While people rallied Thursday for the rights of LGBTQ people just outside the West Virginia Senate, that chamber’s president, Mitch Carmichael, said he is “leaning no” in his personal consideration of the West Virginia Fairness Act.

Legislation is being drafted to correct an issue that could cost the state $58 million a year in federal highways funding, Division of Motor Vehicles deputy commissioner Adam Holley told the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday.

CHARLESTON — Relying on the lived experience of some of the delegates in the room, the House Judiciary committee Tuesday amended the guardian ad litem language in the foster care reform bill.

The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday passed the second bill in as many weeks aimed at reducing the inmate population in West Virginia’s regional jails.

Installation of new, state-of-the-art transmitters for West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s three television stations should be completed by August, Educational Broadcasting Authority executive director Chuck Roberts told the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday.

The West Virginia Senate on Monday passed a bill that would prevent the government from releasing information about people who donate to certain nonprofit organizations.

CHARLESTON — Each year, the West Virginia Public Employee Insurance Agency is granted an exemption from the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. The exemption means the agency can place limits on mental health services that are less favorable than limits on medical/surgical services. 

One West Virginia senator is working to change that.

CHARLESTON — Members of the House Health and Human Resources committee Thursday tweaked the major foster care reform bill, addressing more issues with the system including reimbursement disparities for foster families and ineffective guardians ad litem. 

For the third year in a row, the House of Delegates approved a bill to establish a state Sentencing Commission to jumpstart criminal justice reforms.

The West Virginia House of Delegates on Wednesday approved a bill that would penalize physicians who don’t provide medical care to a baby born after an abortion attempt.

Virginia is for lovers, so West Virginia is reviving a 158-year-old proposal to ask one of its counties on a date.

Del. Sean Hornbuckle, D-Cabell, was confined to his bed for the week, per doctors orders, as he continues to recover from surgery to donate his kidney to his sister Kara Hornbuckle.

West Virginia Democrats on Thursday said their 2020 legislative platform will focus on education, infrastructure, small businesses and social services.

Gov. Jim Justice lauded a flourishing economy for the state of West Virginia, but he didn’t discuss an anticipated $108.6 million revenue shortfall for next year during his State of the State address Wednesday night.

In a speech that attempted to make up for a lack of new initiatives with unbridled (and probably unrealistic) enthusiasm, hyperbole and sheer length of duration, Gov. Jim Justice’s fourth State of the State address Wednesday night was, disappointingly, his most conventional.

With state tax collection expected to shrink 2.3 percent in the 2020-21 budget year, Gov. Jim Justice is proposing a “flat” $4.58 billion general revenue budget for the coming fiscal year — a drop of $108.64 million from the current West Virginia spending plan.