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The Legislature of West Virginia

Day One of the 2012 Regular Session had its usual mystique with many discussions swirling behind the scenes – Congressional redistricting, upcoming political races, possible legislation (with rumors of forced pooling legislation. . . which Farm Bureau strongly opposes), etc.  Governor Tomblin presented his State of the State Address -   highlights included job creation, positioning West Virginia to attract an ethane “cracker” plant, education reform, improving mine safety, reducing unfunded liability for OPEB (Other Post Employment Benefits), drug testing for taxpayer-funded workplace training programs, etc.

The Legislature of West Virginia UPDATE – February 3, 2012

Bills surfacing on our radar during week four (January 27 – February 3) include:

SB 479 – By Senator Kessler (Mr. President) – Referred to Agriculture, then Judiciary.  The purpose of this bill is to create and fund the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund.  The bill defines the purposes of the fund and requires bookkeeping standards and annual reporting.  The bill also increases certain commercial and pet feed registration fees.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 506 – By Senator Browning – Referred to Agriculture, then Government Organization.  The purpose of this bill is to allow the executive director of a regional development authority, or their designee, to serve on a farmland protection board and to provide an exception to the length of terms of appointment to farmland protection boards for executive directors of county or regional development authorities.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4347 – By Delegates Manypenny, Doyle, Walker and Shaver – Referred to Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, then Judiciary.  The bill would require persons who are not members of the American Association of Professional Landmen to have two years or more of experience in contracting for oil and gas leases before being able to represent lessors in the exploration or development of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4348 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The bill would require revocation of permit and denial of future permits in the event a driller or well operator violates conditions of a road bond or well pad or site operating requirements.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4349 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The bill would require operators to post a bond for each well and to condition the release of the bond both upon performance factors and recompenses to landowners for loss of property and contamination or diminution of water supply.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4350 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to provide landowners of property adjacent to proposed well sites copies of the application, the erosion and sediment control plan and the well plat by personal service, registered mail or other method requiring a receipt or signature confirmation; to provide notice to the public and those required to receive written notice of a proposed permit of their option to request a hearing on a proposed permit; etc.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4352 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The bill would provide counties and municipalities the specific authority to enact zoning ordinances that regulate drilling and hydraulic fracturing activity in the natural gas horizontal well industry.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4353 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to permit mineral leases that are held through fractionalized development to be renegotiated in the event the minerals being extracted have not been in full production for five continuous years after five years for acreage that has been held only by one or more production wells in a unit that does include that acreage.  The bill requires that leases for the extraction of minerals to state with specificity when, or under what conditions, the lease terminates.  The bill also provides that leases may not be held in perpetuity.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4355 – By Delegates Manypenny, Moye, Longstreth, Brown, Doyle, Shaver, Rowan, Sigler, Talbott and Staggers – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to require operators of natural gas wells and surface owners to enter into surface use agreements.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4358 – By Delegates Manypenny, Walker, Rowan, Sigler and Fleischauer – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to compensate surface owners when minerals are extracted from the substrata below their property.  The bill also grants surface owners who have a horizontal well on their property to receive a two percent royalty rate for all minerals extracted from that well that do not lie beneath their property.  Those property owners shall receive a two percent royalty for minerals extracted below the surface of their property.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4359 – By Delegates Manypenny, Doyle, Walker, Shaver, Rowan and Fleischauer – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to require mineral lessors to disclose to surface owners and persons financing the purchase of the surface of the impact the mineral extraction will have on the surface owner and the value of the surface property.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4360 – By Delegates Manypenny, Talbott and Fleischauer – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to establish a cradle to grave monitoring system for withdrawals of water used in the drilling or development of natural wells to the Marcellus Shale geologic formation.  The bill requires the system to be part of the State Water Resources Plan.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4361 – By Delegates Manypenny, Doyle, Walker, Shaver, Rowan, Sigler and Fleischauer – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to create a publicly accessible database of information relevant to all horizontally drilled wells.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4362 – By Delegates Manypenny, Staggers, Sigler, Frazier, Talbott, Longstreth, Doyle, Walker, Shaver and Rowan – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to require the center of all new gas wells to be more than one thousand feet from water wells or developed springs used for human or domestic animal consumption or six hundred twenty-five feet from the edge of the well pad to water wells or developed springs used for human or domestic animal consumption, whichever is further.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4374 – By Delegates Hartman, Williams, C. Miller, Canterbury, Rowan, Walker and Azinger – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The bill would limit the landowner from civil liability for injuries that may occur to person or property on the landowner’s property or surrounding property caused while hunting.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 4375 – By Delegates Hartman, Williams, Ashley, C. Miller, Anderson, Border, Overington, Hamilton, Romine, Rowan and Canterbury – Referred to Judiciary.  The purpose of this bill is to articulate when a possessor of real property may be subject to liability for physical injury or death to a trespasser.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 4386 – By Delegates Manypenny, Staggers and Fleischauer – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The bill addresses water contamination resulting from an oil and gas operation.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4393 – By Delegates Frazier, Pino, Ellem, Caputo, Lane, Manchin, Manypenny and Fleischauer – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to permit surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below their property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien. (similar to HB 2851)  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4394 – By Delegates Manypenny, Fleischauer, Manchin, Swartzmiller, Boggs, Doyle, Perry, Canterbury, Brown, Shaver and Staggers – Referred to Judiciary.  The purpose of this bill is to study injection induced seismic activity associated with horizontal well drilling and waste injection sites, to develop guidelines for monitoring seismic activity and to promulgate rules for implementing a seismic monitoring plan.  WVFB MONITORING.

