Legislative Lineup

County Commissioners' Legislative Update - February 4, 2010

Week 3...

Congressman Rahall speaks to West Virginia County

Commissioners... County Commissioners from across the state had the opportunity to share meaningful dialogue with U. S. Rep. Nick Joe Rahall during the 2010 Legislative meeting of the County Commissioners’ Association of West Virginia.  (full story coming...)

Legislative Leadership spends time with County Commissioners at CCAWV Annual Leg Conference... 

Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, Speaker of the House Rick Thompson, Senate Finance Chairman Walt Helmick, Senate Judiciary Chairman Jeff Kessler, House Finance Chairman Harry Keith White, and House Judiciary Chairman Tim Miley round out thelist of esteemed legislative leadership that shared their thoughts and concerns for the State of West Virginia and its local county governments this past weekend at the County Commissioners’ Association of West Virginia’s legislative conference held in Charleston.  (full story coming...)

Great Conference...

The three day legislative conference was well attended and succeeded in providing relevant and timely information from multiple sources.  Commissioners were able to make capital visits on Monday morning and hosted a well-attended legislative reception on Monday evening for legislators, key staff, state agencies, and CCAWV partners and friends. To those commissioners who could not attend because of scheduling conflicts, you missed a great opportunity for a wealth of information and we missed you.  If you have questions, just call.

Legislative Session Bills Update - Week 3...

Senate Bills Introduced 1/27/2010 – 2/4/2010

360. By Sen. Foster - Creating Smoke Free WV Act - Introduced 01/27/10 - To Health and Human Resources then Finance - To Health and Human Resources 01/27/10 

374. By Sen. Foster - Limiting county commissions' mortgage recording tax - Introduced 01/28/10 - To Government Organization then Finance - To Government Organization 01/28/10 

376. By Sen. Minard, Jenkins, McCabe and Plymale - Relating to residential mortgage foreclosure data - Introduced 01/28/10 - To Banking and Insurance 

383. By Sen. Unger, Browning, Fanning, Jenkins, K. Facemyer, Stollings, Boley, White, Kessler, Hall, Williams, D. Facemire, Snyder, Sypolt, Oliverio, Minard, Yost, Plymale and Edgell - Increasing Enhanced 911 Wireless Tower Access Assistance Fund allocation - Introduced 01/28/10 - To Judiciary then Finance - (original similar to H. B. No. 2683) - To Judiciary 01/28/10 

395. By Sen. Jenkins, White and Williams - Allowing counties' discretion on printed poll book use - Introduced 01/29/10 - To Government Organization then Judiciary - (original same as H. B. No. 4247) - To Government Organization 01/29/10

397. By Sen. Snyder, Unger and Chafin - Creating single dwelling residential housing index and multiplier - Introduced 01/29/10 - To Judiciary then Finance - To Judiciary 01/29/10

399. By Sen. Kessler, Chafin, Sypolt, Williams and Foster - Relating to magistrates' election by division - Introduced 01/29/10 - To Judiciary - (original similar to H. B. No. 3012)

401. By Sen. McCabe, Wells, Prezioso, K. Facemyer, Boley, Plymale, Fanning, Minard, Edgell, Jenkins, Chafin and Foster - Relating to ad valorem property taxes- Changes to Board of Equalization & Review- Introduced 01/29/10 - To Finance

426. By Sen. Kessler, Chafin and Stollings - Exempting certain real property owners from natural resources property assessment - Introduced 02/01/10 - To Natural Resources then Finance - To Natural Resources 02/01/10

429. By Sen. Prezioso and Plymale - Allowing municipalities impose excise tax on transfer of real estate - Introduced 02/01/10 - To Judiciary then Finance - To Judiciary 02/01/10

430. By Sen. Foster, Unger, Chafin, Plymale, Kessler, Yost and Prezioso - Increasing retirement income exemption for certain state and federal retirees - Introduced 02/01/10 - To Finance - (original same as H. B. No. 4252)

434. By Sen. Barnes - Requiring Consolidated Public Retirement Board report certain liabilities to municipalities - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Pensions then Finance - To Pensions 02/02/10

437. By Sen. McCabe, Foster, Green, Wells, Edgell, D. Facemire, Plymale, Tomblin (Mr. President), Browning, Jenkins, Unger, White, Chafin and Prezioso - Creating WV Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Pensions then Finance - (original similar to H. B. No. 3156) - To Pensions 02/02/10

