House Judiciary Chair Moore Capito, R-Kanawha, and House Judiciary Minority Chair Chad Lovejoy, D-Cabell, discuss criminal justice reform, election, and pandemic-related bills. We also take a look at the state budget process and the personal income tax repeal plans.

This week, The Legislature Today takes a deep dive into the various plans for the elimination of the state’s Personal Income Tax. Phil Kabler of the Charleston Gazette-Mail and Steven Allen Adams of Ogden Newspapers join host Dave Mistich to discuss multiple proposed fiscal policy changes. June Leffler provides updates on a bill to expand Medicaid coverage for new moms, and Emily Allen reports on HB 2017, which rewrites the state’s criminal code.

This week on The Legislature Today, senior reporter Dave Mistich speaks with House Finance Committee Vice Chair Vernon Criss, R-Wood, and House Finance Minority Chair Brent Boggs, D-Braxton, about Gov. Jim Justice’s plan to reduce the state’s personal income tax, while increasing consumer sales and other taxes. Liz McCormick gives us an update on House Bill 2013, which would establish education savings accounts.

While any 60-day legislative session focuses on the hundreds of bills introduced and considered, Republican supermajorities this year helped push three proposed constitutional amendments to the ballot for voters to ponder.

The state legislature's latest bill for broadband offers new consumer protections to users, allows local governments to deploy their own infrastructure and expands on existing data-collection efforts to identify areas of the state that need high-speed internet.

A bill to restrict transgender girls and women from playing female sports is on its way to Gov. Jim Justice. The West Virginia House of Delegates voted to accept the Senate’s version of HB 3293 on Friday evening.

With one day left in the West Virginia Legislature’s 2021 regular session, the House of Delegates approved the latest version of a budget bill.

Education has been a top issue for lawmakers in this year's West Virginia legislative session as learning was upended significantly amid the coronavirus pandemic. Among those priority bills in the 60-day session included measures advancing school choice in K-12 education and establishing the Jumpstart Savings Program in higher education.

A bill to rewrite the state’s criminal code won’t go into effect this year, but state lawmakers have introduced a resolution suggesting they plan to keep at it.

West Virginia senators have removed a presumption of 50-50 custody from a “Best Interests Of The Child Protection Act" that passed the House of Delegates three weeks ago, along with a provision to reopen closed custody cases in which parents were not considered for equal time.

Updated on April 9, 2021 at 10:45 a.m. A bill to restrict transgender students' access to women's sports in middle, high school and college has passed out of the West Virginia Senate. The bill passed 18-15 and now heads back to the House for consideration.

Senate Bill 387 would require applicants to have an initial drug test. If an applicant tests positive for anything from opioids to marijuana, that triggers a requirement to enter drug treatment or counseling, or else lose benefits.

In a Wednesday evening floor session that stretched for more than three hours — and became at times fiery between members of the Republican majority and Democratic minority — members of the West Virginia Senate passed a measure calling for the reduction of the personal income tax and a budget bill.