The Senate reconvened at 3 p.m. to receive one message from the House of Delegates.
House amended and passed Senate Bill 522, Creating Special Road Repair Fund in which the Senate refused to concur with the House Amendments to the proposed legislation, and requested that the House recede from their amendments.
The Senate suspended the Constitutional rule requiring a bill to be read on three separate days for two bill that were passed out of the Senate Committee on Finance earlier this afternoon.
Senate Bill 424 would appropriate $10 million of un-appropriated funds from Fiscal Year 2019 to the Governor’s Contingency Fund, and Senate Bill 435 would appropriate of $12.7 million from un-appropriated funds from Fiscal Year 2019 and re-appropriate them to the following:
- $3 million for Jim’s Dream Community in Schools
- $9.7 million for Jim’s Dream -Vocational Training
The Senate also passed 14 bills that were on third reading. Those bills include the following:
- House Bill 2807: Creating an additional modification to the West Virginia adjusted gross income of shareholders of S corporations engaged in banking
- House Bill 2968: Adding remote service unit to the definition of customer bank communications terminals
- House Bill 2947: Relating generally to telemedicine prescription practice requirements and exceptions
- House Bill 3131: Relating to providing salary adjustments to employees of the Department of Health and Human Resources
- House Bill 2674: Creating a student loan repayment program for a mental health provider
- House Bill 2770: Fairness in Cost-Sharing Calculation Act
- House Bill 2933: Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse resulting in injury
- House Bill 2540: Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish
- House Bill 3139: Relating to funding of the Public Employees Health Insurance Program
- House Bill 2665: Supplemental appropriation for PEIA Rainy Day Fee
- House Bill 2479: Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Act
- House Bill 2856: Relating to the administration of the operating fund of the securities division of the Auditor’s office
- House Bill 2845: Relating to apprenticeship programs
- House Bill 2490: Preventing proposing or enforcing rules that prevent recreational water facilities from making necessary upgrades
The Senate is currently in recess until 5 p.m.
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