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Legislative Session

State laws restricting ability of cities, counties to pass ordinances on the rise in WV, other states
News

State laws restricting ability of cities, counties to pass ordinances on the rise in WV, other states

  • By Phil Kabler Staff writer
WV legislative session reveals what lawmakers can't do for coal, won't do for coal communities
Energy and Environment

WV legislative session reveals what lawmakers can't do for coal, won't do for coal communities

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
Justice signs harm reduction licensing bill after health professionals urged him to veto
Health

Justice signs harm reduction licensing bill after health professionals urged him to veto

  • By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch
West Virginians can still take advantage of a tax break for 2020 unemployment income, even if they already filed their taxes
News

West Virginians can still take advantage of a tax break for 2020 unemployment income, even if they already filed their taxes

  • By Lacie Pierson Staff writer
With demise of Confederate statuary bill, efforts to relocate Jackson statue resumes
Politics

With demise of Confederate statuary bill, efforts to relocate Jackson statue resumes

  • By Phil Kabler Staff writer
As NCAA threatens to pull championship events over transgender sports bans, Justice says he’ll let ban become law
Education

As NCAA threatens to pull championship events over transgender sports bans, Justice says he’ll let ban become law

  • By Ryan Quinn Staff writer
  • Apr 14, 2021
  • Comments

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice reiterated Wednesday that he doesn’t plan to veto a bill banning transgender middle school, high school and college girls and women from playing on women’s sports teams — even though he conceded it could lead the NCAA to “penalize us.”

Legislative session comes up short on long-term funding for DEP oil, gas and air quality regulators
Energy and Environment

Legislative session comes up short on long-term funding for DEP oil, gas and air quality regulators

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Apr 13, 2021
  • Comments

There was no shortage of bills that received close consideration in committee meetings throughout the West Virginia state legislative session that ended at the stroke of midnight Sunday that would have supplied much-needed funding boosts to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Laws borne out of COVID-19 provide legal protection, give lawmakers more authority over federal money
News

Laws borne out of COVID-19 provide legal protection, give lawmakers more authority over federal money

  • By Lacie Pierson Staff writer
  • Apr 13, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia Legislature completed its annual 60-day legislative session Saturday without any outbreaks of COVID-19, despite some lawmakers flouting rules set in the Senate and the House of Delegates requiring them to wear face coverings at all times.

Beyond charters, vouchers: The lesser-known WV education bills that did, and didn't, pass this session
Education

Beyond charters, vouchers: The lesser-known WV education bills that did, and didn't, pass this session

  • By Ryan Quinn Staff writer
  • Apr 13, 2021
  • Comments

In this year’s legislative session, Republican leaders used the first double-chamber GOP supermajority in 90 years to finally pass priorities that had eluded them.

Syringe exchange, other health-related bills pass on final day of session
Health

Syringe exchange, other health-related bills pass on final day of session

  • By Taylor Stuck The Herald-Dispatch
  • Apr 13, 2021
  • Comments

CHARLESTON — Several health-related bills came down to the wire on the final day of the regular 2021 West Virginia legislative session.

Lawmakers reflect on good, bad of a legislative session during a worldwide pandemic
Legislative Session

Lawmakers reflect on good, bad of a legislative session during a worldwide pandemic

  • By Lacie Pierson Staff writer
  • Apr 12, 2021
  • Comments

In a partially closed state Capitol building in the middle of a pandemic, the West Virginia Legislature completed work on its 60-day regular session last weekend.

Community advocates, UMW blast Legislature shelving of coal community comeback plan
Energy and Environment

Community advocates, UMW blast Legislature shelving of coal community comeback plan

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Apr 12, 2021
  • Comments

Community advocates and the United Mine Workers union are questioning why the West Virginia Legislature killed an amendment on the last day of the 2021 legislative session Saturday night that would have set up a comeback plan for the many communities throughout the state devastated by coal m…

Environmental and fossil fuel lobbyists react to tanked tank bill, other legislative session standouts
Energy and Environment

Environmental and fossil fuel lobbyists react to tanked tank bill, other legislative session standouts

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Apr 12, 2021
  • Comments

Even with a new Republican supermajority, the West Virginia Legislature passed fewer bills during its 2021 regular session than it did in either of the previous two years, including 21% fewer than in 2020.

Proposal to give Legislature final say on state K-12 education policies dies in Senate
Education

Proposal to give Legislature final say on state K-12 education policies dies in Senate

  • By Ryan Quinn Staff writer
  • Apr 10, 2021
  • Comments

The full West Virginia Senate, by the time the regular legislative session ended Saturday night, never took action on a proposed constitutional amendment that would have let lawmakers amend and reject state Board of Education policies.

Legislature rejects coal community comeback plan in passing bill to keep coal plants operating as long as possible
Energy and Environment

Legislature rejects coal community comeback plan in passing bill to keep coal plants operating as long as possible

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Apr 10, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia Legislature passed a bill on the last day of the regular legislative session Saturday designed to help the coal industry while rejecting an amendment designed to help communities devastated by the industry’s decline.

