MORGANTOWN – Here is a sampling of bills and resolutions introduced Saturday. Local lead sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted.
- SB 274, from the governor, same as HB 2019, to reorganize and redesignate the Development Office as the Department of Economic Development and the Tourism Office as the Department of Tourism, headed by cabinet-level secretaries.
- SB 275, from the governor, same as HB 2023, another effort to create an Intermediate Court of Appeals.
- SB 277, from the governor, same as HB 2021, the COVID-19 Immunity Act, to provide certain civil immunity from liability claims regarding COVID-19, for injuries or damages for an injury resulting from exposure of an individual to COVID-19.
- SB 279 and HB 2378, the annual effort to eliminate the restriction to carry a firearm on the state Capitol Complex grounds.
- SB 283, to provide for the public and private financing of road construction projects.
- SB 284, to eliminate mandatory vaccinations for private schools. Each school “may require students to be immunized against the same diseases that students are required to be immunized against before entering public school.”
- SB 287, to require county boards of education to provide free feminine hygiene products in grades six through 12. Sen. Bob Beach, D-Monongalia, sponsor.
- SB 288, to establish the Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughn Fair Pay Act. Beach, sponsor.
- HB 2360, to modify the definition of first-degree murder to include the killing of a police officer or corrections officer in the line of duty and to add a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. Delegates John Williams, Danielle Walker, both D-Monongalia, co-sponsors.
- HB 2364, to authorize teachers in elementary or secondary schools to carry concealed firearms and be designated as a school protection officer.
- HB 2370, to allow for owners of swimming pools to not have to pay associated costs for sewage when the water used for the pool is not used in the sewer. Delegate Terri Sypolt, R-Preston, co-sponsor.
- HB 2378, to provide enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed against law-enforcement officers or first responders and to define first responders.
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