Today the Senate honored the lives of two former colleagues who recently passed this week.
Ralph Williams, a former Senator from Greenbrier County, served 16 years and chaired such committees as Finance, Banking and Insurance and Natural Resources.
Kathy Lark, a former secretary, ran for House of Delegates at one point in time and was affectionately known as “Queen of the Secretaries.”
Several Senators spoke in their honor.
10 bills were also introduced today, including Senate Bill 492, which would maximize federal funding for Medicaid by establishing a hospital Medicaid upper payment level program for a two-year plus period and increase the health care provider tax imposed on gross receipts of providers of certain eligible acute care hospitals. Additionally, Senate Bill 494, which would provide additional protections for state forests and other public lands where timbering operations are conducted
The following committees will meet Monday, February 14:
Military – 10 a.m. – 208W
Natural Resources – 1 p.m. – 208W
Pensions – 2 p.m. – 451M
Agriculture – 2 p.m. – 451M
The Senate will reconvene Monday, February 14 at 11 a.m.
