Rep. Sean Hornbuckle
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Increasing the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price index [HB-2969]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Inflation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Economic Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price index.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tim Miley
Filed For Introduction on 03/13/2017
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Relating to public school education in dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention [HB-2974]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
This purpose of this bill is to ensure that public schools integrate age-appropriate components of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence into their existing programs and curricula.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Fleischauer
Filed For Introduction on 03/13/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection [HB-2951]
[Air Quality ]
[Environmental ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Water ]
The purpose of this bill is to. require the Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health to conduct a public health impact statement assessing the health impact of any new air or water rule, or modification of an existing air or water rule, proposed by the Department of Environmental Protection to ensure that no air or water rule is promulgated without substantiating independent medical or scientific evidence that there is no detrimental public health impact from the rule. The bill also requires that the findings in the impact statement be incorporated
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shawn Fluharty
Filed For Introduction on 03/13/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Exempting certain contracts between the Department of Health and Human Resources and West Virginia University, Marshall University or the School for Osteopathic Medicine from state purchasing requirements [HB-3006]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
The purpose of this bill is to exempt certain contracts between the Department of Health and Human Resources and West Virginia University or Marshall University from state purchasing requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Shawn Fluharty
House Message Received on 04/03/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating to public school education assessment of students for dyslexia and dyscalculia [HB-3023]
[Education ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to specifying State Board of Education and local school boards responsibilities relating to students with dyslexia or dyscalculia.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Baldwin
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Requesting Congress to enact legislation to allow any honorably discharged military reservist regardless of whether he or she was called to active duty to have access to a veterans hospital health services and that veterans hospitals determine fees based upon ability to pay. [HCR-85]
[Healthcare ]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
[Public Health ]
Requesting Congress to enact legislation to allow any honorably discharged military reservist regardless of whether he or she was called to active duty to have access to a veterans hospital health services and that veterans hospitals determine fees based upon ability to pay.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Fleischauer
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Providing that a person when being attacked in a place that is not his or her home should retreat instead of using deadly force [HB-3017]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
This purpose of this bill is to provide that a person when being attacked in a place that is not his or her home should retreat instead of using deadly force when deadly force is not necessary.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Fleischauer
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating to the legalization of marijuana [HB-3035]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to legalize the manufacture, sale and possession of marijuana and establish a regulatory program for growing, selling and testing of marijuana sold in West Virginia.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Hornbuckle
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating to insurance coverage for breast cancer screening [HB-3021]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish insurance provisions required relating to breast cancer screenings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Fleischauer
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Stay in State tax credit [HB-3068]
[Taxes ]
[Student Loans ]
[Education ]
[Property Tax ]
[Economic Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish the “Stay in the state Act” tax credit that allows residents of this state who remain in state after graduating with an undergraduate or associate degree from a state institution to be granted a tax credit for the total cost of tuition and interest for student loans used to obtain their degree; this tax credit is against personal property tax in West Virginia and is awarded over a ten-year period; employers are also allowed to claim the credit for employees that qualify for the credit; and in-state high
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Baldwin
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017