Zack Maynard

Voted for Senate Bill 641, which narrows which aboveground storage tanks West Virginia regulates under the law it wrote after the 2014 chemical spill that left 300,000 people without safe tap water. It carves out tanks of 10,000 gallons or less inside a permitted mining area that are certified under the state's groundwater protection law, sit outside a zone of critical concern, and hold none of the substances the act lists as harmful. Those tanks must still be registered, give notice and post signs, but the law's other rules no longer apply to them. The act also gives owners notice before a tank is reclassified when a new protection zone is drawn, and allows remote inspection instead of sending a person into a confined space. The Senate agreed to the House version 25-8 and it became law.

March 13, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted for Senate Bill 420, which would have pushed West Virginia's regulated electric utilities to run their coal-fired plants at about two thirds of full output year round, with rate treatment tied to how well they met that mark. A utility could not have retired or shrunk a coal or gas plant without approval from two state agencies. Utilities also could not have charged customers for new wind or solar investment. The Senate passed it 22-11, but the House never voted on it, so it did not become law.

March 4, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 8, 2026

Voted for House Bill 4025, which takes civil service and grievance rights away from new hires in West Virginia's three health departments. They are the Departments of Health Facilities, Human Services and Health. From July 1, 2026, new hires there have no civil service protection and no access to the state grievance process, unless a department secretary keeps them for jobs where federal rules require it. Current workers keep those rights only while they stay in their current job. The Senate passed it 24-9 and it became law.

March 13, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 11, 2026

Voted for House Bill 4005, the Workforce Development Act of 2026, which deletes West Virginia's own list of seventeen jobs closed to workers under 18 and instead follows what federal law allows. The deleted list covered mining, logging and sawmilling, explosives, demolition, excavation, roofing above ground level, meat packing and several power-driven machines. The act also lets workers aged 16 and over do hazardous farm work that federal law permits, and it removes the rule limiting student apprentices to using such machinery for no more than five percent of their training hours. The Senate passed it 27-7 and it became law.

March 9, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted for House Bill 4005, the Workforce Development Act of 2026, which deletes West Virginia's own list of seventeen jobs closed to workers under 18 and instead follows what federal law allows. The deleted list covered mining, logging and sawmilling, explosives, demolition, excavation, roofing above ground level, meat packing and several power-driven machines. The act also lets workers aged 16 and over do hazardous farm work that federal law permits, and it removes the rule limiting student apprentices to using such machinery for no more than five percent of their training hours. The Senate passed it 27-7 and it became law.

March 9, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted for Senate Bill 963, which would have limited when a domestic violence protective order can take away a person's guns. Today that firearm ban is automatic in every protective order. The bill would have required notice, and then either that the person failed to appear, agreed to give up the guns, or lost at a hearing where a judge found abuse. The Senate passed it 22-11, but the House never voted on passage, so it did not become law.

March 4, 2026Opposes Gun Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 8, 2026

Was appointed to represent West Virginia Senate District 7.

October 29, 2025

Source: wvlegislature.gov · researched September 7, 2026