Capital Eye Vol. 15 No. 9: Legislative Wrap Up

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Now that the craziness of the legislative session is over, it’s time to look towards spring, summer, and fall. This being an election year we’ll be transitioning to voter education, engagement, and all manner of support for getting better legislators behind the desks at the State Capitol. Your continued support and volunteering will be essential to getting this critical work done! Please take a minute to renew or become a supporting member of WV CAG! A big THANKS to all of YOU who have already done so!

Life After Session
Out of the 2,216 bills introduced during the 2022 legislative session, only 239 survived. Lots of really bad bills died, along with most of the good ones. Not an uplifting appraisal but... it could have been much worse.
Tagged: Aboveground Storage Tanks, Budget priorities, Censorship, Diabetes, Fair taxation, Kids and families, Medicaid, Oil and Gas, Racial Justice, Unemployment benefits, Vaccines, Voting Rights, water quality, Worker's Safety, WV Legislature

Legislative Postmortem
Given the current political climate, victory often takes the form of defeating bad bills. With that in mind, here’s an overview of what happened in these major issue areas...
Tagged: Budget priorities, Civil Justice, Democracy, Discrimination, Environment, Fair Courts, Fair taxation, Inequality, Pollution, Racial Justice, Reproductive Justice, Voting Rights, Water

Health Care Bills Gaining Momentum – Let’s Keep It Going!
In 2019, Delegate Barbara Fleischauer took a group of West Virginians on a bus to Canada to buy insulin. This trip was followed by the introduction of the first Insulin Affordability Bill in 2020...
Tagged: Diabetes, Health Insurance, Medicaid

Environmental Wrap-Up
The good and bad that passed this Legislative Session…
Tagged: Oil and Gas, Pollution, Privatization, Reclamation, Water, water quality, Worker's Safety

Take Action: Support TMG Economic Justice Proposal
Please contact the Governor’s Office, Senate President Craig Blair, House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, and Senate and House Finance Committee Chairs and encourage them to support this proposal to address the challenges facing our most impoverished and distressed communities, and begin to transform and restructure our economy in a way that is responsive to the collective needs of all our people.
Tagged: ARPA, CARES Act, Economic Justice, Inequality, Racial Justice

ACA: Happy 12th Birthday!
Twelve years ago, March 23, 2010, the Affordable Care Act was passed. Since then, many of us have been working hard to defend it.
Tagged: ACA, Diabetes, Health Insurance, Inequality, Medicaid, Medicare, Prescription Drug Prices

Ethylene Oxide Town Hall – March 26th
Open House about Ethylene Oxide Health Impacts, Saturday, March 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dunbar Recreation Center
Tagged: Air Quality, Emissions, Pollution

WVCBP: Post-session ‘Where are we now’ in terms of funding our future and supporting families?
Join WVCBP at noon on Wednesday, April 6 for a session debrief, an analysis of what’s up with the budget, and how we can use interims meetings over the rest of this year to make the case for investments in programs we care about.
Tagged: Budget priorities, Fair taxation, Working Families