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Charleston, W. Va., Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Prayer was offered by the Reverend Sherman G. Davidson, Retired United Methodist Clergy, Grafton, West Virginia.
Pending the reading of the Journal of Monday, January 21, 2008,
Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill No. 4010--A Bill to amend and reenact §10-1-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the term of office a library board of director may serve.
Senate Bill No. 287--A Bill to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §18B-18A-1, §18B-18A-2, §18B-18A-3, §18B-18A-4, §18B- 18A-5, §18B-18A-6, §18B-18A-7, §18B-18A-8, §18B-18A-9, §18B-18A-10, §18B-18A-11 and §18B-18A-12, all relating to the establishment of the West Virginia Research Trust Fund; providing legislative findings of fact; defining certain terms; creating a special account in the State Treasury; providing for allocation of moneys appropriated for deposit into the West Virginia Research Trust Fund; authorizing Marshall University and West Virginia University to establish directed research endowments; providing requirements for directed research endowments; providing for administration of directed research endowments by applicable governing board; granting investment authority to the governing boards; authorizing use of investment earnings accruing to directed research endowments and prohibiting the expenditure of the principal of a directed research endowment; establishing criteria and restrictions for qualified private donations and qualified private donation pledges; establishing eligible uses of directed research endowment proceeds; providing for submission of directed research endowment plans; establishing criteria and procedures for distribution of matching moneys from the West Virginia Research Trust Fund; providing for reallocation of moneys in the West Virginia Research Trust Fund; requiring participating institutions to return unmatched moneys to the fund under certain circumstances; authorizing distribution of certain moneys to state colleges; establishing powers and duties of the Higher Education Policy Commission; and requiring the Higher Education Policy Commission to submit an annual report.
Senate Bill No. 288--A Bill to amend and reenact §16-9A-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to prohibiting the sale of tobacco products in anything other than original factory-wrapped package; prohibiting the sale of cigarettes in packages of less than twenty; prohibiting the sale of single cigarettes; and requiring warnings.
Senate Bill No. 289--A Bill to amend and reenact §17B-2-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to driver's license examinations.
By Senators Foster, Stollings, Jenkins, Bowman, Prezioso, Green, Plymale and Deem:
Senate Bill No. 290--A Bill to amend and reenact §30-3-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery or podiatry or as a physician assistant; criminal penalties; reducing the amount of fine for a person practicing on an expired, lapsed or terminated license for less than three months; specifying as a felony the unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery or podiatry or as a physician assistant in all other instances; and providing for enhanced criminal penalties where serious bodily injury results from such unauthorized practice.
By Senators Helmick, Yoder and Barnes:
Senate Bill No. 291--A Bill to amend and reenact §51-2-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to appointing an additional circuit court judge to the twenty-second judicial circuit.
Senate Bill No. 292--A Bill to amend and reenact §31-17-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to permitting bond claims by the Commissioner of Banking to collect unpaid civil administrative penalties and unpaid examination invoices while allowing priority for pending consumer claims.
By Senators Foster and Yoder:
Senate Bill No. 293--A Bill to amend and reenact §5-10-48 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to reemployment of public employee retirees after retirement; and allowing retired employees of the Supreme Court of Appeals who have retired on senior status to draw both their public employee retirement benefits and temporary or per diem compensation from the Supreme Court of Appeals of up to twenty thousand dollars per year.
Senate Bill No. 294--A Bill to amend and reenact §30-1-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring applications for license or registration and all examinations pertaining to professions to be in English only.
By Senators Stollings, Foster, Jenkins, Bowman, Prezioso, Green and Plymale:
Senate Bill No. 295--A Bill to amend and reenact §30-3-16 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to physician assistants; updating language to conform to national changes; requiring supervising physicians to be fully licensed without restriction or limitation; permitting graduates of an approved program who have passed the national certifying examination for physician assistants to obtain temporary licenses; requiring a physician assistant who fails a recertifying examination to immediately notify the supervising physician and the Board of Medicine and immediately cease practice; requiring automatic license expiration until passage of the examination; and raising fees and adding fees for temporary license and prescriptive writing privileges.