 

The Legislature of West Virginia UPDATE – January 27, 2012
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Bills surfacing on our radar during week three (January 20 – 27) include:

SB 366 – By Senator Stollings – Referred to Judiciary.  The bill would increase opportunities for WV accredited thoroughbred racehorses at any thoroughbred racetrack that participated in the WV Thoroughbred Development Fund for at least four consecutive years prior to December 31, 1992, by adding one WV accredited race per day and having WV accredited races not count in condition eligibility for open races at that thoroughbred racetrack.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 368 – By Senator Hall – Referred to Transportation and Infrastructure, then Judiciary.
The bill would grant access to unused property of the Department of Highways to real property owners within a one-mile radius of the land for purposes of beautification and other limited uses approved by the commissioner.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 406 – By Senators Kessler (Mr. President), Beach and Wills – Referred to Judiciary.
The bill would protect dogs by creating regulations for commercial dog breeding operations.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 407 – By Senator Laird – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The bill adds coyote and fox to the list of species in which any color of artificial light is permitted for hunting at night.  It further strikes language regarding hunting while intoxicated because WV Code 20-2-57b is more comprehensive.  Lastly, the bill makes reference to Class Y special crossbow hunting permits for disabled persons.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 420 – By Senators Hall, K. Facemyer, Nohe, Barnes and Boley – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to reform the civil justice system.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 421 – By Senators Williams, Sypolt, McCabe, Beach, K. Facemyer, Boley, D. Facemire, Helmick, Miller, Tucker, Laird, Nohe, Green and Barnes – Referred to Agriculture, then Judiciary.  The purpose of the bill is to regulate captive cervid farming as an agricultural enterprise in West Virginia.  WVFB SUPPORTS.  Passed Agriculture, presently in Judiciary.

SJR 8 – By Senators Kessler (Mr. President) and Hall, By Request of the Executive – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of the resolution is to provide for various amendments to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia creating the office of lieutenant governor in the Executive Department, etc.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4265 – By Delegates Manypenny, Talbott, Mahan, Guthrie, Manchin, Barill, Barker, Walker, Fleischauer and Doyle – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The bill requires flowback plans for all work on oil and gas wells.  The bill also requires the proper disposal of drilling mud.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4267 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to study the impact of shale gas development on human and environmental health.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4287 – By Delegates Staggers and L. Phillips (By Request of the Division Motor Vehicles) – Referred to Roads and Transportation, then Judiciary.  The purpose of the bill is to expand the definition of Class A vehicles to include larger pickup type trucks registered at more than 8,000 pounds, but less than 10,001 pounds.  This change would allow these vehicles to display special license plates and allow sheriffs to renew these registrations in their offices.  The bill also designates class farm trucks as Class X.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Roads and Transportation, presently in Judiciary.

