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CHARLESTON, WV - On this episode of The Legislature Today, we’ve begun the final week of the 60-day West Virginia Legislative session, and everything wraps up Saturday at midnight.

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HUNTINGTON, WV - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $14,684,327 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Members of the House Finance Committee narrowly advanced a bill that will reduce the amount of checks to unemployed people over time while also increasing the amount paid by employers into the state’s unemployment trust fund.

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BLUEFIELD, WV - Southwest Virginia Community College has had a registered nursing program for many years, but now, with a documented national nursing shortage across the country, that program is expanding, looking to breathe new life into two of their other locations: Grundy and Bluefield, Virginia.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - Leeann Kaminsky. Senior Vice President and CHRO at WVU Medicine (Morgantown. W. Va.). As CHRO, Ms. Kaminsky manages human resources functions across 23 hospitals for more than 30,000 employees.

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CHARLESTON, WV - A bill from this year’s regular legislative session is ready to be signed into law in an effort to address hospital staffing shortages, according to officials.

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CHARLESTON, WV - It remains to be seen if the state Senate will agree with the House of Delegates and approve a bill that would change certain requirements when it comes to getting children vaccinated.

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