Jim Butler
West Virginia
Record ID: WV-HouseOfDelegates-18-BUTLER-J
- Room 225E, Bldg. 1 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E. Charleston, WV 25305
- (304) 340-3199
- jim.butler@wvhouse.gov
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Legislation
Sponsored Bills
| Bill | Title | Status | Session |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 4415 | Creating crime of attempting to smuggle contraband into federal correctional institutions within the state | enrolled | 2026RS |
| HB 5684 | Relating to authorizing the Supreme Court of Appeals to create child protection commissioners | enrolled | 2026RS |
| HB 4433 | Prohibiting Human Smuggling and Trafficking | enacted | 2026RS |
| HB 4996 | Relating to bail in cases involving terroristic threats to schools or children | enrolled | 2026RS |
| HB 4755 | Adding Aggravated Vehicular Homicide to the list of qualifying offenses | enrolled | 2026RS |
| HB 4865 | Providing for a program allowing election official trainees to be appointed as election officials | enrolled | 2026RS |
| HB 5401 | Relating to voting in West Virginia elections while residing overseas | enrolled | 2026RS |
| HB 5166 | To provide notice to any political committees violating the filing requirements prior to assessing any civil fines and giving the Secretary of State authority to grant additional time for compliance not to exceed an additional 14 days. | passed_upper | 2026RS |
| HB 4798 | Permitting teachers to wear a “mobile alert button” for emergency situations, to be known as “Alyssa’s Law.” | enrolled | 2026RS |
| HB 4419 | Requiring certain non-discretionary procedures be strictly complied with by the West Virginia Parkways Authority before tolls, rents, fees or charges may be increased | passed_lower | 2026RS |
| HB 4421 | Providing guidelines for the West Virginia Parkways Authority to cease tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike upon completion of all bond payments | passed_lower | 2026RS |
| HB 5203 | To forbid any municipality from issuing an ID for the purpose of voting in a municipal election | passed_lower | 2026RS |
| HB 5652 | Relating to the hotel occupancy tax | failed | 2026RS |
| HB 5660 | Updates to obtaining a license to carry deadly weapons statute | enacted | 2026RS |
| HB 5476 | Require monitoring of electronic records maintained by hospitals. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5665 | Change to House rule 49 regarding members present, time and recording. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4997 | Relating to residency restrictions for persons convicted of terroristic threats | passed_lower | 2026RS |
| HB 5643 | Allowing an LEA or public charter school to enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is unlawfully present in the United States | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5644 | To establish provisions regarding student immigration status and nationality in WV public educational institutions | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5546 | Requiring medical professionals to report injuries and side effects from vaccines to Bureau for Public Health | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5547 | To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5561 | Refer instances of election fraud to the attorney general for prosecution | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5493 | Provide a penalty of chemical castration or surgical castration for sex abuse crimes against minors. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5507 | Establish a Process for the Selection and Oversight of Delegates for a West Virginia Article V Convention Delegation. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5520 | Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent Registration and Transnational Repression Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5460 | Construction Cost Relief Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5477 | Relating to federal immigration enforcement. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5436 | Make it a felony to kill a canine officer | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4932 | Providing for the use of “A.C.” as a name ending for an accounting corporation. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4769 | Creating plans to protect West Virginia from major crises | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5025 | Allowing the burning of obsolete farm structures. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5423 | To ensure that illegal aliens do not vote or operate a motor vehicle in the state. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5427 | To prohibit the malicious publication of personally identifiable information with intent to harass, intimidate, threaten, stalk, or facilitate harm. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5429 | Luggage for foster care children transfered between homes | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4522 | Banning Foreign-backed spending on State Ballot Issues | passed_lower | 2026RS |
| HB 5387 | Relating to high school graduation requirements | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5389 | Veterans Housing Redevelopment Tax Credit Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4461 | Establishing limitations on billing practices of Internet or telecommunications providers that fail to provide subscribed customers service for five or more days | passed_lower | 2026RS |
| HB 5320 | Welcome Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5377 | Burial Equity Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5215 | Relating generally to limiting landowner liability for the purpose of operation of all-terrain vehicles. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5099 | Relating to restitution payments for the support of a child whose parent or guardian is a victim of intoxication manslaughter | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5111 | To prohibit public colleges and universities in this state from requiring vaccines for admission. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5112 | Prohibiting laws requiring person to receive or use medical products | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5113 | Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5027 | Relating to eminent domain and use of property taken. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5031 | To standardize reporting practices and improve forensic and public health research by including vaccination history in death investigations | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5034 | Relating to biometric privacy | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5035 | Requiring medication-assisted treatment prgrams to have written policies concerning community relations | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4422 | To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to participate in extracurricular activities in the fall | passed_lower | 2026RS |
