Category: LWVWV

HB 5219 & SB 59 would establish new and complicated rules to determine residency to register and vote in West Virginia and appears to conflict with a US Supreme Court decision from 1979 holding that students have the constitutional right to register and vote where they attend college. 

SB 615 would mandate that WV state and local police assist in federal immigration enforcement. Some individuals rounded up in the current anti-immigrant surge who appealed their detentions have been found to be detained illegally. SB 615 will make things worse, incentivizing unconstitutional arrests and detentions.

Proposed rules related to a 2025 bill encouraging the development of data centers are now before the Legislature for final approval. As written, these rules give the public almost no notice, and very little information about what the companies are proposing. The rules must be amended to require more transparency from big data centers.