The Legislature moved quickly to complete action on eight items put forth by the Governor during the first Special Session of 2018.
House Bill 101 reestablishes the Division of Culture and History as the Department of Arts, Culture and History. Under the legislation that passed Tuesday, the current commissioner of culture and history will become the curator of arts, culture and history. The curator will report directly to the governor.
The Legislature also completed action on House Bill 102, which deals with death benefits for families of firefighters killed in the line of duty. This bill makes a larger death benefit retroactively effective to Jan. 1, to aid the families of Pratt volunteer firefighters who passed away in a crash as they were responding to a fatal accident on the West Virginia Turnpike in March.
The other six items completed today were a combination of supplemental appropriations and bills to provide technical cleanup for recently-passed bills from the 2018 Regular Session.
