The Senate Committee on Government Organization has approved five bills to be reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that they pass.
SB 441 would establish the municipal home rule pilot program as a permanent program, allow all municipalities to participate in the program and allow municipalities who institute a sales and use tax pursuant to the program to administer and collect the tax through their own municipal collector’s offices.
SB 481 would remove required ninety-day waiting periods for municipal court notifications to the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Executive Director of the West Virginia Municipal League, Lisa Dooley spoke in support of the bill.
SB 350 would allow certain licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist applicants to be issued a temporary permit so the applicant can practice during the application and testing process.
SB 491 would allow litter control officers who are trained and certified as law-enforcement officers and whose certification is active to have the same authority as any other law-enforcement officers to enforce all litter laws.
HB 2347 would allow schools licensed to provide barber, cosmetology and related training to hold theory classes and clinical classes at different locations.
The committee voted in favor of putting HB 2348 on layover until a future meeting, since many members said they felt that there were important details left out of the bill that needed to be addressed.
The bill would eliminate any requirement that class hours of students be consecutive when studying professions regulated by the board of Barbers and Cosmetologists.
WV Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists Executive Director Charlie Persinger voiced his support for the bill’s passage.
The committee is expected to meet next on Thursday, March 9 at 2 p.m. in 208W.
