Flood Recovery & Resilience

The purpose of this bill is to implement a wearable panic alert system, to be known as Alyssa's law, in all schools in the state.

The purpose of this bill is to provide that military protection orders may be considered as evidence of need for an emergency protective order or personal safety order and to require law enforcement to make certain notifications when arresting someone who has a military protective order entered against them in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center database.

The purpose of this bill is to require utility companies to expand the integrated resource plans filed with the Public Service Commission to include comprehensive analyses and descriptions and describe current and potential future uses of advanced transmission technologies that detail economic and technological feasibility, optimization, reliability, and resiliency, and list other technologies designed to increase and optimize efficiency, safety, reliability, resilience, and capacity.

The purpose of this bill is to create the Substance Abuse Intervention Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for involuntary treatment for a substance use disorder and sets forth the rights of a patient. The bill establishes criteria for involuntary treatment. The bill creates a petition for 60-day and 360-day involuntary treatment and a guarantee for costs. The bill provides for proceedings for involuntary treatment, describes the duties of court, and disposition. The bill sets forth a 72-hour emergency involuntary treatment. The bill describes the failure to attend e…

The purpose of this bill is to extend the West Virginia Invests Grant Program to an associate degree or certificate in a post-secondary program for emergency medical services.

The purpose of this bill is to create the Small Town Main Street Recovery Act.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to pharmacist recovery networks.This section is new; therefore,

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency temporary permits to practice during States of Emergency or States of Preparedness.This section is new; therefore,

The purpose of this bill is to require mandatory mine safety programs to promulgate rules that provide for the designation of first responders from the crew working in the mine trained to prevent, detect, and fight fires, as well as responding to emergencies, emergency mine evacuation, communication, and assistance and cooperation with mines rescue crews and teams.

The purpose of this bill is to establish comprehensive protections against telephone solicitation fraud, spoofing, and abuse; to require modern safeguards by telecommunications providers; to impose strong penalties on violators; and to direct enforcement proceeds to local fire and emergency medical.

The purpose of this bill is to provide fairness in the application of the special emergency ambulance service fee by ensuring that small lodging businesses such as cabin and campsite owners are treated equitably with hotels and motels and not charged disproportionately high fees relative to their capacity and economic scale.

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit out-of-network emergency medical services agencies from balance billing a covered enrollee in a health insurance plan for ground ambulance services. The bill establishes the minimum payment to be made by an insurer to an out-of-network emergency medical services agency for ambulance services. The bill requires payment by the insurer directly to the out-of-network emergency medical services agency and the prompt payment of clean claims.

The purpose of this bill is to require the county commissions to provide ambulance service to all residents and to submit a yearly report to the Office of Emergency Medical Services on the funds expended the year prior on emergency ambulance services.

The purpose of this bill is to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students in public schools.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Superintendents of the county school districts or the local School Improvement Committees to apply to the School Building Authority for emergency funding to remediate hazards from natural processes.

The purpose of this bill is to establish a central reception center and emergency resource homes for foster children and eliminating the practice of placing children in hotels due to lack of foster care placements.

The purpose of this bill is to repeal a provision of the code relating to the limitation on bringing an action to enter upon or recover lands.

The purpose of this bill is to require medical examiners to review medical and immunization records and document any immunizations or emergency countermeasures given within 90 days before their death of any person under age 20 who died unexpectedly and includes penalties for medical examiners who fail to comply with these requirements.

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that protections are in place to protect religious services during a declared state of emergency by the Governor or other declarations by the executive branch that would impose restrictions upon such houses of worship.

The purpose of this bill is to create an incentive for employers to hire people who are pursuing a formal program of recovery from substance abuse issues by allowing the employer to claim a tax credit for employing eligible individuals, with limits based upon the employer's total number of employees overall. The bill provides for recapture. Finally, the bill provides for an effective date.

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit any governmental entity from charging fees for stormwater, rain, or runoff from real property.

The purpose of this bill is to require a full legislative vote regarding all Gubernatorial declarations of a state of preparedness or state of emergency.

The purpose of this bill is to increase the frequency that the State Resiliency Officer updates the Flood Resiliency Plan, add reporting requirements, and require the State Resiliency Officer to report to certain legislative committees.

Relating to providing for condition-based emergency funding for a financially distressed county.

The purpose of this bill is to establish a court fee for all criminal violations to fund grants to equip and train emergency medical service providers and personnel; and to provide that local emergency medical service providers will receive grants on a 70%-30% matching basis, with the local provider providing 30% of the total funds.

The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the Disaster Recovery Acceleration Act.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Resiliency Officer to disburse funds from the West Virginia Flood Resiliency Trust Fund, upon the approval of the State Resiliency Office Board.

The purpose of this bill is to enable the PSC to authorize accelerated rate recovery for advanced transmission technology projects.

The purpose of this bill is to limit the number of permits to construct wind power plants, wind power farms, or "windmills" for power generally in West Virginia; to provide that for each new wind powered facility built in West Virginia, there is an offset in the amount of taxes paid by new and existing coal fired power plants; and to ensure that coal remains the primary source of power in West Virginia during emergency weather events.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency medical services.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize county commissions to impose an emergency medical services tax.

The purpose of this bill is to quantify and ensure fair workers' compensation rates and to develop a more equitable method of tracking and billing for the various classifications within volunteer fire departments and emergency rescue personnel.

The purpose of this bill is to clarify that an emergency medical services agency designated by a county commission to provide emergency response through a county emergency dispatch center qualifies as a participating public employer in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Emergency Response Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency planning and community right-to-know.

The purpose of this bill is to permit female inmates to become members of the state convict road force.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the promulgation of rules, to implement a central purchasing program to reduce the cost of supplies by purchasing in bulk or in a discounted format for volunteer fire fighters and emergency medical services first responders.

The purpose of this bill is to establish the HALO law.