(Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include language from the final version of SR 6, honoring Edith Levy.) MORGANTOWN – The state House and Senate […]
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The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 8
Good: HB 5516 — “prohibiting the use of deep fake images for the nonconsensual disclosure of private intimate images; prohibiting the unlawful depiction of nude or partially […]
Legislature faces big decision on state unemployment program
Here is a question West Virginia legislators always need to ask themselves, especially in the closing days of a session: Is it better to do something or […]
Senate passes House bills regarding PROMISE, porn sites, solar sites, school security guards as session enters final days
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate moved through a series of House bills on Thursday, as both chambers head into the 60th and final day of the session […]
Senate Judiciary splits on attempt to revive CROWN Act, kills it again; approves capital punishment study resolution, euthanasia bill
MORGANTOWN — An attempt to revive the CROWN Act by plugging it into a different bill fizzled Wednesday evening in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill up […]
Senate Education Committee does good deed for House bill to help Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts
MORGANTOWN – An appeal from a Boy Scouts leader led the Senate Education Committee to ease their planned restrictions on a House bill to allow the Scouts […]
House booze bill prompts Senate to stop and take a think
MORGANTOWN – Senate Judiciary chair Charles Trump spent several minutes explaining the minutiae of a 55-page, much-amended booze bill on Wednesday. Following the long briefing, Sen. Randy […]
W.Va. didn’t fund education. Now it can’t make a budget
There’s a special irony in the West Virginia Legislature calling for a national constitutional convention over fiscal responsibility when the state can’t even pass a full budget […]
Senate Intelligent Design bill undergoes evolution in House Judiciary
MORGANTOWN – The Senate’s Intelligent Design bill took another step in its evolution on Tuesday, as the House Judiciary Committee took up and approved the fourth version […]
House Judiciary inserts stalled library obscenity bill into Senate AI child porn bill, stirs Democratic opposition
MORGANTOWN – Consideration of a well-liked Senate bill to criminalize AI child porn took an unexpected twist in House Judiciary on Tuesday when committee leaders inserted into […]
