Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Tuesday, February 24, 2026

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Release Date: 02/23/2026

Contact: Jacque Bland at (304) 357-7999

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Senate Calendar and Committee Schedule for Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 – 42nd Day of Session

The Senate will convene at 11 a.m.

Senate Calendar

Scheduled Committee Meetings

9:30 a.m.: Education (451M)

SB 1048: Transferring responsibility of school position eliminations to WV Board of Education

SB 1004: Adding voter approval requirement to close or consolidate schools

SB 929: Requiring State Auditor issue notice of noncompliance to county boards for untimely reports

SB 1020: Allowing up to five educational leave days within definition of "excused absence"

9:30 a.m.: Government Organization (208W)

Com. Sub. for SB 587: Adjusting salary schedule for elected county officials

Com. Sub. for SB 1006: Providing equal share of funds from fire and casualty premium tax to all departments

Com. Sub. for SB 651: Relating to sale of certain properties subject to delinquent tax liens

SB 1015: Establishing Drainage Relief Fund

Com. Sub. for SB 762: Relating to comprehensive reform of state’s water infrastructure systems

Com. Sub. for SB 701: Relating to authority of sheriff's commission for collection of taxes

10:30 a.m.: Health and Human Resources Subcommittee on SB 114, Paid Parental Leave Act (Senate Clerk’s Conference Room, 215M)

1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources (451M)

SB 1036: Creating Sustainable Child-Serving Workforce and Foster Care Modernization Act

SB 44: Relating to sale of homemade food items

SB 619: Creating Stop the Bleed Act

SB 906: Permitting lawful prescription of crystalline polymorph psilocybin under FDA recommendations

SB 993: Providing requirements for midwife licensure

SB 1003: Improving access to medical services in rural areas

SB 1055: Conducting rate study for substance use disorder

SB 744: Relating to Critical Incident Review Team

SB 897: Relating to licensure and certification of alcohol and drug counselors

1 p.m.: Economic Development (208W)

Com. Sub. for SB 939: Creating WV Reshoring Manufacturing Act

SB 893: Providing tax credits for expenditures and activities related to biochar manufacturing

Com. Sub. for SB 1062: Creating TEAM-WV

3 p.m.: Finance (451M)

Com. Sub. for SB 676: Allowing certain Capitol police officers to participate in WV State Police Retirement System

Com. Sub. for SB 977: Creating benefit for duty-related partial disability

Com. Sub. for SB 978: Authorizing certain municipalities to become members of Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System

Com. Sub. for SB 657: Creating Cohen Craddock Student Athlete Safety Act

Com. Sub. for SB 697: Relating to state road system

3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W)

SB 901: Creating truancy pre-trial diversion program

SB 541: Requiring circuit courts make certain findings fact and conclusions of law as it relates to court’s order

SB 523: Increase circumstances where Department of Human Services is required to seek termination of parental rights

Com. Sub. for HB 4022: CPS Allocation

SJR 8: Sheriff's Succession Amendment

SJR 21: Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Amendment

** Committee times and agendas are subject to change **

Senate Resolutions to be Introduced Tuesday, February 24, 2026

SR 49: Commending volunteers for their recovery efforts for flooding at Chief Logan State Park (Phillips and Z. Maynard)

Committee Action on Bills from Monday, February 23, 2026

1 p.m.: Transportation and Infrastructure

Com Sub. for SB 691: Relating to utility lines on DOH rights-of-way

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

SB 1059: Relating to agreements between solid waste motor carriers and commercial customers

Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 979: Requiring Division of Highways publish project bids on its website

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 982: Creating Neighborhood Access Road Program

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

1 p.m.: Workforce

Originating SCR 1: Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study the effectiveness and efficiency of the Public Service Commission

Originating concurrent resolution reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it be adopted

Com. Sub. for SB 1038: Adjusting salaries for administrative law judges employed in WorkForce WV Board of Review

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 1053: Authorizing Unemployment Automation and Administration Fund to modernize and enhance WorkForce West Virginia

