MORGANTOWN – The Senate Finance Committee Friday approved constitutional amendment resolutions regarding guns and legislative term limits. It also OK’d a House bill to give itself a […]
West Virginia Legislature
Senate panel OKs bill to limit governor’s emergency powers, and bills regarding city annexation and legal ads
MORGANTOWN – The Senate Government Organization Committee Friday moved along bills to reign in the governor’s emergency powers, tweak how cities can annex land and change how […]
Senate OKs water rule bill that weakens standards for some contaminants; House OKs 2nd Amendment, pro-Israel bills
MORGANTOWN – The two-year debate over a contentious drinking water pollution rule reached its conclusion Friday as the Senate approved HB 2382. HB 2382 is a Department […]
Differing resolutions to allow Legislature to set personal property tax rates advance in House and Senate
MORGANTOWN – Two different resolution to allow West Virginia voters to give the Legislature authority over setting property tax rates are working their way through the system. […]
House sends bills back to committee after ACLU threatens suit over lost audio feed of committee meeting
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates responded to a threatened lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday by sending a couple handfuls of bills back […]
House Finance hearing on income tax plan yields mostly negative comments
MORGANTOWN – The House Finance Committee’s income tax reduction plan – HB 3300 – is up for passage on Friday. The sentiment among those who turned out […]
Senate OKs bill to allow school boards to publish financial statements online; resolutions honor coal miners, suffragists
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate passed a bill allowing county school boards to post their financial statements on their websites instead of in local newspapers. Opponents said […]
Legislators, advocates promote fair pay bills on National Equal Pay Day
MORGANTOWN – Wednesday was National Equal Pay Day and a group of legislators and other equal pay advocates held a virtual meeting to promote four bills aimed […]
Morrisey: States will take U.S. Treasury to court over prohibition linking tax cuts to American Rescue Plan COVID money
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and his colleagues from Arizona and Georgia have their answer from U.S. Treasury Janet Yellen about the interplay of […]
House Finance sends scaled-down intermediate appeals court bill to House floor
MORGANTOWN – An intermediate court of appeals may be closer to becoming a reality than it’s ever been. The House of Delegates Finance Committee made some technical […]