438. By Sen. Unger, Jenkins, Fanning, Plymale, White, Barnes, Palumbo, McCabe, D. Facemire, Laird, Foster, Edgell, Kessler and Wells - Creating misdemeanor offenses of driving while using text-based message device - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary - (original similar to H. B. No. 4013) - To Transportation and Infrastructure 02/02/10

439. By Sen. Helmick, McCabe, Unger and Plymale - Relating to Tax Procedure and Administration Act penalties - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Finance

440. By Sen. Helmick, McCabe, Unger, Chafin and Plymale - Relating to certain motor vehicles and motorcycles valuation - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Transportation and Infrastructure then Finance - To Transportation and Infrastructure 02/02/10

442. By Sen. Helmick and Unger - Clarifying PEIA Finance Board may offset certain annual retiree premium increases - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Pensions then Finance - (original same as H. B. No. 4303) - To Pensions 02/02/10

443. By Sen. Kessler, Foster, Barnes, Browning, Deem, Palumbo, Williams, White, Green, Jenkins, Unger, Plymale, D. Facemire, Yost and Wells - Requiring certain DUI offenders participate in Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Judiciary - (original same as H. B. No. 4304)

446. By Sen. Helmick, Kessler, Unger and Plymale - Clarifying deceased public employees' survivors participate in major medical group plans only - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Judiciary then Finance - (original same as H. B. No. 4301) - To Judiciary 02/02/10

447. By Sen. Helmick, Kessler, McCabe, Unger and Plymale - Providing certain nonstate retirees responsible for PEIA costs - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Government Organization then Finance - (original same as H. B. No. 4299) - To Government Organization 02/02/10

449. By Sen. Helmick, Kessler, Minard, Unger and Plymale - Relating to PEIA preexisting conditions limitations - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Judiciary then Finance - (original same as H. B. No. 4300) - To Judiciary 02/02/10

450. By Sen. Helmick, Minard and Unger - Exempting certain public employers and employees from requirements of certain insurance provisions - Introduced 02/02/10 - To Banking and Insurance then Finance - (original same as H. B. No. 4298) - To Banking and Insurance 02/02/10

456. By Sen. White - Creating misdemeanor offense of disturbing peace - Introduced 02/03/10 - To Judiciary then Finance - To Judiciary 02/03/10

458. By Sen. Helmick, McCabe, Tomblin (Mr. President), Browning, White, Chafin and Stollings - Distributing minimum share of severance tax to coalbed methane-producing counties - Introduced 02/03/10 - To Energy, Industry and Mining then Finance - To Energy, Industry and Mining 02/03/10

460. By Sen. Helmick, McCabe and Unger - Relating to business registration tax - Introduced 02/03/10 - To Finance

461. By Sen. Helmick, McCabe and Minard - Relating to administration of sales and use tax - Introduced 02/03/10 - To Finance

463. By Sen. Tomblin (Mr. President) (By Request) - Relating to public records management and preservation - Introduced 02/03/10 - To Judiciary then Finance - To Judiciary 02/03/10

Active House Bills 

2561.   By Del. Sobonya, Stephens, Rowan, Morgan, Miller, C. and Reynolds - Providing that an applicant for a farm use exemption certificate may not be required to appear before any assessor for renewal - Introduced 01/13/10 - To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary - To House Judiciary 01/21/10 - On 2nd reading, House Calendar 02/01/10

*4039.   By Del. Varner and Ferro - Increasing the number of persons that may be appointed to the Marshall County Park and Recreation Board - Introduced 01/15/10 - To Government Organization - (Original same as SB 335) - Passed House 01/29/10 - Effect from passage 

4171.   By Del. Miley, Wooton, Barker, Moore, Shook, Ferro, Ellem, Schoen and Sobonya - Relating to criminogenic risk and needs assessments - Introduced 01/25/10 - To Judiciary - (Original same as SB 342) - On 1st reading, House Calendar 02/01/10

House Bills Introduced 1/27/2010 – 2/4/2010 

4190.By Del. Poling, D., Caputo, Ellem, Longstreth, Phillips, Klempa, Lawrence, Skaff, Poore, Eldridge and Guthrie - Clarifying an exception that allow sheriffs to collect property taxes in more than two installments (FN) - To Finance

