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The bill changed from a limitation on the Hope Scholarship program to a modification of the funds' distribution schedule.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn The Legislature This Week, House Finance leaders provide us with some insight into the state budget process. We also hear about lawmakers’ ideas to change local elections, as well as a bill restricting abortion medication in the Senate.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWhile the West Virginia Legislature may consider hundreds of bills during the 60-day session, there is only one thing they are required by the state constitution to do and that is to pass a balanced budget. The state is not allowed to operate in a deficit. News Director Eric Douglas spoke with House Finance Committee Chair Vernon Criss, R-Wood, and Minority Chair of House Finance Del. John Williams, D-Monongalia, to discuss the process for creating the state budget.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsState lawmakers have paved the way for a new center at West Virginia University for civics education, which would focus on “classical western history and culture.”
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, we look at efforts to pass a balanced state budget, and hear a musical performance from sister duo Larkin Poe.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsNotably, House Bill 3279 would diminish the role of the student, faculty and staff members of each school’s board of governors and make them nonvoting members.
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