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

2 p.m.: Pensions

Com. Sub. for SB 997: Allowing certain hospital staff members to begin withdrawing from retirement benefits in certain circumstances

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 977: Creating benefit for duty-related partial disability

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 978: Authorizing certain municipalities to become members of Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 1035: Suspending contribution of courts in judicial retirement system until certain conditions are met

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 676: Placing members of Division of Protective Services under state police retirement system

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

2 p.m.: Energy, Industry and Mining

Eng. Com. Sub. for HB 4026: Relating to expanding the requirements for integrated resource plans utility companies must file with the Public Service Commission

Bill, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 23: Relating to taxation of wind power projects

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 420: West Virginia First Energy Act

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 1042: Requiring minimum ventilation quantity of 3,000 cubic feet in underground mines

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Finance

Com. Sub. for Com. Sub. for SB 617: Banking and Financial Services Provider Protections for Eligible Adults from Financial Exploitation

Committee substitute for the committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 745: Relating to requirements for school nutrition programs

Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

SB 950: Relating to mileage and expenses of judges

Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 580: Updating practice act for WV Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Com. Sub. for SB 774: Allowing certain county EMS officers to participate in EMS Retirement System

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

3 p.m.: Judiciary

Com. Sub. for SB 986: Creating criminal penalties for child torture

Committee substitute referred to subcommittee – Senators Weld (Chair), Garcia, Rucker, Deeds, Chapman appointed

SB 197: Relating to crime of sexual abuse by parent, guardian, custodian, or person in position of trust to child

Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

SB 718: Increasing pay for magistrates

Bill reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 540: Relating to body-worn cameras for CPS workers

Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 399: Creating Bring Them Home Fund

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for HB 4354: Relating to necessity allowance

Committee substitute, as amended, reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass; second reference to Finance

Com. Sub. for SB 1029: Providing parents plain-language statements of immediate rights and ongoing rights

Committee substitute reported to the full Senate with the recommendation it do pass

Committee Action on Bills from Saturday, February 21, 2026

No Senate Committees met on Saturday, February 21, 2026.

Bills that Have Passed the Senate as of Monday, February 23, 2026 (140 – 131 Senate; 9 House)

Bills that have Completed Legislation as of Monday, February 23, 2026 (14 – 7 Senate; 7 House)

SB 1: Small Business Growth Act (Signed, 02-23)

SB 207: Clarifying sheriff's compensation for collection of taxes (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

SB 208: Exempting certain military records from public release (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

SB 309: Authorizing DOT to promulgate legislative rules (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

SB 393: Updating corporate net income tax definitions (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

SB 400: Updating personal income tax definitions and provision of law relating to gaming and gambling losses (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

SB 692: Authorizing green flashing warning lights on DOH vehicles (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

HB 4088: Relating to certified public accountants (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

HB 4196: To offer long-acting reversible contraception to patients receiving methadone and suboxone at the treatment facility for the methadone and suboxone (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

HB 4335: Relating to Medicaid providers (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

HB 4696: Authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to deposit funds granted pursuant to federal programs (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

HB 4474: Extending the Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council sunset date (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

HB 4740: Statutory Commitments in Rural Health Transformation Program (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

HB 4982: Make West Virginia Healthy Act of 2026 (Completed legislation; awaiting action by the Governor)

Resolutions that Have Completed Legislation as of Monday, February 23, 2026 (4 – 1 Senate; 3 House)

SCR 1: Requesting DOH name certain transportation infrastructure (Adopted, 01-29)

HCR 1: Extending an invitation to His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver an address to the Legislature and raising a Joint Assembly therefor (Adopted, 01-14)

HCR 2: Amending Rule 31 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates (Adopted, 01-14)

HCR 3: House Infrastructure Naming Resolution (Adopted, 01-29)

Bills Signed by the Governor as of Monday, February 23, 2026 (1 – 1 Senate)

SB 1: Small Business Growth Act (Signed, 02-23)

Committee times and agendas are subject to change. Follow @WVSenClerk on Twitter for updates.

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