The purpose of this bill is to require a political action committee to disclose the names and addresses of its contributors to the Secretary of State.

The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records.

The purpose of this bill is to balance the interests of current landowners and future landowners to ensure surface, minerals, and forest land may be developed for future economic gain by limiting use restrictions for forest carbon capture and sequestration to a maximum term of 20 years. The bill defines certain terms. The bill requires parties to current and new carbon offset agreements to register with the State Tax Department. The bill requires reports by Division of Forestry and the State Tax Department. The bill authorizes the disclosure of information between the Tax Commissioner and Division of Forestry. The bill imposes excise tax on receipts derived from carbon offset agreements. The bill sets forth reporting requirements. The bill provides an effective date. The bill defines "managed timberland" to exclude timberland that is subject to a carbon offset agreement. The bill specifies application of West Virginia Tax Procedure and Administration Act and West Virginia Tax Crimes and Penalties Act. The bill authorizes promulgation of rules. The bill provides legislative findings and declarations. The bill provides that any covenant, restriction, condition, easement, contract, lease, deed, agreement, option, or other governing document, which is executed or recorded after the effective date, which effectively prohibits or restricts the development of land, minerals, and the harvesting of timber for the purposes of forest carbon capture, carbon offset, and carbon sequestration is void and unenforceable, unless said covenant, restriction, condition, easement, contract, lease, deed, agreement, option, or other governing document is for a maximum term of 20 years. The bill provides that options to renew or continue such arrangements beyond the initial maximum term of 20 years shall be valid only if the consideration is required to be renegotiated to exercise the option.

Recognizing public service of Frances Jones on Mineral County Day at Legislature

The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Volunteer State Defense Guard. The West Virginia National Guard is often called to other duties such as filling roles as corrections officers in West Virginia prisons, filling staffing shortages in our West Virginia hospitals, etc. Knowing that natural disasters often plague our state, West Virginia is left vulnerable when the National Guard is called to other duties. This volunteer state guard will not cost the taxpayers any money.

The purpose of this bill is to update the school aid formula by establishing a minimum net enrollment of 1,200 students for each county.

The purpose of this bill is to amend the timeframe for registration from annually to biennially.

The purpose of this bill is to provide a religious exemption to school attendance vaccines requirements.

The purpose of this bill is to increase the coverage limit and to require the Bureau for Medical Services to require its Medicaid managed care organizations to provide education to Medicaid enrollees regarding the availability of benefits provided in this section beginning on July 1, 2025, and to require reporting.

The purpose of this bill is to create the Equipment Right to Repair Act.

The purpose of this bill is to change the procedure for citations issued by the county litter control officer.

The purpose of this bill is to define veterans' benefits matters and identify actions that constitute representation and compensation for representing a person seeking veterans' benefits. The bill requires that any such representation comply with federal law; that a violation of this section is an unlawful practice and a violation of West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act.

The purpose of this bill is to require a hotel or public lodging establishment to provide annual training regarding human trafficking awareness to employees, and to provide for enforcement and rulemaking.

The purpose of this bill is to remove the option for courts to order services at a higher rate than Medicaid.

The purpose of this bill is to clarify acts that constitute the offenses of obstruction or prevention of election activities and to establish the criminal penalties for those acts.