The West Virginia Senate during a floor session considered and recorded votes on a batch of bills, concurred with several House amendments, and approved supplemental appropriations and nominations.

Senators approved or acted on a series of bills that the clerk reported from the House, including measures on drug-penalty changes, display of the U.S. motto in schools, pharmacist prescribing authority, racing authorizations, contracting thresholds, retirement code references, equal-opportunity office changes, student-assessment rules, private-school testing and attendance, dam authority clarifications and diesel-powered mining equipment rules. The chamber also considered several House-passed supplemental appropriations for the HOPE scholarship and other funds.

Many of the concurrence motions and final passages were made by the senator from Lewis, state senator. The chamber recorded roll-call tallies for most measures; summaries and vote totals are below.

Votes and motions at a glance

- Executive nominations (committee report): The Committee on Confirmations recommended advise and consent to the slate. The Senate voted to confirm all nominations in that report except nominee number 29 by a recorded vote on the first motion (34 yays, 0 nays, 0 absent). The subsequent motion to confirm nominee number 29 passed with 33 yays and 1 excused (the senior senator from 13th was excused from voting on that nominee). (Action: confirmations; outcome: confirmed.)

- Senate Bill 196 (house-amended; drug penalties): The Senate concurred in the House amendment and passed the bill, 34 yays, 0 nays. (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- Senate Bill 280 (displaying the U.S. motto in public schools): The Senate concurred in the House amendment and passed the bill, recorded 33 ayes, 1 nay. (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- Senate Bill 503 (sheriffs' chief deputies): The Senate voted to refuse to concur in the House amendment and requested the House to recede; the motion to refuse to concur was adopted (voice vote recorded as adopted). (Action: refusal to concur; outcome: Senate requested House recede.)

- Senate Bill 526 (Pharmacist Prescribing Authority Act): The Senate concurred in the House amendment and passed the bill, 34 yays, 0 nays. Senator from Ohio, state senator, criticized the House amendment on the floor as limiting the original bill's scope and said the change "destroyed" broader prescribing authority for certain minor illnesses. (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- Senate Bill 576 (fixed-odds racing and horse and dog racing): The Senate concurred in the House amendments and passed the bill, 23 ayes, 11 nays. (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- Senate Bill 587 (government contracting threshold changes): The Senate concurred in the House amendment and passed the bill, recorded 27 yeas, 7 nays (transcript shows final tally as 27 yeas, 7 nays). (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- Senate Bill 712 (retirement provisions): The Senate concurred in the House amendment and passed the bill, recorded 33 ayes, 0 nays, 1 excused. (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- Senate Bill 837 (eliminating the West Virginia Office of Equal Opportunity, House amendment retained coordinator): The Senate concurred in the House amendment and passed the bill, recorded 28 yays, 6 nays. (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- Senate Bill 912 (student growth assessment program) and Senate Bill 914 (private/parochial testing and attendance): The Senate concurred in House amendments and passed both bills; SB 912 passed 34-0 and SB 914 passed 33-1. (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- Senate Bills 941 and 942 (dams authority and diesel equipment for mines): The Senate concurred in House amendments and passed both bills; SB 941 passed 33-1 and SB 942 passed 34-0. (Action: concurrence and passage; outcome: passed.)

- House Bill 33 56 (supplemental appropriation, HOPE scholarship): Passed on third reading; the sponsor said it appropriates $28,400,666 from the unappropriated balance of general revenue to the HOPE scholarship program. The Senate passed it 32 yays, 2 nays and later made it effective from passage by the required supermajority.

- House Bill 33 57 (supplemental appropriation, lottery surplus, HOPE scholarship): Passed on third reading; the sponsor said it appropriates $33,804,764 from the lottery fund surplus to the HOPE scholarship fund. The Senate passed it 32 yays, 2 nays and made it effective from passage.

- House Bill 33 60 (supplemental appropriation, EDA bridge loan fund): Passed on third reading; sponsor said it appropriates $28,693,181.62 to the Western Economic Development Authority bridge loan fund. The Senate passed it 34-0 and made it effective from passage.

- Committee substitute for House Bill 33 69 (supplemental appropriation, education enrollment): Passed on third reading; sponsor said it appropriates $596,981 from general revenue for increased enrollment. Senate vote recorded 34-0 and the bill was made effective from passage.

On fiscal totals: when asked for the combined HOPE scholarship impact of the two supplemental bills, the financial chair replied "62,203,000-ish dollars," an approximate figure provided on the floor.

Several concurrence motions were described on the record as technical or cleanup amendments; roll-call totals listed above reflect each recorded machine vote where the clerk provided tallies.

What passed does not itself implement spending until enrolled and delivered to the governor or acted upon per legislative rules; effective-date motions were made and recorded on several bills the same day as passage.