| WV | SB163 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to include postpartum depression, anxiety, psychosis, and obsessive-compulsive disorders in existing public health programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
Referred to Finance |
| WV | SB291 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to amend the timeframe for registration from annually to biennially.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB169 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to correlate the Medicaid personal needs allowance with the state poverty index.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SR13 | Pass | Memorializing life of Wanda Porterfield Casto
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SB450 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Guardian Act. The bill allows the county school boards to contract for participation in the program. The bill defines terms. The bill sets out the authority of independent contractors partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB434 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create Alyssa's Law which requires each public school building to be equipped with at least one panic alarm for use in a school security emergency; and requires the panic alarm to be directly linked to local law enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SR3 | Pass | Creating Select Committee on Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SB8 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to permit the installation of newborn safety devices at emergency service medical facilities, police departments, or sheriff's detachments that have been designated as safe-surrender sites and providing conditions for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB429 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit for 50% of the cost of a lifetime hunting, trapping, and fishing license for veterans who have been honorably discharged from the armed services and who are certified by the Veterans Administration ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB158 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify eligibility and qualifications to serve as an appointed member of the state board of education, by prohibiting certain political and other activities and specifically permitting certain political activities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB292 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require doula services to be covered by Medicaid and PEIA and to increase reimbursement rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB430 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance providers to provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations without cost sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SJR8 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to the Constitution to provide that in all elections held in West Virginia only citizens of the state who are citizens of the United States are qualified to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB526 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize pharmacists to practice the full extent of their education and training to prescribe low-risk medications to patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB556 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the requirement of certain immunizations as condition of being a foster parent and provide an exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB173 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a hotel or public lodging establishment to provide annual training regarding human trafficking awareness to employees, and to provide for enforcement and rulemaking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB286 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB28 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage for clinical genetic testing for an inherited gene mutation and evidenced-based cancer imaging; and providing that this testing is not subject to cost-sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SR5 | Pass | Designating February 14, 2025, as National Organ Donor Day at Legislature
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SB498 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create instant scratch off lottery ticket games to fund various projects of interest to the public; to create a fire department lottery ticket to fund the All County Fire Protection Fund; to create an emergency medical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB497 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit cancellation of homeowners insurance for an isolated incident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB500 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to transfer audit authority for volunteer fire companies to the West Virginia Legislative Auditor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB464 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the commissioner to issue special plates to recipients of the distinguished Medal of Valor awarded under §9-32-1 of this code to firefighters, law-enforcement officers, and emergency medical services person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB433 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require transparency of dental health care insurance products. The bill requires annual reporting of the medical loss ratio with the Insurance Commissioner. The bill sets forth standards for the methods by which a denta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB262 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish insurance provisions that require coverage for annual breast cancer screenings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB170 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB156 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance providers to provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations without cost sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB125 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the amendments made to this section by HB 4785 (2022), which changed the timeframe in subsection (d) for filling vacancies in all judicial offices from two to three years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB168 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to proscribe rent control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB1 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all paving projects to be approved by the Public Service Commission in order to prevent the digging up of newly paved roads for planned utility projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB175 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to lower rent for tenants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB164 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records without requiring a child to sign a document permitting his or her parents to see the records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SJR5 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this resolution is to modify the frequency of Legislative Session from annually to bi-annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB167 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit the care of a patient by telemedicine across state lines
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB165 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that all financial support presently available to certified foster parents is provided to kinship parents and fictive kin. The barriers and burdens placed upon kinship parents and fictive kin are too onerous.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB166 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that parents, named as a respondent, in an abuse and neglect case or investigation by Child Protective Services are given a copy of their rights that is written in plain, understandable language and giving autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB184 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit pre-conviction forfeiture of someone who is merely accused of a crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB174 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide added protection for animals exposed to extreme weather.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| WV | SB172 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow retired teachers to serve as substitute teachers without sacrificing their retirement benefits and allowing the retired teachers employed as substitute teachers to contribute to their retirement funds but that no ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB263 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the use of criminal records in determinations to allow an individual to practice a profession or occupation, by a board, authority, or other agency authorized to issue licenses, certifications, registrations, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Workforce Committee |
| WV | SB180 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow all public schools to instruct students on world languages. The legislature finds learning a world language can improve student math and reading outcomes, improve academic focus, and provide additional career oppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB176 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Food Allergen Awareness Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB179 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to grant school administrators the ability to refuse to promote a student to the next grade if the child has missed 20 or more days of school. This is in an effort to curb unexcused absences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB126 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Volunteer State Defense Guard. The West Virginia National Guard is often called to other duties such as filling roles as corrections officers in West Virginia prisons, filling staffing shorta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Military Committee |
| WV | SB181 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that payments to attorneys who provide legal services for court-ordered appointments to be reimbursed or denied within 30 days of the submission or the voucher.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB161 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is regarding water quality affecting residents of the state; establishing findings; requiring Department of Health evaluate whether public water sources contain levels of contaminants making them unsafe; providing water filtr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | SB177 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize pharmacists to practice the full extent of their education and training to prescribe low-risk medications to patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB157 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $5,000 raise to state road employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB27 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend and clarify the felony of exhibiting "obscene matter" to a minor for the purpose of abuse to be clarified to include any depiction of sexually graphic material to a minor for the purpose of seducing a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB185 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a label informing the public of lab grown meat being sold in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
