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February 26, 2019 by WVCBP
Medicaid Work Requirements Bill Heads to House Floor

Charleston Gazette-Mail - The House of Delegates is set to vote on a bill that would require Medicaid recipients to work, train, volunteer or — as amended Monday evening — attend drug treatment for 20 hours a week in order to keep their health care coverage. Read full article. House Bill 3136 is scheduled for third…

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February 21, 2019 by WVCBP
House Finance Advances Medicaid Work Requirement Bill

Charleston Gazette-Mail - Poor West Virginians who get health care coverage through Medicaid would have to work, volunteer or train for a job under a bill that originated and advanced in the House Finance Committee on Wednesday. Read full article. With a 14-9 vote, the committee advanced the bill to the full House of Delegates for…

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February 21, 2019 by WVCBP
W.Va. House May Pursue Work Requirements for Medicaid

WV Metro News - West Virginia’s Legislature is considering joining a handful of states that have work requirements for people on Medicaid. Read full article. The House Finance Committee took up the issue Wednesday afternoon as a bill originating from the committee, meaning that few observers were up to speed on the ins and outs prior…

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February 20, 2019 by WVCBP
Public Hearing Held on Convention of States Resolutions

Morgantown Dominion Post, West Virginia Metro News - Sixteen people turned out for an early Tuesday public hearing on three House resolutions to urge Congress to call a convention of states to consider constitutional amendments. Read full article. Ten people supported the amendments, six opposed them. Article V of the U.S. Constitution allows two-thirds of the…

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February 15, 2019 by WVCBP
Gazette Editorial: How Can a ‘Future Fund’ Help if it’s Not Funded?

Charleston Gazette-Mail - Is it really a “Future Fund” if there’s no funding in it? Read full article. That was a question Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward Jr. asked Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy, earlier this week on our Mountain State Morning podcast. Boettner’s agency had pushed for the…

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February 15, 2019 by WVCBP
Gazette Editorial: How Can a ‘Future Fund’ Help If It’s Not Funded?

Charleston Gazette - Is it really a “Future Fund” if there’s no funding in it? Read full editorial. That was a question Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward Jr. asked Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy, earlier this week on our Mountain State Morning podcast. Boettner’s agency had pushed for…

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February 13, 2019 by WVCBP
Legislators Could Fix Water Quality in Southern WV. Will They?

Charleston Gazette-Mail - This week on the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Mountain State Morning, we’re looking at whether senators from Southern West Virginia might act on the region’s water crisis. Also: A look at "Falling Short," a report from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Listen

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February 11, 2019 by WVCBP
WV House Hosts Two Public Education Hearings

WOWK - The House chamber was packed for the first hearing, which began at 8 Monday morning. Dozens of educators, parents, administrators and lawmakers all debated both for and against the bill. The biggest concerns remain about school choice and items such as Education Savings Accounts and charter schools. Watch/read. "An aattck on all educators as…

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February 11, 2019 by WVCBP
Report: WV’s Shale Industry has Fallen Short of Economic Expectations

WV News - Experts say West Virginia’s oil and gas industry has failed to live up to economic expectations due to the falling price of natural gas, which has cut into the industry’s profits and under-delivered state tax revenues. Read full article. Although the state has experienced a sixfold increase in natural gas production in the…

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February 10, 2019 by WVCBP
WV Senate Explores Water Infrastructure Funding Fix

Charleston Gazette-Mail - With pipes from hundreds of water systems in the state continuing to crumble beneath residents’ feet as their expiration dates creep closer and closer, the West Virginia Senate is entertaining a bill — the first of its kind to be introduced in the Legislature — to try and tackle one of the…

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