HB 4298 – By Delegates Hatfield, Skaff, Armstead, Poore, Lane and Nelson – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The bill would limit the amount that property can increase in value at a reassessment to ten percent of the previously assessed amount, provided that the increase in assessment is not due to improvements made to the property.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4322 – By Delegates Talbott, Crosier, Romine, Shaver, Hamilton, Azinger and Ireland (By Request of Division of Natural Resources) – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The bill adds coyote and fox to the list of species in which any color artificial light is permitted for hunting at night.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Natural Resources, presently in Judiciary.

 

The Legislature of West Virginia UPDATE – January 13-20, 2012
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Bills surfacing on our radar during week two (January 13-20) include:

SB 190 – By Senators Palumbo, Minard, Foster, Nohe, McCabe, Jenkins and Klempa – Referred to Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to limit the amount a property reappraisal can increase over the previous amount and to clarify that the limitation does not apply to natural resources property.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 200 – By Senators Williams, K. Facemyer, Fanning, Helmick and Miller – Referred to Energy, Industry and Mining, then Finance.  The purpose of the bill is to eliminate the timber severance tax for an additional three years.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

SB 202 – By Senators Williams, K. Facemyer, Fanning, Helmick and Miller – Referred to Natural Resources.  The purpose of this bill is to permit the Division of Forestry to enter into stewardship contracts and agreements with the US Forest Service.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Natural Resources, on 1st Reading 1-27-12.  Passed Senate, presently in House Government Organization.

SB 207 – By Senators Kessler (Mr. President) and Hall, By Request of the Executive – Referred to Natural Resources, then Finance.  The purpose of the bill is to extend the moratorium on the regular severance tax on the privilege of severing timber until such time as the additional “Workers’ Compensation Debt Reduction Act” tax on the privilege of severing timber expires.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 228 – By Senator Minard – Referred to Agriculture, then Judiciary.  The bill authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the inspection of meat and poultry.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Agriculture, presently in Judiciary.

SB 229 – By Senator Minard – Referred to Finance, then Judiciary.  The bill authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the labeling of imported honey, honey products or honey bee by-products and adulterated honey, honey products or honey bee by-products.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Finance, presently in Judiciary.

SB 230 – By Senator Minard – Referred to Agriculture, then Judiciary.  The bill authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Nutrient Management Certification.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Agriculture, presently in Judiciary.

SB 265 – By Senator Minard – Referred to Agriculture, then Finance.  The bill would authorize the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sediment control during commercial timber harvesting operations – licensing.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Agriculture with amendment, presently in Finance, then Judiciary.

SB 266 – By Senator Minard – Referred to Agriculture, then Finance and Judiciary.  The bill would authorize the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sediment control during commercial timber harvesting operations – logger certification.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Agriculture with amendment and passed Finance, presently in Judiciary. 

SB 367 – By Senators Williams, Sypolt, Beach and Jenkins – Referred to Judiciary.  The bill relates to liability of real property possessor for trespasser harm.  WVFB SUPPORTS.  Passed Judiciary, to be placed on Senate Calendar.  Passed Senate, presently in House Judiciary.  (Same as HB 4375)

HB 4080 – By Delegates Kump, Canterbury and Howell – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The bill would create one hundred single member districts after the 2020 census.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 4087 – By Mr. Speaker, (Mr. Thompson) and Delegate Armstead [By Request of the Executive] – Referred to Finance.  The bill would extend the moratorium on the regular severance tax on the privilege of severing timber until such time as the additional “Workers’ Compensation Debt Reduction Act” tax on the privilege of severing timber expires.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4094 – By Delegates Michael, Hartman, Caputo, Romine and Williams – Referred to Finance.  The bill would eliminate the timber severance tax for an additional three years.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 4095 – By Delegates Michael, Hartman, Caputo, Romine and Williams – Referred to Government Organization, then Judiciary.  The bill would permit the Division of Forestry to enter into stewardship contracts and agreements with the US Forest Service.  WVFB MONITORING.
HB 4135 – By Delegates Brown, Poling (D), Fleischauer, Talbott and Overington – Referred to Agriculture, then Judiciary.  The bill authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the inspection of meat and poultry.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Agriculture, presently in Judiciary.

