The Senate convened at 11 a.m.
The Senate refused to concur with the House’s amendments and requested the House recede its amendments to the following bills:
The Senate concured with the House’s amendments and passed the following bills which are now awaiting action by the Governor:
S. B. 152 – Budget Bill – was passed unanimously and sent to the House for further consideration.
S. B. 633 – Expiring funds from Insurance Commission Fund and appropriating funds to Consolidated Medical Services Fund – was passed unanimously and ordered to the House for further consideration.
S. B. 634 – Adding, increasing, and decreasing appropriations from General Revenue to DHHR – was passed unanimously and ordered to the House for further consideration.
H. B. 2028 – Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state – was passed unanimously and is now awaiting action by the Governor.
H. B. 4214 – Increasing penalties for unlawfully possessing or digging ginseng – was passed unanimously and sent to the House to concur.
H. B. 4276 – Allowing magistrates to grant work release privileges – was passed unanimously and is now awaiting action by the Governor.
H. B. 4336 – Updating the schedule of controlled substances – was passed unanimously and sent to the House to concur.
H. B. 4376 – Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Health and Human Resources – was passed unanimously and is now awaiting action by the Governor.
H. B. 4379 – Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of the existing appropriations to the Department of Transportation – was passed unanimously and is now awaiting action by the Governor.
H. B. 4401 – Relating to the registration of business – was passed unanimously and sent to the House to concur.
H. B. 4453 – Relating to judicial review of contested cases under the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Board of Review – was passed unanimously and is now awaiting action by the Governor.
H. B. 4529 – Relating to oath by municipal official certifying list of delinquent business and occupation taxes – was passed unanimously and is now awaiting action by the Governor.
H. B. 4571 – Relating to the final day of filing announcements of candidates for a political office – was passed unanimously and sent to the House to concur.
H. B. 4618 – Relating to the authority of the Division of Protective Services – was passed unanimously and sent to the House to concur.
H. B. 4627 – Relating to providing a limitation on the eminent domain authority of a municipal park board – was passed unanimously and sent to the House to concur.
Bills on Second Reading:
- S. B. 635
- H. B. 2008
- H. B. 2655 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 2799 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 2869 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 3089
- H. B. 4002 was amended on the floor
- H. B. 4006 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4009 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4036
- H. B. 4156 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4157
- H. B. 4166
- H. B. 4187 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4217
- H. B. 4251 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4270 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4338 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4350 was advanced to third reading witht he right to amend.
- H. B. 4389 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4392 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4394 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4424 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4428 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4431 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4447 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4465
- H. B. 4486
- H. B. 4524 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4558
- H. B. 4603 was amended on the floor.
- H. B. 4628
- H. B. 4629 was amended on the floor.
The Senate is in recess until 6:30 p.m.
Committees meeting today:
Conference Committee on H. B. 2595 immediately after the floor session in the House vestibule
Health and Human Resources at 4:15 451M
Judiciary following the Health Committee in 208W
Committees meeting tomorrow:
Conference Committee for H. B. 4186 at 9:30 a.m. in the President’s Conference Room
Transportation and Infrastructure at 10 a.m. 451M
Update 8:55 p.m.
The Senate reconvened from recess at 8 p.m.
The senate took committee reports and the following bills were taken up for immediate consideration and read for the second time. The bills were advanced to Thrid Reading with the right to amend.
H. B. 4607 was read for a first time.
The body recieved the conference committee report for H. B. 2995.
The Senate is adjourned until tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Committees meeting tomorrow:
Transportation and Infrastructure at 9 a.m. 451M
