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West Virginia Capitol Building. The Government of West Virginia is modeled after the Government of the United States, with three branches: the executive, consisting of the Governor of West Virginia and the other elected constitutional officers; the legislative, consisting of the West Virginia Legislature which includes the Senate and the House of Delegates; and the judicial, consisting of the ...
The 2024 session of the West Virginia Legislature began Jan. 10 and adjourned at midnight on March 9. "I don't think I came out and said we're going to do this in April," Justice said. "In all ...
85th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] members: 2021 November 3, 2020: House, Senate [5] 86th West Virginia legislature 2023 November 8, 2022: House, Senate [5]
A bicameral legislative body, the legislature is split between the upper Senate and the lower House of Delegates. It was established under Article VI of the West Virginia Constitution following the state's split from Virginia during the American Civil War in 1863. As with its neighbor and former constituent Virginia General Assembly, the ...
West Virginia's Republican-dominated Legislature pushed forward a slate of contentious bills Wednesday that would arm teachers, allow people to sue libraries over books that offend them and ...
District Delegate Party Since Residence Counties represented [1]; 1 Pat McGeehan: Republican 2014 Chester: Brooke, Hancock: 2 Mark Zatezalo: Republican 2020 Weirton
The 85th West Virginia Legislature was a meeting of the West Virginia Legislature whose membership consisted of those elected in the 2020 legislative elections.It lasted through two several month long regular sessions and seven special sessions in 2021 and 2022, ending with the 2022 legislative elections and the convening of the 86th Legislature.
Bills then undergo committee review and three readings in the house of origin and then the other house of the state legislature. [2] An unusual feature of the West Virginia legislative process is that revenue bills can originate in either house. [1] The state constitution also prohibits multiple subjects in a single bill. [1]