Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024

House Passes Seven Bills Today

Today the House of Delegates passed seven bills today. 

HB 2526 adds drugs to Schedules I, II, IV, and V of controlled substances. 

HB 2554 would transfer the West Virginia Contractor Act from administration and regulation by the Division of Labor to regulation under the provisions of professions and occupations in chapter thirty of code. 

HB 2571 would require the State Department of Education and the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to jointly select language developmental milestonesfrom existing standardized norms for purposed of developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf or hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stage towards English literacy. 

HB 2675 designs the placement of nonpartisan judicial offices on the primary election ballot. 

HB 2706 would authorize legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding the West Virginia Higher Education Grant Program, Providing Real Opportunities for Maximizing In-state Student Excellence (PROMISE), Research Trust Fund Program, and Annual Reauthorization of Degree-Granting Institutions and to authorize legislative rules for the Council for Community and Technical College Education regarding the Annual Reauthorization of Degree-Granting Institutions, and Business, Occupational and Trade Schools.

HB 2726 would authorize home incarceration officers to arrest participants for violating the terms and conditions of his or her supervision with or without a court order.

HB 2731 would clarify that only civil actions with controversial amounts exceeding $7,500 must be heard in circuit court, except in actions relating to real estate installment sales contracts or actions confined exclusively by the Constitution to some other tribunal.

Committee Meetings Today

Judiciary: 12:45 p.m. in 410M

Committee Meetings Monday

Judiciary: Public Hearing on 2811 at 8 a.m. in House Chamber; meeting to following in 410M

Finance: Public Hearing at 9 a.m. in House Chamber; meeting at 1 p.m. in 460M

Higher Education Sub Committee: 9:30 a.m. in 434M

Roads and Transportation: 1 p.m. in 215E

Health and Human Resources: Public Hearing at on SB 347 at 2 p.m. in 215E

Education: 2:30 p.m. in 434M

Gov. Org.: 3 p.m. in 215E

The House is adjourned until 11 a.m. Monday. 

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