Boards And Commissions
West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Permitting Board of Occupational Therapy to require criminal history record checks [SB-462]
The purpose of this bill is to provide the Occupational Therapy Board with the ability to require criminal background check for applicants, requiring rulemaking, and to remove a duplicative provisions related to special volunteer licenses and immunity.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the waiver of qualified official immunity. [HB-483]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to waive qualified official immunity as a defense for employees or agents of public postsecondary education institutions that are not law enforcement officers; amend KRS 164.6949 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-434]
Amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from raising tuition for a postsecondary education institution more than 5% a year for Kentucky resident students and 7% a year for non-Kentucky resident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled Kentucky resident student; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase in tuition or fees to be approved before March 1; amend KRS 164.7874 to require a private postsecondary institution to have a voting student
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to chaplains in schools. [HB-454]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to require school districts and public charter schools to employ a chaplain or accept a chaplain as a volunteer; set eligibility for employed and volunteer chaplains; require that employed and volunteer chaplains submit background checks; amend KRS 160.380 to include a volunteer chaplain as an adult who is required to have a background check; provide that the Act may be cited as the Teachers and School Chaplains Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education. [HB-484]
Amend KRS 164.321 to conform the size of the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky boards to the size and authority of the governing boards of all other state universities; replace the other state universities' boards of regents with boards of trustees and designate the board of trustees as the successor board; remove language regarding KCTCS; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to create the KCTCS board of regents; amend KRS 164.290 to bring the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville's establishment language into
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to students. [HB-440]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to soil and water conservation. [HB-487]
Amend KRS 262.095 to add gender neutral language.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Increasing penalties and parole eligibility requirements for homicide [SB-136]
The purpose of this bill is to modify the parole eligibility for a person serving a sentence for first degree murder.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Modifying composition of Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board [SB-238]
The purpose of this bill is to is to increase the composition of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board to 11 members, add additional county commissioners, and increase meetings to four times a year.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council [SB-86]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council; establishing findings and purpose; establishing membership of advisory council; setting forth subjects to be addressed by advisory council in reporting; providing for selection of chair and vice chair; establishing quorum; providing that administrative support be provided by the Higher Education Policy Commission; and requiring reporting of findings and recommendations by December 31, 2025.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Clarifying when funds accumulated by boards may be transferred to General Revenue Fund [SB-231]
The purpose of this bill is to provide clarification regarding when funds accumulated by boards may be transferred to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury and to limit the amount of excess funds that may be transferred to the General Revenue Fund in a single fiscal year.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Extending time frame for pharmacies to register from annually to biennially [SB-291]
The purpose of this bill is to amend the timeframe for registration from annually to biennially.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Clarifying when excess funds accumulated by boards are to be transferred to General Revenue Fund [SB-140]
The purpose of this bill is to provide clarification as to when excess funds accumulated by boards are to be transferred to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To modify local permitting deadlines for permits, licenses, variances, or other types of approval from a governing body or planning commission of a municipality or county [HB-2189]
The purpose of this bill is to modify local permitting deadlines for local governing bodies or planning commissions
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports [HB-2090]
The purpose of this bill is to increase certain fees collected by county sheriffs and add these increased amounts to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement Fund to provide modest increases in benefits for retired deputies.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to adding an athletic trainer to the Board of Physical Therapy [HB-2172]
The purpose of this bill is to add a solely licensed athletic trainer to the board.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Allowing volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases [HB-2170]
The purpose of this bill is to allow volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases associated with the State Auditor's West Virginia Checkbook fiscal reporting system.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Reducing the term of office for Berkeley County Commisioners from six years to four years [HB-2091]
The purpose of this bill is to direct the County Commission of Berkeley County to hold a referendum election at the next general election to change the term of office for county commissioners from six years to four years.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating generally to initiating a West Virginia legislative redistricting commission. [HB-2089]
The purpose of this bill is to create an independent redistricting commission for the Legislature.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school transportation and declaring an emergency. [HB-430]
Amend KRS 189.540 to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to require regular instruction of pupils in school bus safety; allow a school district to obtain an exemption from any school bus safety instruction requirement if the district transports 48 or fewer pupils in the district's gross average daily attendance of transported pupils; require exempted districts to develop and implement a school bus safety instruction policy.