Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection [HB-2951]
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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HB-2951: Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection
Sponsored by: Rep. Shawn Fluharty
Filed For Introduction on 03/13/2017
You have voted HB-2951: Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection.
HB-3006: 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
Sponsored by: Rep. Shawn Fluharty
House Message Received on 04/03/2017
You have voted HB-3006: 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.
HCR-85: 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
You have voted HCR-85: 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..
You have voted HB-3017: Providing that a person when being attacked in a place that is not his or her home should retreat instead of using deadly force.
Relating to the legalization of marijuana [HB-3035]
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.
HB-3035: Relating to the legalization of marijuana
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Hornbuckle
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017
Stay in State tax credit [HB-3068]
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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HB-3068: Stay in State tax credit
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Baldwin
Filed For Introduction on 03/14/2017