Senate Bill No. 296--A Bill to amend and reenact §11-8-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to classification of property for levy purposes; requiring assessor to verify with Tax Commissioner that Class II property owners have filed a West Virginia Resident Income Tax Return indicating that the address of the property is the residential address of the owner or owners; requiring Tax Commissioner to develop and implement a computerized system by which an assessor can confirm whether Class II property owners have filed a West Virginia Resident Income Tax Return indicating that the address of their property is their residential address; requiring property owners to provide evidence to justify the classification of their Class II property if their tax returns do not indicate that their residential address is the address of the Class II property; and providing that the return is presumptive evidence that the subject property is owned, used and occupied by the owner exclusively for residential purposes or that farm property is occupied by the owners.
Senate Bill No. 297--A Bill to amend and reenact §18-9D-2, §18-9D-6, §18-9D-8, §18-9D-13 and §18-9D-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9D-4b; and to amend and reenact §29-22- 18a of said code, all relating generally to the School Building Authority; modifying definitions and qualifications of construction projects and major improvement projects; authorizing the School Building Authority to issue bonds by using moneys deposited in the Excess Lottery School Building Debt Service Fund from the State Excess Lottery Fund; providing that moneys from the State Excess Lottery Fund are deposited into the Excess Lottery School Building Debt Service Fund; and clarifying the powers of the authority in issuing bonds.
By Senators Prezioso, Bailey, Edgell, Foster, Hunter, Kessler, Minard, Unger, Deem, Guills, Yoder, Green, Stollings, Jenkins and Plymale:
Senate Bill No. 298--A Bill to amend and reenact §49-1-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the expansion of the definition of "imminent danger to the physical well-being of the child" with regard to child abuse and neglect to include alcohol and substance abuse on the part of the parent or parents, custodian or custodians, or guardian or guardians.
Senate Bill No. 299--A Bill to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §22-29-1, §22-29-2, §22-29-3 and §22-29-4, all relating to the phasing in of requirements for electricity providers to add renewable energy systems to help protect and sustain the environment.
Senate Bill No. 300--A Bill to amend and reenact §24-2-1e and §24-2-11a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to not allowing accelerated rate recovery for adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities; and revising the definition of "need".
By Senators Foster, Plymale and Stollings:
Senate Bill No. 301--A Bill to amend and reenact §15-2A-2, §15-2A-3, §15-2A-4, §15-2A-5, §15-2A-6, §15-2A-6a, §15-2A-6c, §15-2A-6d, §15-2A-7, §15-2A-8, §15-2A-9, §15-2A-10, §15-2A-11, §15-2A-11a, §15-2A-11b, §15-2A-12, §15-2A-13, §15-2A-14, §15-2A-15, §15-2A-17 and §15-2A-19 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to the West Virginia State Police Retirement Fund; adding, deleting and modifying definitions; specifying the title of West Virginia State Police Retirement System; clarifying the usage of the terms "employee", "member" and "retirant or retiree" as defined; clarifying the usage of the terms "fund", "plan", "system" or "retirement" system as defined; clarifying the usage of the term "base salary" as defined; clarifying the usage of the term "agency" as defined; eliminating minimum required eligible direct rollover distributions paid directly to an eligible retirement plan; allowing distributions totaling less than two hundred dollars within the definition of "eligible rollover distribution"; clarifying the usage of the term "surviving spouse" as defined; clarifying surviving spouse payments when calculating the pro rata share of annuity adjustments; specifying the time frame that a retirant may receive deferred annuity payments; clarifying the age requirement for a retirant receiving a duty disability annuity; requiring the base salary of a member receiving a duty disability annuity to be annualized until the member has worked twelve months; specifying the title of the West Virginia Insurance Commission; clarifying the time frame for which a duty disability retirant receives a retirement benefit; specifying that disability petitions certify the job description of an employee applying for a disability retirement; specifying the time frame for receipt of awards and benefits to dependents of deceased employees; clarifying that death awards and benefits be calculated for the last full twelve-month employment period; requiring that death awards and benefits be paid to a named beneficiary or to the estate of the deceased member if there is no surviving spouse or dependents; eliminating duplicate language referring to a single receipt of state retirement benefits; and adding provisions specifying the time frame for receipt of beneficiary payments.
