section is new; therefore,
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB416
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special projects and grants for West Virginia State Parks, State Forests, and State Rail Trails under the Division of Natural Resources.This section is new; therefore,
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB417
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to prohibitions when hunting and trapping.This section is new; therefore,
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB418
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to general hunting.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB419
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special waterfowl hunting.This section is new; therefore,
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB42
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to reduce the number of days for which completion of employment in any one school year, substitute teachers, except retired teachers and other retired professional educators employed as substitutes, accrue seniority exclusively for the purpose of applying for employment as a permanent, full-time professional employee and for which that number of days or more of employment is prorated and vests as a fraction of the school year.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB420
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special fishing.This section is new; therefore,
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB421
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to catching and selling baitfish.This section is new; therefore,
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB422
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to falconry.This section is new; therefore,
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB423
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to require that all appropriations that exceed $1 million to any single private business entity must be brought as a stand-alone bill to both the House of Delegates and the Senate, prohibiting either the House of Delegates or the Senate or both the House of Delegates and the Senate from authorizing a series of appropriations of less than $1 million that combine to exceed $1 million to a single private business entity, setting a limit of $10 million on the annual balance of the Economic Development Promotion and Closing Fund, setting a limit of $100 million on the annual budget of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Investment Fund.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB424
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to establish the Restoring Sanity Act; prohibit a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned entities from providing instruction in, requiring instruction in, making part of a course, or requiring a statement or affirmation by any employee certain concepts; prohibit a state institution of higher education and an employee of a state institution of higher education from requiring a student or employee to take instruction in, or include in the curriculum of any required course, or require a statement or affirmation by any student or employee that certain concepts are factual and accurate or must be held as a belief of the student or employee; provide that county board and public charter school employees are not required to use student's preferred pronoun when referring to the student if the preferred pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; prohibit a state institution of higher education from establishing, sustaining, supporting, or staffing a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer or office; and declare the policy of the state that the administrations of state institutions of higher education, and their administrative units, be officially neutral with regard to certain widely contested opinions.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB425
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide for partisan elections of Supreme Court Justices, Intermediate Appeals Court Judges, Circuit Court Judges, Family Court Judges, and Magistrates.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB426
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to dissolve the Public Employees Insurance Agency and convert it to an employer-owned mutual insurance company.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB427
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/3/25
Refer
3/3/25
Enrolled
4/12/25
Passed
4/24/25
The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement that 14 or 15 year old obtain a work permit; establishing that employer seeking to hire a child 14 or older receive an age certificate from the commission prior to employing the child; providing commissioner the authority to issue age certificates for children ages 14 and over; and providing penalties for a person that issues an age certificate in violation of the article.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB428
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
The purpose of this bill is to create the Patrolman Cassie Marie Johnson Memorial Act and to provide for a death penalty; the bill provides for procedures and standards applicable thereto, and automatic review of the penalty, for commission of murder in the first degree. Procedures for carrying out the death sentence are established.