The Judiciary Committee met this afternoon.
House Bill 4491 establishes a new legal and regulatory framework for drilling of injection wells and operation of facilities for the underground sequestration of injected carbon dioxide and for the state to pursue primacy authorization for oversight and enforcement of laws for underground carbon dioxide sequestration. The bill advances to the floor.
House Bill 4712 requires the prompt enrollment in payment plans for costs, fines, forfeitures, restitution, or penalties in circuit court and magistrate court and to limit the maximum length of payment plans to three years in magistrate court and five years in circuit court.
Senate Bill 447 provides for a $5,000 tax credit for nurses to WV personal income tax liabilities.
