MORGANTOWN – Here is a look at some of the bills introduced on Tuesday, Feb. 8. Local sponsors and cosponsors, if any, are noted.
SB 596, to exempt taxing capital gains on either personal income of corporate income.
HB 4570, to allow interstate veterinarian telemedicine in West Virginia.
HB 4572, to exempt the requirement of a certificate of need for a long-term health care facility that increases the number of beds by 5% for occupation by veterans.
HB 4574, the Workforce Resiliency Act, “to establish an office within the Office of the Governor to coordinate workforce development, job training, education, and related programs and initiatives across agencies and entities to continue to grow West Virginia’s workforce and to provide greater options for West Virginians seeking work and West Virginia businesses seeking employees.” Governor’s bill.
HB 4577, to create the Compassion for Community Cats Fund, “for grants to municipalities and counties to establish programs to humanely trap community cats, sterilize, ear-tip, vaccinate against rabies, defray costs incurred by a qualified nonprofit community cat caregiver, and return each community cat to the location where the community cat was trapped.”
HB 4579, prohibits regular classroom teachers and special education classroom teachers required to participate an individualized education program committee from being required to prepare or reduce to writing the individualized education program plan; requires the contracted employment of substitute teachers for 180 instructional days at all schools with more than 200 students; increases the number of personal leave days from four to five; .provides for uniform procedures, agreement forms and benefits to ensure a teacher’s exchange of duty-free lunch to perform duties at the school is a voluntary exchange. Delegate Buck Jennings, R-Preston, co-sponsor.
HR 12, supports the U.S. signing of a bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan.
