The Senate held a brief floor session this morning to announce the time for the conference committee meeting that will review the budget bill, House Bill 2012.
The conference committee will meet today at 4:30 p.m. in the House Finance Committee Room, 460M.
The Senate will reconvene tomorrow at 5 p.m.
This evening, the Senate held a brief floor session to announce the time for the conference committee meeting to review the budget bill, House Bill 2012.
The conference committee will meet today at 5 p.m. in the Senate Finance Committee Room, 451M.
The Senate will reconvene tomorrow at 11 a.m.
This morning the House met in a brief session and presented a citation to the Department of Health and Human Resources’ West Virginia Family Planning Program. The citation honored the program for its devotion of making contraceptive supplies and services available to persons who want and need them but are unable to afford them without government assistance.
The conference committee on the budget bill, House Bill 2012, will meet today at 5 p.m. in the Senate Finance Committee Room, 451M.
The House will reconvene at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
This afternoon, the House received an executive message that extended the budget session an additional three days through this Friday, March 18.
The conference committee on the budget bill, House Bill 2012, will meet with the Senate today at 4:30 p.m. for an organizational meeting in the House Finance Committee Room, 460M.
The House will reconvene at noon tomorrow.
A second conference committee meeting will be held at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow evening in the Senate Finance Committee Room, 451M.
This morning, the Senate received an executive message, which extends the budget session an additional three days through Friday, March 18.
The conference committee on the budget bill, House Bill 2012, will meet today at 4:30 p.m. for an organizational meeting in the House Finance Committee Room, 460M.
The Senate will reconvene tomorrow at 4:30 p.m.
At 12 a.m. Sunday morning the 80th Legislature’s 60-day session came to a close and today will mark the beginning of the extended budget session for House Bill 2012, which sets forth the legislative budget and supplementary appropriation bills–making allocations of public money out of the treasury.
Generally, as legislation moves through the committee and legislative process, the House and the Senate may find themselves unable to reach an agreement on every provision considered on a bill. When this occurs, and neither body will recede or retract its provisions to a bill, the legislation is referred to a conference committee. A conference committee is comprised of members from both bodies, with an equal number from each, and are formed to resolve the differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill. If a compromise is reached, each body will either pass or reject the conference committee bill.
For the budget bill, a conference committee was appointed on the final day of regular session. The conferees appointed from the House include Delegates White (D-Mingo), T. Campbell (D-Greenbrier), M. Poling (D-Barbour), Kominar (D-Mingo), Perdue (D-Wayne), Anderson (R-Wood), and Evans (R-Grant). Appointed Senate conferees include Senators Prezioso (D-Marion), D. Facemire (D-Braxton), Plymale (D-Wayne), McCabe (D-Kanawha), Unger (D-Berkeley), Stollings (D-Boone), and Hall (R-Putnam).
The House will convene today at 4 p.m. and the Senate will convene at 5 p.m.
Update
The House of Delegates and state Senate convened briefly for the extended budget session Monday afternoon and then adjourned.
The Senate will reconvene 11 a.m. tomorrow, March 15.
The House will reconvene 4 p.m. tomorrow, March 15.
This evening ends the first regular session of the 80th Legislature for the Senate and House of Delegates.
In the final chamber sessions, the Legislature completed 19 pieces of legislation. Among those bills sent to the governor was House Bill 2986, which will clarify those allowed and prohibited fires times and seasons. The bill will also establish an industrial permit and fee, as well as set forth fire control requirements and establish criminal and civil penalties.
Additionally completed was Senate Bill 192, which will permit suppliers of gasoline or other motor fuels to sell products to distributers at a price that does not exceed the average of the Oil Price Information Service’s average wholesale rack price.
A total of 190 bills completed legislation this session. Of those, 102 originated in the House and 88 originated in the Senate.
The House is adjourned until 4:00 p.m. on Monday and the Senate until 5:00 p.m. Monday evening.
This evening, the Senate met and completed seven pieces of legislation. Of those bills, one was the highly discussed autism bill.
After a long journey, House Bill 2693 was officially completed in the Senate tonight. This bill will provide for autism spectrum disorders to fall under insurance coverage. This bill was sent to the Governor and is awaiting his signature.
House Bill 2639 will authorize the Board of Physical Therapy to define a legislative rule relating to General Provisions for Athletic Trainers.
Additionally, Senate Bill 193 was completed as well. This bill will expand the responsibilities of the law-enforcement training sub-committee and rename it the law-enforcement professional standards sub-committee.
Senate Bill 488 will revise the West Virginia HIV testing statute to conform with the most recent recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This bill was sent to the Governor for consideration.
The Senate also amended the House’s amendment to Senate Bill 616 and then sent it back to the House for it’s further consideration.
Additionally, the Senate refused to recede from it’s version of Senate Bill 614 and House Bill 2513 and sent requests to the House to ask it to recede instead.
The remaining pieces of legislation completed are available through the link below.
The Senate will stand in brief recess until 11 p.m.
The House reconvened this evening at 8:45 p.m. to meet for the fourth floor session of the day.
In the House, House Bill 2693, which will require insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders, was passed to the sounds of rejoicing in the chamber gallery.
Additionally 25 other bills completed legislation during session, including House Bill 2888, which will strengthen the protections for whistleblowers of unsafe working conditions in mines.
Additionally, the House passed six bills and communicated them to the Senate for further consideration. Among bills passed was House Bill 2362, which would increase penalties for financial exploitation of an elderly person or incapacitated adult
The House will stand in recess until 11:00 p.m.
The House reconvened this evening to meet for the third floor session of the day.
Seven bills completed legislation during session, including Senate Bill 436, which will provide continuing of personal income tax adjustment to the gross income of certain retirees receiving pensions from defined pension plans that terminated and are being paid a reduced maximum benefit guarantee.
Additionally, the House passed 11 bills and communicated them to the Senate for further consideration. Among bills passed was Senate Bill 465, which would enact the Marcellus Gas and Manufacturing Development Act of 2011–encouraging and facilitating the development of oil and gas wells and the downstream uses of natural gas in this state and economic development in this state associated with production and various downstream uses.
The House will stand in recess until 8:45 p.m.
