The West Virginia House of Delegates advanced several bills, including the following:
Senate Bill 899 would permit teachers who have worked 15 years in their school setting to be certified to work as school principals.
Senate Bill 947 would allow the State Registrar to provide copies of birth and death certificates to homeless individuals under 18.
Senate Bill 985 would enhance registration and enforcement requirements for kratom products.
Senate Bill 1033 would allow the Commissioner of Agriculture to register, inspect, and regulate apiaries, bee equipment, and measures against honeybee pests. The commissioner will inform beekeepers and anyone who manages bees and apiaries in West Virginia on beekeeping, while cooperating with other states and federal agencies.
The bill would also limit when legal actions can be brought against agriculture operations, protecting farms from nuisance claims if they comply with state and federal regulations and follow commonly accepted agriculture practices.
303 bills have completed legislative action, including the following:
House Bill 4412 would hold websites and apps legally responsible if they allow minors to access pornography or other sexual material defined in the bill as harmful to minors.
If more than one-third of a site’s content includes sexual material harmful to minors, the site would be required to verify that users are 18 or older using a government ID, digital ID, or another approved age-verification system. This bill also lays out penalties and fines for violations of the bill, including, but not limited to, failing to verify someone’s age or irresponsible retention of data.
House Bill 5101 would create the Joanna Phillips Domestic Violence Prevention Act. This act would create and increase penalties for certain acts of domestic violence, in addition to changing bail requirements for domestic violence cases.
At the end of the night, House Bill 5537 was amended and sent to the Senate, but it could not complete action before the clock struck midnight.
The House is adjourned Sine Die.Â
