12:05 → 13:02(57s)
Chair (unidentified speaker) called the Workforce Committee meeting to order and directed the clerk to take a silent roll call; a quorum was established.
The West Virginia Senate Workforce Committee met to consider committee substitutes for several bills: SB 233 (polygraph licensure qualifications), SB 396 (West Virginia Job Training and Placement Act allowing qualifying retailers to retain state sales tax for workforce services), and SB 402 (Workforce Readiness and Opportunity Act, creating a microcredential program, broadening apprenticeship tax credits, authorizing portable benefits, and easing military licensure). All three committee substitutes were agreed to and reported to the full Senate, with SB 396 and SB 402 referred first to the Committee on Finance under double-reference. SB 490 was pulled for further work.
