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.

HB5243 - Relating to Women’s Bill of Rights

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Women's Bill of Rights.

HCR64 - Acknowledging and supporting the State of Texas

88 Co-Sponsors

HB5153 - Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship.

7 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to revise, update, and streamline the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship.

HB5139 - Allow teachers to bank personal and sick days.

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to allow teachers to bank any unused sick leave or personal leave to the next academic year.

HB5439 - Provide that a person defending themselves or others while at work cannot be terminated

11 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to provide that using deadly force against an intruder or attacker in a workplace by person not engaged in unlawful activity if the person reasonably believes that he or she or another is in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm; and providing that the person may not result in that person being terminated from employment for this action, regardless of company or employer policy.

HB5437 - Relating to time limits imposed on the Division of Highways to grant a highway entrance permit

7 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to impose a time limit for the Department of Highways to grant an entrance permit for work on a highway, to describe the time limit for requested changes, and to describe when a permit shall be considered approved.

HB5487 - To require municipalities issuing tickets to charge the entire fee for tickets

2 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill relates to the suspension of licenses for failure to respond or appear in court when charged with a motor vehicle violation. The bill requires written notice of all fees owed and impending suspension prior to license suspension; and requires the citation issuing magistrate court or municipal court to forward administrative fee collected to division.

HB4951 - To facilitate the interstate practice of School Psychology in educational or school settings

6 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to enact the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists.

HCR91 - Requesting That the Joint Committee on Government and Finance engage in a study concerning differences in commercial real property taxes in West Virginia versus bordering states and what can be done to mitigate such differences

11 Co-Sponsors