4247. By Del. Frazier, Marshall, Poore, Swartzmiller and Ferro - Providing counties the discretion to accompany an electronic poll book with a printed poll book - To Judiciary

4222.By Del. Poling, D., Evans, Ellem, Eldridge, Skaff, Rowan, Guthrie, Hatfield and Wells - Exempting antique motor vehicles from personal property taxes (FN) - To Roads and Transportation then Finance 

4217.By Del. Hamilton and Staggers - Requiring the West Virginia Enhanced 911 Council to propose Emergency Medical Dispatch procedures - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary 

4251.By Del. Reynolds - Requiring election officials, poll clerks and poll workers to vote in the precincts where they are registered to vote - To Judiciary 

4252.By Del. Spencer, White, Campbell, Miley, Boggs, Poling, M., Caputo, Morgan, Moore, Martin and Guthrie - Reducing state income taxes for state and federal retirees by increasing the exemption on retirement income in calculating the federal gross income for state personal income tax purposes (FN) - To Pensions and Retirement then Finance 

4253.By Del. Perdue, Hamilton, Morgan, Guthrie and Poling, M. - Increasing the barrel tax on nonintoxicating beer (FN) - To Finance 

4264.By Del. Reynolds - Requiring the manually counting of ballots in five percent of the relevant precincts in only contested elections - To Judiciary 

4267.By Del. Miller, J., Blair, Cowles, Overington and Duke - Creating a mandatory grace period for the payment of water and sewer bills - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary 

4278.By Del. Reynolds - Allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule - To Judiciary 

4295.By Del. Moore, Walters, Reynolds and Azinger [By Request of the Division of Banking] - Relating to the gathering and reporting of residential mortgage foreclosure data and statistics - To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary

4298.By Del. White, Campbell, Michael and Ross [By Request of the Public Employees Insurance Agency] - Exempting certain employers and employees from the requirements of the insurance provisions of chapter thirty-three of this code (FN) - To Banking and Insurance then Finance 

4299.By Del. White, Campbell, Michael and Ross [By Request of the Public Employees Insurance Agency] - Providing that nonstate retired employees who have worked for their last nonstate employer for less than five years are responsible for their entire premium cost (FN) - To Banking and Insurance then Finance 

4300.By Del. White, Campbell, Michael and Ross [By Request of the Public Employees Insurance Agency] - Prohibiting the imposition of preexisting condition limitations on employees under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Act, and limiting the occasions upon which employees may enroll or make benefit changes - To Banking and Insurance then Finance 

4301.By Del. White, Campbell, Michael and Ross [By Request of the Insurance Commission] - Clarifying that surviving spouses and dependents of deceased public employees may only participate in major medical group plans (FN) - To Banking and Insurance then Finance 

4303.By Del. White, Campbell, Michael and Ross [By Request of the Public Employees Insurance Agency] - Clarifying that the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board may offset annual retiree premium increases (FN) - To Finance 

4304.By Del. Miley, Wooton, Barker, Moore, Shook, Ferro, Ellem, Schoen and Sobonya - Requiring certain participation in the Motor Vehicle Test and Lock Program - To Judiciary then Finance - [Interim Bill]

4309.By Del. Michael - Authorizing the Town of Moorefield, the Hardy County Commission, and Hardy County's largest corporate user of public wastewater facilities to construct and maintain a state of the art regional wastewater treatment plant - To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary - [Local Bill] 

4314.By Del. White and Campbell [By Request of the Tax and Revenue Department] - Establishing the valuation of motor vehicles and motorcycles for property tax assessment purposes based on "clean load" and "clean trade-in" values (FN) - To Judiciary then Finance 

4321.By Del. White, Campbell, Martin and Michael - Relating to underwriting of nonstate employer groups by the Public Employees Insurance Agency - To Judiciary 

4334.By Del. Doyle, Overington, Campbell, Blair, Morgan, Michael and Mahan - Providing general rules for all county and municipal referendum votes - To Judiciary then Finance 

4335.By Del. White, Campbell and Kominar [By Request of the Tax and Revenue Department] - Relating to the business registration tax (FN) - To Finance