Special Session

Day one of the legislative special session saw some bills passed, others still under consideration

More than a month after the West Virginia Legislature ended its regular session, Gov. Jim Justice has issued a proclamation, calling for its return on Monday, April 25 at noon.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has called lawmakers into a special session to consider economic development ventures.

Lawmakers working in special session this week in Charleston made progress Wednesday on federal and state redistricting efforts. Those include a new House map of 100 single-member districts and one in the Senate that divides the state into two Congressional districts — north and south.

On this West Virginia Morning, kids in foster care are already facing a tough road, but a new investigation reveals that some are sent to out-of-state facilities, some of which have been flagged by the state's own Department of Health and Human Resources as problematic.

The West Virginia Legislature cleared a string of one-time funding bills for various state agencies and tackled other measures in a Thursday special session.

The West Virginia Legislature swiftly approved seven bills in a Monday special session to fund public health, education and transportation. A majority of those funds — which come from the American Rescue Plan passed by Congress in March — were already earmarked to cover the state’s expenses related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Jim Justice announced that he’s calling the West Virginia Legislature into a special session Monday to fund state programs and agencies through federal dollars.

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A handful of state lawmakers filed a petition with the state’s highest court on Friday, arguing that Gov. Jim Justice didn’t have the authority to issue…