Bill Text: WV HB3071 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Require all workplaces to keep Naloxone available in first aid kits and train employees in the use of Naloxone
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-03 - To House Health and Human Resources [HB3071 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2025-HB3071-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
FISCAL NOTE
House Bill 3071
By Delegates Hillenbrand, Mazzocchi, Stephens, Drennan, and Ward
[Introduced; referred
to the Committee on]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §21-3A-10, relating to requiring an opioid antagonist be included in workplace first-aid kits.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 3A Occupational Safety and Health Act.
§21-3A-10. Ensuring access to naloxone or opioid antagonist in the workplace.
The Commissioner or his or her agent shall, before December 1, 2027, require and ensure that first aid materials in a workplace include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to reverse opioid overdose and instructions for using the opioid antagonist.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require an opioid antagonist be included in workplace first-aid kits.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
