MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom said he’s normally not one to take a public stance on the various bills being debated in Charleston. Wednesday was […]
West Virginia Legislature
Senate, House move bills on sports, smoking and deep-fake porn
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate and House of Delegates plowed through long lists of bills on Tuesday, in preparation for Crossover Day on Wednesday. School sports, smoking […]
House spends 90 minutes debating amending Raylee’s Law – concerning child abuse — into homeschooling bill
MORGANTOWN – An amendment to a bill making some tweaks to state homeschooling law plunged the House of Delegates into a 90-minute debate about child abuse prevention, […]
Senate Finance chair confirms death of CROWN Act, prohibiting racial discrimination based on hair
MORGANTOWN — A bill to prohibit racial discrimination based on hair textures and hairstyles narrowly passed out Senate Judiciary last Thursday, only to be sent to Senate […]
House Education breezes through two student-hunger bills and a PROMISE bill
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee crammed a wham-bam 9-minute meeting between floor sessions on Monday – approving two Senate student-hunger bills and a Senate PROMISE Scholarship […]
House of Delegates passes human smuggling bill; Senate moves school truancy and gestational surrogacy bills
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates passed a human smuggling bill on Monday, but opponents objected that it places trafficking and smuggling on the same level and […]
Senate Judiciary OKs bill to raise smoking age to 21; also handles church and sexual assault measures
MORGANTOWN – Senate Judiciary cruised through a series of bills on Friday, dealing with churches, sexual assault, and belief-based student organizations, but the one that spurred the […]
Senate again passes bill to allow small counties to impose recreation fee to fund fire, EMS
MORGANTOWN – The Senate is once again trying to give small rural counties a tool to fund their fire and EMS services. SB 167 was among the […]
CROWN Act, prohibiting racial discrimination based on hair, gets punted to Senate Finance after floor debate
MORGANTOWN – The resurrected CROWN Act came to the Senate floor Friday morning, after narrowly passing out of Judiciary the evening before, only to be swatted back […]
Senate Judiciary approves Crown Act, prohibiting race-based hairstyle discrimination, in close vote
MORGANTOWN – Bills to prevent racially based discrimination based on hairstyles have sat idle for years in both houses of the state Legislature. But SB 495, the […]