Senator Minard (By Request) offered the following resolution:
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 25--Urging the Government of Turkey to cease its discrimination of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate international recognition, allow ecclesiastical succession and the right to train clergy of all nationalities and respect the property rights and human rights of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Whereas, The See is led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who is the 269th in direct succession to the Apostle Andrew and holds titular primacy as primus inter pares, meaning "first among equals" in the community of Orthodox churches worldwide; and
The Legislature of West Virginia urges the Government of Turkey to cease its discrimination of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate international recognition, allow ecclesiastical succession and the right to train clergy of all nationalities and respect the property rights and human rights of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the United States and Angelo Koukoulis.
Senators Green and Love offered the following resolution:
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 26--Requesting the Division of Natural Resources set a minimum of 14-inch antlers (ear tip to ear tip) on any male deer taken in this state.
Whereas, The business of deer hunting in this state is a multimillion-dollar business which could be better managed to produce higher quality buck deer for the hunters of this state; and
Whereas, Sportsmen and sportswomen spend millions of dollars during the fall deer hunting season which directly contributes to the economy of this state; and
Whereas, West Virginia has some of the most beautiful hunting lands in the nation and this state should encourage hunters from all over the nation to come to West Virginia for a hunting experience which they cannot get in any other state; and
Whereas, The buck deer population needs to be managed to ensure every hunter has the opportunity to take deer they can be proud of; therefore, be it
That the Division of Natural Resources is hereby requested to set a minimum of 14-inch antlers (ear tip to ear tip) on any male deer taken in this state; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Director of the Division of Natural Resources.
Senator Green offered the following resolution:
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 27--Requesting the Division of Natural Resources set a minium length of 12 inches on all species of black bass taken in the lakes, rivers and streams of this state and set a daily limit of six bass per person.
Whereas, Sportsmen and women of this state spend much of their leisure time fishing for bass in lakes, rivers and streams of this state; and
Whereas, The lakes, rivers and streams of this state could be better managed to improve the quality of trophy bass for the many people who fish this state's waters each year; and
Whereas, Many more people would visit this state's beautiful lakes, rivers and streams to fish for bass if the quality and size of the bass were greater; and
Whereas, The "business of bass fishing" could generate significant tourism and economic development in West Virginia if the state's bass fisheries were better managed to produce more trophy bass; therefore, be it
That the Division of Natural Resources is hereby requested to set a minium length of 12 inches on all species of black bass taken in the lakes, rivers and streams of this state and set a daily limit of six bass per person; and, be it
Senators Love, Kessler and Jenkins offered the following resolution:
Senate Resolution No. 6--Designating January 22, 2008, as "Crime Victims Day".
Whereas, The West Virginia Crime Victims Compensation Fund is celebrating "Crime Victims Day" at the Legislature by providing all of the crime victim agencies and individuals who serve victims of crime an opportunity to educate the members of the Legislature and the public about the many services available to assist victims of crime and their families throughout this state; and
Whereas, The many organizations and individuals who provide assistance to victims of crime and their families make enormous contributions to those who have been affected by crime in this state; and
Whereas, West Virginia is proud of the accomplishments and achievements of the many organizations and individuals who serve the needs of victims of crime and appreciates their many contributions to this state's communities; therefore, be it
That the Senate hereby designates January 22, 2008, as "Crime Victims Day"; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Senate expresses its appreciation to the many organizations which serve victims of crime and their families throughout this state and for the dedication of those individuals who serve these organizations; and, be it
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 24, Requesting Joint Committee on Government and Finance study changing civil action venue when state is defendant.
At the request of Senator Helmick, unanimous consent being granted, the resolution was laid over one day, retaining its place on the calendar.
On motion of Senator Chafin, the Senate adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at 11 a.m.