Charleston Daily Mail - A group of retirement savings advocates is asking the Legislature to spend the next year studying a way for the state to expand options for people to save for retirement, even if their employer does not currently offer a plan. ReadThe newly formed West Virginia Coalition for Retirement Options made a…
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Charleston Daily Mail - Social workers employed by the state Department of Health and Human Resources may soon be exempt from licensure. ReadThe House Government Organization Committee on Monday advanced Senate Bill 559. It seeks to add DHHR employees with "sufficient standards of qualification, education, training and experience" to a list of others exempted from…
WV Public Broadcasting - At the legislature today, there's a deadline looming. By Wednesday at midnight, all the senate bills must be reported to the house and all the house bills reported to the senate. It makes for long lists of legislation to be considered on both floors. The house today passed a bill that…
SNL Financial - West Virginia coal producers could create between 150 and 196 jobs and provide $34 million in new economic activity if the state were to implement policies that favor in-state coal, a recent report from the West Virginia University Bureau of Business and Economic Research, or BBER, found. Read The report, titled "Government…
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Citing compassion for other human beings, constitutional concerns and no proven financial benefits from drug-testing welfare recipients, all speakers at a public hearing Thursday afternoon in the House of Delegates were against the bill that would make such testing law. ReadHB2021 would require testing Temporary Assistance to Needy Families recipients if…
Charleston Daily Mail - Legislation calling for the drug testing of welfare recipients has drawn ire from interest groups opposed to such laws. ReadThe House Health Committee held a public hearing Thursday on House Bill 2021, which would subject recipients of state and federal public assistance to drug tests. Groups such as ACLU of West…
Charleston Daily Mail - Members of the Senate Interstate Cooperation Committee heard on Wednesday why they should, or shouldn't, support a resolution calling for a constitutional convention. ReadSenate Concurrent Resolution 21, introduced earlier this month, urges Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution that impose fiscal restraint,…
WOWK-TV - If you're among the many West Virginians getting state assistance, the Republican majority in the Legislature wants you to be drug-free. Read/WatchBills introduced in the House and Senate would require drug testing for some people who receive welfare checks.The proposals would require a reasonable suspicion of drug use before a drug test is…
The State Journal - A bill that would repeal the prevailing wage was advanced to a third reading with the right to make amendments in the West Virginia Senate Feb. 11. ReadSenators said they wanted to reach a compromise before passing the legislation, which would eliminate prevailing hourly wage requirements for the construction of pubic…
Charleston Gazette - With less than a week to go before the 2015 deadline to sign up under the Affordable Care Act, enrollment numbers for West Virginia have leveled off, but health officials predict the state will see a surge in sign-ups similar to last year's before the enrollment periods closes on Monday. ReadSunday is…