| HB 4430 | Eliminating the authority of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to issue further parkway revenue, parkway revenue refunding, or special obligation bonds after July 1, 2025 | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4431 | Requiring the approval of the Legislature and the Governor before additional bonds may be issued by the Parkways Authority | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5000 | Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5010 | Prohibiting institutions of higher education and affiliate organizations from accepting gifts partnerships, or other funding relationships from foreign adversaries. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 5014 | Modification to real property tax requirements for farm structures | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4427 | Relating to “unencumbered” special revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue under certain circumstances | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4428 | Requiring 50 percent of all reappropriated revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4947 | Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4979 | Reinstituting the maintenance of actions for alienation of affection and criminal conversation | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4980 | To establish civil liability for judges who knowingly violate the law, conduct unlawful hearings, or abuse litigants in the performance of their duties | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4895 | Relating to establishing an unborn child tax credit | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4863 | The West Virginia Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4864 | Providing for election reform and protections | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4866 | Relating to creating the West Virginia Public Participation Protection Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4878 | Relating to deadly force | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4879 | To revise and update all provisions of state code relating to the West Virginia State Guard | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4880 | Protection of deployed service members | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4843 | Relating to consumer protection and the collection of certain personally identifiable information. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4845 | Prohibiting entry by illegal aliens | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4849 | Authorize the Superintendent of the county schools district to apply directly to the School Building Authority for emergency funding to facilitate remediation of hazards. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4812 | To ensure that West Virginia law enforcement entities are not compelled or commandeered by federal authorities to conduct activities that violate our citizens’ Constitutional rights | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4837 | Establish time limits on Legislators becoming lobbyists | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4787 | The Anti-Terrorism Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4788 | Allow school board members to run for the state legislature | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4435 | Increasing the percentage of precincts to be audited during the election canvass | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4718 | Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4753 | Prohibit public utilities from making political or charitable contributions | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4757 | Establishing privacy regarding medical treatments | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4494 | Providing an exemption for a non-resident landowner, their spouse and their children from the requirement of purchasing a non-resident hunting hicense while hunting on their land in this state. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4550 | To require the state and/or its agents to provide their appraisal to landowners involved in eminent domain | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4583 | Victims of Communism Day | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4586 | Relating to government procurement of electric vehicles | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4450 | Removing restrictions of taxpayers to access online curriculum, and allow for taxpayers to inspect additional instructional material adopted by the county board pursuant to including books in the classroom | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4486 | Establish fines for any company or organization that knowingly hires an illegal alien | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4496 | To force any media/internet creator providing artificial intelligence created videos to have an identifying marker that allows viewers to know that the video is not real. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4515 | To remedy an issue relating to the disaffiliation from religious denominations whilst retaining church property | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4525 | To change the election dates for intermediate court of appeals judges to the genreal elections | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4420 | Relating generally to West Virginia Parkways Authority. | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4424 | To allow landowners to pay hunters to hunt their property | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4429 | Create a prison work pilot program | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4432 | Establishing certain tenant protections and landlord notice requirements at rental properties | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4337 | Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4338 | Relating to Eminent Domain | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4339 | Changing the local school board election from the Primary to the General | in_committee | 2026RS |
| HB 4380 | B&O Tax Reform | in_committee | 2026RS |