Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Committee Votes Roundup topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Votes at a glance: Senate Finance Committee reports multiple House bills and rules bundles to full Senate
Summary
The West Virginia Senate Finance Committee by voice vote reported multiple committee substitutes and administrative rule packages to the full Senate with recommendations that they pass.
At its meeting the West Virginia Senate Finance Committee voted by voice vote to report several committee substitutes and rule packages to the full Senate with recommendations that they pass. Most votes were voice votes with the chair declaring "the ayes have it." The following items were reported, with brief notes drawn from committee discussion and counsel summaries.
Votes at a glance
- Committee substitute for House Bill 20 21 — Counsel explained pending amendments (a definition inserting a surviving spouse) from the Committee on the Military; amendment adopted and the committee reported the bill to the full Senate with recommendation that it pass (voice vote; chair declared ayes have it).
- Committee substitute for House Bill 23 51 — Counsel said the Committee on Health and Human Resources supplied an amendment correcting two internal cross references; amendment adopted and the committee reported the bill to the full Senate with recommendation that it pass (voice vote; chair declared ayes have it).
- Committee substitute for House Bill 32 0 9 — Counsel said the purpose is to set school counselor ratios (2 counselors per 1,000 students, with permissive county and elementary/middle school language); committee voted to report the substitute to the full Senate with recommendation that it pass (voice vote; chair declared ayes have it).
- Committee substitute for House Bill 35 17 — See separate article: establishes oversight and recovery processes for fiscally distressed local governments and municipal dissolution procedures; committee adopted a strike-and-insert amendment and reported the bill to the full Senate with recommendation that it pass.
- Committee substitute for House Bill 30 15, as amended — Committee reported the substitute to the full Senate with recommendation that it pass (voice vote; chair declared ayes have it). (Specifics discussed earlier in meeting were technical; counsel referenced title amendment.)
- Committee substitute for House Bill 22 67 (Department of Revenue rules bundle) — Bundle of 12 rules from ABCC, Insurance Commission, Lottery Commission and Tax Division; committee adopted Judiciary and Finance Committee amendments and reported the bundle to the full Senate with recommendation that it pass (voice vote; chair declared ayes have it). See separate article for details.
- Committee substitute for House Bill 31 74 — The committee adopted a strike-and-insert amendment and reported the substitute as last amended by the Committee on Finance to the full Senate with recommendation that it pass. Counsel summarized requirements for municipalities to determine extension costs for water/sewer customers, grant-application procedures, PSC review for large-quantity users, inspection frequency limits for low-hazard water systems, backflow inspection frequency, and monitoring-well requirements for large withdrawals in karst terrain.
Not taken up
- Committee substitute for House Bill 33 04 — Counsel stated the committee would not take that bill up at this time.
Votes were taken by voice on the floor of the committee; individual roll-call tallies were not provided in the transcript. Where amendments were discussed, the committee adopted them before reporting the bills or rules bundles to the full Senate.