HB 4157 – By Delegates Brown, Poling (D), Fleischauer and Talbott – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The bill would authorize the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sediment control during commercial timber harvesting operations – licensing.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Natural Resources with amendment, presently in Judiciary.

HB 4158 – By Delegates Brown, Poling (D), Fleischaauer and Talbott – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The bill would authorize the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sediment control during commercial timber harvesting operations – logger certification.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Natural Resources with amendment, presently in Judiciary.

HB 4181 – By Delegates Brown, Poling (D), Fleischauer and Talbott – Referred to Agriculture, then Judiciary.  The bill would authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the labeling of imported honey, honey products or honey bee by-products and adulterated honey, honey products or honey bee by-products.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Agriculture, presently in Judiciary.

HB 4182 – By Delegates Brown, Poling (D), Fleischauer and Talbott – Referred to Agriculture, then Judiciary.  The bill would authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Nutrient Management Certification.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Agriculture, presently in Judiciary.

HB 4193 – By Delegates Brown, Poling (D), Fleischauer, Talbott and Overington – Referred to Government Organization, then Judiciary.  The bill would authorize the Board of Registration for Foresters to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the certification of registration of foresters.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4194 – By Delegates Brown, Poling (D), Fleischauer and Talbott – Referred to Government Organization, then Judiciary.  The bill would authorize the Board of Registration for Foresters to promulgate a legislative rule relating to a schedule of fees.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4195 – By Delegates Brown, Poling (D), Fleischauer, Talbott and Overington – Referred to Government Organization, then Judiciary.  The bill would authorize the Board of Registration for Foresters to promulgate a legislative rule relating to a code of ethics.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4237 – By Delegates Butcher, Poling (M), Barill, Poling (D), Williams, Swartzmiller, Manypenny, Michael and Phillips (R) – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The bill would include white-tailed deer and its subspecies in the definition of “nontraditional” agriculture.  WVFB MONITORING.

 

The Legislature of West Virginia UPDATE – January 11 -13, 2011
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Bills surfacing on our radar screen during week one (January 11-13) consisted largely of carryover bills from last year:

SB 16 – By Senator Minard – Referred to Agriculture, then Finance.  The bill addresses a tax check-off  program for Jackson’s Mill 4-H Camp.  WVFB SUPPORTS.  Passed Agriculture, presently in Finance.

SB 57 – By Senator Beach – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The bill provides additional protections for the state forests and other public lands where timbering operations are conducted.  WVFB OPPOSES.

SB 61 – By Senator Barnes – Referred to Natural Resources, then Finance.  The bill clarifies the measure of the severance tax imposed on the privilege of producing timber in the case of a person who does not sell the timber he or she severs and produces, but further processes that timber into other wood products for sale, profit or commercial use.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 75 – By Senator Unger – Referred to Government Organization, then Judiciary.  The bill creates the Equine Rescue Facilities Act, authorizing rulemaking and licensing, and setting penalties for violations.  WVFB MONITORING.  Assigned to Agriculture and passed, presently in Government Organization.

SB 95 – By Senators Sypolt, Miller, D. Facemire and Nohe – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The bill limits the landowner from civil liability for injuries that may occur to person or property on the landowner’s property or surrounding property caused while hunting.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

SB 121 – By Senator Sypolt – Referred to Government Organization, then Finance.  The bill makes English the official language of West Virginia.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

SB 151 – By Senator Barnes – Referred to Agriculture, then Natural Resources.  The bill removes the exception that white-tailed deer shall not be included in the definition of “nontraditional agriculture.”  WVFB SUPPORTS.

SB 157 – By Senator Klempa – Referred to Energy, Industry & Mining, then Finance.
The purpose of the bill is to reallocate and dedicate three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues up to $20 million annually to the oil and gas producing counties of origin and their respective municipalities.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 180 – By Senators K. Facemyer, McCabe, Sypolt, Miller and Wills – Referred to Energy, Industry and Mining, then Judiciary.  The bill would grant surface owner the right of first refusal to purchase mineral estate.  WVFB MONITORING.

