MORGANTOWN – Here is a look at some of the bills introduced Thursday, Feb. 3. Local sponsors and cosponsors, if any, are noted.
SB 570, to establish minimum training requirements for law enforcement officials on interacting effectively with people with Alzheimer’s or related dementias. Sens. Bob Beach, D-Monongalia, Mike Caputo, D-Marion, Charles Clements, D-Wetzel, Randy Smith, R-Tucker, Dave Sypolt, R-Preston, co-sponsors.
SB 575, to ensure that imposition of certain sexual offenses applies to those persons working in juvenile facilities against juveniles detained or committed in juvenile facilities; and to ensure that an attempt to engage in all acts proscribed are a criminal offense.
SB 578, to make employers liable for injury or death to employees who become ill or die following an employer mandated COVID-19 vaccine.
HB 4007, to reduce personal income tax rates and to create a fund into which one half of each fiscal year’s general revenue surplus will be deposited to offset any loss of revenues determined by the Legislature to have resulted from this and any future reductions of those rates instead of using that portion of the surplus to fund the state’s Rainy Day Fund. Delegate Amy Summers, R-Taylor, co-sponsor.
HB 4531, to particularly encourage the use of public-private partnerships in the construction of highways by allowing money collected from the state portion of coal severance tax on projects where construction would result in the extraction of coal incident to the construction to be paid to each participant in a public-private partnership upon the determination of satisfactory completion of the project and other determinations. Governor’s bill.
HB 4543, to restore voting rights to formerly convicted felons upon release from incarceration in all circumstances. Delegate Joey Garcia, D-Marion, co-sponsor.
HB 4546, the Headquarters Relocation Tax Credit; when a business relocates its corporate headquarters, divisional headquarters, or research and development facility to West Virginia, that business shall be entitled to a tax credit against its state tax liability that is equal to half of the costs incurred in relocating the headquarters.
HB 4547, to require each high school student to pass a test on the United States Constitution as a requirement to graduation from high school. Delegate Joe Statler, R-Monongalia, co-sponsor.
HCR 44, to proclaim and make the fiddle the official musical instrument of the State of West Virginia. Delegate Guy Ward, R-Marion, co-sponsor.
