HB5363 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections and Rehabilitation to continue the GOALS Programs in regional jails.

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections to continue the GOALS Program.

HB5431 - Permitting county boards of education to send parents of students who are chronically disruptive the pro-rated amount of their education and to remove them from the school system for a year to continue their education

5 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to send the parent or legal guardian of a student who is deemed "chronically disruptive" the pro-rated amount of their education and remove that student from the school system for a year to continue their education through homeschool or another approved alternative educational pathway.

HR9 - Reaffirming the longstanding sisterhood partnership between West Virginia and Taiwan

74 Co-Sponsors

HB5423 - To allow mentally challenged person to be protected from testifying in an open court

9 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a cognitively impaired or mentally defective person from being forced to testify in open court, and to increase the penalty for sexual assault of a mentally defective or mentally incapacitated person.

HB5430 - Relating to per diem compensation and expenses of newly elected or appointed judicial officers receiving education and training prior to taking the oath of office.

8 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to allow newly elected or appointed circuit judges, family court judges, and magistrates to receive compensation and expenses for training sessions prior to taking the oath of office and beginning their term. Other sections of code generally prohibit an elected official from receiving compensation prior to the start of a term absent an exception in code.

HB5304 - Creating the Small Business Payroll Tax Credit

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to create the Small Business Payroll Tax Credit, a three-year program establishing a tax credit for defined payroll taxes paid on up to 10,400 employee hours at a statutorily designated wage rate for new businesses with 15 or fewer employees, allowing for growth to 25 employees but capping the credit at 10,400 employee hours and eliminating the credit for businesses of 26 employees or greater; establishing a start date and end date; listing the amounts of credits which may be claimed in each year of the program; and requiring the Department of Economic Development to track the progress of this program and present a report.

HCR68 - U. S. Army Air Force, Major (Ret.) Willis “Scottie” Adams Memorial Bridge

56 Co-Sponsors

HB5350 - Expanding the definition “recreational purposes” to include mountain biking activities

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to expand the definition of "recreational purposes" to include mountain biking activities as an activity for which the duty and liability of a landowner who grants a lease, easement or license of land to federal, state, county or municipal government or any agency thereof for such purposes is limited.

HB5434 - Authorizing the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to offer locality pay to Division of Highways employees working in certain jurisdictions

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to provide employees working for the Division of Highways with locality pay for working in certain jurisdictions designated by the commissioner as jurisdictions that are necessary for maintaining planning, engineering, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and traffic regulation of state road projects.

HB5232 - The Business Liability Protection Act

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to update the Business Liability Protection Act.