SB 184 – By Senators Kessler (Mr. President), Jenkins, Laird, Stollings and Wills – Referred to Agriculture, then Finance.  The bill creates the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund.  WVFB MONITORING.

SJR 2 – By Senator Sypolt – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution in order to prohibit the state from recognizing same sex marriages.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 2015 – By Delegates Mahan, Fleischauer, Overington and D. Poling – Referred to Agriculture, then Judiciary.  The bill addresses regulations for commercial dog breeding operations.  WVFB MONITORING,

HB 2027 – By Delegates Manypenny, Frazier and Fleischauer – Referred to Government Organization, then Judiciary.  The bill requires county commissions to adopt and implement county farmland protection programs.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2150 – By Delegates Shaver and Williams – Referred to Roads and Transportation, then Judiciary.  The bill would allow mini-trucks to be licensed in West Virginia for limited use on public highways.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2153 – By Delegates Iaquinta, Talbott, Martin, Fragale and Miley – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The purpose of the bill is to permit the DEP to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of twenty-five or more tires.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2178 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Agriculture, then Finance.  The bill creates the “Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act.”  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2179 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Agriculture, then Finance.  The bill creates the “Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act.”  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2180 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Agriculture, then Education.  The bill creates the “Genetically Engineered Crop and Animal Farmer Protection Act.”  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2276 – By Delegate Azinger – Referred to Judiciary, then Finance.  The bill provides a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence of an individual in any one year.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2409 – By Delegates Ireland, Hamilton, Romine and C. Miller – Referred to Judiciary.  The bill would make English the official state language.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 2488 – By Delegates Sobonya, Sumner, C. Miller, Rowan, Duke and Ellem – Referred to Judiciary.  The bill would provide for the election of all justices to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and all circuit court judges on a nonpartisan basis.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 2497 – By Delegate Kump – Referred to Judiciary.  The bill would provide for the election of Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General, Commissioner of Agriculture and all justices to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on a nonpartisan basis.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2527 – By Delegates Michael, Hartman, Crosier, Williams and D. Poling – Referred to Natural Resources, then Judiciary.  The purpose of this bill is to regulate captive cervid farming as an agricultural enterprise in West Virginia.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 2657 – By Delegates T. Campbell, Crosier, Canterbury, J. Miller and Moye – Referred to Judiciary.  The bill creates the West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2683 – By Delegates Evans, Rowan Canterbury, Staggers, Doyle and Azinger – Referred to Agriculture, then Finance.  The purpose of this bill is to provide for aged or disabled farmers to continue to receive the benefit of having their farm land appraised as farm property after they cease farming due to age or other disability.  WVFB MONITORING.  Passed Agriculture, presently in Finance.

HB 2753 – By Delegates Ireland, Longstreth, L. Phillips, Hall, R. Phillips, Canterbury, Storch, Snuffer and Savilla – Referred to Government Organization.  The bill clarifies the requirements for and scope of practice of registered veterinary technicians.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 2851 – By Delegates Manypenny, Fleischauer and Martin – Referred to Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, then Judiciary.  The purpose of the bill is to permit surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject to a tax lien.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 2883 – By Delegates Mahan, Guthrie, Fragale and Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary.  The bill creates regulations for commercial dog breeding operations.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 2944 – By Delegates Hunt, Poore, Brown, Skaff, Hatfield, Wells, Guthrie, Walters, Lane, Nelson and Armstead – Referred to Finance.  The purpose of the bill is to cap a property tax increase resulting from an increase from the three-year reappraisal at five percent of the previous years property tax assessment.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 3083 – By Delegates Fragale, Miley, Iaquinta and Smith – Referred to Natural Resources, then Finance.  The bill creates a tax check-off program for Jackson’s Mill 4-H Camp.  WVFB SUPPORTS.

HB 4066 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary.  Bill relates to ground water contamination and spills associated with the stimulation of wells using the fracking process.  WVFB MONITORING.

HB 4067 – By Delegate Manypenny – Referred to Judiciary.  Requiring a driller or owner of a natural gas well who contaminates a groundwater aquifer to remediate the aquifer until it meets the standards of the Clean Water Act.  WVFB MONITORING.