HB4617 - Relating to insurance coverage for breast cancer screening

1 Co-Sponsor

The purpose of this bill is to establish insurance provisions required relating to breast cancer screenings.

HB4316 - To create an initiative to provide minorities and males with an incentive to join the public education field

1 Co-Sponsor

The purpose of this bill is to create a statewide initiative to promote teacher preparation programs aimed at underrepresented groups. The bill provides that the West Virginia State Board of Education will create an initiative for this purpose. The bill provides that county boards of education in this state will create initiatives for this purpose. The bill establishes a scholarship fund and provides for funding. The bill provides for definitions. The bill sets forth criteria for the scholarship. Finally, the bill enacts the scholarship.

HB4240 - Reentry Task Force

1 Co-Sponsor

The purpose of this bill is to establish and create comprehensive reentry services for offenders reentering communities to reduce recidivism rates by providing standard services; family-based substance abuse services; educational services; drug treatment and mentoring services; responsible reintegration services; elderly and family reunification services; and children of confined parents services.

HB4241 - To establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia

1 Co-Sponsor

The purpose of this bill is to establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia.

HB4239 - Modifying the criminal penalties for overtaking or passing a stopped school bus

1 Co-Sponsor

The purpose of this bill is to make the criminal penalty of confinement in jail and the administrative penalty of driver's license suspension only apply for a conviction of passing or overtaking a school bus loading or unloading children applicable to persons known to have been driving the vehicle at the time of the violation.

HB4025 - Budget Bill

2 Co-Sponsors

HB4483 - Be Exceptional Starting Today Act

2 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to legalize cannabis, provide for taxation of cannabis, and allow cannabis market activity as regulated by the Department of Commerce.

HB4371 - Creating the WV Community Development Equity Fund

1 Co-Sponsor

The purpose of this bill is to state the obligation of the West Virginia Economic Development Authority to provide effective technical and business advisory services to African-Americans and minority-owned and-operated enterprises that are available under the Community Development and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 and the Federal emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP) established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

HB4794 - Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Hygiene and Infant Products

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to exempt from sales tax certain infant products and hygiene products.

HB4881 - Relating to bringing terms not defined in that act into conformity with the meaning of those terms for federal income tax purposes

2 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to amend and update §11-24-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended to bring terms not defined in that act into conformity with the meaning of those terms for federal income tax purposes; and specifying effective dates.