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Legislature passes 2021 broadband bill with stern words from lawmaker about industry maneuvering
Legislative Session

Legislature passes 2021 broadband bill with stern words from lawmaker about industry maneuvering

  • By Phil Kabler, Lacie Pierson, and Mike Tony Staff writers
  • Apr 10, 2021
  • Comments

The enthusiasm West Virginia lawmakers had for this year’s broadband bill on Day 1 of the legislative session turned into strife with industry lobbyists by Saturday, the last day of the session.

Legislature passes 2021-22 budget bill, over criticism of cuts to WVU, Marshall
Legislative Session

Legislature passes 2021-22 budget bill, over criticism of cuts to WVU, Marshall

  • By Phil Kabler Staff writer
  • Apr 10, 2021
  • Comments

For a fourth straight year, the Legislature passed the state budget bill before the end of the 60-day regular session, but not without heated debate on the Senate floor over whether the $4.495 billion general revenue budget effectively cuts the base funding for West Virginia University and M…

WV Legislature passes solar power purchase agreements bill
Energy and Environment

WV Legislature passes solar power purchase agreements bill

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Apr 10, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia Legislature passed a bill designed to encourage retail customer investment in solar energy by exempting solar power purchase agreements from the state Public Service Commission’s jurisdiction.

WV Senate confirms new members of state school board, School Building Authority, other agencies
Education

WV Senate confirms new members of state school board, School Building Authority, other agencies

  • By Ryan Quinn Staff writer
  • Apr 10, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia Senate on Saturday confirmed all 257 of Gov. Jim Justice’s recently requested appointments to various boards.

WV Legislature sends governor bill banning transgender middle school, high school, college athletes from playing on women's teams
Legislative Session

WV Legislature sends governor bill banning transgender middle school, high school, college athletes from playing on women's teams

  • By Ryan Quinn Staff writer
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia Legislature passed a bill Friday night banning transgender middle school, high school and college girls and women from playing on women’s sports teams.

Justice signs bill establishing WV intermediate court of appeals
Legislative Session

Justice signs bill establishing WV intermediate court of appeals

  • By Lacie Pierson Staff writer
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • Comments

Gov. Jim Justice on Friday signed into law a bill establishing an intermediate court of appeals, putting end to a legislative effort that’s been underway since before Justice was governor.

WV House narrowly approves adding comeback plan for coal communities to supply bill
Energy and Environment

WV House narrowly approves adding comeback plan for coal communities to supply bill

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill Friday crafted to keep the state’s coal-fired power plants operating through the end of their planned lifespans, but not before adding a provision aimed at helping communities where plants have already closed.

Agency that helps fund lifesaving health care hasn't been granted funding request; DHHR says there's less need
Health

Agency that helps fund lifesaving health care hasn't been granted funding request; DHHR says there's less need

  • By Ryan Quinn Staff writer
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • Comments

The James “Tiger” Morton Catastrophic Illness Commission is supposed to help people who’ve been denied Medicaid coverage pay for lifesaving medical treatment.

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Zero to 100: House unanimous in rebuke of governor's plan to cut state income tax
Legislative Session

Zero to 100: House unanimous in rebuke of governor's plan to cut state income tax

  • By Phil Kabler Staff writer
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • Comments

All 100 members of the West Virginia House of Delegates, in a major and perhaps unprecedented rebuke to Gov. Jim Justice, voted unanimously Friday afternoon to reject the Senate’s version of a tax cut proposal endorsed by the governor.

WV House approves Senate resolution supporting canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline project
Energy and Environment

WV House approves Senate resolution supporting canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline project

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia House of Delegates has approved a Senate resolution expressing support for a pipeline project that died nine months ago.

WV Senate approves solar power purchase agreements bill
Energy and Environment

WV Senate approves solar power purchase agreements bill

  • By Mike Tony Staff writer
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia Senate approved a bill Thursday designed to encourage retail customer investment in solar energy by exempting solar power purchase agreements from the state Public Service Commission’s jurisdiction.

Fate of tax cut bill, reconciliation of Budget Bill unresolved as session nears end
Legislative Session

Fate of tax cut bill, reconciliation of Budget Bill unresolved as session nears end

  • By Phil Kabler Staff writer
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • Comments

On day 58 of the 60-day regular legislative session, the fate of a West Virginia income tax cut/sales tax hike proposal, and what final form the 2021-22 budget will take, remains unclear, after the Senate passed new versions of both in a contentious Wednesday night session.

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Senate passes bill to send proposed criminal law changes to Sentencing Commission
Legislative Session

Senate passes bill to send proposed criminal law changes to Sentencing Commission

  • By Lacie Pierson Staff writer
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia Senate adopted a bill Thursday that sets up a potential rewriting of the state’s criminal code in 2022.

Despite some Republicans' concerns about NCAA backlash, WV Senate passes bill banning transgender students from women's teams
Education

Despite some Republicans' concerns about NCAA backlash, WV Senate passes bill banning transgender students from women's teams

  • By Ryan Quinn Staff writer
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • Comments

The West Virginia Senate passed a bill Thursday banning transgender middle school, high school and college girls and women from playing on women’s sports teams.

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