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10th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] January 16, 1872. February 29, 1872. West Virginia Constitution of 1872 [citation needed] 11th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] November 19, 1872. December 1873.
The West Virginia Senate is the upper house of the West Virginia Legislature. There are seventeen senatorial districts. Each district has two senators who serve staggered four-year terms. Although the Democratic Party held a supermajority in the Senate as recently as 2015, Republicans now dominate in the chamber, and hold 31 seats to the ...
The West Virginia Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of West Virginia. 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 ...
The West Virginia Senate passed a similar bill last year, but it failed to advance in the House. A House committee passed a different bill last year that would allow K-12 teachers, administrators ...
West Virginia's Republican-majority Senate greenlit a bill on Tuesday that would make a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group required viewing in public schools. Live ...
In 2020, Plymale tied for the most conservative voting record of any Democrat in the West Virginia Legislature, according to the American Conservative Union. [1] In 2015, Plymale was the only Democrat to cross party lines and vote for Bill Cole to become West Virginia Senate president after Republicans took control of the Senate following the 2014 elections.
Once the bill draft is approved by the delegate, it is submitted for introduction. [2] 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]
In the 2014 elections, the GOP took control of the state legislature for the first time in 80 years, and it took one of West Virginia's two U.S. Senate seats and all three U.S. House districts. [7] In the 2016 elections, the Republicans held on to their seats and made gains in the State Senate and gained three statewide offices.