As of 3 p.m., Saturday, February 20th, 2016, the 39th day of the second session of the 82nd Legislature, 662 bills have been introduced in the Senate. Of those, 133 of the bills have passed and have been sent to the House for further consideration.
Senate Bill 10 (Creating Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act) would prohibit any person from performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion unless the woman has a condition that necessitated the abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or serious risk of physical impairment of a major bodily function.
Senate Bill 16 (Providing tax credit for providing broadband service to unserved areas) would allow broadband providers to receive a tax credit for bringing broadband services to unserved areas in West Virginia. Any eligible taxpayer can receive a credit against the corporate net income tax imposed for providing broadband service to a location in the amount of $500 for each location.
Senate Bill 54 (Altering how tax is collected on homeowners’ associations) would exempt membership dues, fees and assessments paid to a homeowners’ association by a member from the tax imposed if the dues, fees and assessments are for the purpose of permitting or funding the homeowners’ associations’ payment of common expenses when acting in its representative capacity for its members.
Senate Bill 105 (Creating Tim Tebow Act allowing nonpublic school student participate in SSAC member school athletics) would allow students instructed at home or enrolled in a private church or parochial school, who do not attend a school that is a member of the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to participate in extracurricular athletics or activities at a school that is a SSAC member.
Senate Bill 272 (Allowing investigators from Attorney General’s office to carry concealed weapons) would allow investigators designated by the Attorney General to carry a firearm in the course of performing their official duties.
Senate Bill 283 (Creating crime when fire is caused by operation of a clandestine drug laboratory) would find any person who operates a clandestine drug laboratory and causes any dwelling, outbuilding, building or structure to be burned is guilty of a felony.
Senate Bill 293 (Neighborhood Investment Program Act) would reauthorize the act until July 1, 2021. The act deals with reducing frequency of required project transferee reports, reducing number of required advisory board meetings, reducing required number of West Virginia Development Office reports to the board, eliminating guidance on what a community based project is when the board is valuating a project, removing requirement that Tax Commissioner annually publish addresses of taxpayers who slain the credit, and reducing frequency of program assessments by the director.
Senate Bill 298 (Allowing restaurants, private clubs and wineries sell alcoholic beverages on Sundays) would allow restaurants, private clubs, distilleries, mini-distilleries and wineries to sell and serve alcohol beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays
Senate Bill 315 (Providing for construction of statewide fiber optic broadband infrastructure network) would create a separate infrastructure fund for a broadband middle mile infrastructure being built in the state. Certain agencies would be required to apply for grant funds in furtherance of broadband middle mile infrastructure projects.
Senate Bill 404 (Removing prohibition on billing persons for testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases) would allow the billing for testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases done by the state or local public health agencies. It would also require magistrate a circuit courts to order testing of individuals accused of certain sex crimes.
Senate Bill 462 (Reducing deposit of excess lottery proceeds into WV Infrastructure Fund) would deposit $30 million to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund beginning July 1, 2016.
Senate Bill 504 (Relating to confidentiality of juvenile records) would generally keep a recorded interview of a minor in a criminal or abuse or neglect case confidential and exempt from disclosure.
Senate Bill 529 (Making certain sport and educational fantasy games lawful) would prevent nothing in the code to prohibit the offering of or participation in fantasy games. Also, nothing in the code or in any regulation, rule, ordinance or other law shall be deemed or construed to provide or impose criminal penalties or sanctions of any kind for offering or participating in fantasy games.
