With less than a month remaining in the current legislative session, Webster County House of Delegate member Dana Lynch has penned his name as a sponsor to 48 bills still pending for a vote.
Of the 48 bills he sponsored, only five have so far made their way out of legislative committees and are likely to be voted on by the House.
Three bills related to the teachers' and emergency medical services' retirement systems, one bill holding liable any participating public employer owing delinquent retirement contributions, and one bill relating to distribution of state funds to volunteer fire departments are out of their respective committees and will soon be voted on by the full House of Delegates.
Here are some bills of note which are still in committee:
#2535-provides that the State, and not the federal government, would solely be responsible for environmental laws regarding the State's coal and gas industries;
#2589-repeals the section requiring a license to sell drug paraphernalia;
#2602-providing full faith and credit to nonresidents who have permits or licenses to carry handguns in their states;
#2757-to protect the public by providing a private cause of action seeking euthanasia of a dog that has attacked a person and caused damages in an amount of $1,000 or greater or has attacked a person and, within the previous twenty-four months, had engaged in a separate attack;
#2820-prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission;
#2866-providing an exception to allow a resident of a dwelling house to discharge a firearm in a lawful manner within five hundred feet;
#2887-increasing salaries of county elected officials;
#2953-raising the minimum wage to $8.50 per hour;
#2967-prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon; and
#3019-to clarify the circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting or engaging in other outdoor recreational activities.
Three bills related to the teachers' and emergency medical services' retirement systems, one bill holding liable any participating public employer owing delinquent retirement contributions, and one bill relating to distribution of state funds to volunteer fire departments are out of their respective committees and will soon be voted on by the full House of Delegates.
Here are some bills of note which are still in committee:
#2535-provides that the State, and not the federal government, would solely be responsible for environmental laws regarding the State's coal and gas industries;
#2589-repeals the section requiring a license to sell drug paraphernalia;
#2602-providing full faith and credit to nonresidents who have permits or licenses to carry handguns in their states;
#2757-to protect the public by providing a private cause of action seeking euthanasia of a dog that has attacked a person and caused damages in an amount of $1,000 or greater or has attacked a person and, within the previous twenty-four months, had engaged in a separate attack;
#2820-prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission;
#2866-providing an exception to allow a resident of a dwelling house to discharge a firearm in a lawful manner within five hundred feet;
#2887-increasing salaries of county elected officials;
#2953-raising the minimum wage to $8.50 per hour;
#2967-prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon; and
#3019-to clarify the circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting or engaging in other outdoor recreational activities.
Delegate Lynch can be contacted at:
Capitol Office:
Room 200E-C, Building 1State Capitol Complex
Charleston, WV 25305
Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3916
Home:
176 Woodplant Road
Webster Springs, WV, 26288
Home Phone: (304) 847-7233
Business Phone: (304) 644-1949
For a complete list of the bills sponsored by Delegate Lynch, please click on this link:
#2887 seems to pose an issue in my head. Pay raises for county elected officals while counties have outragious deficits? I say that the ones slacking on their elected dities get a pay cut and we all know there are are few in every county. And were definatly not in a good time to be giving pay raises with any kind of deficit.
ReplyDeleteYea pay raises for elected officials. The old I scratch your back you scratch mine. That's what Webster County needs since the talk is the workers loosing a days pay each pay period. Nobody has ever taken a job and then find out at pay time what their pay was. You know what your pay is before taking the job. All elected officials here make at least double if not more than the average person. If you can't live in Webster County on your 48,000+ a year salaries better find you another line of work.
ReplyDeleteI believe that ALL pay raises should be put on the BALLOT and let the people paying the taxes decide.
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