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CHARLESTON Wednesday was busy in the West Virginia Legislature as the House of Delegates and state Senate met early to get bills and resolutions passed and sent to the opposite chamber for crossover day.
The joint rules of the House and Senate require bills in the chamber of origin to be on third reading on the 50th day of the 60-day legislative session. Any bills that didn’t make it to the opposite chamber are considered dead, though their contents can always be amended into another bill and survive until day 60.
The House and Senate gaveled in at 10 a.m. Wednesday, both getting through their floor agendas by early afternoon.
CHARLESTON Wednesday was busy in the West Virginia Legislature as the House of Delegates and Senate met early to get bills and resolutions passed and sent
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A digital board in the House of Delegates chamber announces the vote totals on the aboveground storage tank bill. (Photo courtesy of WV Legislative Photography)
CHARLESTON The West Virginia House of Delegates met for nearly four hours Wednesday, debating multiple bills dealing with classification of gig workers, COVID-19 liability protections, and exempting some aboveground storage tanks from certain regulations.
The House started its Wednesday floor session at 11 a.m. and adjourned at 2:41 p.m. in one of its lengthiest floor debates as the 2021 legislative session hits the halfway mark today. The House passed four House bills and five state Senate bills.
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CHARLESTON The Republicans in the West Virginia House of Delegates flexed their supermajority muscle in passing a constitutional amendment that makes it clear that the buck stops with the Legislature when it comes to impeachments.
House Joint Resolution 2, providing that courts have no authority or jurisdiction to intervene in or interfere with any impeachment proceedings of the House of Delegates or the Senate, was adopted 78-21.
Joint resolutions require a two-thirds vote by both the House and state Senate, which is 67 members in the House. Not only did HJR 2 easily received the two-thirds vote needed, Democratic delegates Mick Bates, D-Raleigh, and Cody Thompson, D-Randolph, crossed party lines to vote with the Republican supermajority.