MORGANTOWN – Here is a sampling of bills and resolutions introduced Monday, March 15. Local lead sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. Tuesday will be the last day to introduce bills in the House of Delegates; this does not apply to appropriations bills, resolutions or concurrent resolutions.
- SB 641, to allow counties to use severance tax proceeds for litter cleanup. Sen. Randy Smith, R-Tucker, co-sponsor.
- HB 3141 and HCR 49, to declare Feb. 3 as Freedom Day to memorialize the Feb. 3, 1865, act by the Legislature that abolished slavery in West Virginia. Delegates Danielle Walker, Evan Hansen and Barbara Evans Fleischauer, all D-Monongalia, co-sponsors.
- Hb 3162, to permit third-party ownership of all renewable and alternative generating facilities. Hansen, co-sponsor.
- SB 642, to require the state auditor to establish a central legal advertising website for legal ads.
- HB 3135, to create the Legal Tender Act to establish gold and silver as legal tender in West Virginia, and to allow for tax credits for capital gains when gold and silver are used.
- HB 3150, to cap annual fee and in-state tuition hikes to 1% for all state-funded institutions of higher education.
- HB 3156, to impose restrictions on Chinese-funded cultural centers known as Confucius Institutes in the United States on college campuses “that are being utilized for propaganda agendas that threaten academic liberty and free speech.”
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